Picking the ball up just inside the Horsens half, Aílton effortlessly slips past a defender before tumbling as he attempts to round the goalkeeper. Having almost run the ball out of play near the corner of the area, he somehow keeps it in, chips it over the custodian as he springs past him, and then finishes with the outside of his boot from a seemingly impossible angle to clinch a 2-0 win which took FCK two points clear of Brøndby IF at the top of the Danish Superligaen.
Showing posts with label Ailton Almeida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ailton Almeida. Show all posts
Saturday, May 02, 2009
UEFA goal of the week by Aílton Almeida
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Friendly and half-naked internationals
Last training before summer break was yesterday's football golf competition. Once again it's Ailton Almeida's butt we see in the pictures at fck.dk - although this time he won! Last time they said it was because he lost!? (Although to admit it I have always been wondering - how could Ailton have lost a ball juggling contest?)
Other players already left to warm up for the EURO 2008. Just take a look at this beautiful sight...
Article from official EURO 2008 website: Sionko strikes twice to cheer Czechs.
It's all in above link title. Our Czechs helped beat Scotland.
Neither played earlier this week when Lithuania was beaten 2-0.
Denmark did much better than feared when drawing with the Netherlands. Goalie Jesper Christiansen played because Sørensen was injured warming up and William Kvist Jørgensen did 82 minutes of right back duty. Former players Lars Jacobsen, Christian Poulsen (goal) and former youth player Niklas Bendtner (assist) played too.
Atiba Hutchinson will play with Canada who host Brazil.
Canada looks forward to friendly with Brazil
And Denmark will play Poland. Last time we beat them 6-0.
Other players already left to warm up for the EURO 2008. Just take a look at this beautiful sight...
Article from official EURO 2008 website: Sionko strikes twice to cheer Czechs.
Czech Republic - Scotland 3-1
It's all in above link title. Our Czechs helped beat Scotland.
former Rangers FC player Sionko produced a sudden burst of pace in the box to run on to Zdeněk Pospěch's pass and confidently shoot past Craig Gordon.
Neither played earlier this week when Lithuania was beaten 2-0.
Netherlands - Denmark 1-1
Denmark did much better than feared when drawing with the Netherlands. Goalie Jesper Christiansen played because Sørensen was injured warming up and William Kvist Jørgensen did 82 minutes of right back duty. Former players Lars Jacobsen, Christian Poulsen (goal) and former youth player Niklas Bendtner (assist) played too.
Sunday's games
Atiba Hutchinson will play with Canada who host Brazil.
The midfield presents a lot of options with Julian de Guzman of Spain's Deportivo La Coruna, Dwayne De Rosario of the Dynamo and Atiba Hutchinson of Denmark's FC Copenhagen sure to be in the mix.
Canada looks forward to friendly with Brazil
And Denmark will play Poland. Last time we beat them 6-0.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Crisis: 2008/09 Eurpean games in danger
Readers of my humble blog will know I'm not the type of fan to join the first choir of critics when something goes wrong. But a number of things has now added up to the 4th position being more realistic than the gold medal. Here is a quick look at how the league will end and the most obvious issues.
Monday Esbjerg fB drew 1-1 against AaB. Crucial actually, as a Aalborg win would have definitely put them in a position to move past the painful 60 point barrier. It was when looking forward to that game I realized how much in trouble we are. But thanks to Esbjerg the league is still open.
My prediction is actually done by a Perl script that eats the league table and the remaining matches outputting a distribution of likely finishing points for each team. It's still in beta (whatever you'd call a big hack) and I don't have time to figure out how to show you the actual distributions because i do not agree with the code tag right now ;-) but look:
Most guesses are about +/- 6 "precise". Meaning it wouldn't be unreasonable to hope for more than 60 points and that AaB can still miss that threshold.
And a bit of the harsh criticism I agree with:
Whatever the problem we need to win our three games versus the bottom three teams with whatever team we got. Take revenge on Esbjerg on the 27th. And approach the AaB game on the 12th of May like it was life or death. And on the 24th of May we play relegating Lyngby (3 points) while AaB host OB in a very open game. Nothing is settled until the 90th minutes of those games is my guess.
Monday Esbjerg fB drew 1-1 against AaB. Crucial actually, as a Aalborg win would have definitely put them in a position to move past the painful 60 point barrier. It was when looking forward to that game I realized how much in trouble we are. But thanks to Esbjerg the league is still open.
