Archief - Buitenlands voetbal 2010 - 2011

Volderke zei:

BAARRRETOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Gavin zei:

Zaragoza - Malaga 1-5 bij de rust. Ben eens benieuwd naar de goals.

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John Doe zei:

Evander Sno (Ajax, vroeger Celtic) is net geveld door een hartaanval tijdens een wedstrijd met Jong Ajax.

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Thaisho zei:

pfff , na 5j weeral geen winst tegen die gehate Losc

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By the end of the first month the others had given up, unable to take any more, but he stuck it out – lying exposed and alone in the dark, 25km outside Asunción. At the tiny Estadio Ypané, a makeshift bed of blankets and cardboard lay in a stairwell beneath the stand, at the mercy of tropical heat and tropical storms. The boy from San Joaquín was 15 when he arrived; almost two years later, he was still there. Homeless, sleeping rough. He says it was "hell", "frightening and horrible." 250km away, his parents, poor land workers, were none the wiser: he never told them. By night, he paced about, drank cane liquor – "I was almost an alcoholic" – and slept. Or tried. By day, he did shifts at a sawmill. When there was work going. Which wasn't often.


That wasn't all he did. Nelson Antonio Haedo Valdez also played football, training with the Estadio Ypané's other tenants, second division side Atlético Tembetary – quite literally his home team. He had a promise to keep: his mother cried when Laurent Blanc knocked Paraguay out of the 1998 World Cup, so he vowed to make amends by scoring at the World Cup himself. And although he says he was "never a very good player", he has certainly never lacked character. Or heart. This is the man who, gun in hand, chased off thieves stealing his car and ran into his blazing home to save his dog; the man who sends €10,000 (£8,285) a month to his home town, where a community depends on him, and buys presents for 1,500 kids every Christmas.


The fact that these days he can owes much to a man called Jurgen Born, who worked for Deutsche Bank in Latin America. Thanks to him, instead of continuing to live under the stands like a troll under a bridge, Valdez crossed to Europe. "I saw a madman who never stopped running," Born remembers of youth team games in Ypané. One day he bought Valdez a ticket to Germany and got on the phone to Werder Bremen. They had no idea who he was but the president's wife, a fellow Paraguayan, convinced them to give Valdez a chance. He scored four times in his first game.


Yet while Valdez went from Werder Bremen's youth team to the first team, winning the league in 2003-04, while he played for his country and went from Borussia Dortmund to Spain this summer, becoming the most expensive player in Hércules' history, at €3.8m, he has rarely proven a prolific goalscorer. Generous and tireless, with shoulders almost as broad as his head, running through from deep, dropping off the front, focused more on aiding others, goalscoring has rarely been his role. He got a goal every four games for Bremen, 16 in 113 for Dortmund and nine in 38 for Paraguay. And when he did fulfil the promise he made his mother, against Spain in South Africa, they only went and took the goal off him. And a semi-final place with it.


On Saturday night, Valdez took revenge. Nine weeks later, nine years after he last lived under Atlético Tembetary's stands, Valdez got his goal. His goal -suh. Two of them. And not just any goals, either. Massive ones. The goals that sunk Xavi and Piqué, Iniesta, Pedro and Villa. Implausible goals. Impossible ones.

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massief zei:

Er is nog een kans voor Feyenoord hé !
Ow, wacht .

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Thaisho zei:

Wat heeft Feyenoord te maken met Losc Lille ?

Heb het over RcL Lens die al 5j thuis niet meer kan winnen van die k"t Lille

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