REAL MADRID TRANSFER NEWS 2008: BAPTISTA GOES TO AC ROMA
August 14, 2008
Local Sports daily “Marca” has published on its web that Italian Club
AC ROMA has finally signed REAL MADRID Brazilian International
midfielder JULIO BAPTISTA
The transfer fee is 12M€ plus incentives & the player signs for Roma
for the next 4 years. The player is expected to fly off to Rome this
Sunday for all the formalities & latter be presented to media & fans
by the Italian Club.
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SPANISH NATIONAL TEAM: DEL BOSQUE CALLS UP BOJAN, AMOREBIETA, IRAOLA & CAPEL AGAINST DENMARK
August 14, 2008
New Spanish National Team Selector & Coach VICENTE DEL
BOSQUE (pictured below) has handed in his first list of players for
next Wednesday´s friendly game against DENMARK. Del Bosque was
faced beforehand with injuries to Goalkeeper Palop, defender
Marchena & midfieder Cesc Fabregas, all members of the winning
European Nations Cup Team.
Added to this Del Bosque has dropped Sergio Garcia (Zaragoza)
& Arbeloa (Liverpool) also members of the European Champions
Team.
The news is that Bojan (Barcelona), Amorebieta & Iraola (At.
Bilbao) & Capel (Sevilla) have been called up to fill in the gaps
& make up the final list.
Here is the FULL LIST of Spanish players:
Goalkeepers: Casillas (R.Madrid) & Reina (Liverpool)
Defenders: Sergio Ramos (R.Madrid),Puyol (Barcelona), Juanito
(Betis), Albiol (Valencia), Amorebieta (pictured; At.Bilbao),
Iraola (pictured; Athletic de Bilbao),
Fernando Navarro (Sevilla) & Capdevila (Villarreal)
(Valencia), Xavi & Iniesta (Barcelona), Cazorla & Senna (Villarreal)
& Diego Capel (pictured; Sevilla).
Forwards: Fernando Torres (Liverpool), Villa (Valencia), Güiza
(Fernebahçe) & Bojan (pictured; Barcelona)
As can be seen, Del Bosque makes minor chnages due to injuries
& keeps the base & the fundamentals of ex-coach Luis Aragones
European Champion team. As the saying goes…”if it ain´t broke
don´t fix it”.
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Why don’t Englishmen like Lampard want to play abroad?
August 14, 2008
Frank Lampard’s decision to sign a new contract with Chelsea and shun the advances of Inter Milan was hardly a surprise.
The midfielder made a wise choice if he based the decision on the previous experiences of English players in Italy.
Only David Platt at Sampdoria was really a success. Ian “it’s like living in a foreign country” Rush lasted just a season at Juventus while the likes of Luther Blissett, Lee Sharpe, Ray Wilkins, Des Walker, Paul Ince and Jay Bothroyd hardly set Serie A alight.
Paul Gascoigne was injured for much of his time at Lazio. Rather than his stunning play, he is best remembered here in Italy for shocking the nation by burping into a microphone.
In recent years only David Beckham at Real Madrid can claim to have done well away from English shores. That’s largely because he was one of the few who dared to try something new.
I actually think Lampard would have been a success at Inter, especially playing under former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho. The Italian champions, and Serie A in general, are crying out for a goalscoring central midfielder.
Instead Lampard will start another English season this weekend, admittedly with packed stadiums and bags of money in his pocket. Stuttering Serie A can’t quite compete with that.
Mark Meadows, Milan
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ATLETICO LOSE AWAY TO SCHALKE 04 IN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PRELIMINARY
August 13, 2008
It was always going to be a tough affair for ATLETICO DE MADRID
in the home leg of the Champions League Preliminary match
against German side SCHALKE 04. The optimistic levels were high
for the Spaniards, until they saw how hard the game really was: 8 yellow
cards & 1 Red (Antonio Lopez, Atletico), with a final result 1-0 in
favour of the Germans.
It now all goes down to the away match ( 2ºleg) at Madrid, were Atletico
MUST WIN if they are to participate in the dreamed Champions
League 2008/09. Let´s face it, if your an Atletico fan you must be
immune to the fact that you & Atletico will have to suffer until the
last minute to know if your objective will be achieved.
The only goal come in the 29th min from a direct free kick that
was scored by PANDER ( seen above celebrating). From then
on it was an even fight for the rest of the game, with Atletico
holding on with 10 men on the field for the latter part of the 2º
half.
The scenario is not good, but not a disaster, as Atletico has its
opportunity to re-group, attain the home advantage & go for the
qualifier in the 2ºleg. Lets wish them luck.
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REAL MADRID DRAWS AGAINST EINTRACHT FRANKFURT IN FRIENDLY (SEE VIDEO)
August 12, 2008
Last dress rehearsal for REAL MADRID before it´s Spanish Super
Cup match against Valencia CF. The Spanish Champions travelled
to EINTRACHT FRANKFURT to play a friendly game that ended
in a 1-1 draw.
Perfect stage to fine-tune the Real Madrid machine with all of its
players available to fine the touch needed to be 100% ready for the
kick off to the new season. Great game that saw an unlucky Real
Madrid being held out by an excellent Frankfurt goalkeeper
NIKOLOV who stopped it all. However, the Germans scored first
via BELLAID in the 6th min after Real defender Pepe failed to clear
the ball to see it hit the bar & place the sphere for the German to touch
in.
In was not until the 2ºhalf when Coach Schuster changed the team
around with De La Red, Baptista & Robinho that saw more spark
up front. It was the young Brazilian ROBINHO (above) that finally
got his teams equalizer in the 71st min - from a Saviola pass - after
numerous close goal calls up until then.
End result: a draw which was well received, as Real Madrid kept the
level & skill, while it changed & gave all its squad a run, illustrating
depth in the squad & good form in the pre-season.
MATCH SUMMARY:
EINTRACHT 1
Nikolov; Ochs, Russ, Bellaid, Spycher; Chris (Fink, m.46), Steinhöfer
(Galindo, m.61), Inamoto (Mahdavikia, m.61), Toski (Heller, m.79);
Liberopoulos (Fenin, m.46) & Amanatidis (Meier, m.61).
REAL MADRID 1
Casillas; Sergio Ramos (Salgado, m.65), Pepe (Javi García, m.79),
Heinze (Metzelder, m.46), Torres; Diarrá (De la Red, m.46), Guti
(Baptista, m.46), Van der Vaart (Higuaín, m.65); Robben, Raúl
(Saviola, m.65) & Van Nistelrooy (Robinho, m.46).
Goals: 1-0, m.6: Bellaid. 1-1, m.71: Robinho.
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