The the ten-man shortlist has been announced earlier today, and some world's top fotball players will compete for the trophy of UEFA Best Player in Europe.
Journalists from each of UEFA's 55 member associations provided a list of their five best-ranked players, with the first receiving five points, the second four and so on. Ten players who has been chosen by the journalist will advance to second vote to compete for 3 finalists. The nominees, in alphabetical order, are: Gareth Bale (Real Madrid & Wales) Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus & Italy) Antoine Griezmann (Atlético Madrid & France) Toni Kroos (Real Madrid & Germany) Lionel Messi (Barcelona & Argentina) Thomas Müller (Bayern München & Germany) Manuel Neuer (Bayern München & Germany) Pepe (Real Madrid & Portugal) Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid & Portugal) Luis Suárez (Barcelona & Uruguay) The players underwent their pre-season medical check-ups at the Sanitas La Moraleja University Hospital. Players who didn't play at Euro or Copa America started their pre-season earlier today.
Players are going to Montreal (Canada) tomorrow where they will have most of their trainings. Real Madrid will face Paris Saint Germain in International Champions Cup on 28.07.2016. International Champions Cup: Real Madrid vs Paris Saint Germain: 28.07.2016 1:30 Real Madrid vs Chelsea: 30.07.2016 21:00 Bayern Munich vs Real Madrid: 04.08.2016 1:3o
Portugal beat Wales 2:0 and they are first team in the finals. Fernando Santos and his players will wait for the result of second semi-final game Germany vs France.
First half ended with no goals, but obviously Fernando Santos have really motivated his players because Ronaldo scored a beautiful header just 5 minutes after half time. Three minutes later Ronaldo tried from distance, but Nani turned the ball in the net. Ronaldo like Bale, had many good chances to score but luck was missing.
Portugal is the first semi-finalist of the Euros. They beat Poland 5-3 on penalties and now they will wait for the result of the second quarter-final game Wales vs Belgium. First half of the game were incredible. Lewandowski gave Poland a great start, sliding a ball past Rui Patricio. Then, few minutes later Renato Sanches, an 18-year-old, scored a beauty from 20m. Game entered in extra times, but there were no goals so penalties decided the first semi finalist. Blaszczykowski missed crucial penalty for Poland and Rikardo Quaresma scored the penalty which took his team into semi-finals without acctually winning a game in regular time at Euro 2016. Cristiano Ronaldo scored the first penalty for Portugal, but he was unable to break Platini's 9-goal-record. He had several great chances but he couldn't find the net. Real Madrid may offer Alvaro Morata plus €50 million for Eden Hazard, as we all know how big fan of Spanish striker is Antonio Conte.
The 25-year-old Belgian has been linked several times with Real Madrid, and he also said that he would like to play for the Champions League winners. Real Madrid's manager Zinedin Zidane is a known fan of Hazard's and beside terrible season in Chelsea, the Belgian midfielder plays really great at the Euros and he could be a great singing. Manchester United and Arsenal are also interested in Morata and soon we will find out where this young player will end up. According to AS, Real Madrid have made a €65 million bid for the Austrian midfielder David Alaba.
Alaba is a priority this summer so Real Madrid increased their initial bid of €50 million, but Bayern Munich is unlikely to accept this offer. Bayern Munich have valued the Austrian midfielder at a price of €80 million to scare potentional buyers ( Barcelona, Man City, Man Utd), but we will see how much is Real Madrid willing to pay for Alaba. Alaba would definetly be a great signing for the Champions League winners, and they have a lot of time to bring him on Santiago Bernabeu. Group stage of EURO 2016 ended yesterday and we know all matches for the round 16.
Eight Real Madrid players will play in this round (Cristiano, Pepe, Kroos, Modrić, Kovačić, Ramos, Vazquez, Morata i Bale). On Saturday, Wales will face Northern Irealnd (6 pm) and Croatia will face Portugal same day (9 pm). Germany will face Slovakia on Sunday (6 pm) and Spain will face Italy on Monday (6pm). Last night Real Madrid Basket beat Barcelona Lassa in Barclaycard Center 91-84 and became the Endesa League Champions.
Once again Sergio Llull was the best player on the pitch with 21 points, 2 rebounds and 5 assists. Sergio Rodriguez and Trey Thompkins were great also, with 14 points each. For Barcelona, Ante Tomić and Tomas Satoransky had 17 points and JC. Navarro had 14 points. Season is over for Real Madrid players. Some of them will play for their national team on Eurobasket and will return to Real Madrid before the start of the new season. Sergio Lllull was named MVP of the Endesa League Finals. Alvaro Morata will likely return to Real Madrid so he can fight with Benzema for the place in the lineup. However in case of his return, Jesé's minutes will probably be reduced even though he played only 1,256 minutes from a possible 4,860, or 27%).
First, Real Madrid wanted to send Morata on a loan again, but they have changed their plans. But then someone will have to go, and that is probably Jesé. Real Madrid wants to renew Jesé's contract which expires in Juni 2017, because if he leaves they would like him to go with buy-back clause, as was the case with Dani Caravajal when he left for Leverkusen in 2012. Jesé was close to leaving the Spanish capital at the end of season 2014-2015. Benitez assured him of his importance. Now there is a different situation, but Jesé is really close to leaving Champions League winners. Whenever Real Madrid had difficulties, there would be a story about a missing link. All experts agree that Real Madrid needs a hardworker in midfield, a player like Claude Makélélé.
Since the Frenchman left Real Madrid in 2003, they bought a dozens of players in that position a have spent more than 215 000 000 €. But none of those were like Makélélé. Xabi Alonso and Emerson were closest to him but they also did some other things. But finally, Zidane gave the opportunity to Casemiro and that turned out to be a great decision. Before Casemiro, there were Illarramendi (38.9 million euros), Lukas Silva (15 million euros), Mateo Kovačić (35 million euros), Nuri Sahin (15 million euros), Sami Khedira (10 million euros), Xabi Alonso (30 million euros), Ruben De la Red (4,5 million euros), Lassana Diarra (20 million euros), Mahamadou Diarra (26 million euros), Emerson (16 million euros), Fernando Gago (20 million euros), Javi Garcia (4.5 million euros), Pablo Garcia (5,5 million euros), Thomas Gravesen (3.5 million euros).. This summer, Real Madrid have finally opportunity to buy new Makélélé, his only inheritor N´Golo Kanté. He had an amazing season i Leicester, and he is drawing praise from all quarters for his preformances for France at he Euros. Real Madrid is interested in bringing him on Bernabéu because Casemiro is the only defensive midfielder in the squad. Money is not a problem, becuase Kanté has a minimum release clause of 25.5 million euros. Beside Kanté, Real Madrid could also go for Paul Pogba, and these two have proven during the Euros that they are compatible on the pitch. |