pain followed by glory is true glory

glory on a plate undeserved is hollow glory FUKING BRASIL

If the club stop Leo from playing, I promise you I will complain to Laporta (not that he will care, but there is a principle at issue).

Barcelona will have to play the qualifying stages of the Champions League in August.

Messi said he would love to do both things (Olympics and UCL Qualy).

I say: “Enough with this UCL crap, Lionel! You are going to play the Olympics probably once in your lifetime -as an U23-. Barcelona will probably face Wisla Cracow, AZ Alkmaar or a similar low profile team in that stage. Come on now, go to Beijing and stop this nonsense”.

“If you really want to seduce the Argentina fan, do what Carlitos Tevez did in Athens and you’ll be up there with him in their hearts.”

Seba, not sure who they will be at this stage. They are most likely to be attacking players with the outside chance of Harry Kewell being part of the squad. Tim Cahil, is a possibility depending on his recovery from injury.

And Messi desperately wants to win something after what has been an enormously frustrating year for him.

They are going to be very hard to stop, but then it looked that way in the Copa America as well.

Anyway…about Messi, you knew he was going to Beijing!

And so is Agüero (who has been brilliant for Atletico Madrid).

And so is Riquelme (who single-handedly won the Copa
Libertadores last season for Boca).

And so is Mascherano (who at the time of writing -5 AM in Liverpool- is surely chasing somebody up and down the field!).

And so is Higuain (who scored Real Madrid’s La-Liga-winning goal at Osasuna)

And, happily for us, Argies, I could go on and on and on forever with this message.

By the way, Neil, any idea on whom will be the 3 over-23 players that will go to Beijing to represent the Socceroos?

I look forward to see Tim Cahill in that tournament as he is one of my favourite players from the Premier League and he was absolutely fantastic for Australia in Germany 2006. I love how he seems to have a knack to score goals in the very last second of the match. He did it against Japan, he did it against Luton in one cup competition (I think it was Luton), he did it against Chelsea with an over-head kick and he did it many many other times.

Which over-23 players would you pick?

As an Australian we were already sweating. Now its a downpour.

They have an impressive squad too. Anderson, Lucas Leiva, Alexandre Pato, Thiago Neves (Fluminense), Rafinha (Schalke) and the three over-23 players will of course be very strong too.

As for Racing…well…not only we have to suffer with Blanquiceleste and the promedio…we have to endure watching the worst squad we had in years. Well…I can certainly say this is the worst squad I’ve ever seen in 31 years and I doubt there was a worse one before that.

It’s just amazing how they all got together at Racing at the same time and how we all, fans, have to suffer the fact of watching them week in, week out. We have no hope. This is desperate and the players don’t seem to realise.