A Trophy, A Training & More

Another trophy! I love how this season has started. Los Blancos beat Fiorentina 2-1 to grab the Santiago Bernabeu trophy.

Off To Warsaw For Champions League

The team headed off to Warsaw for tomorrow’s Champions League match.

Gianni Infantino Named FIFA President

Meet the new boss, hopefully not the same as the old boss. UEFA General Secretary Gianni Infantino is FIFA’s new president after two rounds of voting.

– Lozil

Ready For Deportivo

Zizou had the entire first team available for training today in preparation for tomorrow’s match vs. Deportivo.

Time For Malaga

The team had their final training before tomorrow’s match vs. Malaga.

UEFA on Concussions

UEFA announced today the immediate implementation of a three minute concussion break protocol for all of their competitions. The rule was proposed last week by FIFA medical committee chairman Michel D’Hooge, and approved today by the UEFA Executive Committee.

UEFA Don’t Like Being Called Out

Much like FIFA, UEFA aren’t too happy when they get called out.

The Xabi Rule

Or as UEFA refers to it, the yellow card accumulation rule (or something boring like that). When Xabi missed out playing in this year’s Champions League final because he had accrued too many yellow cards, there was a lot of proverbial ink (and cursing) generated around the need for this particular rule to change. Xabi and others publicly challenged UEFA to make a change and UEFA responded favorably to that challenge back in July.

Sergio Defeated & More

Sergio’s back to unrolled shorts while Cris has his hiked up in victory. I told you that Cristiano would win the Hot Pants War. In the training video, you can see that Sese kinda half heartedly pushes one leg up, but the man knows when he’s been beat. Cris is a competitor through and through. Stick to showing your abs, Sergio – that’s your thing.

I also enjoy how the video starts with Xabi looking like he’s giving beard advice to the youngsters. Learn well, young grasshoppers. He has much fashionable wisdom to impart.

FIFPro 2013 World XI Voting Day: Everyone Doesn’t Hate Cris

It’s that time of year! The team voted for the FIFPro 2013 World XI while Iker, the Mister & Isco gave their thoughts on Cristiano for the Ballon D’Or in interviews.