Luis Enrique: "I am very optimistic"

The positive message carried to its logical conclusion. Especially when they go wrong they are given. At this current it has joined Luis Enrique as the line of Barca has been twisted. On the way to the psychic abyss after the elimination of the Champions coach has reinforced the idea of dealing with the bad dynamics of the results, rebelling against adversity and fight even harder to overcome the bad times. "I'm very optimistic , " proclaimed Luis Enrique.

Go into play the league title, where the club has three points ahead of Atletico , their European executioner, and the final of the Copa del Rey. "I will not change for anyone , " he assured, trying topull this memory Calderon, however recent it. But Luis Enrique can not hide or disguise the pain of loss triplet, which would have been the second, "a maximum target that no team in the world has reached".

DEEP ANALYSIS"

The coach has "thoroughly analyzed" the defeat against Atletico "just as I have thoroughly analyzed every victory." He would not share the fruit of this analysis nor the conclusions he has drawn, beyond saying in football that "there is only one factor that affects no single solution to the problems." Despite the negative trend has not time to put the notes to the course when two titles at stake, has suggested.

"This situation we do not like, but we've earned it ourselves and we must accept it with the mettle playing in a professional ," Luis Enrique has assumed without putting hot cloths. He has also taken his words when he said the team came "cooler" at the end of the season although he has played, on the same date last year , seven games.

COOLER WITH DATA

He said it and keeps it, based on "objective data" vest with GPS that measures the efforts of the players during training. "I have taken little chest for what he could," reaffirming his words, the improved physical condition of his men. "But that does not mean we can play bad or we can lose a title, because the opponent also plays and has quality," he qualified.

Shakira plays guitar for her son Sasha

Shakira has shown her fans how happy it feels to see the musical interest showing her little son, Sasha. Entitled: "Sasha, in to the music", the singer of 39 years playing guitar on the couch in front ofthe baby, a year that no detail is lost recital.

" Sasha , with music , " wrote the Colombian next to the snapshot that shows, once again, how the artist perfectly combines his work with his role as a mother.

The pair of Gerard Pique, who is immersed in his work ( a few days ago up another image in which he announced he was writing new songs), is back in full today since Thursday the Latin American press reports that might be pregnant with her third child.

And the Barca player and star 'Waka Waka' have stated on more than one occasion they want to have a large family, and they would like tohave a child. Confirmed the pregnancy , the third baby would be born in January, like his brothers, Milan and Sasha .

Writing songs! / Escribiendo canciones! Shak

A photo posted by Shakira (@shakira) on Mar 28, 2016 at 9:35am PDT

Sevilla leads the tie on penalties

Beñat missed the fourth penalty in the shootout that decided who would be in semifinals of the Europa League and Gameiro scored the 5-4 to qualify for the semifinals Sevilla in their tournament dream. After the 1-2 achieved by the Athletic in 120 minutes, equaling the 1-2 obtained by the Sevillian set in Bilbao, penalties issued a triumph crude. Valverde the box marked on penalties Raul Garcia Viguera, San Jose, failed Beñat and Susaeta scored. Sevillistas matched by Coke, Krychowiak, Konoplyanka, Nzonzi and Gameiro.

In 120 minutes we saw a fast-paced game. Valverde posed a cupbearer duel back and forth, looking for the goal that broke the situation, and plugged the high voltage Aduriz to score the first goal of the game. He tied Gameiro, but Raul Garcia headed the 1-2 infarction. Nerves. Extension. Susaeta occasions and Coke. Ten penalties. And Beñat, who played well, missed the key point.

Kobe Bryant, the fading star

That night the 1996 draft tension could be cut into the meeting room of the Lakers . Jerry West , a history of the franchise now work manager, breathing relieved in each round passed without any team he chose to that lanky kid he dreamed since I saw him in action with just 17 ​​years in a private test. The Lakers had hatched a plan to seize him, Kobe Bryant showed signs, but whose youth backed down to most franchises. The way to take him to Los Angeles was to convince the Hornets, who selected him in the 13th and transferred to the Lakers for Vlade Divac . An operation at that time few imagined that would change forever the history of the NBA.

