Ajax striker Luis Suarez looks set to be one of the summer's hottest transfer targets with news emanating from Holland that scouts from a host of top European clubs have been monitoring his progress. Manchester United are known to be confirmed admirers of the 22-year-old and it now appears that Liverpool have joined their close rivals and AC Milan in sending representatives to the Amsterdam Arena.

El "Vasco" Aguirre ya dio a conocer la lista de jugadores que estarán para los partidos de eliminatoria contra Costa Rica y Honduras, los próximos 5 y 9 de septiembre respectivamente.
Regresan al Tri Pablo Barrera (que no jugó contra EU en el Azteca) y Héctor Moreno, que ya está completamente recuperado de una lesión.

Joleon Lescott was introduced as Manchester City's latest signing on Wednesday and wasted no time having a go at former Everton manager David Moyes.

No, Lescott didn't do a Tevez and completely bash his former manager, but he did take issue with comments made by Moyes during the whole transfer process, including denying claims that he disrespected Everton and his former teammates during the process.

Chelsea v Barcelona
Originally uploaded by toksuede Calendario y resultados de la Champions League 2009-2010 Todos los partidos
Estamos en esto de las complacencias y revisando el buzón me piden que les ponga el Calendario de la Champions League.
Por supuesto que si, debemos de ver el fútbol de la mejor calidad y este 2009 y 2010 habrá mucho fútbol internacional.

I think we've got the basics about Bayern Munich's new coach covered now and when you feel ready to plunge in medias res, you can head over to the Bayern Munich Offside and join a lively discussion about his philosophy, control freakishness, tactics, player sales and signings etc.

If you feel overwhelmed but still underinformed by the above soup ad, then here is what else there is to know about the Iron Tulip:

- He's Dutch.

Javier Aguirre da a conocer a sus jugadores para enfrentar a Costa Rica y a Honduras el 5 y 9 de Septiembre respectivamente:

Porteros:

Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña América

José de Jesús Corona Rodríguez Cruz Azul

Defensas:

José Antonio Castro González Tigres UANL

Efraín Juárez Valdez Pumas UNAM

José Jonny Magallón Oliva Guadalajara

Aarón Galindo Rubio Guadalajara

Ricardo Osorio Mendoza Stuttgart

Héctor Moreno Herrera AZ Alkmaar

Carlos Arnoldo Salcido Flores PSV Eindhoven

Medios:

Oscar Adrián Rojas Castillon Club América

Israel Castro Macías Pumas UNAM

Gerardo Torrado Diez de Bonilla Cruz Azul

José Andrés Guardado Hernández Deportivo La Coruña

Pablo Edson Barrera Acosta Pumas UNAM

Delanteros:

Giovani Dos Santos Ramírez Tottenham

Nery Alberto Castillo Confalonieri FC Dnipro

Guillermo Luis Franco Farcuason

Miguel Sabah Rodríguez Monarcas

Cuauhtémoc Blanco Bravo Chicago Fire

Néstor Calderón Enríquez Toluca

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We had this idea to do a monthly power rankings and while discussing - quite literally in the middle of our conversation - an RSS feed popped up from Unprofessional Foul who had just released their first power rankings. After cursing them to eternal damnation we decided "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em", which [.

Dutch Eredivisie champions AZ Alkmaar have revealed their 2009-10 shirts. The AZ Alkmaar 2009-10 kits are made by Quick. They were made by Canterbury last year, but AZ have decided to switch back for Quick for this season. Check out the photos of the 1.) New AZ Alkmaar 2009-10 home shirt 2.) New AZ Alkmaar 2009-10 away [.

Now that we have reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores, it's time for an updated WCR Top 25 Clubs in the World list. The truth, however, is that the Copa Libertadores is having very little effect on the rankings. Primarily, this is because the clubs that are doing well in the Copa Libertadores are having significant trouble domestically.

Congratulations to Estudiantes de La Plata, 2009 Copa Libertadores Campeones!!!
The championship had very little affect on the rankings because Estudiantes had already completed its Argentine Clausura season at the time of our last rankings and it had already received Bonus Points for their Copa Libertadores success.

After a lot of tut-tutting over Craig Bellamy's idiotic comments, the Finnish squad is looking a little bit threadbare as they prepare for the vitally important friendly against Norway. Lillestrom keeper Otto Fredriksson will watch the game from the sidelines so as to avoid aggravating a troublesome knee.

A huge congratulations today to Louis van Gaal's AZ Alkmaar side who yesterday became the Dutch Eredivisie champions. They suffered a surprising 2-1 defeat to Vitesse on Saturday, but Ajaz's failure to ebat PSV yesterday (they were hammered 6-2) handed AZ only their second ever league title.
They are actually the only team outside the Netherlands' "big three" (PSV, Ajax, Feyenoord) to win the top flight title since 1964 (AZ themselves won it in 1981) although they have been there or thereabouts for three out of the last four seasons.

