Aragones is wacky as usual and Ukraine receives yellow flowers of bad luck

OUTSPOKEN coach Luis Aragones caused red faces at Spain’s World Cup training camp by rejecting a welcoming bouquet of flowers he apparently saw as an insult to his virility.

Aragones, who was fined $5000 last year for racist remarks made about Arsenal’s French striker Thierry Henry, embarrassed even his federation officials when he waved aside the flowers from a German welcoming committee.
“There’s no room up my a— for the hair of a shrimp, never mind flowers,” was his bizarre reaction.

In March last year, Aragones, 67, was lucky to keep his job after calling Henry a “black s—”.

Aragones, who took over as national coach in July 2004 after Inaki Saez stepped down, made the remarks to Arsenal and Spain’s Jose Antonio Reyes in October 2004.

He insisted the comments were meant to motivate the Spanish player by comparing him favourably with club teammate Henry and were not intended to be offensive.

It took the Spanish Football Federation five months to fine him the equivalent of a day’s wages.

A month after Aragones made his comments, England played a friendly in Madrid and black players Ashley Cole and Shaun Wright- Phillips received racist abuse from the crowd, for which the Spanish federation was fined $111,000.

ANDRIY Shevchenko and his Ukraine teammates were greeted with yellow roses — a bad omen — when they arrived at the World Cup on Friday.

In Ukraine, where flowers and their colour send specific messages, yellow roses mean goodbye and are considered an ill omen.

“Oh no!” a Ukrainian journalist said on seeing the yellow roses at the airport. “They only just arrived and the flowers are saying goodbye.”
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well actually I looked up the meaning of yellow roses, there are other things that they symbolize, among them are friendship,joy and freedom ! In Germany, yellow roses stand for Jealousy/Envy ! I wouldnt say that is such bad luck considering it is Germans who are giving us the yellow rose and if you are looking into meanings, they are jealous of our team Ukraine.

But in the end, Im sure the reason we got yellow roses is because our national colours are blue and YELLOW