Originally posted by spinoza:
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Snatcho, McManamanamanaman is from Liverpool. Not many of them come to play in Manchester. Sort of like very few Catalans play for Real Madrid.
I doubt he'd want to come.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Real Madrid was founded by a catalonian, between other partners. (Barça was founded by a swissman)Many catalonians have played in Real, since Ricardo Zamora, in the 20's and 30's (one of the greatest goalkeepers of history). No many of them have became famous because there haven't been many famous catalonian footballers.
I remember even catalonian players who learned in Real, and after, they went to Barça (although they didn't get much success), like Dani, a few years ago.
In Real's basketball team there have always been a lot of catalonians (Catalonia's basket is the best in Spain), some of them are in NBA now (I don't mean Gasol, there's a guy also called Raul, who signed for this season but he's now injured).
Ooops, may be I've commited a mistake thinking that McMannananana was popular in Manchester.
I'm afraid I misunderstood crowd's attitude about MacMan in Old Trafford last Wednesday. When everybody cried "You're a fecking reserve", I suposed that it was a claim to Del Bosque to make him to play more in Real. <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laugh Out Loud]" />
Del Bosque understood that, and agreed. On Sunday, versus Sevilla, McMan wasn't reserve, instead of Flavio Conceiçao.