10/03/11

3 Pemain Baru Rangsang Percaya Diri Persib

Persib saat ini berada di peringkat 12 dengan koleksi 16 poin.
Jum'at, 11 Maret 2011, 06:05 WIB
Zika Zakiya
Abanda Herman (VIVAnews/Dadi Haryadi)
VIVAnews - Persib Bandung akan bertandang ke markas Pelita Jaya Karawang dalam lanjutan Indonesia Super League, Sabtu 12 Maret 2011 nanti. Meski bertindak sebagai tim tamu, Persib bertekad mencuri poin penuh di Stadion Singaperbangsa Karawang.

Hal ini ditegaskan manajer Persib Umuh Muchtar. Target ini dinilai wajar mengingat tim Maung Bandung kini dianggapnya lebih tajam dengan masuknya tiga pemain Abanda Herman, Miljan Radovic, dan Matsunaga Shohei.

Abanda merupakan bek tangguh asal Kamerun yang sempat memperkuat PSM Makassar dan Persija Jakarta. Sedangkan Radovic merupakan pemain yang tercatat beberapa kali memperkuat timnas Montenegro dan sempat berlaga di Liga Europa musim lalu. Shohei juga sudah makan asam garam kompetisi Eropa karena sempat memperkuat Schalke 04 di Bundesliga Jerman.

"Di Karawang, kita harus menang. Kalau lihat kondisi anak-anak, saya optimistis kitabisa meraih poin di sana,” ujar Umuh dikutip dari situs Bobotoh United.

“Mental para pemain tidak ada masalah, semangatnya pun begitu tinggi untuk memenangkan pertandingan," katanya lagi.

Persib sendiri saat ini berada di peringkat 12 dengan koleksi 16 poin. Sedangkan Pelita masih terpuruk di peringkat 14 dengan 13 poin.
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Mimpi Beli Messi, Presiden Klub Gurem Dihukum

"Itu hanya lelucon untuk menghibur teman-teman."
Jum'at, 11 Maret 2011, 00:38 WIB
Toto Pribadi
Lionel Messi (Paraorkut)

VIVAnews - Malang benar nasib Cedric Enjorlas, seorang presiden klub gurem di Prancis. Gara-gara mengeluarkan lelucon membeli Messi, sang presiden mendapat sanksi dari Federasi Sepakbola Prancis (FFF).

Presiden FC Borne, klub divisi dua yang kini berlaga di Liga Haute-Loire itu mendapat hukuman enam bulan dari FFF karena lelucon nya membeli Messi dari Barcelona.

Dilansir Guardian, Kamis 10 Maret 2011, FFF langsung menghentikan tawaran pembelian yang dilakukan klub itu yang telah didaftarkan ke FA Spanyol. Dengan kata lain, Barcelona belum sempat menerima proposal pembelian itu.

"Tidak bisa diterima perilaku seperti itu. Itu mungkin hanya sebuah lelucon tapi kami di sini akan mendalami faktanya," ujar Yves  Begon, kepala registrasi FFF.

FFF berpedoman jika secara finansial tentu klub sekelas FC Borne tentu sangat sulit menyediakan dana untuk mendatangkan Messi. Dalam kesempatan itu, Enjolras sendiri mencoba membeberkan kronologis lelucon nya itu.

"Untuk mengajukan pembelian oleh klub-klub kecil, Anda harus mendaftar di internet. Saya putuskan untuk mengajukan sebuah pembelian jadi saya tulis nama Lionel Messi, tanggal lahirnya dan klub asal dalam sistem," ujar Enjolras.

"Lalu permintaan itu disampaikan kepada federasi. Mereka terkejut karena hal itu dan menolak untuk mengirimkannya ke Spanyol. Saya mendapat skorsing selama enam bulan. Itu hanya lelucon untuk menghibur teman-teman," pungkasnya.
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09/03/11

Van Persie: Keputusan Wasit Menggelikan Van Persie diusir oleh wasit setelah mendapatkan kartu kuning untuk kedua kalinya

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Rabu, 9 Maret 2011, 08:36 WIB
Muhammad Hasits
Robin van Persie (AP)
BERITA TERKAIT
VIVAnews - Robin van Persie rupanya tidak terima dengan keputusan wasit Massimo Busacca yang memberinya kartu merah dalam laga Barcelona melawan Arsenal pada leg kedua babak 16 besar Liga Champions dini hari tadi.

Striker Arsenal itu diusir oleh wasit setelah mendapatkan kartu kuning untuk kedua kalinya. Van Persie mendapatkan kartu kuning pertama setelah menampar wajah Dani Alves. Dan kartu kuning kedua diberikan oleh wasit karena menendang bola setelah peluit off-side berbunyi.

"Saya kira ini sungguh menggelikan. Bagaimana saya bisa mendengar jelas peluit dengan kebisingan 95 ribu orang penonton?" kata Van Persie seperti dilansir dari Goal.

"Saya tak mengerti keputusan wasit. Kalau memang empat, lima, enam detik berselang, Anda bisa mengecek itu off-side. Tapi itu hanya satu detik. Sungguh menggelikan," tambah Van Persie.

Van Persie sebenarnya sudah menjelaskan ke wasit. Tapi, alasan pemain asal Belanda itu tidak diterima. "Saya mencoba menjelaskannya ketika 95 ribu orang bersorak, bagaimana saya bisa mendengar peluit?" jelasnya.

