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Robben And His Fitness, Pepe hails Schuster
Robben And His Fitness, Pepe hails Schuster
Robben would like Van Der Vaart at Real and also would like to get fit
We had Schuster earlier who really wanted Van Der Vaart, he still does but now Robben also wants Van Der Vaart, ofcourse he is his fellow countrymen Van Der Vaart. Probably, Robben thinks that he can link up with Van Der Vaart more than with Sniejder though I differ. I think Sneijder has proved it time and time again that he is a big name, big game player. He performed very well in the Euro’s but was unfortunate that Holland could not win the tournament.
Robben’s a lefty and so is Van Der Vaart, may be that way Robben would feel more comfortable on the pitch with so many lefties, like Marcelo and Drenthe. Yeah, that was very stupid logic but who knows.
Robben said about his pal Van Der Vaart
“For now he is not here,” said Robben. “He is a very good player and would be a great signing for Real Madrid.
“But I remember when I was at Chelsea and Real Madrid wanted me. It was always ‘it’ll happen tomorrow morning’ and nothing happened. So I was stuck for six weeks.
“This situation is very difficult. I trained every day with Chelsea, but my head was in Madrid. My suggestion to Van der Vaart is stay calm. Just keep training with Hamburg and look after your fitness.”
Then Robben started commmenting on his situation with Real Madrid and his goals for the new seasons (which I thought was the main topic but Robben gave Van Der Vaart some worthy time too). Robben wants to silence his critics at Real Madrid, this season. Robben has remained injured for most of his time at Real Madrid. I think he has remained injured for most of his life (atleast his football career) never mind Real Madrid.
I think it was one of the reasons (probably one of the two reasons, the other reason being his attitude) why Chelsea sold him to Real Madrid. Robben is an exceptional talent no doubt but he is never fit enough to showcase his class on consistent basis.
Robben played very well in the previous match of Real Madrid (it was a friendly match against some Belgium’s league side)
The Dutchman has been in exciting form in preseason and declared: “I hope this is my year, but when you think about it, it becomes more difficult. Now I feel good and I am very keen.
“This season I want to enjoy playing soccer and not worry about injuries. My first objective is to be important for this team.
“It hurts a little when people say I’m injury-prone. I am not made of glass, it is only a consequence of a back problem. When people see me train they do not say these things because I show that I can be very strong.“
Yeah, I can see that too but listen Robben, you have to prove it at the big stages two, its of very little use to be good at training and then get injured when the real matches start. I mean look at Recoba (Inter Milan player), he also was an awesome talent. People say Raul (who is a big name player in world football, for reasons other than having pure talent) has less ability than Recoba but Raul is mentally so strong that he is able to overcome his technical limitations that he may have, Recoba does not have that leader’s quality in him.
Same is the case with Robben but in a different sense, I think Robben can be among the top 3 players in the world if he can stay fit for longer periods of time. He is right up there with Ronaldo and Robinho (Messi I think is way above all players).
Anyway, I hope he stays true to his words because if he is able to remain fit for the full whole season and assuming that Schuster gives him first team action then I assure you guys that Real Madrid would not regret the failure of not getting ,their main target this summer, Cristiano Ronaldo as I think Robben can match him pace to pace and skill to skill if Robben stays fit for like 30 odd games.
Moving on to Robben teammate at Real Madrid Pepe, who apparently is a huge admirer of Bernd Schuster and his man management skills are wonderful. He is not the first man in the history of this game who admires his coach or manager. Ofcourse it deprends solely on the manager whether a player plays a match or not so it’s never a bad idea to try to get that soft corner of a manager (I am not saying that it’s a good practise).
Pepe thinks he has the quality and so does the whole squad to win Champions League
Pepe also insists ,just like Guti the other day, that Real Madrid can win the Champions League this season.
The Portugal defender said: “Yes we can win the UEFA Champions League, but we must play with humility. We have good players, with high quality and we are very united. Winning would be a dream come true.”
Pepe revealed how he has benefitted from coach Bernd Schuster’s man-management.
“Bernd Schuster always asks me if everything is fine, if I need something. In my first year he was very attentive and his support was very important to me.”
Yeah Schuster is a different type of a coach, very different to former Real Madrid coach Fabio Capello who worked like a General, made his players work hard every minute and when a player did something which was not to Fabio’s liking, he never let that opportunity get away and really made his feelings very clear (was very vocal about it) to that individual.
Schuster in contrast makes his players feel at home and really talks to them in a friendly manner. Schuster though has a reputation, of concentrating on getting his men very very fit but he does it in a different way than Capello, Schuster wants his players to enjoy while they train which is the way to go about it I feel. Anyway, the thing is that Pepe likes Schuster’s approach and thats that, I ll write another post of Schuster’s coaching sometime later.
