jueves, 4 de julio de 2013

BRAZIL CHAMPION !!!






Nobody expected the Maracana’s script. The current world cup champion lost 3-0 against the host. Spanish players were unrecognizable. When Brazil won 1-0, Spain had the chance of drawing. However, Sergio Ramos failed a penalty. If he would have scored, maybe the match would have been different. Or maybe not.

Neymar did a great match scoring another nice goal and getting the best player trophy. It is a good job that Barcelona hired him before this competition because right now he would be much more expensive.

Vicente del Bosque said that from time time even the champions need a cure for humility. I am sure he is right. Spanish players needed a defeat like this. They needed a blow like the one they lived in Maracaná last Sunday. They must not forget that in football any team can beat you even though you are the best.

There are two matches left to get the qualification for the nest world cup. It would be a big failure to be out of the world cup. I am sure they will have learnt a valuable lesson and will not face these matches confidently.

Happy summer !!!




 

jueves, 13 de junio de 2013

IS NEYMAR THE PROPER PLAYER FOR BARCELONA?




The last June third, Neymar was introduced in Camp Nou as new player of Barcelona F.C. 56.000 supporters welcomed him at the stadium. Rosel had gone shopping and had picked what some people call “the next Messi”. 
The operation cost added up to 57 millions euros. His salary 7 million euros per season. Regarding his merchandising earnings, Barcelona will get very little. Most revenues will be for Neymar.

According to Pelé, Neymar is best than Messi. What a sacrilege!!! Brazilian people have sold this product as a big treasure. The media has magnified his game. Of course he has scored some nice goals, but he did in the Brazilian championship. With all respect, it is neither Premier League, nor Liga Española nor Calcio. He has not succeeded in the national team yet. In other words, he has done nothing yet. Barcelona has paid 57 millions for a unknown player. We do not know yet whether he is a star or not. Therefore, we cannot compare him with Messi yet. First, Neymar should gain his own respect on the pitch. Audience is very demanding in Camp Nou. They will be patient during the first season. After it, they will demand him the best performance in every match. If you do not believe this, ask Alexis about it.

I do not want to be any spoiltsport. I want to be straightforward. Therefore I have to say Neymar will be a failure. He is not as good player as people think. Maybe, he is not even a player for a big team like Barcelona or Real Madrid. I am sorry to say that Neymar will fail in Barcelona. The most worrying thing is environment. Neymar is a controversial player with a lot of personality. There will be arguments, especially between Neymar and Messi. The reason is clear, both are two cocks in the same farmyard. In the end, one of them will have to definitely leave the team. Who will be?

jueves, 30 de mayo de 2013

BAYERN MUNICH CHAMPION !!!




Bayern and Borussia offered a great spectacle last Saturday. Both teams attacked for the whole match turning goalkeepers into the main protagonists. Borussia began controlling the match in the first half. In the second, Bayern dominated the game. Bayern scored first thanks to Mandzukic. Five minutes later, Gundogan got the draw by scoring a penalty. Robben had never been sucessful in finals. This time was different. He scored the second and definite goal in the last minute of the extra time. Bayern has just got its fifth champions league eleven years later.

Bayern has been, without a doubt, the fair winner of this trophy. Bayern knocked out good teams such as Juventus or Barcelona very easily. Both Juventus and Barcelona were quite hammered. In Bundesliga, Bayern did the same thing with most of its rivals and they won mathematically some weeks before ending the championship. It has become clear that nowadays this is the most powerful team in Europe. They reached semifinals the last five years. They reached final last year too. Heinckes is a big responsible of this win. After the injustice lived last season on Alianz Arena, he got obsessed with winning champions league. He made himself such a promise and he kept it. Now he will leave Bayern in the best possible way, that is, by winning the three top trophies: Bundesliga, Champions League and German Cup.

Next season Josep Guardiola will improve many things and win many trophies too. Lewandowsky and Gotze will play in Bayern and there will be, for sure,  much more stars. Guardiola will make a factory of players in Munich like he did in Barcelona. This this team is already powerful. With Guardiola, Gotze and Lewandowsky, it will be much more.