My prediction is actually done by a Perl script that eats the league table and the remaining matches outputting a distribution of likely finishing points for each team. It's still in beta (whatever you'd call a big hack) and I don't have time to figure out how to show you the actual distributions because i do not agree with the code tag right now ;-) but look:
AaB 64
FC Midtjylland 58
FC K�benhavn 57
OB 55
AC Horsens 51
Esbjerg fB 46
FC Nordsj�lland 47
Randers FC 45
Br�ndby IF 44
AGF 32
Viborg 24
Lyngby 19Most guesses are about +/- 6 "precise". Meaning it wouldn't be unreasonable to hope for more than 60 points and that AaB can still miss that threshold.
And a bit of the harsh criticism I agree with:
- Jesper Grønkjær is not a striker
- A number of players deserves more playing time: Oscar Wendt, Ailton Almeida a.o.
- New players hasn't played fully as good as expected
- The midfield is impotent
Whatever the problem we need to win our three games versus the bottom three teams with whatever team we got. Take revenge on Esbjerg on the 27th. And approach the AaB game on the 12th of May like it was life or death. And on the 24th of May we play relegating Lyngby (3 points) while AaB host OB in a very open game. Nothing is settled until the 90th minutes of those games is my guess.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Spring cleaning
Outside it's snowing but calendar says it's spring so as regular visitors will have noticed I've gotten rid of the old layout in a spring clean-up and the team has undertaken the last part of the championship begun last year. What you see isn't the 'next version' since I think of this blog as an ongoing experiment, so for now you have to put up with the somewhat weird and 90ies looking chalked grass thing I got going out on the right... I'll also have to come up with somewhere to put this...
...so no, I'm not done.
And neither is the team! The first of four encounters with Esbjerg fB this half season ended as a loss (2-1 away, defender assisted goal by Jesper Grønkjær). Annoying, but also why we love the game. When it comes down to it all three goals were rather random. Then this Saturday AC Horsens were beaten (1-0 home, goal on penalty by Libor Sionko). Media have been quite aggressive towards FC København for being 'boring' and old know-betters have reared their ugly heads again at this slightest chance to reinvigorate their bashing of the contract with Ailton Almeida (coach Ståle has to do some rotation in his starting 11, but obviously ONE game without Ailton is PROOF he's a waste of money). Anyway, we're second with three points to #1 AaB and five points to #3 FC Midtjylland.
Lastly, as I'll remove some of the more exotic features of my sidebar I'll leave them here for probably very few people to ever find again. First, the Copenhagen Football Map made with Google Maps... you guys really don't need to know where Hvidovre Stadium is at.
Vis stort kort
Then there were a few polls on expectations for our European campaign this season. Since I have no idea what type of people actually vote I don't know who the results says anything about. But generally votes were evenly distributed. Which makes sense since we played teams like Beitar Jerusalem and RC Lens - pretty solid teams that we can both win over and lose to.
Guess I better do a poll on who you are?
...so no, I'm not done.
And neither is the team! The first of four encounters with Esbjerg fB this half season ended as a loss (2-1 away, defender assisted goal by Jesper Grønkjær). Annoying, but also why we love the game. When it comes down to it all three goals were rather random. Then this Saturday AC Horsens were beaten (1-0 home, goal on penalty by Libor Sionko). Media have been quite aggressive towards FC København for being 'boring' and old know-betters have reared their ugly heads again at this slightest chance to reinvigorate their bashing of the contract with Ailton Almeida (coach Ståle has to do some rotation in his starting 11, but obviously ONE game without Ailton is PROOF he's a waste of money). Anyway, we're second with three points to #1 AaB and five points to #3 FC Midtjylland.
Lastly, as I'll remove some of the more exotic features of my sidebar I'll leave them here for probably very few people to ever find again. First, the Copenhagen Football Map made with Google Maps... you guys really don't need to know where Hvidovre Stadium is at.
Vis stort kort
Then there were a few polls on expectations for our European campaign this season. Since I have no idea what type of people actually vote I don't know who the results says anything about. But generally votes were evenly distributed. Which makes sense since we played teams like Beitar Jerusalem and RC Lens - pretty solid teams that we can both win over and lose to.
Guess I better do a poll on who you are?
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Pre-season friendlies round-up
The friendly vs Legia Warszawa mentioned below is only one of five. Here is a quick look at the other four.
Today: FC København - FC Nordsjælland 2-2
Almost a reserve team game. José Junior said to have been on fire and scored both goals.
Last Friday: FC København - Viking FK (Norway) 2-2
Marred by intense winds. Ailton Almeida reported to have been very strong compared to last season, and Zdenek Pospech "much better than Lars Jacobsen was" as a friend told me.
