Radamel Falcao Garcia (r)

Re: Radamel Falcao Garcia [R]

Falcao se vindico con un partidazo! Marco el gol determinante y le taparon una palomita que hubiera sido gol.

Segun Riverplate.com fue de los mejores de la cancha:

Falcao Garcia (7): Voluntad y esfuerzo son dos palabras que el Colombiano conoce muy bien y aplica partido a partido. Es uno de los jugadores que mas corre y siempre la pide. Le hicieron el penal, tuvo una palomita que tapo Villar, y para cerrar la tarde metio del 2 a 0. Buena actuacion.

Mejor forma no hay en que llegar a la seleccion!

 

Re: Colombianos en Argentina - 2006/07 update

Que bien por el pibe! Dale Falcao!

Mr. Paisa - eres profeta, por favor danos otrita antes del partido con Peru!

 

Re: Radamel Falcao Garcia [R]

Para Ole fue el mejor del encuentro con Newell's:

R. Falcao (7,5): Peleó todas y generó espacios. Astuto para arrojarse en el anticipo goleador.

Ademas tienen una nota escrita por Radamel Garcia (padre) sobre la reaccion de Falcao a su tarde triste este domingo:

00:00 | RIVER: YO DIGO
Se lo merece por sacrificio

RADAMEL GARCIA. Papá de Falcao.

Como padre, me pone muy contento este presente de Radamel, porque sé como nadie todo lo que sufrió. Después de lo que le tocó vivir con las lesiones, paulatinamente fue adquiriendo todos los movimientos, su forma física y va acercándose a su nivel. Se lo merece, por el sacrificio que hizo.

Cuando el gol no llegaba y lo notaba un poco ansioso, le decía que no se preocupara, que es algo normal, que ocurre lo mismo con los delanteros de nivel. En la época en que yo jugaba en Colombia, llegó Juan Gilberto Funes, un atacante muy importante en la historia de River, y estuvo seis meses sin hacer un gol. El tema es que después del primero, entran todos. Te pega en la cola, en la espalda, en la rodilla, en cualquier parte y adentro. Lo fundamental es que Radamel siempre generó las ocasiones y ahora que empezó a anotar, seguramente lo hará en serie.

 

Re: Colombianos en Argentina - 2006/07 update

Falcao no juega hoy. Volvio de Colombia con contractura en un muslo y lo descansaran para el partido de Copa del Miercoles con Botafogo.

 

Re: Colombians abroad 2007/2008

Segun Ole juega el Miercoles contra Botafogo. Es una lesion que se resuelve con solo dias de reposo y por eso lo descansan hoy.

 

Re: amistoso: COLOMBIA vs PERU (r)

Erroneous.

JPA was considered a huge flop when he first arrived at River, and if anything, people that actually follow his career laud him for his ability to overcome what he endured when he first arrived there. It took him several seasons there to win over the fans, and his stay at River was not short as you make it out to be.

Again, I'm a huge fan of Juan Pablo's, and have followed his career across Argentina and England very closely (as folks who follow Villa online will vouch!), but Falcao is too young and hasn't had enough time to be compared with him. You're "bet" that he won't go as far as Angel is pure conjecture. I think we can all agree that at 21, JPA barely a starter at Nacional was not the player that Falcao (River starter since the age of 19) is at 21. That doesn't mean Falcao will accomplish more than JPA going forward, but its certainly warrants giving him a shot rather than betting against him as you do above.

Finally, and though its off topic, you've made a few assertions that Tevez is a flop in England. This is ridiculous. He is creditted with singlehandedly keeping West Ham in the prem last year and its because of the high regard the prem has for him that his transfer dealings have caused so much controversy - there are literally clubs in the second division that have tried to SUE West Ham for the damages caused by their having been able to sign Tevez. He may not have scored yet for Man U, but they are doing just fine and when he finds his touch this season you can be sure he'll be idolized there as well. Every account I've read or match I've seen him play for them this year (sample of 2) he's looked sharp despite the lack of scoring (he had one teammate tip in a goal that would have been his in his second match anyway).

 

Re: Colombians abroad 2007/2008

Veremos. Recordemos que Sanchez es mediapunta, y que ademas Ruben viene sin efectividad.

Ojala Falcao sigue en la delantera y mejorando cada vez. Lo bueno es que River estara jugando los dos torneos y necesitara jugadores.

 

Re: amistoso: COLOMBIA vs PERU (r)

Its amazing how arrogant your responses are when everyone on this forum knows that JPA DID struggle early on at River, here are the stats year by year (from his profile on nyredbulls.com). The numbers show that the only thing obvious here is that you are wrong. You'll note that 1997-2000 is 4 years according to simple arithmetic and that each of the years in Argentina is essentially two seasons (so JPA played 8 seasons at River Plate):

2000-01: Scored 13 goals for River Plate before being transferred to Aston Villa of the EPL, where he scored one goal in his first 9 contests.

1999-00: Enjoyed his best season while with River Plate, scoring 19 goals in 34 matches.

1998-99: Registered 11 goals in 27 matches for River Plate.

1997-1998: Scored two goals in 12 games after transferring to River Plate in Argentina.

At this point, Falcao has played three years at River (though missing what amounts to two seasons to injury - so after three years he's played less games than JPA did in his first two). If you compare game for game: Falcao has scored 13 goals in his first 34 games. JPA scored 13 goals in his first 39 games at River. Be amazed to find that Falcao has scored at a higher rate than Juan Pablo did at River upon first arrival over similar periods despite spending the bulk of his appearances recovering from his ACL injury in 2006.

Falcao has not accomplished what JPA has yet, but then JPA's got a lot of years on him. According to their stats Falcao's actually ahead, and you should add to that that Falcao has done so by the age of 21, while JPA was 25 by the time he'd played 34 games at River. JPA had the advantage of starting at a major club before ever stepping foot in el Monumental.

BTW, I never said your predictions are nonsense - I said its conjecture and certainly not anything that should be used as support in an argument. Conjecture that seems poorly based since you seem to be under the incorrect assumptions that JPA had scored more than Falcao at the comparative stages of their career at River.

Also, you should read more before making such assertions on Arzuaga. You're certainly not alone in your suggestion that he should be called to the national side based on his recent performances. If you follow the threads on Pinto's call ups since the pre-Copa friendlies you'll see that myself and several of the folks you've been insulting on here have been asking that he get a shot for ages.

On Tevez, if your point is to use Tevez as an example of how hard it is to score in England, than you are trying to point out how hard it is to succeed there - but Tevez HASN'T had trouble succeeding in England.

 

Re: amistoso: COLOMBIA vs PERU (r)

What JPA did later in his time at River is immaterial to this discussion because we have no way of knowing what Falcao will do going forward - just like back in 1999 there was no way anyone could know that JPA would suddenly find his form. Its all conjecture.

You made the argument that Falcao was behind what JPA had done AT THIS POINT IN HIS CAREER. And thats wrong.

You can't argue with stats, but stats need to be compared apples to apples or they are meaningless. As they say in Colombia "el papel aguanta todo" - and you can't win an argument by forecasting what you think people will do in the future.