London (News Sport) - Sebagai pelatih berpengalaman, Carlo Ancelotti telah menangani banyak pemain-pemain hebat di dunia, macam Paolo Maldini, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, dan Andriy Shevchenko. Namun, baginya, tak ada bakat yang lebih hebat selain dua talenta maut Brasil, Ricardo Kaka dan Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima.
Carletto menangani keduanya saat melatih Milan. Begitu Kaka menginjakkan kakinya pertama kali di San Siro, Ancelotti langsung terkagum-kagum.
"Saya tak pernah melihat Kaka bermain sebelum Milan membelinya. Setelah ia pertama kali latihan bersama kami, saya langsung menelepon Adriano Galliani dan mengatakan, 'Ini adalah bakat yang fantastis'. Kaka sangat cepat dan kuat," kata Carletto.
"Keterampilannya berbeda dengan para pemain Brasil lain. Dia tidak begitu berbakat, tapi sangat efektif. Kaka adalah pemain Brasil yang spesial. Ia memiliki mentalitas Eropa dan karakter yang kuat. Dia suka bekerja keras dan selalu fokus di pertandingannya," puji Carletto.
Soal Ronaldo, Ancelotti mengatakan, "Biasanya, orang Brasil tak suka bekerja keras dalam latihan. Mereka tak bisa fokus. Saya telah melatih banyak pemain Brasil. Saya memiliki masalah dengan Ronaldo di Milan. Tak mudah untuk membuatnya bugar. Ronaldo memiliki berat 100 kg, tapi dia merupakan pemain tercepat dalam lari 10 meter."
"Saya belum pernah melihat bakat seperti Ronaldo. Dia selalu mencetak gol, gol, gol, dan gol. Pertandingan pertama saat melawan Siena, saya bilang kepadanya, 'Saya tak dapat memainkanmu di lapangan, beratmu 100kg!'. Dia bilang, 'Pelatih, jangan khawatir, aku akan mencetak gol'. Saya memainkannya dan dia benar-benar mencetak dua gol."
"Ronaldo adalah pria fantastis, rendah hati, jujur, dan dia benar-benar lucu. Saat kami bermain melawan Cagliari. Sebelum pertandingan saya bertanya, "Apakah kamu tahu nama-nama pemain belakang Cagliari?" Dia bilang 'Tidak! Pelatih, aku tidak tahu nama semua pemain yang melawanku, tapi mereka semua tahu diriku'!"
Adrian Mutu s-a reîntâlnit cu fostul său antrenor de la Fiorentina, Cesare Prandelli, actualmente selecţioner al Italiei, cu ocazia partidei pe care „squadra azzurra“ a jucat-o la Florenţa cu Insulele Feroe (5-0), în preliminariile CE 2012. Site-ul italian violanews.com a scris ieri că atacantul român s-a dus special la stadion pentru a-l întâlni pe tehnician. „Mutu s-a dus la stadion pentru a-l saluta pe antrenorul care, poate, a crezut cel mai mult în el. Cei doi s-au îmbrăţişat şi au discutat câteva minute. Asta doar la câteva zile după ce Prandelli declarase că românul este cel mai bun jucător pe care l-a pregătit în cariera sa“, a scris sursa citată. Această întâlnire a fost un bun prilej pentru Prandelli să-l mai laude o dată pe „Briliant“ în faţa presei. „Se simte bine, este foarte motivat şi nerăbdător să revină pe teren. Fiorentina are mare nevoie de el“.
Procuratorul lui Mutu, Victor Becali, a declarat, la Radio Toscana, că a făcut recurs la Curtea Europeană în cazul deciziei date de TAS legate de procesul cu gruparea engleză Chelsea. „Mutu este un cetăţean european, nu va putea rămâne fără loc de muncă. În plus, FIFA nu a primit vreo cerere în acest sens de la Chelsea. Am făcut între timp recurs la Curtea Europeană împotriva sentinţei date de TAS“, a spus Becali.
There aren’t many times we can say we enjoyed a soccer fight. If anything, pushing and shoving is immediately followed by an obligatory dive by one of the players. And while this fight does include some dives, it also includes some incredible haymakers and high-flying Kung-Fu action.
Who knew the Singapore Young Lions and the Beijing Guo’an were such bitter rivals.
I might be mistaken but I’m pretty sure I saw someone’s Mom on the field at the 2:30 mark. Hmm? Maybe that’s what this fight was all about in the first place. Someone on the Beijing Guo’an pulled a Delonte West on a Singapore Lions’ mom.
Hell, I’d start throwing Liu Kang style kicks too if that was the case.
(News Sport) - She describes herself as a party girl who always drinks in style but who is Catholic and a 'family person'.
This is Jennifer Thompson, the prostitute at the centre of the latest footballer sex scandal after selling her story about her sordid liaisons with Wayne Rooney to a national newspaper.
The 21-year-old claims she slept with the footballer seven times over a period of months - often meeting him under the noses of team-mates.
However, despite charging him up to £200 an hour she has the cheek to describe sex with him as seedy and she takes the moral high ground over the fact that Rooney was with her when his wife Coleen was pregnant with their first child.
So it is no surprise to learn that she aspires to be a glamour model. On her My Space page, writing under the name Juicy Jeni, Thompson lists an interest in 'laungerie'.
She describes herself as 5ft6"/Slim/Slender and says she is Catholic.
Under her heroes, she names her mother and says she would like children 'someday'. As her occupation, she lists 'Party Girl'.
