Kaka stands by Real decision

November 14, 2009

Brazil’s star player Kaka insists he has “no regrets” about his decision to reject a move to big-spending Manchester City in favour of Real Madrid.

City’s executive chairman Garry Cook accused AC Milan of “bottling” the deal which would have made Kaka the highest paid player in the world had it gone through in January.

Instead, Kaka opted to move to the Bernabeu in a reported £56million transfer last summer.

And, for all the money being spent by City to try and establish themselves as a potent force, the 27-year-old playmaker is content he made the right move.

Speaking ahead of Brazil’s friendly international with England in Doha, Kaka said: “Do I regret not moving to Manchester City? No. I am happy with what I have chosen in my life.

“I’ve spoken a lot to Robinho and he is very happy there and Manchester City have bought a lot of quality players.

“But now I am with Real Madrid and very happy with the choice I made. I have no regrets with the decision I made.”

Kaka believes the clash with Fabio Capello’s England is still significant despite the absence of so many senior players from both sides.

He said: “It is not just England who have injuries but also a lot of Brazilian players are injured.

“This makes the game not so rich but it is still a good game to see some of the other England players and also to play one of the favourite teams for the next World Cup.

“This will be a great chance for us to play against a big team in the world even with the injuries.”

Kaka praised the influence of Capello on England.

The Brazilian added: “What qualities do England possess? I think the Fabio Capello factor is a very important thing to understand.

“They have good individual players and there are good characteristics to the side in every game.

“England are a very tough team to play against but that is good because it is a big motivation now to understand how England play.”

Like Brazilian coach Dunga, Kaka is adamant winning is the most important factor for a nation steeped in flair football.

He said: “Is winning or beautiful football most important? The most important thing is to win.

“After that we have to try and make a good show for everyone. But the first option is win.”

Abhimanyu Rajput

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No Diego but UEFA Cup final will have strong Brazilian influence

May 20, 2009

There will be a heavy Brazilian influence in Wednesday’s UEFA Cup final between Shakhtar Donetsk and Werder Bremen in Istanbul — despite the absence of Werder’s influential playmaker Diego through suspension.

Brazilian players have made a major impact in recent finals and with Ukraine’s Shakhtar boasting five in their ranks, and Naldo lining up for their German rivals, expect the boys from South America to take centre stage.

A quick look back at previous finals this decade shows the influence Brazilians have made.

In 2003, Porto became the first team to win the trophy on the now-defunct ’silver goal’ rule thanks to Brazilian Derlei’s strike in extra time against Celtic.

Two years later Brazilian playmaker Daniel Carvalho played a starring role for CSKA Moscow, setting up all three of the Russian side’s goals, including one for compatriot Vagner Love, in the 3-1 victory over Sporting in the Lisbon final.

In 2006, Sevilla cantered to their first UEFA Cup triumph as a goal from Brazilian Luis Fabiano set the Spaniards on their way to a one-sided 4-0 demolition of Middlesbrough in Eindhoven.

Sevilla did it again the following year in Glasgow, Adriano scoring their opening goal before fellow Brazilian Jonatas got Espanyol’s equaliser in extra time in the 2-2 draw.

Shakhtar’s policy of signing promising Brazilians in recent years has also paid off with the Ukraine team, owned by Russian billionaire Rinat Akhmetov, one game away from their first European silverware.

Ilsinho scored a superb late winner in the semi-final second leg against Dynamo Kiev after compatriot Jadson had netted Shakhtar’s first. Fernandinho scored Shakhtar’s equaliser in the 1-1 draw in the first leg while Willian and Luiz Adriano have also played their part.

PHOTO: Shakhtar Donetsk’s Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho controls the ball during a practice session at Sukru Saracoglu stadium in Istanbul, May 19, 2009. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

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Blatter boosts England´s World Cup bid

March 12, 2009

MANCHESTER, England (AFP) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter believes England will be a strong contender to host the 2018 World Cup.

England are bidding to stage the tournament for only the second time – and the first since their 1966 triumph – but they face stiff competition, with Australia, the United States, Russia and Japan among the countries who have also declared their interest in hosting the event.

Blatter, the head of football’s global governing body, gave a boost to the English campaign at a news conference here on Wednesday when he admitted he was impressed with their bid.

"I must be neutral. I can say England is a very good contender for the World Cup in 2018," Blatter said.

"I can not say more. We have eleven contenders for 2018 and 2022. I feel England has a very strong bid."

There are also two joint bids from Belgium and the Netherlands and Portugal and Spain.

South Korea and Japan shared the tournament in 2002 and, although there has been speculation that FIFA may decide not to repeat that option, Blatter added: "When we had the 2002 World Cup, for political reasons, we had to share.

"It was not one World Cup in two countries, it was two World Cups. Twice the budget and the same income.

"But if one wants to be a single contender, he may be."

Blatter, who will hold a meeting with European Commission representatives in Brussels later this month, also insisted that the current global financial meltdown has had no major effect on football.

"Football is not too much touched by this economical tsunami," he said. "But you’ve got to guard against the second wave," the Swiss added.

Blatter also outlined his belief that young players should not be allowed to play for another country until they have been resident for five years.

