Edwin Van Der Sar

Edwin van der Sar (born 29 October 1970) is form Netherlands, he’s a soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for English Premier League club Manchester United.
He is the Netherlands national team's most capped player of all-time and one of the few footballers to have won the Champions League with two different teams, having won it with Ajax in 1995 and Manchester United in 2008, the latter where he was named UEFA Man of the match.
Van der Sar moved to Manchester United on 10 June 2005 for a reported fee of £2 million, although the exact transfer fee was undisclosed. Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson considered him the best goalkeeper to play for the club since Peter Schmeichel.
Van der Sar was included in the Netherlands's 1994 World Cup squad but did not play. He had to wait until 7 June 1995 for his international debut, against Belarus. He was in goal for three successive eliminations from major competitions by penalties: Euro 96, France 98 and Euro 2000. Following the Dutch team's failure to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Van der Sar would have to wait four years for his next international tournament.

"Leo" Messi

Lionel Andrés Messi , born 24 June 1987 in Rosario, Argentina soccer player who plays for Spanish club FC Barcelona and the Angentinian national team. Messi is considered to be one of the best football players of his generation, having received several Golden ball and Fifa's player of the year nominations by the age of 21. He was selected as both the Fifpro and World Soccer Young Player of the Year for three years running from 2005–2008. His playing style and ability have drawn comparisons to football legend Diego Maradona. Indeed, Maradona himself declared Messi his "successor".
Messi was the top scorer, with six goals which included two goals in the final, and winner of the 2005 Fifa World Youth Championship with Argentina and soon established himself in the senior international team. In 2006 he became the youngest Argentine to play in the Fifa World Cup and he won a runners-up medal at the Copa America tournament the following year. He won his first senior international honors in 2008, winning an Olympic gold medal with the Argentina's Olimpic Team in Beijing.

M.V.P?

Yesterday in the awards they gave to the students who play sports, well actually just the best players get the awards. I got the M.V.P of Harding Soccer team, for me its kind a personal achievement which makes me proud because I know I deserve it and I worked for it. After along time of working hard to get something here I finally get it, but also last year I got a M.V.P medal which I don’t thing it was as big as the award from yesterday.
The M.V.P besides making me happy and proud also gave me motivation to play better, yesterday I had one of the best games I have play, and the “best game” Mr. Tyson have ever see me play, that’s what he said.
We won 9 – 5 but besides it was indoor the goals they scored on me was a bunch of own goals and mistakes of my defense where I couldn’t do nothing to stop them, but when I could I did and I did it well and well done as my job requested me to do it.

Ecuador vs. Argentina

The Ecuadorian national team is playing against Argentina today at 5:00 pm,
Ecuador needs to win this game so they can achieve 20 points which would let the Ecuadorian team get in the fight for the ticket to Africa 2010.
Ecuador beat Peru last Sunday by 2 to 1, with these 3 points Ecuador got a new light of hope so they could get to the major tournament, but also if they want to be there they will have to beat Argentina today in Quito, but is not so easy, Ecuador has to wait for other results to come as Venezuela and Colombia to draw so that would give them more chances.
Ecuador is not going to use the same team they used against Peru, the team Ecuador used in the last game was just a “substitute” team because some of it’s players were suspended or injured so Sixto Vizuete had to find another team to play against Peru and that’s why he was trying a new defensive line against Honduras, but it didn’t go so well, Ecuador los 3 – 1 against the “catrachos”.

Quit soccer ?

Again as crazy as this sounds, I do quit soccer, I am not sure and as much as it hurts me to do this but I think is enough and I’m just going to stop it for a little bit because it really takes too much of my time and really is not a good idea to spend all my afternoons and Sunday family time out side playing soccer. But the main reason why I’m doing this is because people don’t appreciate my work! I literally won by my self last Sunday I was the one who was saving the horrible mistakes my defense made and the one who saved the day, but yeah I admit I made a little mistake in the last minutes of the game that’s why they scored on me, but besides I save their mistakes and did a great job they didn’t say even thanks and when I made that mistake they were killing me with their words I don’t think that’s fair.
Also in the other Ecuadorian team they have me as a sub, as a sub? Yes! I’m me, one of the best goalkeepers and they have me as a sub, I don’t like that and is not like I could go to practice and show them that I’m better than the other guy because I tried and it didn’t work so I better just leave them, also I have to go to Ecuador so is not use really to keep playing, I just will go to my aunt’s house to live for a week after school is over then travel to Ecuador, those are my plans.

Ecuador vs Peru

Sunday 05-06-09 the Ecuador national team player against Peru in Lima, Ecuador won by a score of 2 - 1.

