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Dec 07 2011

Last chance for Otelul

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Otelul has a game available only to avoid the shame of being the only Romanian team to finish Champions League group with 0 points accumulated, but the mission is almost impossible to land in Lisbon Benficai, a band that needs a victory for to secure first position in the group C.

Manchester will play a game is excellent between City and Bayern, with “citizens” who still hopes to further qualifications in the league, probably praying not to lose to Napoli Villarreal. The Germans are already qualified, so that City’s victory seems a pretty good choice, because the Germans will keep some names off the lot, with an important Bundesliga at least as high.
In group B, CSKA Moscow beat Trabzonspor and Lille are almost equal chances of European qualification in the spring, while in group D, Lyon calculations above calculations hoping to score Ajax lose to Real Madrid for OL to take chances Dutch team to overcome.

Besides Champions League will be played today and one of the best of Europe’s derby: Galatasaray vs. Fenerbahce and rival interesting is that the two occupy the first two positions in the rankings, something less common lately, so duel seems even more hot.

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Jun 03 2011

In Madrid there is another way to win

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The Real Madrid player wants to take off but he did not want to leave. The last to rebel and stay at the Bernabeu, triumphed. The same can happen to Peter Leon, who said that, although they want to sell, will not move from there.

Pedro Leon joined Real Madrid last summer as an asset of the policy of “Spanish” ‘the club. Having put together some good season at Getafe, landing at the logic Chamartin illusion of a young player who will get the opportunity of a lifetime. At first, entered the rotation of Mourinho. It was not a starter, but had quality minutes and even scored a decisive goal in the Champions League game which Real Madrid drew at San Siro (2-2) against Milan.

Instead of continuing an upward trend, the Murcia stopped counting for Jose Mourinho, and even the coach set up a controversy with him to justify his failure to call in a game was because “it was not Zidane or Maradona.”

He arrived around 2011 and mid-season all that was absent from meetings and minutes did not have any competition until the Real Madrid match played in Mestalla and won by 3-6.

Logically, its low input and lack of understanding with Jose Mourinho has made the Mula and does not count for the first team and the club are seeking a new team. That is the intention of the team, but not the player, who said this Thursday, at the moment, has no intention of leaving Real Madrid.

On the basis of stubbornness

Upon hearing this argument, come to mind two very significant cases of players who also had to hear that there was not them but the white team, based on persistence, and eventually kept winning.

The first case, and that bears some parallels with Leon is that of Jose Emilio Amavisca. I was on the staff of Real Madrid in the 1994-1995 season and when he got Jorge Valdano the white bench him that was not in his plans. Far from wanting to leave, the Spaniard player finished as second top scorer of the season in the white team was league champions. Two seasons later, it would be champion of Europe, reaching even play significant minutes in the semifinals and the final against Juventus.

Another player who should set the Mulenen is Steve McManaman. Joined the club in 1999 and a season later, although he held in the eighth team that won the European Cup, was launched to try to box him. The Bernabeu tier ruled and received him with a standing ovation at Santiago Bernabeu trophy. The Englishman fell and was fixed Vicente del Bosque for the next three seasons.

Therefore, the last players that Real Madrid wanted to see out at all costs and decided to stay, ended up winning. A mirror may have been looked at or should do Pedro Leon. So, perhaps, to persuade Mourinho and triumphing in white finish someday.

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May 30 2011

Not everyone celebrates farewell Valdano

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Before the selection focus to play two games against Venezuela and the United States, Captain White went over the season and currently focused on the future of Madrid with Valdano progress and the end of Barcelona.

“Valdano and Mourinho wants to Real Madrid. The departure decision was not an easy decision. Valdano has left is a shame, but we must think of us left. Over time I go I will go and go Mourinho Florentino Perez. What will endure because Real Madrid is Real Madrid,”he said.

The captain also wanted to assess Mourinho’s first season in front of Madrid, which is considered positive in general terms: “The best thing was the change that has given the team. He’s younger and we did the job in three competitions. Note positive That after 18 years we have gained a degree that we resist. The downside has been staying at the gates of the two major titles. The idea is to overcome the bar next season. That means winning the league and be in the final the Champions”.

Champions League Final

On the final of the Champions League, Real Madrid’s said that he was glad for the Barcelona players sharing the locker room in the selection, but said that “if Real Madrid had been in the final, have also overtaken Manchester. “Casillas believes that Madrid and Barcelona are “the two strongest teams”.

As to the words of Pique during the celebrations, which said that neither took drugs nor pulled or bought referees goalkeeper downplayed because it was “a moment of joy, have won a title, is a time euphoria and it is. There is no getting around it. Enjoy it, have made a very nice season”.

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May 16 2011

Barcelona celebrate with their fans

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Barcelona have held all the top the league title after receiving tonight Cup champions from the president of the Spanish Football Federation Angel Maria Villar.

The captains Carles Puyol and Xavi Hernandez have been responsible for collecting the trophy, which for the twenty-first receives the Catalan club, and have approached the center of the field where it was all the Barca squad and coaching staff.

After the photograph of fact, the Barcelona group has been around the field to celebrate with their fans the trophy, while the players were giving gifts to members.

Question of peppers

If mathematical form after winning the title last Wednesday at the City of Valencia, the players wore the figure of two peppers in their commemorative T-shirts, in a coded message clear why they were champions.

At the time of holding the title to his fans, the club handed out these vegetables to the public and when the match ended in a loving threw them to the lawn. Some players such as Gerard Pique, participated in this hoax returning them to the stands and making clear that at the time of holding title, the club can also be very original.

A firework was put an end to the party before a given Nou Camp, but players are encouraged to make a huge circle in the middle of the field and have placed the cup right in the center, around which have danced to the hymn of Barca.

In the end, a new group photo and the players have picked up the benches where they have made the hall of honor to the technical team, headed by Pep Guardiola, they made returning to the players on Friday when the club held by the city League, with a final party at the Camp Nou.

The next party hope it will be on Sunday May 29, if they have won the day before the Manchester United in the final of the Champions League.

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Nov 24 2010

Barca closes wounds with a master class

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barcaBarcelona came to Athens, a city infamous for the amateur cule remember that he still remembered the defeat in the Champions League final against Milan on Capello’s 16 years ago. Guardiola learned that day that serves no favorite status before a game and perhaps it took all the artillery to a clearly inferior opponent.

In the first few minutes the Catalans cornered in your area Panathinaikos plays though their precise triangulations merit not find the perfect definition. The Greeks were a plaything in the hands of a very superior Barca who found the prize goal thanks to a perfect combination of Alves and Pedro, the two best players of the game, and the Canaries became the first cross shot. Continue Reading »

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