Last week witnessed two amazing goals from Saudi clubs. The first was from Al-Ittifaq vs. Al-Ahli in what we can say as an Olympic league (under 23 years old)
The second goal was from Emad Al-Hosani from Al-Ahli vs. Al-Ansaar
Emad is Oman national team star, and he is famous by his bicycle kicks, watch these ones when he was playing at Al-Rayyan from Qatar:
and this one with Omani national team vs.

A wonderful video showing some of the most wonderful goals and skills in 2011
And interesting display of skills by Neymar and Ronbinho in a charity game in Brazil

This is a common saying about football in Arabic, and it has a lot of truth in it. When there is a trusted keeper in the team, he gives the whole team the confidence and balance to go forward and win. Spain is enjoying these days the fun of having the best keeper in the world. Everyone remembers the great saves Casillas did in the WC final, or the PKs vs.

One of the best things that happened in the recent years in the Football world is the return of the big giant, Uruguay. Personally, I was surprised but mesmerized with that strong return. I thought Uruguay football was only a history and will never make it again, especially with a very pale qualifying results to the World Cup.

It is the Barcelona and Spain team identity, "The Tiki Taka". It is what brought the World Cup and Euro to Spain and the big boom for Barcelona since 2010.
Here is a wonderful video explaining its tactical concept:

Till the start of Yesterday El Clasico I was naming Mourinho as the best coach in our planet today. However, after yesterday defeat, I am doubting that statement, and at least might give that title to Guardiola.
Coaches today play chess, and it was apparent that after the first 30 minutes, Guardiola touches on the game, and how he reacted to very difficult start was impressive.

THIS BLOG HAS BEEN VERY SLOW FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS
IT WAS TAKING A NAP, AFTER A LOT OF HECTIC DAYS.
WILL BE BACK SOON :)
For now, something old and nice, from the 1990 friendly before the WC festival, Uruguay beat England at Wembly 2-1.
All goals were very nice, especially that John Barnes goal for England, I was looking for it since very long time,

I always stated that the decline of the Saudi football was never because of lack of talents but because those talents don't get enough attention to develop and polish their skills. Also, because of lack of the team plays and discipline in general.
Here is one new promising star named Salem Al-Dosari from Hilal, he is 19 years old only, and just up to last January he was not playing for any team, he was a player in "Hawari", that is district teams.

As the clock is ticking towards the FIFA annual award, and seems Messi will win it (though there are little doubts that Ronaldo will compete), it is great just to relax and watch the magical touches of this phenomena. This is a great video, more of artistic camera angles than actions from the normal cameras, the one who collected these clips got very good taste of football.

As the clock is ticking towards the FIFA annual award, and seems Messi will win it (though there are little doubts that Ronaldo will compete), it is great just to relax and watch the magical touches of this phenomena. This is a great video, more of artistic camera angles than actions from the normal cameras, the one who collected these clips got very good taste of football.

Yesterday Saudi Arabia managed to beat Thailand 3-0 after very weak referee performance from Hong Kong. The referee gave two yellow cards to a Thai player #16
what I liked most is the way the Thai player was acting too polite in front of the ref at the second yellow card. Other players, go directly outside the pitch when they see the second yellow, but this player was smarter :)
The ref also didn't award a Saudi player for a deserved red card,
The whole refereeing performance showed its results at the end when he lost control of the game
Saudi players were also to be blamed for the loss of control, and today the Saudi Football Federation decided to punish those players by deducting their winning compensations.

Luis Suarez deserved to be named player of the week after scoring all the four goals for Uruguay vs. Chile in the WC Qualifications. Not just he scored all the goals, but he also missed two other nice goals.
What I liked most is his second goal, the way he spotted the chance, and he ran for the ball and fought for it was really special.

Brazil 1990 had an average appearance in the World Cup despite that they won all of the 3 games at the groups stage. The team itself that won Copa America 1989 was not bad at all, but was missing the extra effort at the critical moments. May be they were missing Romario whose leg was broken few months before the World Cup.

It is well known history to Baggio fans that he started playing with Vicenza then moved to Fiorentina where he was very talented. Then, he became the most expensive player in the world in 1990 when Juventus bought him. However, there is a certain week, where it might be his best week at his young age, that week declared him as the next big thing for Italy.

Starting from this week, I will embed only few videos of my picks, and post links to other great goals. First, to allow the page to load faster, second, to give more focus to the best goals:
I have three videos to embed: the first is from Egypt. The goal was wonderful, but it becomes to special when you know it was scored in the 95th minute, with one second left to the 5 minutes given of injury time, to give his team a 1-0 victory.