The Peruvian team started with:

Fernández
C. Zambrano
A. Rodríguez
W. Vilchez
R. Torres
A. Prado
J. Ballón '78
J. Vargas
Sánchez '71
J. Ramírez
P. De La Haza
R. Merino '46
J.P. Guerrero
J. Fano

And the Ecuadorian team with:

M. Elizaga
M. Fleitas
J. Guagua
N. Reasco
W. Ayoví
S. Castillo
E. Méndez
J. Montero
C. Noboa
I. Mina '83
P. Palacios
C. Tenorio
J. Guerrón '60
F. Hidalgo '86

The begining: Ecuador got a really important victory yesterday in the Monumental of Lima against peru, this win gives Ecuador more chances to be in the world cup. The work of Sixto Vizuete's player was notable and they puted everything on the field so they can get the victory and they acomplished.

At the minute 37' Ecuador started wining with a goal scored by the young Jefferson Monter then it was for the peruvian team at the minute 51' by a free kick to put the things even but Ecuador won in with a goal scored at 58' easy finishing a game in which Peru didn't have the chance to do nothing.

Soccer gets you tired?

As you should know by now soccer gets you really tired and I think this is way to much for me… I can play soccer for hours and hours but not every day and until really late as I being doing this week, last Wednesday I played two games in the row the first one at 8 and the other one at 10, but it got me so tired that it was hard for me to keep playing.
At least I won the first game, and I didn’t suck but it was pretty bad, they scored about 5 goals on my, even know we scored 10 I’m not happy with what happened.
But the other game was just ridiculous, playing against the owner of “Corner Kick” is not fun man, it is but the dude knows the field so well that he scored on me from every position possible, he has a really awesome aim and skills which is just hard for me to stop.
This is not everything after that tiring night I had soccer practice next day and after practice another game, that’s just insane man I was so tired yesterday and I still am, even worst I have to come to school which really sucks because I didn’t have enough and I cant sleep in class because this #&^(%$ just keep talking $#*^ about me saying that I sleep in all my classes which gets me even madder that what I am.

My life !

A day in my life of Dan Vasquez is not as easiest as it seems, many people asks why is he always tired? Why is he always sleeping? The answer to this questions is in this little story, Dan starts every day at 5:00 am, cleans up his room then takes a shower and gets dress, after getting ready he makes himself breakfast , eats and then some more personal hygiene and leaves to school.Dan actually hates school because is boring and they don’t teach him nothing new that’s why he uses this time to relax and most of the time sleep. After a tired day at school, he gets home make himself something to eat, then gets on the computer for a little while and then works out a little until any of the many teams that needs him to play with them call him, then he leaves to play soccer, knowing he is a goalkeeper he works more than any other player on the field, he usually finish playing about at 11 or 12 pm, then take another shower and eats a little something before bed but he doesn’t sleep yet; he starts or either playing Xbox or watching TV and starts sleeping about at 2 or 3, depends the kind of day he had.

Crazy stuff !!!

Ok as you already know I like to write crazy things on my blog but this is probably the most ridiculous thing ever! Last Sunday that we went to play with the Ecuachamos team at New Heaven, guess what???
Yeah they picked another goalie over me which #&*ssed me off a lot and just the fact that I wasted two hours of my life made it even worst, I rather stay home or do anything else than seeing a looser steal my place, well it did matter a lot so I decided to quit the team.
I thought quitting the team could be the best idea because if I do that they are going to realize what they are missing and of course later they are going to want me back but I wasn’t going to play with them no more but today I changed my mind, instead of quitting the team I’m going to practice today and show them who the best goalkeeper is, also I know is me.
Also I had another great idea and I already talked to Mr. Tyson about it, the idea is that I might gather Warren Harding Soccer Team and take MY team to play against those Ecuachamos, it seems a good idea but lets see what happens later on.

Barcelona is going down!

The Ecuadorian team Barcelona s.c lost last Saturday against Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Portoviejo, the final score was 1 to 0 in the Reales Tamarindos Stadium.
Both teams got to this game with the same amount of points (20) which is the reason they both needed to win so they could go out of the last positions of the table.
In the first half it was a very even game, the game was going back and forth for the first 40 minutes with many actions in both goals but the goalkeeper Banguera of Barcelona was having a great game keeping all of the shots of Liga de Portoviejo, until in the minute 40 when the defender Jefferson Hurtado made a mistake which let Marquez take the ball and with a distracted defence got trough the right side on the field and shot across Banguera scoring the first and only goal in the game for Liga de Portoviejo.
In the second half it was just one team on the field which was Barcelona, attacking the whole second half as hardest as they could but it just didn't work out, Liga with a strong defence and lots of luck finish the game with a blank sheet. Barcelona lost and remains in the last positions in the table of the Ecuadorian soccer.

