How Sevilla FC lost talisman Luis Fabiano in acrimonious conditions – La Liga Special
A lot was expected of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sevilla-FC-c40484’s in the 2010/11 La Liga season following their Copa del Rey winning campaign the season before. With participation guaranteed in UEFA Champions League, things looked bright for Los Rojiblancos. However, it all ended on a
sore note for the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuán side, which settled for a fifth-place finish in La Liga, crashed out of Champions League and lost their best player of five years in the process.
Warding off competition from Spanish powerhouses Real Madrid CF and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Barcelona-c39078 is not an easy task, and Sevilla had to accomplish it through years. Sevilla were to face the Catalans in a two-legged Spanish Super Cup. Winning the first leg 3-1 against a
Barcelona reserve side, they lost the return leg at Camp Nou 4-1. This was the starting point of his career which ended on notes sour at best.
The strikers were a source of joy as well as constant source of dressing room trouble. Sevilla can boast a strike force matched by few in the league. They had Brazil international Luis Fabiano, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Mali-c2951 stalwart Frederic Kanoute and Spanish international Alvaro
Negredo in their ranks, giving the manager selection headaches of the favoured kind. However, the front men had their darker sides too, creating problems for the Seville-based club throughout the season.
Luis Fabiano was the talisman of the side, after featuring brilliantly for the side for over five years prior to the start of last season. The seasoned striker boasted a handsome tally against opposition of all kinds, averaging a goal every other match.
In his last season, however, it was not his goalscoring exploits that made him a highlight of the term for Sevillistas who adored him for his long stay at their club. Fabiano returned to Sevilla jaded and in need of rest. Being allowed all the luxury in
the world, the start of the season did not go as planned. The bed of roses turned into a bed of prickly thorns.
Things turned from bad to worse; not being able to find the net, he frequented in constant quarrels with the team management. Antonio Alvarez was ousted and Gregorio Manzano took over at the helm but nothing changed for the experienced campaigner. Manzano
gave a chance to Real Madrid striking protégé, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Álvaro-Negredo-c5294, and it spelled doomsday for the ageing Brazilian.
Fabiano was stuck on the substitute’s bench following his backroom problems, but he was not sidelined from the club’s future plans. Sevilla rejected bids for their star performer of yester years from English side Tottenham Hotspur and Italian titans Juventus,
in their bid to improve their league standings. Tottenham’s mammoth 20 million Euros bid was rejected as Los Rojiblancos held on to their attacker.
The Brazilian international made his mind to leave Roman Sanchez Pizjuán with irreconcilable differences with the manager, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Brazil-c2858 being his likely target. Sao Paulo made a bid and Sevilla backroom allowed him to leave for 7.6 million Euros, much cheaper
than the Euros being offered by the European suitors.
It was a sorry ending his stay in Seville, after leading the scoring charts for over five years. He led the club to UEFA Cup glory and no one expected him to part in such acrimonious situations. However, that being said, he still has a good many years left
in his legs. Football is still in his blood and one hopes, for the sake of the beautiful game, that Fabiano rediscovers his form in the relatively peaceful surroundings of the Brazilian Serie A.
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