http://jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] jenny-jenkins.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crinkly_ears2012-02-10 02:03 pm

Miscellany: Website Love, Bromantic Training Pics And Gifs, Samisut Returns & National Team Gossip!

Miscellany: Website Love, Bromantic Training Pics And Gifs & National Team Gossip!



         Full disclosure - this entire post was devised as a means to post this uniquely beautiful photograph.


The Real Madrid.com website simply adores our crinkly-eared hero! This week Mesut was featured twice in the banner article!



Website Love! Mesut & His Way-Cool Next-Door Neighbour!

Banner Headline Number One!


Mesut and Sergio's bromantic affinity for matching bathing costumes is well known! Apparently, they share another characteristic! Every goal Sergio Ramos has scored since November 2010 has been launched off the boot of Mesut Ozil from the corner flag!




Margarita Perez / Translation by Michael J. O'Donnell
Sergio Ramos' last five goals came from Ozil corner-kicks



Sergio Ramos has tallied the most goals from corner-kicks in La Liga, topping the ranking thanks to his header against Getafe last Saturday. He is the most dangerous player for defences in set pieces this season.

Ramos' last five goals came from Ozil corner-kicks. This season, both connected against Valencia at Mestalla to score the 2-0 strike in favour of the Whites; in Granada they tallied the 2-1 draw breaker; and they connected again to score the only goal against Getafe last weekend. Zaragoza and Sevilla were their victims last season.

The last time Ramos scored from something other than a headed in Ozil ball was on 20 November 2010: the 3-1 penalty against Athletic Bilbao in Week 12.





It's a good thing Sergio Ramos won't have Mesut Ozil along for the trip to the Euros - though if he wants to show off his ability by heading in an own goal during the final against Germany for kicks when Mesut works his set piece magic - you go right ahead darling!



Awwwwzil!



Website Love Redux! Mesut & The Resident Cherub!

Banner Headline Number Two!



Together they have served more assists than 18 teams in the championship

Margarita Perez / Translation by Michael J. O'Donnell

Real Madrid's 47 assists in La Liga allow them to top the ranking over Barcelona (37) and Athletic Bilbao (23). Angel di Maria and Mesut Ozil have played a key role in this, with 13 and 11 assists each, respectively. Their combined 24 assists are more than those served by 18 teams in the competition.

Di Maria tops the individual assist ranking. He has needed only 948 minutes in 14 games to serve 13 assists (one every 73 minutes), finding in Cristiano Ronaldo the perfect receiver in five of these goal passes.





Ozil is the runner-up in the ranking, having had an impressive start in 2012 with six assists in the team's last five league games. He has made 11 goal passes in 1,411 minutes of playing time, or one every 128 minutes. Karim Benzema has benefitted most from the German's passes.







Some lovely stats, I'm sure we all agree! Most especially the ones about the good start to the new year. It has not been a particularly brilliant season for Mesut yet in the league (though his Champions League and National Team form are better than ever) - compared with last year for example. He's putatively the team's play-maker but shares minutes with others, is routinely played on the right as some sort of make-shift winger (most recently against Barcelona - where he did rather well out of position), and struggled through a dip in form with what seemed like precious little support from anyone and some rather unhelpful public comments from the coaching staff.

At any rate - well done Mesut & Cherub!




Training Pictures Of The Last Three Days!

Samisut Returns & Random Croezil!



Wait! Who is that Mesut is chatting with?



What is this wetness on my cheek?




For heaven's sake Fabio - don't even try to get between them!


Though flirting with a trio of Portuguese pranksters
is something Mesut doesn't mind at all!


I promised you some random Croezil! It lives! It lives!


But there's nothing like a little Samisut!    *sniffle*


National Team Gossip

It's nothing drastic, but the new training kits are out! And they are back to being green - which, I am happy to assure younger Mannschaft fans, is a very lucky colour for Germany! I distinctly remember us tossing the English out on penalties in '90 wearing green and my mother remembers a very happy 1972 for similar reasons!

