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Kaka: I Wont Leave Milan
Brazilian superstar Kaka was happy to have played his 200th match for Milan against Catania on Sunday and told the club that they will have to send him away for him to ever leave.
The midfielder arrived from Sao Paulo in 2003 as a 21-year-old and was expected to be a back-up for Manuel Rui Costa. However Kaka was an immediate hit and instantly dislodged the Portuguese playmaker, before going on to win the Scudetto in his first season.
Kaka has since established himself into undoubtedly the best player in the world and he is the odds-on favourite to capture this year’s European and World Footballer of the Year awards.
He has been linked for some time with a move to Real Madrid but it seems the maestro has no intention of swapping Italy for Spain.
“I reached the target of 200 official matches, a great thing, and I also managed to score and celebrate the event,” said Kaka. “I'm happy, but not so much about the match. I won't leave Milan, they would have to send me away!”
Milan could only manage a disappointing 1-1 draw with Catania, a result that means the Rossoneri have now gone five Serie A games without a win.
”We didn't say anything afterwards in the dressing room, the team are a bit angry and nervous, tomorrow the Coach will talk to us because it's been a while that we haven't won and we have to find a solution to win.
”It's a delicate moment, we have to take some decisions calmly, there will be said many untrue things, but we know how to handle that,” Kaka concluded.
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Brazilian superstar Kaka was happy to have played his 200th match for Milan against Catania on Sunday and told the club that they will have to send him away for him to ever leave.
The midfielder arrived from Sao Paulo in 2003 as a 21-year-old and was expected to be a back-up for Manuel Rui Costa. However Kaka was an immediate hit and instantly dislodged the Portuguese playmaker, before going on to win the Scudetto in his first season.
Kaka has since established himself into undoubtedly the best player in the world and he is the odds-on favourite to capture this year’s European and World Footballer of the Year awards.
He has been linked for some time with a move to Real Madrid but it seems the maestro has no intention of swapping Italy for Spain.
“I reached the target of 200 official matches, a great thing, and I also managed to score and celebrate the event,” said Kaka. “I'm happy, but not so much about the match. I won't leave Milan, they would have to send me away!”
Milan could only manage a disappointing 1-1 draw with Catania, a result that means the Rossoneri have now gone five Serie A games without a win.
”We didn't say anything afterwards in the dressing room, the team are a bit angry and nervous, tomorrow the Coach will talk to us because it's been a while that we haven't won and we have to find a solution to win.
”It's a delicate moment, we have to take some decisions calmly, there will be said many untrue things, but we know how to handle that,” Kaka concluded.
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Serie A Team Of The Week: Round 6
Goal.com provides a brief list of those who deserved a place in the sun after the Serie A Round 6 action. As every week there were more players who deserved a place than places available...
Team of the week (4-3-3):
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus): Still the number one goalkeeper in the world as both Recoba and Ventola can testify.
Cesar (Inter): Great work on the wing both offensively and defensively for a player who is returning to his best form this season.
Ivan Cordoba (Inter): Inter’s solid defence is mostly due to the Colombian defender who has been the Nerazzurri’s best defender in this early part of the season.
Per Billeskov Kroldrup (Fiorentina): Very good performance of the Danish defender who kept the Livorno forwards at bay.
Nicola Legrottaglie (Juventus): His performances are making sure that the Bianconeri are not missing Andrade. At least till January he will be very important in Claudio Ranieri’s rearguard.
Esteban Cambiasso (Inter): Managed to combine both quantity and quality against Roma. A player Mancini can always rely on.
Mario Alberto Santana (Fiorentina): Two assists and a goal turned him into the man of the match as the Viola have re-discovered an important element.
Ighli Vannucchi (Empoli): The mind behind the Tuscan team’s win against Palermo as the Italian midfielder led his side with his tactical intelligence and great creative flair.
Pablo Daniel Osvaldo (Fiorentina): He does not like to be compared to Batistuta, but few players can boast of scoring two goals on their debut. A future star.
David Trezeguet (Juventus): Anonymous for 92 minutes, but then hit home the match winner. A striker which all coaches would love to have: deadly finisher.
Vincenzo Montella (Sampdoria): An assist and an unfairly disallowed goal. The airplane is still flying high despite the age and a lot more will come from him this season.
Honourable Mention
Fortin (Cagliari)
Nesta (Milan)
Comotto (Torino)
D`Agostino (Udinese)
Edusei (Catania)
Julio Cruz (Inter)
Alvaro Recoba (Torino)
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What Is Wrong With Milan?
