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ALBA FEELIN HAPPY
The summer signing for Barcelona, Jordi Alba has said that he is finally feeling happy at the club after a slow start to his Barcelona career. The former Valencia defender Jordi Alba was the one major signing made by the club in the summer. He was signed for around £ 12 million, and he had an excellent Euro 2012 with the Spanish national team. He has been at Valencia since the start of his career, thus the move to Barcelona becoming the first one. As a result, it took him a little while to get acclimatised according to the Spaniard.
However, he is now completely settled at the club and is feeling more happy than ever. Barcelona currently have a three-point advantage over Atletico Madrid in the table. Unlike in previous years when Real Madrid have been the title challengers, the second team from Madrid are now threatening to dislodge Barcelona from the top of the table. Jordi Alba has said that it is about time people started giving credit to Atletico Madrid and regarded them as real title challengers. Due to the presence of one of the best strikers in the world – Radamel Falcao, Madrid have been able to keep in touch with Barcelona.
Jordi Alba has also said that he will not rule out Real Madrid from the title race, despite José Mourinho’s men falling 11 points behind them in the table. “I started a little slowly, but now I feel really good and confident. I’m fitting into the team and I want to get better with every day. They [Atletico] are having a great season and they are challengers for the league. They could easily overtake us. You can’t rule out anybody – a club like Real Madrid will fight until the last game of the season to win the league,” said Alba.
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CASILLAS WAS PRAISE
The former Real Madrid player Ruben De la Red has said that it is about time the Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas was rewarded for his outstanding performances with his club teams and also the Spanish national team over the last decades. The 30-year-old Iker Casillas is regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world. He has won every major title with Real Madrid, while the last few seasons has also been extremely successful on the international front as well for the Spaniard. However, he is yet to win major personal accolades like the FIFA Ballon d’Or award.
The former Real Madrid player Ruben De la Red has made a case for the Real Madrid goalkeeper by saying that he should be given the award this time around. Iker Casillas comes on the back of the title winning season with Real Madrid, while he has also won the Euro 2012 title with the Spanish national team as well. His competitors in the form of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Andreas Iniesta have not been able to achieve just similar feat. Lionel Messi may have scored a lot of goals, Cristiano Ronaldo may have won the la Liga title, while Iniesta the Euro 2012, but Iker Casillas has won both the major titles.
“The truth is, goalkeepers maintain a different outlook to the rest of the team. To me, saving a goal is just as important as scoring one. Through that, Casillas has done enough to deserve the Ballon d’Or,” said the former Real Madrid player Ruben De la Red, who announced his retirement from professional football a few years ago. There have been reports that the goalkeeper Iker Casillas has fallen out with the Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo over the differences with regard to who should win the FIFA Ballon d’Or award.
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MOURINHO DELIGHTED
The Real Madrid manager José Mourinho has said that he is extremely happy that the Catalan club Barcelona’s dominance in the la Liga title has finally been broken by Real Madrid. The former Chelsea and Inter Milan manager José Mourinho has revealed that he was brought to the Santiago Bernebeu with the sole reason of bringing an end to the dominance of Barcelona. Prior to the arrival of José Mourinho, Barcelona had won three league titles. Even though José Mourinho was not successful in his first full season as the Real Madrid manager, he ultimately managed to bring an end to the dominance of Barcelona by winning the league title last season.
He has said that even though Real Madrid have only won one league title to show in the last four seasons, José Mourinho reckons that it is a step in the right direction and feels that Real Madrid will be able to win more titles in the future. Mourinho has said that it is certainly not enough that Real Madrid had one a league title last season. They must repeat the feat this time around as well in order to assert their dominance over Barcelona.
“What is clear is that we have broken Barcelona’s winning run, after the lifted one title after another. Now the balance has shifted and we’ll see how far we can ride the wave. In any case, you have to be honest: we are talking about Real Madrid and Barcelona, two very good teams, two great teams. If you took any other team in the world and put them in La Liga they would not finish either first or second,” said the Real Madrid manager José Mourinho in a recent interview. Mourinho has said that his target is now to win the Champions League with Real Madrid.