In terms of the technical quality of games, the data taken from the Russian Premier League again shows few disparities between performances on the different surfaces. Critics of artificial turf often hold that players are not comfortable in possession on artificial pitches, yet the average number of touches per player remained steady (2.

Michael Skibbe ist bei Hertha BSC Berlin als Trainer Geschichte. Ob er allerdings später in den Chroniken der Berliner überhaupt erwähnt wird, ist angesichts der sehr kurzen Amtszeit fast schon fraglich. Nur 52 Tage, oder umgerechnet fünf Spiele, durfte Skibbe auf dem Trainerstuhl Platz nehmen und dabei zeigte seine Mannschaft nicht gerade den schönsten Fussball.

Like most of the Seattle Sounders web community this week's major topic is the First XI, the gameday 18 and who will make the roster 30. This week's guest was probably the most difficult booking ever for Jeremiah and Aaron as they had to convince Dave to join them in the new yet-to-be-named studio.

SPANISH FOOTBALL continued this Sunday with six games of Round 23 scheduled in LA LIGA. Lets get straight into the round-up of the matches, the final results & all the scorers. Espanyol - Zaragoza RCD ESPANYOL lost surprisingly to bottom placed Club REAL ZARAGOZA 0 - 2. It was the first away victory for Zaragoza this season which is desperately attempting to string together some good games &

Great night for SPANISH SPORTS & FOOTBALL as SPAIN proclaimed themselves the 2012 EUROPEAN INDOOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONS after defeated 3 - 1 RUSSIA in the Final tonight. Spain Indoor Football Team: Euro Champs 2012 SPAIN keeps dominating this Sport in its Indoor category & gets its sixth European Title tonight.

SPANISH FOOTBALL tonight with three games of Round 23 scheduled of LA LIGA. Great matches, surprises & big news that I will get into now. Here is a brief summary of the events, final results & scorers. Diego flys against Racing RACING DE SANTANDER hosted ATLETICO DE MADRID & will be happy to have managed a 0 - 0 result.

Was es nicht alles gibt auf der Welt?!? In Indien wurden jetzt ehemalige Fussballstars versteigert und das nicht für den guten Zweck. Die Ex-Stars sollen mit ihrer Erfahrung und ihrem hoffentlich noch vorhandenen Können die neu gegründete indische Fussballliga PLS ("Premier League Soccer") gleich mal voran bringen und auch viele Fans in die Stadien locken.

So its almost upon us, the biggest derby in the Premier League.
Man Utd v Liverpool FC at Old Trafford today at 12:45pm, live on Sky Sports to a watching and waiting audience of millions arounds the World.
With Utd chasing for their 20th League Title and Liverpool aiming for The Champions League, its all to play for in this lunch-time kick-off.

Support for FC Richmond soccer coach and former William and Mary player, Ian Stowe who is battling a tumor, continues to come from all areas of the soccer community. Today the Richmond Kickers organization announced they will hold a benefit exhibition match to support #stowestrong.

CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay. Martin twitted about a commercial that showed David Beckham in underwear: "If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham's H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him.

The prestigious International Consulting firm Deloitte has released its yearly study of the World Football Clubs with highest income generation for season 2010-2011. For the third year running both REAL MADRID CF & FC BARCELONA lead the list of top income generating Clubs. The tendency is that FC Barcelona has experienced a jump in income that has to do with their "winning ways", Global brand

Truth? Hype? The players representative pulling strings? Or just all Bullshit? The beauty behind Football & Spanish Sports paper "Marca" is that all four possibilities can exist &/or co-exist? That REAL MADRID & FC Barcelona (also mentioned) are following, plus the latter thinking in signing next season the Dutch forward is not at all new.

Truth? Hype? The players representative pulling strings? Or just all Bullshit? The beauty behind Football & Spanish Sports paper "Marca" is that all four possibilities can exist &/or co-exist? That REAL MADRID & FC Barcelona (also mentioned) are following, plus the latter thinking in signing next season the Dutch forward is not at all new.

The long, long, long dispute between a group of players from Trinidad & Tobago's 2006 World Cup squad and their national football federation reached a new but not yet final phase today when many of the physical assets of the federation were seized by order of the Trinidadian High Court. (The original article is located here.