"Wasit tampil jelek. Peluitnya melawan kami. Saya kira itu kenapa dia ada di sini malam ini. Kami merasa dicurangi. Meski pertandingan masih terbuka dengan kedudukan 1-1, saya kira wasit membunuh pertandingan ini," ungkapnya.

Setelah bermain dengan 10 pemain, Arsenal akhirnya tersingkir dari Liga Champions musim ini setelah kalah 3-1 di Camp Nou. Dengen demikian, Barcelona yang unggul agregat 4-3 berhak lolos ke babak 8 besar Liga Champions. (umi)
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Apa Kata Guardiola Soal Kekecewaan Wenger Kekecewaan Wenger memuncak setelah wasit Massimo Busacca mengusir Robin van Persie.

Rabu, 9 Maret 2011, 08:57 WIB
Muhammad Hasits
Pep Guardiola (AP/Keystone, Alessandro Della Bella)
BERITA TERKAIT
VIVAnews - Manajer Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, tidak bisa menyembunyikan kekecewaannya usai timnya tersingkir dari Liga Champions setelah kalah dari Barcelona pada babak 16 besar Liga Champions di Camp Nou dini hari tadi. The Gunners harus menyerah dengan skor 3-1.

"Selamat kepada mereka (Barcelona). Tapi saya kecewa dengan hasil ini karena hasil ini tidak kami harapkan," kata Wenger seperti dilansir dari laman FIFA.com.

Dengan kemenangan itu, Barcelona berhak mendapatkan tiket babak 8 besar setelah menang dengan agregat 4-3. Pada leg pertama, Arsenal menang dengan skor 2-1. "Padahal kami datang dan kembali ke permainan untuk menang karena saya yakin tim kami bisa melakukannya," ujar Wenger.

Menurut Wenger, El Barca memang bermain sangat bagus. Hal itu terlihat dari pola serangan yang dibangun oleh Xavi Hernandez dari tengah lapangan. Meski dari tengah lapangan ada Cesc Fabregas, Arsenal tetap tidak mampu mengimbanginya.

Kekecewaan Wenger memuncak setelah wasit Massimo Busacca mengusir Robin van Persie. Penyerang Arsenal itu mendapat kartu kuning kedua karena mengabaikan peluit wasit tanda telah terjadinya off-side.

Menanggapi reaksi Wenger, pelatih Barcelona, Pep Guardiola, memahami kekecewaan manajer asal Prancis tersebut. Menurut Pep, hal itu wajar karena wasit sudah menjalankan tugasnya dengan baik.

"Saya bisa memaklumi kekecewaan Arsenal. Peraturannya memang seperti itu, tapi saya bisa maklum," ujar Guardiola.

Namun, Guardiola menolak anggapan kemenangan timnya karena dibantu keputusan wasit yang telah mengusir Van Persie. "Kami berhasil mengatasi kesulitan dalam situasi yang berbeda-beda. Kami bermain sangat baik, baik saat di sini maupun ketika di London. Kami berhasil menekan dengan baik sehingga Arsenal tak mampu memainkan tiga umpan beruntun," jelasnya. (umi)
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Dubes RI: Blatter Tegaskan Nurdin Tidak Dapat Dicalonkan

Penegasan Blatter ini dikeluarkan disela-sela pertemuan dengan dubes negara-negara ASEAN di markas FIFA.

Oleh Donny Afroni

8 Mar 2011 21:51:00

Indonesia - Nurdin Halid & Sepp Blatter
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Indonesia - Nurdin Halid & Sepp Blatter
Duta besar [Dubes] RI untuk Swiss Djoko Susilo mengungkapkan, presiden FIFA Sepp Blatter kembali mengeluarkan penegasan agar Nurdin Halid tidak dicalonkan sebagai ketua umum PSSI periode 2011-15.

Hal itu disampaikan Joko melalui teleconference dengan wartawan beberapa saat lalu. Djoko telah berbicara dengan Blatter disela-sela acara pertemuan pada dubes se-ASEAN dengan orang nomor satu di FIFA tersebut.

Menurut Djoko, pertemuan itu berlangsung selama hampir satu jam. Dalam pertemuan itu juga, pada dubes se-ASEAN ini membahas mengenai kemungkinan empat negara di kawasan Asia Tenggara menjadi tuan rumah bersama Piala Dunia 2030.

“Saya sudah berbicara dengan Blatter, dan mendapatkan jawaban tegas dari dia, yakni Nurdin Halid tidak dapat dicalonkan kembali pada kongres PSSI mendatang. Bila dicalonkan lagi, maka FIFA tidak akan mengesahkan hasil pemilihan itu,” ungkap Djoko.

“Blatter juga mengakui jika surat tahun 2007 itu memang ada. Tapi kemudian ada semacam kesepakatan di dalam internal FIFA, sehingga surat itu kemudian dimentahkan.”

Van Bronckhorst & 19 Pemain Keturunan Akan Datang Ke Indonesia

Pemerintah akan datangkan 20 pemain keturunan Belanda-Indonesia untuk membangkitkan motivasi sepakbola Indonesia.

Oleh Tegar Paramartha

9 Mar 2011 14:23:00

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Giovanni Van Bronckhorst (Getty Images)
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FIFA World Cup 2010 -Uruguay vs Netherlands, Giovanni Van Bronckhorst (Getty Images)
Melalui sebuah program yang bernama 'Indonesia Tanah Air Beta', pemerintah Indonesia akan mendatangkan 20 pemain keturunan Belanda-Indonesia termasuk kapten timnas Belanda di Piala Dunia 2010, Giovani van Bronckhorst.

