International Soccer

Maradona Runs Over A Camera Man

2010-05-20T17:19:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday,May 19 Diego Mardona ran over a Argentinian cameramans foot.Maradona said he was really sorry and he didn't do it on purpose.Maradonas Argentina has a lot of pressure in the world cup since they did so bad in the World Cup qualifiers.

David Villa To Barcelona

2010-05-19T16:18:00.000-07:00

After a long negotiation Valencia star David Villa was transferred to Barcelona for 40 million euros. A lot of rumors are saying that Barcelona are going to get big players this transfer season some players they say they are going to Barcelona are:Wayne Rooney,Cesc Fabregas and Fernando Torres.

Barcelona Champion But Party Goes Wrong

2010-05-19T16:13:00.000-07:00

After a very impressive and historic season Barcelona won the La Liga with a 4-0 victory over Valladolid.At the end of the season Barcelona had 99 points and Real Madrid had 97.Once the party started in Barcelona everything went wrong there were 114 people arrested and 119 were injured.

Liga BBVA Dream Team

2010-05-18T16:04:00.000-07:00

These were the players chosen by the board of the Liga to be on the star team.Valdés (Barcelona); Alves(Barcelona), Puyol(Barcelona), Piqué(Barcelona), Sergio Ramos(Real Madrid);Jesús Navas(Sevilla), Xabi Alonso(Real Madrid), Xavi(Barcelona), Mata (Valencia) Messi(Barcelona) y Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

Left Out

2010-05-17T15:49:00.000-07:00

For this summer's World cup there were some key players that were left out...Some of these players were:Wayne Bridge(England),Javier Zanetti(Argentina), Gabriel Milito(Argentina), Marcelo, Esteban Cambiasso(Argentina), Patrick Vieira (France), Diego (Brazil) , Ronaldinho (Brazil) , Alexander Pato(Brazil) and Karim Benzema (France).

Inter,Champions Of The Serie A

2010-05-06T14:41:00.000-07:00

With a 1-0 win over Roma Inter wins the Italian League.Inter deserves winning the league,they have played very good throughout the whole season.Internazionale have to give a lot of credit to their coach Jose Mourinho that has made them a much better team and now finalist of the UEFA Champions League.Inter have very good player these are some:Julio Cesar,Maicon,Milito,Eto,Pandev,Sneijder and much more.

Team	W	D	L	Pts
Inter Milan	22	10	4	76
AS Roma	22	8	6	74
AC Milan	19	10	7	67
Sampdoria	18	9	9	63
Palermo	17	10	9	61
Napoli	14	14	8	56
Juventus	16	7	13	55
Genoa	13	9	14	48
Fiorentina	13	7	16	46
Bari	12	10	14	46

Bayern Wins German League

2010-05-06T14:35:00.000-07:00

Bayern Munchen won a very deserved title in the German league.A well deserved title comes in handy for this team which is in the final of the UEFA Champions League.Bayern has one of the best teams today with great players like:Klose,Robben,Schwienstiger,Lahm and much more.Here is the table of how the Boundesligue finished this year

Team	W	D	L	Pts
Bayern Munich	19	10	4	67
Schalke 04	19	7	7	64
Werder Bremen	17	9	7	60
Bayer Leverkusen	15	13	5	58
Borussia Dortmund	16	9	8	57
VfB Stuttgart	15	9	9	54
Hamburg SV	13	12	8	51
VfL Wolfsburg	13	8	12	47
Eintracht Frankfurt	12	10	11	46
FSV Mainz	12	10	11	46

Inter In The Final!

2010-04-28T16:41:00.000-07:00

This game was ranked one of the most exciting games in UEFA champions league.The game started with a red card from part of Thiago Motta in the 28th minute.Since that moment on Barcelona had about 80% of the ball possession.They attacked Inter during the whole game but the Italian resisted with incredible defence with about seven defenders.In the 84th minute Gerard Pique Scored an amazing goal to lift up Barcelona's hope, but that wasn't enough to beat the 3-1 that was played in Italy.The best player was considered Julio Cesar and Jose Mourinho that is now considered one of the best coaches in Europe.

