uzbekistan

The Argentine international Lionel Messi, the Barcelona player, arrived today in Tashkent, where they will train and an exhibition with young soccer Uzbek, today announced the Uzbekistan Football Federation (FFU)

Messi flew to Uzbekistan from Barcelona immediately after the match between Barcelona and Villarreal, in which the Catalans were imposed on their rivals by two goals to one

According to a communique from the Uzbek Federation, the program Messi in Tashkent includes a visit to the headquarters of the agency and a reunion with his leadership.

Later, the Argentine will train young footballers with Uzbeks in the training camp "Chigatái."

A little over a month, announcing the renewal with the Uzbek Bunyodkor until December 2011 Vitor Borba Ferreira "Rivaldo", voted best player in the world 1999, when he played in Barcelona.

Rivaldo: I want to make a big footprint in Uzbekistan. I met all the conditions of life and work, so I decided to stay several more years yet in this country

The Brazilian signed in late August after a valid contract for one season, but his best performances have encouraged the club to renew the Brazilian by three other campaigns.

With him in their ranks, won by the Bunyodkor the first time the Uzbek league and the cup, but in Champions League semifinals fell in front of the Australian Adelaide.

The Bunyodkor leapt to the covers sports while trying to punch last July to another Barcelona player, Cameroon striker Samuel Etoo, who even went to Tashkent.

The Cameroonian living day to day with the Argentine and has no doubt about who is the new genius of world football.

"GESTURES THAT DOES ANYONE HAS DONE BEFORE, TRAINING AND PLAYING"

Samuel Eto "or plainly always says what he thinks, whether in the mixed zone after a party or, as he did yesterday, at a press conference in which it was presented as new ambassador TF1. The Web" freesports.fr "Picked up a few statements in which the Cameroonian had no doubt draw Who is number one in the world at the moment, one that deserves, according to him, the Ballon d'.

Beyond the summaries that each weekend are made of the most important leagues in Europe, which often serve to enable journalists to vote for their candidates, Eto 'or believe hold the key to choose a fair, the winner "Cristiano is a great player, but Messi is above the whole world at the moment, both in training and in matches. Performs actions and gestures that no one had ever done before him. "And that says something only a player who has been alongside the best players in the world can say so outright:" This is the new Maradona. It is a player who makes dream. "

Perhaps part of the blame for his insistence on staying in the club when he was one of those identified for leave last summer outside the Argentine. Either way, and, above all, seen the results, that episode did not affect him for nothing: "I do not regret anything. It would be unfair if there are people who gets up early to earn 1,000 euros a month."

Still, Eto 'or think that he was tried for his last campaign, "in which he was injured a long time," he said. And acknowledges: "My season was mediocre, although it marked 16 goals in 18 matches." But Cameroon is ambitious. For it preferred to stay rather than accept the offer millions of Uzbekistan: "It would have been good for my image," he confesses to French television. The striker also had time to analyze the level of play for Barca Guardiola: "The current system is not very different from last season with a 4-3-3, but in spirit, is closer to the game developed by Cruyff's team. " And acknowledging that "we are in the highest, but we must be prudent."