New Ecuadorian Squad for the Qualifiers

The Ecuadorian team after a horrible game played on U.S agains El Salvador last Wednesday (which Ecuador lost for a score of 3 - 1) The Ecuadorian D.T Sixto Visuete called up some new names for the team that is going to be in the next match of the qualifiers to South Africa 2010.
Even known the veteran goalkeeper Jose Francisco Cevallos traveled with Ecuador to Los Angeles, he wasn't considered in the game against El Salvador or in the new squad Sixto Visuete calle for the next game that is going to be player June 6 in Lima.
Sixto Visueta called the following names of the Ecuadorian team:

GOALKEEPERS:
Marcelo Elizaga (Emelec)
Máximo Banguera (Barcelona)
Cristhian Mora (El Nacional)
DEFENDERS:
Néicer Reasco (LDU Quito)
Jayro Campos (LDU Quito)
Marcelo Fleitas (Emelec)
Jorge Guagua (El Nacional)
Giovanny Espinoza (Barcelona)
Iván Hurtado (No Team)
Isaac Mina (Deportivo Quito)
MIDFIELDERS:
Segundo Castillo (Everton - Inglaterra)
Pedro Quiñónez (Santos Laguna - México)
Fernando Hidalgo (Barcelona)
David Quiroz (Emelec)
Edison Méndez (PSV Eindhoven - Holanda)
Antonio Valencia (Wigan Athletic - Inglaterra)
Christian Noboa (Rubin Kazan - Rusia)
Joffre Guerrón (Getafe - España)
Walter Ayoví (Monterrey - México)
Jefferson Montero (Independiente José Terán)
FOWARDS:
Joao Rojas (Emelec)
Pablo Palacios (Barcelona)
Felipe Caicedo (Manchester City - Inglaterra)
Carlos Tenorio (No Team)

Soccer practice fun time

At practice in Bradley School yesterday we had our practice with the “Ecuachamos” Team which plays on Sundays at New Heaven. It was pretty fun and I was actually happy and ready to practice because last night I had a great game so I just wanted to keep keeping well so I was ready to show my 100 %.
It went pretty well for the first 40 minutes sort of, then after the second goal everything went down not really bad but they just scored 3 more, they were some pretty dumb goals but I also did many awesome saves yesterday which makes me feel a little better.
As I said in passed blogs rain is one of the worst enemies for the goalkeeper and even worst for a goalkeeper like me, I say this because I love to play with sweatpants and long sleeves so when they got wet it was really hard for me to move, but I still fought to try to have a great job showing them that I’m a lot better that a regular goalkeeper because I know I am.

Level Back

I'm so happy! Last night I had a great game, suddenly I realized that I’m getting my level back, this is so great since I stopped doing “that” which was probably the reason that was making me suck, but now it doesn’t matter because I’m getting to be the great goalkeeper I used to be before.
How wonderful everything is just going great for me except in my house which I have problems on because I’m always fighting with my dad, but still even know nobody is there for me to cheer me up or give me support I feel good because
I know now that I’m doing things the right way and everything is just going awesome.
As I was saying we won yesterday at Connecticut Sport Center against some blue team I don’t know, it was so awesome, I made some really great saves and everybody was happy with my job and those are just the things that make me feel so good.

Practice?

Yes, practice makes perfection they say, is also true, practice is a good way to put your skills on test, I had fun in the practice yesterday at Bradley School in Derby with the Ecuachamos.
It was a pretty bad day for soccer because of the cold and the rainy afternoon but we got there anyways so we played and i wanted to keep as goodest as I could and I did but i made few mistakes, well probably just one but it was HORRIBLE because is one of the worst goals they have made on my goal, and the author is one person you already know : Mr.Tyson which made the goal just hurt me more that it would be a normal goal.
I told Mr.Tyson before the game that he wasn't score on me but he did just because he got really lucky but still is a goal, as I said in a past blog, THE RAIN IS AN ENEMY!!!
The ball was slippery so did my gloves and my swetpants so when he kicked the ball nice, low and really easy for me, what happened is that the ball sliped trough my gloves and also the middle of my legs, HE SCORED IN THE MIDDLE OF MY LEGS!!!
How bad is that , is like the worst thing they could do to a goalkeeper :( , but im pretty sure it aint going to happen again.

Getting better???

