Madrid’s hit list :http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11096_3672238,00.html

The world champions have seen their European hopes immediately put on the back foot after Monday’s 3-0 defeat to Holland in Berne.

Donadoni, who signed a new contract before the start of the tournament, saw his team’s performance draw a fierce response from the Italian media.

“Honestly I was waiting for that,” said Donadoni.

“I’m not bitter that they went to town on us, but more or less it wasn’t a bed of roses reading them.”

Inter Milano celebrate in big style the 100 years of existence.Everybody is happy and the coach Mancini receive praises from president Morrati. No one though that the party will disrupt the focus of the players for the match against Liverpool.

Second Act.

The lost the game with Liverpool.In big style.Mancini announce the resignation after the end of this season.Morratti is thinking to fire him mediately and the name of Mourihno appears on all newspapers.

The third act.

Mancini regrets the resignation announce.Is not leaving.He declared :”I;m sorry,I was very upseat after the lost against Liverool.I want to stay and i want to win the championship.Is no point in messing up things”.Morratti confirmed:”He wants to win.He want to win the Championship League in 2009.He will respect his contract.”

The Italian press consider these declarations as part of plan to calm down things and to not affect the Inter chances to win the title.The team is divided in two groups and now they must be convinced to pull in the same direction.

“Corriere dello Sport” talks about a group of rebels.The leaders of the group are Figo, Viera and Crespo who will be more than happy if Mancini will leave.The other group lead by Chivu and Stankovici want to continue with Mancini.

There are big chances that Mourinho will train Inter Milan in summer.The Portuguese asked for serious guarantees and annual wage of 8.5 million euros.

And the saga continues…..

The first one is Kun Aguerro ,a 19 year old striker who defeat by himself the mighty Barcelona. Until Kun entered the field Barca was running the show.They had 1-0 after Ronaldinho’s super goal.Kun manage to equalize after his shoot was deviated into the net by Puyol. And from this point forward there was a different story.Kun Aguerro give an assist for Maxi Rodriguez who makes the score 2-1,then Forlan put another one from the penalty spot and in the end the new star makes the score 4-1 after a superb play.

On the other hand ,Robinho (23 years) comes into the game in 72 minutes when the score was 1-1 after a goal score by Raul and the opposite site down to 9 players.After 41 seconds the brazilian make it 2-1 and in the 90 minutes scored another goal and put Real in top of the table.

5 points again : Atletico Madrid-Barcelona : 4-2

Strange match on “Vicente Calderon”.Strange because of the score evolution, because Barcelona finish in knee a game that was almost won in the first 30 minutes and because Atletico manage to save a game that seemed to be lost.

Messi’s absence may be one of explanations but this cannot count 100%.Without the Argentinian Barcelona controlled the game in the first 30 minutes and Atletico cross the midfield line only 4 times.Ronaldihno scored with a perfect scissor from Xavi’s cross and it seemed that Ronaldihno’s comeback will bring the 3 points to Barca.

After the first half an hour the Catalan’s nightmare started.Inexplicable since they had a 72% ball possession.That doesn’t count in score board but creates an artificial state of wellness.At that moment Barcelona was on first place with the same number of points as Real.But Kun entered the game.Kun Aguero, Maradona’s future son in law was sent on the field and he played like the old Argentinian star.The first goal was scored with chance but after that Kun Aguero was unstoppable.He played with the catalan’s defence : Puyol, Edmison or Milito were not able to stop him .Rijkaard had also a panic attack: this is the only explanation for the tactic he applied after he saw Kun’s game.

All four goals had Kun’s signature and Barcelona has to start all over again.

Recreativo - Real Madrid 2-3

For these game there are two main keywords: “before” and “after”.Before this match , Real Madrid lost all the games in Andaluzia. After the game they have five points in front of Barca and the title is very close.

Before the 27 minute Recreativo dominate the game, missed some good opportunities and even manage to open the score.After that minute Real made his comeback.They got a little help from the refferee who validate Raul’s goal (it was offsaid).

Before the 72 minute Real looked like a team that forgot how to play soccer.No imagination,no sparks not a drop of fantasy.After that minute they looked like champions.Robinho was sent into the game and he scored two times.It looks like the brazilian become a mature player.His last goal was a piece of art.One-Two with Gabo and an aesthetic lob over the goalkeeper.

He doesn’t act like a spoiled star and continue to be modest, and take care of his family and friends.He doesn’t leave in a big mansion and doesn’t have super cars. Because he wished to stay with his family he still live in parent’s house and drive an old Audi.

