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10 Premier League players have been named in the 30 strong list for the European Player Of The Year Awards- three of which are Man United players.
Here is the list-
Arsenal- Andrey Arshavin and Cesc Fabregas
Atletico Madrid- Diego Forlan
Barcelona- Thierry Henry, Xavi, Yaya Toure, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi
Bayern Munich- Franck Ribery
Bordeaux- Yoann Gourcuff
Chelsea- John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba
Inter Milan- Samuel Eto'o, Julio Cesar and Maicon
Juventus- Diego
Liverpool- Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres
Man United- Nemanja Vidic, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney
Real Madrid- Karim Benzema, Iker Casillas, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo
Sevilla- Luis Fabiano
Valencia- David Silva
Wolfsburg- Edin Dzeko
Barcelona dominates the list with six players and in all honesty.

Arsenal's Emmanuel Adebayor has been named the African Player of the Year.

Gael Clichy revealed all in an exclusive interview on France television earlier this morning. The French fullback, who missed the latter part of the season with a back injury, spoke about the Arsenal fans' chant for him and his problematic back injury while Gael's father talked about his 'natural' right foot!

Soccer hall of famer Joy Fawcett

The ultimate soccer mom reached the pinnacle of her sport Sunday.

"In my life, I've had two dreams: To play soccer at the highest level and to be a mother," former United States Women's National Team standout defender Joy Fawcett said midway through her induction speech at the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Manchester United's Serbian defender Nemanja Vidic has been named Premier League player of the month for January 2009. Vidic's manager Sir Alex Ferguson got the Premier League manager of the month award for January 2009 after he guided the Red Devils to wins in all four of their league games. In January 2009, Manchester United beat [.

Last night Manchester United held their annual end of season awards ceremony to celebrate this season and obviously give out awards. There was one noticeable absentee from the ceremony and that was...
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Fresh off her 101st career goal and a U.S. 1-0 win against Germany yesterday, it was announced that Women's National Team and Washington Freedom forward Abby Wambach is the only American nominated for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Award.

Freedom teammate and French National player Sonia Bompastor is also on the list of ten nominees.

Christiano Ronaldo and Marta Vieira da Silva were honoured by the FIFA organization in Zurich as the players of the year. Ronaldo won for the men's for his amazing 42 goals scored last season alone. Marta won for the women for her great performance on team Brazil, leading her team to the World Cup. In [.

Picture D - a narrow leadJust a quick post for now to say that the polls are still open for you to vote on the 2008 Just Football 'Photo, Shoot' Photo of the Year award.Dylanchubb's picture taken prior to the first penalty in the Champions League final between Chelsea and Manchester United being taken remains ahead of the other six photos at present, but there is still time to have your say and

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney has won an individual award, he has been voted England's Player Of The Year Of 2008. You could vote for your favourite England player via the Football...
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Andrey Arshavin has capped off a breakthrough month in English football by winning the Barclays Player of the Month award - just days after scooping Arsenal's monthly accolade. The 27-year-old provided Gooners with a breathtaking range of skills, goals and style last April. Arshavin bagged four goals during the game at Anfield in what [.

The club held its annual awards banquet Thursday and, to no surprise whatsoever, Frank Lampard was named Chelsea Player of the Year by the fans. It's the first time in club history a player has won the award three times.

Super Frank was honored in 2004 and 2005. He has featured in every Premier League game this campaign, tallying 12 goals and 12 assists.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson and Man United defender Nemanja Vidic have both received awards. Fergie has picked up the award for Manager Of The Year, this is the ninth time that he has...
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Newcastle United manager, Chris Hughton has picked up a second successive Championship 'Manager of the Month' with Newcastle United on the eve of taday's clash with the Robins of Bristol City. The ex 'Spurs and Republic if Ireland legend beat off WBA's Roberto Martinez, Preston's Alan Irvine, and Gareth Southgate from the toxic waste dump [.

US Soccer is taking nominations for their "Best of 2009" series, so head on over and pick your favorite soccer bar, specialty store, fan photo, and blog. Far be it for me to tell you what to choose,...

Chad Marshall has won his second consecutive MLS Defender of the Year award, holding off fellow finalists Seattle's Jhon Kennedy Hurtado and Houston's Geoff Cameron. Marshall was a steady force in...

Chet North of the Kansas City Wizards was named the MLS Head Athletic Trainer of the Year. I was finally able to get Chet to sit still for an interview. He discusses a little bit of everything: including what it takes to earn the award, the ownership, the MLS Cup team and players. Chet is the only person that has been with the Wizards organization since the first year.

I wouldn't normally pump up someone else's blog specifically, but when a soccer blog is up against some of the best from the other big sports in the U.S. for a major award like the Best Sports Blog from the 2008 Weblog Awards, I feel it's time to change the rules a little bit. Ives Galarcep and his in-depth news blog Soccer By Ives is in the final 15 against some of the biggest sports blogs from other American sports.

