REAL MADRID & AC MILAN has been put together in Group C of thisyears UEFA Champions League along with Zurich & Olympique deMarsella. The both mentioned & European Giant Clubs are scheduled tomeet the 21.10.2009 at Madrid with the return game at Milan the03.11.2009. SFS would like to take the occasion & recall thereaders of a Historical European Cup clash back in the 19th of Aprilof 1989 when Click to continue reading...

When I came across this morning's comments provided by the agent of Barcelona ace Samuel Eto'o, the first word that came to my mind was diplomatic. Mr. Mesalles, who has been instrumental in promoting Eto'o to interested parties ever since Barca's treble-winning season came to an end, stated that the Cameroon international preferred to see out the one year that is left on his Barcelona contract.

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Here in America, ESPN is truly the "Worldwide Leader In Sports." Millions of people wake up with Sportscenter in the morning, and go to bed with it on in the evening. Anyone in America that follows sports seemingly gets their information from ESPN.

The only problem? ESPN has literally no respect for soccer.

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Sometimes as a coach, you realize you can only push your team so far and they have to push themselves to really improve as players. The question is, are the risks worth it to try and get them pushing themselves. How can you get them to do that? Here's the story of a team taking some risks to improve. Click to continue reading...

Sometimes as a coach, you realize you can only push your team so far and they have to push themselves to really improve as players. The question is, are the risks worth it to try and get them pushing themselves. How can you get them to do that? Here's the story of a team taking some risks to improve. Click to continue reading...

On this week's show Damon and Damian take a look back at the highs and lows from 2008 for their respective clubs: Liverpool and Tottenham. We also: Review the football news in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Introduce a new football expression in English for Football And continue the predictions battle in the predictions competition For learners of [. Click to continue reading...

As years go by, there are things that remain untouchable in "Can Barça", one of them is the priority of the style over results. Yes, certain managers did not follow that, but their steps in this club would not be remembered with so much enthusiasm. Last Saturday we saw two historic teams in the most famous [. Click to continue reading...

The NC Youth Soccer Association recently eliminated the use of promotion and relegation to form U11 through U13 divisions for the state's top travel teams. Soccer Dad takes a look at why this decision may have been very short sighted. Click to continue reading...

The NC Youth Soccer Association recently eliminated the use of promotion and relegation to form U11 through U13 divisions for the state's top travel teams. Soccer Dad takes a look at why this decision may have been very short sighted. Click to continue reading...

There is an interesting thread going on over at Talk On The Pitch about the pros and cons of travel soccer for U10 age players. I see a number of search referrals for 'Pros and Cons of Travel Soccer' both here and at TOTP. Even locally I know a number of long time Rec parents [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Pros and Cons of Travel Youth Soccer", url: "http://onthepitch. Click to continue reading...

June 1994 Alexi Lalas shows off a hand-drawn gift received from a fan after the USA's World Cup victory over Colombia at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. The U.S. won the game 2-1. Photo Mike Powell /Allsport... Click to continue reading...

September 1981 Glenn Hoddle relaxes in his garden with wife Anne (they are now divorced) in London. Gripping feature about reincarnation in Woman magazine, Glenn? Photo Allsport UK /Allsport... Click to continue reading...

There's no such thing as an overhit pass - only an insufficiently flexible striker! Here is Ian Wright jumping about eight feet in the air and stretching his leg out a little further than that against Blackburn in December 1997. Click to continue reading...

There's no such thing as an overhit pass - only an insufficiently flexible striker! Here is Ian Wright jumping about eight feet in the air and stretching his leg out a little further than that against Blackburn in December 1997. Click to continue reading...

There's no such thing as an overhit pass - only an insufficiently flexible striker! Here is Ian Wright jumping about eight feet in the air and stretching his leg out a little further than that against Blackburn in December 1997. Click to continue reading...

There's no such thing as an overhit pass - only an insufficiently flexible striker! Here is Ian Wright jumping about eight feet in the air and stretching his leg out a little further than that against Blackburn in December 1997. Click to continue reading...

There's no such thing as an overhit pass - only an insufficiently flexible striker! Here is Ian Wright jumping about eight feet in the air and stretching his leg out a little further than that against Blackburn in December 1997. Click to continue reading...

You can pinpoint the exact moment in this video when out-of-form misfiring striker Alan Shearer becomes national hero Alan Shearer. Kubilay Türkyılmaz later equalized from the penalty spot and the whole tournament ended in tears eventually, but it is good to pluck out little moments like this from Euro 96 and look back with rose-tinted specs. Click to continue reading...

You can pinpoint the exact moment in this video when out-of-form misfiring striker Alan Shearer becomes national hero Alan Shearer. Kubilay Türkyılmaz later equalized from the penalty spot and the whole tournament ended in tears eventually, but it is good to pluck out little moments like this from Euro 96 and look back with rose-tinted specs. Click to continue reading...

You can pinpoint the exact moment in this video when out-of-form misfiring striker Alan Shearer becomes national hero Alan Shearer. Kubilay Türkyılmaz later equalized from the penalty spot and the whole tournament ended in tears eventually, but it is good to pluck out little moments like this from Euro 96 and look back with rose-tinted specs. Click to continue reading...

Thanks Rusty, for doing what many fans would like to do to the obnoxious Dyer. I love how the hirsute Turkish keeper follows up his near-decapitation of Dyer with almost the same move on the ball.... Click to continue reading...