Forever Tito Vilanova at Barcelona

Your fight is our strength a legend tito vilanova.

Tito Vilanova stood in the middle of the Camp Nou pitch with a microphone in hand. Tradition dictates that the new campaign is welcomed with the Gamper Trophy and the manager always has a message to deliver. This time, in August 2012, it carried a special emotive power. "I'm so happy that you're here with us," Vilanova turned to tell the French defender Eric Abidal. "Your fight is our strength."
Vilanova had an operation to remove a cancerous tumour from a gland in his upper neck in Nov 2011 and Barcelona confirmed Tito Vilanova will require another operation. He replaced Pep Guardiola as manager in June after working alongside him for five years and has guided Barcelona to their most successful start to a league campaign.
Barcelona had announced that Vilanova was suffering from parotid gland cancer for the second time in December 2012. The Spaniard was, however, first diagnosed a year earlier on.

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Abidal had undergone a liver transplant in April of that year after suffering cancer and

Vilanova

knew something of what the Frenchman was going through: in November 2011 he had been diagnosed with cancer of the parotid gland in the throat while assistant manager to

Pep Guardiola

. The following May it was formally announced that he had fully overcome the illness and he looked forward to a future as the manager of the club. His club. Abidal was still recovering from the operation, his future uncertain.
"If you're strong and you have desire," Vilanova told Abidal in front of the fans, "we will wait for you, as long as it takes."
Abidal was given the medical all-clear and returned to the club's Sant Joan Despí training ground four months later. It was December 2012. The same day, it was announced that Vilanova had suffered a relapse of his cancer. He underwent radiotherapy and chemotherapy while still the

Barcelona manager

, eventually being forced to leave the post last summer because of his deteriorating health. On Friday, Tito Vilanova passed away. He was 45.
Flags at the administrative entrance to the Camp Nou flew at half-mast. A little further round, alongside the north end of the stadium, stands La Masía – the small Catalan-style farmhouse built in 1702 where the club's youth team players used to live. It was there that Vilanova watched out of the window as Bernd Schuster trained on the tiny pitch below and there that he met Guardiola. Vilanova had arrived aged 14 and the two men – two boys – were technically gifted midfielders who shared much. Above all, they shared a philosophy.
Vilanova played for Barcelona B but not the first team. Born in the village of Bellcaire d'Empordà with a population of little more than 500, in Catalan agricultural country, Vilanova played at Figueres, Celta de Vigo, Badajoz, Mallorca, Elche and Gramenet. He had left Barcelona in 1990, determined that he would not wait more than two years for an opportunity yet his style was always a Barça style and he returned swiftly. In 2002, he became

coach of Barcelona's

Cadete B, a team of 13-year-olds that included Gerard Piqué, Cesc Fábregas and Lionel Messi.
When Guardiola was made coach of Barcelona's B team in 2007, he immediately called his friend. Vilanova knew Catalan football like few others: he had been sporting director at Figueres and Terrasa and was coaching at Palafrugell. He was an even more determined defender of a particular footballing faith than Guardiola, telling El País: "We're different. Winning alone is not enough: we have an ideal of youth team players and attacking football, as Barcelona's culture demands. We have our faults but being cowards will never be one of them."
Together they won the Third Division league title and then they took over the first team. "Are we ready for this?" Guardiola asked Vilanova. "Well, you are," Villanova replied. They won six out of six trophies, including a unique treble, and oversaw the most successful era in the club's history.
When Guardiola won the coach's Ballon d'Or, he dedicated the award to Vilanova, delivering the most personal part of his speech in Catalan. Vilanova had by then been diagnosed with cancer but he returned to work in 18 days. "My job is my whole life," he would say. And as Guardiola's time came to an end, he had overcome the illness and was given the chance to manage alone.
In a television interview that winter, Vilanova explained how during treatment he had thought of his two children who "still need me around". His son Adrià plays for Barcelona's juvenil youth team. A few days later, on what should have been a happy day, marked by Abidal's return, the news broke. He travelled to New York for treatment, temporarily leaving the post, returning to see Barcelona win the league title with a record 100 points.
As Barcelona's form had dipped and criticism had emerged at the end of that season, when

Vilanova managed

the team from his hospital bed, even conducting some team talks by video from the US, Javier Mascherano noted: "Our manager is not in New York on holiday, you know." Somehow it never quite feels real, so the Argentinian's words hit hard. The scarf Vilanova had taken to wearing round his neck was another reminder. Then, in the summer he was forced to step down as manager on medical advice.
There were occasional updates and he would be seen sometimes watching his son but he had largely withdrawn, determined not to burden others. "It'll be fine," he would say.
On that December day when Barcelona announced Vilanova had suffered a relapse of the cancer to which he lost his life , the sporting director, Andoni Zubizarreta, was asked if Abidal and Vilanova's illnesses made Barcelona's legend even greater because they had overcame adversity. "No," Zubizarreta replied, "it makes us human."

