Benito Floro is one of the most highly respected coaches in Spain. Indeed, what is most surprising about Benito Floro is the respect he commands with his fellow colleagues where he is always rated as being one of the very best – and one of the fathers of Spanish football as we know it today. Sometimes referred to as “The [...]
I was lucky enough to come across this article by Pep Guardiola, which he wrote shortly before he became manager of the Barcelona first eleven, and while coach of the reserve team. It is a pleasure for me to be able to share it with you. On the 2nd March 2007, Pep Guadiola wrote an article in El Pais about [...]
Name: Jonathan Arza Position; wing or attacking midfield Age & DOB: 26 (04/04/1986) Height; 1’76 m Weight; 74 kg Nationality; Argentina (Buenos Aires) Debut; 2006 – Defensores de Belgrano, Argentina Club – Free Characteristics; A quick and technically gifted forward who can play all across the front. Jonathan is one of our players from Argentina; he came through the youth [...]
Jason Ayto is an extremely dynamic young professional, who is an expert in football club administration. I’d call him a guru. He is someone any football club could make fantastic use of and who would bring success by developing innovative and progressive player recruitment and youth development structures and processes – by using intelligence, relationship building and extensive research to [...]
Barcelona, as usual seemed to draw an relatively easy group and should qualify without too much difficulty, indeed with the Catalan club always keen to give their youth factory valuable experience, so it may also well help them regain their local Spanish championship from Real Madrid, being able to rest valuable players against much weaker opposition during Champions League weeks. Real [...]
When did an English manager last win the Premiership? I have recommended the excellent book by Jonathan Wilson, “Inverting the Pyramid”, which tells us of how, basically, the English game has always lacked innovation, and their own arrogance has stopped them from seeing the need to evolve. I got this report on a Spanish forward I had offered to a [...]
Group A: Porto, Dynamo Kyiv, Paris Saint-Germain, Dinamo Zagreb Group B: Arsenal, Schalke 04, Olympiacos, Montpellier Group C: Milan, Zenit St Petersburg, Anderlecht, Malaga Group D: Real Madrid, Manchester City, Ajax, Borussia Dortmund Group E: Chelsea, Shakhtar Donetsk, Juventus, Nordsjaelland Group F: Bayern Munich, Valencia, Lille, Bate Borisov Group G: Barcelona, Benfica, Spartak Moscow, Celtic Group H: Manchester United, Braga, [...]
Strikers – by far strikers are the most sort after players in the world and are valued the most expensively, as all clubs search for a guarantee for goals. Why do some strikers succeed at some clubs and then suddenly fail at others? Have they lost their ability to score? I doubt it, however, the system the team plays will [...]
Name: Cristian Lagos Navarro Nationality: Costa Rica Age; 27 (17/08/1984) Height; 187.0 m Weight 92.0 kg Position; Forward Club: Santos Costa Rica Cristian Lagos is a centre forward for the modern game. As another of the players Sportzone work with in Latin America, Cristian Lagos is creating big interest in Europe due to the great season he is having in Costa Rica. [...]