PRE - SEASON FRIENDLY GAMES: HANNOVER 96 - 3 REAL MADRID - 0

REAL MADRID lost its pre-season friendly match against
HANNOVER 96 by 3 goals to 0. Real Madrid started well but missed

clear chances early, like Higuaín below, that allowed Hannover to
grow. The Germans physical strenght then dominated with excellent
counter - attacks that ended in goals.



















Here are the key points on Real´s game that SFS observed tonight:

1. Germans physically fitter & Real still need to lift their trainning
2. Real missed too many chances, perhaps due to lack of practice.
3. Real´s determination to attack left holes in defense
4. Very vulnerable to counter-attacks, defenders still out of place &
lack speed.

5. No creative midfielder for Real to control the game.
6. Plenty of changes during the match, no time for team to settle
7. Simply great game by Hannover 96

But no need to worry for Real . Just starting, lots of new players that need
to adapt, still missing South American stars, more training needed to get

the speed up & will probably get new awaited signnngs shortly.
Positive was Sergio Ramos, Higuaín, Raul & Balboa´s play...
























Final Scoreline:
HANNOVER 96 - 3 ( Hustzi, Thorvaldsson & Lauth - pictured)
REAL MADRID - 0

SPANISH FOOTBALL TRANSFER NEWS

Young Italian 20 year old forward GUISEPPE ROSSI will play
at VILLAREAL CF for the next 6 years at a cost of 10M€.





















Rossi comes from MANCHESTER UNITED were he signed with
17 years & played on loan at Newcastle & Parma. He is the big hope
to fill the shoes of departed striker Diego Forlan.















GETAFE
forward DANIEL GUIZA has confirmed that he is going
to MALLORCA & will be presented next Thursday. The operation
is rumoured by "AS" to have cost around 5M€.




















OSASUNA has signned young U/20 Chilean International
NICOLAS MEDINA. The player signs for 4 years & was officially
presented this morning.

JOSE ANTONIO REYES - FOR ATLETICO DE MADRID FOLLOWERS

SFS thought its many ATLETICO DE MADRID readers may enjoy
this official presentation picture taken this morning of its newest

signning JOSE ANTONIO REYES.
























Certainly looks the part with the uniform. Welcome, & may you
give plenty of joys to Atletico, Spanish Football & followers.

SPANISH FOOTBALL TRANSFER TALK - REAL MADRID, BARÇA, GETAFE...

Anyone really believes that relations between Europe´s two biggest
clubs are sour? Sp. daily "Marca" puts on their cover the photo of REAL
MADRID´s "Football Director" Pedja Mijatovic & AC MILAN´s
Vice - President Galliani together in Italy after having lunch.

























The meeting had various objectives, mainly to discuss the possible
transfer of Real Madrid´s Brazilian midfielder
JULIO BAPTISTA
over to AC Milan. The Italian´s offer between 12 - 15M€ but Real
wishes 20M€.
However, "Marca" twists the encounter by highlighting the other
piece of conversation, AC Milan´s Brazilian star KAKA.
Real Madrid are not giving up at all & according to "Marca" have put
a new offer on the table: Baptista; Cassano & 55 M€ for Kaka.

As you can see in Football, one thing is what people say publically & what
they say privately, including at lunch. Stay tuned folks!

In Barcelona they have´nt lost there rivalry humour & "Mundo
Deportivo" publish via their cartoon spot "Pelotazo" a Real Madrid
President, Calderon, & a radiography of what is only in his mind.
Kaka is an obsession.











Staying with Real & what SFS believes is an
"increible" story, is what "Marca" & "Sport"
publish today. Real Madrid has showed interest,
via its German coach Schuster, for CHELSEA
German midfielder 31 year old MICHAEL BALLACK.
Chelsea reacted by putting on the player a 40M€ price,
which Real will not pay at all.
SFS doubts this story has any real substance at all.



FC BARCELONA is looking for a substitute for its Brazilian BELLETTI
just in case he decides to leave & go to Portugues club
BENFICA.
Barça wishes to have a player to replace Italian Zambrotta if injured or
sanctioned & that player is ANGEL LOPEZ, currently belonging to recently
relegated to 2º Division side
CELTA DE VIGO according to "Sport"
Lets see what happens!
























