Kisah Unik Tentang Nomor Punggung Sepak Bola

Pada awalnya nomor punggung sepak bola tidak seperti sekarang ini, tapi lebih rapi urutannya, huruf belakang pemain yang abjadnya paling awal dapat nomor punggung 1, begitu seterusnya, tapi sekarang kebanyakan nomor punggung lebih ke posisi pemain, seperti kiper nomor 1, pemain belakang 2, 3, 4, dan seterusnya... tapi sekarang sudah banyak pemain yang bernomor gemuk atau besar, seperti 20, 30, sampe 99 (batasnya tidak boleh lebih dari 99)

Berikut ini adalah berbagai kisah unik tentang nomor punggung pemain sepak bola...

1. Ivan Luis zamorano 1+8 (inter milan)

Ivan Zamorano selalu menggunakan nomor punggung kesayangannya yaitu 9. tapi semua berubah ketika Luiz Nazario De lima Ronaldo atau Luiz Ronaldo datang dari barcelona, pasalnya Ronaldo hanya mau menggunakan nomor punggung 9 juga seperti di timnas brazil, akhirnya Ivan memberikan nomor punggung 9 kepada Ronaldo dan dia menggunakan nomor 18, tapi dia tidak kehabisan akal, dia menambahkan tanda plus "+" di antara angka 1 dan 8 sehingga jika di jumlah menjadi 9.

2. Gabriel Omar Batistuta 18 (As Roma)

Kasus Batigol sapaan akrab Batistuta sama dengan Ivan Zamorano, ketika Batistuta datang ke As roma dia menginginkan nomor punggung 9, tapi nomor 9 sudah ada yang punya, yaitu montella. Sempat terjadi perselisihan antara kedua pemain itu sampai bahkan Francesco Totti sang kapten menawarkan nomor punggungnya yaitu 10 kepada kedua pemain itu, tapi mereka menolak. Akhirnya Batistuta mengambil langkah bijaksana dengan memilih nomor 18 yang jika di jumlahkan nomor 1 dan 8 menjadi 9.

3. Lupatelli 10 (Chievo)

Biasanya rata-rata nomor punggung seorang kiper adalah 1 atau 12 ke atas, tapi tidak dengan kiper berkepala botak ini, dia memakai nomor punggung 10 yang biasanya di pakai oleh seorang penyerang atau gelandang.

4. Franco Baresi 6 (AC Milan)

Coba agan cari di AC Milan siapa yang bernomor punggung 6. Tidak bakal ketemu karena nomor 6 sudah di keramatkan atau di abadikan untuk franco Baresi, pemain yang memiliki loyalitas terhadap klub yang tinggi sehingga nomornya di abadikan dan tidak boleh di pakai oleh pemain lain.

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5. Paolo Maldini 3 (AC Milan)

Sama dengan Baresi, nomor punggung 3 milik Paolo maldini tidak boleh di berikan kepada pemain lain, itu untuk menghormati Maldini yang setia kepada AC Milan, bahkan jumlah penampilan Maldini lebih banyak dari Baresi.

6. Marc Vivien foe 23 (Manchester City)

Lagi-lagi nomor yang di keramatkan, tapi ini berbeda dengan paolo Maldini ataupun Franco Baresi, nomor 23 di abadikan untuk menghormati Marc Vivien Foe yang meninggal di lapangan ketika bertanding membela negaranya.

7. Gianluigi Buffon 88 (Juventus)

Tahukan agan kalo Gianluigi Buffon pernah memakai nomor punggung 88 yang kontroversial di Juventus? di sebut kontroversial karena dalam abjad huruf kedelapan adalah huruf "H" jadi jika di gabung menjadi HH, singkatan dari Hail Hitler.
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PSSI Di Mata Anak Kecil

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KEVIN (11) dkk harus menyerah. Timnya kalah tipis 3-5 dari Teten (12) cs. Setelah ngos-ngosan keluar keringat, sekuat tenaga mengejar si kulit bundar ke sana ke mari.

