Breaking News .. the death of Tito Vilanova

Officially it announced a little while ago departure of the former Barcelona coach, Tito Vilanova, after a long struggle with cancer.

The Quiron Hospital in Barcelona, which handles the coach, has announced today that the state of Villanova health has become a critical after emergency surgery conducted because of stomach problems, before announcing later the death of the Spanish coach.

and Vilanova discovered his illness in 2011 when he was assistant coach of Josep Guardiola in training Barcelona before being his successor in 2012, led Barcelona to the Spanish league title, despite his absence from the bench coach for the team for several months because of his presence in New York for treatment.

Villanova resigned as coach of Barcelona in 2013 after deteriorating  his health and became a full-time need for treatment and was replaced by Argentine coach Gerardo Martino.

Josep Maria Bartomao Barcelona president expressed his sadness and extreme illness following the announcement of the news of the death of Tito Vilanova former technical director of the team, pointing out that he is the epitome of courage, patience and endurance.

The head of the club through his official page on the social networking site "Twitter": "Thank Vilanova, Thanks for everything you gave, no one will forget what you've done and what you did to us, lie in peace."

Bartomao announced the mourning within the walls of the castle Catalan, pointing out that Vilanova will remain immortal in the minds of everyone.

and Vilanova died on Friday from his parotid cancer in a hospital in the city of Barcelona at the age of 45, after a long struggle with the disease.

Mark Watson

His full name is Mark Stewart Watson , was born in September  8, 1970 in Vancouver . he is a Canadian former soccer player and current head coach of San Jose Earthquakes in MLS. He considered the one who has earned the second most caps in the history of the Canadian national team.

Playing Career:

Mark Watson spent 18 years in his professional playing career. Where he first spent three years in the English Championship with Watford FC from 1993-1995, to move then to the MLS in 1996.

Watson split the first MLS season between the New England Revolution and Columbus Crew. In 2001 he returned back to MLS with D.C. United after stops with Oxford United, Seattle Sounders, and Oldham Athletic.

Canadian National Team:

In the Canadian national team , Watson appeared 78 times during a 14 years. Where he played for four World Cup qualifying campaigns, and the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2000. Watson scored the winning goal for the Canadian national team in 2000 Gold cup over Trinidad and Tobago.

Coaching career:

On June 7, 2013 He became the head coach of San Jose Earthquakes and was introduced as the head coach by general manager John Doyle. He achieved his first win in MLS against the Colorado Rapids on June 15, 2013. Watson spent four seasons as an assistant coach for the Charleston Battery between 2006-2009. He also was an assistant coach for Canada at the 2004 CONCACAF men’s Olympic Qualification Tournament and in 2008 when the team finished third.

Peter Vermes

Peter Joseph Vermes is former professional football player and current head coach of Sporting Kansas City in MLS.

Peter  was born in November 21, 1966 in Willingboro, New Jersey. He spent many years playing in Hungary, the Netherlands and Spain, then he established himself as the best defenders in MLS. He played with many clubs like MetroStars, Colorado Rapids, and the Kansas City Wizards.

Vermes represented his country at the 1998 Summer Olympics , the 1990 FIFA World Cup, and the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Peter Vermes was selected to the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame on April 4, 2013.

Playing career:

High School and college:

He grew up in Delran Township , New Jersey plying at Delran High School. Then when he graduated he played in college in his first year on the men’s soccer team at Loyola College in Maryland under the leading of head coach Bill Sento.

The he moved and played three years at Rutgers University from 1985 to 1987.

Professional:

Vermes after graduating went to Europe , where he played in Hungary with Raba ETO FC in 1989, then he moved to the Dutch Eredivisie with Volendam in 1990.  And after one year in 1991 he returned to the United States where Vermes played three seasons scoring only one goal in the American Professional Soccer League with Tampa Bay Rowdies. After that Vermes moved to Spain to play in the Spanish Second Division with Figueres from 1991-to 1995.

As many good players he returned to the United States to play in the MLS in January 1995, he played with the New york Fever of the USISL playing games and scoring goals. Then he moved to the New Jersey MetroStars in the third round of the MLS and captained the team .

Then he moved to Kansas City Wizards doing his best in 2000. Vermes was recognized as the MLS Defender of the year . and he announced his retirement from playing career in the end of 2002 season.

