The finalists for the 28th edition of the AFCON are now known after thrilling semi-final fixtures last night. The Ivory Coast will now face Zambia who made it to the final after causing one of the biggest upsets of the entire tournament by knocking out Ghana. The Black Stars however have no one to blame but themselves for their exist after failing to make a host of chances they had count including a missed penalty by Asamoah Gyan.

The finalists for the 28th edition of the AFCON are now known after thrilling semi-final fixtures last night. The Ivory Coast will now face Zambia who made it to the final after causing one of the biggest upsets of the entire tournament by knocking out Ghana. The Black Stars however have no one to blame but themselves for their exist after failing to make a host of chances they had count including a missed penalty by Asamoah Gyan.

Solo la neve ferma lo Swindon Town Di Renato Cignoni Southend United 1 (Kalala '33)Swindon Town 4 (Ritchie '8, Smith '15, '35 Devera, Bodin '55) Swindon Town – Burton (rinviata) Swindon Town:Wes Foderingham;Paul Caddis (Capitano), Joe Devera, Alan McCormack, Callum Kennedy, Matt Ritchie, Oliver Risser, Jonathan Smith, Luke Rooney, Paul Benson, Ronan Murray (Bodin '50)Sostituti: Daniel Boateng,

Es wäre besser, wenn uns die Fans in einer schwierigen Situation anfeuern, anstatt zu pfeifen. Das bringt ja nichts. Aber das ist man in München ja gewohnt.

Jerome Boateng, Abwehrspieler des FC Bayern München, nach dem mühsamen 2:0 Heimsieg über den VfL Wolfsburg.

Without a "Group of Death," and without 5 of the top 8 ranked African countries (Egypt, Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon and South Africa all failed to qualify), the opening stages of the African Cup of Nations lacks a bit in the tasty fixtures department. For perspective, Tunisia, the participating country with the fourth-highest FIFA ranking is still behind tiny Cape Verde Islands (who also did not qualify).

Now we've all established the fact that Bavarian giants Bayern Munich absolutely love their basketball games..."natürlich!!" So they turned up at full force to watch last weekend's showdown between Bayern Munich and EWE Baskets Oldenburg at the Audi Dome with their families.

Pato's passion no longer on the pitch.

Atop the tallest spire of Milan's cathedral sits a statue of the virgin Mary, her gaze fixed upon a Po valley split between the supporters of two giants in Italian football: A.C. Milan and Inter Milan. When these teams meet twice a year at the San Siro, the winning players symbolically join la Madonnina at the city's highest point.

Terrible night for Manchester United and City as both clubs crashed out of the Champions League tonight.

The bigger shock was Man United losing 2-1 to Basel on a night that saw United captain Nemanja Vidic carried off with a bad knee injury.

United only needed a draw to progress but went behind after only nine minutes when Marco Streller fired home after Xherdan Shaqiri's cross was kicked out by David De Gea.

Terrible night for Manchester United and City as both clubs crashed out of the Champions League tonight.

The bigger shock was Man United losing 2-1 to Basel on a night that saw United captain Nemanja Vidic carried off with a bad knee injury.

United only needed a draw to progress but went behind after only nine minutes when Marco Streller fired home after Xherdan Shaqiri's cross was kicked out by David De Gea.

Wir haben uns abkochen lassen.

Jerome Boateng, Abwehrspieler des FC Bayern München, nach der Niederlage im Spiel gegen den FSV Mainz 05. (Quelle: Bild)

Xavi scored a goal of splendid vigour to grant Barcelona a 3-2 victory over AC Milan in a gripping Champions League match last night; in a game which also saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic start against his nemesis Pep Guardiola. The home side were twice forced to stage comebacks, first of all through Ibrahimovic and then through a miraculous Kevin-Prince Boateng goal.

Xavi scored a goal of splendid vigour to grant Barcelona a 3-2 victory over AC Milan in a gripping Champions League match last night; in a game which also saw Zlatan Ibrahimovic start against his nemesis Pep Guardiola. The home side were twice forced to stage comebacks, first of all through Ibrahimovic and then through a miraculous Kevin-Prince Boateng goal.

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AC Milan vs Barcelona 2-3 Highlights Video 2011 Goals Champions League is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter AC Milan vs Barcelona 2011 ( Milan vs Barca 2011 Video Below) Final score and result:- AC Milan vs Barcelona 2-3 ( Ibrahimovic, Boateng/ Van Bommel own goal, Messi, Xavi) San Siro, Milan- [.

