An Old Friend, How I’ve Missed Thee

Last season I decided to start a blog about a lovely team called Sevilla FC, and how they were affectionately ‘my club’.

Little did I know that after that moment, I would sign up for about 194949 other blogs, thinking I could rule the world.

Well, tonight I was doing some number crunching for Queen City FC, the best NPSL franchise in the United States (shameless plug by the chairman) I decided I needed to dump all the other blogging appointments and go back to my roots.

So, here I am. Back and ready to go.

I have no clue how often I will be posting, nor what about, but all I know is that I enjoyed blogging way more before I started to get paid for it on another site, or before I started getting emails saying I wasn’t doing it enough. I do this for fun, and with the way life is right now, downsizing for me is key.

My thoughts on the season so far

Well, according to Kanouté today in AS, we are ‘Enemy No.1′ in the UEFA Cup yet again. I don’t understand the people who get angry when we talk about the UEFA Cup as being an actual competition. Some think it is crap since it is not the Champions League, but who cares, at least it isn’t the Inter-the-cup-without-a-champion-oto cup. Next year it will be the OMFG EUROPA CUP OMFG OMFG!!!! which apparently will boost it to new, unseen heights, but I think it is doing just fine.

Since we’ve seemed to find our niche again in Europe, we cannot let that pesky La Liga league out of our sight, a la last season when a Champions League title was realistically only 3 games away, as we blew it in penalties at home (I still have nightmares about that game).

Domestically, we are playing some pretty solid football. Honestly, I have seen 1 game this season live, the Sporting debacle where I witnessed 4 goals in about 15 minutes. Crazy stuff. It was in that game I decided that I really could care less for Squillaci who has yet to impress me.

5 games in and we are sitting in 4th place on 11 points. Not bad for a team who I was doubting would succeed under Manolo Jimenez. But, as long as we have Monchi in Sevilla, we will be just fine. IN MONCHI WE TRUST!!

Sevilla were able to beat a Atlético Madrid team who looked..well..unbeatable in the beginning of the season. A 1-0 victory against them was certainly a confidence boost, and took us well into the UEFA cup win over Salsburg on Wednesday.

Kanouteseems to be on great form, along with Chevanton who I know my fellow Sevilla counterpart Anthony seems to love. I think Cheva is a great player and it’s refreshing to see him get some playing time.

Really, the theme for this year’s Sevilla squad seems to be ‘rebuilding’. Not in any sense that it was a necessary adjustment, but rather a necessity based on the departure of so many stars in the off-season. Sevilla will forever be a ‘feeder’ team to the bigger fish in the sea of European Football, with just today talk of Luis Fabiano heading over to Chelsea sometime soon.

Looking at the lineup against Atlético, we had 6 players who were Sevillistas last season (Kanoute, Maresca, Adriano, Crespo, Prieto and Palop) but of that bunch two who saw playing time towards the end of the campaign, and even with Maresca and Adriano not seeing the pitch an excessive amount last season and with Maresca winning the award for Best ‘Zidane impression of the year’

I can’t go on any more about how the newbies to the club are playing, well..since I haven’t seen them in action. I take all of the match reports into consideration, but I like to reserve judgement until I’ve seen them for myself.

But what I can say is that I know none of them will be world beaters, or difference makers in their own right. However, what is more important for Sevilla, and what got them to their 2 UEFA Cup championships was a team that played with heart, and that played AS a team. In those years, everyone knew their role and contributed whenever called upon, including Antonio Puerta with his goal that I will never forget.

It iis too early to say if this team has a chemistry that will allow them to challenge for their third UEFA Cup in 4 seasons, but to see us starting off on 11 points out of a possible 15, that is not a bad beginning.

So as I mentioned before, I’m not sure how often I’ll be around these parts, but as always, please leave your comments and say hi again to an old friend.

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