The Spanish federation (RFEF) has agreed a preliminary deal with Chinese promoter United Vansen International Sport for the Spanish Super Cup to take place in Beijing beginning in 2013.

The two-legged, season-opening tie, which pits the La Liga champions against the Copa del Rey holders, will be played in the Bird's Nest stadium in the Chinese capital, the federation said in a statement on their website.

Pele, who recently signed up on Twitter (about time!), has drummed up his Anti-Messi sentiments again by declaring that the Barcelona striker needs to do 'a lot better' than Neymar if he wants to impress the Santos legend and get invited for "cacau" (hot chocolate) in his home.

Stephon Marbury is a champion. The former NBA star has won a championship in the Chinese Basketball Association. Marbury's Guangdog team beat the team from Beijing in Game 5 of the Finals to capture the championship. It's the first title of any kind for Marbury.

Said Marbury: "It has been an incredible experience.

Chinese Super League outfit Guizhou Renhe are keen on landing England internationals Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand this summer and in a bid to try and convince the duo to move to China, the club is ready to offer both players £250k every week for their services.

"I want the best team in China and we are prepared to invest a lot of money to bring Ferdinand and Lampard to us," club chairman Wang Guolin told The Sun Newspaper.

Once, they were both on the side of good

Hello there. Finally starting to get back to my daily routine back home after the long trip. A journey that was worth every single penny spent. The experience will be penned out hopefully in the next few days and if all goes well, will be up at the Arsenal Collective website.

Piotr Nowak knows more about Olympic Qualifying than most. The Union head coach worked as an assistant to then USMNT boss Bob Bradley, and was in charge of the Olympic team for qualifying & the Beijing games back in 2008. Coach Nowak was kind enough to take a few minutes to discuss Caleb Porter's selections & the challenges of qualifying process last night at the FanFest at Chickie's & Pete's.

Freddy Adu was a member of the U.S. squad that beat Japan 1-0 in the 2008 Olympic Games.

Could there be a USA-Japan rematch in the cards for the 2012 Olympic Games? Japan has just booked its spot in London with a 2-0 win against Bahrain and joins South Korea as the two AFC representatives.

Arsene Wenger will take Arsenal to play Hong Kong Champions Kitchee FC at the HK Stadium on Sunday, July 29, as part of the club's Asia Tour 2012.

The club says the game will give the Gunners' huge fan base in Hong Kong the opportunity to see AW's team play live ahead of the 2012/2013 season.

Veronica Perez (right) will be an assistant referee for Friday's semifinal match between Canada and Panama at the 2012 CONCACAF U-20 Women's Championship.

Veronica Perez, who was selected in mid-February to officiate the 2012 CONCACAF Under-20 Women's Championship, will be an assistant referee for the semifinal match between Canada and host Panama on Friday, March 9.

Ladies and gentlemen, please mark your calendars for July 27, 2012. On that day, Arsenal will meet Manchester City in a pre-season friendly...In China?

For those of you who may not be privy to certain information, it is official: Arsenal will play Manchester City in Beijing, China, at the Beijing National Stadium (affectionately referred to as the "Bird's Nest Stadium.

Arsenal will tour the Far East taking in Seoul, Beijing and Hong Kong in the summer, it can be revealed.

Gunners chiefs are in talks with Far East parties to finalise the jaunt having already sealed a deal to play a friendly match in Nigeria.

With exposing the brand to global markets key to Arsenal's business strategy, gone are the days when Arsène Wenger could take the squad to Austria to take the Alpine air and prepare for the season ahead.

Arsenal will tour the Far East taking in Seoul, Beijing and Hong Kong in the summer, it can be revealed.

Gunners chiefs are in talks with Far East parties to finalise the jaunt having already sealed a deal to play a friendly match in Nigeria.

With exposing the brand to global markets key to Arsenal's business strategy, gone are the days when Arsène Wenger could take the squad to Austria to take the Alpine air and prepare for the season ahead.