Staf Khusus Presiden Bidang Pembangunan Daerah dan Otonomi, Felix Wanggai, mengungkapkan bahwa salah satu tujuan dari program tersebut adalah untuk membangkitkan motivasi sepakbola nasional.

"Program ini dinamakan Indonesia Tanah Air Beta. Pemain yang didatangkan semuanya berdarah Indonesia dan bermain di kompetisi di Eropa," katanya.

Pemain-pemain keturunan tersebut akan berada di Indonesia pada tanggal 13 Maret sampai tanggal 24 Maret, dan ada tiga kota yang akan mereka kunjungi yaitu, Jakarta, Ambon dan Denpasar.

Kegiatan pertama pada tanggal 13-17 Maret akan dilaksanakan di Ambon dengan jadwal antara lain pelatihan pada pemain muda, pertandingan persahabatan serta melakukan lokakarya  pada pelatih lokal.

Pada kegiatan pertama tersebut van Bronckhorst belum bergabung, pemain timnas Belanda tersebut baru bergabung dengan rekan-rekannya saat kegiatan kedua di Jakarta pada tanggal 17-21 Maret berlangsung.

Pada kunjungannya di Jakarta, pemain-pemain keturunan tersebut akan melakukan pertandingan uji coba dengan salah satu klub profesional di Indonesia. Setelah itu, rangkaian agenda acara 'Indonesia Tanah Air Beta' akan diakhiri di Denpasar Bali pada tanggal 21-24 Maret.

Cuaca Bersahabat, Timnas Janji Main Maksimal Timnas menantang tuan rumah Turkmenistan mulai pukul 18.00 waktu setempat atau 20.00 WIB. Rabu, 9 Maret 2011, 16:22 WIB

Edwan Ruriansyah
Indonesia vs Turkmenistan di leg 1 (ANTARA/Puspa Perwitasari)

VIVAnews - Cuaca ekstrim yang sempat menghantui tim nasional Pra Olimpiade Indonesia tidak terbukti di Turkmenistan. Timnas menjanjikan akan  tampil maksimal di leg 2, nanti malam.

Cuaca di Ibukota Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, tidak sedingin yang diperkirakan sebelum Timnas berangkat dari Tanah Air. Sore hari ini, suhu di Ashgabat mencapai 15 derajat celcius. Pada saat pertandingan,  suhu diprediksi turun menjadi 13 derajat celcius.

Sebelumnya, cuaca di Ashgabat sering berubah. Pada pagi hari, rata-rata suhu mencapai 8 derajat celcius, siang 24 derajat dan sore di bawah 10 derajat celcius. Akibatnya, beberapa pemain Timnas sempat terserang flu ringan. Meski begitu, Yongki Aribowo cs siap menebus kekalahan 1-3 di leg 1.

“Memang susah membalikkan keadaan dari defisit dua gol. Tapi, kita datang ke sini juga bukan untuk main seadanya. Kita akan berusaha main semaksimal mungkin untuk membawa hasil yang maksimal juga, dan pemain juga sudah siap untuk itu,” kata Wolfgang Pikal, asisten pelatih Timnas, seperti dikutip dari situs PSSI, Rabu, 9 Maret 2011.

Tim arahan Alfred Riedl ini akan menantang tuan rumah Turkmenistan mulai pukul 18.00 waktu setempat atau 20.00 WIB di Olympic Stadium, Ashgabat.

Pertandingan ini akan dipimpin oleh wasit asal Bahrain, Ali Hasan Ebrahim Abdulnabi, dibantu oleh asisten dua wasit Ebrahim Mubarak Sabt Moosa Saleh dan Aziz Ali Hasan Yusuf Alwadi, serta wasit cadangan Zakareya Ebrahim Isa Ali. Sedangkan Match Commissioner yakni Ayman Mohammad Saoud Haroun asal Yordania.

Para pemain menginap di Hotel Ak Altyn. Tim pelatih yang dipimpin Alfred Riedl sedang menggelar pertemuan terakhir dengan pemain untuk mengumumkan starting line-up serta taktik dan strategi yang akan digunakan.

PREDIKSI STARTING LINE UP INDONESIA
Kiper:
Kurnia Meiga
Belakang: Safri Umri, Gunawan Dwi Cahyo, Djayusman Triasdi, Dias Angga Putra
Tengah: Engelberd Sani, Hendro Siswanto, Egi Melgiansyah, Oktovianus Maniani
Depan: Yongki Aribowo, Rishadi Fauzi
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05/03/11

Gabriel Batistuta


Thursday, January 3, 2008 ·

Gabriel Batistuta
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Gabriel Batistuta
Personal information
Full name Gabriel Omar Batistuta
Date of birth February 1, 1969 (1969-02-01) (age 38)
Place of birth Reconquista, Argentina
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth clubs
Newell's Old Boys
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1988-1989
1989-1990
1990-1991
1991-2000
2000-2003
2003
2003-2005 Newell's Old Boys
River Plate
Boca Juniors
Fiorentina
AS Roma
Internazionale (loan)
Al Arabi
Total 024 00(7)
021 00(4)
034 0(13)
269 (168)
063 0(30)
012 00(2)
018 0(25)
0441 0(249)
National team
1991-2002 Argentina 078 0(56)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Gabriel Omar Batistuta (born February 1, 1969), nicknamed Batigol, is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at ACF Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the eighth top scorer of all time in the Italian Serie A league, with 184 goals in 318 matches between 1991 and 2003. On the international level, he is the all-time highest scorer for Argentina's national team, with 56 goals in 78 national team matches, and he represented his country at three FIFA World Cups. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the "125 Greatest Living Footballers".

