Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Benitez's confidence "We are really strong"

The Inter coach finds himself training for the type of world semi-final against Korean club Seongnam: At last I can choose without having to deal with injuries. They are peaceful, we'll make it. Back Milito: I want a goal

ABU DHABI - Diego Milito kicks at goal. It marks. Indeed, the first thing, the most important is that takes the field and train with a friend: has not happened for several weeks. Everything else is a consequence. The Prince's training, then play in the match, then kicks at goal and score. How he can do. It is enough to Rafa Benitez: I am very glad to see with all my players. I am thrilled to have Diego, to see him to score in training. I looked at him a moment ago, I was happy and thought: yes, we are just stronger. On the eve of the semi-final with South Korea's Seongnam (tomorrow at 18) is in line with the sentiments of the last days Inter: overrides the joy, serenity, even happiness. Manco we were in paradise. Yet when Inter came from the UAE to be the case. Everyone happy. And optimistic. It seems that tomorrow he can return to training camp-type, albeit with a small but significant change from past Chivu no longer really want to play left-back in the semifinals and in fact should take the place of central defender, teamed with Lucio. What will cause the displacement of Javier Zanetti on the left wing and the midfield pair formed by Cambiasso and Stankovic. In the attack back to the formula 3+1, with Pandev, Sneijder behind Milito and Eto'o.

Back to Inter in the past. At least on paper. But Benitez is already so well: Finally I can choose the ideal formation, without having to deal with injuries. Has not happened for a long time. We will not make calculations in the semifinals, that is considering whether or not the end of Saturday. The most important match is the first, namely this, so we'll go with the best education possible to win the semifinal. Then think about the next commitment. Rafa is on a cloud: I am calm, peaceful, confident, happy. We're here to win a trophy is very important, which is in our thoughts for a long, although in recent months we have also focused on other commitments that we faced.

South Korea is no respect for the opponent, but tinged with a certain presumption of superiority that in fact it is only normal, given the forces involved, the players who will be deployed on two fronts: The Seongnam we studied - Benitez looks - and is a well-organized opponent, who tries to field intensity and quality of play in the dribble. They also know to work well on defense when the ball is between the feet of the opponents. We'll have to be careful. But we I want to remind you, we are Inter. For the occasion, they said, should return to Diego Milito in the middle of the attack: I'm fine for a week I train with the group, I feel ready. This is a unique competition, you never know if one day you play it to happen again. If a dream goal? Mostly Rookie team, I would give anything to win. And if it's up to me to make the decisive goal, as in the treble last magigo, the better.

Heart and head to move forward


Against Steaua Bucharest on the move to Naples to play sixteenth-finals. We need a victory, but Mazzarri believes the team calls a "not" throw the assault. Lavezzi in doubt

NAPOLI - On or off, this time it's a playoff. Napoli, to go through, he is obliged to fly to St. Paul's Steaua Bucharest. Walter Mazzarri is charged. I do not know if it's the most important match since I came here. It is certainly a challenge to which I hold dear, we are still on the run in Europe League and we are the only Italian who can reach this milestone. The play in our stadium, we have a only result available in three, they have an advantage, but it is a source of pride to follow up what we did last season. Already there is a fundamental aspect, in fact. The coach will ask the blue the 90' perfect. It will take heart and head, I would like that our fans from the stands would understand this. We should not throw the assault. It will be essential, rather, not taking too much risk in defense. When we do well, as has happened in the last two games against Palermo and Genoa, we are able to make trouble for everyone. Try to make a goal more than their opponents. do not need to overdo it and it will take great care nervosa, tactical and psychological. The reference model remains the Barcelona.

The yellow of the linesman

Serve a Lavezzi to Messi, but Argentine recovery remains a puzzle. It's fine, occurred during the last training session as it is his ankle and it may take the field. When a player is not in top form, usually prefer to do it from the beginning and then remove it, otherwise I burn two change. If you succeed, then, would be better than the few games from the first minute. And in run-off with Sosa and Zuniga. The rest of the training is already decided. I have only one more doubt on the left wing, between Dossena and Vitality.