Lastly, GETAFE continue to renew its team with the inclusion
of French club NANTES player & young French left wing talent
FRANCK SIGNORINO. Franck signs for 4 seasons at 1.5M€
per season.














ATLETICO DE MADRID NEWS. REYES TO BE PRESENTED TOMORROW MORNING

JOSE ANTONIO REYES passed his medical check & will be presented
tomorrow as new player for ATLETICO DE MADRID. The deal was
12M€ & a 4 year contract that set free the player from
ARSENAL.
























Reyes will immediately join his teammates & begin pre-season
as they fly out to Amsterdam to continue with their preparation.

The team is now taking shape & a possible line -up may soon look
like the following:

Franco, Steitardis, Pablo, Perea, A.Lopez, Simao, Luccin, Maxi
Rodriguez, Reyes, Aguero & Forlan

Not Bad!

REYES GOES TO ATLETICO & CATCHES REAL MADRID OFF- SIDE

Its the news of the weekend in football circles. Whlie Real Madrid
waited to see what happened with JOSE ANTONIO REYES discontent
to go to LYON, ATLETICO DE MADRID moved in on Friday, bettered
the transfer price & got the players OK.




















It was a poor strategy, illustrating over confidence & arrogance from
Real´s part. They knew Reyes would say NO to any offer that came
from outside Spain & they played the card that Arsenal would have to
lower its economic pretensions in order to solve the players "rebel"
attitude.
What they did´nt count on was Atletico bettering the price to 12M€ ( 6
more than Real) & the player´s YES, after getting tired of waiting
around while his Real mates were already training. Real coach
Schuster was angry, but as has ocurred before Real directives once again
show little agility in their negotiations & have lost Reyes.

Atletico wishes to make it official in the next hours, so he can get his
medical check & be presented tomorrow to media & fans.

GREAT WEEKEND FOR SPANISH SPORTS

Just got back from a fine & relaxing 2 days & see that Spanish
Sportsmen have done very well over the whole weekend
















Most notable is Spaniard ALBERTO CONTADOR winning the
TOUR DE FRANCE.

Also great to see ATLETICO DE MADRID qualify for UEFA via
the Intertoto & its 1-0 victory at home against Gloria Bistrita.
Spaniard CARLOS MOYA won the CROATIAN OPEN of Tennis
6-4 6-2 against Andrei Pavel.

Lastly the U/19 Spanish Football Squad become European
Champions ( pictured below) after defeating Greece 1-0 in the Final.















Should go away more often!
: -)

ATLETICO DE MADRID PRESENTS SIMAO

Seeing is believing. Finally & after 20M€ ex-Benfica player
SIMAO has been officially presented as new player of ATLETICO
DE MADRID. As expected he thanked the club for all its efforts &
promised to give his all to make Atleti great & win titles. Lets hope

so.

SPANISH FOOTBALL TRANSFER MARKET

Brazilian International & SEVILLA FC player DANI ALVES is
speeding up negotiations with CHELSEA FC, according to "Sport",
as his reperesentatives were in London yesterday negotiating a
deal. The only obstacle is the 30M€ price tag put by Sevilla who

has already refused a 1º offer of 25M€. Stay tuned!
























Brazilian International & REAL MADRID player JULIO BAPTISTA
arrives from holidays today to begin pre-season. His only objetive is
to win his place & stay at Real. However, AC MILAN has passed a
17M€ offer for Baptista that could change his plans. Real Madrid has
already said they will not listen to anything less than 20M€, but the
Italian club could up their initial offer. More on this for sure in the next
coming days.

















Staying with these two giants of Football, they are in a "small battle"
to secure the new pearl of Brazilian Football 17 year old
ALEXANDRE
PATO,
according to daily "Sport". The Porto Alegre player is the center
of the dispute & who knows
if Real Madrid will use its Baptista "card" in
order to sway things their way. SFS will keep you updated.













GETAFE
are happy with their new signning, 28 year old Argentine
International defender DANIEL "CATA" DIAZ. The player was
recently presented by his new team to media & fans.





















Local daily "AS" inform that VALENCIA CF is still profiling their
team for the new season & have set their eyes on offiensive
midfielder from JUVENTUS the French International
JEAN-ALAIN
BOUMSONG
. Valencia has got in touch with the Italian team to
ask for his "situation".