If you believe the Italian media then Milan are officially in a crisis. Struggling terribly in Serie A with no wins in five Serie A games – what has happened to the Champions of Europe? Goal.com wants to know what you think…
Last season Milan finished the Serie A campaign in fourth place, a monumental 36 points behind city-rivals and Scudetto-winners Inter. In any normal year there would have been an outcry that Milan could possibly finish so far off the pace.
However all talk of the Rossoneri’s shortcomings seemed to disappear as soon as they lifted the Champions League in Athens in May. Of course the season had now been a hugely successful one – Milan had won the most prestigious club trophy in European football and what’s more they had done it in style after some sensational performances against Bayern Munich and Manchester United en route to the final.
Therefore Milan went into the summer transfer market with an arrogant aura that they were the Champions of Europe and did not need to change something that was not broken. The Rossoneri’s only notable purchases were 31-year-old 'has-been’ Emerson from Real Madrid and the 18-year-old Alexandre Pato who, despite his description as a wonderkid, is only eligible to play for the Rossoneri from January onwards.
The result of this transfer strategy is that Milan now sit in 11th position in Serie A, already seven points behind leaders Inter after just six games. Furthermore Carlo Ancelotti’s men have failed to win in the league since the opening day of the season and they were dreadfully poor during the 1-1 draw with Catania at the weekend.
Critics in Italy all have their theories as to why things have gone wrong. One explanation is that Milan are simply too old. Out of the first choice starting-11, six are over 30 and only two are below the age of 29, Andrea Pirlo, who is 28, and Kaka, who is 25. The argument is that a team with so many old players simply cannot cope with the rigours of playing twice a week.
The second explanation is that Milan need to buy a striker. The Rossoneri have scored just five goals in their last five Serie A games, with two of these being penalties. This record is simply not good enough. What is even crazier is that Milan currently have just three senior strikers on their books.
Filippo Inzaghi can still be brilliant, but at 34, he cannot be expected to play 40 games a season and his best years are certainly behind him. Alberto Gilardino, to put it simply, is just not good enough to play for such a prestigious club. He is by no means a bad player, but he does not posses the technical ability or the striker intelligence to succeed. Then of course there is Ronaldo, who is either injured or overweight, and despite his undoubted genius, at 31 he hardly represents the future.
So this makes Milan’s decision not to invest during the summer in a proven striker all the more bamboozling. According to ex-Milan player Oscar Damiani, Milan passed up the opportunity to sign Luca Toni, Ruud Van Nistelrooy and David Trezeguet in the summer, three genuine world-class strikers. The fact that Toni only moved to Bayern Munich for a fee of around £9m makes this decision even harder to understand.
The simplicity of it all is that, in my opinion, Milan are probably only one world-class striker away from having a truly awesome team. The defence is sound, and the midfield of Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Ambrosini and Kaka is undoubtedly the best in European club football. Finally the Rossoneri possess the best player in the world in the absolutely outstanding Kaka.
However all of this is wasted because Milan do not have a striker to finish the job. If either Toni, Trezeguet or Van Nistelrooy were playing up front for Milan, they would have scored about eight goals this season already. The sheer brilliance of the midfield means that chances will always be created, as was the case in the defeat to Palermo last week.
However this does not explain why, despite their dreadful form in the league over the past year, Milan are still the number one team in Europe when it comes to the Champions League. This topic requires a lot more analysis than I can offer here but the statistics talk for themselves. In the past five years, Milan have won the trophy twice and reached the final, semi-final and quarter-final on one occasion each.
This is an incredible record, unrivalled in recent years. Milan were simply magnificent in winning the competition last season and they have also began in imperious form this time around with a dominant 2-1 victory over Benfica a fortnight ago. So why do Milan continue to perform in Europe but struggle so badly in Serie A?
Are they, as many Italian critics say, prioritising the Champions League too much? Carlo Ancelotti has openly admitted that he prefers success in Europe to success at home. Or is the slow, passing game that Milan play so delightfully against foreign opposition just not suited to Serie A? Have Milan just been unlucky so far this season in the league?
Goal.com wants to know your views! What is wrong with Milan and what should they do, if anything, to solve their problems?
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Goal.com provides a brief list of those who deserved a place in the sun after the Serie A Round 6 action. As every week there were more players who deserved a place than places available...
Team of the week (4-3-3):
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus): Still the number one goalkeeper in the world as both Recoba and Ventola can testify.
Cesar (Inter): Great work on the wing both offensively and defensively for a player who is returning to his best form this season.
Ivan Cordoba (Inter): Inter’s solid defence is mostly due to the Colombian defender who has been the Nerazzurri’s best defender in this early part of the season.
Per Billeskov Kroldrup (Fiorentina): Very good performance of the Danish defender who kept the Livorno forwards at bay.
Nicola Legrottaglie (Juventus): His performances are making sure that the Bianconeri are not missing Andrade. At least till January he will be very important in Claudio Ranieri’s rearguard.
