TRANSFERS 2011: RADAMEL FALCAO, sighting Summit

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 ORIGINAL SPANISH ARTICLE

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When early summer Kun specified that Calderón wanted to leave, knowing the fans would also be the last summer in Madrid Forlan, many doubts arose about the capacity that could be Atletico rebuild a similar front quality that he had given titles despite the low level of team play. Given the difficult position that arose leaders Atletico, they chose the only way to failure: it received full Dedicate a star to bring the best striker in Madrid that was not available in a larger Europe.

In other seasons, the choice would have been difficult and risky, but as luck would have the best team of all medium-sized European leagues, was that for many was the consecration of the year in the Old Continent, a full front in the best moment of his career.

FEATURES OF HIS GAME

Medium-height  (1.77) has a harmonious and balanced physique that allows you to record the same thing when facing in the struggle with the mills.

Technically, we have a new classic of the modern football that are increasingly more difficult to accommodate with a great capacity to define one-touch, especially head.

'The fact that his best season the team has given a tactically worked as the Port of Villas Boas tells us much about their ability to understand the game. Not only has a great first touch when finish, but Tami has it in the area to return the ball

Psycho-we are dealing with a mature player in the middle of his career, with the experience of having played in several different championships.

STATISTICAL LIST: adaptability to the most demanding

Despite being a Colombian, has not played professionally in his country, because it was River Scout when he still had 15 years and was one of the computers in the network of home-grown from Millonarios of Bogota. He left the richest team from Colombia to Argentina.

In its first two years, played 11 times, scoring 7 goals, all in the league in Argentina.

In the following three became part of the usual starting lineups when he had overcome his cruciate ligament injury, to end up being undisputed, scoring 34 goals in 90 national championship games and 15 goals in 20 matches in South American Championships .

And here's a first point to note: Contrary to what usually happens in young players, their averages were higher scorers in international tournament in the national championship. When he played in his usual championship, where River is one of the strongest teams, their average goals per game was 0.38, but liberators, where one has to face several Brazilian teams who are usually more powerful supromedio amounted to 0.75.

Everything indicated that the Colombian striker was on the climb the learning curve, just the time when Porto usually brings his signings to Europe. Reach a highly demanding team and a new and very different country usually open a parenthesis in the evolution of a player, but this was not the case Falcao, who in his first season in Portugal became the top scorer of his team with 25 goals in 26 ownerships and 2 substitutions. Despite the increase in their average habñia requirement raised to 0.94. In Champions League, where he played in Porto outclassed, he scored 4 goals in 7 entitlements and 1 substitution, ie an average of 0.55 in his first appearance in the top international club competition, 40% of the goals of team. The leap from South American Championships Europeans had only resulted in a decrease of 0.20 goals per game, insignificant in a young player.

The following year he played fewer games in the Portuguese Superliga, yet they maintained an average of 0.73 goals per game, but instead scored 17 goals in 14 Champions League matches. So the overall average of goals in the season was 0.92, while that of the previous year had been 0.86

But there's more: In his two years at Porto, the league average was 0.85, while the average in European competitions was 0.99.

 

In this table we have summarized and grouped its major periods as both Contient competitions. The data do not shed any doubt in your progression, Falcao has always been given the greater is the demand.

One last note statistic. Although age is already a fairly veteran player, total games played in Europe is only about 70. Since it is still less than 27-28 years (the age at which occurs the tip of improved physical performance), and seen its long history of adaptability, it is likely that the dispute over party could raise your athletic performance. In this table we have collected to other South American strikers of recent times, and have calculated their scoring average in a similar time of relative experience in Europe. For the purposes of comparability with strikers of the past, we have counted the apparitions.

As we can see the cracks than Brazilians left the Eredivisie (and which we have accounted for most games), Falcao averages are equal to any South American striker has triumphed in Europe.

FORECAST

Getting a team like Atletico in a situation like this and in a league where the two giants are far behind the other teams, is a totally new challenge for Radamel. However if we are guided by its figures scorer in Champions, where Porto was not even among the 5-6 best in a competition of 32, and given its proven ability to adapt to more demanding championships, there is no reason to believe can not reach similar averages in the League: to achieve this, we are talking about 19-20 goals in his first season.