Fútbolita

Here’s Samuel Eto’o looking all prim and proper in a tux… must be Jose’s influence. He is, after all, starting to shape Inter’s squad this season. Even Esteban Cambiasso thinks so!

“I have always said that the strikers’ goals are the logic of a team. Diego and Samuel are playing with continuity and they are scoring. It’s true, Ibrahimovic scored most of our goals last season but that was also a consequence of continuity. Zlatan played more than anyone and the others were rotated alongside him. The strikers’ goals are logic. If they score it means the team is working well, he said.” Are you listening, Luca Toni?

Maradona has returned from his luxurious holiday in Buenos Aires. And ya’ll better be nice to El Diez or he’ll send Veronica dolls to you. This time, he has declared that the team to face Ghana in a friendly this weekend will have a great chance of starting against Peru and Uruguay in their WC Qualifers. “Nobody will tell me which players not to choose, I listen to everyone but the one who has the final say is me. Those who will be here, will be here, I won’t give anymore details,” affirmed Maradona. By the way, he left out all the European players this time around.

Goalkeepers > Diego Pozo (Colon de Santa Fe) and Cristian Campestrini (Arsenal)

Defenders > Matias Caruzzo (Argentinos), Ignacio Canuto (Argentinos), Rolando Schiavi (Newell’s), Juan Manuel Insaurralde (Newell’s), Cristian Villagra (River Plate), Clemente Rodriguez (Estudiantes) and Fabian Monzon (Boca Juniors)

Midfielders > Rodrigo Brana (Estudiantes), Enzo Perez (Estudiantes), Leonel Vangioni (Newell’s), Federico Insua (Boca Juniors), Jesus Mendez (Rosario Central) and Mario Bolatti (Huracan)

Strikers > Gabriel Hauche (Argentinos), Martin Palermo (Boca Juniors), Ariel Ortega (River Plate), Esteban Fuertes (Colon de Santa Fe) and Luis Rodriguez (Atletico Tucuman)