The beat (no pun intended) goes on for the Independence, announcing the signing of former US Women's National Team standout, Lori Chalupny earlier today. Chalupny comes to Philadelphia from the Atlanta Beat, where she played in 17 games and scored two goals. "Lori is a world class midfielder. She has great vision, is a fantastic engine and can play both the percentage and million dollar pass," Philadelphia head coach Paul Riley told the official Independence website today.

Jon Levy You'll have to forgive all of us here at The Yanks Are Coming for getting into a more-than-healthy amount of self-referencing in the coming months. We're coming up on the blog's fourth birthday this summer, TYAC having been created in the wake of a very talented 2008 Olympic soccer team's early and unexpected exit from the Beijing [.

Tickets went on sale today for the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualify being held at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada from Jan. 19-29.
If you live in the Northwest, that's would be awesome if you could come. If you don't, and you still come, well that's one way we define a great fan of the U.

Dwight Howard en la Gira adidas por China compartió el entarimado con aficionados

Esta es la primer gira adidas Basketball por Beijing y contó con Dwight Howard que estuvo conviviendo con fanáticos.

Próximamente Dwight lanzará los nuevos adiPower que llevan su nombre y logotipo "dh"
Cientos de aficionados se reunieron en el Parque Di Tan en Beijing y formaron el logotipo "dh" de Dwight Howard (DH Beijing Ditan Park-11)

Dwight Howard usó una máscara en alusión a la Ópera de Pekín (foto DH Beijing Ditan Park-14)

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Mais um jogo da Copa Ouro, foi realizado no dia 10/06/2011, na cidade de Miami-USA, no Florida International University Stadium, onde jogaram as seleções de Granada (98º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção de Honduras (43º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
2009Foxboro/Boston 11/07/2009 HON4:0 (2:0)GRN First stage
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: David Gantar-CAN
O primeiro gol de Clive Murray, aos 19 minutos do primeiro tempo, para a seleção de Granada, ele que é jogador do Paradise-GRA, onde marcou seu 3º gol pela seleção nacional.

AC Milan overcame city rivals Inter Milan 2-1 in an utterly pulsating Italian Super Cup clash at the Beijing National Stadium in China. Goals by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and a 68th minute winner from midfielder Kevin Prince Boateng cancelled out Wesley Sneijder's superb 21st minute opener. In a spiky and frenetic match which lit up the [.

If there ever was a match that highlighted how a football game can be a story of two halves, it was this one. AC Milan managed to claim the Italian Super Cup in Beijing but only after coming back from one nil down with two goals in the second half. In typical fashion Max Allegri's [...]

The Serie A season begins in a little over three weeks, yet the curtain raiser for Italy's top flight takes place this Saturday. While Inter have been a constant in the Supercoppa over the last six years, this year's matchup holds special significance. Not only is it once again being held in Beijing's historic Bird's Nest Stadium, Inter's opponents are city rivals and last season's Scudetto.

Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish has left the door open for Alberto Aquilani to remain at Anfield this season.
The Italy international has been heavily linked with a move this summer following his return to the Reds after a year on loan at Juventus.
Fiorentina wanted to take him on another season-long loan but Aquilani rejected their approach last week saying that if he leaves Liverpool again he wants it to be on a permanent basis.

An AC Milan soccer fan, center left, is attacked and stripped off his jersey by Inter Milan fans before Inter Milan team's training session at Workers' Stadium in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011.

There's something to be said for leaving the clothes on the back of another, no matter how much one may disagree with its statement or fashion.

By Chris Wright

Spotted during Inter Milan's pre-Italian Super Cup training session at the Worker's Stadium in Beijing, a lone AC Milan fan is quickly weeded out, surrounded and duly seperated from his shirt by a flock of Inter supporters...

All the while they were missing some truly scinitlating action down on the pitch.

24.07.2011 - Después de dos años de proyectos y trabajos, hoy (24 de julio 2011) se reinaugura el Estadio Nacional de Lima (Perú), con el que, según Arturo Woodman (presidente del Instituto Peruano del Deporte - IPD), Perú podría candidatearse a sede de los Juegos Panamericanos de 2019.

