Real are the youngest team first
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Except for the signing of Carvalho (32), done to reinforce one behind where the Portuguese coach wanted an experienced player, the rest of hiring has rejuvenated significantly to Madrid: Channels (19), Ozil (21) Di María ( 22), Pedro Leon (23) and Khedira (23). This, coupled with the departures of veterans like Raul, Guti and Metzelder, has meant that the white template is the youngest of first division, closely followed by Espanyol.
The inexperience of the team is a challenge for Mourinho. Already in preseason, the coach publicly stated that one of his goals was to complete the formation of any of the signings, especially Ozil & Channels: "I have to help them make their maximum potential. It is a commitment to both mine and yours that do not impede its growth. " So far it has not trembled pulse to bet on them and other young people like Higuain, Di Maria and Pedro León Mateos.
Novice to power. Kaka after injury makers the game of Madrid, at least in the first half of the season, will be the two youngest players in the squad: Channels and Ozil. It is precisely in the area of attack where all the players accumulates Madrid younger age, while the oldest player will remain, for the third year followed, Polish Dudek.
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Lahm accepts captaincy snub
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Stand-in skipper Philipp Lahm has insisted he has no problem with Joachim Low's decision to retain Michael Ballack as permanent Germany captain.
Lahm was given the armband for the World Cup
in South Africa
after Ballack
was ruled out with an ankle injury.
Ballack remains absent for Friday's opening Euro 2012 qualifier against Belgium but Low has made it clear he will keep the role when fit again.
Lahm, who will lead the side out in Brussels on Friday, stated during the World Cup that he would not surrender the captaincy unless asked to do so.
He maintains that he will respect Low's wishes, although his immediate focus is on making a strong start on the long road to Poland and Ukraine.
"You have to accept such decisions," said Lahm, who led Germany to third place in the South Africa finals.
"Now it is up to me to lead the team again in the next two games as captain.
"I am looking forward to it and I have the confidence of the players around me and I am looking forward to leading them."
Klose
hope
Miroslav Klose is another senior figure in the Germany squad and the striker is already looking beyond Euro 2012 to the next World Cup.
Klose had hinted during the summer that he might be about to retire from international football but he is now thinking about playing for four more years.
The Bayern Munich man will be 36 in 2014 but he is feeling good at the current time and sees no reason why he could not make the trip to Brazil.
"I think I can still play at top level for a few more years. I am only 32 and that's not so old," he told the German football federation website.
"Why should I not be there (in Brazil) if I am still fit and in form in four years time?"
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Bulgaria won't provoke Rooney
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But the Bulgaria boss has called for referee Viktor Kassai The 24-year-old is known for his fiery temperament and has been subject to provocations from international rivals ever since his red card against Portugal in the 2006 World Cup. In last month's friendly win over Hungary, Rooney And Stoilov wants the Hungarian official to ensure the Manchester United Stoilov said: "Rooney has great skills. I have to teach my players how to stop him on the pitch, not how to provoke him. "That is not the style of the Bulgarian national team who have come over here to play fairly. "But if Rooney is nervous because of his lack of goals, he should be punished if he is too aggressive." Stoilov insists his team will look to take the game to England, but the Bulgaria coach admits avoiding defeat will be his primary aim. He added: "We are not coming to Wembley just to defend. "In a game like this, a win for us would be the perfect result but we hope not to lose. "We have to fight to achieve that goal but we will try to play football and, in a game like this, you never know." to protect his player should the Three Lions
front man lose his cool in Friday evening's clash at Wembley.
suffered boos from some sections of the Wembley crowd for a disappointing World Cup in which he failed to score in four matches.
ace does not overstep the line in his bid to beat the jeers.
Aggression
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Mourinho and Barcelona Passions It sold out at the Camp Nou for the visit of Madrid next November 27/28.
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Still remain about two months for the Real Madrid give up visit to Camp Nou to be measured at Barcelona, however, fans culés and burn with desire to see Mourinho and his men by the Catalan stage. And that raises passions Luso between a hobby that fears and hates him equally.
Barcelona have put on sale this morning tickets for the league and Champions League this season, however, the first to run out, interestingly, were those of the Barcelona-Real Madrid next November 27/28 .
In less than two hours the fans had left all that was available and no more locations will again offer until days before enceuntro. A good example of that classic of the season is still dragging fans and supporters, to which is added the presence of a Mourinho that every time he goes to Barcelona, leaves no one indifferent.
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Ramos: "Central or Lateral? The important thing is to play"
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Sergio Ramos, usually both the right side and the Spanish team Real Madrid, was receptive to the possibility of occupying the center of the national team back in the game against Liechtenstein, before the recent declines in the post.
For Ramos' most important thing is to play. " "I have many years alternating the position of lateral and central. Lately I'm playing in the band, although casualties Puyol or Albiol could be the fact of playing in there," he said.
The defender recalled that the central position is a position that does not is unknown and which does well: "But I adapted to the needs of the group," said Sergio Ramos minutes after arriving in the Austrian town of Fieldkirch, where Spain will play host before the game against Liechtenstein, qualifying for Euro 2012 Poland and Ukraine.
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Carvalho is the successor of CR7
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The Real Madrid central Portuguese Ricardo Carvalho said today that in the absence of his compatriot Cristiano Ronaldo-injured his ankle, "the player" key "for Portugal's Nani, Manchester United winger.
Speaking to reporters, Carvalho, marked against Cyprus the captain's armband, he stressed that the Red Devils player has "technique and strength."
Regarding the game against the Cypriots, valid for Euro 2012, the former Chelsea player said the combined Luso "is required to give the best" and stressed the importance of maintaining the union on campus. "We have to make a good game and show professionalism to good start in qualifying," the defender said merengue, who acknowledged that the current state of selection "is not easy or ideal."
Luso coach Carlos Queiroz is serving six months for disrupting a drugs test by insulting supposedly on 16 May a team of doctors while they control by surprise selection at 0745 local time.
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