This memorial weekend as every wekend, actually every day, was all soccer.
Last Friday we went to play at seaside park with many of my friends also at night I went to play indor at exit 31 with a Mexican team who called me, it was fun and actually I was getting back my level even know we lost I'm doing alot better also sinse I stopped doing the things i was doing which just messed up my self and made me keep bad .
Also last Sunday i played two games, one at seaside at 8:00 am, I didnt really wanted to play because i had a horrible "hangover" , but I didnt care and I went to play anyways.
The game was thugh even know my team sucks because must of them for some reason "suck" so they were many shots on my goal and many situations of danger in my area but I handled it very well, but they were a couple of shots that were real hard for me to keep so they scored.
What really hurt me besides the goals they scored on my that day is that we could of won, it was a pretty even game but destiny is just it, we lost 3-2.
The day wasnt over yet so I went to play at 3.00 with the "Ecuachamos" team in new heaven, that was well in other words a "easy game", it was horrible, starting with the other team which players doesnt even look like soccer players, they were old,fat and non soccer player looking and it happened they didnt get to my goal in the whole game , not even close, it was boring and we won 5 - 0 so it was a good day after all.

Wednesday lost?

Remember the Ecuadorian team of Tuesdays ? yeah, it came back but on Wednesdays, also a little bit improved, it was pretty fun but we lost, as crazy as that also sounds we were wining 3 to 0 it looked like a really easy game but they scored on me many times later on which made it a little frustraiting because i thought we were going to win but it was also alot dramatic, we were 3 to 3 and they scored, then we scored then they scored then we scored, suddendly without noticing the game was 5 to 5 with few minutes left on the clock.
Almost last minute of the game and it happened, one on one at the last minute of the game, oh preasure, what to do? what is he going to do? guess what???
I kept it but also guess what???, How funny, the shot was too hard that sliped my hands and went really nice and slow all the way to my goal but, it was also dramatic because i got up from the floor and dove again and hit the ball befor it hits the line, and guess what?
It went all the line as if the line was a road and then just turned to the left and got into the goal, all this happened in less than 10 seconds (lol) so we lost 6 to 5.

Tuesday Soccer Madness ?

Yeah, as crazy as it sounds once again soccer is crazy, las Tuesday I played since six pm. to one or two in the mornig, that is basicly way too much soccer, I went to practice at New Heaven with the team called "Ecuachamos" which is the team Mr.Tyson and I are in, we play alot, anywayz the point is that we started practice at 6 so he went to pick me up and we went to the place, none few minutes after the game started and i started sucking so it just wasn't going well at all.
Later on, I got home about eight thirty,I ate and the my fried David called me and he was like "we gotta go to play are you coming?" so I was like yeah sure so they picked me up and we went to Milford to some extrainge place but really nice so we started playing and I wasn't foing so well once again so we got out of the field a couple times because it was like who ever scores the goal the other team gets out something like that, so I was playing in two teams but I was sucking in the one of my friend (lol) while in the other team I was doing well because they didnt score on me all night, so we played untill like one or two in the morning, I was really tired after this "madness".

Too Much Soccer...

Ir there is anything wrong is probably saying that there is "Too much soccer" because soccer is fun and you can't get tired of it but actually this time is true because I'm TIRED, I've played alot alot of soccer the last few days and I just feel like I can't do it no more but I still do it, probably the worst part of this "crisis" I'm on is that I'm sucking as I said few blogs ago, all this is being bad because im not in my best level and they have score on me really easy goals on me so that is really frustraiting.
All this soccer problem is based on one thing which makes me suck and lots of problems that keeps my my head busy and out of the game so when they get near me for them is so easy to score, even know that all this soccer should help me to practice so i can get better and some how i know i will get to my level again, I'm the greatest young goalkeeper! so I'm sure I can do better that this.

Barcelona vs Deportivo Cuenca

Barcelona, my favorite team in the Ecuadorian league played las Sunday against Deportivo Cuenca in the City of Cuenca (Ecuador) as everything for me is not going well, Barcelona lost 1-0. Deportivo Cuenca started wining in the first few minutes of the secong half when Orrego after a corner kick shoted by Matamoros, Orrego already missed a goal in the first half by this time he didnt and it was the time for Deportivo Cuenca to get ahead in the scoring board.

Barcelona tryed hard to tie the game or win in but their tryes weren't enought to beat the "morlacos" of Cuenca, Barcelona lost and gets the eighth place in the table of the league, how bad that my favorite team is sucking, I want them to win so but, I want them to be champions.

Sucking?

Ok for the last 8 games I being having bad luck, in this case is not really bad luck but i don't know what's wrong with me I just keep making mistakes and errors mistakes and errors all the time and it just gets me really mad, I don't know if is my defence or what but the score "dumb" goals on me, ones that I could keep really easy but nah I don't and i hace being like that few games ago well really more than few.
Physically I feel great also really well at health but is just one thing that could get me like this and I know what it is but is not proper to write it in my blog, that is probably the only thing that is making me messed up so hard and make me suck, many people tell me to stop doing it and is really easy for me to leave it but I just don't, also I'm not trying hard enought when I try to leave it is a weird situation but ...yeah... so if i keep doing it I gonna suck for the rest of the seasons.