SPANISH CUP ( Copa del Rey ) action tonight with the semi final 2º leg match. FC BARCELONA greeted VALENCIA CF (without forward Soldado, a last moment discard) with a 1 -1 "advantage" from the 1º leg, & ended up adding to it winning tonight 2 - 0 ( 3 - 1 agg ). Thus the victory puts Barça into the Final of the Spanish Cup were they will meet Athletic Club Bilbao.

Johan Cruijff and Ajax' youth coaches feel they are winners after the court's decision that the appoitment of Van Gaal and Sturkenboom were unlawful. "The court has been quite clear: the behavior of the board was wrong," says the law firm of Baker & McKenzie, which representend Cruyff, Jonk, Bergkamp, [read more]

Some readers might recall the blurb that was posted about the launch of the first episode of the Pitch Invasion podcast last month. Pitch Invasion Editor and former Section 8 Chicago Chairman Tom Dunmore interviewed the former head of Supporters Direct, Dave Boyle.

Boyle is currently preparing to travel to Portland for the Independent Supporters' Council meeting.

ATHLETIC CLUB BILBAO are in the final of the SPANISH CUP ( Copa del Rey ) after defeating 6 - 2 the 2º B Division Club MIRANDES ( 8-3 agg). The dream run for Mirandes hit the wall at the "San Mames Stadium" in the 2º leg return semi - final match after a fabulous & unforgettable run. Congratulations guys, thanks for the Football & courage displayed.

This goes to all the European brothers, especially to the French media LÉquipe , the populist "Le Monde" & Canal + TV France... France has´nt won anything significant in years. Please don´t use our Sportsmen & teams...Alberto Contador , Rafael Nadal, the Spanish National Football Team etc & etc..

Unsere beiden Videokolumnisten Kevin & Mark haben jede Woche etwas zu sagen. Sie analysieren die Bundesliga, geben Tipps ab oder machen einfach nur ein wenig Stammtisch-Trash-Talk. Fantastisch, und das alles während sie im Auto sitzen und on the Road sind. Besucht Kevin & Mark auf Facebook oder besucht die Beiden mal auf ihrem Blog.

SPANISH FOOTBALL action tonight with the conclusion of Round 22 of LA LIGA with the Monday Night match between GRANADA & MALAGA FC. Granada - Malaga GRANADA managed to lift a couple of gears in the second half to take this game 2 - 1 against a very inconsistent MALAGA FC. The Malaga defender Demichelis - again - received a red card to leave his side at a disadvantage in the 83rd min mark.

The FIFA backed "International Federation of Football History & Statistics" (IFFHS) has released its Top 10 list of World Football Coaches & Managers, with Scotsman & Manchester United Coach/Manager Sir Alex Ferguson as the Top placed (Nº 1) so far this 21st Century. Ferguson leads by just 1 point Arsenal Coach/Manager Arsene Wenger with Real Madrid Coach Jose Mourinho in 3rd place.

Images: MadridAtleticos.com & Autobild.es.

The Atletico Madrid men were out in full press call-posing force last week, making nice with their club's newest sponsor, Volkswagen.

After the flash bulbs took a breather, the squad was given instructions on how to activate the automatic hair gel dispensers that were custom fit to each player's new (free) Beatle.

Nico Fauser bzw. dessen Auweia! Cartoons kennt ihr sicher. In vielen Zeitungen sind sie fast täglich abgebildet und da der Nico auch ein großer Fussballfan ist und gelegentlich sogar bei uns hier mitliest, hat er uns wieder einmal einen kleinen Fussballcartoon für Euch mitgegeben. Also viel Spass damit und besucht mal seine Webseite www.

Sad & frustrating day for SPANISH SPORTS , Spanish Cycling & for World Nº1 cycle-rider ALBERTO CONTADOR after the "Court of Arbritration for Sport" (TAS) gave in their sentence of a 2 year penalty today. But if that was harsh they also retired his 2010 Tour de France & 2011 Giro de Italia title. But there is more, Alberto Contador can begin riding again the 6th of August 2012, that means he will

SPANISH FOOTBALL continued today/tonight with Round 22 with four games scheduled of the SPANISH LEAGUE. Here are the final results & the scorers. Carmelo scores for Sporting REAL SPORTING DE GIJON had a new Coach & managed to draw 1 - 1 against OSASUNA. The locals started well & scored in the 31 st min, but then missed various occasions in the second half that made the team pay later when

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Williamand Mary head women's soccer coach John Daly signed eight student-athletes tonational letters of intent on Wednesday. The eight player recruiting class joins a stout W&M squad, fresh offof a CAA championship, and a NCAA tournament birth last season. In the national polls, last year the Tribeclimbed to as high as No.