Satu jam lamanya mereka bertanding. Wajah-wajah bercahaya. Sorot mata yang berbinar. Kevin dan Teten seperti wujud kongkrit yang menggambarkan bait-bait puisi Khalil Gibran tentang anak panah pemilik masa depan.

Sabtu (2/7/2011) sore, Sekolah Sepakbola (SSB) Sarana Indah United berlaga lawan SSB Rajawali. Pertandingan bukan digelar di stadion yang megah. Cuma di tanah kosong milik pengembang di perumahan Sarana Indah di Kecamatan Biringkanaya, Makassar. Letaknya di tepi jalan, tepat di ujung kelokan tanpa aspal.

Bermain di tanah lapang yang permukaan rumputnya tidak rata, kedua kesebelasan dengan terampilnya mengolah bola. Muncul semangat bertanding yang sungguh hebat untuk saling mengalahkan. "Ayo, kejar, tendang, ah tahan itu lawan,ya oper kawanmu bolanya!" Ramai juga mereka berteriak di tengah permainan.

"Bruum, brrumm!"

Di sela serunya permainan, terdengar bunyi menderu di udara. Apa yang terbang di langit itu kendaraan ya?

Memang. Sesekali pesawat terbang yang hendak mendarat di Bandar Udara Sultan Hasanuddin lewat di atas kepala mereka. Kecamatan Biringkanaya termasuk kawasan yang berada persis di bawah rute domestik lintasan burung besi menuju ke Makassar.

Kembali ke lapangan. Saudara-saudara…

Bola masih bergulir, lalu ditendang melambung. Kaki-kaki lincah sang bakat alam bergerak lari. Gawang yang diincar gol hanya terbuat dari dua tiang bambu yang di bagian atasnya dipasang palang melintang.

Saat berebut di muka gawang, dagu penjaga gawang SSB Sarana Indah United sempat terkena hantaman kaki dari penyerang lawan. Tubuh Zul sang kiper bergulung-gulung di rumput, wajahnya meringis kesakitan.

Tapi sejurus kemudian, tangannya berkibas ke udara menyuruh kawan-kawannya menjauh, tanda bahwa dia baik-baik saja. Isyarat itu juga ditujukan buat pelatihnya, Atma (45), yang saat itu jadi wasit. Kibasan tangan sang kiper menunjukkan dia masih siap bermain, tak mau diganti oleh penjaga gawang cadangan.

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Selesai bermain, Teten yang sosok tubuhnya paling kecil sendiri, menjawab, "PSSI." Tapi dia tidak mengerti apa arti kongres. Kevin, lawan mainnya, ternyata juga tak dapat menjawab. Mereka berdua sama-sama menggelengkan kepala saat ditanya mengapa Ketua PSSI jadi posisi yang begitu diincar oleh oknum tokoh-tokoh ambisius yang membuat tubuh federasi sepakbola nasional jadi begitu semrawut kisruhnya.

"Banyak kepentingan politik yang masuk ke ranah olahraga, sehingga arena permainan yang seharusnya sportif ini jadi kotor bukan main," jawab Atma, pelatih SSB Sarana Indah United, memberi pendapat sekaligus mengambil alih jawaban.

Atma, kolektor salah satu perusahaan pembiayaan, mantan pemain yang sempat ikut seleksi PSM Makassar seangkatan Bahar Muharam dan Anzar Razak, langsung meniup peluit panjang tanda babak kedua selesai.

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Hantuchova beats Venus

Daniela Hantuchova ended the Williams sisters' run at the Eastbourne grasscourt event Thursday as she finally triumphed after ten losses in her career series with Venus.

Daniela Hantuchova ended the Williams sisters' run at the Eastbourne grasscourt event Thursday as she finally triumphed after ten losses in her career series with Venus, pictured here in action on June 15.