When his club Fiorentina was relegated to Serie B in 1993, Batistuta stayed with the club and helped it return to the top-flight league a year later. A hero in Florence, the Fiorentina fans erected a life-size bronze statue of him in 1996, in recognition of his performances for Fiorentina. He never won the Italian league with Fiorentina, but when he moved to AS Roma in 2000, he finally won the Serie A championship to crown his career in Italy. He played his last season in Qatar with Al-Arabi before he retired in 2005.

Currently he works as a commentator having worked for Televisa Deportes during the 2006 FIFA World Cup and for the show "La jugada".Personal life

Batistuta was born on 1 February 1969, to slaughterhouse worker Omar Batistuta and school secretary Gloria Batistuta, in the town of Avellaneda, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, but grew up in the near city of Reconquista. He has three younger sisters, named Elisa, Alejandra, and Gabriela.

At the age of 16, he met Irina Fernández, his future wife, on her quinceañera, a rite of passage on her 15th birthday. She is reported to have ignored him but five years later, on December 28, 1990, they were married at Saint Roque Church. The couple moved to Florence, Italy, in 1991, and a year later their first son, Thiago, was born. Thanks to good performances in the Italian championship and with the Argentine national team, Batistuta gained fame and respect. He filmed several commercials and was invited onto numerous TV shows, but in spite of this, Batistuta always remained a low-profile family man.

In 1996, during Fiorentina's 2-1 victory at A.C. Milan, he celebrated scoring the match's decisive goal by saying Te amo, Irina ('I love you, Irina', to his wife) for the cameras. The mix of sex appeal and faithfulness cemented Batistuta's heart-throb reputation among Argentine and Italian women. In 1997, Batistuta's second son, Lucas, was born, and a third son, Joaquín, followed in 1999. He now has a fourth son Shamel. In 2000, Batistuta and his family moved to Rome, where he played for AS Roma. Two years after Shamel was born, Batistuta was loaned to Inter. In 2002, after more than 10 years in Italy, the family moved to Qatar where Batistuta had accepted a lucrative celebrity playing contract with a local team, Al-Arabi.

Batistuta ended his career at Al-Arabi, retiring in March 2005, after a series of injuries that prevented him from playing. Soon afterwards he moved to Perth, Australia. In April 2006, the city's established A-league franchise, Perth Glory was put up for sale and it was reported that Batistuta was among the bidders.[1]

[edit] The player

[edit] Beginnings

As a child Batistuta preferred other sports to football. Thanks to his height he played basketball, but after Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, in which he was particularly impressed by the skills of Mario Kempes, he devoted himself to football. After playing with friends on the streets and in the small Grupo Alegria club, he joined the local Platense junior team. While with Platense he was selected for the Reconquista team that won the provincial championship by beating Newell's Old Boys from Rosario. His 2 goals drew the attention of the opposition team, and he signed for them in 1988.

[edit] Professional

Batistuta signed professional forms with Newell's Old Boys Club, whose coach was Marcelo Bielsa, who would later become Batistuta's coach with the Argentine national team. Things did not come easily for Batistuta during his first year with the club. He was away from home, his family, and his girlfriend Irina, sleeping in a room at the stadium, and had a weight problem that slowed him down. At the end of that year he was loaned to a smaller team, Deportivo Italiano, of Buenos Aires, with whom he participated in the Carnevale Cup in Italy, ending as top scorer with 3 goals.

In mid-1989, Batistuta made the leap to one of Argentina's biggest clubs, River Plate, where he scored 17 goals. However, all did not run smoothly. He had numerous run-ins with coach Daniel Passarella (with whom he had later confrontations on the national squad) and he was dropped from the squad in the middle of the season.

In 1990, Batistuta signed for River's arch-rivals, Boca Juniors. Having gone so long without playing, he initially found it hard to find his best form. However, at the beginning of 1991 Oscar Tabárez became Boca's coach, and he gave Batistuta the support and confidence to become the league's top scorer that season as Boca won the championship.

[edit] International

In 1991, Batistuta was selected to play for Argentina in the Copa América held in Chile, where he finished the tournament as top scorer with 6 goals as Argentina romped to victory. During the Copa América competition, the vice-president of Fiorentina was impressed by Batistuta's skills and signed him for the Italian club. However, the following season Fiorentina were relegated to the Serie B division, despite Batistuta's 13 season goals. The club returned to Serie A two years later, with the contribution of 16 Batistuta goals and managed by Claudio Ranieri.

In 1993, Batistuta played in his second Copa América, this time held in Ecuador, which Argentina again won. The 1994 FIFA World Cup, held in USA, was a disappointment: after a promising start Argentina were beaten by Romania in the last 16. The morale of the team was seriously affected by Diego Maradona's doping suspension. Despite the disappointing Argentine exit, Batistuta scored 4 goals in as many games, including a hat-trick in their opening game against Greece.

On his return to Fiorentina, Batistuta found his best form. He was the top scorer of the 1994-95 season with 26 goals, and he broke Ezio Pascutti's 30-year-old record by scoring in all of the first 11 matches of the season. In the 1995-96 season Fiorentina won the Italian Cup and Super Coppa.