No turn over, despite the second place in the league to defend. Mazzarri not snobbery commitment Cup. For us, Europe League is a great experience at international level and allows us to grow. Maybe you can lose some points on Sunday, but I think it worthwhile to go ahead. For the city, for society and for the Team: is a window that does not want to lose. Another reason to knock the Steaua, however dangerous opponent. It's a very good team and we have realized in Bucharest, in the going. In Romania, we found ourselves at a disadvantage in an unusual way to unfortunate incidents, we managed to straighten it. They too will be motivated. But the 50 000 of St. Paul can make a difference. Napoli are the 90' of the truth.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Contract and dressing the nervousness of Rainier


The Rome is not persuasive, quarrels and tensions between players, the problem of the company, the contract expiring, controversy on TV: a difficult season for coach

ROME - The image "British" built-year career in local and international, diluted in a sip of romanella. Claudio Ranieri, 59 years, it seems transformed. It takes less than a year and a half in Rome, "his house" often as he likes to recall, replace the elegant "coach" admired overseas with a technical grumpy and irritable. Yesterday outburst against Sky ("Just be controversial, as in Rome there will no more"), to which the president Rosella Sensi has wanted to replicate in a statement late in the evening, directed mainly at Massimo Mauro, a columnist for the satellite and Republic. it "unacceptable attitude" for a number of Rome. In reference to the exchange of ideas had with our coach, immediately after the match Roma-Bari - continues Sensi - AS Roma society considers such an attitude is unacceptable, considering that the behavior sometimes too casual on live television could also find justification in the hectic working atmosphere and little chance for reflection. But Massimo Mauro as demonstrated by news of not understanding the error made in the cause as a television interviewer our technician. On the other hand is not the first time the former soccer player is shown not to love the work of his colleagues and technicians who played football with him.
- Continues the meaning - the Roma did not escape the merciless trial some time ago against Hadrian, as if to deliberately ignore the commitment and effort of a player who is rebuilding itself with humility and devotion to the profession. For a number of Rome is unacceptable that those who represent the biggest television event of the football reference will allow comments so heavy against a coach, as Ranieri. At the moment the only things that hurt the football to the city of Rome and Rome are the comments of those who sometimes must learn to keep quiet and reflect.

But the attack on Sky Ranieri is the latest in a rosary, this season, already has other grains unforgettable soliloquy from 9 minutes in the press conference with accusations and final flight a few hours from Rome and Bologna, references to the spectrum of Lippi "sailing in the dark" after the defeat of Brescia. But also exploits as a fan as the've been smoking the pipe to attack "aimed at Lazio after derby win in November and followed by" The Romans enjoyed as they were to do curls. Nervousness and tension that a shield of cardboard in the calendar year 2010 as the record has not erased. At least 10 cases - and can not be an alibi - that contribute to sustain it.

ANCELOTTI CONTRACT - The contract expires in June, a promise of renewal made by Rosella Sensi in person in May, in a friendly played in L'Aquila to greet the 2009-2010 season. Promises renewed during the summer, with lots of economic agreement. Ranieri felt safe, for me to just a handshake. Then, the surprise of the stop, informed by the same Rosella Sensi, after the first flop in the league. Today, six months after the expiry of the contract, Ranieri felt - unless miracles of sports - its agreement with Roma expires without being renewed. She did not understand, however, the reasons for a rethink. But without a contract, be respected by the team has become more complicated. And every day there's rumors about possible new Roma coach: first Lippi, Ancelotti in recent days.

CONNECTIONS - This is also why he believes the coach started to rain attacks by the players. In the beginning was Totti: "We did the bolt", he said after leaving the Allianz Arena against Bayern Champions. A chorus, in the secrecy of the dressing room, Ranieri had to listen to more frequent basis by almost everyone. The players shouted in chorus after the disaster of Rome and Basel. This was stated several times in the last hours Pizarro, during discussions with more than burning the coach (and who knows if it has anything to do with the exception of yesterday). "I do not win because we play defense instead of attacking", he reiterated Chile. Easy to imagine how the outlet will have the technician, who did not like the criticism of even Borriello in Naples and the recent ones of Adrian in Trigoria.

