It's hard to imagine a guy making more than £40,000 running out of money, but it's happened to Brad Friedel.

The former U.S. International and Aston Villa keeper owes about £5 million, according to a English court.

Apparently, an academy he opened in Ohio a few years ago is the source of his financial woes, and he seems hopeful that he can get it sorted out soon.

Thank god. Thank god. Thank god.

My Offside account has finally been restored and so I can now begin posting and updating. Fear NOT! This site will not die so long as TheOffside doesn't prevent me access to post publishing.

So: Today's analysis is on the plan for La Liga players to strike and stay away from matches on the opening day of the La Liga season, scheduled for August 21, a tantalising few days away.

Aston Villa and former US goalkeeper Brad Friedel has been declared bankrupt at a court hearing in Macclesfield. The cause of Friedel's bankruptcy is a soccer academy he set up under his name in Ohio in 2007.

It was meant to be a non-profit-making venture, but it lost money heavily and court documents show Friedel and his company owed almost £5 million last August and lender RBS Citizens was forced to take action.

Aston Villa and former US goalkeeper Brad Friedel has been declared bankrupt at a court hearing in Macclesfield. The cause of Friedel's bankruptcy is a soccer academy he set up under his name in Ohio in 2007.

It was meant to be a non-profit-making venture, but it lost money heavily and court documents show Friedel and his company owed almost £5 million last August and lender RBS Citizens was forced to take action.

It has been another busy week for Croydon Athletic of the Ryman League Premier Division. This is a club which has had, in all the wrong ways, a quite extraordinary season and their supporters could be forgiven for wondering whether fate is conspiring against their club. Following their promotion from Division One South of the league at the end of last season, it has felt as if everything that could go wrong for them has gone wrong and, after the events of the last few days, the future of the club could again be considered to be hanging in the balance after the collapse of the company that stepped in as recently as December to save them.

Fulham-Blackpool the encounter I watched last Saturday with real attentiveness is, in a weird sort of way, my kind of match. Not that I don't enjoy the big clubs with their expensive workforces: especially when they play one another there's an entertaining Clash of the Titans feel to the enterprise.

Jorge Vergara, the Mexican businessman who owns Mexican giants Chivas de Guadalajara, sold his majority interest in Costa Rica's Saprissa to a group of local businessmen. The sale was completed yesterday and confirmed today at the club's official website. Vergara owned 67% of the club, which he turned over to the consortium called Purple Horizon (Horizonte Morado) that is led by Juan Carlos Rojas, Édgar Zurcher, Alberto Raven, and René Picado.

The current Bundesliga table as seen from a kit sponsor's perspective.

1. Kappa
2. adidas
3. adidas
4. Under Armour
5. Nike
6. adidas
7. adidas
8. Nike
9. Puma
10. adidas
11. Nike
12. Reebok
13. Do You Football
14.

The Champagne might follow later, but inside Borussia Dortmund's mammoth 80,720-strong full house, the party began fittingly with beer this weekend. Dortmund, the club that almost died of bankruptcy several times over the past two decades, is the Deutscher Meister — the new and thoroughly deserved champion of the Bundesliga.

spanish sports SPANISH SPORTS mantains alive one of the best teams in the sport of HANDBALL, in Spain & in all Europe, thanks to an agreement that saves CIUDAD REAL Handball Team. The current Spanish Cup champions, the 5 time ASOBAL Winners, World Club Champions twice, three times European Champions .

Swansea City will make their English Premier League debut in August 2011 and in the process becoming the first Welsh club to reach the league. While it's not the first time a Welsh club has played in the top tier of English football it represents an extraordinary rise from the ashes for the Swans and, no less importantly, a snub to bitter Welsh rivals Cardiff City.

Swansea City will make their English Premier League debut in August 2011 and in the process becoming the first Welsh club to reach the league. While it's not the first time a Welsh club has played in the top tier of English football it represents an extraordinary rise from the ashes for the Swans and, no less importantly, a snub to bitter Welsh rivals Cardiff City.

Swansea City will make their English Premier League debut in August 2011 and in the process becoming the first Welsh club to reach the league. While it's not the first time a Welsh club has played in the top tier of English football it represents an extraordinary rise from the ashes for the Swans and, no less importantly, a snub to bitter Welsh rivals Cardiff City.

So we play in Brussels against Anderlecht on thursday, our first game in the group stage of the Europa League. A very important game ofcourse, and a chance for retribution after last years Euro League games against the Belgians. But things don't look very good for us. We didn't get to play one game in the Superleague, so we lack playing rythm.

Full Name: Stade Brestois 29
City: Brest
Founded: 1950
Stadium: Stade Francis-Le Blé (15,097)
Colors: Red, White

Brest were formed in 1950 by the merger of several local Brest clubs, most notably Armoricaine de Brest (1903).

Racing Santander's administrators have announced that the club has a total debt of almost €48m, a figure over €10m in excess of the one presented when the Cantabrians applied to enter bankruptcy in July.

The difference was explained by the fact that investment company Western Gulf Advisory (WGA), owned by Indian businessman Ahsan Ali Syed who purchased the club in January, 2011, is shown amongst the list of creditors as being owed €8.

German club Allemania Aachen now play in the splendidly modern New Tivoli Stadium, but their home between 1928 and 2009 was the original Tivoli Stadium, which still stands as pictured above in August this year.

Alemannia Aachen enjoyed considerable success in the 1960s, shortly after Tivoli's capacity was increased, Bundesliga runners-up in 1969.

Dear Scottie Pippen,

Please read the entire title of this blog post before you sue me for $1 million. Please. I don't have $1 million to give you even if you really are bankrupt.

In case you haven't heard, Scottie Pippen is suing every media outlet on the planet that ever claimed he was bankrupt.