Top 10 Sex Scandals In Soccer History

2010-04-27T17:03:00.000-07:00

10)Ashley Cole (2010)

Oh dear. Some guys really do it have it all as in the case of Chelsea ace Ashley
Cole. Clearly playing for his country, earning a packet and being married to a
beautiful pop star wasn't enough for the defender who played away from home rather too often for the Girls Aloud singer. After a string of affairs his wife
gave him the boot earlier this year after the love rat was caught sending naked pictures of himself to a glamour model.

9) Israel (1999)

Israel's 8-0 two-leg thumping by Denmark in a crunch Euro 2000 play-off demanded an inquiry on pure football grounds. One took place anyway after their limp performance was aided by several players inviting prostitutes to their room the night before the 5-0 thrashing in Tel Aviv. Large numbers of condoms were discovered by hotel staff and four unnamed players later received bans. An Israeli Minister tried to see the funny side by suggesting that had the superior Danish team partied with the call girls they would still have won!

8) Gianluigi Lentini (1993)

Once the most expensive player in the world, his career came to a shuddering halt after allegedly smashing his sportscar leaving the house of the then estranged wife of Italia '90 star Toto Schillaci. Travelling at well
over 100 kmh the Porsche ended up in a ditch and burst into flames inflicting
head injuries and putting the Milan star into a coma. At just 24 years old his
top line career was effectively over.

7) Martin Edwards (2002)

The former Manchester United Chairman never got down on his knees to do deals preferring to do his dirty work in ladies toilets. Edwards earned the term
'Peeping Tom' for following a lady into a hotel and began staring at her under
the cubicle. He was cautioned by police with the victim saying she was 'very
distressed' by the whole incident. Edwards, who was married for 30 years at the time, stepped down as Chairman shortly afterwards.

6) Jean Francois Larios (1982)

A very French affair involving Saint Etienne team-mates and French captain Michel Platini. The ménage á trois involved the wife of the Gallic number 10 Platini ensuring the build up to Spain 1982 was thrown into chaos as Larios was drop kicked out of the squad and into the international wilderness.

5) Oliver Kahn (2003)

An unpopular figure at the best of times Kahn prompted the outrage of all
Germany for walking out on his heavily pregnant wife to take off with 21-year
party girl Verena Kerth. Tabloids called her 'the pierced party chicken' while
the couple were branded the German answer to Posh and Becks given their habit of wearing matching outfits. Bayern Munich's Uli Hoeness said he wanted to throw up after hearing about the scandal.

4) Ronaldo (2008)

Brazil's finest got nabbed for bringing three transvestite prostitutes back to
his hotel room after dropping his girlfriend home first. The striker got a shock
when he discovered the hookers were all in fact men and an argument kicked off when his male company demanded money to keep quiet. Rio police reported, "Ronaldo admits the facts. He said he just wanted to amuse himself, that's not a crime" while the striker said "this will stain my life
forever."

3) Jose Altafini

Running off with his Napoli team-mate Paolo Barison's wife in the 1960s caused an absolute storm on the peninsula. When Mrs Barison moved in with Altafini it generated a tonne of column inches in one of the rare occasions of a sex scandal being widely reported in Italy.

2) Garrincha (1959)

The 'little bird' had outrageous talent on the field and an equally large libido
off it. After lighting up World Cup 1958 he returned a year later to Sweden on
tour with Botafogo and duly got a local girl pregnant. On his return to
Brazil he was greeted by an angry mob and promptly ran over his father in his car before being found drunk at the wheel with no memory of what he'd done. His wife gave birth to his fifth child that year while his Swedish one night stand announced she was carrying his baby also.

Things didn't stop there as seven years later Garrincha walked out on his wife
and eight daughters for a samba singer. The late Brazilian is alleged to have lost his virginity when he was 12 with wait for it… a goat and fathered at
least 14 children in his bed hopping career.

1) Tommy Docherty (1977)

Having just won the F.A. Cup with Manchester United, manager Tommy Docherty looked all set to challenge Liverpool for domestic supremacy. Then he was given the sack for having an affair with the physiotherapist's wife bringing his 27-year marriage to an end with a woman 18 years his junior. The Red Devils said he was in breach of his contract while Docherty pleaded his innocence saying he was being punished for falling in love, having made the announcement in a British tabloid. United took another 16 years to win another league title. The couple, meanwhile, are still together.

