Spain Euro 2008 and Awards Time

By: Cesar | May 6th, 2008

euro2008_logo1.jpgWith Valencia’s season winding down, I’m going to be concentrating more effort on Spain’s Euro 2008 campaign.

That’s right, Euro 2008 is just around the corner! It begins June 7th with Spain’s first game against Russia June 10th in Innsbruck.

Make sure to check out my Spain Euro 2008 blog, hosted by theoffside.com for my ‘insightful’ coverage …

Many Valencia players should be there. David Villa. David Silva. Marchena.

Maybe Joaquin.

Maybe Raul Albiol.

Whatever! It’s La Furia Roja!! So let’s support them!

It should be fun … make sure to check it out.

On top of that, I thought it would be fun to give awards at the end of the season for Valencia’s players.

So, here’s the categories …
- Valencia Player of the Year
- Valencia Goat of the Year … in other words, worst player …
- Best Moment of the Season
- Worst Moment of the Season … if we get relegated, well … that might win …
- Best Game
- Worst Game

Can you think of any other categories??

Post your comments here or e-mail them to me and we’ll have a Valencia ‘gala’ at the end of the season …

Uggh … what a crappy season it’s been …





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  • Corey |  May 6th, 2008 at 9:06 am

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    Worst player or worst coach, because surely Koeman must be the goat here.

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  • rey |  May 6th, 2008 at 9:06 am

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    - Valencia Player of the Year-Villa

    - Valencia Goat of the Year
    …the whole team –(goats of the year)

    - Best Moment of the Season-
    only one..the copa final

    - Worst Moment of the Season …
    could get even worse hope not..

    - Best Game-Valencia Vs Barcelona in semis

    - Worst Game-(worse is too weak a word) 6-0
    barcelona it must be.

    -Valencia most unlucky person of the year-
    Vicente Rodríguez Guillén

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  • bob |  May 6th, 2008 at 9:51 am

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    villa
    puta koeman
    barca semis
    barca lastweek
    barca semis
    barca lastweek

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  • Daniel |  May 6th, 2008 at 10:10 am

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    Best Player: Villa
    Goat: Koeman
    Best Moment: Copa del Rey victory
    Worst Moment: 5-1 loss to Madrid & 6-0 loss to Barca (hopefully not to be outdone by relegation at the hands of Levante)
    Best Game: Second leg v Barca & Copa final
    Worst Game: (see Worst Moment above)

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  • Gevorg |  May 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am

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    Joaquin
    Arizmendi
    Morientes scoring the final goal in copa pinal
    Bojan scoring the 6-th goal last weekend
    Vaencia_Barcelona (Copa )
    Barcelona-Valencia(La Liga)
    Actually copa del rey is the only thing gave me what I needed from the team, and La liga performance was an absolute disappointment. But I amsatisfied as we won the Copa.

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  • Elisa |  May 6th, 2008 at 11:32 am

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    I agree with Bob, except replace puta with cabron.

    On a separate note, great news about blogging for Spain during the Euros Cesar. I look forward to your enlightening banter.

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  • Steven |  May 6th, 2008 at 11:41 am

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    Long time no post on here but i was nudged here by a thread on XtraTime. ;)

    - Valencia Player of the Year - Well…..David Villa? Really tough this one

    - Valencia Goat of the Year … Ivan Helguera, i’d say him, but in truth i could name a host of players.

    - Best Moment of the Season - Copa del Rey final surely? Just a great night and i was proud of Valencia again. Notable mentions to the 3-2 win @ Bernabeu, i was so happy that night and also the 3-2 win over Barca in the CdR semi’s aswell, all 3 are my best moments of the season.

    - Worst Moment of the Season … Oh god where to start, Rosenborg 2-0 at Mestalla, 6-0 v Barca, 5-1 v Madrid, 5-1 v Bilbao, god anymore? I’ve forgotten how many times we’ve been pumped this season.

    - Best Game - 3-2 @ Bernabeu and 2nd comes 3-2 v Barca

    - Worst Game - 6-0 v Barca.

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  • Original Ali |  May 6th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

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    Vcf football of the year - none but the best of the worst is VILLA
    Goat of the year- Ivan helguera ( id say the whole team are bunch of goats this season)
    Best moment- winning over real Madrid and barca.
    Worst moment- 6-0 barca..5-1 bilbao..5-1 madrid..90% of the games :)
    Best game- against barca
    worst game - barca 6-0

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  • martijn |  May 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

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    - Valencia Player of the Year - David Villa (though its champion of the poor this year).
    Goat of the year - The team as whole, you cant blame such a season on one player.
    Best moment - Copa del Rey win, duh.
    Worst moment - the moment they appointed Koeman as manager, With the banishment of the three and the bangena soap following closely.
    Best game - Copa del Rey final was quite good, and at least the team showed spirit there too.
    Worst Game - 6-0 Barca, playing bad can happen but playing without a spine SHOULD never happen (take a look at Mark van Bommel for example, delaying his broken nose operation so he can play the end of the season and help his team, THATS the mentality we need, not that bunch of spineless women that played against barca).

