Argentine lower league side Club Atlético Talleres got on the radars of soccer fans around the world last year when it used some revealing pictures of a local soccer babe...

Argentine lower league side Club Atlético Talleres got on the radars of soccer fans around the world last year when it used some revealing pictures of a local soccer babe...

Fishtown Hipsters, kicking in the balls. I have to give it to the Russians, they know how to make surprise moves, even Bobby Fischer wouldn't have seen this one coming. We all were anticipating a team of skilled bullies in order to break us physically, to get at least one of us hurt. Instead they went the other way.

Not the sight we would have wanted to greet you with on this fine footballing day. Sigh. Image: AP Photo/ Shizuo Kambayashi.

For those of you who haven't heard, David Villa fractured his tibia this morning in Barcelona's FIFA Club World Cup game vs. Al-Sadd. Early reports state the striker will probably be out of the game for six months.

With the Final of the 2011 Rugby World Cup hours away, here is rugby babe Jade Fairbrother in Playboy South Africa's September 2011 edition. Jade's rugby-inspired Ms. September 2011 spread features the model in a South Africa Springbok- inpired pictorial including the magazines centerfold. After a strong run at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, South [.

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Canberra Club members may have an opportunity to assist Australian player development. If history in the local clubland is anything to go by, there is no guarantee they'll do it -at least not without a fight!
Along time ago I was good enough to take on Mark Viduka and Craig Moore in football.

Toni Kroos of Bayern Munich and Ben Hatira of Hamburg are two different players who employ two very different training tactics. Both seem like stand-up gentlemen, the kind of guys who stockpile Dove soap at their flats. We take comfort in the fact that, at some point, their grass stains will be addressed.

The game is on Fox, as in Q13/113. That means live, broadcast HD soccer in middle of the day. Last year's UEFA Champions League Final drew a "massive" rating of 1.0 (basically equal to MLS Cup Final on cable). This year with teams much more well known in the United States the ratings should be better, but for all the talk about how popular soccer is in America, it would help if people actually watched it when it is offered at the highest club level.

DID you know that 52% of men would give up a "date" with a supermodel to see their side win the Champions League Final? Heineken has done the research. Of course, the question should not be 'would you give up a date with a top model to see your team win the Cup', but:

"If you decline Adriana Lima's offer to date (shag) her, your team will win the Champions' League once in the next three seasons.

It is Sempre Sampdoria here at Serie A Weekly and after the official sending down this past weekend, thought it only appropriate we lift spirits with some eye candy wearing i Blucerchiati (the blue ringed) of the Genoa based club. Sampdoria, Serie A Weekly salutes you! Current Squad at Sampdoria 1 Brazil GK Júnior da Costa 2 Croatia DF Vedran Celjak 3 Switzerland DF Reto Ziegler 4 Italy MF.

Pop star Katy Perry became a soccer babe in June 2009 when she had the West Ham Umbro 2009/10 home jersey patterned into a tight-fitting corset and tight-fitting shorts set. The gesture was for then boyfriend (and now husband) Russell Brand, a lifelong West Ham United fan. A couple of years later in 2011, Katy Perry [.

A moment of repose before the big day ahead.
6th February 1958.
A plane crashes on a runway in Munich. 23 of the 44 passengers die, including eight Manchester United
players.
Among them was Duncan Edwards. It is football's tragedy that we will never know the player he could have been:
Is it possible that Duncan Edwards was really that good?