International playing career:

He was not a star for the US national team but he was an important contributor for a period of time. He got his first cap against Columbia on May 14, 1988. Then he got 67 caps for the team in the 1988 Olympics , the 1990 World Cup and the 1991 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Peter Vermes was named the 1998 U.S. soccer Athlete of the year and U.S. Olympic player  of the year.

He scored 6 goals for the U.S. Futsal team in 1989, in Rotterdam, Holland . Vermes ended his career with 11 caps and 7 goals.

Coaching career:

On November 15, 2006 Vermes signed with the Kansas City Wizards o be his head coach in the MLS . in addition to his work as a coach to the Kansas team he worked as a broadcaster for the San Jose Earthquakes and the technical director of coaching for the Blue Valley Soccer in Overland Park Kansas. He also was the assistant coach for the US under 20 national team.

With numbers ... Positive of Coach Simone more important than the rate of acquisition of the Catalans

Atletico Madrid

1 – 0

Barcelona

Atletico Madrid Achieved worthy victory over Barcelona in the second leg of the Round of 8 of the Champions League as numbers and statistics after the end of the game explained, which lead it the capital club fully and destiny was equally kind to the Catalan team, where the high result has been a highly improbable and proved sons of Argentine coach Diego Simeone that acquisition does not reflect the positive and do not necessarily lead to victory.

and Acquisitions as usual came in favor of the Catalans which the players owned ball by 64% compared to only 36% in favor of Atletico Madrid team, whose players gave a positive lesson and realistic and they were the most dangerous whenever they possessed the ball while only Barcelona team possessing the ball in most periods in the text of the stadium without positive and without a real threat to Atletico goal.  

Although Atletico Madrid acquisitioned on the ball most of half the time it acquired therein team Barcelona almost only that the players have to make repayment 14th goal on goalkeeper Pinto including 9 shots between the three chumps by 64.28%, while the only Barcelona players with 11 shot all of whom only 5 between the three chumps by 45.45% only, also it addressed the bar for three balls also for the capital club, a new indicator reflects the positive when possession of the ball and was influenced by his coach Argentine Simeone school Italian, where he spent most of his career as a player in Serie A and has trained a team of Catania is also several years ago. 

Passes were as usual is how reliable the Catalans in the building where the attacks passed for 737 players, including a pass of 575 pass valid while 78% passed the Atletico Madrid players to pass only 339, including 189 pass valid 56%.

In spite of the permanent seriousness of Atletico Madrid but the Barcelona defenders were very attentive at the monument where the offside trap they made it 4 times for Atletico players while the Catalan attackers have not located never offside trap.

enthusiasm and fitness Elements were one of the outweigh factors of Madrid where the players received 15 offenses and they run 110,303 Kilometers while Barcelona received 9 offenses and they run 107,773 Kilometers.

Martino joked: The first thing I do in the morning... I make sure I am still breathing!

Argentine coach Gerardo Martino coach Barcelona mocked from news that shook the Catalan club over the past months about the problems that accumulate on the club.

Martino said sarcastically, during a press conference before his team's scheduled match tomorrow against Real Betis in La Liga, "The first thing I'm doing now is to make sure I still breathe when I wake up in the morning."

And, following the problems one after the other on the Catalan club several months ago and was most recently the sentence imposed by the International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) on the club days before depriving him of the inclusion of new players for the two transitions in a row because of the irregularities committed by the club in its contracts with players less than 18.

Despite this, Martino always seeks to keep the team away from these problems to provide the team a successful career in this difficult season.

He said, "There will not be an acceptable excuse. If we do not win a title, this would mean that our season was bad." 

He explained, "The first thing I'm doing now is to make sure I still breathe when I wake up in the morning .., if one starts to think in black hands, working will be hard on the football field."

Martino said the term "black hands" to the rumors about the existence of plots hatched against Barcelona beginning of a compact case with Brazilian striker Neymar da Silva and even the punishment of FIFA.

Martino added "Yes, it is the fact that there are many statements and comments. I wish not to be any of them are true. It happened to us many things. 

For Martino, "No one cares about excuses  ... we accept problems as a part of daily life in Barcelona. It’s not something strange about what we experience throughout the year."

Martino returned to speak ironically stressing that it is not to open his mouth and not talk about these things when he returns to Argentine.

Martino defended model training of Barcelona club, saying that the center or any other organization cannot achieve such strong results that emerge from this training model.