En el Schalke no creen que Raúl se marche a Catar - as.com

El director deportivo del Schalke, Horst Heldt, no cree que el español Raúl González deje el club para marcharse a Catar por considerar que no se irá a ninguna parte sin su familia y desde hace tiempo que no tiene que darle una importancia prioritaria al dinero en sus decisiones deportivas.

Heldt, en declaraciones que publica hoy la revista 'Kicker', dice que de momento no hay una idea clara acerca de si Raúl renovará con el Schalke y que sólo se hablará del tema a comienzos de 2012. "No hay una tendencia, sólo hablaremos del tema en el año próximo", dijo Heldt, que sin embargo agregó su convicción de que Raúl descartará la opción de irse a Qatar.

"No me puedo imaginar que se marche a Catar. Raúl hace tiempo que no necesita jugar al fútbol para ganar dinero y no se irá a ninguna parte sin su familia", dijo. Heldt dio a entender que deseaba una renovación de Raúl al decir que "en principio un club no tiene que temer un cambio pero no puede tener éxito solo con jugadores menores de 23 años".

"Raúl will never play football for money and he's not going anywhere without his family" - Horst Heldt Schalke's sport director

  

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Raúl is crazy about Fortuna

After choosing to live in Dusseldorf with his lovely family, Raúl González is finally officially expressed his feeling bout Dusseldorf to Dusseldorf Express (14/12/2011)

"Very nice, everything is comfortable in here" says Raúl to Dusseldorf Express. "We are very happy here. It's almost like in Madrid. The children have many options. It's absolutely nice how all the people come together in here, so warm and very very friendly, the only thing that funny, is the weather." says the superstar

And what really surprising is the fact that  there's something very special that has been totally fascinated the living legend of Spanish football in Dusseldorf : Fortuna!. Once Raúl has time, he always appears with his kids in the Esprit Arena, enjoying the game, yelling and anything like a fan. "If we are traveling with Schalke, Raúl will do everything in his power just so he could watch Fortuna's game, and when he's watching it he always acts like a big fan of Fortuna" says Raúl's team-mate, Christoph Metzelder

"Raúl is crazy about Fortuna," confirms his best buddy in Dusseldorf Express. "He is absolutely thrilled with the euphoria. He told me once that he would love to play for Fortuna, because he could just ride his bike for training, since there are only five miles from his home to Esprit Arena."
Raúl says: "Three or four months before the contract expires I'll decided to choose my family, and let my family to choose. Whether there will be another team after Schalke or not" Does he mean Fortuna? No one knows but the fact is that his son Hugo is already play for the Dusseldorf U10. well only The Tor Señor and maybe his family that knows where he would play after his contract's over.

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source : Dusseldorf Express [www.express.de]

Real Madrid 1-3 Barcelona, Realvolution!!!

Jose Mourinho

El Clasico at Santiago Benabeu last night has turned into an another embarrassing moment for all Madridistas, even at the peak performance Los Merengues been humiliated by Barcelona right in front of their own public. A very quick lead via goal of Karim Benzema in the first minute couldn't be forced to stay still until the last minute, No need to wait very long, Alexis Sanchez's goal equalized the game 30 minutes later. A goal that really "just a matter of time", since from the beginning Fábio Coentrão looks extremely overwhelmed in muffling Alexis, it wasn't  because Fábio has a bad quality, we all know that Fábio is a very good player in technically and physically. but he certainly looks clumsy to be played on the right side, one controversial decision that could be said incredibly stupid from Jose Mourinho.

First half ended up 1-1, but the Cules teror wasn't over yet on the second half Los Galacticos have to enjoying a couple goals from Xavi Hernandez with a little nice help by Marcelo and a beautiful goal by the ex Catalan's lost boy Cesc Fabregas. Real Madrid really frustrated at the last 20 minute and finally have to give a sweet 3 points to Barcelona and letting them to get closer in clasifica.