Former Porto and AZ Alkmaar winger Tarik Sektioui, aged 32 and capped 18-times by Morocco, has spurned the advances of European clubs to seal a lucrative transfer to UAE club Ajman.
Read On -- Tarik Sektioui Joins Ajman Of UAE via Goal.com

Ladies and gentleman of the soccer world, here are the groups of the 2009-2010 UEFA Champions League. Tune into the next episode of Mad About Futbol as we will be discussing and analyzing the groups and all the implications surrounding the teams involved. There is certainly a lot of excitement with the drawing of the groups and the upcoming Mad About Futbol show will have all the information you need to know about this season's Champions League.

Seleccion Mexicana de Futbol
Originally uploaded by - Nahum - Esta es la posible Alineacion de la Selección Mexicana de Futbol contra Costa Rica para este sabado 5 de Septiembre.
1.- Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña América Portero
2.- Jonny Magallón Chivas de Guadalajara Defensa
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If you haven't joined in the fun already - Wednesday is your chance to get in the race. There are eight more matches in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday.
Players get 10 points for a predicting the actual score; 5 points for the winner with the right margin (or a draw that isn't the exact score) or 2 points for just getting the winning team right.

Convocatora Selección Mexicana
Por mediotiempo nos enteramos de la convocatoria de la Selección Mexicana para los partido del hexagonal, en casa recibiendo al Salvador y de visita en Trinidad y Tobago.
Las novedades es el regreso de Rafa Marquez, El Gio no por su lesión, Vela regresa despues de su lesión, Arellano también, el llamado de Esqueda y lo mejor ya no se convocó a Nery Castillo, aqui la lista.

My first day in Buenos Aires turned out to be the day of the superclasico, even though I scheduled it months before the schedule came out. Fate? Perhaps. Unfortunately, fate also worked to have me arrive too late to attend the match. Fate can be fickle. Because of the fickle finger of fate, the only picture I have is a blurry one of a television screen showing the end of the match in a café in Buenos Aires.

Dutch goalie's anger rules him out for six weeks AZ Alkmaar keeper Sergio Romero broke his hand after punching a door following his side's cup defeat to NAC Breda last week. The Argentinian - who managed to keep his temper in check until he was in front of a camera - will now miss the Eredivisie [..

AMSTERDAM (AP)—Marco Van Basten resigned as coach of Ajax Amsterdam on Wednesday after the club failed to qualify for next season's European Champions League.
The 1992 FIFA Player of the Year became coach of the club last July, after he quit as coach of the Netherlands following the European Championship.

This is how Joey could have stopped that Suarez penalty... Ajax had a tiny chance to play themselves back into Champions League mode against AZ Alkmaar. Luis Suarez got to take a penalty. It was a crucial one. The equalizer. Luis decided to do it flashy: with a panenka. And it

Newly crowned Dutch Eredivisie champions AZ Alkmaar have unveiled their home, away and third Quick kits for the 2009/10 season. This follows AZ signing a three year deal with Quick for the Dutch company to become the club's kit and training gear provider for the next three years. Quick was founded in 1905 in Hengelo, Gelderland.

Just-Football's six part series looking at the winners and losers in 2008/2009 across European football's major domestic leagues continues now with Part 4 - analysing the winners and losers in...

Convocados Mexico vs Costa Rica Septiembre 5 de 2009
SELECCIÓN MEXICANA Jugador Posición Equipo Guillermo Ochoa Portero América Jesús Corona Portero Cruz Azul José Antonio Castro Defensa Tigres Efraín Juárez Defensa Pumas Jonny Magallón Defensa Chivas Aarón Galindo Defensa Chivas Ricardo Osorio Defensa Stuttgart Héctor Moreno Defensa AZ Alkmaar Carlos Salcido Defensa PSV Eindhoven Oscar Rojas Defensa América Israel Castro Medio Pumas Gerardo Torrado Medio Cruz Azul Andrés Guardado Medio Dep.

I've been accused of being too Euro-centric in the past ...
But Europe's where the money goes and where the best players in the world play. So cut me some slack, eh?
Here, the full draw for the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League ... looks like a good one ...

Group A: Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bordeaux , Maccabi Haifa

Group B: Manchester United, CSKA Moscow, Besiktas, Wolfsburg

Group C: AC Milan, Real Madrid, Marseille, FC Zurich

Group D: Chelsea, Porto, Atletico Madrid, Apoel FC

Group E: Liverpool, Lyon, Fiorentina, Debreceni

Group F: Barcelona, Internazionale, Dynamo Kiev, FC Rubin Kazan

Group G: Sevilla, Rangers, VfB Stuttgart, Unirea Uriziceni

Group H: Arsenal, AZ Alkmaar, Olympiakos, Standard Liege

Who gets out?

