Where the guess flies

Euro-football at the weekend football events in the English Premier League this weekend was supplemented by one curious hearing. More precisely, the topic for conversations: will Chelsea change his coach Mourinho at the end of the season of his coach Ericksson, who is freed from the national bonds? Of course, the press service of the London club immediately responded: “With the aim of destabilizing Chelsea, more implausible stories were published at different times,” the official statement said. - Nothing will come out, we will not comment on such escapades. Our club and Jose are united around a unique long -term project - to make Chelsea one of the best teams in Europe. ”

Here, of course, the press service of the blue rights is one hundred percent: Ericksson with his reduced trust rating in the near future, not a single self-respecting English team will call himself. But the topic for reasoning appeared, and the very fact of her birth is symptomatic: perhaps for the first time in two incomplete years at the level of newspaper fantasies, the version of the resignation of Jose Mourinho was voiced. And after the story with the loving and self -human Swedish coach of the England national team, it became clear to everyone how powerful in the UK newspaper. They really can at least resign anyone.

On the main football island of the continent, one amazing match was played - the Mersiside derby "Liverpool" and "Everton". The game full of passions: in the 18th minute, the owners of Enfield remained ten after the removal of Captain Jerrard, and in the last minute the half was led in the score thanks to the autogol of Phil Neville. The intrigue of the second half of the game was provided, and after the break, the audience saw three more goals and one red card. Liverpool won 3: 1.

Following the games of national championships this week, the quarter -finals of the Champions League will be played, and here it may not even be important as their future participants played on the weekend, but whether they played at all. For example, the Arsenal was lucky with a struck epidemic of injuries: in the south of the kingdom there were plentiful rains, the field in Portsmouth turned out to be unsuitable for football, and the game of “gunners” was postponed. Arsen Wenger suddenly had a couple of extra days for prevention and outpatient procedures before the match against Juventus.

The “Old Signora” had a difficult match in the series A against Roma: the midfielder of the Nedveda for a few minutes at the end of the first half grabbed two cards and left his partners ten. True, with one ball the advantages in the account. “Juve” kept it almost until the end of the game, but still missed it. Meanwhile, a very good match against Fiorentina issued Milan. Rossoneri allowed to distinguish between the best bombarder of League Luke Tony, but they themselves scored three times - and now only eight points are lagging behind Juventus. And around the coach Carlo Ancelotti still rages the waves of conversations about the transition to Real. They temporarily stopped when he extended his contract with Milan until 2008, but now resumed with renewed vigor. The Spanish newspaper AS showed the greatest awareness in the backstage of the negotiation process, which claims that only the financial and political interests of Silvio Berlusconi, who is trying to sell his specialist more expensive, are behind the revision of the terms and conditions of the Anchelotta contract. As it even became known that Carlo through the emissaries of Real Madrid passed his wishes not to part with Ronaldo: it seems that the Italian coach knows how to make a formidable football player again from the dentist.

But Real Madrid this weekend was worried about completely different events. In Mexico in a plane crash, the sports director of the club Horge Valdano suffered. His helicopter fell shortly after takeoff, seven passengers were on board. One of them is a woman whose name is not called - died of the head of the head received, the life of the rest is out of danger. Jorge Waldano lies in a hospital with numerous fractures and lung damage. It is by virtue of the latter that Valdano cannot be brought to Spain: it is now categorically contraindicated to him air travels associated with pressure drops.

But there are good news - from those who can very much fly. At the end of last week, Guiddink announced that he would still leave the PSV at the end of the season. The Dutch coach, who does not suffer from aerophobia (he, however, will also leave the Australian national team), refrained from the announcement of the place of his new work, but we know where the HUS flies.

03/27/2006 / Roman Trushechkin Material published in the newspaper No. 52 dated 03/28/2006.