During the qualification matches for the 1998 FIFA World Cup (with former River Plate manager Passarella now coaching the Argentinean national team) Batistuta was left out of the majority of the games after falling out with the coach. Playing in the World Cup finals themselves, he scored 5 goals in that competition, before Argentina lost 2-1 to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals. In the game against Jamaica, he recorded the second hat trick of his World Cup career, becoming the 4th player to achieve this (the others were Sándor Kocsis, Just Fontaine, and Gerd Müller) and the first to score a hat trick in 2 World Cups.

After failure to win the Italian championship with Fiorentina, Batistuta started considering a transfer to a bigger team. In an effort to keep Batistuta, Fiorentina hired Giovanni Trapattoni as coach and promised to do everything to win the Scudetto. After an excellent start to the season, Batistuta suffered an injury that kept him out of action for more than a month. Losing momentum, Fiorentina lost the lead and finished the season in third place, which gave them the chance to participate in the Champions League in the following season.

[edit] Scudetto with AS Roma and last years

Batistuta stayed at Fiorentina for the 1999-00 season, tempted by the chance of winning both the Scudetto and the Champions League. After a promising start in both competitions, the team only reached seventh in the league and were eliminated in the second round group phase. The following season, he was transferred to A.S. Roma in a deal worth 35 million US dollars. Although a knee injury restricted his number of appearances, he scored 20 goals for A.S. Roma in his first season. He finally realized his dream of winning a major trophy as Roma clinched the Scudetto for the first time since 1983. The following season with A.S. Roma he changed his shirt number from #18 to #20 in reference to the number of goals he had scored during the Scudetto winning campaign. He also wore his age on the back of his Roma jersey in 2002, #33.

After a good series of performances by Argentina in the qualification matches for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, hopes were high that the South Americans - now managed by Marcelo Bielsa - could win the trophy, and Batistuta announced that he planned to quit the national team at the end of the tournament, which Argentina aimed to win. But Argentina's "group of death" saw the team fall at the first hurdle, as poor results against Nigeria, England, and Sweden meant that the team was knocked out in the opening round for the first time since 1962.

Back in Italy, Batistuta failed to find form with Roma and was loaned out to Internazionale; however, he failed to make an impression and departed for Qatari team Al-Arabi Sports Club. In Qatar, he broke the record of most goals scored that was held by Qatari Legend Mansour Mouftah with an amazing 24 goals. He was awarded for being the top scorer in all Arab leagues in 2004 with a Golden Boot.[citation needed]

Batistuta retired in 2005, and now lives in Perth, Australia. Despite having completed his coaching badges in Argentina, he currently has no involvement with football (instead he prefers to play golf). He has, however, recently expressed an interest in Coaching Australia. Argentine great keen to coach Socceroos

He has also been linked to the Argentina national football team job with Diego Maradona.

[edit] Statistics

* Physical information: Height 1.85 m, weight 73 kg
* First professional match: September 25, 1988. San Martín (Tucumán) 1 - Newell's Old Boys 0
* First professional goal: May 16, 1989. Newell's Old Boys 3 - Platense 0.
* First national team match: June 27, 1991. Brazil 1 - Argentina 1.
* First national team goal: July 8, 1991. Argentina 3 - Venezuela 0.
* Last national team match: June 12, 2002. Argentina 1 - Sweden 1.
* Last national team goal: June 2, 2002. Argentina 1 - Nigeria 0.
* 78 national team matches with 56 goals.

[edit] Honours

* First Division (Serie A) Italian Championship (with A.S. Roma) 2000-2001.
* Italian Supercup (with ACF Fiorentina) 1996, (with A.S. Roma) 2001
* Argentine Football Writers' Footballer of the Year 1998.
* Italian Cup (with ACF Fiorentina) 1995-1996.
* Second Division (Serie B) Italian Championship (with Fiorentina) 1993-1994.
* First Division Top Scorer, 26 goals (with Fiorentina) 1994-1995
* Copa América (with Argentina) 1991, 1993
* Copa América Top Scorer, 6 goals (with Argentina) 1991
* Top Scorer of The Qatari League with a record breaking 24 goals.
* Top Scorer in all Arab leagues, awarded with a Golden Boot.
* Gabriel Batistuta also set a new Serie A record by scoring in 11 consecutive Serie A games

Gabriel Batistuta


Thursday, January 3, 2008 ·

Gabriel Batistuta
Jump to: navigation, search
Gabriel Batistuta
Personal information
Full name Gabriel Omar Batistuta
Date of birth February 1, 1969 (1969-02-01) (age 38)
Place of birth Reconquista, Argentina
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Striker
Youth clubs
Newell's Old Boys
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1988-1989
1989-1990
1990-1991
1991-2000
2000-2003
2003
2003-2005 Newell's Old Boys
River Plate
Boca Juniors
Fiorentina
AS Roma
Internazionale (loan)
Al Arabi
Total 024 00(7)
021 00(4)
034 0(13)
269 (168)
063 0(30)
012 00(2)
018 0(25)
0441 0(249)
National team
1991-2002 Argentina 078 0(56)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Gabriel Omar Batistuta (born February 1, 1969), nicknamed Batigol, is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at ACF Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the eighth top scorer of all time in the Italian Serie A league, with 184 goals in 318 matches between 1991 and 2003. On the international level, he is the all-time highest scorer for Argentina's national team, with 56 goals in 78 national team matches, and he represented his country at three FIFA World Cups. In 2004, he was named in the FIFA 100 list of the "125 Greatest Living Footballers".