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Bayern Munich Beats Lyon 3-0 To Reach Final

2010-04-27T16:49:00.000-07:00

A fantastic game from Bayern.The game was thought to be a very tight game between Lyon and Munich.In the first match of this two game series was played in the French teams stadium and Bayern won 1-0.Lyons dream of winning got destroyed from an amazing hat-trick from Olic.He made the German team go into the champions league final.The final will be played May 22 in Madrid.

Ribery’s Week Goes From Bad To Worse

2010-04-22T19:49:00.000-07:00

This week can only get better for Franck Ribery, Questioned by French police as a witness in a prostitution investigation, the Bayern Munich player got sent off against Olympique Lyon on Wednesday and will not be able to play in the second match.

Man United Remains World’s Most Valuable Club

2010-04-22T19:47:00.000-07:00

Manchester United has been ranked football’s most valuable team by Forbes magazine for the sixth straight year.Real Madrid is second in the soccer list at $1.323 billion, with Arsenal third at $1.181 billion, the same top three as last year.forbes

Beckham Leads Forbes List Of Highest Earners

2010-04-22T19:42:00.000-07:00

The 35-year-old midfielder earns $40 million annually, with much of that coming from sponsors such as Adidas, Giorgio Armani and Motorola.Portuguese midfielder Cristiano Ronaldo is second on the Forbes list, earning $30 million a year. Ronaldo’s major sponsors include Nike, Coca-Cola and, like Beckham, Giorgio Armani.

Ronaldinho Considers Manchester City Move

2010-04-20T15:16:00.000-07:00

Ronaldinho is considering a Premier League switch to Manchester City as Milan hesitate over a new deal, reports La Gazzetta dello Sport.Supposedly he was getting a 25 percent cut from Milan.

Inter 3- 1 Barcelona

2010-04-20T14:51:00.000-07:00

In a very exciting game taken place in the San Siro stadium the home team Inter, came on top to beat Barcelona.The game started with Barcelona on top in the 19th minute with a nice goal from Pedro. 10 minutes after the home team responded with a goal from Sneijder.In the 48th minute Maicon slid the ball past Valdez to make the game 2-1.In the 61 minute Diego Milito scored a wonderful header to seal the win.The next match will be played next Wednesday in the Camp Nou to see who will pass to the finals.

Torres Out For Remainder Of Season

2010-04-18T14:56:00.000-07:00

Liverpools Fernando Torres will miss the rest of the season because of a knee injury.He will be out for six weeks maybe missing the first round of the world cup.

Copa Del Rey Will Be At The Camp Nou

2010-04-13T16:19:00.000-07:00

This season’s Copa del Rey final between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla will be at Barcelona’s Camp Nou Stadium on a date that is unknown

Arsenal’s Van Persie To Return After 5 Months Out

2010-04-13T16:15:00.000-07:00

Robin van Persie is back in the Arsenal squad for Wednesday’s match against Tottenham after five months on the sidelines. Netherlands striker injured his ankle ligaments in November while he was playing in the world cup qualifiers for Spain, but returned to full training last week

Barcelona’s Iniesta Out For A Month

2010-04-13T16:14:00.000-07:00

Barcelona will be without key player Andres Iniesta for its Champions League semifinal match against Inter Milan. Barcelona said Tuesday that Iniesta injured a muscle in his right leg during training and will be out for up to a month.

Things You Should Know About The World Cup

2010-04-13T16:10:00.000-07:00

Q: Which teams have more chance of winning?

A: Spain, which won the European Championship two years ago, is ranked No. 1 in the world and has one of the planet’s best rosters. Spain rarely plays well in the World Cup and has never won it.

Brazil owns a record five titles and tends to perform well in the tournament. The Brazilians also have a very good team and are also one of the favorites

The Netherlands, Portugal, Argentina, Germany and defending champion Italy could be front-runners, and England maybe too. Argentina is coached by its greatest player, Diego Maradona, who has to prove that he is as good coaching than playing.