So - I've arranged the photographs in order as a visual aid - just imagine Mesut's lean gorgeous body, snuzzlable tummy and gorgeously shapely legs stuffed inside these photographs and you should be set!










And to help you along - we have dearest friend on the National team Lukas Podolski - wearing a typically tight jersey as is his wont!







And Finally - Those Idiots At Sanitas...

...Presented Mesut With His New Health-Card!




Mesut was his usual charming self - with a bright smile and a head of hair that...suggests things to me. Should he comb it next time after falling out of bed in the morning? Perhaps not!




And that, my darlings, is all the Mesuty news that is fit to print!

Next game is on Sunday night against Levante (who are still in the Champions League spots in 4th place and who beat Madrid in the first half of the season) at 21:30 local time. Good luck Mesut, good luck boys!

Love to [livejournal.com profile] andriy_7 as always, for giving us enough material to start off our weekends with a surfeit of Mesutyness!
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[identity profile] lovinthelads.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a long day and I do love some Mesuty news

*happy sigh*

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[identity profile] darkensunrise.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhhh crozil!!!! :D
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[identity profile] suzanne410.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
That first picture caught my eye earlier today... It's really quite special!

And thanks for the permission to so strategically imagine him in the new kit. ;) I'm not accustomed to the green, being such a huge fan of the black. But hey, if it's a historically lucky color, I'll grow to love it! And I always thought he looked good in his green Werder Bremen jersey so I don't doubt he'll look just as lovely in this.

[identity profile] openmoments.livejournal.com 2012-02-10 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Awwww. That third picture of Sergio and Mesut. Excuse me while I need a moment. :)

AND SAMI'S BACK! :DDDDD I was excited when I saw that on my twitter feed earlier. Oh Fabio and his jealousy. Everyone wants a little Mesut love. HOWEVER: CROZIL MOMENTS FTW. Never enough. Never.

That shade of green is probably my favourite. Reminds me of those green apple flavoured candies, which are definitely my favourite and now I want team pictures of them ~modeling them. Hopefully my wish will be granted soon. ;)

[identity profile] openmoments.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Well, red, scientifically, is said to raise emotion, and not particularly good ones. So that makes a lot of sense. (Then again, RM's third are red this year, SO! XD)

Not only that, but green is generally a good colour for the majority of people to wear. And this shade reminds me of spring and, like I said, apple candies. SO IT WINS ALL AROUND! :)

Speaking of German football, I should really start watching the Bundesliga at some point. I've just had confirmation that I'm going to Germany next year for a year and it'd be nice to know a bit about the league of the country I'm going to!

[identity profile] openmoments.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. I'll definitely have to start watching. It would be nice if I didn't just jump in while I'm there without knowing anything. Besides, I've been wanting a second club to cheer on, and this will be the perfect reason to 'find' another one. :)

[identity profile] lunarlunatik.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
Here for the Crozil, tbh. lololol.
It doesn't merely live, u know? They get up to quite a lot off camera, of course.......in my imagination anyway....kthxbi! ;-)

[identity profile] die4shin-sin.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the healthy portion of SerZil here! Guh! *surrounded by plot bunnies*
Oh seeing Croezil also made my day. In fact, seeing that everyone loves Mesut is always pleasant. So, very pleasant.

I was about to make another post a few days ago, but it's not Mesut-centric, but please allow me to share this delightful news to you that finally us, Indonesian Madridistas, will be blessed by their presence this year. They're going to open some football institutions here (10 schools if I'm not wrong), I have no idea whether there'll be a match or not. I'd be frenzied if there will be. *crossing fingers*

[identity profile] die4shin-sin.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Always logging into LJ just to check this community and its Mesuty-ness seems to erase the existence of that community from my memory. (Bad, bad Madridista!)
Will do! :D

[identity profile] spainawards2008.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
The way he's looking at Ronaldo in that pic. So pretty, so sweet.
Something adorable about him getting pushed too. He seems so small and light compared to the others.

Floppy, messy hair and snuzzlable tummies and that little smile of his <3

[identity profile] spainawards2008.livejournal.com 2012-02-11 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I do study it in detail.