Spanish Supermodel of the World... is that YOU?! Well, you were close. It's Barcelona goalkeeper, Victor Valdes, getting hot (and probably cold, from the rain!) with his SuperGuapa wife, Yolanda Cardona in a recent fashion editorial for 'DTLux'.

Best XI: Under-21 European Championship Team of the Tournament 2011 is a post from: Just Football

As is custom, Just Football kept a keen eye on proceedings out in Denmark at the 2011 Under-21 European Championships. We put together a list of players to watch beforehand; now without further ado we present to you our Team of the Tournament.

History is on Arsenal's side for the encounter against Manchester City. Including the League Cup, City have lost 21 of their last 28 visits to Arsenal, failing to score in 18 of those games.

I haven't checked the details but I think West Brom had a similar record. Add the wealth Citeh have been able to splash out and it's not difficult to see history will have little bearing on the outcome of this particular match.

This weekend marks another incredible landmark in the sparkling career of Jose Mourinho. The self dubbed "special one" can celebrate an incredible 9 years unbeaten at home in league football – a record that stretches across 4 countries and 4 of the world's top football clubs: Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan and his current club Real Madrid.

West Brom

Position: 16th, 8-8-13 (32 points, -15 goal differential)

Home Form: 5-5-4 (-1 goal differential)

Recent Form: LDDDW

Last Meeting: Arsenal 2 West Brom 3 (September 25, 2010)

So, time for a few scary stats.

The helmeted one, to absolutely no one's surprise, has been named the Chelsea Offside readers' player of the season. By a country mile.

Readers' player of the season voting results (2010-11):
Total votes: 272 (50 more than last season)
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By JOHN BOSCHINI

A battle for second place takes center stage in the NASL this weekend as teams try to keep pace with the runaway Carolina Railhawks.

Carolina returns home to take on a Tampa Bay team that has had trouble finding the back of the net this season, scoring only 11 goals.

Sunday afternoon at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC, the United States hosted Jamaica and Panama played El Salvador to determine which teams would advance to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinals at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas on Wednesday night.
It was US hoping to get past Jamaica in the matinee match, and get by Jamaica they did thank to goals from Jermaine Jones and Clint Dempsey.

Liverpool are being linked with a move for ex-Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, reports the Daily Mail.
The Polish goalkeeper, currently applying his trade with Fiorentina, earned 79 clean sheets in over 200 matches for the old firm side during a five year spell at Celtic Park.
Boruc left Celtic for Italy to become an understudy to Sebastien Frey and had to wait until November for his first start for the club.

Neither side were able to break the deadlock at Craven Cottage in a game that failed to ever spark into life. As the visiting manager, Alex McLeish will rightly be happier with his point, but will have Shay Given to thank for a number of important saves and might be concerned about the lack of any real threat at the opposite end today.

English Premier League has given us eight weeks of soccer action so far, and now it's time to predict what will this new batch of fixtures bring to the football table.
Last gameweek in Fantasy Premier League saw new names arise on top of the weekly point table as the usual suspects didn't deliver.

Seven clean sheets this season, solid in goal and apparently, quick with his feet: Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is just what the Gunners needed after the disastrous Manuel Almunia. Speaking to the Daily Mail, the Poland ...

It's all over for another year and in case you're wondering we're 107 days away from the next bank holiday and long weekend. Kill me now!! What a festive period we've had though, with three wins out of three, two clean sheets, 5 goals scored and two red cards. I haven't updated much because quite frankly I haven't had the time or inclination to do anything between watching Spurs, other football, darts, pulling all nighters to watch the Ashes and eating more food than a really hungry fat man.

Now we are well in to the second-half of the 2010/2011 season, who are this terms top performers racking up the points in various fantasy leagues, and putting themselves in the running for the EPL team of the year. Maybe surprisingly, as the debate rages about the influx of foreign players in to the EPL, many homegrown British and Irish players are proving that if you are good enough, you can still claim a place in the top English sides.

