Klub Chelsea Raih Oscar

TRIBUNNEWS.COM, LONDON - Bukan Piala Oscar secara harfiah, Chelsea, berhasil memenangkan persaingan dengan Tottenham Hotspurs untuk mendapatkan bintang masa depan Brasil, Oscar. Chelsea menebus Oscar dari Internacional dengan nilai transfer mencapai 25 juta Poundsterling. Berhasil mendatangkan dua pemain muda berbakat lainnya, Marko Marin dan Eden Hazard, tidak membuat Roman Abramovich puas. Sebagai bagian dari revolusi klub asal London Barat tersebut, Abramovich memperkuat tiimnya dengan mendatangkan Oscar. Pemuda 20 tahun bernama lengkap Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Junior itu disebut-sebut sebagai seorang pemain berbakat Brasil saat ini. Oscar bahkan disebut-sebut talenta terbaik yang pernah dimiliki Negeri Samba itu dalam beberapa tahun terakhir. Wajar jika klub seperti Real Madrid dan Barcelona juga berniat merekrut pemain yang berposisi sebagai gelandang serang itu. Oscar biasa bermain di belakang striker dan tidak canggung jika dimainkan sebagai pemain sayap, kanan maupun kiri. Daily Mail menyebutnya sebagai pemain Brasil tipikal nomor 10. Pendukung Chelsea sudah bisa melihat aksinya di lapangan hijau pada ajang Olimpiade London 2012. Oscar tergabung dalam tim Brasil. Raihannya di Internacional cukup mentereng. Dari 70 pertandingan yang telah dilakoni bersama Internacional, Oscar telah mencetak 19 gol. Di tim Samba, Oscar telah tampil 6 kali. Di final Piala Dunia U-20, Oscar bahkan mencetak hattrick kemenangan 3-2 atas Portugal. Bergabungnya Oscar ditambah Marko Marin dan Eden Hazard semakin menguatkan opini publik bahwa Abramovich ingin melihat klub miliknya tampil lebih menyerang. Musim lalu, meskipun akhirnya menjuarai Liga Champion dan Piala FA, Chelsea kerap dikritik karena memeragakan permainan bertahanan. Juragan minyak asal rusia itu pun masih memburu tanda tangan penyerang Porto asal brasil, Hulk..

CHELSEA TV EXCLUSIVE: MARIN FITS IN

Marko Marin, our new signing from Bundesliga club Werder Bremen, is spending his first few days training with his new team-mates, and giving his first interview to the club's own TV channel. The 23-year-old is becoming acquainted with the majority of the squad as they return from the summer break but so keen was he to start life as a Chelsea player, he has already familiarised himself with the training ground, as he told Chelsea TV. 'I am now here for three weeks and I think I know everybody [who works here] now,' Marin said. 'I am happy to start now the team training and I feel good. It was the first time we trained together with the ball, we did a lot and it was good intensity. The first two days we have only one session a day and then it starts with double sessions.' Marin is a German international but he is from a Serb background and although he is beginning to get to know most of the Chelsea squad, one player is already familiar - Branislav Ivanovic who has been helping the new arrival settle in England. He was also briefed on Chelsea by Claudio Pizarro who played one season at the club before returning to Germany where he was a team-mate of Marin. The Peruvian this week rejoined our Champions League Final opponents Bayern Munich. 'He [Pizarro] only had good things to say,' reported Marin. 'I asked him how it is here and he still has a house in Cobham. He didn't play a lot but he said that he had a great time here and he thinks I will enjoy it. 'I think I am an offensive player, more a winger, so I hope I can give a lot of assists to strikers so they score a lot of goals and they help the team. If you play for such a team as Chelsea you want to win trophies, like last year with the Champions League and the FA Cup. The Premier League I think is the best league in the world and to win this, that is my aim.' There is an exclusive Chelsea TV interview with Roberto Di Matteo that can be watched now via online access. from: http://www.app.chelseafc.com/news#2833993