Finally, I would like to stress German football. It was a German final, the first one in the history by the way. German football is in fashion again. Bundesliga is major championship again. German players appear on the market again. This thing is something good for European football because it will improve competitiveness. I hope to watch more finals like this. Thank you both for such spectacle and congratulations Bayern !!!



miércoles, 22 de mayo de 2013

MOURINHO




Florentino Perez publicly announced the dismissal of Josep Mourinho last Monday after the meeting held among all the management committee members. After three seasons, Mourinho has only been able to get two trophies: one Spain King’s Cup and one Spanish premier league. Not much for someone considered as the best coach worldwide. As he arrived in Madrid, just three years ago, he asked to sign up the best players. Florentino spent a lot of money and obeyed all his requests. Mou asked full power in Real Madrid. One month later, Florentino sacked Valdano, who was working as a sporting manager. Florentino obeyed either of his orders as long as wining “the tenth” . Meanwhile, Real Madrid was humiliated in Nou Camp (5-0) and knocked out in champions league by Barcelona later on. Mourinho hit Tito Vilanova, looked down on Pellegrini, Preciado, Valdano, Toril and especially Guardiola. He argued with Casillas, Sergio Ramos and Xabi Alonso for getting along with Xabi Hernandez, Pujol, Busquets, Iniesta or Villa. He was about breaking the nice atmosphere of the national team.

This last year his relation with Casillas became unbearable. One day, in one of their arguments, Mourinho told him that he would never play in Real Madrid as long as he is the coach. In January, some major Real Madrid’s players asked Florentino to dismiss Mourinho because all the players did not stand him anymore. At that time, Florentino made the decision of sacking him on June even though he won champions league. The last two months have been very hard for players. Setting was cold and anybody liked to talk to him. Players did not even say hello in the hallways. They did not even obey his indications during the match. The last “Mourinhada” was to despise the king of Spain last Saturday. He did not go to receive the runner-up medal from him.

Thank god, we have got rid of him. He has been a real cancer for the Spanish football as many people have repeatedly stated. He has harmed Real Madrid’s image, the national team, referees work, and he has even been provocative with his own supporters. Mourinho has been the most smelly shit in the farmyard.

Anyway, thank heaven, he will never train any Spanish team in the future. We will have peace again. The loser finally is gone. “Blues” are waiting for him in Stamford Bridge because he has just been signed up. What Chelsea’s supporters do not know, is that he will fail again and cause a lot of trouble in Stamford Bridge. Spanish football has just been cured. The surgeon Florentino Perez removed the tumour this week. Now cancer is in English football. I sincerely wish the English football a quick recovery from this cruel kind of cancer. Good luck.



domingo, 19 de mayo de 2013

DIEGO SIMEONE




Purse was over on May seventeenth of two thousand thirteen. It lasted fifteen years. Many teenagers had never seen their team beating Real Madrid. The first time was the last Friday in a King’s cup final and at the rival’s house, Santiago Bernabeu stadium. Cristiano Ronaldo scored in the thirteenth minute by heading the ball and making foul over Godin. From then on, Mourinho made his usual mistake and moved the team backwards in order to defend the rest of the game. This thing gave “atleti” the ball, and since then, they controlled the whole match especially as far as fitness is concerned. Before the break, Falcao made a great move and assisted Diego Costa who scored a very nice goal. Miranda scored in the overtime the final goal. Posts and Courtais stopped Real Madrid from scoring the second goal and this thing, drove Real Madrid’s players to despair. Cristiano Ronaldo was expelled for kicking the Gabi’s face. By the way, amazing work of this player who did not stop running in the whole match. Mourinho also drove mad and was expelled by referee Clos Gomez for complaining. These both Portuguese men despised both King and rival and did not take the silver medal, so left the pitch as the match was over. Mean people do things like this, so it was expected.

