what will Real do without IKER CASILLAS...!!!

i noe this post mite bored some of u guys
but who cares
it's for IKER CASILLAS...

i took dis article from www.iker-spain.net

Football Without Iker In The World

At night, Madrid is bags of fun. But during the day the city doesn't have a great deal going for it.

Thanks to a cleaners' strike, the disease ridden metro now looks and smells like a 15th century slum and the centre is enveloped by a choking cloud of smog for much of the year.

However, what Madrid does have is the 'Museum of Wax'- the only place on the planet that recognises the genius of Iker Casillas, this column's King of Spain for 2007.

The Museum of Wax is what would happen if Madame Tussauds employed sculptors who had only the vaguest notion of what their subjects looked like and who used their feet to create their oeuvres.

In November, the museum decided to show off its latest exhibit - a model of Iker Casillas, roaring in triumph. When the moment of the grand unveiling came, the specially invited Iker could not disguise his horror at the monstrosity that had been created.

Rather than being an ecstatic figure, bellowing a triumphant cry of glory, the new Casillas resembled the Nazis who had their faces melted off at the end of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.

"That's not Iker!" cried one terrified child. The lack of attention the Museum of Wax paid to getting his likeness even slightly right simply reflects the lack of attention Iker is paid in the wider world of football.

Without Iker Casillas, the simple fact is that Real Madrid would not have won the league title in the summer of 2007 and they would not be seven points clear at the top of the table going into 2008.

Clearly, the astonishing strike rate of 47 goals in 67 matches of Ruud Van Nistelrooy has more than a little to do with the club's recent revival, but it was the Dutchman who received the player of the year accolades in Spain and it was the Dutchman who made the short-lists of the recent global glut of end of year prizes.

All Iker was rewarded with was the terrifying three dimensional vision of what he would look like during a famine.

On the surface, Casillas claims to be unbothered by the lack of attention for his near perfect performances, but a comment in 'El Mundo' from October may suggest otherwise.

"The Ballon d'Or? I'm only a goalkeeper," joked the Spanish super-stopper.

Casillas is only the goalkeeper who captains his country and ensured that they remained undefeated in competitive matches in 2007.

Casillas is only the goalkeeper who saved his team-mates' skins as they suffered early season maulings by Getafe and Valladolid.

Casillas is only the goalkeeper who kept his side in the Champions League with an astonishing last minute save from Olympiakos' Darko Kovacevic - a save that prompted the Serbian striker to comment "We're talking about the best keeper in the world."

Even as recently as last weekend's Barcelona v Real dust up, Iker proved himself to be the best in the business, with a superb double save to keep Ronaldinho out and the most perfect of slides to steal the ball from under the feet of Samuel Eto'o.

Last season, Iker Casillas was the most shot at goalkeeper in the Spanish Primera. Little has changed this time round, with the stopper being forced into action more than anyone else yet again.

"I like to be kept busy," admits Casillas cheerfully.

And it's a good thing, too. With the current campaign about to reach its halfway point, Casillas has conceded just fourteen league goals, but has made the most number of saves with 71 and the second highest number of intercepted crosses with 64.

Real Madrid's number one, now dubbed 'Saint Iker' in the Spanish press, is so integral to the future of the club that it forced him to deny stories that Tottenham had been in contact with an offer as soon as Juande Ramos had clapped eyes on Paul Robinson.

Casillas looks set to follow in the footballing footsteps of many great goalkeepers who were never recognised by their peers. The only number one to have ever received France Football's Ballon d'Or honour was Lev Yashin, back in 1963.

FIFA, in their infinite wisdom, didn't feel that Casillas was even worth a place in their 2007 top fifty, whilst L'Equipe opined that Gianluigi Buffon's promotion from Serie B was enough of an achievement to put him in their team of the year ahead of his Spanish rival.

Maybe Casillas genuinely is uninterested in all the fuss and nonsense that such titles would bring?

Maybe he is quite happy just to wake up every morning next to Eva Gonzalez - his supermodel, tv star and ex-Miss Spain girlfriend and get on with the businessof bailing out his team-mates for both club andcountry?

Maybe he is just content to be one of the best players in the world, even if no-one else seems to think so?


i love whoever that wrote this article
statistics speaks its words
so i don care what u ppl that alwiz insults iker thinks of him
he is the best




he is so bloody gorgeous
i will alwiz love him