Let me first start with an apology as the soccercrazee team has been away from our computer for a bit but we are back... and hopefully our posts will be better than ever..
A new Season brings new challanges,hopes,aspirations,hunger and drive and most of all... romance of football..
But heres to last season
It would be wrong to talk about last season witholut the mention of barcelona. Oooh Ahh Catalonia they say. Sublime football and really they insulted the footballing fertinity without even breaking sweat. A class apart any other footballing team they were last season. Alas The champions league victory sealed it but one couldnt help wonder what made the difference. Samuel Eto'o's goals? Pep Guardiola's "Pep" talks? Xavi and Iniesta's brilliance or was it simply Lionel Messi?.. Thrashing teams with ease they waltzed into a soccer heaven people have dreamt of since 1999 but noone thoght possible. The treble.
But like a true fairy tale.. Eto'o gone. Real Madrid's anger shown by money splashing. Will it be this season?
The story of the year is undoubtably Wolfsburg. A Brilliant victory as bayern were collecting the best players in Germany, Wolfsburg went for class. Zaccardo and barzagli strongholding their defence. Once World Cup Champions I might add. The masterful Dzeko and the deadly Grafite in attack. Oh How Bosnia has risen. And players like Dejagah so promising and coming in the ranks where their less significiant players like Khedira seem masterful as well. Well earnt and best of all they have not committed a footballing sin by selling themselves like Supermodel whores. They built their status but kept their virgins away from the grasps of the real wolves howling to take the likes of Dzeko away.
Bayern have responded with great signings like Olic,Tymoschuk and Gomez but losing the likes of Lucio a great leader.Quietly teams around are also building slowly but surely this is becoming the most competitive league out there right now..
Manchester United. Champions of England. 3 in a row. Some say it was all Ronaldo. He was the saviour. Freekicks deft. last ditch goals but it takes 11 men to win a game. Nemanja Vidic consisted of another 12.A defender to take the plaudits he deserved it. Liverpool were at their best last season. Playing good football and taking chances and killing opposition and getting their defences sorted. Alonso was a masterful player and Gerrard found his new support striker role a marriage that was untried but oh so blissful..
United lost tevez and Ronaldo but with Valencia and Owen in have they made it up? With the lost of Xabi Alonso will Liverpool still be the same team as next season?But quietly some corner Chelsea are surely snickering and wondering when people will realise they have formed a team with the teamwork that the other 2 may not have come next season as they adapt to change..Man City's money? Can it buy the league or will Wenger's nursery kids upset money. I say this is a season where all the soccer myths will be unveiled..
Internazionale got the title last season in Serie A wothout much of a fuss. Italy is in turmoil and noone is rising up. At least not yet. They got the title without a story and with just Mourinho hogging headlines for his spats...
AC Milan are weakened. Juventus have remade a new team. Genoa, Fiorentina and Sampdoria hopeful but is it just to easy for Inter after the scandals. Money seems to be in their pockets and football has been for gajilion of years. For the sake of Serie A shake ups must happen..
Wad a season lets sit back for a new 1
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