The main responsible for this win has been Diego Simeone. He was signed up one and a half year ago when “los colchoneros” were about going down to the second division. He maintained the team on the first division and won the Europe league the next season. After that, he beat Chelsea in the European cup-winners’ cup and won the trophy. This season, Atleti qualified third in Spanish premier league, and won the Spain King’s Cup.  He is a great coach and a very good psychologist. He convinced players to believe in themselves and they did. As he said, in life you must fight, and if you do, you will hardly ever win. He was also addressing many people that in this country are living hard times such as unemployment, evictions or disease. So, it became clear that through fighting you can overcome any problem. Congratulations Atleti. Congratulations Cholo.    



jueves, 16 de mayo de 2013

TITO VILANOVA




Is time to talk about another coach. Barcelona won the Spanish premier league last Sunday in Vicente Calderon Stadium by beating Atletico de Madrid 1-2. Actually, they were champions on Saturday due to the Real Madrid’s draw in Cornellá Stadium. The main responsible for this trophy is Tito Vilanova. The Barcelona’s trainer has performed an outstanding job on this team during the whole championship, especially in the first half of the competition since they won 18 matches and just drew 1. It was at that time when they really won Spanish premier league, or at least, it was at that time when Mourinho considered it lost. Tito, the same as Abidal, is for many people a real example of overcoming. Two years ago, he faced cancer for the first time and he beat it. Last year he relapsed. He fought this terrible disease and beat it again. In his first season as a Barcelona’s coach and while fighting cancer he has been able to win the most important trophy in Spain. This thing is worthy of a lot of merit. Replacing Guardiola was not an easy job because Pep had set very high standars. In his first season Tito has won a Spanish league and reached semifinals in both King’s cup and UEFA Champions league. In other words, he has passed the exam with high score.

Chelsea won UEFA cup yesterday thanks to one Ivanovic’s goal in the 92 minute. Once more, the bad luck persisted after one Hungarian coach cursed Benfica thirty years ago by saying “this team will never win an European trophy without me” .    

And we will be able to watch the Real Madrid’s win tomorrow over Atletico de Madrid in the Spain King’s Cup. Maybe because another kind of curse was put on “los colchoneros” in the past, since they have not been able to beat “los merengones” in the last twenty years. Either way, we will watch this match because King’s cup always gives us a lot of spectacle. 



jueves, 9 de mayo de 2013

ANTONIO CONTE, FERGUSON AND MOURINHO




I am going to talk about three coaches who were protagonist this week for several reasons.

The first one is Antonio Conte. He turned Juventus into the Calcio’s champion last weekend by winning Atalanta (0-1) with a Arturo Vidal’s goal. This is its second consecutive trophy and the 29th in Juventus’ history. After some hard years in the second division, “juve” is again among the top European teams. In this champions league season, they were knocked out by Bayern, which is nowdays the stronger team in Europe. Now they are planning the team for the next season. For the moment, they already have the Athletic de Bilbao’s striker Fernando Llorente. The next one could be Ibrahimovic or Higuain. What is clear is this team is again a team to take into account.

The second one is a winner. Ferguson retired after almost twenty seven years as a Manchester United’s coach. The reason seems to be health-related issues. Fergie was marked on December tenth of nineteen eighty five by watching how his friend Jock Stein died in the pitch because of a heart attack. Fergie has nowadays a pacemaker and will be operated of his hip the coming August. “Sir” has won thirty eight trophies, thirteen premier leagues and two champions league among them. He is a good example for all trainers and those managers who hire a new coach every season. Thank you for all Sir.