Group A

Bayern Munchen
Juventus
Bordeaux
Maccabi Haifa

Group B

Manchester United
CSKA Moskow
Besiktas
Wolfsburg

Group C

AC Milan
Real Madrid
Marseille
FC Zurich

Group D

Chelsea
Porto
Atletico Madrid
APOEL

Group E

Liverpool
Lyon
Fiorentina
Debrecen

Group F

Barcelona
Internazionale
Dynamo Kiev
Rubin Kazan

Group G

Sevilla
Rangers
Stuttgart
Unirea Urziceni

Group H

Arsenal
AZ Alkmaar
Olympiakos
Standard Liege

Reaction

Manchester United along with Arsenal have fairly straightforward groups and both should be looking to come out on top.

It was a dive. It was a dive. It was a dive.
Despite every Arsenal fan accepting that, we still have had it repeated ad nauseam. All day long. So I thought it should be said a few more times.
Goodplaya's description of events is perfect:

Last night Eduardo did what a million strikers do – nudge the ball past the keeper and trust his momentum will provide enough contact to yield a penalty.

Ya se hizo el sorteo de los grupos para la Champions de esta temporada, y hay unos que se van a poner muy buenos, aunque obviamente eso deja a otros bastante aburridos, por estar bastante disparejos (aunque eso puede dejar lugar para sorpresas).
Habrá partidos muy buenos como Barcelona-Inter, Real Madrid-Milán, Atlético de Madrid-Chelsea y varios más.

The legendary footballer and current Argentina manager Maradona chooses his squad without Real Madrid hitman Higuain nor Lazio Zarate.. Goalkeepers: Juan Pablo Carrizo (Zaragoza) Mariano Andujar (Catania) Sergio Romero (AZ Alkmaar) Defenders: Javier Zanetti (Inter Milan) Nicolas Pareja (Espanyol) Fabricio Coloccini (Newcastle) Gabriel Heinze (Marseille) Nicolas Burdisso (Inter Milan) Sebastian Dominguez (Velez Sarsfield) Emiliano Papa (Velez Sarsfield) Nicolas Otamendi (Velez Sarsfield) Midfielders: Fernando Gago (Real Madrid) Javier Mascherano (Liverpool) Maximiliano Rodriguez (Atletico [.

Kindly find below links for websites providing streaming services for the AZ Alkmaar vs Arsenal Champions League game. These links will be updated before and during the match so make sure to refresh the page ...

The UEFA Champions League continues its group stage with some key matches on Tuesday, November 3, and Wednesday, November 4. Here's a list of predictions, previews, and USA/UK TV Listings for the upcoming matches.

Previews

Full previews of all the matches can be found here the UEFA's official website, here.

It's already halftime in Kazan as Barcelona look to avenge their defeat at Camp Nou in their last meeting (live on FSC). With the score tied at 0-0, there are plenty of reasons to watch -- as well as other Champions League action as matchday 4 resumes today.

Liverpool face Lyon as the French club aims to reach the qualification stages.

Arsenal 4-1 AZ Alkmaar R (HT 2-0)

• Fabregas 25
• Nasri 43
• Fabregas 52
• Diaby 72

• Lens 82

Manager Louis van Gaal is grateful to face struggling side FC Volendam. The 2007-08 champions of the Eerste Divisie, Volendam has struggled in Holland's top flight.
AZ leads the league with 41 points while Volendam can only speak of 11.
Dutch-Moroccan forward, Mounir El Hamdaoui, paces AZ with 15 goals.

It has been a strange, strange year in Dutch football. The clubs currently partaking in the Dutch top flight have won a combined 49 Eredivisie titles, with Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord having won a modest 48 of those. Hegemony might be a start, but it's still some way from an apt and thorough description.

AZ Alkmaar forward Moussa Dembele has laughed off reports suggesting he is a summer target for Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger. The Belgium international was yesterday linked with a 5.5million euros move to the Premier League club but Dembele was sceptical when asked about the speculation. 'At first I thought: Arsenal, that's nice,' he said.

Belgium, currently sitting fourth its World Cup qualifying group, appears destined to miss out on international competition yet again.
The squad has managed just seven out of a possible 18 points in Group Five. Up first, the federation needs to find a coach after sacking Rene Vandereycken.

German greatest, Bayern Munich seem to have finally found what they were looking for these last few weeks as they have announced a big, experienced name to come to the hot bench of underachieving team. Louis Van Gaal is expected to make a radical cut to the club and he will have the chance to do so starting July 1st.

Groningen's prolific striker Marcus Berg, who had become a regular in the senior national team, joined the U21 side in order to help them at the tournament they hosted and he immediately showed why he was tracked by the number of European clubs. Berg scored a hat-trick in the opening game against Belarus and thus helped his side record a very important win, while at the same time he impressed the visiting scouts and he therefore made a big step towards making a move to much bigger club then Groningen.

With the third qualifying round of the UEFA Champions League upon us, and excellent clubs beginning action including some in the WCR Pre-Season Top 25, it seems like an appropriate time to take a look at what is coming up. At the moment, there are 57 clubs that are still alive in the competition for the 2009-10 Champions League title.