The Dreadful Shroud

Did Mexican U-17 champion generation helped the development of Mexican football? Well, no according to the current results of each player in each of their teams. Few have any activity at all and the four stars, Villauz, Dos Santos, Vela and Arias have counted minutes on the pitch. As Biscayart quoted once on ESPN's Fuera de Juego, the only Mexican player of this generation who has regular activity is César Villaluz. Even he has fell in the wretched spiral that his current squad, Cruz Azul, is right now. Vela comes in and out when an inspired Arshavin literally took his place. Dos Santos has not overcome his adversities and was eventually relegeated to Ipswich in the Championship. This comment, perhaps biased taking just one aspect of a whole of Mexican football, was brought up due to the fact that Mexico's U-17 squad today unconvincingly won against Guatemala, securing a place in the finals of the tornament which will take place next fall in Nigeria.







In the transmission, made by Sky Sports, Paco Villa commented several times the ways Martín Galván, top goal scorer of the team, seemed to resemble Carlos Vela. But why did this comparison take place? It would seem obvious, and rather obliged to make a simile between the current star of a team anf the latter. This device not only affects the newer player, mentally but the whole apparatus of understanding football. It is evident that Mexican media would love a copycat of Hugo Sánchez each generation but that, dear reader, is impossible.
Managers ussually fashion teams in order to resemble certain aspects or other teams. The perfect example is Cruyff's Barsa or the current effort made by Arsene Wenger.
I am betraying myself with all these comments: what I intend to do here at Deviations is to analyze a player style and his/her development alone and then contextualize it as a whole, thus the way the team plays.





In any case if you, dear reader, think that this post has indeed wandered and reached no place regarding ideas, is because it is a wider effort regarding another post in which I am working on.

The "New-new" Zidane

The "New-new" category is something that has to do with archetypes and archetype-rebuilding. Thus Phil Ball, in this article, refers to Kun Agüero I will take that equivalence to make a chain, with this talented French child. But in this case if we follow Ball's path we are witnesssing the New-new Zidane. I ussually do no write in Spanish but this time:
NO MAMEN!!!

Samir Nasri Arrival

The gossips are running. And speculation is higher than ever. Samir Nasri has been linked to the Arsenal FC earlier this week and all the Arsenal-related blogs on your right (The Lads) have been energetically putting attention of what will be the signing of the year. Everything has been said and in this entry is quite clear. Nasri's Agent has been not a helpful kind, but I think it will come up, and finally, a talented youngster will join the North-Londoners.
It is completely true, that even before many people talked about the French attacker, that I have been for some time wishing this player in our squad. You can see it in many posts this season. A player like him could not be missed and this is the chance to win him before Tottenham or Inter. I am proud that finally Mr. Wenger opened the wallet and started to improve the team deeper. With the likes of Rosicky ever lasting injury and Hleb's unwilling to stay, any of the wings could be well complemented by this talented right-footed. The fact is that his position is like Zidane's. I have commented on his dissapearance on the pitch, but with Pat Rice and Wenger advising him, it will be a complete piece of cake overcoming this problem. We will see how the story develops with my fellow countryman Vela arriving and the break-through of some youngster to the team. We will see...