Liverpool-Arsenal

I was watching the Liverpool-Arsenal game earlier today, and I was a little dissapointed with Arsenal's performance, maybe Liverpool deserves some credit, but I feel for Arsenal. I really want to see them win something this year, because I like the way they run the club.

In my opinion Arsene Wenger is the second best coach in the world, behind only to Jose Mourinho.

I like that Arsenal dont go in these ridiculous spending sprees like Chelsea, Manchester City, and other clubs do. They promote from within, like Ajax and Auxerre do. They really are an example to the other clubs.

On an unrelated story, Peter Crouch, the former Liverpool striker has been caught cheating on his fiancee, Abby Clancy with a hooker. What is going with these soccer players in Europe with hookers?

I mean, have you seen Crouch's fiancee? Who would cheat on this woman?

The Eagles did not fly!

Rough start for the Lisbon clubs this weekend, as both Benfica and Sporting lost their opening games. Their north rivals Porto and Braga both won their games.

Benfica is a mess right now, Roberto is a flop, and the defense is just playing awful right now.

It has to be said that Benfica did control the game, but the result is all that matters.

Benfica needs enforcements right now, maybe Manuel Jose and Bruno Gama, though I have doubts that Benfica scouts watch Portuguese players.

Sporting lost to Passos, it is very difficult to play there, and the big three usually drop points there, but I was impressed with this team, some good players and a good coach.

David Simao, Caetano, and Manuel Jose deserve to play for bigger clubs.

Porto won their game against Naval with a Hulk goal at the 80th minute.

Not including the Benfica loss, it was a good weekend for Portuguese soccer, as there were some good games played. Braga, Rio Ave, Nacional, and Passos de Ferreira all played great this weekend. I am hoping they keep this up.

good start to the season.

The Braga-Portimonense game was a great start to the Portuguese League. It had lots of goals, good attacking football, two teams looking for the win, and no controversy with referees. Not bad at all, hope the other games this weekend are as good.

Portuguese Liga 2010-11

Its finally here after months of waiting. The Portuguese Liga Sagres begins today with the Braga-Portimonense game.
Lots of people believe that this year there will be four teams competing for the championship.
No disrespect to Braga, I just don't believe that they have a deep enough bench to compete the whole year, especially after losing so many players; Evaldo, Meyong, Joao Pereira, Hugo Viana, and Eduardo all left the team, it will be hard to replace these guys.
The battle will go down between the three big ones, Benfica, Sporting, and Porto.
Benfica are the favorites, but Sporting has improved tremendously, and they had a fine preseason. Even after losing Veloso and Moutinho, the arrivals of Maniche and Andre Santos will make Sporting's midfield better.
Porto will be Porto, Pinto da Costa will make sure that his team continue to get all the calls.

I am just hoping that this season we have good soccer, lots of fans in the stands, and little controversy outside the games, but we all know better........

Madden 11

Madden 11 is a great game, I like the fast pace to the game, and the fun has been kicked up. I am also enjoying the 'Gameflow', it is a nice addition to the series. Well, let me get back to the game. Running the Wildcat with Tebow.......... on the Patriots...........

Some guy named Bebe.

Manchester United has signed Bebe today. They paid 9 million dollars for him. Who exactly is he? Good question, as I dont know much about him myself.

Tiago Manuel Dias Correia, better known as Bebe is a 20 year old Portuguese striker who was playing for Vitoria de Guimaraes. Last season he was playing in the Portuguese Third Division with Estrela de Amadora, the club that produced Abel Xavier, Miguel Monteiro and Jorge Andrade.

The amazing thing about this transfer is that he has yet to play international soccer with Portugal. He has however played for Portugal in the Homeless World Cup!!

From the little that I have read about him, it seems that he is a forward with good pace and a good shot, he is good in the air, and can play either as a lone striker or as a left forward.

In the preseason with Vitoria, he scored five goals in as many games.

The future will tell us good this kid will be. Could he be the striker that Portugal needs? Time will tell us.

Danilo Pereira

Newspapers in Portugal, Italy and England have reported that young Benfica starlet Danilo Pereira is headed to Italy as Milan, Udinese, and Fiorentina are interested. Danilo has ended his contract with the club which means that he will be able to leave on a free transfer. Benfica will still receive some compensation as he is a product of Benfica's youth academies. Per FIFA rules, any time a player leaves, the club that produced him receives a small fee, usually about

150,000$. I am not concerned about the money, the problem is that why is Benfica allowing a player with so much potential to leave the club without giving him a run with the first team.

Danilo has already played with the Portugal under 17, and under 19 teams. He was even named in the list of 11 best players in the European under 19 championships this summer.

He is being compared to a young Claude Makelele, this should give you an idea of how high he is rated. I bet if he had gone to Sporting or even Arsenal as a kid, he would be playing for them already. Its sad that Benfica wastes these players. There are others such as Ruben, Nelson Oliveira, and Abel Pereira. I think its about time we give some of these kids a chance.