Congratulations to Cristiano Ronaldo for winning the 2008 FIFA World Player of the Year award. While Cristiano Ronaldo wasn't my choice for the award, its easy to see why he won but the beef I have with this award has to do with the choices for the shortlist of candidates. If this is supposed to [.

** Liverpool travel to Craven Cottage, looking to continue/revive their great run of form and stay withing striking distance of United at the top.

** The Ugly Dutchman and Steven Gerrard have agreed to new deals, keeping both at Anfield (or that new stadium that started in May of 2007) until 2013.

Arsenal's high scoring striker Emmanuel Sheyi Adebayor became the 1st Togolese player to win the Confederation of African Football Player Of the Year. In an awards ceremony in Lagos, Nigeria, Adebayor beat out Egypt & Al-Ahly midfielder Mohamed Aboutrika and Ghana & Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien for the honor.

Like every season, the 2008/2009 season would be a very tight race for the honor or dishonor of being named 2009 LLTO La Liga Dirtiest Player. Many young defenders tackled and taunted their way to the top of the cards list, but for most their strong effort would come up a little bit short.

USLNews congratulates all the award winners!
Most Valuable Player – Angelika Johannson (Hudson Valley)
Defender of the Year – Brittany Taylor (Hudson Valley)
U-19 Player of the Year – Chante Sandiford (Washington Freedom)
Coach of the Year – Fabien Cottin (Quebec City Amiral)
You can read the full news release HERE.

Well their is the lucky clubs and the unlucky ones too. Unfortunately, sometimes the gap is so small between these clubs that it is hard to say where exactly it all went wrong. They say football is a game of inches, but sometimes it much more precise then that. These were the teams that let it slip in between their fingers.

Not many surprises here.

The WPS awards were handed out Saturday night ahead of Sunday's WPS All-Star game in St. Louis.

The six award winners:

*Golden Boot Award - Marta (Sol)
*Defender of the Year - Amy LePeilbet (Boston Breakers)
*Coach of the Year - Abner Rogers (Sol)
*Goalkeeper of the Year - Hope Solo (Saint Louis Athletica)
*Sportswoman of the Year - Christie Rampone (Sky Blue FC)
* Player of the Year Award - Marta (Sol)

Quotable:

"Each player in the league has it as their goal to try for an award like this," said Marta on being named WPS MVP.

Though Saturday's playoff exit still stings, tonight the team, front office and fans will gather to reflect on the positives from 2009 season at the 6th Annual United Awards Reception. The yearly event takes place at the Atlas Performing Arts Center (1333 H St. NE) and a great evening of mixing and mingling is in store.

Yeah I'm almost a week behind on this, but was thinking the team may actually announce more winners than just MVP, Golden Boot and Humanitarian of the Year. Anyways, this year, the award winners consisted of 2 players, Josh Wolff and Jimmy Conrad.
Wolff won both the MVP award and the Golden Boot.

The 2009 MLS season was full of surprises. Many Best XI mainstays fell by the wayside as new blood infused the league with excitement. But who was the absolute best player at each position in MLS in 2009? That's a good question, and one I probably shouldn't have an "expert" opinion on.

With the unbelievable offensive production this season, it was hard to choose a single player that stood out to such a degree that they are deemed worthy of the 2009 LLTO Most Improved Player of the Primera Division. This year it would be joint award winners and the two men that are taking home the hardware are Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry of Barcelona.

Major League Soccer will be announcing the 2009 award winners over three weeks in November. The League announced the schedule and the three finalists in each category on Monday. Jeff Cunningham, Landon Donovan, and Shalrie Joseph are in the running for the Most Valuable Player award, with the announcement set for Thursday, November 20th.

Turkey Day is finally here, and with it comes STO's (First) Annual Turducken Awards. What is a Turducken, you ask? Well, it is a turkey that is stuffed with a duck, which is stuffed with a chicken. John Madden popularized the term by constantly referring to the dish while on the air.