Comments on: Primera Results – Week 4

By: elma

elma — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:03:06 +0000

albo chinga a tu perrisima madre

By: Albo

Albo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:20:48 +0000

Tomorrow, Tuesday March 11th at 1 pm (Buenos Aires time) Coco Basile will give the list of 20 players who will fly to Cairo to face Egypt on March 26th.
Given the high amount of matches currently played by some albicelestes with their respective clubs and adding the few who are injured, Basile will probably end up
testing some new players. It is said in certain circles that Fernando “Torito” Cavenaghi and Lizandro “Liche” Lopez will get the call from the mister.

Possible list:

GKs :Roberto Abbondanzieri (Getafe) and Leonardo Franco (Atlético de Madrid).

Defenders: Gabriel Milito (Barcelona), Gabriel Heinze (Real Madrid), Martín Demichelis (Bayern Münich), Pablo Zabaleta (Espanyol de Barcelona), Nicolás Burdisso and Javier Zanetti (Inter Milano).

Midfielders: Maxi Rodríguez (Atlético de Madrid), Fernando Gago (Real Madrid), Javier Mascherano (Liverpool), Esteban Cambiasso (Inter), Luis González (Porto), Leonardo Ibagaza (Mallorca) and Ever Banega (Valencia).

Forwards: Sergio Agüero (Atlético de Madrid), Julio Cruz (Inter), Gonzalo Higuaín (Real Madrid), Lisandro López (Porto) and Fernando Cavenaghi (Girondis Bordeaux).

By: ken

ken — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:16:21 +0000

Really good to hear from you, Riquelme the blogger.
I do not know Messi can change his mindset; He always
like to run at 100 miles an hour. It would be good to hear from Alfio.
Cheers to you all.

P.S Todd, you are right about unfair treatment given to stars players
like Aguero. It is up to the players to make the appropriate adjustment
and be fully prepared for any eventually. Remember how Riquelme was completely shut out against Brazil in Copa America. Criatiano Ronaldo used to be very upset; Sir Alex hs worked on him. He is now tougher in his attitude.

Villareal has really surprised me; they even beat Barcelona away.

By: Riquelme

Riquelme — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:03:13 +0000

Ken, Thanks for asking. I am still around and enjoying this blog and the players silently.

Regarding Messi’s injury, I think in a sense it good for him as long as its nothing serious and he will recover in a few weeks. The look on Messi face said that he exactly knew how important was it for him not to get injured. And I am sure after this injury, Messi will try everything on and off the field to make sure that he doesnt get rushed. I think this might be the beginning of a new Messi that is going to last for a decade. I wanna see him back.

Keep writing guys!!

By: Albo

Albo — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:39:51 +0000

That’ll probably be Villagra.

By: toddutah

toddutah — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:11:56 +0000

Yes the changing of the guard. I hope that Basile is paying close attention. And of course Demichilis is still in the mix as well. Now we just need that strong left side defender with some speed.

By: J-Argie

J-Argie — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:29:02 +0000

i only have that to say concerning the defense line of argentina:
*we are witnessing the fall of Gaby Heinze and Gaby Milito and the rise of Ezequiel Garay and Gonzalo Rodriguez.

By: Alexa

Alexa — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:25:07 +0000

I agree – the most pernicious and cynical practice out there now is that systematic fouling, where they rotate fouls on people like Aguero so that no one player gets kicked out of the game. This is what Zaragoza did against Aguero, and what Brazil did against Riquelme in the Copa America final. It’s completely cynical, unethical, everyone knows it happens, and fifa doesn’t do a thing to stop it.

By: toddutah

toddutah — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:55:45 +0000

Amen . When is futbol going to protect its players more? You see a player like Aguero gets slammed from behind everytime he recieves the ball. Maybe futbol can learn form the NBA sometimes you have to adjust the rules as the players get bigger and stronger to prevent injuies and also to allow the gifted ones to show off some of their skills. When the player receives the ball and is kicked in the back of the legs it should be a yellow. Also any jersey pulls should be a yellow. This would open up the game a lot. The NBA had this problem with the detroit pistons and the whole league becoming to defensive. They changed some rules on hand checks and the offenses once again had the advantage. What would be wrong with that in futbol? All that needs to happen is the ref being more tight in handing out yellows for these infractions. Also what i get tired of is the Ref giving yellows based on whether the player appears to be injured or not. A yellow card foul should be called whether the guy rolls around on the ground in pain or not.

By: toddutah

toddutah — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:45:22 +0000

Atletico Madrid president slams Aguero treatment
tribalfootball.com – March 10, 2008

Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo has slammed the lack of protection Sergio Aguero is receiving from referees after their defeat to Real Zaragoza.

Aguero, himself, has slammed ref Ramirez Dominguez for his performance on the night, and Cerezo also remarked: “One day they’re going to leave Aguero an invalid.

“I can’t believe what defenders who play against Atletico are allowed to get away with.

“Against Zaragoza it was very sad to see what was happening. On more than one occasion Aguero received tackles that deserved a yellow card.

“There’s no point talking about precise plays. The constant hard tackling on Aguero needs to be looked at.

“If a player is skillful and a specialist in making football attractive, we need to look after him so spectators can see this spectacle, that is why they pay to come to the stadium