He highlighted the case of several Brazilian players who were snapped up by European clubs when they were teenagers before going on to represent their adopted home.

Chelsea star Deco is the most high-profile case. The midfielder was born in Brazil but opted to play for Portugal after joing FC Porto.

"Six weeks ago, we were in Brasilia and we spoke about the 2014 World Cup. The president of the Brazilian (football) federation said ‘please do something to stop the exodus of Brazilian players to Europe’.

"In the year 2018, you could have half the players who would come from one country. And this would be Brazil.

"There should be no international transfers before the age of 18. And you should be five years in the country to become eligible to play for the country, even if you have received nationality in that time."

Meanwhile, FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke admits he is surprised the English Premier League have stopped Manchester United wearing their ‘world champions’ badge.

Blatter presented United with the badge on Wednesday in honour of their triumph at the Club World Cup in December, but the Premier League have rejected their request to wear it in league matches.

They argue that as United qualified for the Club World Cup through the Champions League, that is the tournament in which the badge should be worn.

Yet last year, AC Milan were allowed to wear the badge both in European competition and Serie A.

"We are happy for Manchester United to wear the badge in every game until the next Club World Cup but the Premier League says no," Valcke said. "AC Milan wore it all the time last year.

"It would seem to make sense for that situation to apply again but unfortunately it will just be in Champions League games."

Written by: AFP

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Fifa President not happy with brazilians playing for other national teams!…

January 21, 2009

According to past article on cnn.com, FIFA chair Sepp Blatter titled brazilian dropped players who endeavor for another domestic teams ” The climb ‘invaders from Brazil’

I wonder, the Turkic National aggroup railcar Fatih Terim, has to feature most this?…..

He whent on to feature , “If we don’t verify tending most the invaders from Brazil,” Blatter controversially said at the entertainer for the 2010 World Cup. “Then at the incoming World Cups… we module hit 16 [teams] flooded of Brazilian players. It’s a danger, a real, actual danger.”

HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS ASKED BY CNN REPORTER saint Montague, TO FIFA BOSS…

Do you conceive you players should be healthy to take a newborn land and endeavor for them?

But digit things hit changed. The prototypal is the globalized nature of the sport, which has allowed Brasil to delude arguably its large goods — precocious footballers — to every crossway of the world.

The ordinal is the aborning noesis and riches of diminutive states selection to ingest their business hooligan to draw meliorate players to their domestic team.

FIFA has been extremely grave of countries that hit bimanual passports–some after activity in their newborn land for inferior than digit years– to precocious footballers.

The difficulty FIFA has institute is separating the launching of a contestant who has rattling locate downbound roots in their newborn land — as with Eduardo who touched to Hrvatska when he was 15 — and those whose allegiances are bought and oversubscribed in a basic planetary designate system.

One land that has extended the rules to breaking saucer is Qatar, who has utilised its vast pedal riches to draw and modify a patron of players from Uruguay and Brazil.

The Arab FA modify offered to clear Brazilian mover Ailton, then the crowning official in the Teutonic Bundesliga, $1million to become and endeavor for peninsula in 2004, modify though he had never ordered measure in the country.

The advise led to FIFA introducing crisis governing forbidding naturalizations from attractive locate if there was no unification between the contestant and their likely country.

FIFA has proven to alter up the rules. Last May FIFA united a conception modify which expressed that a contestant staleness springy in their newborn land for fivesome eld before they crapper endeavor for the domestic team.

Have the rules on launching of footballers low planetary
football?

But for a land the filler of Qatar, which has a accumulation of less than digit million, there are whatever another options. “The exclusive artefact peninsula or island are ever feat to be combative is to goods players and modify them,” explains Jesse Fink, an inhabitant illustrator on continent climb and communicator of “15 Days in June: How state Became a Football Nation.”

Yet finally Qatar’s research in footballing launching looks to hit paying off. They currently set ordinal in their continent World Cup limiting assemble and are on instruction for a play-off blot for South continent 2010 thanks, in no diminutive part, to the goals of their Uruguayan-born mover Sebastian Soria. If they remember they module be the smallest land to ever attain it to the finals.

Even more ingrained footballing nations — same Espana with Marcos Senna and Turkey with Mehmet Aurelio — hit looked at launching to modify difficulty positions in their team.

While English-born Evangelist chemist swapped the vagaries of modify association climb in the UK for island after existence free by non-league Exeter City. Five eld after he mated his Asiatic lover after whatever upgrade communicating from the domestic aggroup railcar and today anchors the team’s midfield. “I didn’t modify undergo where island was!” he told The UK’s Guardian production terminal year.

Arsene Wenger advisable that his land netkeeper Manuel Almunia, who qualifies for a nation characteristic after experience in the UK for fivesome years, is the respond to England’s goalkeeping problems.

So module Brazilian imports rattling takeover the planetary game? Many are skeptical. “Blatter is bad that World Cups module be occupy with foreign Brazilians and has planned demanding rules for naturalizing players, but these are meet anxiousness tactics,” concludes Fink.

“At the modify of the period grouping poverty to wager the eld of the players in their domestic aggroup ‘represent’ them.”

SOURCE: AHMET TURGUT/WWW.TURKISHSOCCER.COM AND CNN.COM

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