K,
Well put and we too have had our share of poor managers over the years and despite the press, opposing fans and most decent peoples loathing of our current one he has been a revelation.
Approaching 18 years at the helm he too was very nearly fired after 3 seasons despite a strong track record at his previous three clubs.
The true difference of any great manager is the ability to lay long term foundations and I have to say not only deal with impatient fans,boards and players but also more critically the tabloid press who are always wanting to report bad news.
Probably the mark of previous Ajax coaches was the youth quality and the high proportion of players in the Dutch international set up - now sadly lower than in previous times.
Perhaps Blind will bring some of this back-8 straight is a good start!
Anyway K at least I got more than 10 words from you -At last!
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SE6Ajacied
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Getting severe footy withdrawl symptoms - Just ordered my Ajax 2004-2005 Season Highlights DVD :D Can't wait to see Zlatan's goal again :eusa_dance:
If you order this from www.freerecordshop.com, not only is the ordering really simple and in English but postage is only 3.50 Euro's to anywhere in the world :headbang:
Come on Postie
If you order this from www.freerecordshop.com, not only is the ordering really simple and in English but postage is only 3.50 Euro's to anywhere in the world :headbang:
Come on Postie
Forza Haarlem. HFC Gone but not forgotten!
So, Liverpool has been given a spot in the 1st round of qualifying for the champions league. Bloody ridiculous. I agree they should be allowed to defend their title, but it should be at the expense of everton (who probably won't even get past their qualifying games). Having 4 teams from a country is stupid, let alone 5. Once again, beaurocrats show themselves to be completely spineless.
Will it never end?The Premier League have reacted angrily to the terms of Liverpool's inclusion in next season's Champions League and demanded that Manchester City take their place in the UEFA Cup.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/headlinene ... 19&cc=3436
Youth Championships
Had a chance to see NED-JPN in the World Youth Championships today. The Dutch totally dominated the match but somehow almost managed to hand the Japanese a draw. If not for a few great saves from Vermeer in the last moments of the match, the Dutch would have given away some points. Alls well that ends well I guess. Babel looked solid as did Maduro but I was very impressed with Quincy from Arsenal. He was dangerous almost every time he touched the ball. A little flashy but he set up both goals and could have scored two himself.
Saturday the U.S. takes the field against Argentina in what should be an excellent match. Hopefully, Adu can handle the pressure of leading the team at age 16.
The commentator mentioned that UEFA is off sync with FIFA in that they have U-21 and U-19 squads but not U-20 (which is what this tournament is). Why would UEFA do this?
Saturday the U.S. takes the field against Argentina in what should be an excellent match. Hopefully, Adu can handle the pressure of leading the team at age 16.
The commentator mentioned that UEFA is off sync with FIFA in that they have U-21 and U-19 squads but not U-20 (which is what this tournament is). Why would UEFA do this?
"Just one more...then I'll quit...forever"
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Nice article on Guy Roux..... :xyxthumbs:
This Guy deserves a statue
The amazing Guy Roux, who took Auxerre from regional league to Champions League in a 44-year reign, has finally quit. Darren Tulett reports
Sunday June 12, 2005
The Observer
In 1961, the farthing ceased to be legal tender in the UK. Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister, Charles de Gaulle ran France and John F Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, West Side Story won the Oscar for best film, Ernest Hemingway killed himself and the Berlin Wall was erected. The world had yet to hear of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. And there was something afoot in the sleepy Burgundy town of Auxerre.
Something that would, eventually, put the town and its football team on the map. A 22-year-old named Guy Roux sent off an application for the vacant head coach's job at l'Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise. Roux, born in Alsace but brought up six miles from Auxerre, where he played (not particularly impressively, by all accounts) as a teenager, was the youngest candidate, fresh back from learning the ropes as an observer for a month at Crystal Palace.
In his letter, he said he was prepared to 'do whatever is needed for the club, even chop the wood'. The Auxerre president, Jean-Claude Hamel, then one of the directors, remembers Roux telling them he would 'always balance the books and never waste a penny'. Roux also asked for the smallest salary of the handful of applicants - 600 francs a month, according to Hamel - and his sense of good housekeeping rather than any proven coaching skills swung the balance. Roux got the job.
