What is really happening with Ronaldihno?

April 3, 2008 - at FC Barcelona

It seems that relationship of Ronaldinho with FC Barcelona is every time much more distant and that the Brazilian star, far away to be the same player than two years ago, could leave Barça soon. The last new is that Dunga, the coach of Brazil national team, has refused to take in account Ronaldinho for any future competition, including the Olympic Games in Beijing next August. On top of this Ronaldinho has not been  concentrate for both last Liga and Champion League matches. Assis, Ronaldinho’s brother and manager, has assumed when he talked to “Globoesporter” in Brazil, that his brother could cancel his contract with Barcelona after paying to the Catalan club the equivalent of their future salaries and a percentage of the amount of the initial cost when he was transferred from PSG. Assis who also do not discard Real Madrid as future destination of Ronaldinho as it happened some years ago with Luis Figo, seems convinced that his brother will abandon Camp Nou soon because every day in newspaper first page appears the comment that the cycle of Ronaldinho at Barcelona has already finish making also reference to the party nights he organises a lot of days now much more popular than his performance in the pitch.In the other hand nobody from FC Barcelona clearly mention what it is happening with the player and nobody justifies why he is not training and playing.Anyway Assis is also convinced that wining the Champions League would completely change all. “The situation is now very bad but imagine that Barcelona arrives and win the Moscow Final. Perhaps with this tittle things could be quite different”, he said.Johan Cruyff, former Barça player and coach, had also attacked Ronaldinho few months ago and the player defended himself saying that he will replay to all criticisms in the pitch although this unfortunately has not happened.

Emotion comes back to Liga

February 3, 2008 - at Almeria UD

Real Madrid has suffered a defeat this weekend at Almeria’s stadium. The score of 2-0 received by Bernd Schuster’s team returns emotion to Liga. 6 points is now the difference between Real Madrid and Barcelona – in other words only two matches. And if these small margins are maintained in the Liga, the big clash between Real Madrid and Barcelona to be played next May will become the key match to resolve this championship. This match of Day 36 of the competition will congregate all attention of the football’s world and only the privileged supporters who can obtain a ticket for the match will be able to experiment in situ the exciting conclusion of the passionate 2007/08 Liga. The calendar of outstanding Liga matches is, in principle, better for Real Madrid than for Barcelona but the handicap for the “white” team is that it has already played at its maximum level and still has not passed any unlucky break and this means that it needs to maintain an steady and strong rhythm to continue leading the table. By the contrary, Barcelona has suffered more ups and downs and some players like Messi, Ronaldinho, Puyol… have been injured for some weeks as well as some others like Eto’o, Toure Yaya are now disputing the Africa Cup with their national teams. Therefore if Barcelona is able to recover all its “arsenal” for the final part of the Liga it can still to have a lot of things to say. Anyway the final of the Liga could still be very amazing and exciting.