Finally, the third one is a loser. Mourinho will leave Real Madrid with only three trophies after three seasons. He has not set a style on this team. His football has been boring and violent. Once more, the Mourinho’s strategy was putting pressure over referees in order to be favoured. Last year he was succesful with such a strategy because it helped him win the league. This season do not. The current situation is that any Real Madrid’s player talk to him. They even wave him. All players are against him. Even the Portuguese people. Pepe publicly critizeced him this week for treating Casillas so unfairly. After the King’s cup there will be more statements. All Real Madrid’s players have come to an agreement of telling all the things that people must know about the special one. Meanwhile, he will continue to burn down the press room through statements like the ones that he made last week. The question Abramovich and Chelsea’s supporters should make themselves is: Is it worth hiring this coach?



jueves, 2 de mayo de 2013

SEMIFINALS II






The end of semifinals resulted in a fair German victory, just as everybody expected. Bayern hammered Barcelona (0-3) in a match that Messi did not play and the ones who did, were quite fried. The overall score was 7-0 for German players. This thing, at least gives rise to a deep reflection. As Pique said, what just happened obliges to make any decisions.  

Real Madrid clung to its history through the sentence “it is possible” to get back in the hard (4-2) score that they brought from Dortmund last week. They had chance to score especially in the first fifteen minutes. They did not play football the rest of the match. Borussia had the control of the game and was able of even hammering them. Benzema scored the first goal in the 82th  minute and Sergio Ramos scored in the 88th . However, they would never score the third one. We could watch real “merengues” like Sergio Ramos crying at the end of the match while on the other hand, Brazilian, Portuguese, German or Argentinian players do not look sad at all. Borussia was fair winner.

The third Mourinho’s failure in Real Madrid has just perpetrated. In his third season he will only get the King’s cup. According to several formers referees who comment on the media, the English referee who addressed the match did not make any mistake. It does not matter, Mourinho complained about his refereeing. Once more, he took care of talking about himself in the press conference, played the victim role (he said Spanish Media hates him) , left out doing self-criticism, and took a look at Chelsea so that they hire him as soon as possble. Pathetic.

One more time Real Madrid has had a comfortable ride toward champions league final. In the first place they were helped in Old Trafford through that unfair sending off that took place just when Manchester won 1-0. Secondly, they were lucky in the draw (thanks to the vibrator ball) and got the weak Turkish Galatasaray. Finally, they were lucky again and got the easier team in semifinals. If Bayern scored Barcelona seven goals, I do not want to imagine how many goals they would have been able to score Real Madrid. Even though everything was set so that Real Madrid to win the tenth champions, it has not been possible. They are so useless that even with UEFA’s aid, are not able to reach the final. I am really glad of Real Madrid’s elimination, pain of its supporters, the failure of both Mourinho and Florentino, and one season more football has been fair.     



viernes, 26 de abril de 2013

GERMANY 8 – SPAIN 1




The first champions league stage ended with a clear advantage for Germans. Barcelona lost 4-0 in Munich, and Real Madrid 4-1 in Dortmund. As far as Barcelona is concerned, I want to point out that three of those four goals must be disallowed and a penalty was not indicated for “los culés”. Anyway, there are no excuses. As Piqué said: “they have just given us a telling-of”. The Bavarians really beat Barcelona in all senses, above all, in the physical condition. It became clear Bayern is right now the best team in Europe.

With regard to Real Madrid we could state that the “usual player” avoided for Real Madrid the same score than the one that took place in Munich. Borussia crushed Real Madrid in all senses including also the physical condition. Lewandowsky became the first player ever who was able to score four goals in a champions league semi-finals match, raising this way very highly his quotation. Mourinho made several mistakes such as setting Ramos as a right side defender, leaving Casillas out and picking Modric as a first-team player. Obviously he did not acknowledge such mistakes in the press conference.

We will live the ending of both movies next week. Regarding Barcelona it is clear that they will be knock out. This year, for any reason, UEFA does not want “the Catalonians” in the final. Catalonian team has been damaged through various refereeing taken place in Milan, Paris and Munich. Too much coincidence. 

