SIGH TODAYS CLUBS DO NOT DEVELOP LEADERS ONTHE PITCH..

It is the honest truth here that clubs no longer develop players who were real leaders , who lead by example I would say. Gone are the days , when youngsters had a leader to look up to . Gone are the days of leaders like Roy Keane, Tony Adams, Patrick Vieira, Javier Mascheano, Javier Zanetti. Fernando Hiero. Martin Keown. I miss the fighting in the tunnel, between Patrick Vieira and Roy Keane, I remember Roy Keane taking a throw in, and intently throwing the ball on Alan shearer's face, and he got a red card. I remember Cesc Fabregas throwing a pie at Sir Alex Ferguson. I have seen Franz Beckenbauer playing a world cup with a hand in the sling. These players had class, skill determination and desire to win, once Javier Mascherano stretched his body so much to keep the ball in play, that he tore his anus even sadly, believe me these players are a vanishing breed. I remember Javier Zanetti during his time at Inter Milan, now there was a fear for the Brazilian Adriano, who was playing at Inter Milan, now after his father was murdered , Javier Zanetti could go into a depression, and Javier Zanetti phoned and saw that he was aware w here Adriano was. Like a fatherly figure. Can you show a single footballer who would spend so much time on youngsters. When Manchester United were playing Arsenal, and Manchester United were given a penalty, by referee Mike Riley. And Ruud Van Nistelrooy missed the penalty. And Martin Keown jumped and booed Ruud Van Nistelroy for missing tat penalty

WHEN SIX CLUBS WANTED TO BUY LIONEL MESSI FROM BARCELONA AT SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE.

When Lionel Messi was a seventeen year old six big clubs came asking to buy him from Barcelona. He was so good at that at seventeen yeas of age he was so good that once the famous Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho once introduced the late basketball legend Kobe Bryant, to a seventeen year old boy playing at Barcelona, Ronaldinho told Kobe Bryant, that this boy will one day be the greatest footballer In the world. 1) the Argentinean club River Plate refused to sign him saying that the club would not be spending money on buying youth as they had Gonzalo Higuaín and neither did they want to treat him for his hormone deficiency. 2) Glasgow Rangers of Scotland made two attempts to buy him out from Barcelona , but fell short of the actual price. 3) Juventus wanted to buy him after watching Barcelona thrashed Juventus. In fact after the match the two managers Franck Raijkard and Fabio Capello had a very urgent talk n buying Lionel Messi. And this is what Fabio Capello said of Lionel Messi, in all years as a footballer and a manager in Spain, Italy and England, I have never seen a seventeen year old boy with such a fire in the belly to get the ball, hold it and his dribbling, eye for a goal, his pace was far to good to be true as the saying goes in Spain seeing is believing , and believing is seeing. Barcelona never wanted to sell Lionel Messi. 4) Espanyol and the Argentinean manager Mauricio Pochettino wanted to buy Lionel Messi as well. 5) Arsenal to wanted to sign Lionel Messi, as Arsene Wenger , always had a eye for buying youngster. But failed in the deal same story they were not selling their diamond to any one. 6) Of all the clubs the Italian club Inter Milan came closest of hem all o buy Lionel Messi, in fact Inter Milan wee the only club that was willing to pay Barcelona the 176, one hundred and seventy six million buy out clause of Lionel Messi. Inter Milan tried to convince Lionel Messi that they had a few Argentineans playing for them like Hernan Crespo, Javier Zanetti , Paulo Zanetti But both Lionel Messi and Barcelona wee not selling their wizard to any club.

JAVIER ZANETTI THE ARGENTINEAN AND INTER MILAN DEFENDER SAYS THIS WAS HIS BIGGEST DEFEAT.