Those of you who are regular readers will be aware that we run a feature here on Just-Football called 'Photo, Shoot' in which we take a look at football photography from around the world. Members upload their best football snapshots to the Just-Football photo pool over on Flickr, which you can check out (and join) here, and the best of them are featured on the site.

That is one cool trophy.In the inaugural voting for the Samba d'Or, an award given to the best Brazilian player playing in Europe, Kaka has come out on top.Kaka beat out Robinho and Luis Fabiano for the award. The award is given out by the Sambafoot Association, with votes for the winner also coming from current players and fan vote.

As many of you know, the recent PFA or the "Players Football Association Player of the Year" nominees have been released. Essentially, this is an award that the players of the Premier League vote on, to honor who they feel is the best player of the year.Now this year, many people are criticizing the nominees, because there are 5 Manchester United players among the shortlist of 6 players.

It has been a great week in the world of soccer, with Barcelona destroying Madrid, AC Milan continuing their good form, and many title races still up in the air.Here are two stories that you may have missed this week:25 year old Dan Magness set a new world record for longest time controlling a football.

Here are the winners of the FC Boro 2008/2009 End of Season Awards...

Player of the Season

FC Boro's player of the season is Mark Roberts. The ex Northwich man joined Stevenage in November, initially on loan before making the move permanent in January.

Right back Glen Johnson was named Portsmouth's Fans Player of the Season ( for 2008-09) as well as Player's Player of the Season at the end of the season awards last night. Johnson beat off competition from David James and Peter Crouch to win the Fans Player of the Season award. Midfielder Sean Davis, Crouch and Johnson [.

I just think it's really cool I've been nominated for the same set of awards that includes Brian Phillips, Sport is a TV Show, The Fiver, and Football Weekly, and if they're all allowed to abuse their respective mediums to solicit votes, then, well, so am I.
So vote for "A More Splendid Life" to win EPL's Best Blog award.

They Think It's All Over... picks the Premier League Team of the Season. Such selections are always contraversial so have a read and then have your say!

Congratulations to winger Cristiano Ronaldo, he has won yet another award. This time he has been voted Sexiest Man Alive in a new magazine poll for Gay Times. It is no secret that Ronaldo takes care...
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The following is an opinionated list of Arsenal's best and worst moments of the last season, plus some awards for notable and notorious acts on the field. The Ten Best Performances by the Gunners. 1. Fenerbahce 2 Arsenal 5. Our finest outing of the season. An intimidating crowd and we put the Turkish side to [.

Peace out.

The newly-renamed Chris Sutton-Winston Bogarde Award for wack transfer of the season goes to ... Luiz Felipe Scolari
The fat, loveable World Cup winner traded national team football with Portugal for the sunny side of London and Stamford Bridge.

Image credited to The Daily Mail Arsenal and Russia playmaker Andrey Arshavin received the mark of Saint Tatyana from the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday. The 28-year-old earned the award due to his work with the orphans of Russia, he's the first football player in his country to receive the honour.

It's been nearly a month since the end of the 2008/2009 Serie A season. I would've put this post up earlier, but the Confederations Cup and the U-21 Championship distracted me from Serie A talk. So I thought we'd discuss who was the best foreign player and who was the best Italian player this season.

! Article Start >Newcastle United top goal scorer Kevin Nolan takes the October 2009 award for Championship Player of the Month. Nolan seems to have settled nicely into his attacking midfield/backup striker role and managed to pip Leicester City's Matt Fryatt to get the award. Furthermore, Alan Smith claimed 4th place in the voting.

Major League Soccer announced today that Zach Thornton of Chivas USA has won the 2009 Goalkeeper of the Year Award. Thornton beat out Seattle's Kasey Keller and LA Galaxy's Donovan...

The annual marquee event of the local football fraternity returned to Caldecott Broadcast Center after a two-year break, as all involved came together to honour the best of the best of the who and who of Singapore football.
As I was tasked something else in the event, I did not watch the whole proceeding like two years at Suntec City, while hopping in and out of media at Orchard Hotel last year.

Look at that beautiful surface.
We'll give you the press release on this one so we don't miss anything important...props to Jay, Justin, Michael and anyone else who helped them along the way!
The Kansas City Wizards announced Monday that the Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) has named CommunityAmerica Ballpark's playing surface the Professional Soccer Field of the Year.

Go here to vote for Davy or Claudio for goal of the year.Go here to vote for Kevin for save of the year.

Fresh off her 101st career goal and a U.S. 1-0 win against Germany yesterday, it was announced that Women's National Team and Washington Freedom forward Abby Wambach is the only American nominated for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Award.

Freedom teammate and French National player Sonia Bompastor is also on the list of ten nominees.

Match Fit USA, along with a "Who's Who" of American soccer blogs, has been nominated for USSoccer.com's Best Blog of 2009. Thank you to all the nominated the site; we haven't even hit our one year...