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July 31st, 2007

‘It’s Boring to Finish 3rd or 4th Every Season’

By: Cesar | Comments 11 Comments

The title of this article are words uttered by our dearly beloved, coach Quique Sanchez Flores during a sitdown with Spanish rag AS.
Well, maybe my translation isn’t quite right, but I think we get the point. And he’s right: it’s a bore seeing a team as good as this finishing in such a rubbish [...]



July 27th, 2007

Updates and Tidbits

By: Cesar | Comments 21 Comments

I wish there was more to say, but it’s been a slow time for our lads out in pre-season training.
- Hildebrand and Alexis, two of our summer transfers, are having physical problems and didn’t participate in training the last few days.
- Kim Kallstrom’s agent is in Valencia today hoping to secure a deal. [...]

July 24th, 2007

First Pre-Season Match

By: Cesar | Comments 5 Comments

The tedious, yawn-inducing season known as ‘pre-season’ got underway today as Valencia kicked off against Lokomotiv SofĂ­a in Ermelo, Holland.
500 people with nothing better to do showed up and watched captain David Albelda receive two yellows and an early trip to the showers, David Villa miss a penalty and the debuts of Alexis, Sunny, [...]

July 20th, 2007

Ivan Helguera? Hmm …

By: Cesar | Comments 9 Comments

Our beloved signed defender Ivan Helguera from Real Madrid today. Judging by the picture, he looks sort of confused about it.
He’s been capped 47 times for Spain, won three league titles and two European Cups after joining Real from Espanyol in 1999.
He was overlooked at the start of last season by coach Fabio Capello, [...]

July 18th, 2007

Sunny, Mata and some guy named Ayala

By: Cesar | Comments 10 Comments

The future of our beloved Valencia CF was on display today as young starlets Juan Angel Mata and Sunday Stephen Obayan, known as ‘Sunny’, passed physicals and were presented to the media.
These young lads are the future of not only our club, but the Spanish national team, showing flair and finesse at the Under-20 [...]

Category Category: Team News


July 16th, 2007

The Season Starts Today … Kind of …

By: Cesar | Comments 9 Comments

The pre-season starts today, with Valencia returning to the friendly confines of Paterna to begin work on the 2007-2008 campaign. The year we win the Champions League? The season we celebrate a Triplete?
We’ll see.
Today, I’ll take a break from my usual whine fest to give you opinions on some of the interesting news emanating [...]

July 13th, 2007

Lucho, Morientes Shocker and the Fixtures List

By: Cesar | Comments 4 Comments

Let me begin by not ranting and raving too much at the inadequacies of my favorite team. True, I wear the escudo (shield) close to my heart. But what good will it do me to get so anxious over their lack of moves?
We did get some quality over the summer (Alexis, Hildebrand) and we [...]

July 11th, 2007

Que Lento! – How Slow!

By: Cesar | Comments 6 Comments

So … anything new? How are you guys doing?
Hot out there, no? Umm … well … hmm …
This feels like the extent of news coming out of Valencia these days.
Slim & none.
Yes, we learned that our presentation game is August 19th against Parma.
We know that we’ll play in the Emirates Cup in London [...]

July 6th, 2007

Quick Hit-And-Run

By: Cesar | Comments 6 Comments

This one’s a quickie, as we’re right in the middle of a major American holiday and I’m needing to drink some adult beverages and soak in some sun.
But that doesn’t mean the soap opera that is our beloved Valencia CF stops playing … it just keeps on churning!
The biggest news out of Mestalla [...]

Category Category: Team News
July 3rd, 2007

Summer Dreams

By: Cesar | Comments 9 Comments

I come to you on the eve of one of the biggest American holidays, the Fourth of July. We celebrate the declaration of our independence from the British by barbequing, attending parades, going to the beach, drinking too much and blowing up firecrackers.
The world-renowned center of the fireworks world is Valencia. And in Valencia, [...]






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