Auxerre was then a town of fewer than 40,000 inhabitants (it's not much bigger now) and its amateur club was bumbling along in the Burgundy regional league. If there is an equivalent in the English game now, it might be Worksop Town - about the same level, about the same size. And if Worksop win the Premiership-FA Cup double by 2050 and play in the Champions League, you'll have an idea of what Guy Roux has achieved.
When Roux finally quit last Sunday, hours after winning the French Cup final for a record-equalling fourth time as manager and 44 years after first taking the job, it was after 25 consecutive seasons in the country's top division.
He started as player-coach, but was soon proving himself to be much more. Roux persuaded local farmers to donate their goats' dung for Auxerre's playing fields, had players' wives make bibs for training and in the evenings would run the club's switchboard himself, as he was the only one still around.
Eric Cantona, Basile Boli and Djibril Cissé are among those to have emerged from Auxerre's famous (to outsiders) or infamous (to players) youth academy. Stars such as Enzo Scifo and Laurent Blanc had their careers put back on track through stints at the club and fans of l'AJ Auxerre, as the locals call their team, have feasted on a regular diet of European football, including runs to the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup and the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Roux, famous for his dreadful bobble hats and ill-fitting tracksuits, has overseen it all. He picked the team for every one of those 44 years, apart from a spell of national service in the early 1960s and a stint as general manager in 2000, an ill-advised move from which he eagerly returned to the bench less than 12 months later. In all, Roux led Auxerre through about 2,000 games, including a European record of 890 top-flight league matches. Jacques Santini, the former France manager who spent a few months at Tottenham last season, has been handed the task of replacing Roux. He will have his hands full. As one former player said, Auxerre without Guy Roux is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower. It just won't be the same.
'Guy Roux made Auxerre what it is today almost single-handed. He lived and breathed for the club,' Boli says. 'He's a character, a monument of French football. They should put up a statue in his honour. In fact, I'm sure they will.'
Boli, who would go on to score the winning goal for Marseille against AC Milan in the 1993 Champions League final - still France's only success in the competition and one they were later stripped of - knows what he's talking about.
Roux is renowned for keeping a beady eye on what his players are up to off the field through a sophisticated network of informers. When word got back to the manager that the teenage Boli had a penchant for climbing over the academy walls at night, after lights-out, and whizzing around town on his moped, Roux took action. The next time Boli jumped the wall it was to find his moped chained to some railings. Monsieur Roux held the key. The manager added insult to injury by deducting the cost of the lock from Boli's then miserly wages. News of the incident got out. 'I received more than 600 letters from Africa,' Roux recalls. 'They began a "Free Basile's Moped" campaign.'
It would be no surprise to Roux watchers if he 'leaked' the story of Boli's moped himself. It's just the sort of tale he liked to use to bolster his image of the hands-on, over-fatherly coach. Roux has been seen dragging players out of local night spots by their collars and been spotted at 7am with his hands on car bonnets outside players' homes to see if engines were still warm. With the bright lights of Paris just over an hour away by motorway, Roux recruited the toll-booth operators to his cause. Whenever one of his players had a night out in the capital, Roux knew about it. He even took to clocking the mileage on players' cars, just in case. A 400-kilometre addition one day to the next invariably meant the player had been to Paris and back.
Over the years, Roux became one of the best-known figures in French sport, his management style and way with words placing him, in British terms, somewhere between Brian Clough and Sir Alex Ferguson. His blend of anecdotes, expertise and image of a man who is careful with money helped him become a star analyst for television and radio.
Roux's puppet, resembling a country bumpkin, is a regular on the satirical television show Les Guignols, (France's Spitting Image ) and he's been happy to cultivate the image of the paysan who's smarter than he lets on. It has been profitable. Roux is one of the favourite figures for French advertisers, who play on his penny-pinching image. If Guy Roux thinks this product is worth buying then it must be value for money, n'est-ce pas ?
Critics accuse Roux, who promotes the local Chablis wines whenever he gets a chance, of overacting. They say he is tight, and he is known to invite reporters to restaurants only to say 'Your paper is selling very well these days' when the bill arrives.
