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Juan Chamás
26/05/2011
English
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It’s a soccer phenomenon! All soccer coaches agree on that! She plays soccer since she was 10 years old, but has practiced many other sports since she was born. Probably the most important ones for what she is today were gymnastics and ballet, since both of them gave her agility, coordination and strength: vital characteristics for a soccer defense. Anyways she has also practiced many other sports such as: horse back riding, vaulting, water skiing, swimming, and tennis.

She was born on April 20, 1995 in the city of Bogotá, Colombia. At the time, she was blonde, fat, cute, with brown eyes and of white color. People who saw her for just a moment thought she was a doll. Her first years where incredible everything was extraordinary in her life, but as she grew up she encountered one problem, her brothers health.  It would only be during certain stage of her life, but it would be one fall after another. When she was really small during the first four years of her life. Juan, her brother, faced several surgeries, but of course she wouldn’t notice this, or care about it. As time passed she got older and things where OK, but at the age of 10 her brother again had several surgeries. These where spread during a period of five years, which where really hard for her since she suffered a lot for her brother knowing she couldn’t do anything at all.

That stage of her life was marked by these incidents that close family members had faced.  It was extremely hard since during two consecutive years on the day of her birthday her brother had surgery. Finally her brother again got stable and needed no more surgeries, which was an excellent thing for her since she suffered so much, for this reason. Even though this had been extremely hard for her, it helped her a lot since she learned how to appreciate things most people take for granted such as health, love and solidarity. In addition she became a better person and began to be able to help others with their problems since she was inside the small group of people that had faced problems before, and could understand how others felt.

Since the moment she entered the soccer team, the coach was fascinated by the way she played. She had an enormous talent and was an excellent leader, which made her better for the position she plays. She entered the team in sixth grade and was trained by Prof who made her be in the initial 11, without paying attention to the fact that she was the youngest player in the team. That year, the team came in second place after loosing the final by a score of two to one. An important fact was that Cristina had to be taken out of the game because of an injury, after she had been taken out, the other team scored the two goals. And that was her first year in the soccer team.

Her second year in the world of soccer at a school level would be decisive for her. This was due to the fact that ¨ Prof ¨ decided to place her as a central defense, the position she would be occupying for a long period of time. Here, she would demonstrate her abilities, and the fact that she was excellent since she was: fast, agile, strong, and careful when she had to deal with being the last stronghold of the team, because if the last defense commits fault it is a red card for sure. That year they would end up in fourth place of the Uncoli Tournament, but won the Peoples Play tournament, being the team who had the least goals scored against, as well as winning the prize as best defense player of the tournament.

As Cristina rounded her third year, she would reach her soccer-playing peak. She was twelve years old, she would play as a central defense and be an extremely important player for the years to come. She would be captain of the team that won the Uncoli Championship as well as the Binationals with the three main pillars being Andrea Copello, Gabriela Maldonado, and herself with an incredible leadership that would unite the team as well. She would win the respect of her coaches and teammates with her way of playing, her aggressive attitude, and an incredible throw from the sideline. The most important aspect of her leadership was cheering up her team in the difficult moments when without a leader, a team collapses. That year was her best as a soccer player she won all the tournaments she disputed and was captain of that team as well as the moral leader. It was also her last year under the command of ¨ prof ¨ who would get the best out of her and help her in an incredible way for her to win the confidence of Oscar her new soccer coach the one of the oldest team in the school.

When Cristina entered 9th grade she was the only girl of her grade that was able to go to binationals with the soccer team. It wasn’t only going to binationals that was awesome, it was even more important that she actually played every single game they disputed. She took turns with Alejandra Moncaleano being the goalies and defense. But these binationals would bring back hard times to Cristina’s life, since when she was playing the final she changed places with Alejandra and went to the field to play as defense. Ten minutes hadn’t passed, when returning from an offensive play she injured her knee severely, and broke her (Ligamento Cruzado).

This injury in binationals when she was in ninth grade and was fourteen years old would mark her life forever. At the moment she was told she wouldn’t be able to play for about one year, this meant an incredible blow for her since she had made soccer one of the most important activities of her life, if it wasn’t the most important one. Hard times were back, she would be obliged not to touch a soccer ball for at least one year as well as doing physical therapy every single day, for it to be possible for her to play again. It was probably the worst year of her entire life since she would never be or will ever be ready for this kind of physical and psychological blow.

After one long and hard year of recovering from her knee accident, Cristina was able to play soccer again, in November of last year. It was one of the happiest days for all our family members since it was seeing Cristina smiling again while she played soccer: her favorite activity. Later this nightmare would recur to haunt the family, only four months after she began playing, it broke again. This time it was to be much worse, when we got to the doctor and he examined her he asked us to please have her do the medical exams, which meant he had a doubt about the real state of her knee.

