Whose gone?
8th of August 2006
Our Italian tour was a great success. Of the six games played we won four, drawed one thanks to late opposite equalizer and lost one close fought to Crotone.
The wins game at Ancona, Valence, Acireale and last stop of our tour Castel Di Sangro. The last game was really a positive as we won that 4:0 with one heck of a goal from our left winger Xavier who dribbled past five opponent defenders to slot it in from 10 yards into the back corner.
I never converted my 4-5-1 tactic as I loved how it worked from the minute one. I did lot of rotating and every guy on the trip had some playing time, eventhough some of the guys started all the games, like goalkeeper Beto. No-one scored more than two goals and only one's who even reached that limit were my DMC Jorge Duate and MC Bruno China. But my strikers all did score too.
Joao Pedro also joined us in the middle of the tour and he did absolutely fantastic in those games he played - being the best player on the pitch in one and one of the best in the other one. He gave lots of great long balls and made some brilliant tackles, eventhough just like our other summer pursuit, Mauro Giliberti he got a slight injury which will rule him out for couple of first games of the season.
But there were more shockes as we were going to leave Italy. As we were checking and counting the guys who were going back to Portugal, we found one huge suprise. There was one dude missing - Cristovao, our right midfielder.
We stayed in Rome for the last night in 3-man rooms in one local small hotel. I asked his roommates do they know anything about it. They told that he had gone out clubbing yesterday and had promised to be back by morning, but they both were suprised as he wasn't with us in the team bus count-up.
