Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Now the Silly Season Begins


Now that the Champions League game is over, we can get into all the rumors of who is going to transfer to what team. The hottest and first rumor out of the gate is that Kaka (real name as born Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite) will move from AC Milan to Real Madrid for a whopping 65 million Euros, well now is just a rumor and we have to wait until probably after Brazil's important 2 World Cup 2010 Qualifying games.


Well the UEFA Champions League Final was a great game as long as you were not a Manchester United fan. Wow the first 10 minutes it looked like a totally different game, with a great chance for Ronaldo in the first minute, but from when Eto'o scored in the 10th minute until the last whistle. As an adopted Barca fan for the game, i must say I totally enjoyed it, and have to say the Spanish midfield duo of Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta were amazing controlling the pace and tempo of the game.


This summer there is still some soccer to look forward to, this weekend the first team might be able to punch their ticket to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. If Australia simply win against Qatar then they are in, and the whole Asia group will be wrapped up by end of June.


The Europe group should show some clarity by the end of June with some teams almost locks and some team elimiated.

The USA team have a big 2 games coming up, tonight vs Costa Rica in Costa Rica a place we have never won a game, while we can't book our place until September at the earliest we can go a long way for sure.


Well until then, it will be a bunch of transfer rumors, and wondering if said player is worth that many millions of dollars, pounds, euros. Even in this recession, football is not feeling it and i expect to see some mind boggling numbers thrown around for good, great and even some washed up players.