With the Transfer Window in full swing for Europe's top leagues, many of the United States' top players are up for moves across the continent. For the most part, the National Team should see benefit from the new placement of many of its stars and the casual American supporter now has some new and interesting clubs to follow:

Reus and Bradley.

I logged on to Arsenal.com this morning to news that Laurent Koscielny had earned his first call-up to the French national squad. This is certainly great news and while I'm a fan of the defender I didn't really expect it to come so soon. It could be that Blanc wants to see some new players in action in a friendly before serious games resume.

It was two years ago that Shay Given broke many a Gooner's heart by signing for Manchester City, but Wojciech Szczesny has finally healed the wound, and vindicated Arsene Wenger's faith in youth.

The 20-year-old Pole has emerged from Arsenal's maligned goalkeepers' union to establish himself as Arsenal's next great ‘keeper and the man for the here and now, and he didn't cost the club millions in the process.

Liverpool ended the January transfer window positively, selling at £56m and buying at £57.6m. King Kenny had already brought back the feel good factor and now the wins are starting to come. Beating Chelsea was beyond my wildest dreams and so it looked like even to Dalglish.
The team he put out had a slightly cautious look to it, the Liverpool management team deciding that the Reds should play a counter attacking game.

USL PRO clubs have recently announced several signings of players for the 2011 season.

The Pittsburgh Riverhounds announced that 2010 starting goalkeeper Hunter Gilstrap will be returning, while the USL-2 champion Charleston Battery have re-signed three players from their trophy-lifting 2010 squad: Defender Colin Falvey, midfielder Zach Prince and goalkeeper Keith Wiggans.

Some leagues are given more Champions League places than others so that the competition can be made up of the best teams in the continent, some of which hail from the same country. That Tottenham, in fifth place in the Premier League, can deservedly beat the team that has led Serie A for much of the season proves that England are ready to be awarded a fifth place in the competition, at the expense of one awarded to Italy if need be.

With the news of the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers bringing in former Philadelphia Union starters, midfielder Eduardo Coudet, and defenders Cristian Arrieta and Toni Stahl, is the news that the Carolina Railhawks signing Brad Knighton and Nick Zimmerman.

The Railhawks were rumored to have used Knighton in a preseason game and now it appears that they were true.

Photo by Michael Janosz/ISIphotos.com

Another frustrated tweet has made its way out of the Columbus Crew locker room.

Weeks after midfielder Robbie Rogers was involved in a little social media controversy, out-of-favor centerback Andy Iro vented his thoughts about his playing-time situation.

There are many cases in which footballers are talked up as being "the greatest in the world" or "the best player in this era", but the true measure of a great of the game is longevity. Lionel Messi might be the talk of the town; he is currently recognised as the very best by many observers at this moment but he is no legend, not yet anyway.

By Chris Wright

No unnecessary spiel, no waffle, let's just get straight down to brass tacks. Presenting, Pies' Premier League Team of the Season...

GK Edwin van der Sar, Man Utd

Recently became the oldest man to win the Premier League at 40 years and 206 days and boy did he deserve it.

Highlights of Saturday, May 28th's NSC Minnesota Stars game against FC Tampa Bay

The game ended a 0-0 draw but that didn't mean this was a boring game. There were plenty of chances for both side and both goalkeepers, Jeff Attinella for Tampa Bay and Joe Warren for Minnesota came up with some fantastic saves to keep clean sheets for both teams.

After all this week's nonsense, it's time for a competitive game!

The situation at the top of Group G couldn't be any tighter we're top of the group on goal difference from Montenegro, who face Bulgaria at home after we've finished against Switzerland.

Let's start with a sanity warning here.

On a weekend chock full of late game heroics the Fire chipped in with a big victory of their own fueled by a 90th minute score by Cristian Nazirit. After 89 minutes of generally outplaying the Crew in Columbus a third consecutive 0-0 draw almost seemed certain. Particularly after Orr Barouch managed to find the post yet again in the 79th minute.

