The Legend Returns

By: Anthony | August 20th, 2009

Yes ladies and gentlemen that would be me. Both the legend returning and that fine gentleman in the picture your eyes have the privilege of gracing.

That would be my sexy self in Barcelona, which was one of my many destinations this past summer in my Euro trip. That would also explain and (hopefully) excuse the lack of activity in this blog. Don’t worry my fellow Sevillistas, I haven’t forgot about you nor our beloved squad who are not only doing fairly well in the pre-season but also shaping up quite nicely.

So many things have gone on in this past month it’s un-freakin’-believable but I’m going to try and name ‘em all here in this one, beautiful, legendary post.

Needless to say the Peace Cup was a flop. Not only the attendances which is a bit of a bad reflection on us Andalucíans but also our beloved Sevilla who lost to Juventus in a match which we totally dominated and also drawing Seongnam who are an extremely mediocre Korean side.

Let’s no reminisce too much on a pre-season tournament in which we faltered in but rather look at the many other positives in which this marvelous club has encountered after the pain.

New Sponsorship Deal
If you watched any of the Peace Cup or follow the club religiously enough like I do then you would have known that our deal with 888.com ran out and we were without a sponsor from the time last season concluded. Not to worry though as we at Sevilla are trusting our luck again with another Asian gambling company 12bet.com. The deal will last for two years and according to President Del Nido “boost the international recognition of the club”. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All bullshit. Whatever, as long as there’s money coming in for us putting some stupid foreign writing on our kits then I don’t care what we’re boosting.

Enough of that nonsense, let’s get down to the juicy stuff.

First off let me just by saying something from the heart, and that’s an obvious, HUGE “Rest in Peace” to Espanyol captain Daniel Jarque. We at Sevilla know this all too well and experienced it first hand when Antonio Puerta sadly passed away 2 short years ago. I can’t emphasize enough how much of a tragedy this is not only for Espanyol or La Liga, but for the whole footballing world and especially for the family and wife of Jarque himself. Our thoughts and prayers (well at least mine for sure) are with Jarque’s family, wife and his unborn child. It hit hard in the Sevillista community not only because of what happened to Puerta but also because our new signing Sergio Sánchez also played with Daniel at Espanyol and knew him very well. Obviously he has taken this hard and we wish him all the best and as a condolence the whole squad wore t-shirts with Jarque’s face on them before the final of the Carranza.

Moving on then and speaking of the Carranza… We tore it apart. Mallorca, Valencia, Depor, meh, no competition for us. Sure they weren’t convincing scores, mere 1-0 victories but its the fashion in which we got them. They were all hard fought, I’ll give them that but in the end we proved our worth once again and came out winning that huge trophy which is meaningless really, but good for the show cabinet none the less.

For today ladies and gents, that is all. You can’t expect me to write about all the transfer gossip when I missed my siesta can you?! Hah, yeah right, nice try though. I promise you though that it shall all be here tomorrow, same time, same place so stay tuned!!!

Damn it feels good to be back. Nos Vemos