nando est amoureux de la CL,qu'il a gagné avec madrid.
il dit que dans le championnat anglais,les defenseurs sont forts et font des fautes qui ne sont pas tolérées dans d'autres chapionnats.
il dit qu'il est vraiment mort physiquement lorsqu'il termine un match anglais.
il adore notre championnat.
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MORIENTES: EURO NIGHTS AT ANFIELD ARE BEST EVER
Paul Rogers 05 March 2006
Fernando Morientes has spoken about his desire to win his first European Cup with Liverpool this May after admitting he's fallen in love with the greatest club competition in the world.
The Spanish international won the European Cup with Real Madrid, was a beaten finalist in 2004 while on loan with Monaco and was in the stands as Liverpool recorded a British record 5th success in Istanbul last year. Now, he hopes to help the Reds overcome Benfica at Anfield on Wednesday and keep their dream of a trip to Paris alive.
"To me, the Champions League is the prettiest competition in the world," he says. "The day when I arrived in Monaco, the other players were, like, 'Oh, oh, it's Morientes'. I told them, yes, it is me. I am just a normal player. But they said, 'No, you have won the Champions League three times'. That makes you different in their eyes. They look at you as someone more important, almost like royalty.
"The atmosphere in the Champions League is even better than at the World Cup and when we beat Chelsea at Anfield in the semi-final, it was unbelievable, the best I've ever experienced. I even phoned home and said to my father, 'Dad, I've never seen anything like this'. He said, 'But you played for Real Madrid!' Of course, the atmosphere was good in Madrid on European nights but at Liverpool, it's unique, the people really lift the players.
"The Benfica coach, Ronald Koeman, was one of my idols as a child. He was a top-class footballer and now he is proving to be one of the best coaches in Europe. But his team is not one of the best in the world and we all believe we can beat them."
If Liverpool are to get past Benfica, they will have to start finding the net again. The lack of goals from recognised strikers recently is something that has mystified everyone at Anfield but Morientes insists it's certainly not down to a lack of effort.
"I don't know why I haven't got more but Peter Crouch and Djibril Cisse have had problems, too. But I'm really tired when I finish a game, so I know I have worked hard for the team and it is important that the other players are happy with you. In the Premiership, the defenders are all strong and physical and foul you a lot more than in Europe. The referees maybe permit more than in Spain, too, though I love this kind of football."
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