September 26, 2009
Round One of the group stages of the Champions League dominated the weekend, but there were a few stories that developed this weekend that are very interesting.
Emmanuel Adebayor was handed a 3-game ban for the violent conduct charge he received against Arsenal. He will miss games against Manchester United, West Ham, and Aston Villa. Adebayor originally protested his innocence of the charge but has since accepted it and will not contest the sentence. Good riddance to him. That means both he and Carlos Tevez will miss the Man U game, a huuuge rivalry.
Valencia striker David Silva is yet again hinting that he’d like to leave his current club for somewhere else, and his most recent target, apparently, is Man United. The English giant has been eyeing Sliva for a while, but he has yet to take the initiative and leave Valencia. The 23-yr-old says a move to Man U would be “hard to resist.” I’ll freely admit that I want Silva and David Villa out of Valencia. they need to be on better clubs where they can play with more talent. However, I will not permit a move to United. It would break my heart to see one of my favorite Spanish internationals at one of my least favorite club teams.
Diego Maradona is oh so much closer to losing his job as head coach of the Argentina national team. According to sources, he was scheduled to meet with Julio Grondona, president of the Argentinian Football Association, and Maradona took off to an Italian spa with his girlfriend (Maradona has a girlfriend? How is he off the market and I’m still on it?). Word on the street is that Grondona was going to try and give Maradona an assistant, which Maradona refuses to have. Grondona is also the technical director of the team, and Maradona refuses to let him near the team to give suggestions. He’s facing immense pressure from his country, who have largely turned against the former giant (although physically he’s still giant) and something obviously has to be done for Argentina.
Tags: diego maradona, Games, google, Soccer, blog
