RONALDHORSO BUSTS OUT MAD PROPS FOR AUSSIE GUUS
Roberto Carlos was never much impressed by Ronaldinho's Benny Hill impression
In a massive reversal of normal practice, a Brazilian footballer has blownlarge amounts of smoke up someone else's arse. Ronaldinho has come out in the press (always thought the hair was a giveaway) with what amounts to an open love letter to Guus Hiddink, published today in the Fairfax press (view it for yourself at smh.com.au.) He's scared that Australia may actually beat Brazil on June 18, and goes on to admit that he only joined Barcelona on the basis that he thought Guus was going to coach the side.
On the subject of the Strayan tilt, Brazil's favourite Milli Vanilli impersonator was positively frothing at the gills:
"Australia looks a formidable team... they are our key group rivals... I'm fascinated by them from a purely personal point of view... anyone with an interest in soccer understands that Hiddink is a magnificent achiever and someone whose names stand for perpetual success... then if you take the drama and the romanticism of the win over Uruguay it seems to me that Australia has become an easy team for the neutrals to support. Everyone I speak to seems to have a good word for Australia... given the difficulties we in Brazil face with that same problem and travelling to and from qualifying matches or friendlies, I do find it remarkable that a slightly smaller soccer nation like Australia can achieve all that they have done... when the players follow their careers in a very wide geographical spread one of the most difficult things to achieve is that 'feeling' between them when they are called together in a squad, yet the evidence is that Hiddink has achieved a unified and winning mentality in his team. That's impressive and it's a little dangerous, too... literally everywhere he's gone, Valencia, Real Madrid, PSV, Korea, Australia, Hiddink has been a byword for popular, winning football and I respect that. Not many coaches get the kind of phone calls he's been getting from FC Barcelona, from Real Madrid, from Roman Abramovich and from the English FA. He's in demand because he's a coach who achieves massive success, who has won the Champions League and who took Korea to the brink of the World Cup final four years ago. Hiddink is a daring man because he's willing to work all over the world in different circumstances, yet no matter where he goes he applies the same principles. His football methods are good, he's a good man-manager and he rarely seems to cause any real rows with his bosses or his players. I hope that when we play Australia we can break this habit of his and defeat them but both before and after our game in Munich I'll be watching Hiddink's team with interest to see how they do."
Well if you love him so much why don't you just marry him?
CONTINENTAL CUP-O-SHITE
Oh yeah, last Weak we said no South American team had ever won the World Cup in Europe. That's not quite true - Brazil won Sweden 1958, beating the hosts in the final... but for Christ's sake, it's Sweden, who gives a shit. The entire nation of Sweden are a bunch of herring-pickling, Saab-driving, porn-obsessed weirdos. Actually we said 'no South American team has ever won on the Continent', and Sweden isn't part of continental Europe, so get a dog up ya.
NEXT WEAK...
We'll be busting out the G-funk real soon so stay tuned.
