When you're preparing a game, you now get more information about the opponent than last year? We don't get more, we just get it in an different way.
Guardiola is more demanding than Rijkaard? No, not at all. Pep is not demanding, Pep is doing his job. He pays a lot of attention to the details of the opponent. Where can we hurt them, what about corner kicks, set pieces... We're well-informed about the threats and the opportunities.
Guardiola keeps on reminding you of Mourinho, like you said during the pre-season? Yes he does, but not as a person! I was talking about his style of coaching. Both are crazy about football. Besides that, Pep has been a great player and he knows how the players feel cause he felt it too. I was actually talking about the details. Pep is as focused on details as Mourinho.
What about the mentality? They're also alike. They both work very hard. They are quality coaches who are always on top of the group. They have clear lines. You can relax sometimes, but you also should know when things are getting serious.
You think the team is more competitive than last year? Could be. It should be clear that we won't win every game with a big goal difference. What happened over the last weeks, was a bit exaggerated. 5-1 or 6-0 can be misleading.
You thought you would leave the club three months ago? At the end of last season it was almost sure that I would go. I had decided that I would leave because of what I felt and because of the feelings I got from the club and the fans. But everything changed when I talked with Guardiola during the pre-season. Guardiola has changed my life. He surprised me. He said: "Look, Guddy, I believe in you, but you have to convince me and give everything during the pre-season". That changed my way of thinking and I didn't listen to any offers from then on because I wanted to focus on Barça.
You're family must have been happy with the decision to stay... I've always said that our live here is excellent. We have everything, but I'm a football player and I don't want to stay here just for the good life. I will have time for that after my career.
Health officials in Brasil say that an outbreak of dengue fever has infected more than 32,000 people in Rio de Janeiro state and claimed at least 47 lives.
City officials have said that the outbreak is not an epidemic but the number of deaths this year already has outstripped the number of fatalities in all of 2002.
The Federal Health Minister of Brasil says he is already treating the situation in Rio, where about 51 new cases of the disease are reported every hour, as an epidemic.Temporao says the government will open a crisis center in Rio state on Monday to coordinate efforts between the federal and state government and the armed force to fight the disease, which is borne by the Aegis aegypti mosquito
Torres said that he is desperate for a win in euro 2008
In his champions league carrer this year he saw himself loosong to Chelsea 4-3 but he took home a glorious 33 goals.
"The semi-finals of the Champions League have left a bad taste in the mouth," said the 24-year-old frontman.
"Now Euro 2008 is the last opportunity to finish with a title of this nature. Torres said that he is confident with his team with players like Sergio Ramos, Xavi , Casillas and many others.
He still cant understand why Spain are such under aichevers because they have a lot of talent and wealth.
"I have a lot of confidence following this season, and with a lot of desire to be able to finish the season with a title," he said.
Barack's Obama popularity has sparked a new baby-naming craze in Kenya. More than half of the males babies born in Kisumu the area where Obama's father came from, the day of the U.S. elections were named Barack. In Swahili they also name the babies Obama, which means "blessed one". Many parents called their newborn daughters Michelle, the name of Obama's wife. People from Kenya were thrilled with Barack Obama's election victory and most of them celebrated in the streets. He has become a national hero there.
There are parents that name their children after actors, pop stars or sports heroes. For example, Lewis Hamilton was named after the U.S. Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis. But it's more unusual that people named their children after politicians. It might be interesting to know if someone called his baby George Bush. There is a case of a mother who had twins (one girl and one boy) on November the 5th, and she called them Barack and Michelle. She confessed that she made up her mind to name them long before the elections, and even if Obama hadn't won, he would have done the same. She thinks that these names will bring her children success in life.
Vocabulary:
spark: "provocar" “blessed one”: “el benaurat”; “el beneit”; “el sant” thrillet: "emocionat" named after: "posar nom a algú" make up your mind: "decidir-se"
A new study suggests that men are more physically attracted to a woman if she wears red clothes. The report from New York’s University of Rochester conducted different experiments to find out the effects of colour on human relationships. Researchers asked more than 100 men to give a score to photographs of women. The men had to rate the women according to how pretty they were, how much the men would like to kiss them, their intelligence and how kind they looked. They also had to provide details of what kind of date they would like to take the women on. The results showed that that the women in the pictures who wore red scored higher and were more likely to be taken on an expensive date. The data showed the colour red made no impact on the scores for intelligence and kindness. The research was carried out by psychology professor Andrew Elliot and his team. He said: “It's fascinating to find that something as [ever-present] as color can be having an effect on our behaviour without our awareness.” This is one of the first scientific studies to look at the effects of colour on human behaviour. For most of us, however, it will come as no surprise that red is the colour of love and passion. Look no further than red roses on Valentine’s Day and the popularity of deep red lipsticks. Elliot says men may be genetically programmed to be attracted to females wearing red. He said certain apes also display such behaviour. Women in the study did not rate the pictured females as prettier, neither did they have the chance to rate men wearing different colours.
In 1846, as waves of Irish immigrants poured into the New York neighborhood of Five Points, a number of citizens of British and Dutch heritage who were born in the United States began making an open display of their resentment toward the new arrivals. William Cutting (Daniel Day-Lewis), better known as "Bill the Butcher" for his deadly skill with a knife, bands his fellow "Native Americans" into a gang to take on the Irish immigrants; the immigrants in turn form a gang of their own, "The Dead Rabbits," organized by Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson). After an especially bloody clash between the Natives and the Rabbits leaves Vallon dead, his son goes missing; the boy ends up in a brutal reform school before returning to the Five Points in 1862 as Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio). Now a strapping adult who has learned how to fight, Amsterdam has come to seek vengeance against Bill the Butcher, whose underworld control of the Five Points through violence and intimidation dovetails with the open corruption of New York politician "Boss" Tweed (Jim Broadbent). Amsterdam gradually penetrates Bill the Butcher's inner circle, and he soon becomes his trusted assistant. Amsterdam also finds himself falling for Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz), a beautiful but street-smart thief who was once involved with Bill. Amsterdam is learning a great deal from Bill, but before he can turn the tables on the man who killed his father, Amsterdam's true identity is exposed, even though he has concealed it from nearly everyone, including Jenny.