DUNDEE UTD 0 - FC BARCELONA 1. FRIENDLY GAME AT SCOTLAND

First friendly game of the upcoming new season for FC BARCELONA
against local Scottish side DUNDEE UTD, with the score going Barça´s
way in the last minute thanks to a penalty.















Barça are doing their pre-season in Scotland & while there they will
play local sides to experiment & fine tune the team. Tonight they played
Dundee Utd in a good match with posts, a disallowed goal forUnited &

play from all the stars, including new signnings. Coach Frank Rijkaard
changed half his side at the 46 min, while the game still was a draw,
giving a run to youngsters Bojan, Giovanni plus Jorquera, Belleti, Deco
& new players Abidal & Henry. It was the latter who scored his first with
Barça & his teams only goal after a penalty, which Henry initially missed
but scored the rebound. Final score 0-1 to Barça with little conclusions
except this is just the start of things to come.

FC BARCELONA "INVITES" MOTTA TO LEAVE.

With so much new signnings there has to be departures & FC
BARCELONA is attempting to place its "discarded" players
elsewhere & away from Barça.
























After successfully "placing" Guily at AC Roma, Barça wishes to
motive THIAGO MOTTA to find a new club. So much so, that
"Football Director", Txiki Bergiristan, has "invited" Motta to leave
& finally becoming the professional football player that he was meant
to be, outside Barça of course.
Must be tough for any player to have to listen to this sort of "rubbish"
from a person of certain level at the club , after giving ( or at least attempt
to give) all your best. SFS wishes Motta all the luck.

CYCLING - TOUR DE FRANCE. SPANIARD TAKES LEAD

Spanish rider ALBERTO CONTADOR takes the TOUR DE FRANCE
lead after todays leg, although SFS is sure he would have preferred to do
so under different circumstances.















The Tour de France has taken a dramatic change of course after
yesterday´s provisional leader MICHAEL RASMUSSEN was forced
to abandon the race by his team Rabobank after suspicion of use of
illegal substances ( dopping charge) laid on his head. Some say that the
Tour organization "forced" Rabobank to take such a drastic decision.
Therefore, for the 1º time in the history of the Tour de France no one wore
the yellow jersey today, & former 2º placed rider Spaniard Contador now
takes
the lead.

SFS has´nt been highlighting the Tour much this year because it is
quickly beginning to lose its prestige due to all these disasterous events

ATLETICO DE MADRID NEWS. SIMAO IS NEW PLAYER

SFS was waiting to re-confirm the news. Now that its "splashed"
all over the local press, we can notify with confidence.

There is agreement between all parties & BENFICA player SIMAO
has been
announced as new player of ATLETICO DE MADRID




















The player is expected to arrive at Madrid this afternoon for the
medical check tomorrow & if all well, sign his new contract.

The deal is 20M€ transfer fee plus 2 Atletico players, according
to "AS". Simao signs for 5 years & it is speculated that the players
to go to Benfica maybe Costinha & Ze Castro.

SPANISH FOOTBALL NEWS, TRANSFER RUMOURS & GOSSIP

Here is a quick tour of the "top" stories racing around the Footy
papers today in Spain.


Although REAL MADRID & Chelsea
player ROBBEN have an agreement,
his team is´nt making it easy for him
to join Real.

Chelsea seems not to count with the
Dutchmen, if we take the fact that he
is not participating at all in the teams
warm up games. But, Chelsea is taking
advantage of Real Madrid´s desire &
is continually lifting the transfer price.

It is now said to be ( according to "Mundo
Deportivo") around 35M€. Real comments
that they hope to solve the situation soon.




Staying at REAL MADRID, there maybe a
solution for its huge problem with Italian player
CASSANO - who is not wanted & may take the
club to court for "mobbing".

INTER MILAN maybe about to offer a "swap
deal" to Real that would be SOLARI for Cassano,
according to "Marca". Stay tuned!




Russian club, KAZAN, has made a big offer to
GETAFE forward DANI GUIZA. Its a 4 year
contract worth 8M€, that is, 2M€/season
according to "Marca"

It seems his club Getafe is in accord with
Kazan, as they will recieve 4.5M€.

