New post about stadiums and, taking advantage of the fact that we started this section talking about Old Trafford, we are going to continue in Manchester, but this time to talk about the Etihad Stadium, the stadium of the neighbouring Manchester City. It is a relatively modern stadium, it was opened for the Commonwealth games […]
In the previous post I published where I talked about Old Trafford I mentioned a plaque and a watch that commemorates a sad event that happened on the return from a match against Red Star and so, to begin this section I thought it was a good idea to talk about this club that touched […]
For this first post about football stadiums we are going to move to Manchester, in the northwest of England, to talk about Old Trafford, the stadium of one of the most important clubs in Europe, Manchester United. Old Trafford is the second largest stadium (76,000 spectators) in the UK after Wembley (90, 000 spectators) and […]
New entry, and this time we put our focus on Russia to talk about Andrey Arshavin, an attacking midfielder capable of dribbling all the players ahead of him. I discovered this player at the Euro 2008 held in Austria and Switzerland (I think most of people discovered him there), where he arrived carrying two games […]
Manuel Rui Costa, one of the most elegant midfielders I can remember, is part of that class of players who expect something to happen when the ball reaches their feet, that’s why he was called O Maestro. He began his professional career at Benfica, the club he loves, winning a league and a Portuguese cup […]
This first post is dedicated to the legendary English striker Alan Shearer. Alan Shearer scored more than 260 goals in Premier League between Shouthampton, Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United where he’s an authentic legend and where he developed the most of his football career, although the only title of Premier League he got was with […]
