Archive for January, 2010
Deportivo La Coruna’s left-back Filipe Louis was on the outset of the selecao at the beginning of the year but this past weekend he fractured his right leg above the right ankle. A horrific injury, from an innocuous tackle at the Athletic Bilbao goalmouth, it reminded me of other such injuries: Eduardo da Silva’s year long battle to return to Arsenal’s first team after fracturing his leg, Cisse of Liverpool’s anguish from not one but two devastating anke injuries, and [...]
Is Barcelona in danger of losing their prized possessions, their quartet of youngsters, graduates from La Masia football academy? Sevilla, Blackburn, Celtic and Everton are supposedly in for promising Spanish winger Jeffren Suarez. His father is threatening to leave the club if his son doesn’t receive more playing time. Well, it would be a serious mistake for Jeffren to give up on the opportunity to compete for practically the one position that is still open to a certain extent; the [...]
So, reports are circulating through Spain that Sergio Canales, this year’s Bojan or Messi, has signed for Real Madrid, and details of the contract will be forthcoming next week. The kid will play for a couple more years at the Estadio El Sardinero for the cantabrians on loan as he continues to develope as a player. Racing Santander are happy as they keep their most promising player on loan and in the fold until he’s 20. Real Madrid are happy [...]
Give the English papers a chance and they’ll have you believing that half of Barcelona’s players, or practically all of Real Madrid’s, are in for any one of the clubs in England. Don’t get me started about managers either. I mean, Pep Guardiola is a Camp Nou legend, his family are blaugrana through and through, and he’s supposed to give that up for being Sir Alex Ferguson’s second? No disrespect to the so-called biggest club in the world, but no [...]
As.comAtleti: hit the brakes and then reverse. Getafe were much more and culminate with their best first turn in their history: 30 points. Real Madrid 2:0 Malaga: Cristiano, once again angel and devil: Two goals and expulsion. Cristiano: anyone who understands football knows that wasn’t a red card. Deportivo La Coruna: Filipe Luis asks for forgiveness from his fans and advises them, “within four months I’ll be back to score more goals.” The winger fractured his ankle and will be [...]
After a gripload of speculation, it seems that Robinho, ex of Santos and Real Madrid and now Manchester City, eschewing the opportunity to partner himself with his former Santos teammate Diego at Juventus, is going back to Brazil. Now, this is no Euro-centric/let’s knock on Brazil post, but one has to wonder what the status of the premier Brazilian player is? We understand that Ronaldo is at the end of his career and he is spending it with a return [...]
Pep Guardiola finally saved us all the hassle of annoying him further, “Renew Pep, come on Pep, sign your contract Pep”, by calling a presser with Txiki, Laporta and the gang and putting pen to paper for the next year as the Barca coach and head sweater-vest model. Not so fast cule sympathizers. No real “contract” has actually been struck. It’s a word and a promise, “I’ll stick around for a year and if I like the new digs I’ll [...]
There is a very interesting article in the latest Champions Magazine. It’s about Barcelona, specifically their signing of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, essentially trading for him in American parlance for Samuel Eto’o to Inter. It was expected, it’s what anyone in the know was talking about last year, an attitude problem with the player and a confidence issue with the coach, and Zlatan himself made it quite clear that working at a club like Barcelona would be essential to proving his worth [...]
Episode 13, Greetings to a new guest blogger. This episode Kevin and Corey are joined by a new panel guest in Isaiah Cambron from the Barcelonafootballblog We discuss some of the action from match day 18, the current situation in the dressing room at Barca, and several odds and ends dealing with Spanish futbol. Give the podcast a listen. http://www.podbean.com/podcast-audio-video-blog-player/mp3playerlightsmallv3.swf?audioPath=http://ogn.podbean.com/mf/play/g96sg5/ognrealmadridtalk13210110.mp3&autoStart=noPowered by LaLigaWeekly.com If you wish to download the OGN/RealMadrid podcast and listen later,right click the audio icon -> and save [...]
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