Fabricio Coloccini

[Sergio]

Yeah Nolan has it spot on, You are blurring the lines between Super Depor and, eh, Not So Super Depor.

But yeah, he was decent for Depor, considering the clubs financial situation, Newcastle paid too much.

None of that determines how good or not he is now though, again, I wouldn't know.

 

[Chainsaw]

2004-05 Depor finished 8th. 50 goals conceded. 10th best defence in La Liga.
2005-06 Depor finished 8th. 45 goals conceded. 9th best defence in La Liga.
2006-07 Depor finished 13th. 45 goals conceded. 9th best defence in La Liga.
2007-08 Depor finished 9th. 47 goals conceded. 7th best defence in La Liga.

I dunno what Great defence or great Depor HBA is talking about, but from the above stats nothing spells 'Great'!

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

2004-05 Depor finished 8th. 50 goals conceded. 10th best defence in La Liga.
2005-06 Depor finished 8th. 45 goals conceded. 9th best defence in La Liga.
2006-07 Depor finished 13th. 45 goals conceded. 9th best defence in La Liga.
2007-08 Depor finished 9th. 47 goals conceded. 7th best defence in La Liga.

I dunno what Great defence or great Depor HBA is talking about, but from the above stats nothing spells 'Great'!

The one that kept the MOST CLEAN SHEETS IN LA LIGA IN 06/07! That Great Defence.

If you think there is nothing great about a team having the most clean sheets in their league, then fine that is your opinion.

I already said that they did not have the best defence in terms of goals conceded by the way. Just read a couple pages back!

 

[RedMadridista]

Decent player.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

probably just rumor mongering, but that said, Liverpool can F!_!CK right OFF!
Liverpool owners may as well sell Liverpool and take over Newcastle at this rate.

http://www.sportsvibe.co.uk/news/fo...re-to-swoop-for-12m-newcastle-defender-11845/

Liverpool Prepare to Swoop for £12m Newcastle Defender
Posted on 22 October 2011
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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is set to step up his pursuit of a new defender and is preparing a move for Newcastle United centre back Fabricio Coloccini, according to reports on Caughtoffside.com.


Since taking charge back at Liverpool last season Dalglish has already raided Newscatle for striker Andy Carroll and Jose Enrique.

The 29-year-old, Argentina international has been one of Newcastle's stand out players so far this season as the side are currently fourth in the table and still unbeaten having only conceded six goals in the opening eight games.

It now seems that the Kop boss is going to target the Magpies again when the transfer window opens in January by making an approach for Coloccini who is valued at £12million.

As well as losing Carroll and Enrique, Newcaslte lost other big name players during the course of the summer including Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan, and manager Alan Pardew will not want to lose another one of his prized assets.

 

[AnfieldEd]

probably just rumor mongering, but that said, Liverpool can F!_!CK right OFF!
Liverpool owners may as well sell Liverpool and take over Newcastle at this rate.

http://www.sportsvibe.co.uk/news/fo...re-to-swoop-for-12m-newcastle-defender-11845/

Liverpool Prepare to Swoop for £12m Newcastle Defender
Posted on 22 October 2011
Picture 186
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is set to step up his pursuit of a new defender and is preparing a move for Newcastle United centre back Fabricio Coloccini, according to reports on Caughtoffside.com.


Since taking charge back at Liverpool last season Dalglish has already raided Newscatle for striker Andy Carroll and Jose Enrique.

The 29-year-old, Argentina international has been one of Newcastle's stand out players so far this season as the side are currently fourth in the table and still unbeaten having only conceded six goals in the opening eight games.

It now seems that the Kop boss is going to target the Magpies again when the transfer window opens in January by making an approach for Coloccini who is valued at £12million.

As well as losing Carroll and Enrique, Newcaslte lost other big name players during the course of the summer including Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan, and manager Alan Pardew will not want to lose another one of his prized assets.

Don't want him. Carra, Skrtel, Agger and Coates are all better.

We do need a centre back, however we need one better than what we have and Cooccini is not better than what we have.

 

[Miggy]

Collocini is a class defender and seems to have reached his promise that people once had for him.

I'd certainly have him over Carragher, Skrtel and Coates. I'll give you Carragher because of what he means for Liverpool fans but the other two. Not a chance.

 

[AnfieldEd]

Collocini is a class defender and seems to have reached his promise that people once had for him.