The Slovak who had won just two sets previously against the American holder of five Wimbledon titles, secured a gritty 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 quarter-final victory to send Venus out a day after her sister Serena lost to top seed Vera Zvonareva.
"I felt I came out and played well early in the match," said the winner.
"The wind picked up and made things tough for both of us. It was then about who had the mentality and I came through.
"I'm feeling really good. My form is good."
Hantuchova, ranked 25th, laboured for two hours, 23 minutes after a delayed start due to rain in the area. The Slovak who played last week's Birmingham final, won her 27th match of the season and heads into a semi-final against either fifth seed Petra Kvitova or Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.
The pair played their first match a decade ago and last met in Miami in March, where Williams won after coming back from a 1-6 first set.
Williams, her ranking down to 33rd, was playing an event for the first time in five months after an abdominal injury which forced her to quit a match at the Australian Open in January.
Her sister Serena came back this week after almost a year off court due to two operations on a cut foot last year and a February surgery to remove blood clots from her lungs.
Hantuchova, 2004 Eastbourne runner-up, won the opening set in 39 minutes from two breaks and a 5-2 lead. After claiming the first, she led 4-2 in the second and looked to be cruising before Williams laid on a fightback to eventually square the match.
In the third the Slovak got off to a break in the opening game, only to lose it in the fourth. But the 28-year-old fought on to break Williams straight back before repeating the effort and serving out the win on her first match point.
Men finally completed three left-over second-round matches topped by rain on Wednesday.
Janko Tipsarevic, the number three and last seed remaining, beat Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 7-6 (7/2), Belgian Olivier Rochus stopped Argentine Carlos Berlocq 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/3) and Japan's Kei Nishikori beat German veteran Rainer Schuettler 6-4, 4-6, 6-2.

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Murray unlikely to win Wimbledon despite recent success

Andy Murray is unlikely to win Wimbledon this year, despite his recent success at Queen's Club.

I wonder if Andy Murray ever curses the fact that he's playing in an era with two of the greatest tennis players of all time? I suspect he does.
The Scot has all the attributes to be a major winner; he can play every shot in the book, is incredibly fit, loves a challenge and has great court-craft and intuition, but so far this total package hasn't been quite good enough.
There are transition times in tennis, just like every sport, when the better players retire, get injured or lose their edge and that's when the lesser-lights have a chance of clinching one of the big ones.
And while it's been like this for a while on the women's tour, the men's has been dominated by Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal for several years, and now Novak Djokovic has entered the fray.
So even though Murray has become the king of Queen's club for the second time in his career and is legitimately the fourth best player in the world, the chances of him ending Britain's 75-year wait for a men's singles champion at Wimbledon really aren't that great.
For the next three weeks or so, he'll be under an intense microscope. The British media will follow him everywhere and report on everything he does, but he'll have got used to that. It's literally 'Murray Mania.'
In fact, I think he does tremendously well under extreme pressure and don't believe his failure to win a major is because of a mental block.
It's just that the players who have beaten him in the three finals he has reached, have played at a different level. Take this year's Australian Open for example. Djokovic took him out in straight sets during a superb winning run in which he beat Nadal four straight times and Federer three.
Since Federer won his first Wimbledon in 2003, the three players I just mentioned have won 28 of the 32 major titles on offer. Isn't that incredible?
The four they missed went to Andy Roddick (US Open 2003), Gaston Gaudio (French Open 2004), Marat Safin (Australian Open 2005) and Juan Martin del Potro (US Open 2009).
And so, given that the Wimbledon title has gone to either Federer or Nadal for the past seven years, it's hard to see past the dynamic duo, although I do think Novak has a real shot if it stays dry!
Once again, the women's tournament is hard to predict but surely the lowly ranked Williams sisters will be major contenders despite not having played much in the past year.
Together they've held the Venus Rosewater dish aloft nine times in the last 11 years with only Maria Sharapova and Amelie Mauresmo breaking up their stranglehold in 2004 and 2006 respectively.
We must savor this year's women's Wimbledon Championship, because, not only do we have Venus and Serena back playing, but also a whole host of others in the mix with the exception of Kim Clijsters, who has withdrawn after a reccurence of her foot.
Li Na is now a major champion, while Sharapova also looks back to her best. Add to that world number one Caroline Wozniacki and the likes of Vera Zvonareva, Victoria Azarenka and Petra Kvitova, and we could have quite a tournament on our hands.
The winner, if not one of the Williams sisters, will likely have to beat either Serena or Venus en route, or even both. Not an easy task!

