REDS REVEAL TWO NEW BACKROOM BOYS

[Spudgun]

From the offal

Liverpool have today announced two new additions to their backroom team at Melwood.
Eduardo Parra Garcia will join the technical staff as Fitness Coach with specific emphasis on rehabilitation work after deciding to leave his position with Celta Vigo to take up the offer of a new challenge at Anfield.

"It's a dream come true for me to come and work with Rafa Benitez and the backroom staff at Liverpool FC," he said.

"I know all about Liverpool, the history, the passion of its amazing fans and of course the quality of its great players. I am really excited about working here."

Joining Eduardo as a new face at the club for the coming campaign will be Ivan Ortega, who will take up a position within the medical team as a Sports Therapist.

Ivan's previous position was also with Celta Vigo, where he was responsible for physiotherapy at first team level for the past two seasons.

"I am thrilled to have been offered the opportunity to work in such a fantastic Club. Everyone knows Liverpool in Spain and around the world," he said.

"Although it's a new country and a new environment for me, I can't wait to get started."

 

[King Binny]

Meanwhile, Fernando Torres wants Liverpool sports therapist Ivan Ortega to join Chelsea's medical team. Ortega is close friends with Torres.

The former Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, meanwhile, wants the club's sports therapist, Ivan Ortega, to join him at Chelsea. Ortega moved to Liverpool from Celta Vigo in 2009 and worked closely with Torres during the Spaniard's final injury-plagued seasons at Anfield. It is understood the striker has asked Chelsea to offer a position to Ortega as he looks to rediscover the form and fitness that has eluded him since his £50m transfer to Stamford Bridge in January.

 

[Modo]

[quote author=Binny link=topic=34502.msg1336407#msg1336407 date=1305900413]

Meanwhile, Fernando Torres wants Liverpool sports therapist Ivan Ortega to join Chelsea's medical team. Ortega is close friends with Torres.

The former Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, meanwhile, wants the club's sports therapist, Ivan Ortega, to join him at Chelsea. Ortega moved to Liverpool from Celta Vigo in 2009 and worked closely with Torres during the Spaniard's final injury-plagued seasons at Anfield. It is understood the striker has asked Chelsea to offer a position to Ortega as he looks to rediscover the form and fitness that has eluded him since his £50m transfer to Stamford Bridge in January.

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Fuck off.

 

[737Max]

My sentiments exactly el cunto can fuck right off.

 

[Modo]

[quote author=737Max link=topic=34502.msg1336448#msg1336448 date=1305905026]
My sentiments exactly el cunto can fuck right off.
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Doesn't this just add to the rumours that Torres is fucked injury-wise.

 

[RolandG]

We sold El Cunto at the right time. His debut season won't be matched again. Past his peak but a useful player if fit and his head is in the game.

 

[Richey]

If he worked with Torres during his last 2 seasons it doesn't suggest he's that great you know

 

[Vlads Quiff]

[quote author=Richey link=topic=34502.msg1336454#msg1336454 date=1305906454]
If he worked with Torres during his last 2 seasons it doesn't suggest he's that great you know
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Which is a very good point

regards

 

[Judge Jules]

I hope so. The alternative explanation would be that this guy IS decent but wasn't able to get on with the job because of dead wood above him.

 

[Athens]

Sometimes if you're crocked you're crocked, it doesn't matter how good the specialist is you still need time to heal.

 

[King Binny]

[quote author=Binny link=topic=34502.msg1336407#msg1336407 date=1305900413]

Meanwhile, Fernando Torres wants Liverpool sports therapist Ivan Ortega to join Chelsea's medical team. Ortega is close friends with Torres.

The former Liverpool striker Fernando Torres, meanwhile, wants the club's sports therapist, Ivan Ortega, to join him at Chelsea. Ortega moved to Liverpool from Celta Vigo in 2009 and worked closely with Torres during the Spaniard's final injury-plagued seasons at Anfield. It is understood the striker has asked Chelsea to offer a position to Ortega as he looks to rediscover the form and fitness that has eluded him since his £50m transfer to Stamford Bridge in January.

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Gone.

Chelsea have made Ivan Ortega, a fitness coach who previously worked with Fernando Torres at Liverpool, the latest addition to Andre Villas-Boas’s new backroom team.

Ortega helped Torres recover from his knee injury before last summer’s World Cup and will take on a role in the fitness and rehabilitation unit at Chelsea to work with the entire squad.

Villas-Boas and Chelsea are still finalising the make-up of the club’s football operation, with Michael Emenalo in contention for the influential role of technical director or director of football.

Roberto di Matteo was appointed as the assistant first-team coach last week, a title that Emenalo had under former manager Carlo Ancelotti.

Emenalo was conspicuous by his absence last Wednesday as Villas-Boas posed for photographs with his new backroom coaching staff.

 

[Hansern]

I wouldnt have put getting Torres fit for the WC on my cv..

 

[Modo]

[quote author=Hansern link=topic=34502.msg1359166#msg1359166 date=1309720507]
I wouldnt have put getting Torres fit for the WC on my cv..
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ha!

 

[King Binny]

Chelsea yesterday confirmed they have appointed the former Liverpool sports therapist Ivan Ortega to work with players' fitness and rehabilitation from injury. Ortega is understood to be close to Chelsea's £50m striker Fernando Torres but Chelsea insist he will be working with the entire first team squad and not just the struggling striker.

We've made a new appointment it seems.

Coventry City are to bring in a new fitness coach following the departure of Andy O'Boyle to Liverpool.

The Northern Irishman had been at the club for three years after joining from Wrexham.

A piece from his column dated 2009.

* I CAME over to England from Northern Ireland after my A-levels and went to Liverpool University and then got a football scholarship to Rhode Island in the United States, which was meant to be for four years but I stayed for a year.

The thing that impressed me out there was the strength conditioning and what was happening in the gym.

I came back and was doing my coaching and sports science when I started working with the younger players at Wrexham.

I was offered a job at Manchester United’s academy working with nine and ten-year-olds but then started looking after the first team at Wrexham, which I did for a couple of years before coming to Coventry at the start of the season.

I grew up near Ballymena, one of five children. I have a brother who is a vet in America, one who is training to be a policeman in Canada, a sister who is a dentist and another brother who lives at home on my parents’ farm.

I go back home for a few days in the summer and help out on the farm and switch off from football.

We have sheep, goats, turkeys and cows and when I wasn’t playing football or Gaelic football as a kid, I was helping on the farm after school.

My brother in America has two small children, one of whom I have not seen yet, while my brother in Canada became a dad last week.

I am getting married at the end of May to Rachel Williams, a doctor who has just started as a GP in Brinklow.

She is from South Wales, we met at university and are getting married at Cardiff Cathedral, then having the reception at City Hall.

I have a lot of family coming over from Ireland for it. My mum was one of 11 and my dad one of eight, so I have aunts and uncles all over!.

We are going shark diving in South Africa and on a safari for our honeymoon, then it will be back for the pre-season.

 

[King Binny]

Opps he's not a replacement for Ortega. He's joining the Academy/Reserves instead.

As for O’Boyle’s decision to leave the Ricoh Arena for Anfield three years after joining from Wrexham, Thorn revealed: “Andy came to see me in the summer and said he had had an offer to go to Liverpool, working with the youth team.

“We weren’t looking for him to go and it was solely his decision and he feels it is a better career move for him rather than staying with us at first-team level but that’s his choice.”