I'd certainly have him over Carragher, Skrtel and Coates. I'll give you Carragher because of what he means for Liverpool fans but the other two. Not a chance.

Ok

Coloccini and Skrtel basically are the same prototype of player and both have the same liabilities, so why would I swap Skrtel with his faults for a player who has the same faults?

Coates is better too and has much better potential.

We DO need a centre back because Skrtel has his faults and Carra is almost retired so we need another centre back. Just that I want someone a lot better than Coloccini because he's as good as Skrtel and Skrtel is not good enough.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

Coloccini was yet again fantastic today. Solid as a rock and Newcastle keep another clean sheet, and Number 1 for least number goals conceded in the Premier League along with Manchester United and Manchester City.

Coloccini is WORLD CLASS!

Every tackle, interception, block, clearance seemed to be made by Coloccini today. Absolutely IMMENSE today. He should be man of the match, but that will go to Cabaye for scoring the only goal of the game, and a beauty of a goal it was too.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

'Captain Colo' leads Newcastle's revivall

Once a figure of ridicule, Fabricio Coloccini is enjoying the last laugh for the unbeaten Magpies

By Simon Turnbull

Saturday, 22 October 2011

Fabricio Coloccini has come of age as a player with Newcastle sitting pretty in fourth

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Fabricio Coloccini has come of age as a player with Newcastle sitting pretty in fourth

With his Harpo Marx mop of curls, Fabricio Coloccini has been the distinctive stand-out performer for the Premier League's surprise package team this season, pulling the strings at the back for the unbeaten Newcastle United.

"He's been outstanding, definitely our best player up to now," Alan Pardew, manager of the fourth-perched Magpies, said of his Argentine captain as he prepared for today's visit of Wigan. "He's a Rolls- Royce player and a Rolls-Royce person too."

The man from Cordoba has not always been a cut above the rest. Asked if he had ever been tempted to have his trademark locks shorn, Coloccini chuckled and recalled: "I had it short for a brief period in 2000 when I was in Milan. I like to have it long but the older players would often say to me, 'Come on. Cut your hair, cut your hair.'

"Paolo Maldini and Alessandro Costacurta put me into a chair and cut it for me – straight off .They didn't use clippers or a razor, just scissors. I don't think any of my current team-mates would do the same to me now."

That drastic Costacurta-cutting exercise apart, Coloccini failed to make an impression in the five years he spent at San Siro. Signed from Boca Juniors in 1999, he made just one appearance in Serie A, under Carlo Ancelotti in 2004. He spent most of his time out on loan in Spain – with Alaves, Atletico Madrid and Villarreal – before being offloaded to Deportivo la Coruna in January 2005.

By then Coloccini had achieved what Brendan Foster and Steve Cram, two of Tyneside's all-time sporting greats, never quite managed to accomplish. In August 2004 he won an Olympic gold medal, playing alongside Gabriel Heinze at the centre of an Argentina defence that went through the tournament without conceding a goal.

In the final, against Paraguay in the Olympic Stadium in Athens – on the same day that Kelly Holmes completed her 1500m-800m double and that Mark Lewis-Francis anchored the British 4 x 100m relay team to victory ahead of the United States – it was Coloccini who launched the move that yielded the game's only goal. His surging run out of defence paved the way for a decisive finish by a 20-year-old Boca starlet who was being hailed as "the next Maradona" – one Carlos Tevez.

Seven years on from that golden moment, Argentina's first Olympic success in any sport since 1952, Maradona's successor appears to be going the same way as the original: at odds with the world and his employers. At 29, meanwhile, the singular Coloccini is being talked about on Tyneside as Newcastle's most accomplished central defender in living memory – the best, certainly, since Bobby Moncur, the captain-cum-sweeper in Newcastle's last trophy-winning side, the European Fairs Cup team of 1969.

"I can't talk about past players here, because I haven't had any contact with them, but he's the best centre-half I've worked with," Pardew said. "He's probably unfortunate he isn't getting selected for the national team."

The maturing of Coloccini has reflected the recent transformation at St James' Park. Signed from Deportivo for £10.3m by Kevin Keegan in 2008, he was once a figure of some ridicule at the heart of a slapstick Newcastle defence: in December 2008, for instance, when Liverpool won 5-1 at St James' under Joe Kinnear's watch, and in April 2009 when Chelsea won 2-0 there in Alan Shearer's first game as manager.