It is that time again. Time for us to discuss all things soccer in the latest SBI Live Q&A.

Join me as I take questions on all aspects of the sport, as well as some pop culture questions, for the next hour or two.

Want to talk U.S. national team? Landon Donovan's loan?

Rocking Dolce & Gabbana, Leo is looking anything but "Messi" in this month's Esquire Greece.

Yep, it's Friday alright.

If you've been wondering when the next SBI Live Q&A would be, wonder no more. We will be having one today.

The latest SBI Live Q&A will take place at 1pm this afternoon, so get your questions ready to discuss everything from the MLS pre-season to the U.S. national team, to Clint Dempsey's insane form to European soccer and the international game.

Launching his new underwear range for H&M, David Beckham said that his sons' reaction on glimpsing their dad in his latest unclad ad campaign was: "'Oh my GOD Daddy - not again. They were like: 'that's really good, but everyone's gonna see you in your pants." The underwear line goes on sale in 1800 H&M stores around the world on February 2.

Seen outside last night's H&M David Beckham Bodywear launch party in London. Image: Bauer Griffin.

Kickettes, do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Whether or not a three-wish-granting genie pops out, I'd like to rub David Beckham's silver statue bulge.

Another young SPANISH FOOTBALL pearl leaves for foreign shores to build upon his talents & hopefully begin a solid Football career. This time English Premier League Club MANCHESTER CITY has paid 3M€ to REAL MADRID for POZO . The U-17 Spanish International is in England but cannot play due to the fact that he is only 15 years old & needs to wait until he reaches 16 years according to English FA

Verwundert schauen die Spieler beim Premier League Spiel zwischen dem FC Everton und Manchester City! Aber nicht nur die, auch die Sicherheitskräfte haben so etwas noch nicht erlebt und doch müssen sie jetzt schnell reagieren und die Situation wieder beruhigen. Schaffen sie das nicht, dann geht das Fussballspiel nicht weiter und was dann passiert weiß [.

SPANISH FOOTBALL tonight with the 1º leg semi-final match of the SPANISH CUP ( Copa del Rey ) between VALENCIA CF & FC BARCELONA. Here is a brief summary of the main events, the scorers & the final result. Pinto touches ball outside the box VALENCIA CF finished the match with a 1 - 1 draw against FC BARCELONA.

When we're not watching the footie, we love nothing better than kicking back with an industrial sized bucket of popcorn and criticising the hell out of the latest offerings from Hollywood. We were therefore thrilled when a "Movie Titles To Describe Your Sex Life" thread broke out on Twitter yesterday.

As hinted at in last night's post it felt like a good night to be a blue from the word go.
City always seem to fall foul of Everton's superior workrate and commitment. Players like Aguero, Villa and Nasri have added real class to go along with the brawn but where is the steel that side will need to win a title?

News from Italy, concretely from "Tuttosports" & picked up locally via Spanish Sports daily "As", mentions that JUVENTUS has REAL MADRID forward GONZALO HIGUAIN as mximum signing objective for next season. But there is more, in case it all gets difficult , Juventus has a Plan- B , that is, KARIM BENZEMA.

Folowing Liverpool's great 3-0 win at Molineaux in which Andy Carroll, Craig Bellamy & Dirk Kuyt all scored, Bellamy has emerged as Liverpool's top scorer so far, this Season with a total of 9 goals in all competitions compared to the controversially suspended Luis Suarez's 8 thus far.
Can't wait to see the two of them play together in a Red shirt.

SPANISH CUP 1º leg semi final match between 2º Division B Club MIRANDES & Liga Club ATHLETIC CLUB BILBAO. Simple explanation & summary, the "downgrading" of the "dream ticket" for Mirandes. FERNANDO LLORENTE scored twice for a 1 - 2 away result for Bilbao, with late Mirandes goal. Fernando Llorente Please do not get me wrong, Mirandes were brave & put in a good performance, they should be