Heinze Steps Out of the Shadows
By Tim Vickery
＠來源︰http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3757317.stm
Manchester United's new signing Gabriel Heinze is one of a small
but growing breed in Argentine football.
There are those players who have broken into the international squad
despite hardly being known by their own home public.
It is a consequence both of the explosion of the global transfer market
in the second half of the 1990s, and of Argentina's economic crisis,
which made it attractive for players to leave at an ever earlier age.
It meant that before the recent World Cup qualifier at home to Ecuador,
Heinze's fifth cap and his first start in a competitive international,
the Argentine press had to introduce the defender to their readers.
"I left Argentina after just eight games with Newells Old Boys,"
said Heinze at the time,
"and I went to to Valladolid, a small club in Spain."
"So those who say I am an unknown in Argentina are quite right.
But now I feel that the gamble I took is paying off, and I'm proud of
what is happening with my career."
He has been highly praised for an excellent season with Paris Saint Germain.
"For me he's the best defender in France,"
says Fernando D'Amico, an Argentine who plays for Le Mans.
"He's a typical European style defender. He's a tough marker, he's quick,
is a good striker of the ball and heads well in both penalty areas."
"A defect? When he plays at full-back he doesn't get up and down the pitch."
In the event, Heinze had some problems with the pace and power of Ecuador
striker Carlos Tenorio.
But the Argentine press concluded that he had stood up well against a difficult
opponent, and he is likely to retain his place for the trip to Brazil early
next month.
The game, in Belo Horizonte, will provide an atmosphere that he doesn't see
too often in the French football.
"It is an important league,"
he says,
"but the only really hot games are those against Olympique Marseille."
If his move to Old Trafford goes through that is not a complaint
he is likely to be making next season.
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