Javier zanetti was a Argentinean footballer and he played as captain for the Italian club Inter Milan, he played well over 800, eight hundred games for the club, Inter Milan then retired that jersey number which he wore for years permanently. The Brazilian Adriano joined Inter Milan, , he was then young, fast skilful, had plenty of pace as well. But he was born in a very dangerous area of Brazil , known for its robbers, gangsters , drug peddlers , drug lords, alcohol and prostitution was rampant there. And it was very, vey easy for youngsters to go astray here ,so Javier Zanetti kept an eye on the youngster and demanded to know where he was going in the nights. Adriano was the next best thing to happen in Brazilian football after Ronaldo and Ronaldinho . But then one day he, Adriano who was very, very close to his father , but one day there was a phone call from Brazil saying that Adriano's father was shot dead in Brazil, when Javier Zanetti went to Adriano , he gave a loud scream that even now gives Javier Zanetti Goosebumps . Javier Zanetti and Cordoba , spent the night and day with Adriano to help him out at this sad stage in life. But very sadly the football world lost a star to depression , so bad was it that Adriano went downwards only never to return to th days when he was called THE EMPERRPR at Inter Milan. Javier Zanetti says his biggest defeat was failing to pull Adriano out of his serious depression.

PABLO ZABALETA COULD JOIN INTER MILAN SOON...

The Argentinean right back Pablo Zabaleta , who is now 31 years old and is no longer getting a starting place with his club Manchester City . He is now trying to make a move to the Italian giants Inter Milan, who is now managed by the former Italian manager at Manchester City, Robert Mancini. Now the president of Inter Milan , is a former Argentinean player called Javier Zanetti, who flew down to the U.S.A, to personally speak with Pablo Zabaleta, and also to watch him play personally during the Copa AMERICA, now being played in the U.S.A. Manchester City have a new manager in Pep Guardiola , who may be wanting a far younger and pacer right back, and Manchester City , have made it very clear that they will not stand in his way , if he desires to move on. A.S.ROMA , The Italian club are also keen to sign him up soon.

LIONEL MESS NOW HAS A HUNDRED CAPS FOR ARGENTINA.

Lionel Messi who is only twenty seven years old has now played a hundred games for Argentina and he has scored forty six goals for Argentina. This still leaves him some way from the records here. Javier Zanetti holds they record for the most caps which stand at 146 games for Argentina. Gabrial Batistuta holds the record for the most goals for Argentina they stand at fifty four goals.

INTER MILAN TO RETIRE JERSEY NUMBER FOUR.

The Italian giants Inter Milan are now going to offically retire the famous jersey of the Inter Milan club, as it was worn by the Argentinean captain , Javier Zanetti who retired at the end of the last season after a long a glittering career, for the San Siro club. Back in Argentina he was told by football club River Plate that he was too weak to be a footballer. So he started cycling and delivering milk to become strong. He played well over eight hundred games for Inter Milan in a period of nineteen very long years. Now the president of Inter Milan announced the retirement of jersey number four for ever. Let me reminfd you that A.C.Milan retired jersey number three of Paulo Maldini few years ago.

TWO FOOTBALLERS WHO WERE REJECTED BY THEIR CLUBS BACK HOME

This is the story of two famous footballers who were rejected by their first clubs. 1) Robert Lewdawnski the lanky Polish striker , who was so skinny his first club in Poland,. He was told to put on a bit of weight, and they advised him to eat bacon sandwiches . 2) Javier Zanetti the Argentinean was rejected by his first clun Indipendente in Argentina for being to short. Javier Zanetti would go around on his bike selling milk, he put on height and strengthened his body and developed his stamina. At Inter Milan Massimo Morrati saw a cassette of Javier Zanetti playing, the ball was glued to the shoes, he then joined Inter Milan and has played over 360 matches for Inter Milan, only Poalo Maldini has paid more matches in those eighteen years. In the Champion League match between Real Madrid verses Borrussia Dortmund , Robert Lewandowski scored all the four goals in the win. It was the first time in a champion League that a single player scored four goals against Real Madrid.

RYAN GIGGS PLAYS 150 CHAMPION LEAGUE GAMES.