At the time, she wrote: 'Im 20 years old.. I live in Bolton... Currently looking to persue a modelling career in glamour modelling * laungerie!
'I am very much a family person i love my family to bits...and i love my friends toooo... Nothing makes me happier than to wake up in the morning knowing i have the best family in the world and the best friends i could think of!!!'
New pictures obtained by MailOnline portray a young woman keen to rise to the celebrity status of the WAGs she appears to emulate. In one shot, she strikes a distinctly Footballers' Wives-style pose wearing an extremely short black dress, killer heels, a handbag and sunglasses.
In other pictures she poses in her underwear, a vampire outfit and lying semi naked on a bed.
Yet in her interview with a national tabloid, she berates 24-year-old Rooney for the lack of 'emotion' spared for unsuspecting Coleen.
She tells of an occasion when she met up with Rooney at a casino and he invited her back to the £4.5m Cheshire mansion he shared with his wife.
She said: 'I thought to myself "I can't that. I can't go to his wife's house." I mean, that's just wrong isn't it?'
She went on: '...as far as I'm concerned, paying a girl to have sex with you is one thing. Paying a girl to come back to your marital home when your pregnant missus is out is taking it a step too far. Especially when you know you could easily go somewhere else to get what you want.'
Sex with Rooney, she almost complains, felt seedy and became 'a bit samey'.
'Wayne was really quite plain in his routine. He wanted straight sex with a little bit of "naughty" thrown in - but not too naughty.'
(News Sport) - Caroline Wozniacki underlined her status as women's top seed with a battling straight sets 6-3 6-4 victory over former champion Maria Sharapova in their last 16 clash at the U.S. Open on Monday.
The 20-year-old Dane withstood the customary onslaught from Sharapova to emerge victorious after just under two hours of compelling action on the Arthur Ashe Stadium Court at Flushing Meadows.
Sharapova, desperate for another grand slam title after clawing her back up the rankings following shoulder surgery, made an impressive start but an astonishing string of double faults in the fourth game saw her fall 3-1 behind.
In customary style she immediately broke back with her best tennis of the match, but then lost her own service again to leave Wozniacki to serve out for the first set.
The second was again a tight and closely fought affair, but in the seventh game Sharapova chose the wrong moment for her ninth double fault and she was behind again.
Wozniacki held to leave Sharapova to serve to stay in the championship and the former world number one was forced to bravely save a match point before closing to 4-5.
But Wozniacki, beaten by Kim Clijsters in last year's final, made no mistake when she served for the match, closing it out with the first of two match points.
It was her first win over former world number one Sharapova.
She will now play Dominika Cibulkova in the quarterfinals after the Slovakian's impressive 7-5 7-6 win over another former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia.
Ranked 45, Cibulkova is the lowest ranked player remaining in the draw, but performed well above her status to outlast Kuznetsova.
Also through to quarterfinals is Estonia's Kaia Kanepi, who came from a set down to beat Belgium's Yanina Wickmayer 0-6 7-6 6-1 in a thriller on the Louis Armstrong Stadium Court.
Wickmayer, a semifinalist at Flushing Meadows last year, looked to be cruising to victory as she swept the opening set without the loss of a game, but 31st seed Kanepi battled back to level on a tiebreaker and swept through the decider.
(News Sport) - Novak Djokovic breezed into the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open with a straight sets demolition of home hope Mardy Fish in their fourth round match at Flushing Meadows on Monday.
The Serbian third seed took just one hour and 50 minutes to complete a 6-3 6-4 6-1 win over Fish, who came into the final grand slam in the form of his life but was comprehensively outclassed on Arthur Ashe.
"It was a great performance and my best so far in tournament," he told Sky Sports.
It earned Djokovic a quarterfinal clash at Gael Monfils, who beat Richard Gasquet 6-4 7-5 7-5 in an earlier all-French clash.
"I have a tough opponent, but the way I'm playing I have a good chance," added Djokovic, who has a career 4-0 advantage over Monfils and a fine record in New York.
He was runner-up in 2007 and reached the semifinals for the past two years, each time losing to Roger Federer, who is a potential last four opponent again.
Federer was playing Austrian 13th seed Jurgen Melzer in the night match later on Labor Day.
In other four-round action, Swede Robin Soderling, seeded fifth, beat Spaniard Albert Montanes, 21st seed, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-3.
Fish, who with Sam Querrey was the last two American players in the men's singles, was always on the backfoot after giving up two early breaks to lose the first set.
A single break of service was enough to give Djokovic a two sets to love lead, and two more wrapped up the match in comprehensive style.
Monfils reached his third grand slam quarterfinal and became the first Frenchman into the last eight at the U.S. Open since Arnaud Clement in 2000.
A single break of service was enough to give him a two-sets lead, but he was broken to trail 2-5 in the third until reeling off five games in a row.
Victory took just over two and a half hours and Monfils was pleased to stick with his game plan.
"My plan was to try to break him physically and break him in the head," Monfils told AFP. "I think I did pretty good."
London (News Sport) - Sebagai pelatih berpengalaman, Carlo Ancelotti telah menangani banyak pemain-pemain hebat di dunia, macam Paolo Maldini, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, dan Andriy Shevchenko. Namun, baginya, tak ada bakat yang lebih hebat selain dua talenta maut Brasil, Ricardo Kaka dan Ronaldo Luis Nazario de Lima.
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