Rafa: we're going to japan to rule the world - World club championship
Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 6:10 pmLiverpool will represent Europe in the 2005 FIFA Club World Championships in Japan and the Reds boss has made it perfectly clear his side will be going all out to win the title of best team in the world.
"We have collected a lot of videos of the other teams and we are trying to have them all watched as much as possible before the competition begins," revealed Rafa. "For sure, this is a competition we want to win. For Liverpool, if you enter any competition you must only think about one thing and that is winning. We are not going there for any other reason but to bring another trophy to Anfield."
Meanwhile, the line-up for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship is now complete after Egyptian side Al Ahly booked their ticket to Japan at the weekend.
The Cairo-based club were crowned African champions on Saturday night when they completed an aggregate victory over Tunisia's Etoile Sahel.
They will now join Liverpool, Brazil's Sao Paolo, Sydney FC of Australia, Costa Rican outfit Deportivo Saprissa and the Saudi Arabians of Al Ittihad at FIFA's showpiece event in the Land of the Rising Sun just before Christmas.
Between December 11 and 18 this year, these six teams will battle it out for the honour of being the crowned the finest club side on the planet.
Liverpool, together with Sao Paolo, have received a bye into the last four of the competition and are guaranteed to play two games.
Our first (the semi-final), will be against either Deportivo Saprissa or Sydney FC, will take place in Yokohama on Thursday 15 December.
Depending on whether we win or lose we'll then contest either the 3rd/4th place play-off or the final three days later (Sunday 18 December) at the same venue.
Its nice to see Rafa always upbeat about winning. Any i think we have a good chance of winning it to. My only cocern is Sao Paolo. We all thought that Man Utd were gonna atuff Vasco in the last one but they just got a whupping in the most embarrasing fashion. I think Rafa has done his homework on these teams and it will be nice to make it trophey number 2 before the new year.
"We have collected a lot of videos of the other teams and we are trying to have them all watched as much as possible before the competition begins," revealed Rafa. "For sure, this is a competition we want to win. For Liverpool, if you enter any competition you must only think about one thing and that is winning. We are not going there for any other reason but to bring another trophy to Anfield."
Meanwhile, the line-up for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship is now complete after Egyptian side Al Ahly booked their ticket to Japan at the weekend.
The Cairo-based club were crowned African champions on Saturday night when they completed an aggregate victory over Tunisia's Etoile Sahel.
They will now join Liverpool, Brazil's Sao Paolo, Sydney FC of Australia, Costa Rican outfit Deportivo Saprissa and the Saudi Arabians of Al Ittihad at FIFA's showpiece event in the Land of the Rising Sun just before Christmas.
Between December 11 and 18 this year, these six teams will battle it out for the honour of being the crowned the finest club side on the planet.
Liverpool, together with Sao Paolo, have received a bye into the last four of the competition and are guaranteed to play two games.
Our first (the semi-final), will be against either Deportivo Saprissa or Sydney FC, will take place in Yokohama on Thursday 15 December.
Depending on whether we win or lose we'll then contest either the 3rd/4th place play-off or the final three days later (Sunday 18 December) at the same venue.
Its nice to see Rafa always upbeat about winning. Any i think we have a good chance of winning it to. My only cocern is Sao Paolo. We all thought that Man Utd were gonna atuff Vasco in the last one but they just got a whupping in the most embarrasing fashion. I think Rafa has done his homework on these teams and it will be nice to make it trophey number 2 before the new year.
Who's to argue with a rampant passionate crowd of zamalek supporters