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Will Serena's comeback fail?

Serena Williams proudly shows off her fourth Wimbledon crown but can she win a fifth?

The news that Serena Williams is to return to action for the first time in nearly a year certainly gives added spice to the build-up to the third grand slam of the year at Wimbledon.
Williams has been sidelined since winning her fourth title at the All England Club since July, not hitting a ball in anger unless you count a money-spinning exhibition match against Kim Clijsters in Belgium in front of a record crowd for a tennis match.
But days before she had stepped on a shard of glass in a restaurant in Germany to set in course a train of events which she will want to banish to the back of her memory bank.
At first it seemed the injury was not too serious, and it did not seem to bother her during the Clijsters' match, but she then skipped the U.S. Open and further complications ruled out any hope of defending her Australian Open crown.
Skeptics still doubted the true extent of her injury as the 29-year-old seemed to be using her "downtime" to be a regular on the celebrity circuit in the States, but in late February they were silenced as Serena was rushed to hospital with a blood clot on her lung, or to use the correct medical term, a pulmonary embolism.
It was as she said later a "scary" moment and led to speculation that she had hit a tennis ball in action for the final time.
The 13-time grand slam winner though is clearly made of sterner stuff and will now return for another crack at Wimbledon glory, starting in the genteel surroundings of Eastbourne on the south coast of England.
But the big question on everyone's lips is can she ever return to her best after an injury requiring two surgeries and a medical condition that can prove fatal?
Modern day tennis requires supreme physical conditioning with any weaknesses ruthlessly exploited, so expect Serena to be given no quarter by opponents with a few scores to settle for the beatings she has handed down over the years.
There are also a new breed of stars to contend with like current world number one Caroline Wozniacki not to mention new French Open champion Li Na and the irrepressible Kim Clijsters who has won two of the last three grand slams while Serena has been sidelined.
Serena will doubtless point to the break she took through 2006 and her triumphant return the following year but that appeared more a question of motivation than battling back after a career-threatening health condition.
She was also much younger and just short of 30 is getting to the veteran stage even for a player of her incredible ability.
Having her sister Venus come back to the fray at the same tournament after a six-month layoff of her own will surely boost her morale and having won Wimbledon nine times between them, not to mention their doubles exploits, the other leading contenders will await their return with keen interest.
But ultimately reputation counts for nothing in the dog-eat-dog world of professional sport and if Serena shows just a whiff of fallibility, either physical or mental, her comeback could be shortlived.

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Barcelona threaten to sever ties with Spanish rivals Real Madrid

Barcelona and Real Madrid met five times last season with tempers flaring on several occasions
(CNN) -- European champions Barcelona claim they will sever ties with Real Madrid if their fierce Spanish rivals continue to push the "bounds of sportsmanship."
The two clubs faced-off five times over the course of last season, culminating in two tempestuous Champions League semifinals in which players from both sides clashed on numerous occasions.
Real coach Jose Mourinho was handed a five-match ban by UEFA after comments he made after the first leg of the tie, in which he claimed match officials favored Barcelona.
He was also sent to the stands during the game at Real's Bernabeu stadium after criticizing the referee.
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Real then claimed Barcelona's players had play-acted to con the referee, and that Sergio Busquets made racist comments to their Brazilian defender Marcelo -- a charge UEFA later dismissed.
In a press conference on Thursday Barca president Sandro Rosell warned that his club would break ties with Real if next season was again punctuated by poor relations.
"Real Madrid and FC Barcelona are ancient institutions with many supporters and aficionados," Rosell said in a statement on the club's official web site.