This is the first installment of the MLS Weekend Viewing Guide. This is a column that will be up each week at Major League Soccer Talk with a preview of the week's fixtures.

Let's start with the June 17-19 games:

Friday, June 17th

San Jose at Sporting Kansas City

8:30PM EDT

FOX Soccer Channel

San Jose is a stronger team than most people give them credit for, which is mostly due to Wondo being the only person on the team who can score.

MLS kicked off the weekend at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park last night with Sporting KC defeating San Jose 1-0 behind rookie C.J. Sapong's goal in the 31st minute.

Previews of the remaining weekend fixtures. (USSN Power Rankings in parenthesis)

Saturday, June 18

(8) Seattle Sounders at (15) Toronto FC
7PM ET, Direct Kick, MD Live, GolTV (Toronto), KONG (Seattle)
Toronto comes into this match on a high having gone into the Home Depot Center and shocking the Galaxy with a last minute goal to earn a 2-2 draw.

What the hell?!
My last SLeague games ended 0-5, 3-2, 4-1, 1-5 and 2-4. And this? The best this bloody thing could manage was a 1-0 to the home side and that from a penalty. Still I guess Mike Wong, the Geylang coach, would have been happy. Three straight wins, three straight clean sheets. But does he care about me and my feelings eh?

Come join Minnesota supporters of the Men's National Team, along with readers of IMSoccer News, duNord Futbol, and the Dark Clouds supporters group for a US National Team watch party.

The US National Team plays Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup Final, Saturday, June 25 with a 8:00 p.

By Chris Wright

Victor Valdes may well of kept 17 clean sheets in La Liga last season but the Barcelona 'keeper found himself well and truly bested when Ecco found himself through one-on-one at Miami Seaquarium yesterday...

More footage of the Barca squad enjoying wet-times with the Miami dolphins.

FC Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hartman was voted the MLS Player of the Month for July by the North American Soccer Reporters.

Hartman started six games and recorded four shutouts as the club went 3-1-2 during the month of July.

The 15-year MLS veteran joined FC Dallas in 2010, and is enjoying a stellar second season at the club.

Quick Reminder, Real Life Finishing in a dead heat (on points) for third in the Championship with Welsh rivals Cardiff City, the Swans made the grade in the playoffs on the strength of a Scott Sinclair hat trick against Reading. An odd team, they were the 2nd strongest defensive team in the league and managed an impressive 23 clean sheets.

Something for the Weekend – Liverpool, Manchester City to cruise, goals at St James's is a post from: Just Football

Last week's first betting column of the new season got off to a good start but went downhill through the weekend. Taking a profit on the draw in the Community Shield with ten minutes to playwould have given us three winners from six but as it was we had to settle for Blackpool and Southampton.

Arsenal's players are under intense scrutiny, and at a time when their own fans and the media have dished out doom and gloom in spadefuls, they delivered a second clean sheet, when in the last two games of last season, two clean sheets would have secured the four precious points that would have prevented Manchester City from taking the third place spot in the league.

A big weekend for Arsenal as they look to prove that their season is not lost even before it begins. Despite all the drama they're two clean sheets in to the season after an away match and a Champions League qualifier against Italy's most prolific forward. The Barn Door Live: Week 2

It's a good thing the Galaxy have wrapped up the Supporters' Shield, right, with two MLS games remaining before the playoffs start in the first week of October because the word out of Europe this morning is that striker Robbie Keane could be out four weeks, which would have him returning for the Galaxy right around the time they open their playoff campaign.

By JOHN BOSCHINI

The No. 8 Red Storm of St. John's gave further credibility to their claim as a top-10 team with a 1-0 victory over No. 7 Louisville.

Pablo Battuto Punyed netted his second game-winner of the season while Rafael Diaz made four saves in the shutout.

Premier League Weekend Preview: London derby at Stamford Bridge & United to visit Everton - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Two terrific big clashes to look forward on Saturday, with Everton playing host to Manchester United and Chelsea and Arsenal going head-to-head in the London derby.