UEFA Champions League 2024-2025 not only changes radically from what we knew, but it gest quite complicated to digest and understand the new shape. Does the imminent commence of European Super League in the near future be a factor? I can say this looks like to be the main key factor of the radical UEFA…
Category: Football
Real Madrid, a trophy room full of… football players!
With the transfer of Kylian Mbappe at Real Madrid, official announcement on 16th of July 2024, the recap of a 21st century situation resumed. After 2000, Real Madrid did its best, thru the president Florentino Perez to sign all key players world wide, on astronomical amounts of money. The initial big signature of Real Madrid…
EURO 2024 – the story of fading football, detailed analysis
EURO 2024 was a very expected football tournament, not only on its continent, obviously Europe, but worldwide. It is true that Copa America developed in the same time, but these are two competitions which purely cannot match. Even if the latest had its first edition long before Coupe of Europe (as EURO was called when…
Rapid Bucharest, catastrophic season 2023-2024
Rapid extended, at subliminal level, the centenary, to 2024. In the hope the season to come – which now has ended – will be better than the 2022-2023, that ended in a 5th place. Rapid Bucharest entered the play-off in second place, fairly away from fcsb, but without signaling what was about to happen. Basically,…
Rapid 2023 – was it a good year or one to forget?
Rapid 2023 | It is the most important year in the history of Rapid Bucharest. Simply because it is year number 100, a legendary mark. Being at its end, now I will draw a line, split in three, all relevant, to determine if, from sporting perspective, it was a productive year or not. From all…
SUPER LEAGUE | Yes, we can and we must have something new in football!
Almost three years ago, from Florentino Perez, the idea of a European Super League of football, a closed one, only for big and wealthy clubs, emerged. Of course, such an intention from the chairman of the Europe’s most successful club, backed up by… well, um, FC Barcelona – that is a huge rivalry, no doubt!…
Frank Schmidt, the 20 year long process of a dream team: 1. FC Heidenheim 1846
“Heidenheim failed to win its first ever promotion in the Bundesliga, after losing to Stuttgart the play-off of promotion / relegation in 2023”, could have been a headline, if Heidenheim would have lost at Jahn Regensburg in the last week game of the 2. Bundesliga 2022-2023 season. Nine years after its first ever promotion in…
Union Berlin – a success story that reached the edge of the cliff
When I have visited Berlin for the first time, in 2017, in my three weeks spent there in September I have set some goals and many of them were related to football matches I wanted to attend. Hertha Berlin was the most known team back then, but I have learned that Union, from the East…
Albion Rrahmani – the story behind the arrival of the striker at Rapid Bucharest
In just two games, Albion Rrahmani of Kosovo scored four goals for Rapid Bucharest and had five more huge opportunities. But how did this 23-year-old guy end up in a championship like Romania’s? Because, honestly speaking, he’s the best piece of attacker that Liga 1 has in the last 20 years for sure. To score…
Rapid Bucharest 2022/2023 season – the milestone of one century
It is done. Year no. 100 from Rapid Bucharest’s history comes to an end with a big celebration, on 25th of June. First, though, let’s switch our attention to the competitional season that has just ended. A 5th spot in the table that looks acceptable, but in reality it is not the case, not only…