Sabtu, 19 Mei 2012

Kunci kemenangan Chelsea

London (ANTARA News) - Apa sesungguhnya kunci kemenangan Chelsea atas Barcelona 1-0 dalam ajang leg pertama semifinal Liga Champions yang digelar di Stamford Bridge pada Kamis WIB (19/4)?

Jawabnya, bersabar untuk bertahan dengan disertai segudang pengalaman, kata pelatih sementara The Blues Roberto Di Matteo.

Tetap bersabar kemudian berusaha sekuat tenaga membuat serangan balik ke lini pertahanan Barca ternyata membuahkan gol semata wayang yang diciptakan Didier Drogba, sebagaimana dikutip dari laman The Sun.

Kemenangan Chelsea atas pasukan Catalan itu disebut-sebut sebagai drama yang menunjukkan bahwa kesabaran, ketekunan dan segudang pengalaman dapat menjadi mata uang bagi laga kehidupan.

Drama itu mengaitkan sejumlah pelakon sarat pengalaman, sebut saja Drogba, John Terry, Frank Lampard.

Skuad asuhan Di Matteo kerap disebut oleh sejumlah pengamat sebagai "pasukan tua". Pemain asal Pantai Gading Drogba kini berusia 34 tahun, John Terry asal Inggris (31 tahun), Lampard asal Inggris (33 tahun).

Segudang pengalaman mereka menghadapi sejumlah laga krusial terbukti mampu meredam keunggulan penguasaan bola pasukan Barca di bawah pelatih Josep Guardiola.

Di Matteo mengatakan, "Pendapat umum banyak menyatakan skuad kami dihuni oleh pemain-pemain yang telah dimakan usia. Apalagi laga yang kami hadapi begitu krusial. Tetapi toh kami mampu menang. Ini bukan semata karena Drogba."

"Ada sejumlah pemain lain di bangku cadangan yang dipandang telah berusia. Kemenangan ini menyodorkan jawaban kepada setiap orang. Saya memutuskan untuk menurunkan Didier berkaca dari pengalaman kali lalu ketika menjalani laga semifinal Piala FA melawan Spurs," katanya.

"Saya beranggapan bahwa dia pemain yang tepat untuk laga krusial seperti ini. Ini hasil luar biasa bagi kami bahkan malam hampir sempurna," kata pelatih asal Italia itu.

Dari catatan statistik, pasukan Catalan mendominasi penguasaan bola sampai 79 persen. Di Matteo menyatakan, "Ketika anda mencetak gol dan memenangi laga maka anda akan merasa terhibur. Kami berusaha sekuat tenaga bertahan dan bersabar."

"Para pemain tidak membiarkan mereka leluasa masuk ke lini pertahanan kami. Kami berpegang teguh kepada kesepakatan tim. Baik pemain muda maupun pemain tua menjalin kerja sama berjuang meraih target bersama," kata Di Matteo pula.

Terry juga mengatakan, "Kemenangan ini menjadi salah satu malam terbaik kami. Penampilan kami tidak kenal lelah. Kami nyaris tidak menyentuh bola dalam 15 menit pertama. Meski Didier tampil luar biasa."

Guardiola mengemukakan, "Jika sepak bola seluruhnya mencakup penguasaan bola maka kami mampu memenangi setiap pertandingan. Kesulitannya, menjaringkan bola ke gawang lawan. Selamat buat Chelsea. Tantangan kami sekarang, menciptakan 24 peluang di Camp Nou pekan depan dan memperoleh kemenangan."
(A024)  
Editor: AA Ariwibowo

Lima Alasan Chelsea Jadi Juara Champions


MUENCHEN, KOMPAS.com - Sederet pelatih hebat seperti Claudio Ranieri, José Mourinho, Avram Grant, Luiz Felipe Scolari, Guus Hiddink, Carlo Ancelotti, dan Andre Villas-Boas gagal memenuhi ekpektasi Roman Abramovich agar Chelsea meraih trofi Liga Champuons. Harapan miliader asal Rusia tersebut berada di pundak Roberto Di Matteo saat ini.

Berstatus sebagai tim underdog, "The Blues" tampil mengejutkan dengan lolos ke final seusai menyingkirkan sang juara bertahan, Barcelona. Kini, Chelsea berkesempatan emas menorehkan sejarah. Dengan catatan, Didier Drogba dan kawan-kawan bisa membungkam Bayern Muenchen di Allianz Arena, Sabtu (19/5/2012).