"When I came here I didn't know what English football was like," Coloccini said, reflecting on the tougher times on Tyneside. "Every player who comes to England maybe needs six months to a year to get to know the league. The first year I had a few problems because Spanish football is so different.

"The year we had in the Championship was a good experience for me. It was good to get some confidence, not only for me but most of the lads. Now it is the best time I've had here. We have made a good start."

So how good might Newcastle's season become? "It's like building a house," Coloccini said. "First you have to put the foundations in place. First we have to get to 43-44 points. When we've done that we can start thinking about other things."

Such is the feel-good factor on Tyneside, though, that even the pragmatic Pardew has started to talk about the "T" word being a mid-term goal. "If you are asking me what do I want in the next two years, I would like us to win a trophy," he said, speaking on BBC Radio Newcastle's nightly phone-in show, Total Sport. "That's something that needs to be ticked here."

One other thing that needs to be ticked is a new contract for "Captain Colo." It could be the most vital signing yet for Pardew and the new Newcastle.

 

[RedMadridista]

probably just rumor mongering, but that said, Liverpool can F!_!CK right OFF!
Liverpool owners may as well sell Liverpool and take over Newcastle at this rate.

http://www.sportsvibe.co.uk/news/fo...re-to-swoop-for-12m-newcastle-defender-11845/

Liverpool Prepare to Swoop for £12m Newcastle Defender
Posted on 22 October 2011
Picture 186
Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish is set to step up his pursuit of a new defender and is preparing a move for Newcastle United centre back Fabricio Coloccini, according to reports on Caughtoffside.com.


Since taking charge back at Liverpool last season Dalglish has already raided Newscatle for striker Andy Carroll and Jose Enrique.

The 29-year-old, Argentina international has been one of Newcastle's stand out players so far this season as the side are currently fourth in the table and still unbeaten having only conceded six goals in the opening eight games.

It now seems that the Kop boss is going to target the Magpies again when the transfer window opens in January by making an approach for Coloccini who is valued at £12million.

As well as losing Carroll and Enrique, Newcaslte lost other big name players during the course of the summer including Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan, and manager Alan Pardew will not want to lose another one of his prized assets.

I didn't know he was 29... What a crap player. Is he even a regular for Argentina? If not...... it's LOL worthy.

 

[RedMadridista]

Coloccini was yet again fantastic today. Solid as a rock and Newcastle keep another clean sheet, and Number 1 for least number goals conceded in the Premier League along with Manchester United and Manchester City.

Coloccini is WORLD CLASS!

Every tackle, interception, block, clearance seemed to be made by Coloccini today. Absolutely IMMENSE today. He should be man of the match, but that will go to Cabaye for scoring the only goal of the game, and a beauty of a goal it was too.

He's world class like Barton is.... Dream on.

 

[RedMadridista]

Collocini is a class defender and seems to have reached his promise that people once had for him.

I'd certainly have him over Carragher, Skrtel and Coates. I'll give you Carragher because of what he means for Liverpool fans but the other two. Not a chance.

I don't like Coates but he's better than this chimp (FC). FC is so overrated.

that is all.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

I don't like Coates but he's better than this chimp (FC). FC is so overrated.

that is all.

aye just like you said about Jose Enrique. we all know to trust your views on players at 'smaller' clubs.

Best defence in the league along with Man U and Man C. it's FACT! Coloccini has been a MASSIVE REASON WHY!

You can continue drinking your hater-ade though. It will only serve to make you look even more foolish when everyone else (football public in general and pundits) wake up to the fact that Coloccini is a World Class Center Back and has been fantastic for the last 2 and a half years.

 

[Hatem Ben Arfa]

I didn't know he was 29... What a crap player. Is he even a regular for Argentina? If not...... it's LOL worthy.

32 appearances for Argentina.

Hasn't played for them since friendly match against Spain before the 2010 WC. Should have been in that WC squad ahead of Otamendi though. Newcastle's relegation, league position last season has clearly harmed his International chances recently. However if we continue to reamin in 4th place, then a recall to Argentina National team cannot be far away.

Argentina MUST play him at Center Back though, not at Right Back where he has played the vast majority of his Argentina games.

We are unbeaten after 9 Premier League games, have 4 clean sheets and only conceded 6 goals, and we are in 4th Place. Perhaps Sabella will take a closer look at Coloccini when he sees Newcastle United in the table next to Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea etc. Unfortunately that is the only way you get noticed or due recognition of your talents these days, if you play for a top 4 club.