One of my fondest memories as a Madridista: The Champions League final (2000) in Paris against Valencia. It was the first time two teams from the same country had met in the final. The line-ups that day: Real Madrid: Casillas, Helguera, Karanka, Ivan Campo, Salgado, Roberto Carlos, Redondo (C), Mcmanaman, Raul, Anelka, Morientes Valencia: Canizares, [...]
Archive for April, 2009
Reminiscing… Good times in Paris
Posted: April 22, 2009 in soccer, SportsTags: Anelka, Campo, Canizares, Casillas, Champions league, Helguera, Karanka, Mcmanaman, Mendieta, Morientes, Paris, Raul, Real Madrid, Redondo, Roberto Carlos, Salgado, Spain, Stade de France, Valencia
Pipita – A legend in the making
Posted: April 22, 2009 in soccer, SportsTags: Albin, Cannavaro, Casquero, Drenthe, Gago, Getafe, Gonzalo Higuain, Guti, Iker Casillas, Juande Ramos, la liga, Pepe, Pipita, Raul, Real Madrid, Real Madrid - Getafe highlights, Santiago Bernabeu, Sergio Ramos
Pipita – FTW! You can’t say enough about Gonzalo Higuain. His passion and determination has won the hearts of Madridista’s all around the World. Once again, in the midst of a horrible Real Madrid performance today, he took the team into his own hands and scored two goals (one of them in injury time to win [...]
A good day in the Champions League.
Posted: April 8, 2009 in soccer, SportsTags: Adebayor, Arsenal, Carlos Tevez, Champions league, Dragao, England, FC porto, Lisandro, Madrigal, Manchester United, Marcos Senna, Mariano Gonzalez, Old Trafford, Portugal, Spain, Villareal, Wayne Rooney
Manu-Porto/Villareal-Arsenal. It was an easy choice for me today to decide which game I wanted to watch. I mean, Manu was clearly going to destroy Porto in a painful fashion (who wants to see that?). Being a Spanish/La Liga supporter and all, it was a nobrain-er. What a game at the Madrigal! Two of the underdogs [...]
Real Madrid vs. Manchester United. Epic.
Posted: April 4, 2009 in soccer, SportsTags: 2000, 2003, Champions league, David Beckham, Fernando Hierro, Flavio Conceicao, Guti, Iker Casillas, Ivan Helguera, Luis Figo, Macmanaman, Makelele, Manchester United, Michel Salgado, Paul Scholes, Raul, Real Madrid, Redondo, Rio Ferdinand, Roberto Carlos, Ronaldo, Ruud Van Nistlerooy, Ryan Giggs, Veron, Zinedine Zidane
This is a video I made last year dedicated to Madrid’s dominance over Manu in the 4 times they’ve met in the last decade. Enjoy.