I can't believe it, even though I saw it with my own eyes. A team of real quality, Real Zaragoza was relegated yesterday in La Liga. This is an extremely sad situation that has affected everyone from fans to sportscasters, who have come to know what an exciting and talented team this was. So what went wrong? Well, I am no expert, but I am aware that the club has had serious problems this year in getting their act together. Last year they finished 6th, with a UEFA Cup spot, and this year everyone was expecting them to get a Champions League berth. However, the team has gone through 4 managers in one year, one of them leaving a mere few weeks after taking the job. Who knows why, except that maybe when he saw the mess the club was in, he figured he couldn't sort it out. They lost an extremely talented but troubled player, Andres D'Alessandro, who has gone back to Argentina to play with San Lorenzo. Speaking of Argentina, this team has no less than three Argentine players of top quality, all of whom have been capped many times by the National Team, and all of whom have become legends. Not only that, but one of their young Spaniards, Sergio Garcia de la Fuente, has just been chosen for the first time to play for the Spanish NT in the Euro2008s. From my perspective, I truly believe that this team simply had too many problems that kept them from playing with true team spirit, and thus winning games. And they had no true leader to help them.
Okay, enough of my broken-hearted ramblings. Here is a picspam tribute to a wonderful team that will be missed.
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