Roux wields much power in Burgundy and beyond, and it is best to have him on your side if you want to be mayor of Auxerre. Not only does he display Christmas cards from Jacques Chirac on his office wall, he also makes it clear he's pals with former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, with whom he did his military service. And one of former President François Mitterrand's aides last week said that while many cabinet ministers had trouble getting through to their leader, Mitterrand would always take Roux's calls tout de suite .
While in recent days much praise has been heaped upon Roux and his achievements, there have also been a few sighs of relief that he has finally called it a day. For years, France's Canal Plus, broadcaster of live Ligue 1 games, has been allowed to interview players at half-time and even on the subs' bench during games at every other club but Auxerre.
Roux ran Auxerre tyrannically at times. I covered the Auxerre-Lens match last season at the Stade Abbé-Deschamps for Canal Plus and was amazed at how scared of Roux many of the backroom staff and volunteers were. During the second half, one such volunteer told me to move from the touchline because 'otherwise Guy will have my guts for garters'. The man was in his fifties and almost quivering with fear. I stayed put and ended up rowing with Roux, who was then wilfully unhelpful during the post-match interviews. As Michel Platini famously said: 'Roux looks out for number one.'
He also looks after his players, though, even if he is a disciplinarian. 'To be a manager you need two things: to be an example; and to love,' he once said. 'If one of your players shows up at nine in the morning, you need to be there at 8.30 and preferably not drunk. And you have to love your players. If you don't love them, they'll feel it and, believe me, you will too.'
Roux upset some players and staff with the timing of his decision to quit the Auxerre bench. By announcing his move live on TV the morning after the cup final win over Sedan, Roux got to hog all the limelight at the afternoon victory parade back in Auxerre.
'We were supposed to be celebrating our cup success, but we ended up playing bit parts in the manager's farewell parade,' said captain Yann Lachuer.
It's hard to begrudge him his grand farewell, though.
Roux, awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999, will not disappear from the scene. Unable to break the umbilical chord, he will remain at Auxerre in a backroom management role still to be defined. He has promised to have his office away from the stadium to avoid stealing Santini's thunder. And after his traditional early-June break in Corsica, watch out for that unfashionable bobble hat in and around Liverpool. Djibril Cissé has asked him to be best man at his forthcoming wedding.
Roux speaks...
On Bosman
'Poor old Bosman is a martyr. Today's players should pay to have his statue put up in every stadium. While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
On Zinedine Zidane's international retirement
'I honestly think Zidane should be suspended from playing football. Since when did players pick and choose when they represented their country? As far as I'm concerned, any player with a registration is eligible for the national team.'
On the fans
'Sometimes I add up how much it costs someone to come and watch us five times a month behind the goal - there are guys who probably go without meat to come to the games. Knowing you've made him unhappy by losing is a huge weight to bear.'
On himself
'I make sure a light stays on in my office all day and all night, like a candle in the church showing Christ is there.'
'Football has given me some great joys, highs equivalent to those experienced by Don Juan after a good run.'
'When I was seven I said I wanted to play football every day of my life. And I just about pulled it off.'
This Guy deserves a statue
The amazing Guy Roux, who took Auxerre from regional league to Champions League in a 44-year reign, has finally quit. Darren Tulett reports
Sunday June 12, 2005
The Observer
In 1961, the farthing ceased to be legal tender in the UK. Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister, Charles de Gaulle ran France and John F Kennedy was inaugurated President of the United States. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, West Side Story won the Oscar for best film, Ernest Hemingway killed himself and the Berlin Wall was erected. The world had yet to hear of the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. And there was something afoot in the sleepy Burgundy town of Auxerre.
Something that would, eventually, put the town and its football team on the map. A 22-year-old named Guy Roux sent off an application for the vacant head coach's job at l'Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise. Roux, born in Alsace but brought up six miles from Auxerre, where he played (not particularly impressively, by all accounts) as a teenager, was the youngest candidate, fresh back from learning the ropes as an observer for a month at Crystal Palace.
In his letter, he said he was prepared to 'do whatever is needed for the club, even chop the wood'. The Auxerre president, Jean-Claude Hamel, then one of the directors, remembers Roux telling them he would 'always balance the books and never waste a penny'. Roux also asked for the smallest salary of the handful of applicants - 600 francs a month, according to Hamel - and his sense of good housekeeping rather than any proven coaching skills swung the balance. Roux got the job.