She took the exams and the worst fear, became reality: she had injured her knee again. The difference between this time and the past one was vital. The first time she had chances of it getting sealed alone, this time that wouldn’t occur and for it to cure she needs surgery. The problem with this is that the surgery can only be done after she has stopped growing completely, or else one leg can end up longer than the other one. Which is a risk no one would ever take. After all she wont be able to practice her favorite activity for an estimated period of two to three years; it sounds as if it was a small period of time, but taking into account she is in 10th grade, this period of time might mean she wont play soccer again with the school, and probably for her life.

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New Player Arrives!

Thursday, may 19 2011 Real Madrid has already bought their third new player for the next season his name is: Hamlet Altintop. They have already bought Nuri Sahin, Daniel Callejon, Hamlet Altintop and they will probably buy Daniel Parejo. It's hard to understand the way the club has changed their policies since the arrival of Jose Mourinho as the D.T.  the greatest change has happened in the transfers market. 


The first season of Florentino Perez as president the club invested about 250 million Euros in to bring in 7  new players. The second season of Florentino as president but the first one with Mou as coach Real Madrid brought in 4 new players in june and one more in january for a cost off about 70 million Euros the difference between one season and the other is very big, this was the beginning of a new policy of reinforcements. For the season that is to come up they have already bought three for the price of only 13 million Euros which for Real Madrid finances is a record of cheapness. 

Hamlet Altintop the last one to come into the team will enter without Real Madrid having to pay for him since his contract with Bayer Munich finished this season. What gives him the right to leave to which ever club offers to him and he wants to play for.  

Having this said Mou has changed the most criticized but also awesome part of Real Madrid which was their transfers season that would normally bring the best players in their position to the club for incredible amounts of money, this has changed!

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                                                                 Soccer Was Her Life

It’s a soccer phenomenon! All soccer coaches agree on that! She has been playing since she was 10 years old; but has been doing many other sports since she was born. Probably the most important ones for what she is today were gymnastics and ballet, since both of them gave her agility, coordination and strength, vital characteristics for a soccer defense. Anyways she has also practiced many other sports such as: Horse Back riding, Vaulting, Water ski, Swimming, and Tennis.

She is Colombian and was born on April 20, 1995 at Clinic del Country, located in the city of Bogotá. At the time, she was blonde, fat, cute, with brown eyes and of white color, like the powder on a fresh muffin; people who saw her for just a moment thought she was a doll. Her first years where incredible everything was extraordinary in her life, but as she grew up she encountered one problem, her brothers health.  It would only be during certain stage of her life, but it would be one fall after another. When she was really small during the first four years of her life. Juan her brother faced several surgeries, but of course she wouldn’t notice this, nor care about it. As time passed she got older and things where OK but at the age of 10 her brother again had several surgeries. These where spread during a period of five years, which where really hard for her since she suffered a lot for her brother knowing she couldn’t do anything at all.

That stage of her life was marked by these incidents of close family members had faced.  It was extremely hard since during two consecutive birthdays her brother had surgery on her birthday finally her brother again got stable and needed no more surgeries, which was an excellent thing for her since she suffered so much for this reason. Even though this was extremely hard for her, it helped her a lot since she learned how to appreciate things most people take for granted such as health, love and solidarity. In addition she became a better person and began to be able to help others with their problems since she was inside the small group of people that had faced problems before, and could understand how others felt.

Since the moment she entered the soccer team the coach was fascinated by the way she played. She had an enormous facility and was an excellent leader, which made her better for the position she plays. She entered the team on sixth grade and was trained by Prof who made her be in the initial 11 without giving importance to the fact that she was the youngest among all the players which at that age isn’t normal. The team of that year came to be second place after loosing the final by a score of two to one, it is a fact to highlight that Cristina had to be taken out of the game because of an injury and after she came out the other team scored the two goals.  That was her first year in the soccer team.

Her second year in the world of soccer at a school level would be decisive for her. This was due to the fact that ¨ Prof ¨ decided to place her as a central defense the position she would be occupying for a long period of time. Here she would demonstrate her abilities, and the fact that she was excellent since she was: fast, agile, strong, and careful when she had to deal as the last girl of the team, because if she commits fault it is a red card for sure. That year they would end up in fourth place of the Uncoli Tournament, but would be Champions of the Peoples Play tournament being the team who had the least goals scored against, as well as winning the prize as best defense player of the tournament.

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Cristiano Is Capable!!

 Cristiano Ronaldo the best payed player of the world, has demonstrated throughout this season why this is so! He earns about one million Euros per month that the club pays him plus everything he gains throughout marketing. On the transfer season 2009-2010 Florentino Perez payed 96 million Euros to Manchester United for his transfer to become a Real Madrid player.