The Welsh footballer Ryan Giggs , who has played twenty one years for Manchester United and scored at least one goal each year, has now added another record to his name. He has now played one hundred and fifty matches for Manchester United in the Champion league. He now joins the group of other four footballers to do it.They are as follows. 1) Raul. 2)Javier Zanetti. 3) Clarence Seedorf. 4) Paulo Maldini. 5) Ryan Giggs.

BARCELONA VERSES INTER MILAN

Barcelona arrived at Milan to take on Inter Milan in the first leg of thesemi finals in the champion League. due to the volcanic ash , which came over many parts of Europe, leading to cancellations of air traffic ,Barcelona then made it to Milan by bus that took them a 14 hour journey, not the best way to prepare for football.The first goal was scored by Pedro for Barcelona in the 19th minute.Then the Dutch man Wesley Sneijder took a very good free kick to make it equal in the 30 th minute.Maicon then put Inter milan ahead in the 48th minute.Milito then put the nail on Barcelona coffin, in the 61st minute.
Now both Carles Puyol and Dejan Stankovic both picked up their second yellow cards so they will not play in the second leg.The credit for this result goes to Javier Zanetti who stuck to Messi like glue and bullied him to be almost a shadow. Mind you this is the same player who scored 4 goals verses Arsenal. But Morinho clearly admitted that his friend the volcano did its job well.

10 BEST FOOTBALLERS IN 2007 &2008.

This list is of best footballers in 2007 and 2008, from 31 to 40.
31) Florent Malouda. Chelsea.
32) Javier Zanetti. Inter Milan.
33) Jami Carragher. Liverpool.
34)David Beckham. A.c. Milan. And L. Galaxy.
35) Fernando Torres. Athletico. Madrid.
36)Dejan Stankovic. Inter Milan.
37) Danielle de Rossi. A.S. Roma.
38) Paul scholes. Manchester United.
39) lucho Gonzalez. F.c. porto.
40) Jujhino. Lyon.

10 TOP FOOTBALLERS WHO FAILED TO WIN THE CHAMPION LEAGUE.

There are many footballers who have missed out in winning the champion league medal in their illustrious careers. This is the list of the top 10 playerswho have not won the trophy.
1) Roberto Baggio.
2) Ronaldo Lima.
3) Gianluigi Buffon.
4) Dennis Bergkamp.
5) Pavel Nedved.
6) Frank Lampard.
7)Ruud Van Nistelroy.
8) Lillian Thuram.
9)Javier Zanetti.
10) Michael Ballack.
But please kindly note many of these players have reached the champion league final. Or they have only won the U.E.F.A. medal.

IVAN LUIS ZAMARONA. OR ZAZA.

Ivan Luis Zamarona was afamous Chilean footballer. He is one of the very few footballers from Chile to make it into Peles list of 124 best footballers ever. He along with his strike partner Marcelo Salas , made their name , playing for big clubs in Europe. Salas was the first Chilean to make a name in Argentina playing for RiverPlate.While Ivan Zamarona plaayed mainly in Spain and Italy. He started with Sevillea and played from1990- 1992.
He then moved to Real Madrid and played fotr them from 1992- 1996. He made a big impact there along with Michel Ladrup who was brought from Barcelona in a way similar to that of Luis Figo under the table deed.
For Real Madrid he played a total of 137 games and scored 77 goals. He won the the spanish championship, and the Copa del Rey cup.
He then moved to the Italian giants Intermilan and played for themfrom 1996- 2000. It was at Intermilan that he played along such big footballers as Ronaldo, Diego Simone, Javier Zanetti, andYouri Djorkaeff. At Intermilan Zamarona wore the number 9 jersey. It was then that Ronaldo joined Intermilan and was given the famous no 9 jersey.. So Ivan Zamarona decided to wear a jersey with a funny number it was 1+8. which also made the number 9. This is probably the only time a jersey has had such a numer.
He played along Marcelo Salas in the 1998 world cup in France, and between them they scored more then half the goals scored by Chile.
He won the Ibero American player in the year 1992-1993-1994-1995. This award is given to players Spanish and Portugeese speaking country footballers only.
He also won the Pichichi award during his Real Madrid days.It is given to the top scorer in spains La liga..