GROUP - in fact, Ranieri knows, the problem is more widespread and involves the entire locker room. Where, as is now clear, it is hard to remain united. The dramatized recently emerged (De Rossi, Borriello, Totti-Burdisso) are the light outside of a general nervousness. Because the dressing room "best I've had in my career", the coach as he often is little left. Disunited, too, from different points of view of many senators on the management-Ranieri.

SUPPORT - precisely in this sense, Ranieri felt abandoned by society, by which he hoped to receive more support. But without a leader firmly in charge of the situation, the coach has always or almost had to expose themselves in person, thus drawing upon himself one hundred percent (or almost) of criticism. Never be defended.

SALE - All too easy, then, refer to the situation of the club, for sale, with no certainty for the future (and here we return to the expiring contracts) and a power vacuum, with each passing month, it begins to take contours increasingly disturbing.

INJURIES - A little help to the serenity of Rainier, including the continuing injury. Since the summer, the "pink" Romania has been battered. Each stop had the account for the national team. And as the weeks passed, he also suggested the question that some sleep was becoming longer than expected. To be sure, just read between the lines of internal meetings to establish new disciplinary rules for anyone accusing some physical problems too. Because when there is no confidence in the coach is not easy to get in a hurry to recover from an injury.

GRATITUDE - Ranieri, especially by the group, he expected more gratitude. Remember that many good players at the time of his arrival, the former were considered. And with him came back (or become) protagonists. Even the fans who have abandoned or nearly so, Ranieri had hoped to enjoy greater confidence after the miracle of the run a year ago. Hopes dashed.

UNCERTAINTY - but the group, in turn, has struggled to digest the continuous changes of form. The practical demonstration of the uncertainty that drives the movements of the coach and without warranties even from a strictly technical point of view. What is the Trident base? What defense? And in midfield, who's in charge? Unsolved questions to which the same Ranieri looks for answers.

CRITICAL - "Preparing wrong," "The team has no idea of the game," "With the change of form AS Roma identity tactic." Only some of the criticisms received by the press. And the coach has never accepted. "I have always changed in the running modules and the preparation is the same as I do for years, angrily repeating like a broken record. But without results, to submit their ideas becomes complicated.

RESULTS - Of course, behind every joke out of place, of any off the track, the same reason: the Roma wins or not, if he does, hard as yesterday. The truth is that, while October Ranieri explained, "I know what is wrong", now too hard to understand why battered Circulation of Rome. Reflecting the clear image of a rider without control, without certainty, without trust.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

He won the World ''and the rest Inter for a long time''


Rafa Benitez does not lose his confidence despite rumors that they want their backs to the wall: I hear many names around, but the coach I am. Whether to retrieve the injured know that this team can win. Moratti's words? He knew the conditions in which the team would play in Bremen. Wednesday, the semi-final against Koreans Seongnam.

ABU DHABI - "I hear so many names around... But the coach I am. And if we win the World Cup I will be for a long time". The pride of Rafa knows no faltering, no bending. The latest defeats have not folded, and even the hard outer Moratti who seems to have put the coach on the wall: either the World or exemption. Rafa Benitez still has her beautiful smile, but lately seems to be shrouded in bitterness, and again expresses his clear concepts, a little cut with an ax but clear, optimistic, except that now it is not clear whether it is the most optimism of the will or a simple desire to optimism, which usually does not bring good. However on arrival in Abu Dhabi, in his first press conference a few days after the onset in the semifinals of the 15 (against the Koreans, who beat Seongnam 4-1 Al-WHAD, team of the Emirates), Rafa Benitez rejects any speech on the future and prefers to focus on the event, although in his speeches you hear the echo of the bitterness of the last period, and controversy, and criticism piovutegli him: We talk a lot about my future but people forget that in career I've played so many finals ... And when you play a final you always want to participate to the next. I lost in 2005 with the final Intercontinental Liverpool but I want to refer back. All we have to Inter to win this World Cup. I personally work 12-14 hours a day for Inter, I am calm, I know there are times when difficult, and this was, no need to jettison everything, no need to think about some kind of revolution, but it is important to continue working. So, after many years work, I know that the only thing to do is continue working and stay focused. Whether to retrieve the injured, and there is the possibility of recovering all for the final, I know this team can win.