Ada lima alasan yang menyebutkan Chelsea akan tampil sebagai juara dan mencium trofi Liga Champions:

1. Bayern baru saja kalah di final Piala Jerman

Tidak hanya mampu memendam ambisi Bayern menjuarai Bundesliga, Borussia Dortmund juga mampu mengalahkan Bayern 5-2 di final Piala Jerman.

2. Chelsea berhasil menaklukkan Barcelona
Setelah sukses mengalahkan Barca di Stamford Bridge dan bermain imbang 2-2 di Camp Nou, mengalahkan Bayern di final sepertinya menjadi lebih mudah bagi Chelsea, meski kapten John Terry absen. Ya, Chelsea menikmati sepotong keberuntungan yang datang dari babak semifinal dan mereka harus yakin nama mereka akan dipatri di atas trofi.

3. Bermain di kandang bisa menjadi keuntungan sekaligus kerugian
Ya, final berlangsung di kandang Bayern. Namun, tidak akan ada 65 ribu pendukung Bayern yang berteriak di Allianz Arena nanti malam. Pasalnya, alokasi tiket dibagi secara merata antara mitra UEFA dan pendukung yang netral.

4. Didier Drogba akan mengakhiri kariernya dengan sebuah pengorbanan
Mampukan Didier Drogba jadi malapetaka bagi pertahanan Bayern? Pastinya, Drogba lebih kuat ketimbang bomber Dortmund, Robert Lewandowski. Dia juga tampil luar biasa dalam beberapa pertandingan terakhir termasuk final Piala FA. Drogba mampu membuktikan dirinya berperan krusial dalam pertandingan-pertandingan besar. Holger Badstuber dan Jerome Boateng lebih baik waspada.

5. Pamor trofi Bayern di Eropa meredup setelah milenium baru
Die Roten" mungkin mengesankan dengan meraih 22 trofi. Salah satunya, gelar kampiun Liga Champions yang terakhir kali mereka raih pada 2001. Bayern pernah melakukan hattrick saat meraih trofi itu pada era tahun 70-an ketika masih bernama Piala Champions. Setelah itu, Bayern lebih banyak menjadi runner-up yakni pada 1982, 1987, 1999, dan 2010.

The Human Brain


The brain has three main parts, the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the brain stem. The brain is divided into regions that control specific functions.
THE CEREBRUM:
Frontal Lobe
  • Behavior
  • Abstract thought processes
  • Problem solving
  • Attention
  • Creative thought
  • Some emotion
  • Intellect
  • Reflection
  • Judgment
  • Initiative
  • Inhibition
  • Coordination of movements
  • Generalized and mass movements
  • Some eye movements
  • Sense of smell
  • Muscle movements
  • Skilled movements
  • Some motor skills
  • Physical reaction
  • Libido (sexual urges)
Occipital Lobe
  • Vision
  • Reading
Parietal Lobe
  • Sense of touch (tactile senstation)

    • Appreciation of form through touch (stereognosis)
    • Response to internal stimuli (proprioception)
    • Sensory combination and comprehension
    • Some language and reading functions
    • Some visual functions
    Temporal Lobe
    • Auditory memories
    • Some hearing
    • Visual memories
    • Some vision pathways
    • Other memory
    • Music
    • Fear
    • Some language
    • Some speech
    • Some behavior amd emotions
    • Sense of identity
    Right Hemisphere (the representational hemisphere)
    • The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body
    • Temporal and spatial relationships

      • Analyzing nonverbal information
      • Communicating emotion
      Left Hemisphere (the categorical hemisphere)
      • The left hemisphere controls the right side of the body
      • Produce and understand language
      Corpus Callosum
      • Communication between the left and right side of the brain
      THE CEREBELLUM
      • Balance
      • Posture
      • Cardiac, respiratory, and vasomotor centers
      THE BRAIN STEM
      • Motor and sensory pathway to body and face
      • Vital centers: cardiac, respiratory, vasomotor Hypothalamus
        • Moods and motivation
        • Sexual maturation
        • Temperature regulation
        • Hormonal body processes
        Optic Chiasm
        • Vision and the optic nerve
        Pituitary Gland
        • Hormonal body processes
        • Physical maturation
        • Growth (height and form)
        • Sexual maturation
        • Sexual functioning
        Spinal Cord
        • Conduit and source of sensation and movement
        Pineal Body
        • Unknown
        Ventricles and Cerebral Aqueduct
        • Contains the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord Human brain, lateral view

