EX-spiller: Rui Margues

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http://media.putfile.com/rui-interview

[Erik_]

Kan han snakke???

Forøvrig er dette min favorittspiller i dagens Leeds lag, særlig etter dette intervjuet. En mer sympatisk mann har vi ikke hatt i klubben siden Radebe var her. I tillegg er han meget god.

[Lars E]

Heia Rui! Liker han bare bedre og bedre

Forever Leeds

[Per-Stian]

Går ikkje an å mislike ein slik sympatisk og ikkje minst tolmodig spelar. Glad skadar og diverse andre forhold gav afrikanaren sjansen på laget. Syns han har utvikla seg til ein viktig spelar på laget, og parallellane med Radebe er like på fleire område.

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Preview: Marques aiming high for Leeds against Swansea
Leeds v Swansea preview

LEEDS United defender Rui Marques could be destined for the African Nations Cup after reviving his Elland Road career under the guidance of manager Dennis Wise.
The news will be a blow to Leeds who may be without the Angolan international for five games in the New Year but Wise is delighted that the 30-year-old is finally proving his doubters wrong.
Marques, cast into the wilderness by former manager Kevin Blackwell, signed a new deal in the summer and is currently playing a key role in the club's 100 per cent start to the season.
Speaking ahead of Saturday's home game with Swansea City, Wise said: "When we got to the football club, everyone was saying Rui was going.
"He had not been treated nicely and he was gone mentally - but we had a chat about his situation and I told him he had a chance."
The former Stuttgart centreback got back into the Leeds side last season and his partnership with Matt Heath is now blocking a path to the first team for Paul Huntington who joined the club from Newcastle United last month.
Wise said: "Rui was fed up, he was a foreign player who had been totally neglected, kicked and kicked. None of the players looked after him, he had just been left. He was a foreigner and they said 'sod him, get on with it.'
"But he has reacted to his opportunity and done great. He is not a ball-player, he is a defender, he knows to stick his body in front of things. He reads the game well and he is quick."
Wise also revealed that Marques was going out of his way to help the club's latest foreign import, Portuguese winger Filipe Da Costa, whose debut has been held up by a delay in receiving international clearance.
"Rui has been in a sutuation of not being wanted and not being helped. Now he knows how people felt and isn't letting that happen to Filipe," said Wise.
As previously reported, Leeds can equal a club record best start to a season if they record a seventh consecutive victory on Saturday.
The previous record was set by Don Revie's side at the start of the 1973-74 Championship winning campaign.
Leeds have brushed aside the 15 point penalty imposed by the Football League and climbed off the bottom of the League One table but Wise, sensibly, is keen to avoid comparisons with great achievements of the past.
"I have not even thought about the record and, if I'm being totally honest, I'm not really bothered about it," he said. "I just want to win the game. If we do that, we will get out of the bottom four and we will catch up the next group. That would be massive psychologically and is more important than breaking a record."

YEP 21/9

[Mats-]

Fantastisk av Rui, alltid hatt sansen for han. En "ny" Radebe.

Us Against the World!

[roaldv]

quote:
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Wise said: "Rui was fed up, he was a foreign player who had been totally neglected, kicked and kicked. None of the players looked after him, he had just been left. He was a foreigner and they said 'sod him, get on with it.'
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Han er sannelig flink til å pakke inn sine uttalelser i diplomatiske vendinger, vår alles kjære Dennis[]

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Rui Marques: Leeds United's unsung hero

