Why Kaka is different from Messi and Ronaldo

Funny thing about the so called best three in the world, while Kaka put’s consistent and awesome performances both in the club and on the national squad, the two wingers are in very commonly criticized by their displays when playing for caps and extremely attacked by their countryman’s.
Obviously, we can’t point their lack of will or suddenly loss of talent – because nobody wants more a win then the players that step up to field. So, what make the difference?

1 - Kaka plays with a bunch of players that are also world top stars – Júlio César, Maicon, Lúcio, Robinho or Luís Fabiano are in the elite of their respective positions – and while Messi and Ronaldo have some teammates that are also on top – Kun Agüero, Javier Mascherano, Ricardo Carvalho or Deco – all eyes are on this two stars. For media and opponent defenses when playing against Portugal or Argentina will basically try to stop CR9 and Messi – if you’re well succeed, you’ll secure at least one point.

2 – The position on field, Kaka is an old fashion playmaker, always on center field and all the players are eager to give him the ball, they now he’ll push the right cord to put the team in play. On the other end as wingers that usually go to the box, passing the ball to the Portuguese or Argentinean means the end of the road, they rarely pass the ball – or they score or they’ll put it thru the end line – adding more drama to Diego Maradona and Carlos Queiroz, because they’re both on a no-goal streak.

3 – A different mentality an approach to the game that makes Kaka a leader on the pitch and that tends to make Messi and Ronaldo a split factor. When things go poorly the Brazilian his the first to star on defending and trying to serve the other players with scoring opportunities, the two prima donnas never defend and all they’ll do when the team is in trouble is to try and solve everything on a sole way, marking direct free kicks from the center field, aiming for direct corners and other lame moves like that.

Tip: Without a doubt three of the best in the world but what can really explain Kaka’s high performance in Brazil, and Messi’s and Ronaldo’s poor ones on theirs national squads? We’ve heard Deco becoming offended on the Portuguese football chairman said they’ve increased the prize money, but we can’t stop from wondering…

The gentle art of making enemies by R.Madrid

Maybe inspired by Faith No More, the ‘merengues’ seem eager to make enemies a little bit all over Europe.
Every times Florentino Perez takes over the transfers of the Spanish side tend to dominate newspapers all over the world, but the real story is not the money he spent on players like Figo or Zidane or in second galactic generation Ronaldo and Kaka but the man’s that are being put away.
This weekend we saw funny things from some of those players.
Arjen Robben scored two goals in his debut for B.Munich and against German Champions Wolfsburgo. The winger then said: “I hope we find R.Madrid in the Champions League and I can score a double again”.
Wesley Sneijder – sharing team with Samuel Eto’o, Walter Samuel or Esteban Cambiasso – made is premier on Inters starting eleven and according to José Mourinho will be a cornerstone on the ‘nerazurri’ side for Serie A and CL’s campaign. After a cracking performance on AC Milan’s trashing said: “Real as treated me like a little boy, they don’t know how to treat the players and even the coach doesn’t seem to have any influence”.
On the other side of the San Siro battle was Klaas-Jan Huntelaar a young striker that also seems eager to face Madrid and score, on France we have Gabriel Heinze, on Portugal Javier Saviola and Javier Garcia, in England Michel Salgado – the one that seems to have parted way in mutual accordance. That’s the truth wherever they look, the ‘merengues’ will find a swear enemy. Well, they can always look to Barcelona… nowadays there’s no former R.Madrid in the ‘blaugrana’. Well but they don’t need that to hate Real Madrid.

What about R.Madrid off list

While the world look astonished about Kaká, CR7 and a couple of more buys, the clubs managers from several leagues gaze upon the list of players the merengues are letting go. Enormous talents such as Sneijder, Van der Vaart, Huntelaar or Nistelrooy can be bought out this summer at – probably – very interesting prices. When we look at the names referred in the newspapers we could easily do one of the world’s strongest elevens – so managers all over the world get to business.
Without any closed terms, there’s a lot of space to speculation. Believing in the newspapers, Huntelaar and Nistelrooy are almost certain in the Premier League. The younger of the strikers is set to play for the red devils, while the former devil will land at White Hart Line. All star players, the talks continue, with Van der Vaart betting in a return to Hamburg. But, besides that, what’s going to happen to Saviola, Sneijder, Heinze, Drenthe, Diarra or Robben.
Saviola seems to be in talks with Benfica and River Plate, with the Portuguese side trying to copy the Los Millionarios former duo Aimar-Saviola. Drenthe and Heinze are aiming their destiny to Italy and Diarra has been tipped by older club Lyon. That leaves us with the two most talented players of this awesome bunch Sneijder and Robben. Wanted by half of the teams in Europe, the two Dutch players need to find a suitable club that, somehow, can afford their massive salaries. In the end, it’s possible for them to stay at the Bernabeu, but with Real Madrid eager to make some money it´s probable they will part away. I’d bet Robben will return to England and that the powerful kicks of Sneijder will be used in a part exchange deal for ‘untransferable’ Ribéry.

