{"id":319547,"date":"2011-03-18T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/18\/tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-wants-to-avoid-barcelona-in-champions-league-draw\/"},"modified":"2011-03-18T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T10:35:00","slug":"tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-wants-to-avoid-barcelona-in-champions-league-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/18\/tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-wants-to-avoid-barcelona-in-champions-league-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham&#8217;s Rafael van der Vaart wants to avoid Barcelona in Champions League draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Stefan Coerts<\/h3>\n<h4>18 Mar 2011 10:35:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"60.6598465473\">\n<div readability=\"17.0756302521\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Rafael van der Vaart celebrates his opener in Spurs' 3-1 win over Inter (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/a896653a115590_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rafael van der Vaart celebrates his opener in Spurs&#8217; 3-1 win over Inter (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"21.3856603774\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/105\/tottenham-hotspur-news\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> midfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/netherlands\/2253\/rafael-van-der-vaart\">Rafael van der Vaart<\/a> has expressed his delight at reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League, though the club&#8217;s fans were more preoccupied with enjoying the capitulation of their local rivals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The club had never even played in the Champions League before and now we&#8217;ve made it to the quarter-finals at the expense of Milan. That&#8217;s just amazing,&#8221; Van der Vaart was quoted as saying by <em>NUsport<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, it seemed as if the fans were enjoying the elimination of Arsenal even more than our own success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch international then looked ahead to today&#8217;s draw and pointed out that he&#8217;d rather steer clear of Spanish champions Barcelona.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I don&#8217;t really care who we meet in the next round as long as it&#8217;s not Barcelona. Their attacking style of play and superb combination football could be a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Van der Vaart also quickly discussed Spurs&#8217; Premier League results and expressed his frustration that the London side sit only fifth in the table at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We only have ourselves to blame,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We would have been third in the table if we had beaten Blackpool and Wolves. It was pretty frustrating that I missed those games due to injury.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/a896653a115590_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2914\/champions-league\/2011\/03\/18\/2400188\/tottenhams-rafael-van-der-vaart-wants-to-avoid-barcelona-in\" title=\"Tottenham's Rafael van der Vaart wants to avoid Barcelona in Champions League draw\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham&#8217;s Rafael van der Vaart wants to avoid Barcelona in Champions League draw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Stefan Coerts 18 Mar 2011 10:35:00 Rafael van der Vaart celebrates his opener in Spurs&#8217; 3-1 win over Inter (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Rafael van der Vaart has expressed his delight at reaching the quarter-finals of the Champions League, though the club&#8217;s fans were more preoccupied with enjoying the capitulation of their local rivals. &#8220;The club had never even played in the Champions League before and now we&#8217;ve made it to the quarter-finals at the expense of Milan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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