The Beautiful Game of Buying Soccer Players
BUYING DROGBA
Wouldn’t it be a great world if we could go on-line and buy ourselves a soccer player? The fans in Marseille are trying to do just that via a website which hopes to raise $27.5M for Didier Drogba to come play with ‘em back in the Mediterranean. So far, they’ve raised an impressive $1.5M for the Ivorian Beast, and although its unlikely that they’ll reach their goal…I cant imagine Drogba would leave his Mourinho-less Chelsea to go anywhere but Milan (or Barcelona) who are thought to be the front-runners for the Cote d’Ivoire international treat.
SELLING RONALDINHO
Meanwhile, Barca is desperately trying to hang onto their two time player of the year, Ronaldinho, who has received a $50M offer from (oh-god-no) Manchester City…but the Brazilian is also the subject of a $23M offer from AC Milan…no word on whether Ronaldinho will take the offer from Man-City, but he and his agent/brother ‘Roberto’ flew back from Brazil to Barcelona on Monday after talking about the situation. “The two sides agreed to allow two or three days to finalize the transfer of the player to one of the clubs which have shown an interest in signing him. If the operation cannot be confirmed in this time the player will rejoin squad training,” the can-you-be-more-vague-statement said. City have refused to give up on buying Ronaldinho and emailed Barcelona their offer on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail….so, will Ronaldinho chase the money and play for Man-City or will he join the hottest soccer squad on earth- Milan, who have offered to pay him $200,00 a week less than Man-City.
MARRYING MICHAEL
Off the market-Michael Ballack was married on Monday just two days after taking part in the ‘Goal4Africa’ charity soccer game in Munich…Ballack’s bride, longtime girlfriend Simone wore an interesting Bjork-ish dress as they exchanged vows in the garden of the Bavarian Yacht Club in Berg, Germany…Goal 4 Africa has raised close to $1.4M for education and social development in Africa, anf their charity soccer game went down two days prior to Ballacks wedding. Two teams, ‘Edu’ and ‘Cation’ were led by captains Clarence Seedorf (Edu) and Ballack (Cation)…in all, 15 goals were scored, but the first one in the net came from the foot of Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Bhaichung Bhutia. In fact, Bhutia scored two goals against Ballack’s team…love, love, love to Seedorf and Ronaldo who organized the event. The ‘Goal 4 Africa’ project is inspired by Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela’s dream of “Education for all - all for education”.
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As always, thanks for reading. Delinda Lombardo