This season he has scored until now 38 goals on the league competition which makes him tie with Hugo Sanchez and Zarra as the greatest forwards of all times. But there is more to come since Real Madrid team still has to face Levante in their last match for the league tittle which unfurtunetly F.C. Barcelona has won.


Ronaldo has scored more than one third of the goals Real Madrid has scored in this season since the team has scored 93 and he alone has scored 38. Of course this would not be possible i he did not have all the teammates he has. Which have helped him score this incredible amount of goals in only one season which also permits him win the personal duel he had against Leonel Messi for this particular trophy as well as it also makes Real Madrid be the team that has scored the most goals in the current league!

Last but not least on the las 3 matches Cristiano has scored 9 goals, this leaves him with an average of 1.10 goals per match which is definitely incredible for a player, and he still has one match to become the greatest scorer of the league in all its history which would make this season be remembered by all Real Madrid fans because of him!

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Cristiano is Capable!

This season will be very speacial for Cristiano Ronaldo since he scored two goals against Barcelona, to which he hadnt been able to score in more than five matches they had faced each other.  Also thanks to Cristianos goal on the kings cup final and on the league tittle Real Madrid was able to win one throphy this season and to win confidence for the next year.

This two facts are much more important than what we think they are. When you go back and analize the importance of the goal which permited Real Madrid tie the match on Santiago Bernabeu, and afterwards win the kings cup. It comes to big dimensions since Real Madrid came from loosing five consecutive matches against Barcelona and two of them with humilliation included. This two matches gave them the moral support they needed to believe they could win against Barcelona.

By other side Cristiano has done an incredible season having scored 51 goals along all the competitions, he has participated in with  Real Madrid which gives him the possibility of getting a better record than the one Puskas had since many years ago. Also in the league he is only two goals from reaching the record of thirty eight goals scored by Hugo Sanchez in the season 56-57 and the by zarra in the eighties. He has two matches more to accomplish another record and enter Real Madrid history in this way.

Will he be capable or will the obsesion overwhelm him? I think he will be capable and most of all because his teammates are willing to help him at all cost to accomplish his one will. We will see how everything goes in the two matches that are left, we have to take into account that he has scored on five different matches three goals each and on two occasions he has scored four goals.

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Next season, will it be?

Since the beginning of february of this year we Real Madrid fans knew the league tittle would be almost impossible to conquer, since F.C. Barcelona was eight points ahead with the same number of matches and had also one the first match by an enormous difference of five to zero.  The only hope that Real Madrid fans had was that the match between the two was missing this meant that if Real won the match they end up at a difference of five points which was possible to  recuperate.


Anyways Real Madrid was not able to win their match which meant it would be impossible to conquer the league tittle this year. Today F.C. Barcelona tied against Levante to conquer the league tittle definitively. This year Real Madrid did a much better campaign than the one they did lat year. The differences where big since last year they where eliminated from the kings cup in the early stages, instead this year they won it and the final was against F.C. Barcelona and they won that match. It had been three complete years since the last victory of Real Madrid against Barcelona. Also Real Madrid got to Semi Finals in the CHampions league, they didn´t come to this stage since 2005 six years ago.

With ¨ mou ¨ as coach thing in real madrid have changed a lot they already bought Nuri Sahim a German Turquish, for only ten million Euros which is not common in Real Madrid since they are acostummed to buy the most expensive players in all the market. Before mourinho got to Real Madrid in only one transfer market they used about three hundred million Euros in new players instead last season with ¨mou they only used 90 millions.

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Since the beginning of february of this year we Real Madrid fans knew the league tittle would be almost impossible to conquer, since F.C. Barcelona was eight points ahead with the same number of matches and had also one the first match by an enormous difference of five to zero.  The only hope that Real Madrid fans had was that the match between the two was missing this meant that if Real won the match they end up at a difference of five points which was possible to  recuperate.


Anyways Real Madrid was not able to win their match which meant it would be impossible to conquer the league tittle this year. Today F.C. Barcelona tied against Levante to conquer the league tittle definitively. This year Real Madrid did a much better campaign than the one they did lat year. The differences where big since last year they where eliminated from the kings cup in the early stages, instead this year they won it and the final was against F.C. Barcelona and they won that match. It had been three complete years since the last victory of Real Madrid against Barcelona. Also Real Madrid got to Semi Finals in the CHampions league, they didn´t come to this stage since 2005 six years ago.

With ¨ mou ¨ as coach thing in real madrid have changed a lot they already bought Nuri Sahim a German Turquish, for only ten million Euros which is not common in Real Madrid since they are acostummed to buy the most expensive players in all the market. Before mourinho got to Real Madrid in only one transfer market they used about three hundred million Euros in new players instead last season with ¨mou they only used 90 millions.

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What Next?