When his club Fiorentina was relegated to Serie B in 1993, Batistuta stayed with the club and helped it return to the top-flight league a year later. A hero in Florence, the Fiorentina fans erected a life-size bronze statue of him in 1996, in recognition of his performances for Fiorentina. He never won the Italian league with Fiorentina, but when he moved to AS Roma in 2000, he finally won the Serie A championship to crown his career in Italy. He played his last season in Qatar with Al-Arabi before he retired in 2005.

Currently he works as a commentator having worked for Televisa Deportes during the 2006 FIFA World Cup and for the show "La jugada".Personal life

Batistuta was born on 1 February 1969, to slaughterhouse worker Omar Batistuta and school secretary Gloria Batistuta, in the town of Avellaneda, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, but grew up in the near city of Reconquista. He has three younger sisters, named Elisa, Alejandra, and Gabriela.

At the age of 16, he met Irina Fernández, his future wife, on her quinceañera, a rite of passage on her 15th birthday. She is reported to have ignored him but five years later, on December 28, 1990, they were married at Saint Roque Church. The couple moved to Florence, Italy, in 1991, and a year later their first son, Thiago, was born. Thanks to good performances in the Italian championship and with the Argentine national team, Batistuta gained fame and respect. He filmed several commercials and was invited onto numerous TV shows, but in spite of this, Batistuta always remained a low-profile family man.

In 1996, during Fiorentina's 2-1 victory at A.C. Milan, he celebrated scoring the match's decisive goal by saying Te amo, Irina ('I love you, Irina', to his wife) for the cameras. The mix of sex appeal and faithfulness cemented Batistuta's heart-throb reputation among Argentine and Italian women. In 1997, Batistuta's second son, Lucas, was born, and a third son, Joaquín, followed in 1999. He now has a fourth son Shamel. In 2000, Batistuta and his family moved to Rome, where he played for AS Roma. Two years after Shamel was born, Batistuta was loaned to Inter. In 2002, after more than 10 years in Italy, the family moved to Qatar where Batistuta had accepted a lucrative celebrity playing contract with a local team, Al-Arabi.

Batistuta ended his career at Al-Arabi, retiring in March 2005, after a series of injuries that prevented him from playing. Soon afterwards he moved to Perth, Australia. In April 2006, the city's established A-league franchise, Perth Glory was put up for sale and it was reported that Batistuta was among the bidders.[1]

[edit] The player

[edit] Beginnings

As a child Batistuta preferred other sports to football. Thanks to his height he played basketball, but after Argentina's victory in the 1978 FIFA World Cup, in which he was particularly impressed by the skills of Mario Kempes, he devoted himself to football. After playing with friends on the streets and in the small Grupo Alegria club, he joined the local Platense junior team. While with Platense he was selected for the Reconquista team that won the provincial championship by beating Newell's Old Boys from Rosario. His 2 goals drew the attention of the opposition team, and he signed for them in 1988.

[edit] Professional

Batistuta signed professional forms with Newell's Old Boys Club, whose coach was Marcelo Bielsa, who would later become Batistuta's coach with the Argentine national team. Things did not come easily for Batistuta during his first year with the club. He was away from home, his family, and his girlfriend Irina, sleeping in a room at the stadium, and had a weight problem that slowed him down. At the end of that year he was loaned to a smaller team, Deportivo Italiano, of Buenos Aires, with whom he participated in the Carnevale Cup in Italy, ending as top scorer with 3 goals.

In mid-1989, Batistuta made the leap to one of Argentina's biggest clubs, River Plate, where he scored 17 goals. However, all did not run smoothly. He had numerous run-ins with coach Daniel Passarella (with whom he had later confrontations on the national squad) and he was dropped from the squad in the middle of the season.

In 1990, Batistuta signed for River's arch-rivals, Boca Juniors. Having gone so long without playing, he initially found it hard to find his best form. However, at the beginning of 1991 Oscar Tabárez became Boca's coach, and he gave Batistuta the support and confidence to become the league's top scorer that season as Boca won the championship.

[edit] International

In 1991, Batistuta was selected to play for Argentina in the Copa América held in Chile, where he finished the tournament as top scorer with 6 goals as Argentina romped to victory. During the Copa América competition, the vice-president of Fiorentina was impressed by Batistuta's skills and signed him for the Italian club. However, the following season Fiorentina were relegated to the Serie B division, despite Batistuta's 13 season goals. The club returned to Serie A two years later, with the contribution of 16 Batistuta goals and managed by Claudio Ranieri.

In 1993, Batistuta played in his second Copa América, this time held in Ecuador, which Argentina again won. The 1994 FIFA World Cup, held in USA, was a disappointment: after a promising start Argentina were beaten by Romania in the last 16. The morale of the team was seriously affected by Diego Maradona's doping suspension. Despite the disappointing Argentine exit, Batistuta scored 4 goals in as many games, including a hat-trick in their opening game against Greece.

On his return to Fiorentina, Batistuta found his best form. He was the top scorer of the 1994-95 season with 26 goals, and he broke Ezio Pascutti's 30-year-old record by scoring in all of the first 11 matches of the season. In the 1995-96 season Fiorentina won the Italian Cup and Super Coppa.