Now its up to Guiza to accept or not.






Bulgarian winger & current
ATLETICO DE
MADRID
player MARTIN PETROV is in
Manchester & will undergo medical checks.

If all goes well, he will become the new
signning for Premier League & local club
MANCHESTER CITY

News Flash - Confirmed. Petrov is new player
of Manchester City





Continuing at ATLETICO DE MADRID, they are preparing their
important return INTERTOTO game against Rumanian side GLORIA
BISTRITA.
The result of the 1º leg away game went against Atletico 2-1 & they must
win at home this weekend if they are to enter Europe; vital for their whole
proyect. The good note is that they just need to win 1-0 to achieve that
objetive.




















To secure things, it seems coach Aguirre will bring in the top guns:
Forlan, Sergio Aguero, Jurado & Pablo into the line up. If that is so,
the team may go out to play as follows:

Franco, Seitaridis, Pablo, Perea, A.Lopez, Jurado, Luccin, Maniche,
Maxi Rodriguez, Aguero & Forlan

If Atletico don´t qualify with this line up their new season prospects
will look pretty bad. Good luck boys & go for it!

REAL MADRID SIGNS 18 YEAR OLD GERMAN YOUNGSTER

His name is CHRISTOPHER SCHORCH, he is an 18 year old
defender & comes from German club HERTHA BERLIN. REAL
MADRID
has surprised everyone by signning this young promise
that will most likely fly into Madrid tomorrow to undergo the routine
medical checks.
















Its most likely that Schorch will adapt himself to Spanish
Football by playing in the Real Madrid B side. If his reputation is

correct, it won´t take long before he jumps up to the first side.
Real Madrid are making a quite "revolution" by rejuvenating its

side & thinking towards the future.

LEGENDARY ATHLETIC DE BILBAO KEEPER DIES AT 84

Leyend ATHLETIC DE BILBAO goalkeeper RAIMUNDO PEREZ
LEZAMA
has died at the age of 84 (1922 - 2007)


















Lezama is considered a "revolutionary" keeper in that he introduced
to Spanish Football new technics that he picked up while he lived &
played in England - he escaped the Sp.Civil War as a youngster & played
a season at SOUTHAMPTOM. Technics that included throwing the ball
into play, moving out of your area to meet an aerial ball & use of your feet
to clear or set up play.
His titles include:
2 Spanish Leagues : 1942-43 & 1955-56
6 Spanish Cup : 1943, 44, 45, 50, 55 & 56
Best Goalkeeper Award - "Zamora" (1946 - 47)

R.I.P Keeper!

SPANISH FOOTBALL TRANSFER NEWS & TALK

MANCHESTER CITY is close to securing "giant" Serbian International
& RACING DE SANTANDER forward
NIKOLA ZIGIC, according to
"AS".




















The player may sign within the next days, as both City & Racing
have an agreement that totals 20M€















A crowd of 2,500 fans went to receive new DEPORTIVO DE A
CORUÑA signning ANDRES GUARDADO. The 20 year old Mexican
was officially presented as he has cost the club 7M€ & signs until
2012




















Dutch team AJAX OF AMSTERDAM is pushing with a 4M€ offer
to relegated to 2º Division club REAL SOCIEDAD for its player
XABI PRIETO, as published by "AS"



As announced yesterday on SFS ( see below)
FC BARCELONA star DECO is a bit annoyed
with "things" at his club.

According to "Marca", AC MILAN is keeping an
eye on developments just in case!

U/19 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP. SPAIN WIN SEMIS & GOES THROUGH TO THE FINAL

SERGIO ASEJO the U/19 Spanish goalkeeper was the heroe of the
night as he put SPAIN through to the final against GREECE next
Friday.









This gloove & hand stopped 2 penalties in the shoot out with FRANCE
to give Spain the victory ( 4-2) in the semi-finals of the U/19 EUROPEAN
CHAMPIONSHIPS.
After 120mins, Spain & France went to penalties after finishing 0-0. Spain
played better throughout the official period, as the French went conservative
& stayed back. In the penalties, luck & good shooting went Spains way, as
France missed 2 penalty shots which Asejo, the Spanish goalkeeper, saved
to become the "hereo".