During the four matches Real Madrid and Barcelona played against themselves many players came out to insult each other. It was a heavily discordial period of three weeks, fighting against each other and giving out their opinions about the referee's and all the conditions that sorrounded this matches. Now it has all ended, there where two ties and one win for each team; some say it is fair some others say the most important matches for the Champions were greatly influenced by the referees decisions, which they also argument were unfair.

Jose Mourinho's team was the one affected by the unfair decisions, more important and clear in the second match, where they didnt count a legal goal scored by Gonzalo HIguain. Also he had been affected on the first match where Pepe was expulsed because of his intensions mixed with an excelent theatre performance by Daniel Alves. After this " Mou " was also expulsed and had to go to the stands.

After this match " mou " atacked the referees at the press conference, where his declarations against the EUFA can cause him up to 6 matches on suspension. We are all waighting for the final results of this match since we really want to know what will happen with our teams coach.

By last it seems pretty sure that Mourinho will stay for next season at Real Madrid. He is already asking for two or three knew players that should arrive at the begging of july. Next season will be even harder since Real MAdrid is expected to grow more the same as F.C. BArcelona, without any doubt we will se excelent matches the next season and see again many encounterments between theese two which, cause the greates impact in the world of soccer.

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Was it Fair?

Was it fair? That´s the question that everybody in the world of soccer is trying to answer as objective, as they can. During the last week more specifically on wednesday of last, and tuesday of this one; we saw two excellent soccer matches between Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona where the only shade they had was the referee. Who on the first match, showed the red card to Real Madrid soccer player Pepe who left the field at the middle of the second half when the score was zero to zero and saw from outside how Barcelona scored two goals. On the second match played yesterday it was the second minute of the second half and Gonzalo Higuain scored a goal that the referee didn´t count. Why did this happen?

Every single soccer fan, and analyst agree on two main points about this debate. The first one is that Barcelona was superior to Real Madrid, but also that the referee mostly in the second match favored Barcelona by not counting Higuain´s goal at the beginning of the second half.

All this week that debate will be going on but who has the answer to this? Nor soccer nor life is fair not always the best wins, and in soccer there is a phrase that says: ¨ El que no los hace, los ve hacer ¨.
(This means the team that doesn´t score, watch´s how the other team scores on them.)

People say the match would have been very different with Real Madrid winning the match 2-1 when it was minute 63 since they would have had 30 minutes to score one goal that would directly eliminate F.C. Barcelona and that would have given them a lot of Moral support and adrenaline which could have been the decisive factor of this match.

Nobody has the answer to this question every soccer fan thinks of but as every body knows life is not fair at all and one day you are the one who benefits from injustice, and the next day you are affected in a negative way by the same unfairness.