However, on the other side, Real Madrid has not been damaged even once in this championship. Again, too much coincidence. Last Wednesday, referee did not indicate a clear penalty for Borussia, and by the way, I was right concerning my draw prediction. That possible vibrator ball has given Real Madrid many attainable rivals for its whole history. The coming Tuesday, we will be able to check my theory out by watching how referee will favour Real Madrid’s players in some decisions, so that they can carry out the comeback and reach the final. What a shame.      

jueves, 11 de abril de 2013

CUARTER FINAL CHAMPIONS LEAGUE




Malaga’s supporters went through a second “via crucis” last Tuesday. The “boqueron” team was kicked out in the most cruel way. Borussia scored twice in the last three minutes, one of them in a clear offside. Cheer up Malaga!

Real Madrid began the match by scoring in the Turkish hell thanks to a goal scored by Cristiano Ronaldo. In the second half, Real Madrid’s players got slept and in less than fifteen minutes they already lost 3-1. The usual player scored the second goal and qualified his team for semi-finals. What would have happened if Ronaldo had not played that match? The answer is easy. They would have been knocked out by a Cinderella called “Galatasaray” after having a clear 3-0 in the first match. In other words, the next week Mourinho and his Portuguese friends would have left the ship and Florentino would have lost elections through an overwhelming defeat.

As far as Barcelona is concerned, we could say that it was unrecognizable. PSG harassed the Barcelona team for the whole first half. They were able to end the first half with a comfortable 0-3 on the scoreboard. They made a wonderful football and turned Valdes into the best Barcelona’s player. In the beginning of the second half, Pastore scored, and a noisy whispering could hear at Camp Nou. The same murmur that was heard as they played Inter or Chelsea in previous semi-finals. Barcelona had the withdrawal symptom and all seemed dark. The “Messidependency” made tremble the Barcelona’s players legs and Tito did not doubt at all. “The lame person” walked into the field and his own presence made PSG go backward. “The lame player” made the qualification goal move, scored by the newly daddy Pedro thanks to a great assist of Villa. Despite it, the audience asked eagerly the end of the match since PSG continued to harass Barcelona. Barcelona had just got the fix that it needed.

The following Friday will take place the draw with the next result:

Borussia – Real Madrid
Barcelona – Bayern

All is ready for the victory of Real Madrid in this champions league.

 

jueves, 4 de abril de 2013

REAL MADRID WILL WIN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE




After watching the Barcelona’s match in Paris last Tuesday I came to a wise conclusion. UEFA want to smash Barcelona. In Milan, the referee already damaged seriously Barcelona. What happened in Paris was the straw that breaks the camel’s back. For whatever reason, there is no interest in seeing how Barcelona wins this champions league.

The only team that has not been damaged in any match this season has been Real Madrid. On the contrary, they have been favoured in Old Trafford, and were able to decide their qualifying round thanks to that possible “fixed draw” as it has been considered in some international media, that they got the easier team. Dani Alves is right as he states pressure that Mourinho exerts over referees becomes determining. This way is as “the worst coach worldwide” has won two champions, which Guardiola himself would feel ashamed of it. I do not know whether Florentino has something to do with this “fixed champions”. He really knows that winning “the tenth” this elections year would be crucial to win by a majority. Either way, I have already decided not to watch more football matches of a adulterated competition. It does not matter who will play semi-finals. It does not matter who will play the final either. The winner is already chosen. Real Madrid will win this champions league in May in the same way it has won the former nine ones. That is, through referee help. The most sad thing is Real Madrid’s supporters are happy by watching their team winning this way. As I am a  great gentleman, I congratulate them in advance today. Congratulations champions!!!!