The History Of Chelsea F.C


In 1904 Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium with the aim of turning it into a football ground. An offer to lease it to nearby Fulham was turned down, so Mears opted to found his own club to use the stadium. As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FCStamford Bridge FC and London FC.[8] Chelsea were founded on 10 March 1905 at The Rising Sun pub (now The Butcher's Hook),[9] opposite the present-day main entrance to the ground on Fulham Road, and were elected to the Football League shortly afterwards.
The club won promotion to the First Division in their second season, and yo-yoed between the First and Second Divisions in their early years. They reached the 1915 FA Cup Final, where they lost to Sheffield United at Old Trafford, and finished 3rd in the First Division in 1920, the club's best league campaign to that point.[10] Chelsea attracted large crowds[11] and had a reputation for signing big-name players,[12] but success continued to elude the club in the inter-war years.
Former Arsenal and England centre-forward Ted Drake became manager in 1952 and proceeded to modernise the club. He removed the club's Chelsea pensioner crest, improved the youth set-up and training regime, rebuilt the side with shrewd signings from the lower divisions and amateur leagues, and led Chelsea to their first major trophy success – the League championship – in 1954–55. The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.[13] Chelsea failed to build on this success, and spent the remainder of the 1950s in mid-table. Drake was dismissed in 1961 and replaced by player-coach Tommy Docherty.
Docherty built a new team around the group of talented young players emerging from the club's youth set-up and Chelsea challenged for honours throughout the 1960s, enduring several near-misses. They were on course for a treble of League, FA Cup and League Cup going into the final stages of the 1964–65 season, winning the League Cup but faltering late on in the other two.[14] In three seasons the side were beaten in three major semi-finals and were FA Cup runners-up. Under Docherty's successor, Dave Sexton, Chelsea won the FA Cup in 1970, beating Leeds United 2–1 in a final replay. Chelsea took their first European honour, a UEFA Cup Winners' Cup triumph, the following year, with another replayed win, this time over Real Madrid in Athens.
The late 1970s through to the 1980s was a turbulent period for Chelsea. An ambitious redevelopment of Stamford Bridge threatened the financial stability of the club,[15] star players were sold and the team were relegated. Further problems were caused by a notorious hooligan element among the support, which was to plague the club throughout the decade.[16]In 1982 Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.[17] On the pitch, the team had fared little better, coming close to relegation to the Third Division for the first time, but in 1983 manager John Neal put together an impressive new team for minimal outlay. Chelsea won the Second Division title in 1983–84 and established themselves in the top division, before being relegated again in 1988. The club bounced back immediately by winning the Second Division championship in 1988–89.
Chart showing the progress of Chelsea's league finishes from 1905–1906 to 2007–08
After a long-running legal battle, Bates reunited the stadium freehold with the club in 1992 by doing a deal with the banks of the property developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash.[18] Chelsea's form in the new Premier League was unconvincing, although they did reach the 1994 FA Cup Final. It was not until the appointment of former European Footballer of the Year Ruud Gullit as player-manager in 1996 that their fortunes changed. He added several top-class international players to the side, as the club won the FA Cup in 1997 and established themselves as one of England's top sides again. Gullit was replaced by Gianluca Vialli, who led the team to victory in the League Cup Final and the Cup Winners' Cup Final in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals in 2000. Vialli was sacked in favour of another Italian, Claudio Ranieri, who guided Chelsea to the 2002 FA Cup Final and Champions League qualification in 2002–03.
In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £140 million, completing what was then the biggest-ever sale of an English football club.[4] Over £100 million was spent on new players, but Ranieri was unable to deliver any trophies, so he was replaced by Portuguese coach José Mourinho. Under Mourinho, Chelsea became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War (2004–05 and 2005–06),[19] in addition to winning an FA Cup (2007) and two League Cups (2005 and 2007). In September 2007 Mourinho was replaced by Avram Grant,[20] who led the club to their first UEFA Champions League final, which they lost on penalties to Manchester United. Grant was fired days later[21] and succeeded by Luiz Felipe Scolari in July 2008.[22]
Scolari spent only seven months in the job before being dismissed after a string of poor results.[23] Russia coach Guus Hiddink was appointed caretaker manager until the end of the 2008–09 season,[24] and guided Chelsea to a second FA Cup triumph in three years.[25] Two days later, former Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti was confirmed as Chelsea's new manager.[26] In his first season, Ancelotti led Chelsea to their first league and FA Cup "Double"; in addition, Chelsea became the first English top-flight side to score over 100 league goals in a season since 1963.[27] Ancelotti parted company with Chelsea in May 2011 and was replaced by then Porto coach André Villas-Boas.[28] In March 2012, Villas-Boas parted company with Chelsea after a poor run of results and former Chelsea player Roberto Di Matteo was appointed as interim first team manager. Di Matteo led the club to the UEFA Champions League final and a seventh FA Cup success.[29]