Esteban Cambiasso

puNANI

Full Member
Joined
Apr 18, 2008
Messages
2,449
Location
Down Under, pun intended.
Personally I think his established himself as of the best defensive midfielders in the world over the past 4 years. He doesn't really get mentioned along the likes of Mascherano although he is a better all around player.

He constantly takes up intelligent positions between his midfield and defence and covers up a lot of space left by his more attacking teammates such as Sneijder and Stankovic. His great at tackling, and keeps his passing simple and effective. All the necessarily attributes to be a great defensive midfielder and he has them all and does them all better than most. I can't think of many who are better than him at the moment at what he does.
 
puNANI said:
Personally I think his established himself as of the best defensive midfielders in the world over the past 4 years. He doesn't really get mentioned along the likes of Mascherano although he is a better all around player.

He constantly takes up intelligent positions between his midfield and defence and covers up a lot of space left by his more attacking compatriots such as Sneijder and Stankovic. His great at tackling, and keeps his passing simple and effective. All the necessarily attributes to be a great defensive midfielder and he has them all and does them all better than most. I can't think of many who are better than him at the moment at what he does.
Click to expand...

:confused:
 
I spoke with him on IRC a long while ago... Been following him close ever since, and always use him at PES. I'd like to get his e-mail, maybe he remembers me still and I can ask him for 5000 Euros or something, what's that to a professional footballer?

Consistent performances all along and can score every now and then when given the chance, amazing footballer.
 
MUFC1902 said:
:lol::lol::lol:
Click to expand...

True, at least I believe it is. Can't be 100% sure it was him, of course, but why the hell would anyone pretend to be a total unknown youth footballer of Real Madrid?
 
Arruda said:
True, at least I believe it is. Can't be 100% sure it was him, of course, but why the hell would anyone pretend to be a total unknown youth footballer of Real Madrid?
Click to expand...

When i went to Ibiza me and my mate pretended to be richard dunne and robbie keane for no reason whatsoever other than to see if we could convince some Austrian lads we were telling the truth.

My Irish accent is shocking too.
 
MUFC1902 said:
Sorry for my scepticism, as it may well have been him. Part of that :lol: was also for IRC.
Click to expand...

I like to say that because people always laugh when I don't contextualize it :smirk: Even after I do it people still laugh, but it's true!!! :lol:
 
cw1984 said:
When i went to Ibiza me and my mate pretended to be richard dunne and robbie keane for no reason whatsoever other than to see if we could convince some Austrian lads we were telling the truth.

My Irish accent is shocking too.
Click to expand...

Well of course it could be someone pretending to be him, but I consider it unlikely, so I validate more the chance that it was really him. I don't recall the context into which he entered a Portuguese channel - but he explained it and I understood it at the time. We had a private chat, not mainly about football, (my Spanish is very bad, but Portuguese and Spanish are mutually intelligible) and somewhere he said he was a youth footballer at Real Madrid, Esteban Cambiasso, and told me to remember the name, which I did.

Considering I only saw him in TV about one or two years later (just thought "lucky motherfecker") I forgot everything we had talked about in the meanwhile, and the reason why he was there. But everyone who chatted in the internet was on IRC on those days so if we can bump into a footballer in the street (and I see people posting pictures every now and again) there's no reason why we can't bump in the internet.

I think if it was a poser trying to mock me he would have tried to be more funny or "spectacular" about it. There was absolutely no reason why a Portuguese would know who he was, he'd go to a Real Madrid or Argentinian football channel for that purpose.
 
Inter changed his role, didn't they? Used to be a box-to-box or central midfielder. I've forgotten how Real Madrid used to use him.

He's really good at finding space just in front of the back four though, always available for a pass and able to create space for himself from deep. As a proper effective shield he's not that great though, a lack of aggression and height not helping. He's just the sort of player who can break up play and always allow Inter to play their way out of trouble.
 
x42bn6 said:
Inter changed his role, didn't they? Used to be a box-to-box or central midfielder. I've forgotten how Real Madrid used to use him.

He's really good at finding space just in front of the back four though, always available for a pass and able to create space for himself from deep. As a proper effective shield he's not that great though, a lack of aggression and height not helping. He's just the sort of player who can break up play and always allow Inter to play their way out of trouble.
Click to expand...

Yeah they did, they have him played in front of the back four more often than not. He usually plays further up in midfield for Argentina because his more creative than Mascherano. Height isn't really a factor for a defensive midfielder, look at Gattuso and Mascherano for example. But yeah, his great at finding positions and space from deep either in attack or defence. His a very good midfielder to have.
 
MUFC1902 said:
He was hardly an unknown when he went to Real though... thus my raising of a cynical eyebrow.
Click to expand...