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INTERVIEW


Juan Chamás
12/04/2011
Journalism/Literature

J.C.  I wanted to know how things that have happened to me, such as surgeries, have affected you.
C.C.    Well they have affected me in many ways, but I think it has been a good experience to be able to live this, because it has helped me to learn a lot of things, as well as to become a better person.
J.C.  How do you think this can help you. What positive things do you see in all this different obstacles that we have had to face.
C.C.   I think this has made my family united, it has made me be strong, anyways I have suffered a lot during the surgeries, but this has made us come together in order to be able to help my brother get better and overcome everything with our support.
J.C.  Also I wanted to know what has been the worst part of all this, in what has to deal with the health of your brother.
C.C.  Well I cant´ say it has been easy, and I think the worst part has been on two consecutive birthdays, when I was in sixth and seventh grade. When my brother had to go to the hospital because of extreme headaches. In the same day of my Birthdays.
J.C.   I heard he also swallowed a tiny cup of a pen can you tell us about that?
C.C.  Well at first my parents wouldn’t tell me because I was so small that they were scared on how I might take these kinds of things. I still remember I was on my grand mothers house and I picked up the phone and heard that he was at the hospital due to the cup since it went to his lungs, at first a was very scared but then I calmed down since I heard his life was not at risk since the cup even though it was on his lungs, was not obstructing his breathing.
J.C.   Finally one of the last things came that was when I almost cut my three fingers off, do you remember anything about this.
C.C.  Of course well that was no actually a big impact on me since I was not living in Colombia, I was living in Chicago but steel I was really well thinking and suffering, but got calmed when the doctors said everything was going to be O.k. and that his fingers would be able to work perfectly, in the future.
J.C.   At last what did you feel when you saw Oreo the dog biting his finger the one that was affected.
C.C.   Well at first I got scared but then I Couldn’t stop laughing since it wasn’t a great deal cause you had that thing which protected your finger.
       J.C. Cristina I became aware you injured your knee again can you tell me a  
       Little about this?
        C.C.  Well its been really hard for me since it will be a repetition of the injury I suffered in September, two years ago which made me leave soccer out of my life for about one year and six months. I t was really hard for me since soccer is probable the most important activity I do.
J.C.   Can you tell me what happened in that moment? How did you injure it?
C.C.  It was quite sad. I was at Binationals and was the only ninth grader of the whole tam. In the final I was the goalie during the first half of the game, when it was over I changed places with Alejandra Moncaleano. Like 20 minutes after I started I felt my knee crack, fell down and couldn’t run again.
J.C. Cristina how was your recuperation last time?
C.C. I had to do about 3ight months of physical therapy to strengthen my knee which by miracle had pasted again in a natural way after that I  had to do lots of exercise that didn’t have impact involved such as swimming, and elliptic or bike. After all this long period of time I eventually came back to playing soccer.
J.C. What happen now was it in some way different than last time?
C.C. the injury happened in the same way,  I was playing soccer and suddenly my knee cracked. I went to my doctor and he said this time it would be very difficult for the knee to recuperate in a natural way and that the most probable thing was that I would need surgery for it to cure.
J.C. What does this mean?
C.C. This means that It would take much more time to heal, since I would need surgery and for it to be possible we would have to wait for me to stop growing or else we would take the risk, that would involve one of my legs being larger that the other one for life.
J.C.  Can you do any kinds of sports meanwhile? How much time will it take to heal?
C.C. Well according to the best estimates, I would have to wait approximately 2 yeas dealing with while I stop growing and after the surgery,. It will be very hard since I can only do very few sports that don’t involve hard contact which are, swimming, biking, and elliptic.    
J.C. How do you feel about all this?
C.C. Honestly at this moment I am really sad and overwhelmed since I already passed through this and I now its very hard, and this time it will be even worse. In this moment I feel overwhelmed by this since soccer is the most important activity I practice.
J.C. Along this period of time, with this knew injury who have been the most important people for you?
C.C. Well its hard to say or to decide who has been more important in each case since some know me better than others.
J.C. Do your best to try and talk to me about it.
C.C. Well the one who has been able to help me the most has been my brother, since he has been through similar experiences so he understands my pain, and is always there for me. After him come my two closest friends which are veronica and Michel even though they don´t understand me they are always there for me. And last but not least the soccer team girls, who have always been there for me
And understand me.


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What Next: Troy?

F.C. Barcelonas coach Josep Guardiola and Real Madrid´s coach, Jose Mourinho have been fighting over the microfones over the last two weeks. This comes to happen since Real Madrid was able to stop Barcelona which had come from scoring on them fourteen goals in the last four matches while Real madrid only scored them two. This is an enormous difference to what we saw on the last two matches where, the first one was a tie to one, and the second one was won by Real Madrid one to zero.

This of course has influenced Josep Guardiola and his team since they have slowly seen how Real Madrid gets stronger over time, while they stay where they are, at an excelent level. Anyways the two last matches where the most important matches for Real Madrid since it gave them the hope and arguments to believe that they could win against F.C. Barcelona. Tomorrow we will be able to see the most important match until now between these two since it will be the first one of the classification to the final of the Champions League; it is considered to be the most important existing tournament at club level.

For Guardiola the last match Barcelona lost was incredibly tough, and you can appreciate this by taking a look at his reactions at the press conference. For the first time he atacked with his words a referee who had taken the correct decision. " Guardiola critica el acierto del árbitro, no lo había visto. ¨ After this happened many players from both teams came up some to atack Guardiola and others to defend him, but today we also saw a knew atack coming from Guardiola to Jose Mourinho, this type of attitudes we had not seen them on Guardiola, ¨ Él es el puto jefe, el puto amo.¨


Guardiola did not talk in this terms since he became Barcelonas coach three years ago, this is what demonstrates how hard it has been for him and for his team the last two results against Real Madrid. Which have done nothing but make Real Madrid even stronger.







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Not There Since 2003!

 After Real Madrid won their match against Tottenham for one to zero, all Real Madrid fans all around the world begun celebrating their classification to Semi Finals of the Champions League. Phase to which they did not classify since the year of 2003. Having the players Real Madrid has, has been decisive but also the present D.T. Jose Mourinho has been as important as the quality of the players. His one speciality has been constructing a strong defense and having players that each opportunity they have becomes a goal. You can come to this conclusion based on the fact that no team has scored on the stadium of Santiago Bernabeu in this current Champions League. Also they are the best team in what has passed in the Champions with obly two ties and the rest victories.

Now in the future comes the hardest part since Real Madrid will have to face F.C. Barcelona which currently is the best team in the world. The best part of what is now coming is that F.C. Barcelona and Real Madrid will face each other four times in less than a month. Having to play for the league,the Final of the Kings Cup, and the two matches for the Champions League.

All Real Madrid fans have great hope on the possibilities of the team of beating Barcelona and reaching the final. If this happens Real Madrid will most likely win the Champions League for the tenth time in history.

