[專訪] Senderos gunning for Europe

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2093-1849168,00.html 好長一篇，不知道從何翻起 @@ 難道森德羅斯要出戰對斯巴達布拉格的比賽？期待 Senderos gunning for Europe Jonathan Northcroft The young Swiss has recovered after a shaky start at Highbury and plans to punish Sparta Prague on Wednesday Today being a day off, Philippe Senderos will get to work. From penalty boxes to shifting boxes; the young defender is moving from digs into the house he has just bought near Arsenal's training ground. He will miss his landlady, Noreen Davis, and fellow lodger, a certain Cesc Fabregas, but “it's time”. They grow up fast in football. Senderos has had to. Twelve months ago he was a gangly, worried-looking Swiss kid making his debut in a Carling Cup game against Manchester City, aged 19, quieter and more earnest than some of the super-confident teens alongside him in Arsenal’s colours. Now, despite being less brawny in jumper and jeans than he appears on field, Senderos seems a man. Worried-looking merely turns out to be the natural expression on his face. He returned to the Carling Cup at Sunderland on Tuesday, not as an untapped youngster but as a first-team footballer in need of 90 minutes under the belt. “The feeling at Sunderland was similar to the one I had last season,” he says. “First of all I always want to prove myself.” Senderos does not want you to mistake his gentleness for meekness. In August there was talk of him being “bullied” by Didier Drogba as Arsenal were defeated by Chelsea first in the Community Shield, then the Premier League, and while the Swiss is hardly about to hail his performances in those games, nor is he going to let them crush him. “I'm my own critic and maybe a bit too hard on myself, but I try to be honest,” he says. “They were difficult games against Chelsea but Drogba is a different player to last season.Chelsea play more for him and you can see that; last year he scored 10 goals in the League and now he’s got seven already (in the League and Community Shield). I’m not using that as an excuse but he played well. “If we had to play Chelsea tomorrow I'd be fine. I'd have full confidence as I stepped on the pitch. I've put what happened behind me. It's a game. It 's not the end of your life.” The criticism those Chelsea matches brought prompted Arsene Wenger to withdraw Senderos from his starting XI and contrasted with the joys of spring. Senderos made his international debut and heard his name chanted as Switzerland held France 0-0 in Paris. For Arsenal, he grew with every performance after coming in for the injured Sol Campbell. Throughout March and April, for club and country, Senderos did not concede a goal in a run stretching 12 matches and 1,184 playing minutes. At the end of it was a starring performance in the FA Cup final and a new long-term contract. “And don't forget I played for Switzerland in the under-20 world championships, which was big for our country,” he says. It was a puzzle to go from this to a hail of rotten tomatoes as this season started. One former Arsenal player, now a respected columnist, implied Senderos might not recover from his Drog-mauling, writing that after the second Chelsea match the defender walked off “totally shell-shocked, all colour drained from his face”. Senderos says wryly: “That's not only me, I think. When you lose a game you 're not happy and it's nothing to do with the colour of your skin. I’m a little bit pale, it's true. I don’t eat so much Vitamin C. Maybe I should get some oranges. Is that guy still writing? Tell him to eat more oranges, too. “Look, last season in certain games I received man-of-the-match awards and I didn't really think I was man of the match. I try and stay on the same level, not be euphoric and not be too much down.” If the experience has taught him anything “it's that you see how it works. The crowd, the people, the journalists … they can put you up there then in one game all you've achieved in six months, it can go to nothing. Suddenly ‘ he's not a big player’. And that's a bit sad.” With Campbell fit, Senderos has been bench-bound again but is determined to win back his place. “I want to be a regular in the team but I know it doesn’ t come overnight,” he says. “I have to work harder, be stronger and quicker. ” A number of Wenger's players are in a similar stage of development and, with Patrick Vieira gone and the influence of old pros Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires perhaps fading, Arsenal’s current inconsistency seems explicable by their callowness. Away games are a sure test of maturity and last Tuesday was only Arsenal's first domestic win