Champions League final!

Yep it's time! And let's hope Manchester United will take the trophy! Even though I believe Barcelona is in a very good form I think that United, with their direct counter attack-based football, can win this game. It seems that Sir Alex Fergusson plans to start the game without Nani, a pretty weird decision but I guess he know a bit better than me :P He will start with Giggs though, which is great, one of my favourite players of all time.

Here's a very nice tactical preview for the game from the always very interesting and informative  www.zonalmarking.net  :  http://www.zonalmarking.net/2011/05/27/barcelona-v-manchester-united-tactical-preview/ 


So have fun, enjoy the game with a pizza and lots of beers and pray for Manchester United to win! :D

Panathinaikos European Champion 2011!!!

This, for the 6th time, now only Real Madrid has more European titles (8). A true European Dynasty, 6 titles in 15 years :D

Panathinaikos got the European Championship, Lakers got sweeped, Manchester United secured the Championship, what a nice day :D

NBA 2k11

So, with all these basketball action these days, between European F4 and the very interesting NBA Playoffs, I got the urge to play a basketball game, so I remembered NBA 2k11 that I haven't been playing for some months now. I also remembered how awesome this game is! I know it's been like a year after its release but I don't care :P

It's not only about the near-perfect grafics, both stadium and models, it's not only about the sound which is extremely realistic (i onced started playing while i left an NBA stream playing in the background, I couldn't figure which was the real one), it's not only about the terrific detail on every players moves and styl and also on every teams playbook that looks like the real deal, it's not only about the thrill of playing like MJ on his Challenges. What makes this game great is the gameplay (as usual) how realistically it plays! It's how polished it is in every aspect (ok, some bugs as usual, but less than previous games on the series). It's the depth it has especially on Association mode, but also the fun you have on My Player, how clever it's structured. Probably one of the best sports games I've ever played (given I'm European and I play only Football and Basketball games :P ) Damn I love this game!

Great great great, I hope Konami could make PES that polished with a single player mode as deep as the Association, oh well, I can only hope.


9/10

European Final 4

The time has come! Good luck to Panathinaikos and let's hope by Sunday we'll have that 6th star pinned above our emblem!

 UPDATE: We're in the final! After the win against Siena (77-69) and Maccabi's win against Real Madrid (82-63) we will fight for the sixth star against the Israeli team on Sunday!

Nik Calathes, I love you!!!