Esteban Cambiasso (Inter): Managed to combine both quantity and quality against Roma. A player Mancini can always rely on.
Mario Alberto Santana (Fiorentina): Two assists and a goal turned him into the man of the match as the Viola have re-discovered an important element.
Ighli Vannucchi (Empoli): The mind behind the Tuscan team’s win against Palermo as the Italian midfielder led his side with his tactical intelligence and great creative flair.
Pablo Daniel Osvaldo (Fiorentina): He does not like to be compared to Batistuta, but few players can boast of scoring two goals on their debut. A future star.
David Trezeguet (Juventus): Anonymous for 92 minutes, but then hit home the match winner. A striker which all coaches would love to have: deadly finisher.
Vincenzo Montella (Sampdoria): An assist and an unfairly disallowed goal. The airplane is still flying high despite the age and a lot more will come from him this season.
Honourable Mention
Fortin (Cagliari)
Nesta (Milan)
Comotto (Torino)
D`Agostino (Udinese)
Edusei (Catania)
Julio Cruz (Inter)
Alvaro Recoba (Torino)
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What Is Wrong With Milan?
If you believe the Italian media then Milan are officially in a crisis. Struggling terribly in Serie A with no wins in five Serie A games – what has happened to the Champions of Europe? Goal.com wants to know what you think…
Last season Milan finished the Serie A campaign in fourth place, a monumental 36 points behind city-rivals and Scudetto-winners Inter. In any normal year there would have been an outcry that Milan could possibly finish so far off the pace.
However all talk of the Rossoneri’s shortcomings seemed to disappear as soon as they lifted the Champions League in Athens in May. Of course the season had now been a hugely successful one – Milan had won the most prestigious club trophy in European football and what’s more they had done it in style after some sensational performances against Bayern Munich and Manchester United en route to the final.
Therefore Milan went into the summer transfer market with an arrogant aura that they were the Champions of Europe and did not need to change something that was not broken. The Rossoneri’s only notable purchases were 31-year-old 'has-been’ Emerson from Real Madrid and the 18-year-old Alexandre Pato who, despite his description as a wonderkid, is only eligible to play for the Rossoneri from January onwards.
The result of this transfer strategy is that Milan now sit in 11th position in Serie A, already seven points behind leaders Inter after just six games. Furthermore Carlo Ancelotti’s men have failed to win in the league since the opening day of the season and they were dreadfully poor during the 1-1 draw with Catania at the weekend.
Critics in Italy all have their theories as to why things have gone wrong. One explanation is that Milan are simply too old. Out of the first choice starting-11, six are over 30 and only two are below the age of 29, Andrea Pirlo, who is 28, and Kaka, who is 25. The argument is that a team with so many old players simply cannot cope with the rigours of playing twice a week.
The second explanation is that Milan need to buy a striker. The Rossoneri have scored just five goals in their last five Serie A games, with two of these being penalties. This record is simply not good enough. What is even crazier is that Milan currently have just three senior strikers on their books.
Filippo Inzaghi can still be brilliant, but at 34, he cannot be expected to play 40 games a season and his best years are certainly behind him. Alberto Gilardino, to put it simply, is just not good enough to play for such a prestigious club. He is by no means a bad player, but he does not posses the technical ability or the striker intelligence to succeed. Then of course there is Ronaldo, who is either injured or overweight, and despite his undoubted genius, at 31 he hardly represents the future.
So this makes Milan’s decision not to invest during the summer in a proven striker all the more bamboozling. According to ex-Milan player Oscar Damiani, Milan passed up the opportunity to sign Luca Toni, Ruud Van Nistelrooy and David Trezeguet in the summer, three genuine world-class strikers. The fact that Toni only moved to Bayern Munich for a fee of around £9m makes this decision even harder to understand.
The simplicity of it all is that, in my opinion, Milan are probably only one world-class striker away from having a truly awesome team. The defence is sound, and the midfield of Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Ambrosini and Kaka is undoubtedly the best in European club football. Finally the Rossoneri possess the best player in the world in the absolutely outstanding Kaka.
However all of this is wasted because Milan do not have a striker to finish the job. If either Toni, Trezeguet or Van Nistelrooy were playing up front for Milan, they would have scored about eight goals this season already. The sheer brilliance of the midfield means that chances will always be created, as was the case in the defeat to Palermo last week.
However this does not explain why, despite their dreadful form in the league over the past year, Milan are still the number one team in Europe when it comes to the Champions League. This topic requires a lot more analysis than I can offer here but the statistics talk for themselves. In the past five years, Milan have won the trophy twice and reached the final, semi-final and quarter-final on one occasion each.