outside Highbury. They have lost at Stamford Bridge, the Hawthorns and the Riverside, yet Senderos does not want allowances made. “It's probably easier for experienced players to be consistent but I don't think being young is an excuse,” he says. “ I don’ t think I or the other young players would want that. If we're in the team, we're good enough, we have to take responsibility for what happens and play the Arsenal game.” （這幾句話好！） It could be that juvenility is jolting Arsenal in the Champions League, however. They have never started a campaign so smoothly and sit in such command of Group B that beating Sparta Prague would see them progress with two games to play. Are the fresh minds and free spirits of Wenger's youngsters swatting inhibitions about Europe that afflicted more senior Arsenal teams in recent years? Senderos cannot say. Instead he suggests: “We 've been drawn against teams who play football and that's always easier for us, because we know we can always play better football than anyone else.” He doesn't necessarily agree with his manager that the Champions League is Arsenal's best route to one of the big two trophies: “We've still got a chance of the Premiership. Why not? Chelsea are winning but everyone has to have a dip. Or you lose one or two key players to injury. I'm not wishing anyone bad luck, I’m just saying it could happen and at Arsenal we must continue to fight.” （Phillipe這些話蠻平實的） Any war looks more winnable with Thierry Henry in your ranks. Henry, injured for yesterday's north London derby but poised to return against Sparta, consoled Senderos by reminding the youngster that he himself had doubts to overcome following his bleak spell at Juventus. you can see it made Thierry stronger,” says Senderos. “Now the critics don't even touch him. He's always been my hero. Even when he was at Monaco I had pictures of him on my bedroom wall. It's always easier with him on the field, even for us defenders. It is an education to face him in training. He can beat you onto long balls over the top. He can beat you one on one. He can beat you one against two!” （原來森德羅斯注意亨利這麼久了 XD ） He can also experiment. Senderos is not about to tear down his Henry posters because of one mistake. When Henry and Pires last week bamboozled Manchester City – but unfortunately also themselves – with their attempted penalty routine, which should have involved Pires passing to Henry and Henry scoring, it was a perfect example of the difference between dress rehearsal and opening night. “We'd seen them do it in training and it worked. It worked well! But in a different situation it wasn't so easy,” says Senderos. “So it didn't work this time but maybe another time, in another situation, they can try it again. It's not a crime to try something different – as long as you win the game.” There's only one Philippe Senderos. It's not yet a standard on the Arsenal terraces but it should be one day and the words are true. The defender’s background sets him apart (Serb mother, Spanish father, Geneva upbringing) as does his command of five languages and celebrated taste in highbrow books. But what’s really different, in the self-obsessed Premier League, is to meet somebody so thoughtful about others. “Paul, my landlady’s son, has just had a baby boy called Wilson,” he says. “He was born on the 22nd and I wish him luck. Please put that in,” Senderos implores. （森德羅斯很細心，還會提醒記者加句話，說他祝福房東兒子新添的小寶寶） :) His solicitousness made him ideal for baby-sitting Fabregas, who was just 16 when he arrived in England and moved in under Mrs Davis’s roof. They are best pals, Cesc and Philippe, in an older-brother/younger-brother way, and are the odd couple. Fabregas’s personality is as effervescent as his football. Senderos describes himself as “shy”. He doesn't seem it. “I am shy,” he blushes, “…with girls.” He pauses. “ I'm not shy with my girlfriend though,” and blushes – deeply – again. （害羞沒關係，場上別害羞就好 XD） “It's been great living with Cesc,” he says. “He's a great companion and he's grown up fast. Now you see him on the pitch. He's the man. He's the boss. I'm always going to be there for him, not that he'll need me because he's very independent. He's a phenomenal player. He smells football. You can see he's made of football. Maybe he's not the strongest or the quickest but in the way he makes those passes you can see he's got football in him. He makes me proud.” （原來小法布是足球做成的 XD，開玩笑的，這兩個人住在一起感情很好） Arsenal – and football – should be proud of a young man like Philippe Senderos. Arsenal v Sparta Prague Wednesday, Sky Sports Extra, 7.30pm, kick-off 7.45pm -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 80.229.140.103