He went there with 15 or 16 years, we was an unknown to general public. When senior he got back to Argentina to return to Real first team some years later, already famous.
 
Arruda said:
He went there with 15 or 16 years, we was an unknown to general public. When senior he got back to Argentina to return to Real first team some years later, already famous.
Click to expand...

Oh, so you talked to him as a kid and not as the player with nearly 150 first team games in Argentina under his belt?
 
MUFC1902 said:
Oh, so you talked to him as a kid and not as the player with nearly 150 first team games in Argentina under his belt?
Click to expand...

Yeah, I was about 16 or 17, same age as him.
 
He's class, great composure in front of the back 4, reads the game well and mops up with no fuss, bringing the ball out of defense and dsitribtuing well.
I know Sneijder stole the show in the second leg against Chelsea but over the 2 legs I thought he was Inter's key man.
 
Devil may care said:
He's class, great composure in front of the back 4, reads the game well and mops up with no fuss, bringing the ball out of defense and dsitribtuing well.
I know Sneijder stole the show in the second leg against Chelsea but over the 2 legs I thought he was Inter's key man.
Click to expand...

Well summarised. I'd take him ahead of Mascherano never mind some of the other dross which Maradona picks.

Real Madrid were naive to let him go - he'd walk back into that team nowadays ahead of Diarra.
 
Gio said:
Well summarised. I'd take him ahead of Mascherano never mind some of the other dross which Maradona picks.

Real Madrid were naive to let him go - he'd walk back into that team nowadays ahead of Diarra.
Click to expand...
Diarra himself is getting less and less playing minutes which reminds me of the Makelele situation
 
kouroux said:
Diarra himself is getting less and less playing minutes which reminds me of the Makelele situation
Click to expand...

This is true. Pellegrini has started giving Gago more time of late. I still think Diarra is a good player and with better development and mentality can turn into one of the better midfielder's around. Cambiasso is the exact type of player that Madrid need.
 
He's got more game than your typical defensive midfielder, am I right? I've seen him go forward quite a bit. Actually wondered why United didn't look at him when he left Real on a free in 2005.
 
MrMarcello said:
He's got more game than your typical defensive midfielder, am I right?... ....
Click to expand...
Actually he is the one player around who has the true game of a real defensive mdifelder. The rest are mostly impostors who are either just slightly superior versions of the third center back phenomena that was championed by Makelele, or attacking midfield playmakers too slow to break forward on the regular, who are hence staioend infront of their back 4's and called deep lying playmakers.
 
puNANI said:
Personally I think his established himself as of the best defensive midfielders in the world over the past 4 years. He doesn't really get mentioned along the likes of Mascherano although he is a better all around player.

He constantly takes up intelligent positions between his midfield and defence and covers up a lot of space left by his more attacking teammates such as Sneijder and Stankovic. His great at tackling, and keeps his passing simple and effective. All the necessarily attributes to be a great defensive midfielder and he has them all and does them all better than most. I can't think of many who are better than him at the moment at what he does.
Click to expand...
For me he is number 1. He and De Rossi are the last of a dying breed.
 
He is very good. Am curious to know how Argentinians think he compares to Mascherano.
 
I´d love to see him playing along mascherano and Veron, something like:

------------------Mascherano----Cambiasso------------
--------------------------Veron--------------------------
Messi--------------------Higuain(Milito)---------Aguero(Tevez, Dimaria)

Not bad, is it??The thing is Maradona thinks anything but this.
 
Pocho said:
I´d love to see him playing along mascherano and Veron, something like:

------------------Mascherano----Cambiasso------------
--------------------------Veron--------------------------
Messi--------------------Higuain(Milito)---------Aguero(Tevez, Dimaria)

Not bad, is it??The thing is Maradona thinks anything but this.
Click to expand...

Why do that when Banega does most of the job Cambiasso and Veron do combined?

Although, not all of Cambiasso's job. But you dont need the rest when Mascherano is in there.
 
I rate him as I do Essien. Always have. Have thought of him as the best DMC since Makelele left Chelsea. Great players and one of Madrid's worst decision.
 
Possibly one of the most audacious combovers I've ever seen

cambiasso.jpg
 
one of the most underrated midfielders in the world and has been for the past half decade, probably because Serie A has been 2nd-fiddle to the premier league and la liga
 
Ekeke said:
Why do that when Banega does most of the job Cambiasso and Veron do combined?

Although, not all of Cambiasso's job. But you dont need the rest when Mascherano is in there.
Click to expand...
The spirit of the team I put here is: " We don´t receive any goals, you three up there go and do your job".
 
He is consistantly very good in big games.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.