In a landscape dominated by merciless strikers, it may not have occurred to anyone that Leeds United's most valuable player might actually be a centre-back.
Manuel Rui Marques will know the feeling well. Few players of his era took their inspiration as youngsters from defenders, and professional clubs have always paid more readily for signings who will provide goals rather than prevent them.
Alongside League One's most effective combination of forwards, Marques can only wish for a sliver of publicity.
Dennis Wise, however, would beg to differ. United's results have relied directly on the form of Jermaine Beckford and Tresor Kandol this season but Wise's strikers, with 11 goals between them, cannot claim to have been solely influential. Their record up front is only as exceptional as that built up behind them.
Last weekend's 2-0 victory over Swansea City, Leeds' seventh league win of the season, was also their fourth successive clean sheet.
United's defence, with only three goals conceded, is the most impermeable in League One and, in a solid body of defenders, Marques has been the beating heart. He, like Beckford and Kandol, is yet to put a foot wrong this season.
At Gillingham tomorrow, Wise will insist on a fifth clean sheet as intensely as he does on another glut of goals.
If the first target is delivered, the latter is likely to follow, bringing Leeds an eighth straight victory and breaking the record for United's longest run of wins at the start of a league campaign, set in 1973.
"At the moment we're not thinking about how many," said Marques. "It's best not to, and not to make big things out of 'what if'.
"We look like a very strong side and the team is improving.
"The last game was a really good one for us. I believe we have a very good chance to change things around here this season.
"There's been big change already for me because, for the first year and a half I was here, I didn't play.
"When you're not playing you don't enjoy it, no matter where you are.
"I'm a professional player and football is everything I want. I want to play and be part of the team, and that time for me was really hard.
"But this is a totally different situation. We've started again this season."
It is, 10 months after Marques' league debut on January 1, impossible to think of the Angolan international in terms of excess baggage.
Marques was a signing of Kevin Blackwell's, but never found a niche under United's former manager.
He played as many games during a month-long loan at Hull City as he did during a season with Blackwell, and it was only the lack of a serious offer from elsewhere which stopped him from leaving Elland Road last year.
When Wise became manager in October of 2006, he was under the assumption that Marques' contract would be swiftly terminated, but by January 1 he was promoting the defender to a starting place for United's 2-1 victory over Coventry City at Elland Road.
"It was mad about Rui," said Wise.
"When we got to this club I asked what the situation was because I understood that he was going.
"But we had a chat and I said I'd give him a chance. If he wanted to go, he could go, but if he wanted a chance then he could have one.
"We knew nothing about Rui, and he just got on with things. He'd been brought in and not treated very nicely. He was mentally gone â€" fed up.
"He was a foreigner and the attitude seemed to be 'sod him, get on with it'. It seemed like everything was kicked out of him.
"When he was training we were getting nothing from him so we gave him an opportunity. He reacted to that, and ever since he's been great."
Marques said: "Inside of me I had the feeling that I could be part of the team, but unfortunately the gaffer (Blackwell) didn't think the same way.
"I couldn't do anything but I don't think I have anything to prove to him.
"Of course I was disappointed with the situation.
"You look for a reason and sometimes you don't find it. If I was a young player without a history or a past then maybe I'd have this feeling that I had to prove he was wrong. But I haven't done anything now that I haven't done before.
"It was just a question of having the opportunity in the right place.
"Every time I was sent to the reserves I was really disappointed. At first I thought it was a question of learning the game, but it's not really about that. It's the fact that people don't want you in the first team.
"I never had the chance to play, and if the team are doing well then you can accept it.
"But I felt that if I had my chance then maybe I could show the manager that I'm a good player and that I can help the team.
"I would have liked to have moved at that time but nobody knows me in England and I was a new player here.
"I had one or two opportunities to move, but they weren't teams I wanted to join. I've got a very good opportunity here."
There is already a suggestion that Marques' form may earn him a place in Angola's squad for the African Cup of Nations in January, a call-up which would recognise his form but deny Wise and Leeds his services for up to five weeks.
Marques has been ever-present during United's seven league matches this season and will be one of Wise's most straightforward selections at Priestfield tomorrow.
Gillingham have scored only four league goals, and while Alan Thompson's return may present a dilemma in midfield, Wise's defence is picking itself.
Marques insisted he had received no contact from Angola regarding the African Cup of Nations, and said: "I know Angola qualified, but nobody has talked to me about it.
"I've got a job to do in Leeds. If the opportunity comes then obviously you like to represent your country, but it's just speculation. I don't think about it."

YEP 28/9

[peacock]

"Fantastisk av Rui, alltid hatt sansen for han. En "ny" Radebe."

Blasfemi!

[SirOlsen]

Herlig mann!

Vi trenger en slik person i Leeds nå. Det ble et vakum etter Radebe..
Det jeg ikke fatter og begriper er at mannen ikke har fått særlig sjangs før nå.. den mannen må jo være fullpakket med lojalitet og er et slikt ikon vi har drømt om etter Radebe la opp. I allefall jeg..

Håper han blir i Leeds leeeeeenge og yter godt!

[Per-Stian]

quote:Originally posted by peacock

"Fantastisk av Rui, alltid hatt sansen for han. En "ny" Radebe."

Blasfemi!

Det er ikkje samanlikninga med Radebe som skurrar mest for meg, men heller bruken av ordet ALLTID. Er vel heller få som tykte at Marques var ein stor spelar når han sleit på reservelaget i fleire sesongar utan å få ein einaste positiv omtale verken frå trenarar, lagkameratar eller media. [8D]

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Rui har vel hatt et bra år i Leeds. Det er belønnet med en plass i troppen til Angola i treningskampen mot Togo i Lisboa i kveld!

Kampen endte med 2-0 til Angola. Jeg er ikke sikker på om Margues fikk spille.

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Rui snart til Afrikamesterskapet?

http://www.leedsunited.com/news/grayson-braced-for-defender-loss-20091217_2247585_1907795

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/leedsunited/Leeds-United-Marques-on-cup.5919984.jp

Bra for ham! 

[Bites Yer Legs]

Hvorfor Margues og ikke Marques?

[Promotion 2010]

Hvorfor Margues og ikke Marques?

Det er kjelvi, skjønner du. Han startet det hele! Ikke vi... 

[anders]

Linket til MLS klubben Toronto i dagens papirutgave av YEP. Rui er kontraktsløs til sommeren og  iflølge YEP kunne Rui tenkt seg å forlenge kontrakten, men han forventer ikke nytt tilbud fra Leeds