El Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma de Corea del Sur ganó la Liga de Campeones de la AFC (en inglés AFC Champions League), el torneo más importante de Asia a nivel de clubes y disputará el Mundial de Clubes de la FIFA junto a a Internazionale (Italia, ganador de la UEFA Champions League), Internacional SC (Brasil, ganador de la Copa Libertadores de América), Pachuca (México, ganador de la CONCACAF Champions League), Hekari United (Papúa/Nueva Guinea, ganador de la O-League de Oceanía), Tout-Puissant Mazembe (Rep.

On Wednesday, as I sat in the studio with two microphones clipped to my tie and makeup on my face, I was put in the position of acting as a defense witness for the U.S. bid. It was all very good natured, but it revealed some of the biases against, and criticisms of, the effort to bring the 2022 World Cup to America.

That's Richmond Forson, midfielder for Togo's national team, commenting on being attacked on the way to the Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Angola. Here's the story from Sky Sports, Dossevi reveals Togo horror, and from Al Jazeera, Togo footballers attacked in Anglola. The Guardian story is here.

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Bruce McGuire (Hey, that's me!): "I can't wait to start watching the Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday at the Holyland in Northeast Minneapolis! The first game is the host Angola v Mali (the team has an amazing midfield.) Where will you be watching at?"
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Landon Donovan will probably make his debut for Everton on Saturday at Arsenal, but sadly the game is not on Television.

A realização do Mundial de Clubes da Fifa nos Emirados Árabes está com os dias contados. Nesta terça-feira, a entidade máxima do futebol decidiu que a partir da edição de 2011 o torneio voltará a ser disputado em seu país de origem: o Japão.
Apesar de ter sido seduzida pelos "petrodólares" árabes, a Fifa acabou cedendo s pressões da Dentsu, empresa que é responsável pelo marketing da entidade.

Watch this very informative story from Al Jazeera.
Reaction to last week's post about football and hijab has been caught up in the veil (represented by some commentators as the first step in a "slippery slope to fundamentalism"). Some readers seem to have lost sight of the story at hand: whether FIFA's support of the ban against headscarves specifically, and hijab more broadly, makes sense.

The World Cup will be broadcast on televisions around the world next month. One big question many people will have in the run up: On which channel or channels exactly?

Below you'll find a list of what television channel is showing the World Cup in 84 different countries. Hopefully including yours.

African players are at the heart of the top clubs in Europe: Chelsea revolves around John Obi Mikel and Michael Essien in the middle and Didier Drogba upfront. All three left Africa as teenagers or earlier. Some through family members or through football agents. Similarly take Samuel Eto'o who has been common to the recent success of first Barcelona and now Inter Milan.

I am watching currently Al-Jazeera sport channel, in the pre-match analysis, and here is interesting discussion about Pele negative comments on Brazil Bebeto is saying "Pele is a player that won...
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Reuters - Found 58 minutes ago ... is very important not just for South Africa but perhaps even more so for Africa,' said Frans Cronje, deputy director of the South African... South Africa delivers after doubts - Al Jazeera South Africa confounds pessimists - Reuters UK ANALYSIS-Soccer-World-South Africa confounds Afro-pessimists - Reuters Africa ANALYSIS - South Africa confounds Afro-pessimists - Yahoo!

Al Jazeera Sports commentator Essam El-Shawaly was voted the winner of Goal.com Arabic 's election as the best Arabic sports commentator during the 2010 World Cup. More than 60,000 votes came in and El-Shawaly came out as the glorious winner.

Our favourite findings from our friends across the world of football this week...

It's okay kid, I'd be scared if I was in your position too. [Kickette]
Football is becoming more and more a part of Israeli lifestyle [Pitch Invasion]
A four goal comeback?

Instead of more thoughts, I'm basking in the goal of the early season.

This is partly down to sheer laziness, partly down to wanting to gloss over the fact that the second half nearly put me into an anxiety coma, partly down to not wanting to make excuses and attribute everything to Chelsea having an "off day," and partly down to going on a bit of a bender in the late afternoon to celebrate my best friend's baby being born.

After furiously clicking around various streams that were cutting in and out, I finally managed to get a hold of a decent link. Thank you Al Jazeera! It wasn't a great game. We never got into top gear, but if you count up all the missed chances, we could have finished with 6 goals (particularly with the 3 handball shouts in the Wigan penalty box that were not called).

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes the best way to deliver trophies for the Club is to do it by playing football the way it should be played. Speaking to Al Jazeera Sports and asked why the ...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes new players will only be added to the side in January if they can give something more to his squad. Speaking to Al Jazeera Sports, the Frenchman explained how people want ...

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Arsenal's frugal purse-string fondler-in-chief Arsene Wenger has once again hinted that he won't be readily spending 'penny one' in the January transfer market in an interview with Al Jazeera TV:

"We respect our budget.

Now that Qatar has bought won the 2022 World Cup, what do we know about this tiny nation? Well, they are the home to the Al-Jazeera television network, they will host the 2011 AFC Asian Cup, and they are known as "Qataris" ("Qintendos" would have been a tad cooler). Also, Qatar is spelled Katar in German.