“Is a bit crowded but i prefer to stay with my family rather than being alone in a big house.I need my the love of my family” confessed Benzema.

For the French press Karim Benzema is a role model .In sport and life.Here is a picture with Benzema’s house.

That was not the case 2 months ago.Messi was injured and Ronaldinho was out of shape.At that time the the Spanish newspaper “El Mundo Deportivo” was writing some interesting facts about these two players.

It seems that Leo Messi has too many injuries for a young player.The 20 year striker has already 6 severe injuries(all muscle related).The explanations : Messi has an excess of muscular tension who accelerate the fatigue and stop him to force himself in the game.When he was young he receive a hormonal treatment that make his bones grow but also created a disequilibrium between these bones and their muscles .

Messi’s real problem is a muscular fatigue that make the muscles shorter.The human musculature has two types of fibers : the slow ones (type 1) and the fast ones (types 2a,2b and 2c).Each person has a different combination and on athletes the mix change according to the training schedule.This explain why a sprinter has 80% fast fibers and a marathon runner only 5%.Leo Messi has a big percentage of fast fibers which combined with his short stature make him a very fast player.His muscle are always tensioned and that is the cause of his many injuries.

Ronaldinho case is different.The Brazilian player cannot accelerate at once; he needs some space in order to gain speed.His best plays happened when he come into his own half making pressing and then recover the ball for a counterattack. When he start acting like a star and stop training he become a lazy player, receiving the ball in static positions and make his moves predictable.

If you remember the goals scored agains Real Madrid in that legendary 0-3 you will notice that in both cases he left from his own half and his muscles had time to tensions.When he reach in front of Salgado or Sergio Ramons he was in full trotle and could not be stoped.It seems that Ronaldihno realized what he did wrong, start training harder and he is getting back in shape.

Back to Messi.His sprints consume a lot of energy and because of that he need a longer recovery time.Another study pointed that Leo Messi has a fantastic game start but after time passes be become absent. In the end of the games he is again at 100%.The conclusion is that his muscles recover in the middle of the game and are in best shape in the begining and end.The Argentinian player needs also more recovering time than the rest of the players.If he is not resting proprely he suffer muscle injuries.

Along Kaka, Messi is the fastest player in the world.It doesn’t have Ronaldinho’s technique but because he has low center of gravity and his muscles are always tensioned he manage to do these fantastic sprints.If you look at him when is playing you will notice that most of the time he put the chin in the chest and bend.In this way his center of gravity is lower and the speed is higher.Many specialists said that is a miracle that a player so thin and fragile can keep up these days.Every match he receive a lot of hits and if his club will not take care of him we all gonna loose a fantastic player.

To all these we can add one more.Real Madrid is affected by too many wins in a short interval.Such series brings points in charts but also makes the team vulnerable.The club gets used with success, reach the maximum level but when the team suffer a defeat it louse the equilibrium and hardly get back in the game.

Real humiliated Valladolid with 7-0 and everybody praise them.But when they suffered the first failure they didn’t manage to stand up.And it may take a while until they get back into game.According to a German specialist (Andreas Heuer) who analyzed over 12000 games, a team that won four games in a row has 25% less chances to win the next one.

Heuer study soccer since 1965 and he also realized that a team in this situation needs at least 8 games to recover and reach again a high level.Also he noted that changing the coach doesn’t work in these situations.

The massive movement of Brazilian players in Europe started in 2004 when Brazil exported 852 players.The most important transfers in 2004 was the movements of the Luis Fabiano from Sao Paulo to Fc Porto for 13,5 million euro and Diego from Santos to Fc Porto for 7 million euro.

In 2005 Brazil “exported” 870 players.The most expensive transfer was : Robinho from Santos to Real Madrid for 30 million euro.

In 2006 the number of brazilian soccer players that left Brazil to play in ther leagues was close to 900 and the total value of these transfers was around 131 million dollars.

2007 was the year was the first year in history when Brazil exported over 1000 players.1086 to be more precise .The massive exodus had a positive effect for Brazilian economy.Their GDP (gross domestic product) was bigger with 4.7% putting the country on the top 10 list.In this way soccer brought more money than coffee production or Rio’s Carnival.

This year there were only 5 teams that start the competition and didn’t have Brazilian players : Steaua Bucharest, Olympique Marseille, Rosenborg, Celtic and Glasgow Rangers. Only Celtic pass the group phase and doesn’t have big chances to advance.