La Liga week 6, home game against Zaragoza. After this game there will be two weeks of due to internatonal matches. It would be nice to win this match in style before players leave Barcelona. I will say this wont be an easy match for us but I am positive about the resoult. I predict win with two or three goals deference. I believe Etoo abd Xavi might get rest this time or the same line-up as agaisnt Udinese. Marques and Edmislon will probably also in the team. I guess soemthink like this: Valdes Belletti Puyol Oleguer Sylvinho Van Bommel Marques Deco Messi Larsson Ronaldinho later will probably came on Ezquerro, Maxi and Edmilson We ll see. As long we are winning I dont care who plays
I think Xavi and Oleguer should be next in the rest-based rotation plan. And sub off Eto'o earlier for Maxi. Has the RFEF ruled on Messi yet?
Well, im not a true barca fan, even though my parents have been to plenty of their games... and i like to watch them on TV. Well about the match, Ronaldinho will wear personalized gold boots, if anyone cares. It will not be a pushover team, but Barca are still the favorites.
Team for Zaragoza match: Valdés, Jorquera, Puyol, Belletti, Edmilson, Sylvinho, Oleguer, Van Bronckhorst, Van Bommel, Messi, Giuly, Deco, Eto'o, Márquez, Larsson, Ronaldinho, Ezquerro and Iniesta. Xavi, Maxi, Motta and Gabri are left out of the team.
I think Xavi is a great creator but he needs a break. He has played alot of football in the last 14 months and may need a game or two off to get back to his best. This is not to say he has been playing poorly but he has seemingly disappeared on the pitch, it could be attributed to playing deeper, defensively, in the midfield, but his creativity and ball movement have been sorely missed. Plus, this mean a midfield of Marquez and Van Bommel can be put on display.
Those are not as Gold as a thought but in a way even more-so. I think he had a pair of Half gold boots in the Confederations Cup
Does anyone know how to post the pic of the boots. The boots look exactly like the ones he normally wears. Here is a bried description from a news article: Nike has been given two pairs of special boots containing eight ounces of 24-carat gold estimated by manufacturers Nike to be worth $6,000. The gold has been applied to the tongue, heel and the Nike "swoosh" on the side and is the same as the material used on athlete Michael Johnson's all-gold spikes he wore at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The boots also feature an embroidered letter "R" and the number 10, the shirt Ronaldinho wears for Barcelona, while the heel of the boot is embossed with five gold stars in honour of Brazil's five World Cup wins. "We were wondering how to give the boots a personal touch," said Ronaldinho. "So they copied the design of my neck chain to reproduce the "R" and added my number 10. I was very happy to take part in the gold design, so they are completely personalised." http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/rids/20050930/i/r1699145127.jpg?x=279&y=345&sig=8DVvELebaMgoAoaWPAW3Aw--
lets go to the break on a positive note! xavi and eto are next in line for a rest i suspect eto will not play the 90mins
Since when do soccer players need blingbling. There's a perfect word in Spanish for Ronaldinho, and it is HORTERA.
Tommorrows ref is Mejia Davila we have had problems with this guy before.Guess where hes from? Madrid.I hope he goes unnoticed tommorrow.
All I know is if Nike offers me $6,000 boots, I would take them too, the perks of being a superstar I guess. Don't hate.
Ronnie deserves all the recognition he is getting, obviously some circles don`t like it even if they see it that way. Great gesture by Nike. The match i expect us to to win this one even if Zaragoza is a decent side. i think like most sides that come to camp nou Zaragoza is expected to play defensively while counter attacking so we have to watch out. I guess they will start with Diego Milito and Ewerthon as thier front runners. They might crowd the midfield. In defence actually they seem stronger, Gabriel Milito and Agustin Aranzabal are quality defenders. Xavi out and Maxi, others will play, 2-0 is my final prediction and hope we don`t let in lousy cheap goals.
according to eurosport: 1 Victor Valdés 2 Juliano Belletti 23 Joan Oleguer 5 Carles Puyol 12 G. van Bronckhorst 4 Rafael Márquez 8 Ludovic Giuly 17 Mark van Bommel 10 R. Ronaldinho 20 A. De Souza "Deco" 9 Samuel Eto'o
subs 25 Albert Jorquera Leo Messi 7 Henrik Larsson 16 S. Sylvinho 14 S. Ezquerro 15 J. Edmilson 24 Andrés Iniesta