Lanús and champions Boca Juniors both began their 2012 Torneo Clausura title campaigns on Friday night, the opening evening of the new championship in Argentina. Both won: Boca beat Olimpo de Bahía Blanca 2-0 in La Bombonera, Darío Cvitanich and ... Continue reading →

verrückt!! There's nothing quite like a goofy footballer pretending to be an overzealous fan and you can count on Germany and Bayern Munich's Thomas Mueller to do it! As the Euro 2012 approaches, the German National Team have been hard at work rolling out campaigns to drum up home support, launching new jerseys (ironically, it's back to 1972′s away green kit!

It's a pretty futile task to find any headlines other than those pertaining to the question of the England manager's job this morning but is it inevitable that Harry Redknapp is about to step into Fabio Capello's expensive Italian shoes?

Virtually every newspaper and sports website is covering this and there are so many different claims as to what, if anything, has already been decided.

Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian soccer team from Curitiba, Paraná. Coritiba currently campaigns in the top-tier of Brazilian football – the Campeonato Brasileiro Série...

Forgive me for any emotion, but I love Nottingham Forest. And Nigel Doughty saved my club. After buying the club for £11 million in 1999 after the club had entered administration, Doughty ploughed £100 million of his own money into the club, allowing Forest to mount a series of playoff campaigns in an effort to [.

Official D.C. United Press Release:
D.C. United acquires forward Hamdi Salihi as Designated Player
28-year old Albanian international has scored 163 goals in 289 professional matches
Washington, D.C. (February 2, 2012) – D.C. United announced today the club has signed 28-year old forward Hamdi Salihi as a Designated Player.

Chunnam Dragons ( 남 드래곤즈) is a soccer club founded in 1995 from the Korean city of Gwangyang. The club currently campaigns in the top-tier of soccer in South Korea, the...

Manchester City Football Club has become the first Premier League team to create virtual avatars of their superstars Mario Balotelli, Sergio Aguero, Edin Dzeko and Samir Nasri as part of a new International digital marketing campaign, City Fan Cam

Carlsberg announced that it has today appointed Peter Schmeichel, legendary former goalkeeper for Denmark and Manchester United, as its global ambassador for the duration of the brand's UEFA EURO 2012™ campaign

Nike have unveiled a new short film featuring four of the African continents brightest talents, who represent the future, and who are a new generation of African footballers who aim to lead the African football revolution

Citroën UK and Arsenal Football Club have produced a series of cinemagraphs, subtly animated images, featuring New Citroën DS5 and first team players Mikel Arteta, Laurent Koscielny and Robin van Persie.

Figueirense Futebol Clube, usually called Figueirense, is a Brazilian soccer team based in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. Nicknamed Figueira (The Fig Tree). the club currently campaigns in the top-tier of Brazilian...

PUMA has launched a new programme that gives a unique cultural insight into the world of African football through the eyes of high profile PUMA partnered players.

Guardian: Kenny Dalglish: It's rubbish to say Liverpool are not fighting racism

• Luis Suárez T-shirt stunt was 'interpreted wrongly' • Liverpool 'will always support' battle against racism Kenny Dalglish has said that it is "utterly rubbish" to suggest that defending Luis Suárez against racism accusations showed Liverpool are not interested in fighting racism.

Budweiser has signed up football managers Sam Allardyce and Ian Holloway to star in radio ads highlighting its sponsorship of the FA Cup

Sporting Clube de Braga, commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese soccer club from the city of Braga. The club currently campaigns in the top-tier of Portuguese soccer, the Portuguese Liga. Featuring a roster that features no less than thirteen Brazilian players, Braga is currently in fourth place in the [.

Goals, goals, goals. With Liverpool wasting chance after chance, profligacy to blame for home draws with Norwich, Swansea, and Sunderland as well as away losses to Stoke and Fulham, the number of goals scored has become both millstone and mantra, a clear problem in obvious need of fixing, the major fault keeping the side from reaching its full potential.

By Alan Duffy

Demoralised Manchester United fans had feared the worst after their captain, Nemanja Vidic, was stretchered off during that disastrous Champions League exit in Basel during the week. And now, those fears have been realised, with Sir Alex Ferguson revealing that the Serbian centre-half would miss the rest of the season with knee ligament damage.

Audi's marketing time wanted to give fans an automotive perspective of El Clasico, Real Madrid v FC Barcelona, with a special spot titled "La pasión vuelve a dejar huella"

It's not a particularly new question but in the light of recent Spurs results it's one that's worth asking once again.

Unless you're lucky enough to remember the great double winning side of 1960/61, you'll probably recall the trophy winning teams of the last forty years: Four league cups, 3 FA Cups and 2 UEFA wins with sadly no league triumphs mixed in.

Guest blog: Deputy PM Nick Clegg backs the Mirror's Open Goal campaign for racial equality in football

When it comes to racial equality, football's progress is very similar to Britain's. Like the country, the game has come a long way in ­tackling racism in the last 30 years.

MLS Cup was this past Sunday, November 20, 2011. This post will describe how we used The Grid to help organize our MLS Cup social media plan. My goal in sharing this is to paint a picture and share a tool that I find effective, rather than delve into details about the campaign, so this is very top-level.