During the qualification matches for the 1998 FIFA World Cup (with former River Plate manager Passarella now coaching the Argentinean national team) Batistuta was left out of the majority of the games after falling out with the coach. Playing in the World Cup finals themselves, he scored 5 goals in that competition, before Argentina lost 2-1 to the Netherlands in the quarter-finals. In the game against Jamaica, he recorded the second hat trick of his World Cup career, becoming the 4th player to achieve this (the others were Sándor Kocsis, Just Fontaine, and Gerd Müller) and the first to score a hat trick in 2 World Cups.

After failure to win the Italian championship with Fiorentina, Batistuta started considering a transfer to a bigger team. In an effort to keep Batistuta, Fiorentina hired Giovanni Trapattoni as coach and promised to do everything to win the Scudetto. After an excellent start to the season, Batistuta suffered an injury that kept him out of action for more than a month. Losing momentum, Fiorentina lost the lead and finished the season in third place, which gave them the chance to participate in the Champions League in the following season.

[edit] Scudetto with AS Roma and last years

Batistuta stayed at Fiorentina for the 1999-00 season, tempted by the chance of winning both the Scudetto and the Champions League. After a promising start in both competitions, the team only reached seventh in the league and were eliminated in the second round group phase. The following season, he was transferred to A.S. Roma in a deal worth 35 million US dollars. Although a knee injury restricted his number of appearances, he scored 20 goals for A.S. Roma in his first season. He finally realized his dream of winning a major trophy as Roma clinched the Scudetto for the first time since 1983. The following season with A.S. Roma he changed his shirt number from #18 to #20 in reference to the number of goals he had scored during the Scudetto winning campaign. He also wore his age on the back of his Roma jersey in 2002, #33.

After a good series of performances by Argentina in the qualification matches for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, hopes were high that the South Americans - now managed by Marcelo Bielsa - could win the trophy, and Batistuta announced that he planned to quit the national team at the end of the tournament, which Argentina aimed to win. But Argentina's "group of death" saw the team fall at the first hurdle, as poor results against Nigeria, England, and Sweden meant that the team was knocked out in the opening round for the first time since 1962.

Back in Italy, Batistuta failed to find form with Roma and was loaned out to Internazionale; however, he failed to make an impression and departed for Qatari team Al-Arabi Sports Club. In Qatar, he broke the record of most goals scored that was held by Qatari Legend Mansour Mouftah with an amazing 24 goals. He was awarded for being the top scorer in all Arab leagues in 2004 with a Golden Boot.[citation needed]

Batistuta retired in 2005, and now lives in Perth, Australia. Despite having completed his coaching badges in Argentina, he currently has no involvement with football (instead he prefers to play golf). He has, however, recently expressed an interest in Coaching Australia. Argentine great keen to coach Socceroos

He has also been linked to the Argentina national football team job with Diego Maradona.

[edit] Statistics

* Physical information: Height 1.85 m, weight 73 kg
* First professional match: September 25, 1988. San Martín (Tucumán) 1 - Newell's Old Boys 0
* First professional goal: May 16, 1989. Newell's Old Boys 3 - Platense 0.
* First national team match: June 27, 1991. Brazil 1 - Argentina 1.
* First national team goal: July 8, 1991. Argentina 3 - Venezuela 0.
* Last national team match: June 12, 2002. Argentina 1 - Sweden 1.
* Last national team goal: June 2, 2002. Argentina 1 - Nigeria 0.
* 78 national team matches with 56 goals.

[edit] Honours

* First Division (Serie A) Italian Championship (with A.S. Roma) 2000-2001.
* Italian Supercup (with ACF Fiorentina) 1996, (with A.S. Roma) 2001
* Argentine Football Writers' Footballer of the Year 1998.
* Italian Cup (with ACF Fiorentina) 1995-1996.
* Second Division (Serie B) Italian Championship (with Fiorentina) 1993-1994.
* First Division Top Scorer, 26 goals (with Fiorentina) 1994-1995
* Copa América (with Argentina) 1991, 1993
* Copa América Top Scorer, 6 goals (with Argentina) 1991
* Top Scorer of The Qatari League with a record breaking 24 goals.
* Top Scorer in all Arab leagues, awarded with a Golden Boot.
* Gabriel Batistuta also set a new Serie A record by scoring in 11 consecutive Serie A games

02/03/11

Hasil Tes Schumi Memburuk di Catalunya


Hasil tes kemarin lebih buruk dibanding sesi tes Schumi sebelumnya di Jerez.
Sabtu, 19 Februari 2011, 08:33 WIB
Zika Zakiya
Michael Schumacher (topi abu-abu) (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

VIVAnews - Sesi tes Formula 1 kembali digelar di Sirkuit Catalunya, Spanyol, Jumat 18 Februari 2011. Keluar sebagai pembalap tercepat adalah juara dunia tahun lalu, Sebastian Vettel, dengan waktu 1 menit 24,374 detik.

Sebaliknya, hasil kurang memuaskan diraih tujuh kali juara dunia, Michael Schumacher. Pembalap tim Mercedes Grand Prix itu hanya mencatatkan waktu 1 menit 27,517 detik dan berada di posisi delapan. Catatan waktu Schumi lebih buruk dibanding para juniornya seperti Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) Jaime Alguersuari (Scuderia Toro Rosso), dan  Paul di Resta (Force India F1).

Meski demikian, Schumi merasa puas dengan hasil sesi tesnya. "Kami mengalami hari baik, tentunya memuaskan bisa menyelesaikan balapan dengan semua sistem operasional dan semuanya berjalan lancar," kata Schumi sebagai alasan seperti dilansir Autoweek.