This is an incredible record, unrivalled in recent years. Milan were simply magnificent in winning the competition last season and they have also began in imperious form this time around with a dominant 2-1 victory over Benfica a fortnight ago. So why do Milan continue to perform in Europe but struggle so badly in Serie A?
Are they, as many Italian critics say, prioritising the Champions League too much? Carlo Ancelotti has openly admitted that he prefers success in Europe to success at home. Or is the slow, passing game that Milan play so delightfully against foreign opposition just not suited to Serie A? Have Milan just been unlucky so far this season in the league?
Goal.com wants to know your views! What is wrong with Milan and what should they do, if anything, to solve their problems?
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Inter Strong Favorites For Italian Bookmakers
After Inter's 4-1 victory in Rome, the odds on their Serie A victory have fallen, while Juve's good form has seen their odds go down as well.
Inter's 4-1 victory at the Olimpico brought enthusiasm back to the Nerazzurri camp, and most importantly sent them back on top of the Serie A table for the first time since the triumphant last season.
Consequently, also the odds given for the eventual Serie A champions have changed after this result. Roberto Mancini's band are given at 1.80, while Roma, after their three-match debacle against Juventus, Fiorentina and Inter, are now at 4.00.
With Juve going through a great period of form which culminated in last weekend's victory at the last minute in the Turin derby, their odds are continuously dropping, and they are currently at 5.00.
There is still faith in Milan, even though the odds have doubled from 2.70 before the season began, to 5.50.
Fiorentina have also made steps forward, and are now at 20.00 for the Scudetto.
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Inter Strong Favorites For Italian Bookmakers
After Inter's 4-1 victory in Rome, the odds on their Serie A victory have fallen, while Juve's good form has seen their odds go down as well.
Inter's 4-1 victory at the Olimpico brought enthusiasm back to the Nerazzurri camp, and most importantly sent them back on top of the Serie A table for the first time since the triumphant last season.
Consequently, also the odds given for the eventual Serie A champions have changed after this result. Roberto Mancini's band are given at 1.80, while Roma, after their three-match debacle against Juventus, Fiorentina and Inter, are now at 4.00.
With Juve going through a great period of form which culminated in last weekend's victory at the last minute in the Turin derby, their odds are continuously dropping, and they are currently at 5.00.
There is still faith in Milan, even though the odds have doubled from 2.70 before the season began, to 5.50.
Fiorentina have also made steps forward, and are now at 20.00 for the Scudetto.
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Aquilani out for two months
Tests have confirmed a thigh strain that will keep Roma midfielder Alberto Aquilani out for around two months.
The Giallorossi star was stretchered off during last night’s 1-0 Champions League defeat at Old Trafford and immediately medical staff feared the worst.
He has had muscular problems before and was out for six months last season, although this current setback does not appear to be quite so serious.
“The tests showed a second degree lesion to the right thigh muscle,” announced the club.
“The player will have to sit out an adequate period of rest, presumably around 30 days.”
With physiotherapy afterwards and the search for match fitness, it is likely Aquilani won’t play again for two months.
“Alberto is already doing better, as we are giving him a special kind of therapy,” explained Doctor Mario Brozzi.
“It is not the same injury as last year, but it does look like a relapse of an older problem.”
It is a bitter blow for Roma and Italy, as Aquilani had recently graduated from the Under-21 side to the senior Azzurri coached by Roberto Donadoni.
The Giallorossi already have Rodrigo Taddei, Marco Cassetti and Christian Panucci injured, while goalkeeper Alexander Doni missed the Manchester United game after he was struck by a stomach bug on Monday night.
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Tests have confirmed a thigh strain that will keep Roma midfielder Alberto Aquilani out for around two months.
The Giallorossi star was stretchered off during last night’s 1-0 Champions League defeat at Old Trafford and immediately medical staff feared the worst.
He has had muscular problems before and was out for six months last season, although this current setback does not appear to be quite so serious.
“The tests showed a second degree lesion to the right thigh muscle,” announced the club.
“The player will have to sit out an adequate period of rest, presumably around 30 days.”
With physiotherapy afterwards and the search for match fitness, it is likely Aquilani won’t play again for two months.
“Alberto is already doing better, as we are giving him a special kind of therapy,” explained Doctor Mario Brozzi.
“It is not the same injury as last year, but it does look like a relapse of an older problem.”
It is a bitter blow for Roma and Italy, as Aquilani had recently graduated from the Under-21 side to the senior Azzurri coached by Roberto Donadoni.
The Giallorossi already have Rodrigo Taddei, Marco Cassetti and Christian Panucci injured, while goalkeeper Alexander Doni missed the Manchester United game after he was struck by a stomach bug on Monday night.
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