Of late Helsingborg looks more like a European than a local team. Need only to be said
that during the latest Swedish League its classification worsened and ended up in a discreet
fourth position in 2006, and a frustrating eighth in 2007, the year of its Centenary. Kaiserslautern FC
We need only go back ten seasons to recall a Kaiserslautern champion of the
German Bundesliga. If we go a little further back, specifically to 1991, we shall
remember that team that nearly made impossible FC Barcelona’s first European cup.
But the new times are not being favourable to the Red Devils, who are struggling in the bottom positions of German Second Division table, after a frustrating descent in 2006.
With all, Kaiserslautern is a historical team that must get back where it deserves. For the time being, it is trying, with hard work and a young and talented side.
Rosenborg BK
Rosenborg, the Norwegian champion in 2006 and an important player this season in
Europe, is one of the leading attractions in this current edition of the Maspalomas
Tournament.
Only its defeat against German Schalke 04 (3-1) in the last fixture of the Champions League deprived the men coached by Trond Henriksen from accessing the last sixteen in the top continental competition. Despite everything, Rosenborg can boast a great performance – if proof of that were needed, it beat Valencia in their two games. Nevertheless, it has not been its best year in Norway, as is shown by a discreet fifth position.
UD Las Palmas
After a lousy start in the 2007-08 season, Unión Deportiva Las Palmas see the Maspalomas
Tournament as an opportunity to charge their batteries by playing against European rivals of
some entity.
Everything would seem to show that the Canaries club will have to suffer to stay in the second division league, so that it needs to find eleven players to act as the best medicine to offset all negative results.
Among the hopeful new players, one should single out the return
of Marcos Márquez, last season’s maximum scorer in his division, who injured himself in
October.
There is no doubt that this side has enough resources to pull them through.
