Comments on: Spain Euro 2008 and Awards Time

By: Doc

Doc — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:13:56 +0000

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.

By: deky

deky — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:51:46 +0000

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

By: Almendras

Almendras — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:19:42 +0000

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….

By: Janey

Janey — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:30:35 +0000

Player of the year= Joaquin…

Other categories: Funniest moment of the year/season?

By: Timothy Lakefront

Timothy Lakefront — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:17:38 +0000

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.

By: Timothy Lakefront

Timothy Lakefront — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:13:45 +0000

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.”

By: Cesar

Cesar — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:11:51 +0000

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

By: Alessandra

Alessandra — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:53:01 +0000

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.

By: Timothy Lakefront

Timothy Lakefront — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:11:17 +0000

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

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 06 May 2008 20:23:09 +0000

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