Alireza Sefati Blog

Soccer - Futsal soccer also known as FIFA approved indoor soccer is one of the fastest growing sports and branch of soccer in the world. Futsal is usually played in a basketball court indoor with indoor soccer shoes and a low bounce soccer ball.

If you are a soccer player I recommend you play Futsal every once in a while because besides the fact that is a good exercise, it also helps you with your touches, ball control, and skills. Many great pro soccer players such as Ronaldino, Zidane, and Ronaldo have played Futsal that is why they are so good with the ball.

If you haven’t played Futsal before, I recommend you to go to your nearest vacant indoor\outdoor basketball  or tennis court and just play. All you will need is some Futal or ndoor soccer shoes , a low bouncing futsal ball, and your skills.

To start, I recommend Select Futsal Ball Jina ball which is a great ball, and inspected by US Futsal Federation (USFF), and good price and good quality.

Enjoy dribbling around.

Soccer - Soccer season is starting up, lots of news going on that is why I am blogging more about soccer these days.

Ronaldinhio’s transfer from Spanish FC Barcelona to Italian AC Milan got all the attention among the media but here are a few others:

- Per his agent, Kaka from AC Milan is still talking to Chelsea for a possible move.
- Real Madrid’s Robinho is being linked to a possible move to Chelsea as well according to his agent.
- Inter Milan has not given up on Chelsea yet. He is very likely to move to the Italian Serie A champions.
- Liverpool’s Xabi is strongly linked to Inter Milan as well. Alonso has also been linked with a move to Serie A giants Juventus.

It is sad there is so much going on but nothing much on Arsenal side. They are on verge of losing a couple of good players to other teams because they can’t afford to keep them as that new stadium has really driven them broke. As I have posted earlier, Arsenal fans should not expect too much from this team.

The team to watch this year would be Chelsea. Their new coach Scolari is a very capable coach, he is after bringing good players to that team, and I believe they will be the team to watch and enjoy.

Soccer - I am very happy that Ronaldinhois making headlines again and taking some attention away from Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal.
I personally have more respect for Ronaldinho because he has achieved much more that C. Ronaldo and although the 23 year old C. Ronaldo has his career in front of him and has potential of achieving more than  Ronaldinho, but in my opinion he is not there yet so media need to stop giving him so much attention and stop overrating him.

So Ronaldinho is now officially part of AC Milan, and I have good feeling again that he is going to fit right in and become a regular again. He has a few of his Brazilian teammates such as Kaka and wisdom of Brazilian Ronaldo could encourage him to become the star he was a couple years ago perhaps even better since he has the experience he needs.

Soccer - Ronaldinio arrives in Milan for a medical and pending passing medical, he will sign until 2011 with AC Milan. He has officially left FC Barcelona, a club he said “he would play for life” because clubs’ new coach Guardiola said he was not needed. He was under contract until 2010 but based on mutual agreement, he is being transferred to Milan to play for the Italian powerhouse pending medical exam.

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Soccer - SuperLiga also referred to as Super Liga is a soccer league that includes top soccer clubs from MLS, or Major league soccer, and Mexican Primera Division, also referred to as La Primera. This league is modeled after European Champions league in a smaller scale since it is shared only between three (3) countries; US, Canada, and Mexico. Four (4) top teams from Mexican La Primera and MLS compete for prize of one million dollars (US Dollars).

In my opinion SuperLiga has been one of the factors that has greatly help raise standards of soccer in US and Canada specially in US since most of MLS teams are in US. Mexican teams are very technical teams from them US soccer has benefited a lot.

To learn more about Superliga, about upcoming games and schedules, you can visit their website here.

Soccer -FIFA’s president accused Manchester United’s treatment of Cristiano Ronaldo as “modern slavery” and Cristiano Ronaldo recently in an interview on Portuguese TV said, “I completely agree with the statements oAf the president, he is right”.

Real Madrid has been in pursuit of Cristiano Ronaldo for sometime now, and they are willing to pay whatever they have to pay to get him over to their team. Cristiano Ronaldo initially said he wants to stay with the red devils but now it sounds that he wants to go. But Manchester United’s owners were quoted on saying that they would rather to keep him on the bench than trade him, because of his whinny attitude.

Here is my two cents: EPL is the best European league IMHO. Manchester United won it all, won the EPL and CL and Ronaldo won the best player award for the year. He is treated well and the entire team strategic plans and tactics are based on him as he is the key player. He has better future there whereas with Real Madrid is in a inferior league now, a club under a lof debt that has not won the European CL since 2004 and I highly doubt they are going to win it this CL even with Ronaldo.

Soccer - Arsene Wenger, Arsenal’s managers has admitted that cost of leaving to the bigger Emirate Stadium has put the club under a certain financial difficulty that Arsenal will need to sell top key players for the next decade. “The strategy of the club is to sell every year and to buy less expensive players,” he said.

He further said “The club’s strategy is to favor the policy of youngsters ahead of stars and to count on the collective quality of our game.”

To me that sounds like they are going to make players and sell them to bigger teams to make money so don’t count us to win anything major for the next ten years.  As an Arsenal fan I find that kind out disappointing.  Arsenal insisted to moving to a bigger Emirate Stadium and ensured the fans that they were not going to suffer too much because supposdly Emirate Airline and their other investors were going to pick up the tab. Apparently not.