Tip: With no deals closed, the list of players that Real Madrid will release this summer can make a bigger fuse around the European club managers than the astronomic buys of Cristiano Ronaldo or Kaká. There’s still time for any club to try and reach for the meringues sell out - Saviola, Sneijder, Heinze, Drenthe, Diarra, Robben, Huntelaar or Nistelrooy. It’s hard to pick, right?

Diego a smiling man in Germany

Talking to same friends after the last post, they’ve questioned ‘do you see Ribéry as the indisputable best player in Germany?’ No. Although always being difficult to point out only one name, if I’d had to do it, I will call Diego. The friendly Brazilian from Werder Bremen, has a constant capability to open spaces in the opponent defenses and can make the last pass or score a goal himself. Werder’s poor championship – currently in 10th – doesn’t affect the amazing offensive football Diego can produce.
With 1.75m/76kg, Diego Ribas da Cunha, 24 years old, is the typical number ‘10’. Being the playmaker in the great majority of Werder’s offensive moves, he plays most of the time in the last third of the field, receiving the ball from Thorsten Frings – the responsible for the first phase on the offensive of the German side. Using only his right foot, Diego possesses a rare ability to enter in the opponent’s area and shoots at goal always with space. He’s a master on finding a way to pass and his trademarks moves include a quick rotation over the ball, making the ball pass above the defenses and shooting in a karate way.
Formed in the well reputed Santos school, he has own the Brazilian championship in his last year with Santos (from 2001 to 04), has being pointed out in as the new Pelé, was the star in a team that had players like Man City’s Robinho and caught the attention of FC Porto – at the time European Champion. Playing for the Portuguese side in the next couple of years proved to be a mistake, while he was one of the fans favorites, his style of short pass and continuous play was a problem for coach Co Adriaanse (that came from Dutch side Az Alkmaar) that let Diego out in 2006 for the German team, with this reason ‘he’s an awesome player, but doesn’t now out to play in large spaces’. After almost one year without playing, he’d regained his confidence, was being called regularly to the National squad, and in the end was considered ‘Fussballspieler des Jahrer’ – Football player of the year.

Tip: This season, although Werder’s poor performances in the Bundesliga, Diego’s football his helping the team to a very good campaign in the Uefa Cup – they’ve dropped from the Champions League. For all this, I reckon the Brazilian has the best player in German championship. With the end of the season, the rumors point Diego to Real Madrid.

Cristiano Ronaldo with Real Madrid

The Manchester’s United winger/striker/pop star (whatever) seems to be the world for everyone at Madrid, if Marca assures that Cristiano Ronaldo will turn ‘merengue’ in July, the transfers theory’s are – by all means – just a little bit over the top. The last one say that Real Madrid will pay about 45 million Euros (nobody now’s the pound value in July so we didn’t bother making the conversion, but seems to way to cheap for one of Ferguson’s babies), but, obviously, like all Spanish newspapers dedicated to protect some interest that are some few twitches on the buy: beside de 45 millions, Real Madrid will accept the offer from Valência to purchase David Villa and David Silva for 40 million and will make them jump to Man.Utd.
True or only the theory’s of a madman, the next couple of months will show, at the moment we can only say: If Real Madrid offers 45 million Euros, plus David Villa, plus David Silva for CR7 we can only shout one thing – LET HIM GO.
He is awesome, but Villa and Silva are also world class in their respective positions. Villa is one of the most destroying forces in the National Team that has won the last European, with an ability to score goals from every angle (only loose to CR7 when it came to score header goals) and Silva is a creative player, excellent technique, capable of unlock any defense (in this matter, lacks the speed of the Portuguese, but has more capability to play in short spaces). In resume, none of them is the world’s greatest player, but both are very above the average as a striker or offensive midfielder.