Victory, at last Just 10 years ago American Samoa were a footballing joke after being mauled 31-0 by Australia in a World Cup qualifier, a result that still stands as the most one-sided full international in history. And frankly their entire international record hasn't been much of a party either with the Pacific side managing [.

Video: Tomaszewski the 'clown' and Shilton's heroics: England vs Poland World Cup qualifiers

England's 2014 World Cup qualifying matches have been announced today, with the Three Lions finishing their campaign with a home match against old foes Poland. England agree World Cup qualifiers England have faced Poland in seven qualifying campaigns for various World Cups and European Championships and on two occasions it has all come down to the final match.

VfL Bochum is a German soccer club based in Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia. The team currently campaigns in the second tier of German soccer, the 2. Bundesliga, following its relegation from the German Bundesliga at the end of the 2009/10 season. After finishing in 3rd place in the 2. Bundesliga last season, VfL Bochum is currently [.

Photo by David Bernal/ISIphotos.com

By AVI CREDITOR

CARSON, Calif. -- A game of word association to quantify David Beckham's five years in Major League Soccer certainly arouses a wide range of responses depending on which part of the Beckham Era is being discussed.

Arsenal Football Club has announced it is dedicating its Premier League match against Fulham this Saturday, 26th November (kick-off 5.30pm), to its Global Charity Partner, Save the Children.

Last time out George got 4 results right and no perfect scores in the games before the international break.
Saturday 19th November 2011
Norwich City 1 v Arsenal 2
Everton 2 v Wolves 1
Manchester City 3 v Newcastle 1
Stoke City 1 v QPR 0
Sunderland 2 v Fulham 2
WBA 2 v Bolton 2
Wigan Athletic 1 v Blackburn 1
Swansea City 2 v Man Utd 3
Sunday 20th November 2011
Chelsea 2 v Liverpool 1
Sunday 21st November 2011
Tottenham Hotspur 3 v Aston Villa 1
Promoted Trio Impressing Bookmakers
bet365 are now 66/1 about the promoted trio of QPR, Norwich and Swansea all returning to the Championship at the end of the season after an impressive start to their Premier League campaigns.

Arsenal has had a bit of fun in the lead up to Christmas, producing an online ad starring football aces Kieran Gibbs, Andrey Arshavin and Yossi Benayoun.

The Football Association were last night forced to withdraw a radio advertising campaign after they were accused of using ‘xenophobic stereotypes' to sell match tickets for England games.

Are promoted clubs more prepared for the Premier League? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

This season has seen the birth of a newly adapted style for the three promoted clubs that have graced the Premier League this season – Swansea City, Queens Park Rangers and Norwich City. All three clubs have enjoyed spells in the top half and have kept their cool when faced with a barrage of quality opposition of which they probably have only dreamt about or watched on Sky Sports on the weekend.

Coors Light, the official U.S. beer sponsor of Mexico's Primera Division, is giving fans unprecedented access to one of the sport's most elite and passionately-followed soccer leagues via "Fanaticos del Frio

MLS 2021 Playoff brackets are set... Go Oklahoma!We have never made any bones about it - we don't like playoffs in football... unless you're trying to get promoted to the Premiership (hello West Ham). Playoffs that decide a "champion" after a long, hard season is wrong on many levels but such is life in North America.

José Mourinho and Henderson Global Investors have teamed up in a new advertising campaign which will run in the UK and countries across Continental Europe and Asia from 31 October 2011.

FC Lorient Bretagne Sud is a French soccer club based in Lorient, Brittany. Usually referred to as FC Lorient or Les Merlus the team currently campaigns in the top-tier of French football Ligue 1. Lorient finished in 11th position at the end of last season's league campaign and is currently in 7th place in [.

The thing is the Victory don't look like a team that has any shape, or structure.
Players are being swapped and swapped again during the game and Aussie fans watching Ante Covic and co boot the bejaysus out of the ball, especially after watching Ange P's Brisbane Roar the night before - well it's painful to watch.

Wales and Cardiff striker Robert Earnshaw believes that racism is still rife in English football, but insists that Liverpool F.C forward Luis Suarez is innocent until proven guilty.
Earnshaw, who revealed that he has 'experienced racist abuse loads of times...even at certain grounds in this country', said:
"It's hard to comment [on the Evra-Suarez incident] because both players have their opinions and it might be crossed wires, we just don't know.

Coritiba Foot Ball Club, commonly known as Coritiba, is a Brazilian soccer team from Curitiba, Paraná. Coritiba currently campaigns in the top tier of Brazilian football the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A following its promotion from Série B at the end of the 2010 season. The club's sole Série A league title came in 1985.

Associazione Sportiva Livorno Calcio is an Italian soccer club based in Livorno, Tuscany. Usually called AS Livorno or Livorno, the team currently campaigns in the second tier of Italian soccer, Serie B, following its relegation from Serie A at the end of the 2009/10 season. Livorno is currently in 9th place in Serie B after [.

2010/11 UEFA Europa League finalist Sporting Clube de Braga, commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. The club currently campaigns in the top-tier of Portuguese soccer, the Portuguese Liga. Featuring a roster that features no less than thirteen Brazilian players, Braga is currently [.