DI MATTEO: TALKING TORRES

The majority of the squad are back in training but as he awaits the return of Fernando Torres, Roberto Di Matteo is anticipating coaching a striker next season whose spirits are high. Back in May the Italian waved goodbye to a No. 9 who had just become a European champion at club level and since then Torres and Spain kept hold of that title at international level too. But the player, who came on as a substitute in the latter stages of our Champions League victory in Munich, spoke soon after that game about what had been a difficult year personally. Di Matteo believes the next 12 months will be positive ones for the player. 'I did speak to Torres after the final, I had a chat with him the morning after and we have been in touch since as well.' he reveals. 'It was a feeling he had at the time. There are no concerns about Fernando at all and I am expecting him here in a good mood, buzzing and to be very good next season. 'I was very happy with Fernando [last season]. I said this many times and winning the Euro 2012 Golden Boot, being European champion and the trophies he won with us should give him a lot of confidence - but I was always very happy with him and I expect him next season to be a fantastic player for us.' Torres has a three-week break from the end of his involvement with Spain before he joins Chelsea's pre-season preparations. Naturally Di Matteo is not promising an automatic place as the spearhead of the attack, despite the departure of Didier Drogba. 'We have three strikers at the moment in the squad and they will all have to fight and there is competition which is very healthy. They will have to fight for their position and whoever is in the best form and is best for the team will play.' from:http://www.app.chelseafc.com/news#2835139

Di Matteo Puji Kualitas Dua Pemain Baru The Blues

Pelatih Chelsea, Roberto Di Matteo, menyambut baik kedatangan dua punggawa baru The Blues, Eden Hazard dan Marko Marin. Ia tak segan untuk memuji kualitas dari dua pemain anyar Chelsea tersebut yang diyakini dapat membantu tim musim depan. "Hazard adalah pemain yang bagus dan fantastis. Sebagai pemain muda, ia telah mencapai banyak kesuksesan, antara lain, memenangi gelar pemain terbaik Liga Prancis," ujar pelatih asal Italia tersebut seperti dilansir Sky Sports. "Sedangkan Marin adalah pemain muda berbakat. Ia mampu bermain di berbagai posisi.Saya yakin ia juga akan membatu tim," tambahnya. Meskipun Di Matteo mengaku senang dengan komposisi pemain yang dimiliki Chlesea sekarang, tak menutup kemungkinan ia akan kembali membeli beberapa pemain lagi. Nama striker Porto, Givanildo Vieira de Souza atau lebih dikenal dengan nama Hulk digadang-gadang menjadi target berikut The Blues. Namun, mengenai Hulk, Di Matteo tak mau banyak berspekulasi. "Saya sudah senang dengan tim saat ini. Tapi kami terus memantau pasar. Jika ada kesempatan maka akan kami ambil. Mengenai Hulk saya tak mau banyak bicara. Kita akan liat nanti,'' tuturnya. Selain mendatangkn pemain, The blues dikabarkan akan kehilangan dua pemainnya. Florent Malouda dan Yossi Benayoun kemungkinan besar akan pergi musim depan. Mengenai kabar akan hengkangnya dua pemain tersebut, Di Matteo mengaku akan ada keputusan yang tegas setelah tur pramusim 2012/2013. "Mereka adalah bagian dari klub. Setelah tur pramusim semua akan diselesaikan. Yang jelas, kami tetap memantau mereka dan akan lihat apa yang terjadi nanti," pungkasnya. Sumber: bolanews.com

Ucapan Perpisahan Mata untuk Drogba

Setelah berhasil menjadi pahlawan Chelsea pada musim ini dengan gol-golnya pada final Piala FA dan Liga Champions serta mengangkat kedua piala tersebut, Didier Drogba akhirnya hengkang ke Shanghai Shenhua pada musim depan dengan kontrak selama dua tahun. Langkah tersebut membuat Drogba akan kembali bermain dengan rekan satu timnya saat di Chelsea, yaitu, Nicolas Anelka. Menanggapi kepindahan tersebut, Juan Mata yang merupakan teman baik Drogba, mengucapkan selamat tinggal lewat akun Twitternya. "Suatu kebanggaan dapat bermain dengan kau, Drogba. Terima kasih atas segala yang engkau berikan kepada Chelsea selama ini. Semoga kau sukses di klub barumu," begitu tulis Mata. Sumber: Tribunnews.com