AFC Champions League - Most popular for September 2008
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An all-Japanese semi-final will take place in the AFC Champions League as defending champions
Urawa Red Diamonds and Gamba Osaka were drawn
together. Three clubs from Japan could have made it to the last four but Australia's
Adelaide United beat Kashima Antlers 2-1 on aggregate to
terminate any possibilities.
The AFC website mentions the former AEK midfielder in a few articles on its site. Rivaldo Scores at
his AFC Champions League Debut The AFC also mentions Rivaldo in some other articles on the site.
After thoroughly enjoying the AFC Champions league match between Adelaide and Kashima on Wednesday
it got me thinking, where is my "FoxSports Football" channel.
Late last year a lot of rumours were circulating that FoxSports was set to launch a dedicated
Football channel. The channel was rumoured to have a much more expanded coverage of Football across
the globe including :
1.
Canberra A-League already has more Members than The Mariners had for their first game. We're two
years out. And the Mariners have made a profit.
So to the doubters from Canberra's football past, and there's heaps of yer:) it can be done:)
Mariners release below.
"We must also thank each of our sponsors and corporate supporters, who last season
contributed some $3 million to our cause.
With the international break yielding a positive result for Japan and the autumn leaves starting to
make their first appearances on the tree-lined avenues surrounding the National Stadium, attention
now turns to the business end of the J. League season.
Five teams are still in with a genuine chance of lifting the trophy, but northern outfit Consadole
Sapporo are certainly not one of them.
Kashima Antlers' AFC Champions League chances have take a severe blow with the news that captain
Mitsuo Ogasawara will miss the rest of the season after suffering knee ligament damage in Kashima's
1-1 draw away at Kashiwa Reysol overnight.
The influential midfielder was stretchered from the field after colliding with Kashiwa's Alex in
the sixteenth minute, and there was more drama just three minutes later when Kashima fans appeared
to strike Alex with a flag-pole as the Brazilian midfielder lined up to take a corner.
Well what a night for Adelaide and Australian Football as a whole. Adelaide United turned in an
excellent performance to send Kashima out of the AFC Champions League and put themselves through to
the final four.
Aurelio Vidmar will be feeling justified for his strategy of resting a majority of his players in
last week's A-League game against Sydney.
It's been an emotional couple of weeks of Adelaide's Robbie Cornthwaite.
The club's foundation defender has not only found himself unwittingly dragged into a spitting storm
but he's also been the target of abuse from his own supporters for scoring a horror own goal in the
away leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-final against Kashima Antlers
But on Wednesday night in Adelaide, Cornthwaite banished all those demons with a tie-winning headed
goal which secured a 2-1 aggregate win over the 10-time Japanese champions and a passage into the
final four.