FC Barcelona secured the top spot of Group H in Champions League with a high tempo thrilling 3-2 victory against AC Milan. An own goal from Van Bommel, a penalty from Messi and another beautiful goal from xavi completed Barca's socreline, whereas Ibrahimovic and Boateng scored for AC Milan.

As Arsenal captain, even your hair has to be neat

Two things got me to write this topic today. First, I'm at the moment in the middle of reading Alex Flynn's "Arsènal The Making of a Modern Superclub" and I'm currently at the chapter which speaks about the behaviour of a certain William Gallas after the 2-2 draw at Birmingham.

Jack Wilshere's successful loan spell at Bolton proved the final piece of his development. More please...

Even before the quarterfinal draw for the Carling Cup paired Arsenal with Manchester City (a.k.a., the Death Squad), many speculated that the reserve teamers logging time on the big stage would soon cede their places to first team players in a push for the silverware.

Max Allegri has named his squad to face Catania. In the absence of Pato and Antonio Cassano he has called up Pippo Inzaghi and Stephen El Shaarawy. I am expecting Allegri to opt for Urby Emmanelson and Clarence Seedorf in midfield to fill in for Prince Boateng and Antonio Nocerino. But, how I would love [.

We're almost a third of the way through the Bundesliga season, and Bayern Munich, as is the case more often than not, look like the team to beat. Bundesliga statistics reflect that, as Bayern are not only solidly top of the charts in goals scored but have also allowed the fewest goals in the league.

They didn't even play one combined game 73 minutes total and yet the Boateng brothers, Jerome and Kevin (half-brothers, really), took the headlines in two of the most discussed games of the weekend for very different reasons.

Milan was down 3-0 at the half when Kevin was brought on in a lofty attempt to perform miracles.

Ich habe zum Schiedsrichter und zum vierten Offiziellen gesagt, nichts machen und einfach weiterspielen lassen. Es war so undurchsichtig, da kann man gar nichts entscheiden. Ich hätte gesagt, weiterspielen und fertig.

Mirko Slomka, Trainer von Hannover 96, über die Rudelbildung im Spiel Hannover 96 vs.

Er war unberechtigt. Es müssen beide Gelb bekommen und nicht einer Rot und der andere Gelb. Es wurde mit zweierlei Maß gemessen. Der Schiedsrichter hat sich, weil er es nicht sehen konnte, vom vierten Offiziellen beeinflussen lassen, der mit uns schon vorher im Clinch war, weil ich ihn höflich gebeten hatte, dass er doch bitte drei Meter zurückgehen sollte.

It has been a good week for Milan. Two successive wins, two clean sheets, some good performances from the new recruits (Taiwo, Nocerino and Aquilani), Ibrahimovic insisting he is happy (and scoring), Boateng scoring a goal and saying he loves everything (about Milan) and then to cap it all off, Barcelona target Thiago Silva stating [.

Milan-Bate di Champions, terminata con il risultato di 2 a 0 per i rossoneri, assomiglia un po' a quelle scatolette tipicamente russe dette Matriosche: più le apri e più contengono qualcosa, scatolette piccole dentro scatolette più grandi. Milan-Bate contiene gi qualcosa ancor prima di cominciare quando appena entrano i giocatori bielorussi a fare riscaldamento, dalle [.

Es una de las sensaciones de la temporada en la Premier League y en la Liga de Campeones. El Manchester City lleva varias temporadas siguiendo una estricta política para llegar a codearse con los clubes más importantes del panorama inglés y europeo. El talonario ha sido clave en la espectacular trayectoria del conjunto 'citizen' y eso le ha permitido contar con varios de los mejores futbolistas del mundo.

Yes, I know it's still a few months away. But since the interlull is upon us, this might be a good time to sort through some of the possibilities for January. There's no way to touch on every rumor that's been written over the last month, but I'll try to recap the things that are most important and most likely.

Bayern Munich are a legendary team for the supporters of the notorious club, and football fans around the world. In recent times the German side have been very successful. They've won the Bundesliga title a total of 22 times, the DFB-Pokal 15 times, the DFB Liga-Pokal 6 times, they've been the UEFA Champions League winners on 4 occasions, the runners up in the European Cup on 4 occasions, and managed to claim the Europa League once back in 1996.

Its 8 past nine in the evening and I have been overjoyed by the news filtering through from Old Trafford,Basel equalise (Basel not to be confused with Basil Fawlty or Basil the herb).I have though been admiring Bayern's midfield set up this could its Europe's most underrated midfield Ribery-Schweinstieger-Kroos-Robbben,Man City never had a chance.