Yes, there are so many errors have been made by El Real last night, one big clear reflection of failure in the efforts to build a super team that based on the power of money by Florentino Perez, what's the point of having a high salaried coach called the special one, if he only could make more than one special mistake in one special match?. Even Benzema's goal could categorized a lucky goal after Valdes made a "nice pass" to Di Maria.

Real Madrid players celebrating Karim Benzema's goal

Can we blame Mourinho for everything? maybe not, because Real Madrid as one big club is absolutely not in the right track after all, bad transfer policy that based on commercialism maybe one of many factors that we could say, a player like Di Maria is a very unique player, this player was landed for tactically reason but he's not as much as his price, he does created a lot of assists but his diving hobby is clearly inappropriate to be performed by a player with a white jersey and Real Madrid logo on his chest, and sorry he got no special technique after all, so is Marcelo he doesn't look fit enough to play for Real Madrid or at least not yet worthy to be in the starting eleven, his mentality is very unstable and tend to looked stupid and made too many mistakes till this minute.

Iker Casillas

What about Cristiano "the super star" Ronaldo? Sorry for all the fans of CR but I have to say that your idol is nothing but just a mediocre player. Yes, Ronaldo got a very special technique and fantastic physical abilities which are amazing and hard to be compared with all active players in the world, but football isn't just power and skill, it's also heart and spirit, and he's certainly not the type of player who was born to dominating the big match.

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Maybe there is no point talking about something that already happened but if Real Madrid not doing any revolution anytime soon i'm afraid that we're not gonna be nothing but the number2, we really hope there's no naive-ness in the future and stop the useless arrogance, I hope real Madrid realized, that creating a big team should be based on spirit, not only with hundreds millions of money, we need to talk on the field not only on some morning paper and transfer rumor's website.

whatever happens we are Madridistas and always supporting Real Madrid, we were born to be a Madridista but now we need an angel to change the wind and lead us back to the glory, a wise person who do job not only some special talk in press conference.

Last night defeat has given proveto the world one more time, that letting Raul Gonzalez go to Germany is one of the biggest mistakes that ever made by the greatest club of the 20th century Real Madrid C.F.

Are You Ready For El Clasico...???

Real Madrid - Barcelona, Saturday 10/12/2011 Estadio Santiago Bernabéu 22.00

Tomorrow (10/12/2011) is the day that has been awaited by the hundreds of millions of Madridistas around the world, the day that is believed will be a day of revenge, a day of the turning point for Real Madrid to be back on track and dominated La Liga back like they used to.
There is almost no reason to be failed in Estadio Santiago Bernabéu this Saturday.

Good luck Real Madrid
HALA MADRID...!!! SOMOS LOS MEJORES Y CON DIFERENCIA

Vicente del Bosque: "Raul has chance to be called to seleccion"

In the middle of interview with EuroSport.com (7/12/2011) the Spanish national team coach, Vicente del Bosque talked about Raul's chance to get back to national team. He has been asked "how about the idea to play with Raul again and call him back to the national team?" and del Bosque answered "Every Spanish footballer has the chance to be called including Raul. He has more than 100 international caps under his belt and he has shown a spectacular performance with Schalke, I have to say that he deserves to being called and after all everyone knows that he always enjoyed playing for Spain."

Vicente del Bosque got many critics after Spain failed to scored in Wembley stadium against England last month and have to be happy with 1-0 defeat. He received many pressures to call back the living legend of Spanish football who never stops scoring goals at 34, Raul Gonzalez Blanco.

He also been asked bout which one is stronger Real Madrid with the three wise men Raul, Figo, and Zidane or the recent Real Madrid with many 'special' additional that seems arrogant, and he wisely answered  "Mourinho's team is filled with stars and it's only a matter of time for them to get the big trophy, but the Raul's team were not only the three wise men, it also belonged to the players like Helguera, Hierro and Ivan Campo.". From what he said we could take a conclusion that del Bosque looks very appreciated the Spanish players from the past team, and seems so sad that Real Madrid now filled with too many non-Spanish stars.

