Bukan selalu dapat peluang berehat buat pemain Chelsea, dengan rehat seminggu lebih takde match, nie masanya untuk diorang bantai bersantai habis-habisan..Kunjungan beberapa pemain The Blues menyaksikan North America's NBA staged league basketball games di London's O2 Arena bertujuan meredakan pressure seketika sebelum match penting CL musim depan lawan Copenhagen..
Antara pemain skuad utama yang hadir adalah Didi, Luiz, Cech dan Ivanovic diikuti oleh pemain akademi iaitu Sebek, Nathaniel Chalobah, Aziz Deen-Conteh dan Patrick Van Aanholt..Perlawanan bola kerajang antara Toronto Raptors dan New Jersey Nets ini dijadualkan secara timbal balik selama dua hari ..Nets mendominasi saingan dengan kemenangan selesa 116-103 pada hari pertama dan 137-136 pada malam kedua sekaligus memastikan raptors merah terperangkap di dalam jaring The Nets!!
Antara komen pemain :
DIDI : 'It was not the first time I go to the O2 for basketball but it was the first time I have seen an NBA regular season game and you see the difference between that and a friendly game,' says Drogba. 'It was faster and more physical.'
'I was a Nets fan because I did some video and photos with them and I know a few players from there.'
Cech dan Sebek
CECH : 'There were three overtimes played and it was the longest game of basketball ever. It was a great game and I really enjoyed it,' Cech says.
'I had been to something like a pre-season game before, which is not the same, but I had never had the chance to see a real game live. I had a seat by the court as well and that is when you can really see, you are almost in touch with the game and the players and you can see the quality.
'It is always good to see different kinds of sports and I went there to see the Tennis Masters which was brilliant, and now the NBA and it is only a pity that the last time the NHL ice hockey was played there I wasn't able to go, so I hope they will play there again.'
'In the Czech Republic basketball had a dip in popularity in the 1990s,' he explains. 'In recent years it became popular again but if I had chosen something other than football it would have been ice hockey.'
Best pulak tengok pemain Chelsea keluar sama-sama kat luar, sekaligus menunjukkan keakraban diorang bukan sahaja di atas padang semata-mata..Kehadiran Luiz jugak menunjukkan tiada istilah senior dalam skuad dan pemain baru sepertinya semakin diterima di kelab baru..Di dalam ataupun luar padang, kita adalah Blues Family!!
p/s : Bersantai, santai jugak..Jumpe Copenhagen nanti jangan lupa kasi rembat cukup-cukup..
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