FIFA Women's World Cup 2011
Semi-finals
JAPAN 3:1 SWEDEN Frankfurt 45,434
USA 3:1 FRANCE Moenchengladbach, 25,676
Japanese football continues its rise as its women's team reached their first ever World Cup Final today.
Having dispatched the hosts Germany in the quarter-final, the Nadeshiko swept Sweden aside with aplomb, coming from behind to win by three goals to one.

FC Internazionale have unveiled their new Nike Away shirt for the 2011/12 season. Inter will wear this new shirt for the first time on 6 August in Beijing for the Italian Super Cup against AC Milan.

The next edition of the Supercoppa Italiana (Italian Super Cup) will be held on 6 August 2011 in China's National Stadium in Beijing, known as the 'Bird's Nest'. This year's contestants will provide a Milan/Milano derby - 'eternal rivals' AC Milan and Internazionale Milano - both of which have won the Cup five times since the competition began in 1988.

Talk surfaced the other day about possible ongoing negitiations between the FAs of Singapore and Malaysia. At the heart is the idea they send their young teams to play in the others' league. So Young Lions in Malaysia, Super League or Premier League, while Harimau Muda play in the SLeague.
I did a piece in Jakarta Casual TV a couple of years ago about the benefits of the Young Lions playing in Malaysia.

El mundial femenil ya inicio y uno de los rivales de la selección mexicana es Japón un equipo con mucha historia , rankeadas en el numero 4 , buscaran hacer el mejor papel de su historia en los mundiales femeninos. No han tenido tanta suerte en las copas mundiales anteriores, pero se sienten con oportunidad después de ganar Asian Games en Guangzhou, China, esto en Noviembre del 2010.

A good all in brawl on the field among the players is an essential part of the SLeague experience. In fact given the lack of atmosphere at most games a free for all is about all there is that can get players' adrenalin pumping.

It was felt that once striker Noh Alam Shah had gone to play overseas things would quiet down in this regard but, fortunately, there have been others ready to step up to the plate.

The English Premier League's Asian Trophy is a biennial tournament and the only Premier League-affiliated competition to be held outside England. This is the fifth Asia Trophy, the others having previously been held in Kuala Lumpur (2003), Bangkok (2005), Hong Kong (2007) and Beijing (2009). Competing for the Barclays Asia Trophy Hong Kong will be Chelsea, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers and the

2010 was an up and down year for newly signed Beijing Baxy FC forward Lyle Martin who is looking for a fresh start in 2011 with his new club.

It's time once again for the annual trek to Portugal for the U.S. WNT which will be participating in the Algarve Cup for the 16th time. The Algarve Cup -- the biggest little tournament in the world -- has long been one of the favorite trips for the U.S. team, mostly for the great games, the food, the beautiful coast line and hopefully, the nice weather.

LONDON, England The football final of the London 2012 Olympic Games will be played at Wembley on Saturday, August 11 next year which means the Premier League's curtain-raising Community Shield will have to go elsewhere. The Closing Ceremony of the Games is the following day August 12 when the Community Shield is [.

The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 25, 2011; 7:57 AM
BEIJING -- The top-ranked United States beat China 2-0 Tuesday in the final game of the Four Nations Tournament, a warmup for the Women's World Cup this summer in Germany.
The United States also won the tournament title, because it won by the bigger margin in Tuesday's two games.

Members of the U.S. team stop for a pic during a short walk to stretch the legs after a long flight

The U.S. team arrived in Chongqing, China on Saturday morning (China time) after traveling from Los Angeles via Beijing and by all accounts, it was one of the smoothest trips to China the U.

Remember what happened the last time the U.S. team was in China?

The U.S. WNT embarks on yet another trip to China in a few hours, which will mean that the WNT Blog will go dark during the long journey. It's about 14 hours to Beijing and then three to Chongqing, but the Americans will hit the ground running on Saturday morning, needing to stay up throughout the day to get on China time ASAP.

When Singaporeans like to whine about the lack of talent in their football I always mention the name Madhu Mohana. Unfortunately there was little chance of the 19 year old making any impact on the AFF Cup after he received a four month ban for his part in the brawl between Young Lions and Beijing Guoan.