On december 2009 · Eurosport
Carlos Cuellar, owner of Aston Villa central, Eurosport.es account the details of your Christmas Eve and Christmas away from his family. Despite being in England in the table no shortage of friends and with them the ham and the classic Spanish wine with seafood. All this before Arsenal.
It is his third Christmas away from Spain and have become accustomed. This year, Carlos has been the guide of a group of Spanish that is in Birmingham, where he signed his second season. "We've had a good time because we had a couple of days to enjoy the dates. Last year I did not play this week because he was injured after a game with West Ham, but I spent these days with Borja Valero and his wife. Then I was West Bromwich Albion in but now it has fallen to me to host Christmas Eve. We were a group of ten people in my house with a big table in the lounge and the Spanish holiday classics. The Christmas dinner was at another house of friends, "he explains.
So that everything was in order needed some help. "My mother, who is a heaven sent me ham and wine of Spain. Then we bought seafood in Birmingham: a box of prawns and other shrimp. Here is cheaper, than in Spain because he comes from Scotland "he says. There he played a successful campaign in the Glasgow Rangers and was voted best player in the league, the first time they won an award one central. In that season, behind which the Aston Villa paid ten million Protestants, won the Cup, League Cup and played the final of the UEFA Cup against Zenit in Andrei Arshavin, his opponent on this day 'Boxing day 'that the villains will be on Sunday.
The Madrid and selection
The Aston Villa fight to snatch third place at Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. "The game is complicated, but last season and won here 0-2. And I think we missed a penalty," he recalls correctly because Almunia halted a maximum penalty Young. That day he played side but this campaign is fixed in the center of defense. Perhaps that is why Aston Villa has improved to the point of becoming the fewest goals in the Premier: 14 goals (0.7 per game). It also has more freedom to finish the strategy and actions has been released with a bit of head. "We have very good line in the league and also in the Carling (semi-finals will be measured in Blackburn, against which are also measured in the FA Cup). The end of this month and then make a beginning in January of this year is complicated because many games . If we continue like we can do important things, "predicts a Eurosport.es.
The plant will have its own Christmas gift these days, because his girlfriend Eva come to spend New Year's Eve with him. Many friends tell him that he could soon be back in Madrid, where he was born 28 years ago, because Real Madrid needs to defend Pepe after the injury. "When you hear it relates to Real Madrid will feel flattered, obviously. Playing in a club like this is a dream and that my name sounds and means I'm doing things right," he says. The central, who played for Osasuna and Numancia, among others, has long been dreaming of the 2010 football section. "The World is complicated, the block of the Euro is strong, but hopefully keep playing and remember me. These last two games of the year (against Arsenal and Liverpool to the 29th) I know that are broadcast on television in Spain and open. I hope that I see, "ends.
Rodrigo ERRASTI / Eurosport
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