jueves, 28 de marzo de 2013

PEDRADA IN SAINT DENIS





World Cup qualification was at stake for Spain last Tuesday in Paris. They could not fail and they did not. “La roja” made a great match that once more did not fail in a major game. Referee forgot cards in the first half and French players took advantage of it to make five or six really dangerous tackles. In the second half, Pogba committed two very silly actions. Firstly, he hit with his knee Xabi Alonso’s face. A minute later, he tackled the other Xabi with a clear intention of injuring him. It seemed that he wanted to get self-expelled. It is a good thing this time referee did not give French players more presents. The main gift was refusing to indicated a very clear penalty committed by the French goalkeeper over Pedro. In any case, let us forget referee. Let us talk about the great work of Iniesta or the great couples formed by Xabi Alonso and Busquets in the midfield on the one hand, and Pique and Sergio Ramos in the back line on the other. Let us talk about Pedro who has already scored ten goals in this qualification stage and he once more scored yesterday the victory goal. And finally, let us talk about Valdes who perfectly replaced Casillas by saving several some very clear goal occasions. Now there are three matches left with national teams such as Finland, Byelorussia and Georgia. They must prevent unexpected events like the one lived with Finnish players last Saturday in Gijon. Lesson should be learnt.

Apart from this, all major national teams fulfilled the goal except England who drew in Montenegro and Argentina who also drew in Bolivia, in a match that once more Argentinean players felt the great effort that means to play from so many altitude meters. If you do not believe this, ask Messi about it. He ended up vomiting because of the high fatigue. In the coming week, champions league returns. Football schedule does not have a break so let us enjoy the show.           

miércoles, 20 de marzo de 2013

MOURINHO WILL LEAVE REAL MADRID ON JUNE



It is not only decided but it is also signed. Josep Mourinho will leave Real Madrid at the end of this season according to both Marca newspaper and Cadena Ser radio station.

He asked for cracking players and they were signed up. He asked for the full control of the club and he was given full powers. However, the one that a good day was considered “the best coach worldwide” , has won just a few trophies for Real Madrid. He has not been able to introduce a style and above all, he has not been able to make enjoy supporters through an attractive football. He got into trouble with press, supporters, and most of his own players. Perhaps this last point has been the straw that breaks the camel’s back. According to Marca newspaper, several players have told Florentino that if this man continues the following season, they will leave the team. Apparently, part of those players are major fooballers. Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Xabi Alonso? Even another one could be Cristiano Ronaldo who is thinking too much the chance of renewing. This bad-mannered, mean and obnosious Portuguese has tarnished Real Madrid’s image by doing things like poking his finger in a coach eye who is fighting cancer right now. In pitches either nationals or internationals where in the past Real Madrid was applauded, no it is booed. Not to mention the harm that he has done to “la roja”, which plays two crucial matches in the coming days. We must to admit the Mourinho’s departure is not only going to be positive for Real Madrid. It will be positive for the Spanish national team, the Spanish premier league, children, and Florentino Perez. The question is: where will he train next season? Inter de Milan, Manchester City, Chelsea, PSG, …? Where he will never train, neither next season nor any season, is in Barcelona. Why? Because in such an institution there is no space for riffraff like him.

miércoles, 13 de marzo de 2013

BARCELONA GETS BACK IN !!!




It was said by Xabi Hernandez. “this block needs a historical comeback”. Told and done. Barsa made the perfect match yesterday. Since the first until the last minute. Mascherano exerted as a leader, Jordi Alba defended, attacked and scored, Busquets was everywhere, Xabi and Iniesta played the ball like only they know to do it, Messi acted as a true gold ball player, being able to draw the match on his own before the half-time, Villa played as a “9” scoring the 3-0 and Alexis assisted Alba in the fourth goal. We saw the usual Barsa again. The Barsa that pressures, plays, and attacks. The only fright that we had was at the beginning (1-0) as Niang got completely alone in front of Valdes and shooted. Thanks God the post blocked the ball. Luck was on the Barcelona’s side yesterday. After that opportunity, Messi scored the second goal. Champions is like this. It is not enough to play good. Luck also must be on your side. It is also outstanding having a referee who does not harm you like the one Barcelona had in the previous match. The group joined forces for Tito. We do not really know whether there was a videoconference or not. What we indeed know is players gave everything for him. Lesson has just been learnt. Heat rounds last 180 minutes and you cannot relax neither the first or the second match. Barsa did that in the first one but fixed it in the second one.