A day after Manchester United announced that both Wayne Rooney and Javier Hernandez won't be fit for Tuesday's UEFA Champions League match against FC Basel, Arsenal revealed it has some injury problems of its own.

Gervinho (hamstring), Theo Walcott (knee) and Laurent Koscielny (ankle) have all been ruled out for the Gunners' match against Olympiakos on Wednesday, joining a crew of teammates on the sidelines.

Champions League action resumes tonight with some very interesting match ups on card. However, the match that has many people talking is the Bayern Munich v Manchester City fixture.

Both clubs are having a fantastic start to the season in their respective leagues and tonight's match could stamp the arrival of the blues on the European front.

Here's Kun Aguero and Tevez, clearly excited that the Champions League is finally upon us again! Everything about the competition except for the name 'Michel Platini' is incredibly thrilling anyway. At the top of everyone's minds today will inevitably be the Bayern Munich-Man City Group A fixture, where we can imagine City being favourites to pull off an upset victory.

The Game After last Saturday's terrible defeat against Blackburn Rovers, it is time for Arsenal to "bounce back" as they host Shrewsbury Town, at the Emirates, in the Carling Cup. Youngster Chuks Aneke, Daniel Boateng, Damian Martinez, ...

Arsenal are aiming to rebound strongly from their most recent Barclays Premier League setback at Blackburn by using a string of talented youngsters against Shrewsbury in the Carling Cup tonight.

On a night where Leeds United will reignite a huge rivalry with reigning English champions Manchester United, Shrewsbury's visit to the Emirates was originally nothing more than a mere formality.

It's time for some Champions League stats by the handy Milan training ground tree (seen above) amicis! The last time these two sides met was five years ago in 2006 when Barca advanced to the final thanks to Giuly's goal. Interestingly, Milan hold the better track record from their previous six UEFA meetings.

By Chris Wright

AC Milan beat Juventus 2-1 in the pre-season 'Berlusconi Trophy' friendly last night a game that was decided in the Rossoneri's favour by two fantastic goals.

Kevin The Fresh Prince of Boateng's opener was probably the pick of the bunch, but ol' Papa Seedorf's free-kick was also dead good and shit don't just take our word for it, have a look for yourselves.

My favorite type of goals are not usually the stunning ones, but the skillful ones, especially with high imagination and vision or a combination of foot and mind skills,
This goal from Sao Paulo got my attention a lot. If it was a normal player, he would kicked it so hard, and the keeper saved it, then he curse his luck
This goal from unknown league or game is wonderful great combination of imagination and skills
I think Ronaldinho in Brazil is now reaching the phase where he plays for the fun and joy of the game and not for money.

Ieri sera allo stadio San Siro, Milan e Juventus si sono nuovamente incontrate sul campo, dopo il trofeo Tim Cup, vinto dalla compagine nerazzurra. Il trofeo Luigi Berlusconi è un appuntamento fisso dell'estate e i 41.000 spettatori rendono bene l'idea di quanto sia seguito: l'anno scorso a vincerlo fu la Juve (4-5 ai rigori), mentre [.

Il primo trofeo della stagione, la Supercoppa Italiana 2011-2012, è del Milan che, in rimonta, piega con il risultato di 2 a 1 i cugini dell'Inter e conquista il prestigioso trofeo nello stadio nazionale di Pechino. Non basta un buon primo tempo all'undici di Gasperini, coronato dal vantaggio firmato Sneijder (forse uno degli ultimi goal [.

Quick Reminder, Real Life This was the season when all of the money invested started to pay off in a big way. Lots of shiny new objects came into the squad with the corresponding spare parts mostly going out on loan. Some of them fit - Yaya Toure, David Silva - while some of them didn't - Jerome Boateng - and the jury is still out on others - Edin Dzeko, Mario Balotelli, and Aleksander

Wie viel dessen Versprechen wert war, wissen wir nun. Hätte der Spieler zu seinem Wort gestanden und Charakter gezeigt wie Neuer oder Boateng, wäre er ein Mann mit Moral, wäre er heute bei uns.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Vorstandsvorsitzender der FC Bayern München AG, über das Wechseltheater von Arturo Vidal, der am Ende nicht beim FC Bayern München sondern bei Juventus Turin unterschrieben hat.

Alle sind super nett. Ich kannte ja auch schon einige aus der Nationalmannschaft. Nur diesen Österreicher, David Alaba, verstehe ich mit seinem Dialekt einfach nicht.

Jerome Boateng, Abwehrspieler des FC Bayern München, fühlt sich bei den Bayern wohl, bis auf...