Auxerre was then a town of fewer than 40,000 inhabitants (it's not much bigger now) and its amateur club was bumbling along in the Burgundy regional league. If there is an equivalent in the English game now, it might be Worksop Town - about the same level, about the same size. And if Worksop win the Premiership-FA Cup double by 2050 and play in the Champions League, you'll have an idea of what Guy Roux has achieved.
When Roux finally quit last Sunday, hours after winning the French Cup final for a record-equalling fourth time as manager and 44 years after first taking the job, it was after 25 consecutive seasons in the country's top division.
He started as player-coach, but was soon proving himself to be much more. Roux persuaded local farmers to donate their goats' dung for Auxerre's playing fields, had players' wives make bibs for training and in the evenings would run the club's switchboard himself, as he was the only one still around.
Eric Cantona, Basile Boli and Djibril Cissé are among those to have emerged from Auxerre's famous (to outsiders) or infamous (to players) youth academy. Stars such as Enzo Scifo and Laurent Blanc had their careers put back on track through stints at the club and fans of l'AJ Auxerre, as the locals call their team, have feasted on a regular diet of European football, including runs to the semi-finals of the Uefa Cup and the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Roux, famous for his dreadful bobble hats and ill-fitting tracksuits, has overseen it all. He picked the team for every one of those 44 years, apart from a spell of national service in the early 1960s and a stint as general manager in 2000, an ill-advised move from which he eagerly returned to the bench less than 12 months later. In all, Roux led Auxerre through about 2,000 games, including a European record of 890 top-flight league matches. Jacques Santini, the former France manager who spent a few months at Tottenham last season, has been handed the task of replacing Roux. He will have his hands full. As one former player said, Auxerre without Guy Roux is like Paris without the Eiffel Tower. It just won't be the same.
'Guy Roux made Auxerre what it is today almost single-handed. He lived and breathed for the club,' Boli says. 'He's a character, a monument of French football. They should put up a statue in his honour. In fact, I'm sure they will.'
Boli, who would go on to score the winning goal for Marseille against AC Milan in the 1993 Champions League final - still France's only success in the competition and one they were later stripped of - knows what he's talking about.
Roux is renowned for keeping a beady eye on what his players are up to off the field through a sophisticated network of informers. When word got back to the manager that the teenage Boli had a penchant for climbing over the academy walls at night, after lights-out, and whizzing around town on his moped, Roux took action. The next time Boli jumped the wall it was to find his moped chained to some railings. Monsieur Roux held the key. The manager added insult to injury by deducting the cost of the lock from Boli's then miserly wages. News of the incident got out. 'I received more than 600 letters from Africa,' Roux recalls. 'They began a "Free Basile's Moped" campaign.'
It would be no surprise to Roux watchers if he 'leaked' the story of Boli's moped himself. It's just the sort of tale he liked to use to bolster his image of the hands-on, over-fatherly coach. Roux has been seen dragging players out of local night spots by their collars and been spotted at 7am with his hands on car bonnets outside players' homes to see if engines were still warm. With the bright lights of Paris just over an hour away by motorway, Roux recruited the toll-booth operators to his cause. Whenever one of his players had a night out in the capital, Roux knew about it. He even took to clocking the mileage on players' cars, just in case. A 400-kilometre addition one day to the next invariably meant the player had been to Paris and back.
Over the years, Roux became one of the best-known figures in French sport, his management style and way with words placing him, in British terms, somewhere between Brian Clough and Sir Alex Ferguson. His blend of anecdotes, expertise and image of a man who is careful with money helped him become a star analyst for television and radio.
Roux's puppet, resembling a country bumpkin, is a regular on the satirical television show Les Guignols, (France's Spitting Image ) and he's been happy to cultivate the image of the paysan who's smarter than he lets on. It has been profitable. Roux is one of the favourite figures for French advertisers, who play on his penny-pinching image. If Guy Roux thinks this product is worth buying then it must be value for money, n'est-ce pas ?
