domingo, 26 de julio de 2009

Cristiano Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic make the Spanish league more powerful (Yahoo)


The impacting registration of the Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic by the Barcelona, having paid forty five millions of Euros and the transference of the Cameroonian goaler Samuel Eto´o and of the Byelorussian forwarder Alexander Hleb added to the expense of about three hundred millions of Euros of the Real Madrid to register Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka or Benzema, among others, will enforce the Spanish league so as to convert it, maybe, into the most powerful of the world leaving behind for the first time in years the Premier League, at least from the point of view of mediatic and footballistic interest.

Today, in the International consideration, at least, the Spanish league contains, in the season 2009/10 that is starting, four of the five best players selected by coaches and captains of the all national teams for the annual prize of FIFA World Player: Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Kaka and Xavi Hernandez and only Fernando Torres participates with his Liverpool in the Premier League.

The registration of Ibrahimovic, a skillful and potential forwarder who had already an enormous success in Ajax as well as in the Inter, added to his continuous apparition in the Scandinavian rosy press and his explosive character, rise the footballistic actions of the Barcelona to an unexpected levels.

The fact that Ibrahimovic is added to a team that has already a solid base and with the calmness that gives him the trichampionship of the last season, could be not better for Barcelona that, besides, added a great player as the Brazilian Maxwell, who can perform as lateral defender as midfield and who already possesses sufficient experience after following, paradoxically, the same European steps that Ibrahimovic: Ajax and Inter. And depending on what will opt the coach Josep Guardiola with other two Brazilian reinforcements, Henrique (who comes back from playing ceded in Germany) and the very good forwarder Keirrison (coming from the Palmeiras) can reach an exquisite group and not to think if finally the Argentine Javier Mascherano comes from Liverpool to reinforce the mark in the mid of the field.

The great subject of the Barcelona will be now to prove whether Ibrahimovic adapts to a structure formed in the offense as a triangle with inverse base, namely, with a system 1-2-3, not very usual in the modern football. But the Swedish forwarder does not play fully inserted in the area as it happens with the salient Eto´o, new reinforcement of the Inter and author of 130 goals in his five seasons with the blue red. The most probable is that the tactic will change and that Guardiola will put Ibrahimovic at the edge of the area or some meters behind, but it will be necessary to see then what will happen with the positions of Xavi and Iniesta.

The duel of duple as Messi-Abrahimovic and Kaka- Cristiano Ronaldo, added to the less strong Aguero-Forlan of the Atletico Madrid, does not seem to find the same echo in the English Premier League, or at least not at this level. Though Liverpool maintains the duple Gerrard-Fernando Torres and the Chelsea also conserves a potent forward, the Manchester United, even with what historically represents Michael Owen and his past with the Liverpool or in the Real Madrid, today it cannot be compared with what Cristiano Ronaldo can contribute or even the Argentine Carlos Tevez who moved at few kilometers to the Manchester City. This team has reinforced with the arrival of Adebayor from Arsenal, and promises to give battle. And of course it will be even stronger if they can register the international back of the Chelsea, John Terry.

Even being the Pound Sterling with higher value than the Euro and due to the mediatic effects of so many years of the footballistic and mediatic preeminence, the Premier League conserves the aura of the world`s principal league, and this does not allow doubts if it is due to the place of their teams in the last editions of the Champions League.

But due to the fact that the directives of the Liga Profesional de Futbol (LPF) of Spain started to evaluate to change the tradition of the time-tables of the matches, that always began from 5pm forward, to start earlier due to the fact to be more accessible for the Asiatic and Latin American markets in spite that it will compete directly with the TV transmissions of the leagues with tradition in those time-tables, as the Italian, and specially with the Premier League, but the matter is under study.

Neither seems casual the arrival of Shunzuke Nakamura to the Espanyol of Barcelona, that with the base of the passed season and the trajectory realized in the last matches under technical direction of Mauricio Pochettino, a historical of the club, is reinforced remarkably bearing in mind the good group they have and the footballistic and mediatic push it means.

If we have into account that the battle for the first places will have surely the solid teams as the Sevilla (for the moment they do not let go their Brazilian goaler Luis Fabiano, at the point to leave for Milan), Valencia ( that finally could retain the great Spanish goaler, David Villa, in spite of the big crisis that are going through this summer) and the Villarreal (with the arrival of Ernesto Valverde as coach in replacement of the Chilean Manuel Pellegrini, emigrated to the Real Madrid), all indicates that the Spanish football with catch the mediatic and footballistic attention of the year, winning perhaps for the first time in years being the most followed of the world.

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