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Dynamo Moscow might be interested in signing Raul

Dinamo Moscow would be interested in signing Spanish striker Raul Gonzalez, who is currently playing for Schalke in Germany, said the Russian sports daily 'Sovetski Sport. The Moscow team, currently ranked third in the Russian league leading seven points (Zenit) would intend to strengthen the lead with the ex Real Madrid's goal machine.

The team's top scorers with 11 points apiece, are the Russian midfielder Andrei Semshov and Ukrainian Voronin, while the German striker Kevin Kuranyi, who also wore the shirt of Schalke, has 10 goals.

The newspaper notes that as if Raul's contract ends next summer , Dynamo just have to worry about how to pay the high salary of the Spanish legend, who has scored seven goals in fifteen games of Bundesliga and just scored his first Europa League goal that makes himself more comfortable at the top of the list of European all time leading scorers.

Fulham want to take Raul to England

It's not a secret that several clubs in the Premier League are aware of any possibility to get the most experienced striker in Europe, Raul Gonzalez Blanco. Schalke's Spanish striker takes time watching his Schalke future is being discussed in Germany. Despite he has shown a very great performance and many fantastic goals each year, seems to be the rumors of the departure of  the Real Madrid prince in the next summer will be no different.

Schalke general manager acknowledged this week that the continuity of Raul undecided, and it will be discussed in next January. At 34 Raul still a player who targeted by many clubs, he's a great professional that many clubs needed.

So Fulham London, according to the 'Daily Mail', they would have already contacted their representative to be the first in the list of Raul's buyer if Raul not renew his contract with the Royal Blues. In addition, the Blackburn Rovers, on other occasions has already shown interest.

Raúl: " En Alemania me llaman 'Señor Raúl' " - as.com

El exjugador del Real Madrid y ahora del Schalke 04 alemán, Raúl González Blanco, ha reconocido lo "impresionante" que fue para él el trato recibido por parte de la afición del club alemán desde el primer día de su llegada en el verano de 2010, mientras confía en poder seguir "dando alegrías a los aficionados".

"Para mí ha sido una gran sorpresa el cariño y el respeto que me han demostrado desde mi llegada. La gente por la calle me decía ''muchas gracias por venir'' y también en otros campos. Noto mucho cariño y respeto. Ha sido muy importante porque fue una decisión complicada salir del Real Madrid, venir aquí a Alemania y me siento muy agradecido. Sobre todo cuando en el campo me llaman ''Señor Raúl'', no me lo esperaba, ese respeto. Ojalá que pueda seguir jugando, seguir dando alegrías a los aficionados y yo creo que de momento todos estamos contentos", señala en una entrevista exclusiva para Canal+ Liga.

Sorprendido por el nivel de la Bundesliga

En la misma, el ariete reconoce que le ha "sorprendido el nivel, sobre todo físico de los equipos" y "el ambiente en los estadios de la Bundesliga": "Es una liga muy competitiva, puedes jugar contra el último clasificado y perder y juegas contra uno de arriba y tienes posibilidades de ganar. Es muy igualada y eso es la grandeza de esta competición, de la Bundesliga que cualquier partido es complicado y siempre tienes que dar el máximo".

"Es impresionante el ambiente en los estadios. La verdad es que me ha sorprendido. Jugar casa es más especial, pero los fans del Schalke están por toda Alemania y cada partido aquí es una fiesta y luego cuando hemos jugado fuera, en Munich, en Dortmund, en Hannover..., hay del Schalke... 3.000, 4.000 ó 5.000, lo que nos hace no sentirnos solos. La atmósfera en cada partido de la Bundesliga es súper especial y la verdad es que me ha sorprendido, porque cada partido te da ganas como jugador de dar un plus más para hacer las cosas bien", valora.