"Sekarang kami harus mengubah fokus pada penampilan nanti," katanya lagi.

Hasil tes kemarin lebih buruk dibanding sesi tes Schumi sebelumnya di Jerez pada 11-12 Februari lalu. Saat itu, pria asal Jerman ini keluar sebagai pembalap tercepat di hari pertama dan merosot ke peringkat tiga di hari kedua. Catatan waktu Schumi di Jerez bahkan lebih cepat dibanding dua pembalap McLaren, Jenson Button dan Lewis Hamilton.

Hasil lengkap sesi tes Catalunya 18 Februari 2011

1. Sebastian Vettel     Red Bull     01:24.374   
2. Fernando Alonso     Ferrari     01:25.485
3. Jaime Alguersuari     Toro Rosso 01:25.638   
4. Kamui Kobayashi    Sauber         01:25.641   
5. Jenson Button     McLaren     01:26.365   
6. Paul di Resta    Force India F1    01:26.575   
7. Rubens Barrichello    Williams    01:26.912   
8. Michael Schumacher    Mercedes GP    01:27.517   
9. Narain Karthikeyan    HRT F1 Team    01:28.393   
10.Heikki Kovalainen    Lotus F1    01:30.065   
11.Jerome d` Ambrosio    Virgin Racing    01:30.950   
12.Vitaly Petrov    Renault        01:35.174   
13. Nick Heidfeld    Renault        01:44.324
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28/02/11

Menpora: Kami Tetap Peringatkan PSSI
"Kalau ini belum dilaksanakan, tolong dilaksanakan," kata Andi Mallarangeng.
Senin, 28 Februari 2011, 17:08 WIB
Ismoko Widjaya, Suryanta Bakti Susila
VIVAnews - Menteri Negara Pemuda dan Olahraga (Menpora), Andi Mallarangeng, masih mempelajari hasil keputusan Komite Banding Persatuan Sepakbola Seluruh Indonesia (PSSI). 

"Kami tetap pada posisi awal yaitu memberikan peringatan terhadap pencalonan Ketua Umum PSSI," kata Andi Mallarangeng dalam rapat kerja dengan Komisi X DPR, Jakarta, Senin 28 Februari 2011.

Andi mengingatkan agar PSSI menaati aturan-aturan yang berlaku. PSSI dan pengurusnya harus mematuhi statuta FIFA. Andi juga mendesak PSSI menerapkan PP Nomor 16 Tahun 2007, yang berlaku sejak 5 Februari 2007, yang menyebutkan ketua umum induk organisasi olahraga tidak boleh seorang terpidana.
"Kalau ini belum dilaksanakan, tolong dilaksanakan. Kami mendesak PSSI segera melakukan koreksi dengan catatan-catatan," ujar Andi.

Andi berharap, bila PSSI menerapkan PP Nomor 16 tahun 2007, maka kongres yang digelar berjalan sesuai perundang-undangan yang berlaku. Tidak hanya itu, kongres juga berjalan sesuai dengan peraturan lembaga olahraga.

"Yang kami lakukan sangat terukur, yakni memberikan peringatan dengan melaksanakan aturan," tegas Andi.

Soal standar Statuta FIFA, PSSI menyebut Menegpora salah menginterpretasikannya. Pasalnya, PSSI telah mengikutinya. "Jangan salah, PSSI sudah mengikuti statuta FIFA," kata Max Boboy,  Direktur Hukum dan Peraturan PSSI..
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Besok, Demo Nurdin Akan Dihadiri 4.000 Orang Pendemo Nurdin minta Pemerintah membekukan PSSI.

Senin, 28 Februari 2011, 17:24 WIB
Edwan Ruriansyah, Haryanto Tri Wibowo
VIVAnews - Setelah hampir 4 jam melakukan demo di sekitar kantor PSSI, Senayan, Jakarta, Gerakan Revolusi PSSI (GRP) membubarkan diri. GRP berjanji akan membawa lebih banyak massa besok.

GRP mengerahkan sekitar 100 lebih orang untuk demo hari ini, Senin 28 Februari 2011. Mereka menentang pencalonan Nurdin Halid sebagai Ketua Umum PSSI periode 2011-2015.

Setelah memulai demo di PSSI sekitar pukul 13.00 WIB, GRP menyudahinya pukul 16.40 WIB. Namun, aksi GRP menuntut pencalonan kembali Nurdin Halid tidak berakhir hari ini.

Koordinator GRP, Dhani Jamper, menegaskan pihaknya akan kembali menggelar aksi dengan lebih banyak massa. Bahkan, Dhani mengaku akan mengerahkan hingga 4.000 orang untuk aksi besok, Selasa 1 Maret 2011.

"Besok estimasi kami akan membawa 4.000 orang. Ditambah teman-teman kami dari Malang, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Bogor, Lampung dan Tangerang, mungkin akan ada 5.000 orang," ujar Dhani di sela-sela aksi.

"Kami akan sekalian menunggu hasil sidang FIFA di Zurich besok. Intinya, kami ingin Pemerintah segera membekukan PSSI dan susunan pengurus PSSI," lanjutnya.

Dhani menegaskan semua biaya aksi demo yang sudah dilakukan GRP dalam lima hari terakhir murni dari masing-masing peserta demo. "Biaya gerakan ini murni dari daerah masing-masing. Kalaupun ada bantuan cuma makan dan minum saja. Ini bukan gerakan yang dibuat-buat, ini serentak seluruh indonesia," kilah Dhani.
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