some news from french second division, because there are interesting things happening
as monaco is leading the second division, they should come back to first division next year
it's very interesting because they could become really quickly a top european club, like PSG
here's monaco's coach claudio ranieri (former internazionale and as roma coach)
the club was bought by a russian billionaire, and they now are very powerfull (monaco has always been a powerfull french club, but lately it was more difficult)
here are a few players that they managed to buy, the quality is very good for french second division (it was actually never seen before)
*their goal keepers are italian international flavio roma and croatian international Danijel Subašić
*their captain and central defender is the german andreas wolf:
alongside him plays a good brazilian central defender (mestizo) from serie A
*their fullbacks are white uruguayan kagelmacher, of german descent, and a greek international
*in the midfield, they have the danish international jakob poulsen
the rest is normal for a ligue 2 club, except a swedish international (of persian origin :yuck: )
*as a winger, they bought the very highly rated argentine ocampos (just 18 years old):
here are the 2 main things that he did for his first match with monaco, in which he impressed a LOT:
here he is destroying a black defender:
[video=youtube_share;21bqXP4i30g]http://youtu.be/21bqXP4i30g[/video]
and his first goal:
http://youtu.be/K0AOyZdVMk4
monaco really found a special talent, it's incredible that they were able to sign him despite being in french second division (they paid 11 millions euros for him! incredible for a second division club)
*their strikers i'm affraid are not world class, as they have "new adebayor" (adebayor played at monaco) ibrahima touré, from senegal
he's just tall, that's it
and then they have bruno germain, who's white and french, but i have a bad opinion about him because he's the son of a professional football player - we'll see
anyways they will probably buy many players if they come back to first division (highly expected)
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there are two main things to know about the club:
-they are technically not part of france, so they don't have all the taxes we have in france, which always made them very powerfull
-because of the size of the "country" (more like a small city) there is nobody in their stadium, there are almost no suporters