Ambientazo en Alemania

Y es que destaca que en Alemania "la gente respira fútbol todo el día": "Viene mucha gente a vernos entrenar, pidiendo fotos, autógrafos. El jugador eso lo siente, hace que estés más comprometido con tu equipo. Sabes que hay mucha gente atrás y que te esfuerces y que intentes dar todo lo mejor para poder darles muchas alegrías y conseguir muchas victorias que es lo que ellos quieren".

Tras haber superado dejar el Real Madrid cree que ambos equipos "no se pueden comparar". "El Real Madrid es el mejor equipo del mundo, tiene grandísimos jugadores en su plantilla. He tenido la suerte de jugar allí 16 años y después de compartir vestuario con los mejores jugadores del mundo aquí es diferente, es un equipo muy joven, con mucha ilusión, con mucho futuro".

"Estoy muy contento porque el recibimiento desde el primer día ha sido muy bueno. Es un grupo humano muy bueno, en el que todo el mundo nos llevamos muy bien. Ha sido muy fácil la adaptación, gracias a mis compañeros", agradece.

Las aspiraciones del Schalke

Además, la pasada campaña fueron protagonistas en la Liga de Campeones, alcanzando las semifinales y eliminado al vigente campeón, Inter de Milán, cuando vivió uno de los momentos más especiales: "La gente empezó a decir mi nombre al capitán, Neuer, que me empujó hacia los aficionados.... la verdad es que iba muy nervioso porque entre que no hablo bien alemán y que no lo iba a entender..., pero bueno, fue una experiencia muy bonita que me gustó mucho y que también la gente lo ha agradecido mucho". "Desde que ha llegado aquí, lo que intento es integrarme a todo lo que es el Schalke, lo que es el club, lo que es la gente, el día a día, y espero seguir pudiendo disfrutar y sobre todo ver a la gente tan feliz que es lo que uno le da esa recompensa de ir todo los día a entrenar y de querer jugar", resalta.

Sin dar pistas sobre su futuro, se congratula del buen comienzo de la presente campaña, aunque prefiere no poner metas. "Estamos contentos, en una posición privilegiada, en puestos europeos, y creo que los objetivos del Schalke deben ser partido a partido. Sabemos que si jugamos a un nivel alto y que si mantenemos una regularidad podemos pelear por puestos de la ''Champions'', ojalá que también por la Bundesliga, pero yo creo que no nos tenemos que marcar grandes objetivos, ir partido a partido e intentar llegar lo más lejos posible", sentencia.

source: as.com

Raúl's first Europa League goal sends Schalke into last 32

Comfortably the Champions League's all-time leading scorer, predatory striker Raúl González Blanco finally opened his account in the Europa League to fire former champion Schalke into the knockout stage.

The legend scored a 57th-minute winner as Schalke sealed first place in Group J by beating Steaua Bucharest 2-1 in Gelsenkirchen. Yet, Raúl has been failed to find the net in four Europa League matches before breaking his duck against Steaua, pouncing on a loose ball to steer home a close-range finish after Klaas-Jan Huntelaar's shot was blocked by Eric Bicfalvi.

The first goal in Europa League makes him "unreachable" at the top of the list of all-time leading scorers with 74 historical goals in all UEFA European competition, 4goals away from the nearest challenger Italian opportunist  striker AC.Milan's Filippo Inzaghi.

 
"It is great to play alongside him (Raúl) because he is very experienced, clever, and has seen so much." - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

"Raúl's goal was the result of an individual mistake of us , but everyone knows that you can't make a single mistake if he (Raúl) is on the field."  - Ilie Stan, Steaua coach

  

"Playing against player like Raúl González gave us extra motivation, shame we were losing concentration for some minutes and  a player like him (Raúl) just needed few seconds to change the game." -Geraldo Alves, Steaua defender

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