Good Week / Bad Week
Welcome to the final Good Week / Bad Week of the 2009/10 season. Hopefully there are people out there who enjoy reading these. As with all articles on Soccer Gaming, if you enjoy a piece, please let the author know you do so, either via a comment or their e-mail when it is specified. This week has seen the conclusion of most of the major European leagues. Congratulations are in order for the respective league champions, with a special mention going to Inter Milan, who have completed part two of what may prove to be a very tasty treble. Elsewhere, the bad week could have gone to a number of clubs or individuals, including Kermorgant, whose chipped penalty potentially cost Leicester a lucrative cup final place. And in the same competition, DJ Campbell is very unlucky to not be receiving the award for good week, following an exceptional hat-trick that helped see Blackpool through to the final!
Good Week - Barcelona
Very tricky not to give this award to the Spanish Champions this year. Whereas Manchester United chased Chelsea all the way in the EPL, Real Madrid proved a huge and worthy opponent for Barcelona’s star studded squad. The money spent by los Galacticos has ironically proved to buy no trophies, whereas the kids from Barca have won the biggest prize in Spain, and have done so with a swagger that Mr.Ronaldo and Mr. Kaka would love to be displaying. Players like Pedro and Sergio Busquets have really proven themself in the big domestic games this season, whereas squad players such as Keita and Milito have played crucial parts at teh right time. Of course, then there is Lionel Messi, of whom enough have been spoken, his world cup has the potential to be the stuff of legends. Pep Guardiola, one of the youngest coaches in the game, understands how is club should be run, and fits the tradition of a side who up until the last six years, were really consider the sleeping giants of European football. In the same way that everyone admires the way Brazil play the sport, it should be said that this season, Barcelona have been equally mouth watering!
Bad Week - Michael Ballack
The German captain has recently been told he is out of the World Cup following a nasty tackle by Kevin Prince Boetang in the FA Cup Final. Fact, two minutes before Ballack had slapped the same player round the
face, and fact, Boetang is technically still a German native, but there is very little to feel good about in this situation. As an Englishman, I know Ballack at the World Cup was just another superstar we had to contend with, but realistically, you want players like him there. Maybe he hasn’t set the world alight at Chelsea, but on the International stage he is a top player. Missing the 2002 WC Final against Brazil through suspension made him a legend in German folklore, and now with this tournament, more than likely his final tournament, ruined by injury, he is surely going to go under the banner of a great international captain who failed to lift any silverwear of note. A shame, but maybe just enough to turn him into a true German legend.
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