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My 100th post and my favorite #10 players

This is my 100^th post!!! J

wow.

When I started this blog, this was really just my outlet for all my football “obsession” because I don’t really have anyone to talk to about football in where I am based now. Before, I had a couple of football-mad friends who, like me, would also stay up all night just to watch live games and the next day we’d talk about anything and everything about the match like analyzing the strategies, reliving the highlights and just sharing the love of the game.

Sadly, Philippines is not (yet) a football-loving country, there are very few people who have a passion for this sport. So with no one to share my brimming excitement for football and the matches I watched or planned to watch, I decided to start this blog to write things I would have discussed with my football friends.

But I never really thought I’d reach 100 posts or even to be still be blogging up to now. As with my previous attempts to blog, I thought I wouldn’t be able to sustain this beyond two weeks. I guess, timing was a major factor as to why I lasted this long. When I started this blog, it was during the end part of the football season where the Champions League is already in the Round of 16, making it very exciting to watch the matches. It also coincided with the rise (and I do hope it continues) of football and the Azkals in the Philippines.

In honor of my 100^th post, here are my favorite number players who donned the number 10 jersey (because there is no number 100 jersey in football J)

Zinedine Zidane

The playmaker. Love this guy, the 1^st time I saw him play was when he was still in Juventus. I’m amazed at this guy’s vision and creativity on the pitch. Teammates have said that when they didn’t know what to do with the ball, they just pass it to him and he’ll think of something.

Diego Maradona

Infamous for his “hand of God” goal and his off the pitch issues of alcoholism, drug addition and weight struggle, he is also one of the football legends who I admire for turning his life around and becoming the coach off Argentina in last year’s World Cup.

Pele

The legend. Of course, I don’t think I need to explain this (even the non-fans know about him). I love that he continues to promote and be an ambassador for football.

Alessandro Del Piero

Wears number 10 for Juventus and before, for Italy. I think he peaked in 1998-2002 but when I started to follow football, he was one of the “players-to-watch” and was being compared to Ronaldo at that time but all the talk kinda stopped when he got injured just weeks before the 1998 World Cup and in the same year got sidelined again from a serious injury. When I watched him return, he wasn’t like before anymore (don’t get me wrong, he’s a great player, but I think he never got to lived up to the earlier hype). Off the pitch, people say he’s a really classy and nice guy, winning three awards in Italy for gentlemanly conduct. And yeah, he’s one hot DILF :P

Luis Figo

Wore the number ten for Real Madrid. His signing to Real Madrid started the club’s Galactico era. Very classy player. He still works with Inter Milan as an ambassador.

Cesc Fabregas

number 10 for Spain. He is currently Arsenal’s captain and has a reputation as one of the best young players for his position, central midfielder and a playmaker. Great player… and gorgeous too… J he has this whole bromance going on with Gerard Pique.

Lionel Messi

Dons the #10 for Barca & Argentina. I love, love, love this guy. He’s my new favorite player. I don’t think I have to explain how good of a football player he is, experts have raved about his “inhuman” football skills, but beyond the football prowess, breaking various records and the numerous awards, what I really like about him is that he seems to be a really genuine nice guy. Very humble and down to earth. At 19, he started the Leo Messi Foundation (it started from his experience hospital visit to kids with cancer). Maradona considers Messi as his successor.

I know there are many football greats who wore the number 10 jersey like Michael Platini, Roberto Baggio, Dennis Bergkamp, Johan Cruyff, Ronaldinho, Drogba, etc. (and the list can go on as usually the best strikers use this number) but I these are the players that I really like and usually, I like a player because of who he is off the pitch.

Arsenal vs. Barcelona

March 9 @ 3:30AM – Barcelona vs. Arsenal (Live)

March 9 @ 3:30PM – Barcelona vs. Arsenal (Replay)

March 9 @ 10PM – Barcelona vs. Arsenal (Replay)

My dear Barcelona should step up their game in this 2^nd leg match against Arsenal as they lost the first leg match. But they may have a hard time keeping their defensive line tight and intact without the suspended Gerard Pique and skipper Carles Puyol , who has still not recovered from his knee injury L

Arsenal’s key players, captain Cesc Fabregas and goal-scorer Robin van Persie are yet to confirm if they will be fit enough to play in the match. But Alex Song, Theo Walcott and goal keeper Łukasz Fabiański are definitely out due to injuries.

Messi, Iniesta, David Villa and Xavi please work your magic and score lots and lots of goals…

Aggregate Score:

Arsenal: 2

Barcelona: 1

For the win:

Arsenal:

a draw will qualify them to the next round
a 2 – 3 score in favor of Barca (aggregate score will be a tie but they’ll have more away goals)
they’ll be alright as long as Barca will not score more than two goals than they do

Barcelona

at least 2 goals more than Arsenal in this match
a 0 – 1 score in Barca’s favor will advance them to the next round as they have an away goal in the last match
Barca should prevent Arsenal from scoring a lot of away goals in this match

Stadium: Camp Nou (Barca's home turf)

More here :

Guardiola: "The fans will carry us into the quarter finals"
Arsenal's Attacking Football Will See Them Lose In Barcelona - Lionel Messi
Puyol ruled out of Arsenal decider
Match facts: Barcelona v Arsenal
Arsenal lose Van Persie for Barcelona trip

Here's my attempt in being an “expert”... Below are score combinations showing which team can quailify to the next round.

Arsenal	Barcelona
0	0
0	1
0	2
0	3
0	4
0	5
1	1
1	2
1	3
1	4
1	5
2	1
2	2
2	3
2	4
2	5
3	1
3	2
3	3
3	4
3	5
4	1

Highlighted in yellow means that that team will proceed to the Quarter finals. Pink means the aggregate score as well as the number of away goals are a tie, so I dunno, maybe they'll do extra time, shoot out or coin toss?

Shirtless: Cesc Fabregas

I guess if Barca would lose in the 2^nd leg of their match against Arsenal, I won’t feel too bad as long as I can stare at The Gunners’ captain all day long…

Arsenal captain, Cesc "Sex" Fabregas

he also plays for Spain..

in an interview, he says he likes nothing better than sitting
around the house watching TV or playing on
his X-Box wearing just his boxer shorts

locker room pics!

can't decide if he looks good with the beard or without it..

he sure does love changing in public :)

hot!!

nice view..

this hottie is BFFs with Gerard Pique,
they go way back in their youth club days

not liking the long hair

this guy loves to tease...

But I think he really just wants to take off his shirt, but FIFA is pretty strict with goal celebrations.. so sadly, players can't take off their jersey :(