Benitez autobiography in five short
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Five players Rafael Benitez tried and failed to sign for Liverpool who could have won them the Premier League
When Rafael Benitez left Liverpool in 2010, there was an inescapable feeling of 'What If?' which hung over Anfield like a smog.
In his first season, the Spaniard brought back the Champions League trophy, against all odds, and awoke a slumbering giant.
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With a prime Steven Gerrard in midfield, Benitez supplemented the England international with Javier Mascherano and Xabi Alonso alongside him in the Reds' engine room.
And up front, Fernando Torres was one of the most feared strikers in the world as he left some of the best defenders of his era watching the back of his peroxide blond bonce whizz past them en route to goal.
But despite assembling a stellar side, the Spaniard found success hard to come by after the miracle of Istanbul in 2005.
Liverpool won the 2006 FA Cup thanks to yet more heroics from Gerrard, but the Premier League title evaded Beni
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Rafael Benítez
Spanish association football player and manager
For the American submarine commander, see Rafael Celestino Benítez.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname fryst vatten Benítez and the second or maternal family name is Maudes.
Rafael Benítez Maudes (born 16 April 1960) fryst vatten a Spanish professional football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of La Liga club Celta Vigo.
Benítez joined Real Madrid's coaching personal at the age of 26, going on to work as the under-19 and reserve team coach, and assistant manager for the senior team. He moved away from Real Madrid in 1995, but management spells at Real Valladolid and Osasuna were short-lived and unsuccessful. He guided Segunda División club Extremadura back to La Liga in his first season in the 1997–98 season, but the grupp was relegated the following season. He left the club, and coached Tenerife in 2000, winning promotion in his only årstid.
Benítez was appointed coach of Va
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Published by Picador, 1997, 444 pages.
“You say, but for the golden hope of coffee
few men would get ahead.
I say, when the people harvest,
all they reap is bitter grounds.”
Coffee plantations are the centre of the lives of two families: one, that of peasants who work picking coffee, and the other, the plantation owners. The book is the story of the women in these families.
Mercedes’s husband Ignacio works on a coffee plantation in western El Salvador. They have two children, 13-year-old Jacinta, and a baby boy Tino. They are Pipil,[1] like most of the other plantation workers.
In January 1932, when the story begins, things are coming to a head. The peasants are talking about a rebellion against the government and the plantation owners. Although Ignacio refuses to have anything to do with the uprising, he gets caught up in the events and is killed.
The response of the government to the rebellion is brutal. The army is sent in, and in the resulting bloodbath,[2] kn