Next Friday: Greece vs Spain in the final of the U/19 European
Championships.

FC BARCELONA NEWS. SHOULD DECO BE WORRIED?

FC BARCELONA´s Portugues International midfielder DECO is
"puzzled" at the fact that he did not form part of the "theoritical"
official 11 team line-up at training today. Barça is doing their pre-season
training period at Saint Andrews in Scotland.
























"I suppose I still count for the team", said Deco ( not literal, translated)
...& went on to add..."I have a contract until 2010, & no one has spoken to
me about anything on the contrary for me to think differently. If they
don´t wish to have me, its their right I suppose"
Its known Deco is happy at Barça & will obviously fight to prove & win his
place, but should he worry?

This is the type of news a "midfield hungry" Real Madrid may pounce on.
Stay tuned for possible developments!

ATLETICO DE MADRID NEWS - LAST DAYS FOR MARTIN PETROV?

ATLETICO DE MADRID 28 year old Bulgarian winger MARTIN
PETROV
may have his days counted at the club & in Spanish Football.















The winger has´nt lived up to expectations & a terrible knee injury
last season did´nt help at all his situation. Perhaps the two known
& publicized offers from English Premier League teams MANCHESTER
CITY & TOTTENHAM could be the change of airs that he needs. The
latter club is said to have made a 10M€ offer to Atletico for the player.

Martin Petrov has abandoned this afternoon his pre-season training
session with his team to go & study the offers with his rep. &
lawyers. This move gives plenty of weight to the idea that Petrov could
be living
his final days at Atletico. Stay tuned!

SPANISH FOOTBALL NEWS BRIEFS

Spanish & ex- Deportivo & Mallorca forward DIEGO TRISTAN of
31 years of age has signned for Italian club
LIVORNO for the next
season




















News from Italy, concretely from "La Gazzetta Dello Sport", publish
comments from INTER MILAN defender MARCO MATERAZZI were
he advises his club & REAL MADRID player EMERSON to forget about
signning for Inter.
According to Materazzi, Emerson made offensive comments about Ibrahimovic
& Patrick Viera when signning for Inter Milan. Now that Inter shows interest in
Emerson ( via coach Mancini) & Emerson is "offering" himself, some players -
in this case Materazzi - do not want the Brazilian in their side & recommend he
go back to JUVENTUS.
It seems that the Inter Milan - Juventus rivalry remains strong!














SPANISH FOOTBALL TRANSFER MARKET TALK

Plenty of news today focused, as usual, on REAL MADRID & the
transfer market rumours.
ARSENAL has rejected, according to "AS", the Real Madrid offer
of 10M€ for JOSE ANTONIO REYES & is currently negotiating
with LYON.
The player is currently in his home town of Sevilla awaiting the
outcome of negotiations. Reyes wishes deseparately to stay in Spain
& with Real Madrid.

















This situation has´nt gone unnoticed at ATLETICO DE MADRID who
may see in Reyes the alternative to the difficult attempts of adquisitions for
Quaresma & Simao for their wing position . Talks have been ongoing
with Arsenal & may accelarate in the following days.


















Real Madrid´s Brazilian JULIO BAPTISTA is seen at VILLAREAL
as an option for the substitution of Forlan up front. According to
Spanish press, Villareal may make a significant effort & put up 15M€
to convience Real Madrid in a transfer deal. Other clubs also interested
in Baptista are AC MILAN, GALATASARAY &
NEWCASTLE













News from "Marca" announce a possible future battle between
REAL MADRID & AC MILAN for the services of young Brazilian
Internatioanl & star ALEXANDRE PATO ( pictured). If Kaka
was´nt enough, both clubs claim to have the players OK. Stay Tuned!














Staying with Brazilian´s, Sp. daily "Marca" inform that newly promoted
to 1º Division team REAL MURCIA has set its eyes on 27 year old
SAO
PAULO
International JOSUE DE OLIVEIRA - "JOSUE". The
player is said to want to go to European football & the Murcia option
is a viable one. Stay tuned!

LIST OF 25 PLAYERS PUBLISHED FOR UPCOMING U/17 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The list of 25 players called up to prepare for the upcoming U/17
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
to be held in KOREA from the 13.08 until
the 9.09 has been officially published.

