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This week has been marked by the friendly arrangements for the World cup of South Africa, emphasizing, how it could not be otherwise, the France – Spain. In my post on the party I left in the inkwell the reactions of the French press (we all read the Spaniard, more or less, and we are interested in every day less). And so, I will begin this new delivery of Phrases of Soccer with three of the holders most emphasized from the mass media of beyond the Pyrenees:

L’Equipe: Another world.

France Football: A Spanish lesson.
Him Parisien: Bleus were defeated by them to them by a Spanish selection at a height of his reputation.

And I finish with the declarations of the seleccionador, Raymond Domenech, who seems that it has discovered the gunpowder, and the captain, Tierry Henry, who lived in his meats through the powerlessness that there feel many of the rivals who play against his team:

I confirm that Spain is an authentic favorite for the World cup. We knew the quality of his game and of his players and we have confirmed it.

It is very nice to see Spain for the TV, but playing against them it is impossible to take the ball from them … It is impossible to take it from him.

Xavi Hernández knows very well how dangerous it is to stop that they hang the favorite’s vitola to you and has wanted to contribute his sand granite to brake the euphoria:

I have gone to two World cups and without having gained anything they have always given to us like favorites. He imagines now after having gained an Euroglass. It is good that the people bear us in mind but in World Spain has not done yet anything. We cannot put ourselves pressure for gaining the Euroglass and being more favorite than other teams that they have gained the World cup other times.

We return to France but not to continue with the rattle, but to emphasize a few words of big Zinedine Zidane, speaking on the origin of his love for the soccer, in an exclusive interview of ‘The Country’:

The soccer begins being played in the street, there you learn that you are not alone in the world and that there are others who want the same that you, who can help you if you help them. I like seeing the tennis, but it might not have done a career in the tennis. I like being with the partners. When you exchange things with others, you improve.

Monchi, in addition to a crack piece without comparison in the world of the signings, is a guy with personality who does not speak very much but, when it does it, it deserves to be listened. Before the noise of the press of Madrid in search of destabilizing the rivals of his announced favorite contacts for future signings, which proper Real Madrid does not deny to take advantage of the conjuncture, has said the following thing in reference to the supposed interest of the club meringue for Jesus Navas:

The news has a birth, a development and a later phase. We are going to see his trip, once the Saturday party happens. If it continues, we will give him more contained to that that we think many from which, in certain parties, there always arises the interest of some player that, by chance, I say that thing about by chance with irony, he is going to be a rival of Madrid shortly.

In the first return Madrid already loved Perotti; with the Athletic, to Javi Martínez; with the Racing, to Channels; with the Barcelona, the clauses of Messi and Iniesta become more accessible.

I continue with a pair of Spanish trainers who are doing a few big periods with the humble wickers which they have. The first one, Miguel Ángel Lotina, is not satisfied with the game of his team and, after the victory of the Dépor on the Xerez, he wanted to make the above mentioned point clear:

The team has to go a long way more. It is inexcusable that now we do not play football, because the situation is the most comfortable of the First Division since we do not have the demand of entering either Europe or pressure the descent. If we do not play well it is a shot sticks.

And as regards the fact of which the Dépor plays with the teams that have done the proper thing with Madrid in the previous day, he declared the following thing, quite inside a quite sarcastic tone:

Madrid is hurting us very much. In the first return the whole world was playing well against them, although then they were losing, and were coming as more convinced to play before the Dépor. Now not, now Madrid is crushing the rivals and they want to demonstrate these before us who are not so bad. He would ask him to Madrid to lower a little the piston if it is possible …

And next three fragments of different declarations of the good one of Juanma Lillo, a little long but the fact is that they have no loss:

On the party against the Barca: If it is possible to keep on supporting both things (good game and results) and especially the first thing as vehicle to support the second thing, this is what we would like, still knowing obviously that we are going to play against the enemy with whom it is more difficult to support during more time the initiative because only there is a ball and normally they (…) usually have it Against the Barca it is not played as he loves, but as one can.

On Pep Guardiola: Pep, for some, is good for the results that it has obtained, when Pep is good in himself. It is very good, apart from being an exceptional person up to Lima (…) He Is a trainer for 37 years, what it spends is that for the way it played football …

On André Iniesta and cía: It is the best of the world. I believe that the others have more dependency on him that he of the others and that harmonizes very much everything what happens. The people express themselves better when he is that when not. Xavi is different that it improves constantly the conditions of the game, but if he listens to this Messi seizes you and divides you in two, because his capacity so that the parties fall down and all this collective game has where he has to have sense, which is in the scoreboard, like him nobody.

We come in the end with one of these soccer personajillos that can only exist in Spain after centuries and centuries of evolution. Only this way it is understood that the whole country has between his most memorable phrases that of an umpire to his linier. Yes, I speak about Rafa Guerrero, alias: ‘Rafa, do not fuck me!’. The most famous linier of the last quarter of century has wanted to break a spear in favor of a partner, the fact that this weekend will see the day between yogures and beer canisters, and has made me calmer to me (I do not know if to Relaño and Hindu …):

Iturralde will not decide the League.

And La Perla of the Day is for one of the ugliest persons of the world of the soccer. So, so ugly that neither the engineers of Pro Evolution nor those of the Fifa have achieved that the face of his incarnation in the games does justice to the reality: there do not exist possible binary combinations that could draw anything so complex like the face of Carlos Tévez, The Apache. Also, it seems to me that very ready it is not, because his words aim at that feels proud of something that should give him shame:

In Argentina, Terry would be dead.