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Ronaldo Wins And Barcelona Draw.

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Borris Becker in General, Real Madrid Football Club

Pedro Fired Barcelona into the lead at Camp Nou but his effort was cancelled out

Howdie my Real Madrid Madridistas.

After a long lay off, I finally saw something interesting at goal.com. There was this poll that was held in determining exactly who is the greatest player of the past decade. Now, I personally hate polls but hye, if they prove any of my points then I am more than happy to use or QUOTE them.

Today, I saw the result and CONGRATS to all Ronaldo (Brazil, ughh) fans. Ronaldo has been voted the best player of the past decade. Now that is some serious claim as we all know players like Henry, Rivaldo, Zidane, Figo, Raul, Roberto Carlos, Giggs, Ronaldinho (who was not even in the list I think) and Maldini all come under the “past decade” tag and I think quite deservingly Ronaldo has won the claim.

I have said  it countless times that had it not been for Ronaldo’s injuries and his unprofessional attitutde towards his 30s, Ronaldo would have been praised as the greatest of all time. You don’t need me telling you that, there are lots of people who believe the same. Cannavaro and Jose Mourinho being the two of those clan of people.

Anyway, coming to another good news which I just saw and that’s Barcelona has drawn its match against Villareal at home. Great going Villa. Now Barcelona are just 2 points ahead of Real Madrid and Real Madrid have a game in hand which means that theoretically we are number 1 in the league.

Barcelona might have won 6 out of 6 titles available in 2009 to them but Real Madrid are still fighting hard in trying to stay up with the standards that have been set by this sublime Barcelona team, little credit to Guardiola though and lots of credit to Messi. I think he is currently the only player in world football who has the potential to do anything he wants with his career and with the ball while he is on the pitch and I would not say the same for C.Ronaldo. Ronaldo is great too, but when the going gets tough…..MESSI gets going.

In other news (yeah I do sound formal when saying that) Ronaldo thinks that this Real Madrid will be the best team of 2010. I am not so sure about that as only time can tell what is there to unfold but with the collection of superstars at Real Madrid’s disposal I would not bet against that claim especially if Ronaldo, kaka and Benzema (not to mention Lassana Diarra) remain fit for the rest of the season. Though, Ronaldo also thinks that the obsession of winning Champions League does put a lot of pressure on players, he thinks that winning the Champions League with Manchester United was the greatest moment in his career and he would love to do that with Real Madrid (well, he did not actually say that but he did say that Madrid should not think about Champions League too much and should also give La Liga Crown some weight). Well, my answer to that would be that the reason because we are all so obsessed with Champions League this season is for 2 reasons.

1 is that Perez has put in alot o f investment in the club this season and the only way he can justify that is by winning the Champions Leaguue, La Liga should be Chicken feed now as Schuster and Capello both gave us that with very little spending compared to Perez’s (amazing, spending is generally mentioned in context to the managers. Generally that is, which means, whenever Perez is not the President). 2 is that the final of the Champions League will be at the Bernabeu and if Ronaldo can win the Champions League there for Real Madrid, it would be a unimaginable achievement.

In other news, Liverpool are hunting for Van Der Vaart (who has started to show his class lately in Real Madrid matches, also because now that Guti is likely to leave, may be that has given Liverpool some confidence that he is really worth something and Real Madrid just have not been able to utilize his immense talent just like with Sniejder. Mourinho also agrees that it is strange that Inter Milan’s most important player was only able to win a bench place at Real Madrid.

Real Madrid’s next match is away from home against Osasuna and lets just hope we can reclaim the top position from Barcelona. HALA MADRID!!!