News for Revolver Rani (Gun Queen) from Newsworls

Revolver Rani playing roll by Kangana Ranaut as the most fearless and famous actress in Bollywood of india.
by winning our hearts she goes to  a 360-degree flip changes in all the latest her films. in the movive she is  politician named Alka Singh.

Alka is  woman warrior in the Chambal of india, a land overrun by corruption and guns. Naturally, she has to speak  louder and shoot harder than the chambal boys warriors. Kangana herself  balancing madness and vulnerability. She  keeps us waching the movie,

 Revolver Rani is co-produced by Tigmanshu Dhulia and echoes his own films, like Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, in which scorpion-like characters try to out-sting each other. On Alka’s team is a selfish, philandering, greedy boy toy named Rohan, played very well by Vir Das. The performance to watch out for is Piyush Mishra as Alka’s Machiavellian uncle, a man willing to destroy her life to preserve their power. Kabir, who has also written the film, piles on the betrayals and counter-betrayals. There are goon-like politicians, sting operations, a hilariously hyperactive TV news anchor, and relentless shootouts — just in case you forget that the film was called Revolver Rani.
Some of this works and some of it doesn’t. But what keeps Revolver Rani together are the performances and the sly humour. I particularly enjoyed the two testosterone-filled duffer politicians whose only aim is to kill Alka. If you like uplifting, cheerful cinema, then this isn’t the movie for you. But if, like me, you can enjoy bad people doing bad things, then Revolver Rani will be fun.
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ARD/ZDF to block out World Cup on Hot Bird in germany

German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF will not broadcast the games of the Football World Cup 2014 on Eutelsat’s Hot Bird satellite system at 13° East due to rights restrictions.

The broadcasters’ live coverage of all 64 World Cup matches will only be transmitted on Astra (19.2° East) which has a smaller footprint than Hot Bird and acts as the main DTH platform serving domestic satellite households in Germany.

“The contractual agreement with FIFA does not enable ZDF to distribute the coverage on Eutelsat Hot Bird,” a ZDF spokesman told Broadband TV News. He added that no decision has been made yet which programmes will replace ZDF’s World Cup transmissions on the Eutelsat satellite.

A spokesperson from SWR, the ARD affiliate handling the World Cup coverage, told Broadband TV News that, according to the present state of knowledge, ARD will only distribute the World Cup matches on Astra, like it has been the case at the previous World Cup four years ago. SWR expects to make a firm statement on this matter in mid-May 2014.

The rights issue arises from Hot Bird’s large footprint through which ARD and ZDF reach, for example, expats, hotels, embassies and army troops in remote areas not served by Astra. The wide-beam transponders used by the broadcasters also cover the Middle East and Northern Africa where pay-TV broadcaster beIN Sports from the Al-Jazeera group has obtained the exclusive live broadcast rightsfrom FIFA. With the removal of their unencrypted World Cup coverage, ARD and ZDF avoid a legal dispute with the rights holder in these territories.

And BroadCast Rights from the FIFA.COM

FIFA would like to reiterate that contrary to some reports about the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ coverage in the Middle East and Northern Africa, including statements attributed to ZDF, FIFA’s broadcast partner in Germany, ZDF will not be broadcasting matches unencrypted on the Eutelsat Hot Bird satellite platform during the 2014 FIFA World Cup™. ZDF/ARD are media rights licensees for the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ for the German territory only. As such, their broadcasts will be available in the German language and restricted to Germany. beIN Sports is the exclusive Media Rights Licensee for the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Any broadcast of the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ by any FIFA Media Rights Licensee is intended for the territory or territories as listed in its agreement with FIFA. For a list of all Media Rights Licensees and their respective territories, please see the TV section on FIFA.com or use the direct link below.

Der Facebook-Auftritt von ZDF Sport erfreut sich seit einigen Tagen unerwartet großer Beliebtheit. Innerhalb von nur fünf Tagen ist die Zahl der "Likes" oder "Gefällt mir" um über 189.000 auf jetzt mehr als 270.000 angewachsen. Nicht schlecht für einen Kanal, der eigentlich nur dafür verwendet wird, um auf Übertragungen von Fußballspielen, Mediathekbeiträge und Gäste im Sportstudio hinzuweisen.

Der Grund für das plötzliche Wachstum liegt im arabischen Raum. Das wird auch schnell deutlich, wenn man die Facebook-Seitemomentan aufruft. Die Kommentare unter den Beiträgen sind für deutsche Leser nur schwer zu entziffern. Es wimmelt nur so von arabischen Schriftzeichen.

Die Autoren heißen Hassan, Mostafa, Omar und Ahmed, sie tauschen sich über Fußball und vor allem darüber aus, dass das ZDF die Spiele der Fußball-WM mit arabischem Kommentar übertragen wird. Auch im Ausland. Und das wird gefeiert. Nur leider gibt es da ein kleines Problem: Das ZDF hat gar nicht die Rechte, die Spiele im arabischen Raum zu zeigen. Doch dazu später mehr.

"WM on ZDF?" – "yes!"