Like Messi said: “many people are looking forward to seeing the Barsa’s cycle to be ended”. AS newspaper published yesterday the following front page: “COMEBACK OR END OF CYCLE” . There were many champagne bottles ready to be uncorked, but it was not possible. No elimination no end of cycle. I am very sorry. I know many people did not barely slept last night and others have even slept at all like Mourinho, Ronaldo or Karanka.



And the following Friday draw will take place. Knowing the usual luck of Real Madrid, I am going to forecast its rival. Either Oporto or Galatasaray. One of both. However, Barcelona will play Bayern and we will live an authentic spectacle by watching the two best teams worldwide. The show must go on !!!


viernes, 1 de marzo de 2013

BENITEZ, SWANSEA AND SPANISH KING CUP




Real Madrid won in Camp Nou (1-3) and reached the final of Spanish King Cup as well as Atletico de Madrid that drew in Seville (2-2). We will have a Madrilenean derby next May. Date is not set yet. Stadium neither. Real Madrid wants to play in Nou Camp. Atletico de Madrid in Vicente Calderón. You can do your bets. My bet is Nou Camp because Anger Maria Villar will probably want to provoke Barcelona’s supporters.

In England, Benitez made clear his intentions for the end of this season. After the FA Cup match against Middlesbrough that Chelsea won 0-2, he announced his decision of leaving Chelsea at the end of this season. Chelsea supporters sang songs against him during that match and he surprised everybody by saying: “they are wasting their time with such songs. They can be relieved because I will go away in June”. Apparently, he has not felt supported by both Abramovich and supporters and did not like being called “interin” . On March ninenth, Chelsea will visit Old Trafford to play Manchester the next stage of FA Cup. Can you imagine Chelsea winning FA Cup? What would sing Chelsea’s supporters that day? Benitez please stay here? Some Media state he will be replaced by Mourinho. Will Josep come back to Stanford Bridge?

This weekend United plays Norwich. The Reds have their mind on the following champions league match that will take place On Wednesday sixth in Old Trafford Stadium. It is theorically an easy match so they will not probably make a big effort. However, Real Madrid will play Barcelona in Santiago Bernabeu Stadium. They will have to do a great effort if they want to win. Although, taking into account the Josep Mourinho statements several months ago saying that they had not any chance of winning this championship, maybe he will set a lineup full of reserves. In that case we could see another 2-6 like we did in two thousand nine. The agenda keeps being interesting and we will pay full attention to the various matches in Europe.

By the way, I do not want to finish without mentioning the great deed achieved by Swansea. This Welsh team won the Capital One Cup against Bradford in an easy match (5-0) . Michael Laudrup (his coach) states that the key is that this team has kept the same philosophy for the last six years. One of his best player, the Spanish fooballer “Michu” urges him to stay in Swansea at least one season more. This win has been the most important one in the whole club history (101 years) . This Welsh team played in the fourth division twelve years ago. Now they are just winners of this major trophy. Congratulations !!!

sábado, 23 de febrero de 2013

BARCELONA KICKED OUT




Barcelona did an awful match in San Siro last Wednesday and lost 2-0 with goals scored by Boateng and Muntari. The first one was illegal cause one Italian player touched the ball with his hand. However there are no excuses. Barcelona only shooted at goal once in the whole match. The weak point this year continues to be the back line. Barcelona get at least one goal every single match. With this stadistics they cannot aspire to win champions league. I am completely sure that they will receive another goal in Camp Nou and then, the mission will be almost impossible. That is why I consider Barcelona is already knocked out.



Bayern Munich won 1-3 in Emirates Stadium. Arsene Wenger received another hard blow and supporters get increasingly upset with him. Will he continue to be the Arsenal coach next year?



This weekend we will enjoy a great match between Manchester City and Chelsea. Both teams are still fighting for winning premier league so they will do their best. I will not miss this fantastic match.



Finally, next weekend we will witness another Barcelona-Real Madrid. This match will decide what team is going to play the Copa del Rey semifinals. And the following Saturday both teams will play again in the Spanish league.



Dear football fans, get ready for the show !!!