<![CDATA[bits & pieces, odds & ends]]>It’s an international week, which means that there are only bits and pieces of Real Madrid news floating around.  Here’s the most interesting ones, in my opinion.

One. Here’s Iker’s ad for the Philips SensoTouch 3D wet/dry electrical razor.  We’ve seen the images before (here, here and here) but the overall aesthetic look of the ad is quite nice, especially compared to this one.  In any case, whatever he’s selling, I’m buying.

Two. Apparently the trend now is to go back to your home country to recover from injuries, since AS reports today that Fernando Gago is in Buenos Aires working with kinesiologists from his ex-club Boca Juniors and the Albicelestes to recover from the injury to his left knee.  This came right after news that Kaká was given permission to return to Sao Paulo to work with doctors there for his knee problems.

Three. Cristiano Ronaldo showed off a new hairstyle while on duty with the Portuguese national team yesterday.  I don’t like it.  It looks like Cris has a stegosaurus lying on his head.  See a gallery of Cristiano’s hairstyles (mostly all original) here.  Bonus Cris here.

Four. Real Madrid’s La Roja players got a special visitor in the form of Pepe during their training session yesterday in the Estádio da Luz in Lisbon.  How cute that he went to go see them!  They look happy to see him too, and Sergio even jumped on Pepe.

This Spain-Portugal friendly is a bit like a preview of the upcoming Barcelona-Madrid game, because we’ll get to see how the central defenders do against the star forward.  In other words, Pepe and Carvalho will take on Villa, while the partnership of Piqué and Puyol will try to stop Cristiano.  The symmetry between Spain-Portugal and Madrid-Barcelona is interesting, no?  

Five. This week’s Crackòvia.  I’m not going to translate these, but I think you can the gist just from watching, even if you don’t speak Spanish.

Six. The full video from the chat Iker and Cristiano had with TVE can be seen here.  I don’t think I’ll get around to translating it, unless many people request it.

Seven. And another video from the Sporting game here.  Watch out for Karanka rubbing Marcelo’s head, Pipita being rude, Sergio’s ass, Iker being captainy and insisting on playing football…

Eight.


]]>