Q: What is the format?

A: There are eight groups of four teams. Those teams play first round, and matches can end in draws. The top two teams in each group advance to the final 16. Every game after the first round is a knockout match and will go to a 30-minute overtime if tied. If still tied after OT, a penalty kick shootout is held

Madrid, Barcelona without key players for match

2010-04-09T07:53:00.000-07:00

This Saturday Real Madrid will face Barcelona. Both teams will not play with one of their key players. For Barcelona Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be missing because a calf problem and Kaka will be missing because of a groin injury.

Juventus Put Gianluigi Buffon Up For Sale

2010-03-23T16:09:00.000-07:00

Gianluigi Buffon,once one the best goalkeepers in the world is leaving his home team ,Juventus.Buffon has been linked with City, United and Bayern Munich, and he will cost interested clubs around €25 million.

Cabañas May Never Recall What Happened

2010-03-23T16:06:00.000-07:00

A top medical official says Paraguayan soccer star Salvador Cabanas may never recall what happened when he was shot in the head at a Mexico City bar in January.Cabanas is now undergoing a therapy in Buenos Aires.The doctors haven't said anything if he will be able to continue playing or not.

UEFA Champions League Scores March 17

2010-03-18T19:56:00.000-07:00

Barcelona 4-0 Stuttgart

The first match in this two game series was a 1-1 tie.This time it was a 4-0 "goleada".The goals came from Messi (2),Pedro and Bojan

UEFA Champions League Scores March 16

2010-03-18T19:48:00.000-07:00

Inter 1-0 Chelsea FC

José Mourinho said he is "the happiest person on earth" after guiding FC Internazionale Milano into the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals after beating his former club, Chelsea FC. Samuel Eto scored a nice in the 78 minute to clinch the win.

Beckham Out For World Cup

2010-03-18T19:39:00.000-07:00

AC Milan have revealed that David Beckham has broken his left Achilles tendon, and will be out for a minimum of three months, this causes the ending of his Serie A season and ruling him out of the World Cup barring a miracle. Both A.C Milan coach Leonardo and vice president Adriano Galliani confirmed the news after the game, with Beckham leaving the stadium in an ambulance. Beckham suffered a crack in the foot in the closing stages of Milan's 1-0 win over Chievo on Sunday night.

UEFA Champions League Scores March 9

2010-03-11T16:11:00.000-08:00

Porto F.C 0-5 Arsenal

Porto won last game 2-1 so we thought this was going to be an interesting game but we were wrong.Arsenal took advantage of all of Porto mistake and won by five from goals from Bendnter (2),Rosicky,Nasri and Eboe.

UEFA Champions League Scores March 10

2010-03-11T15:56:00.000-08:00

Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon

Yesterday 300 million Euros went down the drain as Real Madrid got disqualified from the UEFA Champions League.It was going to be a very interesting match because Lyon won in the first game 1-0.The game started of with an excellent goal from Cristiano Ronaldo in the 6th minute.The game went on and Madrid tried to look for the winning goal but Lyon responded with a goal in the 75th minute from Pjanic.The game ended and once again Real Madrid was eliminated.

Manchester Utd 4-0 A.C Milan

As the last game was so interesting and close,we thought it would be like that again.Unfortunately we were wrong.As this game started Manchester started to have about 70% of the ball possession.Rooney opened the score in the 13 minute and continued scoring a second goal in the 46 minute.Manchester was controlling the game ,therefore in the 57 minute Park scored the 3 goal of the night.As we thought the match was going to end , in the 90 minute Gary Fletcher made a very nice goal.

Worlds Richest Soccer Clubs

2010-03-08T16:05:00.000-08:00

World's Richest Football Clubs

1) Real Madrid: 401.4m euros
2) Barcelona: 365.9m euros
3) Man Utd: 327m euros
4) Bayern Munich: 289.5m euros
5) Arsenal: 263m euros
6) Chelsea: 242.3m euros
7) Liverpool: 217m euros
8) Juventus: 202.3m euros
9) Inter Milan 196.5m euros
10) AC Milan: 196.5.m euros

Bridge withdraws from England

2010-02-25T16:24:00.000-08:00

After the incident that happened with Wayne Bridge he hasn't been able to play as he played before.He says he was very sad when all this happened.He now plays for Manchester City. 2 weeks after the incident occurred , Bridge and his team had to play Chelsea the team John Terry is in.They didn't even shake hands. Right after the game Bridge retired from the English soccer team because he didn't feel comfortable playing in that team.