SPAIN is the current EUROPEAN U/17 Champions & the chosen 25
players, mostly from the European Champion Squad, have been called
up to be later "fine tuned"
to just 21 players to travel towards Korea.














Here are the list of players:

Alberto Morgado (Alavés)
David de Gea (Atlético)
Sergio Rodríguez, Ignacio Camacho y Francisco J. Atienza (Atlético
Madrileño)
Francisco Mérida (Arsenal)
Ismael López y Ander Vitoria (Athletic)
Iago Falqué, David González, Bojan Krkic y Alex Bolaños. (Barcelona)
Sergio Tejera (Chelsea)
David Rochela (Deportivo)
Lucas Porcar (Espanyol)
Daniel Pacheco (Liverpool)
José Ignacio Fernández "Nacho" y Rubén Molero (Real Madrid)
Daniel Aquino (Murcia)
Moisés Jiménez (Sevilla)
Asier Illarramendi (Real Sociedad)
Joaquín Forner "Ximo" (Valencia)
Jordi Pablo Ripollés, Yelco Ramos y Diego Mariño (Villarreal)

Good luck to all & SFS will notify of the final 21 chosen players.

SPANISH FOOTBALL TRANSFER GOSSIP. BAPTISTA & SIMAO

JULIO BAPTISTA wishes to convience his new coach Schuster
& his team REAL MADRID that he has a place in the new proyect.
However, Real has said that they will listen to any offer that they
consider interesting.




















Spanish daily, "As" reports that English Premiere League club
NEWCASTLE has communicated to Real that they are interested
in Baptista´s services. Real Madrid have put a price of 20M€ & now
awaits the English clubs response to the price.


According to "Marca",
ATLETICO DE MADRID
will sit down with BENFICA this week to speed
up the SIMAO negotiations.
Benfica asks for 25M€ & Atletico will offer 15M€
plus Costinha, now that Benfica is in the market for
a defensive midfielder.
Atletico hope to convience the Portugues Club with
this new
variation to its offer. Stay tuned!

SPANISH SPORTS. VICTORY FOR FERNANDO ALONSO & RAFAEL NADAL & BAD LUCK FOR SERGIO GARCIA

Big weekend for Spanish Sportsmen. Victories for FERNANDO
ALONSO in Formula 1 & RAFAEL NADAL in Tennis. In Golf
Spaniard SERGIO GARCIA was unlucky & finished 2º in the British
Open.













Current two time World Formula 1 Champion & Spaniard Fernando
Alonso put in a fabulous race to win The EUROPEAN GP at the
Nurburgring circuit in Germany, ahead of Brazilian Felipe Massa &
Max Webber who finished 3rd.
It was a terrifying & difficult race, with a rainstorm that took many
off the track & made tyre decision difficult. The restart saw Massa take
the lead but with 5 laps to go Alonso made a brave overtaking move that
clipped
the wheel of Massa & saw the Spaniard speed away to take the race.
See the VIDEO of the "dog fight":


Alonso cuts L.Hamilton´s lead to 2 points, as the English racer & teammate
failed to win a point in this race. Here is the current World Title standing:
1. Hamilton 70pts; 2.Alonso 68pts; 3. Massa 59pts; 4.Raikkonen 52pts.

Next race - Hungarian GP




















RAFAEL NADAL
won the last tournament of the clay court circuit
for this season. The Spaniard played Swiss STANISLAS WAWRINKA
& won 6-4 7-5 to take his 6th title this season & win the STUTTGART
OPEN. This victory reinforces that NADAL is the best clay court player
of the circuit & keeps him Nº2 in the rankings, as he chases Roger
Federer.




















Bad luck for Spanish golfer SERGIO GARCIA who lost the
BRITISH
OPEN
in a play-off with Irish player PADRAIG HARRINGTON.
Garcia finished - 7 after the 4 rounds & could have won the tournament,
but missed the last hole to allow Harrington to equal & finish - 7 as well.
This set both up for the play-off, & the pressure & bad luck was too much
for the Spaniard & allowed Harrington to take the title.
Sergio Garcia finsihed 2º in a great tournament were he played some excellent
golf , but in the end luck just was´nt on his
side.
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