Critics accuse Roux, who promotes the local Chablis wines whenever he gets a chance, of overacting. They say he is tight, and he is known to invite reporters to restaurants only to say 'Your paper is selling very well these days' when the bill arrives.
Roux wields much power in Burgundy and beyond, and it is best to have him on your side if you want to be mayor of Auxerre. Not only does he display Christmas cards from Jacques Chirac on his office wall, he also makes it clear he's pals with former Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, with whom he did his military service. And one of former President François Mitterrand's aides last week said that while many cabinet ministers had trouble getting through to their leader, Mitterrand would always take Roux's calls tout de suite .
While in recent days much praise has been heaped upon Roux and his achievements, there have also been a few sighs of relief that he has finally called it a day. For years, France's Canal Plus, broadcaster of live Ligue 1 games, has been allowed to interview players at half-time and even on the subs' bench during games at every other club but Auxerre.
Roux ran Auxerre tyrannically at times. I covered the Auxerre-Lens match last season at the Stade Abbé-Deschamps for Canal Plus and was amazed at how scared of Roux many of the backroom staff and volunteers were. During the second half, one such volunteer told me to move from the touchline because 'otherwise Guy will have my guts for garters'. The man was in his fifties and almost quivering with fear. I stayed put and ended up rowing with Roux, who was then wilfully unhelpful during the post-match interviews. As Michel Platini famously said: 'Roux looks out for number one.'
He also looks after his players, though, even if he is a disciplinarian. 'To be a manager you need two things: to be an example; and to love,' he once said. 'If one of your players shows up at nine in the morning, you need to be there at 8.30 and preferably not drunk. And you have to love your players. If you don't love them, they'll feel it and, believe me, you will too.'
Roux upset some players and staff with the timing of his decision to quit the Auxerre bench. By announcing his move live on TV the morning after the cup final win over Sedan, Roux got to hog all the limelight at the afternoon victory parade back in Auxerre.
'We were supposed to be celebrating our cup success, but we ended up playing bit parts in the manager's farewell parade,' said captain Yann Lachuer.
It's hard to begrudge him his grand farewell, though.
Roux, awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1999, will not disappear from the scene. Unable to break the umbilical chord, he will remain at Auxerre in a backroom management role still to be defined. He has promised to have his office away from the stadium to avoid stealing Santini's thunder. And after his traditional early-June break in Corsica, watch out for that unfashionable bobble hat in and around Liverpool. Djibril Cissé has asked him to be best man at his forthcoming wedding.
Roux speaks...
On Bosman
'Poor old Bosman is a martyr. Today's players should pay to have his statue put up in every stadium. While they're raking in the money, he is broke and out of work.'
On Zinedine Zidane's international retirement
'I honestly think Zidane should be suspended from playing football. Since when did players pick and choose when they represented their country? As far as I'm concerned, any player with a registration is eligible for the national team.'
On the fans
'Sometimes I add up how much it costs someone to come and watch us five times a month behind the goal - there are guys who probably go without meat to come to the games. Knowing you've made him unhappy by losing is a huge weight to bear.'
On himself
'I make sure a light stays on in my office all day and all night, like a candle in the church showing Christ is there.'
'Football has given me some great joys, highs equivalent to those experienced by Don Juan after a good run.'
'When I was seven I said I wanted to play football every day of my life. And I just about pulled it off.'
“If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.”
Guiy Roux again
Another one from Guy Roux :
"The 3rd Division is full of teams that said they would play Champions League in the next three years".
I fondly remember how he was telling the press that Auxerre "would try to stay in the 1st Division" every year in August at the beginning of the championship..... How wily he could be... I'll miss him.
"The 3rd Division is full of teams that said they would play Champions League in the next three years".
I fondly remember how he was telling the press that Auxerre "would try to stay in the 1st Division" every year in August at the beginning of the championship..... How wily he could be... I'll miss him.
meh :|
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Over Pasanens Head
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This is absolutely priceless and one most certainly for Sir Alex Ferguson, Pizza 5 and SPL:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ManchesterBuccaneers/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ManchesterBuccaneers/
Well rock and roll is such a crazy drug,
It wraps you up in a great big hug
It wraps you up in a great big hug
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SE6Ajacied
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That's certainly a killer :xyxthumbs:Over Pasanens Head schreef:This is absolutely priceless and one most certainly for Sir Alex Ferguson, Pizza 5 and SPL:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ManchesterBuccaneers/
I saw another good one at work today. I haven't got the link so I'll have to describe it....