Scores February 24

2010-02-24T14:33:00.000-08:00

There were 2 exciting games today.

Inter 2-Chelsea 1

This rivalry had one of the most games in a long time.The game started with inter making the first goal by Diego Milito in the 3rd minute.In the 53rd minute Salomon Kalou scored a very nice goal to equalize the game.2 minutes later Esteban Cambiasso scored an excellent goal to seal the game.

CSKA Moskva 1 - Sevilla 1

I cant say this was a great game because it really wasn't that entertaining.In the 25 minute Sevillas Negredo opened the score with a good goal.Moskva tied in the 76 minute with a very nice goal from Mark Gonzales.

Uefa Champions League February 17

2010-02-18T15:51:00.000-08:00

February 17

Bayern Munich-Fiorentina

Fc Porto-Arsenal

Arsenal 1- Fc Porto 2

This game was really fun to watch.Silvestre Varela scored a very nice goal in the 11 minute.Sol Campbell replied at the 18 minute with the equalizing goal.In the 51 minute the colombian Falcao Garcia scored a wonderful goal to get the win.

Bayern 2-1 Fiorentina

This game was really close.Robben opened the score in the 48 minute with a nice penalty kick.In the 50 minute kroldrop scored the equalizer for fiorentina.In 89 minute Miroslav Klose scored a goal of a defensive error.

Uefa Champions League Scores Febuary 16

2010-02-16T14:57:00.000-08:00

Today was game #7 in the uefa champions league.The games were Real Madrid-Lyon, Ac Milan-Manchester United.They were both entertaining games.

In the game Manchester-Milan, Manchester won 3-2.It was a really good game with goals 2 from Wayne Rooney, 1 Paul Scholes, Ronaldinho, Seedorf.The games was played at Ac Milan's Stadium (San Siro).

The second game today was Real Madrid 0-1 Lyon.It was a very close game but lyon cam out winning with a very nice goal from Jean II Makoun.This game was played in lyon,France in Stade de Gerland stadium.

Diego Maradona Suspension

2010-02-11T15:57:00.000-08:00

Diego Maradona suspension ended a week ago.He got suspended for insulting the media.Argentina was in a bad position when Maradona took the spot of coach.Argentina had a chance of not getting in the World cup for the first time in many years, after there last game to qualify to the world cup,argentina assured the spot by winning 1-0.In the press conference after the game maradona started to insult the media because everyone said that he was a very bad coach.

John Terry

2010-02-11T15:44:00.000-08:00

What do you think John Terry should deserve for what he did?

Terry got caught having sexual relations with a teammates wife (Wayne Bridge). In consecuense to his action he got taken away the priviledge of being the english team captain.

Do you think he got what he deserved?

Who Will Win The World Cup

2010-02-10T15:24:00.000-08:00

http://forums.registeredrep.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=11134&PID=181828#181828

In this article the author makes a list of who will possible win the 2010 world cup.Thy say here that the top nominees are Brazil,Spain or England.I think Brazil or Spain is going to win because they have the worlds best players.Who do you think is going to win?

Links

2010-02-09T15:22:00.000-08:00

http://midfieldmaestro.blog.com/

http://midfieldmaestro.blog.com/2010/01/24/profiles-of-the-great-and-good-arthur-friedenreich-the-original-black-pearl/

http://midfieldmaestro.blog.com/2010/01/24/is-the-epl-recession-proof-how-investors-and-debt-impact-in-england/

http://observers.france24.com/en/content/20090723-unrest-south-african-shantytowns-–-ready-host-world-cup

http://duniabola.org/497456-FIFA-ban-Diego-Maradona-from-attending-World-Cup-draw.html