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Morientes eventually fell down the pecking order of strikers to Guti and Javier Portillo and, during a February 2003 home win against Borussia Dortmund – 2 – 1 in the Champions League second group stage – was involved in a highly publicised spat with club manager Vicente del Bosque, with the player allegedly insulting the coach after being called to enter the pitch as a third replacement in the dying minutes.
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During the knock-out round match against South Korea, Morientes scored a goal in extra-time that was disallowed, although replays suggested the goal was legitimate ; Spain eventually lost the match on penalties.
Morientes and fell
The former were reportedly on the verge of signing Morientes for around € 22 million, but the move fell through due to Barça's reluctance to match Morientes ' wage demands.
Morientes and Javier
In the 2007 – 08 season, Morientes and Villa were joined in the strike force by Nikola Žigić and Javier Arizmendi.
Morientes and during
Morientes also played for the nation during the 2006 World Cup qualifiers ; however, due to his poor club form for Liverpool, he was not chosen by national team coach Luis Aragonés in the final squad for the tournament, although he was part of a 31-man initial squad.
Morientes and February
Morientes made his debut for the club against rivals Manchester United and scored his first Liverpool goal on 1 February 2005 against Charlton Athletic.
Morientes and 2003
At the start of 2003 – 04, it was evident Morientes was not part of Madrid's plans ; after extensive but ultimately unsuccessful negotiations regarding a loan deal with Germany's FC Schalke 04, he was loaned to French league side AS Monaco FC, where he performed very well, scoring 10 goals in 28 appearances in the league.
In the summer of 2003, feeling that his position at the club was insecure after the shock sacking of del Bosque and the arrival of David Beckham, and encouraged by teammates Zidane, Raúl, McManaman and Fernando Morientes, Makélelé decided to ask for an improved contract.
Morientes and win
Real would go on to win the league and Morientes earned his second league medal, making a total of 15 appearances ( with three starts ) and scoring five goals.
McManaman made his debut for Madrid on 22 August 1999 in the 2 – 1 La Liga win over RCD Mallorca at the Son Moix stadium, Mallorca, where he assisted Fernando Morientes in scoring the injury time winner.
Morientes and against
Having begun the following campaign as an unused substitute in Valencia's first league game, and only coming on as a substitute in the second, Morientes was handed his first start in a UEFA Cup match against C. S.
Morientes was a reliable performer for his national team since 1998 ; he scored a brace in the first five minutes of his debut against Sweden on 25 March, adding a further two in each of his next two games, against Northern Ireland and Bulgaria respectively.
In his second match, the quarter-finals against South Korea, he was involved in a couple of debatable decisions, including one incident where the linesman raised his flag for a goal kick as Joaquín was crossing a ball to Fernando Morientes, who was denied a golden goal.
He would, however, spend the 2005 – 06 season with the club's reserves, managing one appearance for the first team, as a substitute for striker and fellow Spaniard Fernando Morientes in the first leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League against PFC CSKA Sofia.
In the latter, after replacing Fernando Morientes in a 0 – 0 draw against Paraguay as Spain exited in the group stage, he retired from the international scene.
Morientes and –
In the 1998 – 99 season, Morientes performed very well, scoring 19 goals in the league and 25 in 38 appearances overall.
In the second leg, Morientes scored again as Monaco won 3 – 1, taking the aggregate score to 5 – 5 ( away goals rule triumph ).
After returning to Real Madrid at the start of the 2004 – 05 season, Morientes ' hopes of forcing his way into the Real squad were further dampened with the arrival of Michael Owen from Liverpool.
At the end of the 2005 – 06 season, Morientes was sold to Valencia.
Morientes and 1
The team, coached by former French national team captain Didier Deschamps and featuring stalwarts such as Fernando Morientes, Ludovic Giuly, Jérôme Rothen, and Dado Pršo, finished third in Ligue 1 and enjoyed a remarkable run to the final of the UEFA Champions League, beating Real Madrid and Chelsea along the way.
Morientes and Champions
In the next season, Morientes won the first of two league titles with Real Madrid, scoring 10 goals overall which included four in eight appearances in the Champions League as Real lost in the semifinals to eventual winners FC Bayern Munich.
Another Liverpool example, this time in the UEFA Champions League, Fernando Morientes was cup-tied for their games leading up to, and including the final of the competition in 2005, in which Liverpool won.
In the campaign, in which he also captured the Champions League, he scored six goals in 28 games ; the following year he had his best individual season, netting 14 goals and playing most of the season as a striker, due to injuries to Fernando Morientes, and contributing greatly to the team's 27th league title, and subsequently another domestic Supercup.
Morientes and League
In 2003-04, along with teammates Claude Makélélé, Fernando Hierro and later Fernando Morientes, McManaman headed back to the Premier League.
Morientes and group
This was due to Morientes playing in the group stages of the competition with Real Madrid.
Morientes and was
He also played in the 1990 edition in Italy ( four matches, no goals ), and was the national side's fifth-highest all-time top scorer with 26 goals, behind David Villa, Raúl, Fernando Hierro and Fernando Morientes.
Eventually, Morientes decided to stay at Madrid, but as predicted he did not feature as much in the side after the arrival of Ronaldo, who was preferred to Morientes in the starting lineup along with Raúl.
Although Morientes came to Liverpool with a very good reputation, his transfer to Merseyside was followed by a large dip in form.
Morientes missed out on another few league games after he was hospitalised in April with abdominal pains and fever.
Following his return to form after moving to Valencia, Morientes was recalled to the national side.
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Morientes continued his scoring form, however, scoring 18 league goals in only 25 starts, with six substitute appearances.
This fueled rumours that Morientes would soon be leaving the club, with FC Barcelona and Tottenham Hotspur reportedly interested.
During his time at Real, Morientes made a total of 182 league appearances, with 112 starts and 70 games as a substitute, and scored 82 league goals.
On 27 July 2009, Morientes agreed a deal to join France's Olympique de Marseille on a free transfer, for one season, reuniting with former Monaco boss Didier Deschamps.
Morientes started his career as manager with Huracán CF, taking charge of its youth academy.
Morientes ranks fourth on the Spanish all-time topscorer's list with 27 goals in 47 appearances, behind former Real Madrid teammate Raúl, former Valencia teammate Villa, and former Madrid captain Fernando Hierro ( who took the majority of Spain's free kicks and penalties ), although his goals-to-games ratio is higher than Raúl and Hierro.
Morientes scored five goals in the two FIFA World Cups he featured in, with two goals in 1998 and three in 2002.
Despite injuries and somewhat inconsistent form, he still managed 10 goals in 24 league games, linking up well with emerging 21-year-old forward Fernando Morientes who arrived from Real Zaragoza at the beginning of the season and all but squeezed Šuker out of the squad by the end of it.
Antić then tried to get 19-year-old Fernando Morientes from Albacete, but the talented striker signed with Real Zaragoza.
Morientes and club
In the winter transfer window, despite continuous rumours of moves to Tottenham, Zaragoza, A. S. Roma, and A. C. Milan, Morientes remained at the club for the remainder of the season.
Morientes and player
Morientes ' performances for Zaragoza caught the eye of Spanish giants Real Madrid, which bought the player in the summer of 1997 for approximately € 6. 6 million.
* Fernando Morientes, Spanish football ( soccer ) player
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