The cesar rodriguez's widow labels Messi a 'phenomenon' after overhauling her late husband's scoring record in the 3 time Ballon d'Or winner overtook the former Spain international as the Blaugrana's leading scorer with a hat-trick against Granada on Tuesday night and he widow of Barcelona legend Cesar Rodriguez says that she is "happy" that Lionel Messi surpassed her late husband's scoring record for the Catalan club.The Emma Revillo declared that it was "an honour" to see the 3 time Ballon d'Or winner beat the record, whom she lauded as a "phenomenon" in i am very happy Messi surpassed my husband because Messi is a very good person, just like my husband was," she said in an interview to RAC1 it is an honour that Messi overtook Cesar to he is a phenomenon and the tributes have been pouring in from all over the football world following Messi's latest record-breaking feat in Barca boss Pep Guardiola hailing the dimunitive forward as football's equivalent of basketball legend Michael Jordan.
The chelsea captain john terry has been ruled out of Wednesday's trip to Manchester City through injury and he recently returned to action from a knee problem, picked up an injury in last week's Champions League win over Napoli and was forced to miss the weekend FA Cup victory over Leicester.A chelsea interim boss Roberto Di Matteo admits the game at the Etihad Stadium will come too soon for Terry and he is hopeful the skipper will be fit for Saturday's crucial home clash with Tottenham to it still a bit too early for John Terry, admitted Di Matteo to he did very well to come back in such a short time and we were lucky to he should be fine for the weekend.Early career for a john terry was born in Barking, east London, and attended Eastbury Comprehensive School and he played initially for Senrab and he is an English professional footballer to he plays in a centre back position and is the captain of Chelsea in the Premier League to he was also captain of the England national football team. Terry was named UEFA Club Defender of the Year in 2005, 2008 and 2009 and PFA Players' Player of the Year in 2005 and was included in the FIFPro World XI for four consecutive seasons, from 2005 to 2008 in he was also named in the all-star squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the only English player to make the team to he wears the number 26 shirt for Chelsea.
The Aston Villa have agreed to Bolton's request to postpone Tuesday's Premier League match and sent of the best wishes to Fabrice Muamba in the Bolton midfielder remains in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest in the FA Cup quarter-final at Tottenham on Saturday.The Aston Villa were due to host Owen Coyle's men in league action in midweek but have now released a statement to confirm the game will not go ahead to prayers of Aston Villa Football Club are with Fabrice Muamba and his family," read the statement to our thoughts also extend to his teammates in the management staff and all at Bolton Wanderers Football Club at this terrible time.And the Club without hesitation to has agreed to Bolton's request to postpone our Barclays Premier League game scheduled for Tuesday at Villa Park in we also wish to thank our supporters for in the expressions of sympathy and support for the Muamba family and all at Bolton Wanderers.The Villa manager Alex McLeish, chief executive Paul Faulkner and captain Stiliyan Petrov also voiced their support for Muamba on behalf of the Midlands club in the mcLeish said to i am shocked and saddened by what happened to Fabrice during Bolton's FA Cup game at White Hart Lane and subsequent developments to have worked with Fabrice as a player at Birmingham and he has always been a terrific lad to nothing other than the perfect professional.
Fc Barcelona's orange and yellow second shirt for next season is leaked and the Catalan club have already upset some of their fans with an unusual blurry design set to be used next season as their home shirt, yet the second strip is even more off the wall.A several weeks after Barcelona's home kit for 2012-13 was leaked on social networking sites, an image of the Catalan club's second strip for next season has found its way onto Twitter and the traditional red and blue stripes will give way to a blurry design for next term with one thick red stripe down the middle and blue either side in the image has done the rounds on the Internet and upset many fans, who have voiced their criticism of the new shirt.And the second strip to a bright orange and yellow number is likely to cause even more controversy and they here is an image of the Catalans second shirt for 2012-13.
The Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini is confident that his side can recover from their loss to Swansea City at the weekend and win the Premier League title this season and the city went down 1-0 at the Liberty Stadium to lose the pole position in the table to rivals Manchester United was their 2nd successive defeat last week.The Mancini's team lost 1-0 to Sporting Lisbon in Portugal in the 1st leg of their Europa League last-16 tie and will host them in Manchester for the return leg on Thursday to speaking ahead of that clash and the mancini claimed that his players can recover from their back-to-back losses.They are Against Sporting Lisbon in Portugal and Swansea City we did not play very good games he said in the pre-match press conference on Wednesday to we did not play like Manchester City usually play to think we need to play better and sometimes if you are unlucky in this game, you can lose.They we cannot cry, now is the time to be strong and keep going. We are a top team and we can recover to one point behind Manchester United and we have 10 games, and we can change it if we want to i prefer to stay at the top of the table and we were there for six months and 28 games, Now we are behind but it is important to be there at the end of the season to we are disappointed about the defeat against Swansea but now we are focused on Sporting Lisbon.
The Rafael van der Vaart is determined to help Tottenham Hotspur to an FA Cup quarter-final victory over Bolton as he bids to realise his ambition of playing at Wembley and the midfielder was set to step out at Wembley for the 1st time in the Netherlands friendly against England last month to the injury forced him to pull out of the match.And the win over Bolton on Saturday would send Spurs into the FA Cup semi-final and Van der Vaart is eager to get there at the 1st time of asking without the headache of a replay adding to their already congested fixture list in the Wembley is a special stadium and because I missed the friendly against England I've never played he told the club's official website.They are always difficult in the FA Cup and we will play at home against Bolton so we'll be strong and we have a good chance of making the semi-finals and playing at Wembley and they are having already beaten Bolton 3-0 at White Hart Lane this season, Tottenham will be favourites to progress in the 29-year-old is taking nothing for granted to it won't make a difference on Saturday he said in a separate game and we have to win, we don't want a replay.
The Arsenal midfielder Tomas Rosicky has signed a new contract and admits it is a 'great honour' to be staying at Emirates Stadium and the Czech Republic international has scored 19 goals in 156 appearances for the Gunners since joining from Borussia Dortmund in 2006 to he missed 18 months through injury.They are 31-year-old's previous deal was due to expire at the end of the season to he has agreed an extension after impressing in recent weeks and he was linked with a move to several clubs during the January transfer window, he is delighted to be staying with the Gunners.He is told the club's official website to it is a great honour to sign a new deal with Arsenal, I love the club and am proud to wear the Arsenal shirt to felt like home since I arrived six years ago and I couldn't be happier to commit my future to the team.The arsenal boss Arsene Wenger added always been a big admirer of Tomas abilities and am delighted he's chosen to commit his future to the club in believe he is an exceptional player natural footballer who is technically top class and he plays the style of football we champion here and shares completely our philosophy is always ready to work for the sake of the club to willing to put the team first have huge respect for him.