By the other side Real Madrid fans are also celebrating for Schalke 04 from Germany since Raul is playing there and scoring goals. This keeps getting his records higher on what refers to goals scored at European level. He scored on both matches against Inter de Milan which helped them classify to the semi finals where they will face Manchester United.

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The Best Results!

  Mourinho designed a ¨ Plan B ¨ for this weekends match due to the incredible and high demands that Real Madrid will face in the four weeks to come. Starting on wednesday Real Madrid will face Tottenham at London to certify their classification into the semifinals of the Champions League, they have a great advantage since the first match they won it four-zero which will give them certain relieve.

 Then on Saturday comes the first of two matches that may, become four if they classify to semifinals which seems to be whats going to happen where they will face F.C. Barcelona. The first match will have to do with the league, then comes La Copa Del Rey, and then the two way matches of the champions league. 
There is no doubt that April will be a decisive month having to do with both Real Madrid and their eternal rival F.C. Barcelona. 

¨ Mou ¨ designed a special team for Saturday on which he left five of his best players as substitutes to give them time to recover for what will be the last part of the season. He left Cristiano, Marcelo, Carvalho, Ozil, and Xabi Alonso as substitutes. 

Anyways the team won three zero against Athletic de Bilbao which did a good match but Real Madrid shut them out with their great efficacy and thanks to Kaka and Angel Di Maria on who they commited two penalties that Kaka transformed into goals. Angel Di Maria is the player who has caused the greatest number of penalties in the current season.

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We Needed Victory

After Real Madrid was defeated on Saturdays match witch meant that they no longer have possibilities of winning the league against F.C. Barcelona.  This last result put an extra pressure on the Real Madrid institution, meaning: players and executives.

The players and Jose Mourinho were able to respond in the best way to this pressure witch was through an exemplary victory against Tottenham for the Champions League which ended 4-0 in favor of Real Madrid, thanks to the goals scored by: Emmanuel Adebayor on two different occasions, Angel Di Maria and Cristiano Ronaldo.

With this victory Real Madrid has a foot and a half already on semi finals, this permits them to have a sweet revenge from the match they lost on saturday. While Tottenham will have a hard match and time while they forget about this result that will affect them at least in the next match.

Anyways we have to accept that Tottenham was far from what we expected, Crouch made himself get expulsed before 15 minutes where passed, witch of course conditioned the match Reddnap from Tottenham had planned. The other eventuality that also made Tottenham less aggressive than what it usually is, was Gareth Bale has just come out from a month long injury.

Real Madrid fans are so happy since it has been a long time ago that they didn´t reach semi finals anyways they haven´t reached them yet but the greatest chances are that they will this year.

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Apocalipsis?

With the loss Real Madrid suffered against Sporting de Gijon by 0-1 on Santiago Bernabeu on saturday and F.C. Barcelona´s win, the distance between the two teams is no longer five points, it´s eight now! This means that the league is now impossible for Real Madrid to win, and that Barcelona can be happy about their third consecutive year winning this competition.

On Saturday Real Madrid was obliged to play without half of the team that usually starts the matches and what is worse is that the half that was missing where concentrated on the attacking part of the team: Benzema Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso and Marcelo. Even though Marcelo is a defense player he is always going to the opponents field since his also got talent for that and he is who combined with Cristiano generate all the offensive plays by the left side.

Also Real Madrid didn´t count with any luck at all, since they where constantly shooting at the goal but not, one would enter! They shot thirty four times to goal. By the other side Sporting team shot three times and one of them was the goal that made them defeat Real Madrid. Also with this loss Mourinho looses his personal record of 9 years without ever loosing on the stadium his team plays in.

Not to worry tomorrow tuesday Real Madrid should beat tottenham so that they take the advantage on the classifications to the next round of Champions League witch is now the top priority of Real Madrid and it´s D.T. Jose Mourinho!

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Are they Capable

On saturday Real Madrid and its D.T. " Mou " have one of their hardest tests, they will face Sporting de Gijon in Santiago Bernabeu stadium. The problems that come with this match are two, first of all 5 of  Mourinho irreplaceable players are either injured or suspended, we are talking about: Pepe, Xabi Alonso, Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema. Due to this important troubles he will have to find a way to replace them all and win this match, they cant afford to tie or to loose if any of the two happens the league will be lost.

The substitutes will have this match in their hands since the only atacking figures that are always in the begginning formation will be Mezut Ozil and Angel Di Maria will now see how the team and "Mou" responds.

By the other side last Wednesday the president of F.C. Barcelona Sandro Rosell, commented that Barcelona would win the final of the cup by a score of 5-0. This is not what we expected from him, someone who was a gentlemen until then.