Real Madrid crossed the line of acceptable sporting rivalry by making accusations against our club without any foundation
--Sandro Rosell, Barcelona president

"Real Madrid crossed the line of acceptable sporting rivalry by making accusations against our club without any foundation.
"If the limits of fair play are passed once again, we shall be obliged to end our institutional relations, something we have absolutely no desire to do.
"The rivalry will continue next season but we will not allow them to go beyond the bounds of sportsmanship."
Rosell also made reference to the "numerous provocations" made by Mourinho, pointing to the post-match press conference that landed him in hot water. The Portuguese this week appealed against his ban.
He said: "Comments by the protagonists have always served to enrich footballing debate. But this season a Real Madrid employee, its coach, also went beyond all the limits of necessary sporting rivalry.
"He even went as far as to say that our coach should feel ashamed of some of our victories. The press conference given by the Real Madrid coach after the first leg of the Champions League semi finals at the Bernabeu would certainly have made any sportsperson feel ashamed.
"He accused our club of having won titles thanks to some kind of national and international conspiracy, implicating in this conspiracy the good name of Unicef and the football authorities."
Barca's president went on to claim the club's season was the best in its history, after coach Pep Guardiola secured the Spanish league title to go with the club's fourth Champions League triumph.
Rosell also hinted that Barcelona would be willing to spend big if the right players became available, as speculation over Arsenal captain Cesc Fabregas' future continues to grow.
"We'll see what happens in the transfer market. Initially, we have $63 million but we might use part of next year's money too," he said. "Guardiola has his preferences, but he doesn't talk about names, he talks about positions that should be strengthened.

"Cesc? I guess he'd like to join us, like a lot of players would, but we won't go mad and offer silly fees. Last year we offered $56 million for Cesc, this season his value is less. What we can offer will also depend on his salary."

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Bahrain Grand Prix cut from 2011 F1 calendar

The Sakhir circuit in Bahrain will not stage an F1 race this season

Formula 1's governing body the FIA has confirmed that the Bahrain Grand Prix will not be part of the 2011 programme.

The race, originally scheduled for 13 March, was called off in February after more than 30 lives were lost during pro-democracy protests in the country.
Earlier this month, it was reinstated and rescheduled for 30 October.
But teams objected on logistical grounds and F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone was forced to come up with another calendar with Bahrain removed.
When asked to ratify the calendar, the World Motor Sport Council, which decides on rules and regulations for the FIA, unanimously voted in favour of staging the inaugural Indian Grand Prix on 30 October.
The FIA's decision at the start of June to restore the race to the calendar, with Bahrain taking the October slot and the Indian Grand Prix moving to 11 December, was announced as unanimous but proved highly controversial.
The decision to reinstate the Bahrain race also outraged human rights campaigners, with nearly half a million people signing an online petition demanding a boycott.
Cancellation was seen as inevitable since any change to the calendar required the unanimous written agreement of the teams.

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They expressed their concerns to the FIA and F1's commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone, voicing strict opposition to the idea of a race in December.
Fota - which represents all the F1 teams bar back-of-the-grid Hispania - explained how a grand prix so late in the year would be "unbearable to our staff".
Max Mosley, the former head of world motorsport, said the sport would suffer enormous damage if the race took place.
He told BBC Radio 5 live at the time: "I will be astonished if the event goes ahead. I don't think it will happen."
Bahrain lifted emergency law this month after crushing anti-government protests but tensions remain high.
It remains on the FIA's provisional 2012 calendar as the 11 March season-opener, although one of the 21 races is expected to be dropped.

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