Alireza Sefati Blog

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.

Life - My so called part time contact position at Experian Consumer Info was turning out to be a full time job. I started out working three days a week I should say long three days. Then I was asked if I could work four days and then I was told that I should work five days. I thought I could do it considering I have a business to run but just a couple weeks working five days a week I realized that working a full time job is not for me.

My friend, Josh Nolan co-founded this IT company called Technability, which has already taken off so was able to offer me a part time jobs. I just finished my first two weeks as an ASP.NET web developer and I must admit there are so many things that I learned in this short period of time and there are so much more I need to learn in order to be able to keep up.

I admit having worked as a front-end web developer at Experian for over three years, and previously that working as classic ASP\PHP 4 developer, the entire .NET technology can get confusing at the beginning.

When Microsoft developed .NET their goal was to attract application developers to do web development and also to separate the web designers from web developers. That is why when looking at ASP .NET development, one needs to think beyond the traditional web development that was done on the fly and needs to more as a programmer. Today’s web developer should understand OOPS for code usability, separation of front end and back end code, frameworks and code and process separation, and new methods of software engineering can now be applied to web development as well.

So now I am an ASP .NET developer of course with so much more to learn, I am actually happy to have entered a new phase in my IT career.

Soccer - As I predicted months before the tournament started, Spain won it all and I must say it was well deserved. Spain were the most solid team in the entire Euro 2008 tournament and they winning the title did not surprise me at all.I still remember that when on online soccer forums I said Spain was going to win, many disagree because they said Spain had never won anything in last 40 years and they are often known to be the chokers. And I remember when I said “Mark my words not this year” and it turns out I was right.

How did I do that? I predicted Spain would win because they had excellent pre-qualifying games, more than 20 games with no loss. That is big in international soccer. They had good players such as Torres, who actually scored the winning goal today and other good players such as Fabriguas, and worlds best goalkeeper Iker Cassias.

Congratulations to Spain and their fans for this huge achievement. Well done, well deserved. Also don’t forget that you can get your Spain soccer jersey from our online store, Soccer Nation.

Soccer - Spain and Germany will face off this Sunday to determine the best European soccer team of 2008.

Yesterday Germany beat Turkey 3-2, today Spin beat the tournament surprised Russia 3-0 both booking a place in Final.

This final in my opinion is going to be a beautiful final to watch. The Spanish team is very technical team made of  many technique soccer players such as Fabrigas and Torres, a solid defense and one of world’s best goalkeeper Casillas.

Germany side is a very strong tactical team. German players may not be too technical individually but they play great and powerful as a team. Having watched their game against Holland and Turkey, all the goals they scored was nothing but absolute team tactical team work. 

However I still predict Spain is going to beat Germany and win the Euro 2008 title because of their solid defense. Russia was a very attack minded team yet could not score one goal against Spain. Also having watched Germany’s shaky defense is another reason that leads me to predict that Spain is going to win it all.

But again in Soccer, you never know! So lets just wait and see. 

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