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atletico will be very interesting to watch
i wonder if simeone tries to expand his tactics more and try a more aggressive approach

playing on the counter and being conservative going forward works well against the big attacking clubs
but it doesn't translate as well against the smaller clubs who apply the same tactic to atletico
simeone is gonna have to utilize this talented squad to be on the offensive more

atletico can't win the title scoring only 58 goals in la liga again
 
How do people who have actually seen scumbag Icardi play feel about the possibility of him joining RM? Has a release clause of 110m.
 
the nerve of a United stan calling an away kit trash when they got that garbage pink away this year :lol:
 
How do people who have actually seen scumbag Icardi play feel about the possibility of him joining RM? Has a release clause of 110m.
When you're the main option with almost everything fed to you on a meh team for several years, anyone half decent can look good. Think the scumbag scored like 30 goals last campaign & Perisic was the next closest with 10 or so... I don't think the scumbag can play in a more structured team where he's not the main & almost only option getting service.

One mark of a good striker is one that can pass well when he's not in position to score... The top strikers always have a decent amount of assists... Scumbag had 1 last campaign...
 
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The Story Behind Why Soccer Players Sit In Race Car Seats

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While watching the FIFA World Cup a few weeks ago, my boss noticed players sitting in race car seats, and ordered me to figure out why. So I reached out to one of the biggest race car seat manufacturers, Recaro. Here’s what I learned.

While I’m not sure who makes the exact seats coddling the butts of soccer players at this year’s World Cup (since numerous inquiries to Fédération Internationale de Football Association went unanswered), I did learn about how heavily-bolstered sports car seats wound up on the sidelines of a football pitch in the first place. At least, according to German automotive seat maker, Recaro.

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“The story about the car seats at the sidelines goes back to the 1990s,” Tilman Schaefer, a company representative told me via email. He went on, saying the owner of Recaro at the time, Ulrich Putsch, was on the board of the German soccer team F.C. Kaiserslautern, and apparently gave the team’s manager Kalli Feldkamp a sports car seat because “the guy had back problems.”


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It wasn’t long before, in 1994 according to the company’s website, the rest of the team wound up sitting on a “custom-tailored players bench,” with Schaefer saying: “They put the seat right next to the bench. Because the players thought the seat to be just gorgeous Ulrich had a complete bench produced for the home team” as a part of a sponsorship deal.

That’s when customized sports car-inspired seats began taking over the sidelines around the world, and other seat manufacturers from other industries also wanted in, with Schaefer telling me:

Other teams became so excited that they ordered benches from RECARO – so this became a special sales project over the years.

Other seat producers–even airline seats–followed line and started to supply seats to teams they sponsor.

So this is kind of a standard today on soccer sidelines (plus baseball in Japan, plus business seats in the stadiums). In Europa and Japan RECARO is probably the biggest supplier.

Today, according to Recaro, over 70 top soccer teams—including Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Debreceni Vasutas SC and Ferencváros Budapest—sit on Recaro bucket seats.

As for the reasons why, Recaro’s spokesperson put it simply: “[The] seats are very comfortable and often supplied with a seat heating for the winter. And [they] look great.”

So while I’m not sure who makes the seats for this year’s World Cup (seats that still have the seatbelt holes that would be used for a five-point racing harness), it seems like this whole trend began in 1994 because of one man’s back problems.
 
I'd be fine if City get Lemina for like 25-30 mil. But good sources saying we not gonna sign anyone else this window
 
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