Sevilla—On a Personal Note

By: Ryan | April 2nd, 2008

Asociación Sevillista Puerta de America is now OFFICIAL

Hola Sevillistas! I have some great news for everyone out there. The Asociación Sevillista Puerta de America, the ONLY Sevilla FC supporters club in the United States is officially OFFICIAL. We were ‘inducted’ as one of the more than 250 official Sevilla FC Peñas in the world.

Today, we were also approached by MARCA to do a story on the peña, and also we were mentioned in www.orgullodenervion.com, with a pretty cool little picture on the side.

If anyone is interested in joining the peña, go to ASPA for more information.

This summer, the socios are all planning a get-together in NYC. The time and place is not set yet, however as details are set, we will let our socios know.

Watching Euro 2008 From Barcelona??

On a personal note, everyone keep your fingers crossed (or your thumb wrapped up in your fist as us Polish do) for good luck. Today I sent off my grant application that I’ve been hard at work on for the last month.

If I get the grant, I’ll be spending the summer months in sunny Barcelona and will be able to take in the Euro 2008 atmosphere ALL EXPENSES PAID. I’ll actually be taking a Catalan class at the Universitat de Barcelona if all goes well (since my program makes it necessary that I learn Catalan if I want to do any sort of dissertation work on the topic).

Your Blogging Schedule

I’ve finally decided to get my blogging life together and make life a lot easier on me. I’ve divided up my three current blogging lives and relegated certain blogs to certain days, for sanity’s sake, and so people know when to expect posts out of me. It looks like I’ll be doing posts here on Saturday’s, Tuesday’s and Thursday’s. We’ll see if I can stick to that schedule, so expect that.

Aftermath from Madrid

Well, the game against Real Madrid is behind us now, and there’s no crying over spilt milk (or so the saying says).

On to bigger and better things. Sevilla currently sit in 6th place thanks to Racing’s win against Espanyol on the weekend.

But, we are not out of the woods yet. The fact that we are still fighting for a UEFA Cup spot (and the last UEFA cup spot at that) speaks volumes to me.

Now, I have been probably the least vocal in bashing Jimenez, or the club in general for their series of lackluster performances, most notably in the defensive half of the field.

Maybe it is time to evaluate our players right now and see where we stand. Within the next 2 weeks I’ll have a comprehensive player list complete with who’s staying, who’s going and who’s going to do God knows what. It’ll be a good review for me, and it’ll be an even better post for all of you to throw in your two cents on.

Currently, the big story is Where In The World Is Luis Fabiano Going? Reports have him at every club under the sun, including Corey’s neck of the woods in Madrid, in Serie A, in England, with the LA Galaxy (hey I’m making that one up).

One thing seems to be certain, the Brazilian will be gone at the end of the season.

(Note the above was written on Tuesday)

Now it’s Wednesday and I read this headline in AS from Luis Fabiano

I like Sevilla and I want to stay here

So now I have no clue what to think? I just want the whole thing to be put to the side until the end season and we can talk about it then.

Monchi Speaks Out

My favorite person at Sevilla, Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, (aka Monchi) spoke out about our new signings this season and said that ‘We are not happy with 100% of our signings this year’

“Me gustaría que me definieran qué se comprende por planificación. No estamos contentos con el cien por cien de los fichajes, pero mi función es mucho más amplia que los fichajes, eso es una parte de la planificación. A día de hoy hay jugadores que no han rendido lo que nosotros pensábamos, por motivos que, algunos, son a nivel personal y, con otros, tenemos confianza en que muchos de ellos van a rendir seguro, no sé si dentro de un partido, de dos o de un año, porque son jugadores que, internacionalmente, están contrastados”

Basically, he’s not 100% happy with the signings and some haven’t done what they thought before they signed them. Sevilla does have some confidence in the players that they will get better in a few games or in a year, but others are really struggling, a contrast from what they did before Sevilla signed them.

On the same topic, In the next 2 weeks I’m going to put out a player by player analysis of the club and who’s leaving, who’s staying and who’ going to do God knows what.