Also "Mou" will have a new and harsh dilema with the coming back of striker Gonzalo Higuain since he now has to decide witch he leaves in the titularity and to whom does he leave in the substitutes. This will defenetly be something vital for what will come up next season.

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FiFa Matches!

During the last week each national team played two matches. This matches were not at all positive for Real Madrid players, even though most of them won their matches, two of them came back with injuries. These two players are: Marcelo and Benzema who now a days is probably in his best shape since he begun playing.

Anyways we must consider ourself luckies since Spain´s team played in an awful field were injuries could have been extremely easy. From these match we have to get happy that Iker, Arbeloa, Raul Albiol, Ramos  and Xabi Alonso who all played aren´t injured. The Field where they played should not have been authorized at least not for Spain to play in it.

What comes up is very important since Benzema´s injury could last for 10 days what makes him be a serious doubt to what will his condition be for the match agains Tottenham. Doctors say he might not be ready, but all of us fans hope thats not the case since lately Benzema has always scored and given security to the team as a whole! Now is Adebayor´s turn and once again ¨ Mou ¨ has demonstrated he had the reason, since if it had not been for him Real Madrid would have no forward available for their next match.  Since both Gonzalo Higuain and Karim Benzema are K.O. for the next match against Sporting de Gijon.

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Double Victory for Mourinho!

  This has been an excellent weekend for D.T. Mourinho. First Real Madrid won a hard match against Atletico de Madrid, only two days after winning to Olimpique de Lyon which certified their classification to Quarter finals. This match was won by an excellent score which was 3-0. After 6 consecutive years of being eliminated in the round of 16 Real Madrid has finally entered Quarter finals as it should!

But on this weekend Real Madrid won the classic against Atletico with a score of 2-1 and kept the pace F.C. Barcelona is putting to the league. This permits Real Madrid keep fighting or the league tittle and also with the head and moral high for the champions match against Tottenham.

But the most important victory Mourinho recorded in this weekend was that Real Madrid announced that they would extend the contract to the Central Defender Pepe. After various months of fighting and during witch Real Madrid said they wouldn´t extend the contract to him, Mourinho faced the executives and asked them to extend his contract which they finally will do.

http://www.marca.com/2011/03/21/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1300703386.html

The bad knews as that Cristiano Ronaldo suffered a muscle injury which will keep him out of the fields for a period of time that goes between two and three weeks.

http://www.marca.com/2011/03/20/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1300624887.html

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Close To The Tenth

Today Real Madrid broke a bad record of six consecutive years without entering the Quarter finals round! It was an excellent match where Marcelo, Benzema and Ozil were decisive. They became great players that have demonstrated their talent, with two goals for Benzema and Marcelo and two assists that Ozil put in. Real Madrid fans must be extremely happy after finally being able to see their team beat Olympique de Lyon to get passed the 16 round. Also its the first time that Real Madrid wins against Olympique de Lyon the rest of the times they had faced each other, the results had been either defeat or in the best chances tie.

Today after long and harsh times, Real Madrid again remembers what it is to make part of the best 8 European clubs, a group were they should always be. ¨  We are Real Madrid, it is normal to be in the next round. That was not the case in recent years. ¨ Jose Mourinho, said.

Anyways we won without this being a match that will be remembered for the way the team played, but for the history of not getting passed round of 16. Now ahead of us awaits the real part where there are only great European teams except for two that are: Shaktahr Donetsk and shalke 04. Since now is that we will be able to see what is Real Madrid ready and up to, since now we might encounter F.C. Barcelona.

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revision

There are different cases referring to specific products that have changed like bagels, crepes and the types of juices they used to sell and the ones they now sell.

It deals with some specific cases such as bagels and crepes. Or some of the providers the bookstore buys them from, which make them cost more

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Our team is growing in a wild manner, they have won last 6 matches and all of them without having great troubles, since at this moment Karim is having great times as forward. The last three matches he has scored two goals on each of them and without mentioning the post he hit against Racing de Santander which would have made him score three times in that same match. He is coming through the best times since he came up to Real Madrid from Lyon at a cost of 35 million Euros, which during the last year where questioned almost every month know he is demostrating why he cost that much and he is giving the reason to our honored president and to ¨Mou¨ who said if he had competition this would make him grow.


On our next match on wednesday against Olympique de Lyon will most likely be the hardest and the most important one our team has faced until know. This is because it will decide the future of the team in the Champions League but much more important than that it will mean breaking a record of six consecutive years without being able to enter quarter finals, and it will most likely also be decisive towards the future of who I consider to the moment is the greatest coach: Jose Mourinho. 

So looking forward to one of the most spectacular matches we will be able to see this year and as Mou said: ¨ Real Madrid is the greatest club in the world and we will be much stronger if we all stand together. ¨ 

Pretty much the same said Xabi Alonso: We want a packed Bernabeu to give us strength.¨ meaning : the crowd will affect as if they where the twelve player.

