Showing posts with label Patrice Evra. Show all posts
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Patrice Evra has revealed his regret at Manchester United's failure to keep hold of Paul Pogba who joined Juventus last year. Evra believes his France team-mate is a special talent who won the support and respect of United's dressing room.
It is a well known fact that the 20-year-old midfielder left Old Trafford because he could never find a regular first-team place up under Sir Alex Ferguson. Praising the youngster's talent, Evra said,
His talent on the pitch, his aggression, his presence, is very rare. He very quickly earned the respect of players like Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes. It's true that you have to win over the manager too, but to have won the dressing room like he did was impressive. It was truly a huge loss when he left the club.
Pogba has so far made eight appearances for the Serie A giants and he recently scored the winning goal in a 1-0 victory over Torino, helping Juventus up to third in the Serie A standings.
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Wayne Rooney who has been enjoying the finest season of his career for Manchester United has added another achievement by winning the PFA Player Of The Year award. Rooney won the award by comfortably beating off competition from Cesc Fabregas, Didier Drogba and Carlos Tévez.
Rooney missed Saturday's victory against Spurs due to a groin injury that he picked up in training. Manchester United confirmed, "fatigue" was another cause that kept Rooney out of the tie. The wonder kid was also nominated for the Young Player of the Year award which he had won in 2005 and 2006. However, this honour went to Aston Villa’s James Milner this time.
By winning the PFA Player Of The Year award, Rooney has ensured that a Red Devil has won this award for the fourth consecutive time. It was Ryan Giggs who won it last year and Cristiano Ronaldo had bagged the same award twice before that.
The 24 year-old striker credited Sir Alex Ferguson's role for his development and backed him to remain the boss at Old Trafford. He said,
Sir Alex has really brought me on as a player since I joined United. His hunger passes through to the players. It’s great to see that he’s pushing 70 and hasn’t changed a bit. I’m sure he’ll be here for a long time yet.
It was earlier said that Wayne Rooney would miss the remaining part of the season due to his groin problem. However, he explained his situation and said,
The groin will be fine for the World Cup, there are no worries about that. I’m hoping to play for United in the last game of the season.
Apart from Rooney winning the PFA Player Of The Year award for Manchester United, Patrice Evra, Darren Fletcher and Antonia Valencia were also named in the Premier League Team of the Year.
Manchester United have announced their third major sponsorship deal in a week with Africa’s largest mobile telephone operator, MTN Group Ltd. This is the club’s third lucrative agreement in the space of a week.
Following on from high-profile partnerships with Telekom Malaysia and Turkish Airlines, Manchester United have added a seven-figure contract with African telecoms giant MTN that will see the company become their exclusive South African telecommunications partner for the next three-and-a-half years.
The deal will see MTN become the South African extension of the club with exclusive mobile content and online inventory such as match highlights, player profiles, ringtones available to customers for download through the MTN Play entertainment portal.
Additionally, MTN has the rights to produce co-branded premiums and will receive signed memorabilia to use in competitions to reward its customers. It will also offer exclusive United-branded MTN products such as airtime vouchers and will run competitions for its customer base where some lucky fans will get an opportunity to have one-on-one interactions with players in the local and international football arena.
Man United Chief Executive David Gill said: "The partnership with MTN is a very important step in the club's plan to get closer to its fans based all over the world. MTN's strength, particularly in the pre-paid market will provide us with the perfect platform to achieve that."
Edwin van der Sar, Antonio Valencia and Patrice Evra were at Old Trafford for the announcement of this partnership.
Sir Bobby Charlton also attended the launch. The United legend said: "I’m delighted to welcome MTN to our club. The fact we have sponsors in various parts of the globe and millions of fans in different countries makes me feel quite proud. But it’s not a surprise to me because ever since I was a player here, I’ve always been well aware that our fans are everywhere in the world.”
Manchester United will receive a US$45,800 (£25,000) fine after picking up seven yellow cards at Chelsea on Sunday. Patrice Evra, Ronaldo, Rooney, Scholes, Neville, Ferdinand and Berbatov were the lucky ones to be cautioned by ref Mike Riley.
Sir Alex Ferguson was furious with the ref as he thought that there had not been a bad tackle in the game. And I completely agree with him. Rather Chelsea were provoking United players and their bloody coach – The Big Phil saying that Riley was right in all the decisions he made. One thing is for sure that Chelsea are BAD LOOSERS. They could not win the league for the past 2 years and lost to United in the champions league final. As a result, they were venting all their anger on the Red Devils. They have no respect for their colleagues and football. Chelsea sucks!
Apart from the players, even the fans are unprofessional as while leaving the bridge, a bottle was hurled from the pavement, cracking the windscreen of United’s carrier. Although no-one was injured, but this just shows how frustrated Chelsea are with United getting the upper hand last season.
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