Understanding a bit generic, as they say, but this goes Rafa Benitez. No news on the opening day, no certainty on the recovery of this or that player, but so much optimism. Whether or not we'll find out in front as the days went along the Gulf. But while Benitez is understood not to have particularly appreciated the expressions of Moratti after Bremen, with those hard calls and the technical team: Know that I had spoken with the president before the match in Bremen and beyond. I am calm, because he understood everything we said we were. It was clear to him and it was clear to me. And I mean the conditions in which the team has arrived in Bremen. Well, perhaps according to Benitez, the President would have saved some controversy exits.

"Buffon? Not even he the place has ensured"


Delneri waiting for Lazio ("We are at a crossroads, is a match between two teams that occupy their rightful place") but in the meantime send messages to one month of no return 1: "Storari is a great goalkeeper, but Gigi will have to fight". Del Piero on the bench again

TURIN - Delneri without fear. Not afraid to explore the high altitude of the charts (We have targeted AC Milan can not be otherwise), that law in the locker room (Here, at Juve, nothing is due to no player) and promise a team battle (We will fight until the ninetieth, contrary to the penny). The big-match tomorrow night against Lazio with a view of the second place in the standings, a commitment is important but not decisive for the season for Juventus: We are not at a crossroads, but a fundamental challenge to the psychological level. There will be two teams ranked high, they deserve the place they occupy. Who will win'll be mentally better, even if the fight has just begun. Aquilani will almost certainly be in the field, although Delneri merely a "ni", and Pepe will be on the bench to make way for Marchisio. Tomorrow we will not change much compared the latest releases. To play at right back, Sorensen is the lead on Motta, while attacking the choice is almost obligatory, Iaquinta and Quagliarella are doing well, because they play with Amauri out of order, before I do not have many alternatives. For Del Piero announced the fourth coach in the last five rounds of the championship.

CODE DELNERI - Buffon will be ready in a month, but Delneri does not seem willing to have children and stepchildren. The Juventus coach that the its rules, no discounts. His law is hard and the same for everyone: Will I see you want to know if Gigi will be ready when the hierarchies? For me all start on equal terms. I want to clarify here that there is nothing due to no player. Who is worth playing, that is to All: Buffon, Del Piero, Amauri, Sorensen, Motta. If Buffon will prove to be the best in the world, will have space. Storari But it is an excellent goalkeeper, to take away the ownership will be very difficult. Buffon has warned in the second Delneri football, playing in Serie B with Juve and called SuperGigi does not count.

FRIENDS AGAINST - Delneri found Reja, his coach at the Pro Gorizia (1983-84). Last year, at Marassi, the student surpassed the master Luigi Edy (Sampdoria-Lazio 2-1). He said he had his foot smooth, I was pleased. Edy is a great friend and a great coach who has created what I work for myself: a strong group, strong, cohesive identity and with spirit. There alike, otherwise we will not be friends. I'm glad he's getting great results. If you have passion you can achieve great things, Reja confirms this. What we got there we are well deserved and sweaty. Tomorrow I hope to see a good game, played by two good teams that will contest the results until the ninetieth, contrary to the penny. Lazio takes a few goals and it is always dangerous. It will very carefully, Juve will have to make a perfect game and not giving anything.

ANTI-JUVE MILAN - Marchisio yesterday officially opened the hunt for league leaders AC Milan, declaring himself very interested in next Saturday's Milan-Rome: Milan Marchisio want to connect? Just like that, even if we are already attached to the Rossoneri. We think the peak . Each team had its best efforts to reach those in front. I'm glad my kids come into this light. But we still think of ourselves, with confidence and knowledge that will not always be rosy. The time will come which we must avoid the thorns.