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Will Gonzalo Bring Glory?

Gonzalo Higuain: who before his injury was the best forward Real Madrid had, will came back to the fields in the middle of April. During the first half of the season he was one of the best players Mourinho had, but since his injury we Real Madrid fans have missed him.

For the well being of the team we had, Karim Benzema who write know is passing through his best moment in Real Madrid since he arrived two seasons ago. In what has to do since three months ago he has scored 15 goals 5 on each competition: Champions, League, and Copa del Rey. Also during the winter transfers Real Madrid loaned in Emmanuel Adebayor who also has had a great adaptation to the team scoring three goals in 5 matches.

It seems that Gonzalo will be back for the last term of the season where the most important matches come up including the two matches against FC Barcelona. The first one will be for the league and then in that same week will play for the Final of la: Copa del Rey. The question reamining is will ¨pipita ¨ be back and in the right level to be able to play these matches? Or will he not have the level it requires and on the contrary make Karim loose vital minutes to make him the new sensation of the league?

 http://www.as.com/futbol/articulo/higuain-plazos-van-cumpliendo/20110310dasdaiftb_51/Tes

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Central PePe Destined to Stay!

    After almost one entire year of discussions between Real Madrid and Pepe, a central defense who thinking on his new contract has asked the club to double his annual incomings. In the present Pepe earned about 1.8 million Euros, and for his new contract he is asking 5 million Euros. Anyways the club is only willing to offer him 3.5 and no more than that since they have plenty player who earn lots!

Anyways these are only good news since General Director Valdano said:  ¨Ha demostrado que es un gran jugador. Tenemos tiempo, estamos progresando como la temporada pasada, cuando estas preguntas eran sobre Higuain, y esperamos llegar a una solución. Es un jugador importante y por eso estamos haciendo un esfuerzo importante. ¨

This is the best news Real Madrid fans can recieve since, two months ago Real Madrid semeed to have decided to let Pepe leave. But Mourinho has said in repeated times that he want´s Pepe to stay. Apparently this has made Valdano change opinion towards what will be the future of this player.

Finally it seems that Mourinho is winning the battle at the white house and that Valdano will have no other choice but to help Mourinho accomplish his wants. With everything that has to do with the players that are part of the team, the ones that they bring or sell.

This is something that Real Madrid fans shall be anxious and rely happy about. Since Mourinho appears to be becoming a long term project and he is the best D.T.  Real Madrid can find at the moment. Specially because all his characteristics fit into the necessities of the team.

http://www.marca.com/2011/02/13/futbol/equipos/real_madrid/1297634612.html

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What a Weekend!

The past weekend was one of the most important for Real Madrid during the year. There are two main reasons for this to be, On first place F.C. Barcelona has lost their match letting Real Madrid dream with the league tittle again. We make this analysis based on the fact that no team has won more than 16 matches without loosing, and the number of matches remaining for both teams is of 15.

Real Madrid defeated el Spanyol on Sunday where they played a match with ten players since on the first minute Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas was unfairly expelled. This happened because of a foul on Spanyol player ¨ Callejon ¨.  Goalkeeper Valdes commented : ¨ La expulsion de Casillas no fue justa. ¨

This was the only negative fact about the weekend but with everything bad something good comes, this was that goalkeeper Adan who is around 19 years old was able to demonstrate his abilities as a goalie, and left a good feeling for the next match and for the future as many see him as the fully replacement of  ¨San Iker. ¨

Overall it was a perfect weekend we won, F.C. Barcelona tied and gave us the opportunity of regaining lost territory. Finally we  fans were able to discover one of the most promising talents inside the club.

http://www.marca.com/2011/02/14/futbol/equipos/barcelona/1297706345.html

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Is Valdano Valuable

Right now we all Real Madrid fans are considerable concerned about what will happen with the fight for power in the inside of Real Madrid institution, betweeen Valdano ( general manager)  
and Jose Mourinho. (D.T.).

All of us fans are on the side of D.T. Mourinho. But the question and what really matters is what does Florentino (President) think, will he take sides?

After all the fights they have had because Valdano didnt want to sattisfy Mourinho petition of a new forward. As time passed it seemed like it was a matters of who won the battle between the two of them. Fortunetly for us fans it seemed Like that battle has been won by Mourinho, since the arrival of Emmanuel Adebayor from Manchester City has satisfied " mou "

Anyways the most important detail happenned on sunday after the match against   Real Sociedad, which they win by 4 golas to 1. When the match ended Valdano faced the press, and he said " to win against F.C. Barcelona, we leed Mourinho as D.T. "

This declarations seems to have finished the fight between the two since now Valdano has taken distance from the team and he has also decided with florentino to buy the forward Mourinho had long ago asked for!

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