Friday the 15th: Djurgården (Sweden) - FC København 1-4
Three goals by the Brazilian strikers and a smiling coach.
La Manga camp: Brann (Norway) - FC København 1-0
Norwegian referee awarded us two red cards which should have pretty much spoiled the game.
Saturday the 1st of March we'll play Stabæk in Copenhagen.
Today: FC København - FC Nordsjælland 2-2
Almost a reserve team game. José Junior said to have been on fire and scored both goals.
Last Friday: FC København - Viking FK (Norway) 2-2
Marred by intense winds. Ailton Almeida reported to have been very strong compared to last season, and Zdenek Pospech "much better than Lars Jacobsen was" as a friend told me.
Friday the 15th: Djurgården (Sweden) - FC København 1-4
Three goals by the Brazilian strikers and a smiling coach.
La Manga camp: Brann (Norway) - FC København 1-0
Norwegian referee awarded us two red cards which should have pretty much spoiled the game.
Saturday the 1st of March we'll play Stabæk in Copenhagen.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
New team, new season
The transfer window has closed and the first friendly been played. Meaning we get a quality peek at what's in wait for the spring 2008 season.
Last minute transfers
Obviously, most transfer rumors were just rumors and probably little else. Hangeland left for England and Albäck probably just decided to stay the remainder of his contract to pick up another Danish title.
Besides right back Zdeněk Pospěch, central defender Ulrik Laursen (OB, Hibernian, Celtic; three matches for Denmark) and Brazilian striker José Luiz Guimarães Sanabio Júnior (OB, Malmö) were signed.
La Manga Friendly: Legia Warszawa - FC København 2-2
Allbäck - Ailton
Grønkjær/Hutchinson - Kvist - Würtz - Sionko
Wendt - Antonsson - Gravgaard/Zanka - Pospech
Coe
Goals by Ailton Almeida and Jesper Grønkjær.
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Naked butts
Danish newspaper B.T. put up a little gallery of Mathias 'Zanka' Jørgensen and Ailton Almeida accepting the punishment for losing a ball juggling competition: Having the rest of the team fire off shots at their bared buttocks.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Friendly: Kaiserslautern vs FC Copenhagen 0 - 3
Kaiserslautern [0 - 3] FC Copenhagen
24' [0 - 1] A.J. Almeida
43' [0 - 2] A. Hutchinson
49' [0 - 3] J. Grønkjær (pen.)
Friday, February 02, 2007
The transfers
The deadline has passed. There is no more news except this.
FC København signed Australian Nathan Coe. Check tribalfootball.com / Copenhagen check on PSV keeper Coe if you bother. He'll most likely be second choice for some time. But it also suggests Jesper Christiansen will be sold next transfer window.
That makes the full transfers list for FC København look like this:
In: Niclas Jensen (Fulham), Ailton Almeida (Örgryte), Morten Bertolt (HamKam loan ended), Nathan Coe (PSV Eindhoven)
Out: Martin Bergvold (Livorno), Martin Bernburg (FC Nordsjælland)
There's a full list of transfers in the best Danish league at bold.dk - you'll probably get it even if you don't understand Danish.
So, I promise I'll go back to posting boring numbers and statistics. No more insane rumors for a very long time. Those are mostly a waste of life. BUT to round off the transfer mill bollocks: after the passsing of the deadline, it was reported that the club turned down a 40 million Danish kroner offer for Michael Gravgaard from Newcastle and that Jesper Grønkjær himself turned down Fiorientina.
FC København signed Australian Nathan Coe. Check tribalfootball.com / Copenhagen check on PSV keeper Coe if you bother. He'll most likely be second choice for some time. But it also suggests Jesper Christiansen will be sold next transfer window.
That makes the full transfers list for FC København look like this:
In: Niclas Jensen (Fulham), Ailton Almeida (Örgryte), Morten Bertolt (HamKam loan ended), Nathan Coe (PSV Eindhoven)
Out: Martin Bergvold (Livorno), Martin Bernburg (FC Nordsjælland)
There's a full list of transfers in the best Danish league at bold.dk - you'll probably get it even if you don't understand Danish.
So, I promise I'll go back to posting boring numbers and statistics. No more insane rumors for a very long time. Those are mostly a waste of life. BUT to round off the transfer mill bollocks: after the passsing of the deadline, it was reported that the club turned down a 40 million Danish kroner offer for Michael Gravgaard from Newcastle and that Jesper Grønkjær himself turned down Fiorientina.
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