Kobe Bryant this morning which played his last game as professionally has been the great protagonist of the last two decades in the NBA. A special player, unable to never settle and continuous learning. Twenty years leading the Lakers, who he led the ring five times, and chasing the shadow of Michael Jordan. the legend of the Bulls was his model and his obsession. The player who aspired to emulate. The largest in history, whose six rings have long stayed away from Bryant.

The decline of the Lakers in recent years also engulfed Kobe. Unable to overcome the departure of Pau and leading a failed reconstruction, Bryant announced earlier this season his farewell after two years of continuous injuries.

Gone were the happy years with Phil Jackson, the coach who best understood his play and that made ​​him champion five times in two different stages. In the first, just three years after arriving in the league, he had as squire to Shaquille O'Neal , with whom he formed an almost invincible couple that led the Lakers to achieve three championships in a row (2000-2002). If its hegemony lasted was the clash of egos, perhaps the biggest problem of Kobe, which cost him assimilate the power forward role rob him in those final.

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Progress Bryant O'Neal left as the undisputed leader of the Lakers, but

Benzema - Announces he will not play Euro

Jour de match! Match day! Día de partido!@realmadrid vs @VfL_Wolfsburg - 20h45@ChampionsLeague#APorLaRemontada ! pic.twitter.com/EhX2Qp3INs

— Karim Benzema (@Benzema) April 12, 2016

Doubts are over. Karim Benzema , French striker of Real Madrid, will not be finally selected for his country to play the European Championship this summer. This was announced by the player himself through his official profile on Twitter.

Malheureusement pour moi et pour tous ceux qui m'ont toujours soutenu et supporté. Je ne serai pas sélectionné pour notre Euro en France...

— Karim Benzema (@Benzema) April 13, 2016

"Unfortunately for me for all those who I have always encouraged apotado and I will not be selected for our European Championship in France ..." Benzema has written the popular social network.

The French Football Federation (FFF) had announced that it would decide on the presence of the striker in the tournament selections on April 14, once disputed the semifinals of the Champions League, in which the front was engaged with his club. But it was the player himself who has decided to make the decision public the day before .

The desire to Noel Le Graet, president of the FFF, was that Benzema were playing the Euro 2016, but was strong opposition from political and social pressures weigh in your country. Even Manuel Valls, French Prime Minister said on several occasions that the front should not go to the Euro, because "it is not a good example for the youth."

Not even a favorable ruling from the judge Boutard , tentatively allowed Benzema and Valbuena could match the selection has served to forward the continental competition is not lost. Also own Valbuena, the victim of sexual blackmail by a video home with her ​​partner, she has taken a step forward in that respect: " I have no problem, I can play with Benzema Euro".

Pau Gasol - The emotional farewell letter to Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant played this morning the last game of his brilliant career. One of the best players in NBA history to put an end to his career after twenty years in the elite , of which six and a half shared with Pau Gasol, lograndos two rings. Those feats in the Lakers carved a great friendship between the two and now, hours of goodbye, Pau wanted to pay tribute to Kobe with a letter full of feelings and emotions.

LETTER INTEGRA PAU

"On my first day with the Lakers, I met the team at the Ritz in Washington DC and 1:30 am someone knocked on my door. That's how I discovered that Kobe does not sleep much. I sat on the bed, I think, and he sat at the table next to the television. He welcomed me to the team and told me it was time. It was time to win. He felt that I could take it to the top again and wanted to make sure I knew it. "This is our chance," he said. For me that meeting was very meaningful.

Much of the triangle offense is based on reading and understand each other. I understand the game. He was very meticulous with it. And I think he appreciated it . It was fresh air. Our relationship conceded from the start. We both knew we needed each other to succeed.

There are many games in the NBA, this causes it easy to get carried away. He kept us all at bay. In training he challenged people. He spoke ill of others. This does not hold everyone. Some players can not with this, but I did not care. It was his way of motivating us and push us to us to give more. It is easy to accommodate. He made ​​sure that no one did.

After losing the sixth game against the Celtics in late 2008, we did not talk much about it. It was time to digest what had happened and why we had fallen short and let the fire began to burn up inside. We arrived the next season with a different, more aggressive and more determined attitude, with a stronger focus. I think that was the reason we won the next two titles.