It was just an e-mail, addressed "Calling All Manchester United Fans"
"Come and see the actual Champions League trophy that you won"
"Now on permanant display at the Liverpool FC Museum"
A cracker, who sits there and writes these things (probably people like us but with a mite more technical wizardry in tow
)Forza Haarlem. HFC Gone but not forgotten!
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aveslacker
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Good luck over there, Bonnie. The banner was in extremely poor taste, though.philippe schreef:B. Kalou will play for Paris Saint Germain next season. He who was so offended by a 30 seconds life micro banner at the Arena will learn what racist fans mean once he will be there (those psg hard core fans are the shame of the country). Good luck to Misadventure Kalou.
AFC Ajax
Landskampioen 2013-2014
Landskampioen 2013-2014
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ajax4 eva uk
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Kowalczyk
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Park says "goodbye, PSV!"
According to NOS Teletekst PSV and Man Utd have just reached an agreement on the transfer of Ji-Sung Park. Reported transfer fee: 6 million euros. Park will sign a four year deal at Old Trafford and will become to first Korean to play in the English Premiership.
K.
K.
Still alive...
Re: Park says "goodbye, PSV!"
.....so that those bastards can sell their asses off there as well. :yelclap:Kowalczyk schreef:According to NOS Teletekst PSV and Man Utd have just reached an agreement on the transfer of Ji-Sung Park. Reported transfer fee: 6 million euros. Park will sign a four year deal at Old Trafford and will become to first Korean to play in the English Premiership.
K.
Now they now marketing!
Why do you build me up? BUTTERCUP!
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Sir Alex Ferguson
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I just received an e-mail from The Meadowlands Exposition in northern New Jersey. Seems Chelsea will play Milan in a 2.45pm(est) friendly, Sunday ,31.7 .Tix on sale Monday,27.6 at 11am.I dislike both,but last years game in Philly was five goals worth of good.Think I'll go up .Considering the match is 6 days b4 the EPL starts,Chelski at Wigan, and the Chelsea team on display should be interesting. Also, might as well enjoy top league football where it pops up this side of the pond.Better chance of an ice age than Ajax here.
"Buy the ticket, take the ride".
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"Our albums are junk"
Keith Moon
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
"Our albums are junk"
Keith Moon
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Over Pasanens Head
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I came across this article on Footballnl.com:
Portuguese international Simao Sabrosa says he welcomes the arrival of new Benfica coach Ronald Koeman, despite his negative experience under Dutchman Louis van Gaal during his time at Barcelona where he was forced to spend the majority of his time warming the benches.
Sabrosa: "During my time at Barca, van Gaal was the coach and he made me change my way of playing But I know that Koeman´s philosophy is completely different and lets the players play how they want to, especially in attack. His style will make it easier to score more goals. I think he will be an ideal coach and that we will retain the title under him."
Me thinks that this guy has got a shock coming to him :D
Portuguese international Simao Sabrosa says he welcomes the arrival of new Benfica coach Ronald Koeman, despite his negative experience under Dutchman Louis van Gaal during his time at Barcelona where he was forced to spend the majority of his time warming the benches.
Sabrosa: "During my time at Barca, van Gaal was the coach and he made me change my way of playing But I know that Koeman´s philosophy is completely different and lets the players play how they want to, especially in attack. His style will make it easier to score more goals. I think he will be an ideal coach and that we will retain the title under him."
Me thinks that this guy has got a shock coming to him :D
Well rock and roll is such a crazy drug,
It wraps you up in a great big hug
It wraps you up in a great big hug
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ajaxusa
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Sometimes news agencies look so stoopid when they just smash together wire stories without even reading... See if you can figure out in what country Kezman was born by reading this story:
Kezman on brink of Atletico switch
He's Dutch / He's Serbian / He's Dutch ...
Kezman on brink of Atletico switch
He's Dutch / He's Serbian / He's Dutch ...