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  • Daniel |  May 6th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

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    I was close to putting Helguera as my goat, but I thought him taking pics with the angry fans was cool.. plus Koeman may not be a player, but he sure is goat of the year in world football, forget Valencia or jus la liga

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  • Timothy Lakefront |  May 6th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

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    Cesar, I’m glad to see your on the Euro Cup Spain blog. La Furia Roja’s the only thing keeping me going these days, now that Valencia and Osasuna are close to relegation. Intertops is giving Spain 6:1 odds to win the cup this summer–I put in a bet. I can’t wait to watch my beloved Espana break the curse and bring home a trophy–the first and only since 1964’s Euro Cup triumph. Regarding this season’s honors: it is a sickening exercise replaying this season’s horrific features. Be that as it may, here goes:
    Player of the year: Mata or Villa
    Goat of the Year: where to start? Helguera, Arizmendi (Madrid winner notwithstanding), etc.
    Best Moment: cup win and firing of Koeman, and Angulo being expelled from the team–I apologize to Cesar and others who respect his desire, but I can’t stand the guy and his glaring lack of talent
    Worst Moment: every waking second besides the cup win

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  • Alessandra |  May 6th, 2008 at 2:53 pm

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    Right on, Timothy. It’s all about La Seleccion for me now too.

    Valencia Player of the Year: Villa (even though he’s pissed me off quite a bit throughout the season)
    - Valencia Goat of the Year: Arizmendi and Helguera
    - Best Moment of the Season: Firing Koeman and whenever we won.
    - Worst Moment of the Season: As of now, Quique getting sacked and Koeman disrespecting the players and throwing out “the trio.”
    - Best Game: When we recently won RM and finally axing Koeman.
    - Worst Game: I missed the Barca match, so I can’t say much about that one, but definitely the first time we went against RM this season. That was a biatch.

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  • Cesar |  May 6th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

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    Good stuff guys!
    I’ll do a tabulation at the end of the season and hand out awards in the summer …
    I kinda like Angulo BTW!!!
    - Cesar

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  • Timothy Lakefront |  May 6th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

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    Haha. Cesar, although I have trouble understanding it, I know you have love for you Angulo. That’s why I prefaced my criticism of him with: “I apologize to Cesar and others who respect his desire.”

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  • Timothy Lakefront |  May 6th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

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    By the way, is there anybody in the D.C. area who loves Valencia and or the Spanish national team? If so, let’s have some pints and watch Valencia get merked every week and Spain underachieve despite immense talent.

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  • Janey |  May 6th, 2008 at 10:30 pm

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    Player of the year= Joaquin…

    Other categories: Funniest moment of the year/season?

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  • Almendras |  May 7th, 2008 at 12:19 am

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    Best Player..Joaquin for his magical expertise. For me Villa is over-rated because he is too inconsistent.
    Worst Player..Difficult to saddle any one person with this but I therefore pick Mora
    Best Moment..Sacking of Koeman, glorious moment
    Worst Moment..The news and treatment of sacking Cani/Angulo/Albelda
    Best Game..The 2-3 win away against Madrid. The Copa was a good game but Getafe were mentally shattered after their fantastic performance against Bayern
    Worst Game..5-1 loss to Athletic Bilbao. OK the Barca 6-0
    was bad, but at least they had Messi/Etoo/Henry etc….

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  • deky |  May 12th, 2008 at 2:51 am

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    Best Player: Joaquin Sanchez
    Goat Player: Helguera
    Best Moment: Copa del Rey final
    Worst Moment:Koeman arrived at Mestalla(it was the beginning of the horror)
    Best Game: winning against madrid in bernabue
    Worst Game: loss 1-5 against madrid in Mestalla

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  • Doc |  May 15th, 2008 at 5:13 am

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    Best Player: Silva - best of a bad bunch?
    Worst Player: Helguera - you can trace Valencia’s demise back to when he replaced Ayala.
    Best moment: Final whistle agaist Levante - everything other than survival was irrelevant.
    Worst moment: Exile of three players made us a laughing stock.
    Best game: Semi-final Copa Del Ray Second leg.
    Worst game: 3-0 at home to Bilbao confirmed that this was no blip, just an awful Valencia team.

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