Lopera and Chelsea: From “Abajes del Mercedes” to Abramovich to “Chiquitito”
HE Let it go confronts the Chelsea This Wednesday in the finals Conference– The match makes the English team a foreign team against which Several times (5) Verdiblancos officially played the whole history-In 1998 and 2005 there was already a double confrontation Collect and and Champions, It is also characterized by history and unencutable sentences Manuel Ruiz de Lopera.
Already deceased The ex -president left the important beads the first and one time his team played ChampionIn the group stage 2005-06. Betis failed Stamford -bridge (4-0) But at home managed to defeat the players who then controlled José Mourinho One night to remember, with a goal Danish (1-0) and serious injury to Brazil Ricardo oliveira.
Lopera did not hesitate to refer to the jokes to meet him Roman Abramovich, then the blues: “Russian told me to sell smallI don’t know who he is. Maybe heard it Chiquito de la Calzada counting a joke and wants to take it, but I told him that Let it go There was no club for sale. With “Chiquitito” the former president referred to Manchego midfielder Alberto Rivera, who made an exhibition that night Lantern and the company.
A few years ago, on March 1998Betis played the quarterfinals Collect Also from Europe against Chelsea that will eventually become champion from this edition. The verdiblancos, arranged Luis Aragonéslost their first leg (1-2) because of the two goals of the Norwegian Broken André Flo. When London returns to the Nigerian Finidian He took hope for 20 minutes, but the English then scored with goals from Sinclair, Di Matteo and Zola.
The German Arbitration Tribunal Bernd Heynemann They were very protested in the Betic rankings, starting with Lopera Ruiz, in a huge way expressive In his statements: “I promised the boys in the MercedesBut the referee arrived and said, ‘With AB (Sic) Del Mercedes. Genius and illustration.
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