Wayne Rooney was England captain during their 1-0 defeat to Brazil yesterday, something he never thought would happen.

With captain and vice-captain, John Terry and Rio Ferdinand, both out injured, Fabio Capello trusted Rooney with� the responsibility.

"I remember the best players in the world Pele, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Platini were captains, no?

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He dazzled as a player, and then as a manager and 13 years after retiring from the game, Cruyff is back... Click to continue reading...

Castillion In the olden days, Feyenoord or Ajax delivered the top guns for Oranje. Moulijn, Swart, Keizer, Van Hanegem, Jansen, Cruyff, Krol... After a while, PSV started to mingle and around the 1980s we saw AZ, FC Twente and other clubs offering up their talents. With Huntelaar out of form, out of Click to continue reading...

While Maradona is busy making a shamockery of the Argentinean national side, the man who typically lurks behind Diego & Pele whether prudent or not in the discussion for the world's greatest ever player has returned to football. Johan Cruijff, arguably the greatest ever player/coach combination in football history, has returned to the bench Catalonia and don't you call it Spain.

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Nos pregunta un lector del retroblog, Michael, con qué equipo de la actualidad se puede comparar a la Holanda de Cruyff del mundial de Alemania 1974: ¿Barcelona, Arsenal o Manchester?

La Holanda de Cruyff - la llegada del fútbol total

Le hemos hecho la pregunta a nuestros colaboradores.

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NEW YORK RED BULLS VS. TORONTO FC
Giants Stadium - Saturday, 7:30PM EST
TV: GOL-TV - RADIO: The Fan 590

In the wacky world of North American soccer football there are very few historical sites. While we will stop short of comparing East Rutherford, New Jersey's Giants Stadium to the likes of the San Siro, Nou Camp or Wembley, you have to admit it has played a large concrete role in the continent's footy story. Click to continue reading...

The countdown to South Africa 2010 has well and truly started and so we thought we'd take a look back at some of our greatest ever World Cup moments. We'd also like to know what has been your greatest World Cup moment? Maybe it was a win for your country; a superb goal or a moment of madness?

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"La Holanda del 74 jugaba el mejor fútbol del mundo. Perdimos la final pero dejamos mejor recuerdo que el campeón." Hemos leído la excelente entrevista a Johan Cruyff en la revista Esquire de septiembre de la que destacamos esta frase.

En retrofootball nos gusta el buen fútbol y la Holanda de los años 70 es un claro exponente del mismo.

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La Sampdoria es líder del Calcio, el equipo genovés lidera la clasificación con un punto de ventaja sobre la Juventus de Turín.

Aunque es pronto, un parte de Génova vuelve a soñar...

¿Quién no recuerda aquella "Samp" de la temporada 1990-91, la única que se alzó con el Scudetto en sus 63 años de historia?

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O Vitória de Setúbal, é o único clube da minha região de origem a disputar a Liga, pelo que naturalmente fiquei satisfeito com o resultado de ontem. O futebol tem destas coisas. Não foi preciso nem o Sacchi, nem o Cruyff, foi o Quim. Sabem quem é? Se calhar não.

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Futbol muhabbetlerinin en saçma ve en çok sorulan sorusu Arjantin-Brezilya maçı nedeniyle tekrardan akıllara düştü. Maradona mı Pele mi? Bana çok saçma ve içinde haksızlık barındıran bir soru öbeği olarak gelmiştir her zaman! Bana göre bu soru Pele mi Cruyff mu ya da Maradona mı Cruyff mu şeklinde olmalıydı. Click to continue reading...

By Diego Maradona

Alexi,

What's up you leather-faced buffoon? Last time I saw you I was probably putting the ball through your legs. Or blowing lines off your wife's potatoes after your country banned me in 94'. You're lucky I didn't get you on the field. Just kidding. Have we met before? I don't remember.

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Ni tan siquiera el peor y más feroz de los enemigos del ser humano pueden contra la inmortalidad del buen carácter que sólo los caballeros más genuinos poseen. Esa es mi pequeña demostración, para quien le pueda servir, de que el alma puede llegar a ser eterna e indestructible, de que la inmortalidad puede llegar a darse. Click to continue reading...

Por Sebastián Dulbeca
Diga lo que diga Butragueño, ese doctorando en Metafísica, dios es del Barça. Y no se trata de un ser superior de los que condesciende para propiciar un triplete. Durante la presente temporada, semejante providencia se ha limitado a manifestarse a favor de Guardiola. Click to continue reading...

Wouldn't you want this man to be your mate? Every football fan in the world knows Ajax. Ajax is synonymous with adventurous, attractive football. In the 1970s Ajax impressed through total football. Coach Michels, stars Cruyff, Neeskens, Krol, Rep... When JC was Ajax' coach he led them to another European cup with Click to continue reading...

Yesterday, I asked the question of implementing live video review in football. Today's question is: are our expectations too high for international football? I enjoyed your responses to yesterday's article. Please weigh in with your feelings on international football in the comment section below.

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Se ha estado manejando hoy la posibilidad de la contratación de este jugador para los Tigres. La primera vez que lo ví fué con Nacional de Montevideo en la Copa Libertadores enfrentando River Plate el 19 de Marzo de este año sobre el cuál escribimos un blog:� Copa Libertadores: Encontronazo entre gallinas en el Centenario.

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Barcelona 2-0 Manchester United

When Thierry Henry was at Arsenal, for two or three seasons he was their best player, and by a clear margin. he won games virtually on his own, and was adored by Arsenal's fans. Now, at Barcelona, with his career entering its final phase, the Frenchman accepts that he is no longer the star, but part of the supporting cast to the three best players in the world: Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta. Click to continue reading...

Evet, kulübün mali yapısı ve Cruyff'un dünya futbolundaki yeri belli ama hayal kurmakta mı parayla arkadaşım! Kenarda otursa, yaksa sigarasını, Total Futbol serisinin Ajax ve Barcelona'dan sonra 3. devam filmini burada çekse ya! Tamam böyle serilerde her zaman ilk film efsane olur ama bize ilk filmin kötü bir kopyası da yeter be "Sarı Fare". Click to continue reading...

The topic of who the greatest Ferguson team was has come up recently, with some arguing that the 1994 Double winning side was the best. They didn't have any European success to back up their claim though, with Ferguson often criticised for not winning any many Champions League titles as he should have.

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West Brom are now mathematically relegated. Well, what did they accomplish? Did they enjoy their stay? And despite all the nice touches their midfielders have had, will we really miss them?

Every season one of the promoted clubs takes on their mantle; they will be the promoted side that will play "The Football.

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Consider the master Dutch footballers - Cruyff, Van Basten, Van Persie - all incredibly gifted but also temperamental and a touch arrogant.
And Dirk Kuyt? He is the complete opposite - a dedicated team man with a super-human work-rate, rock-solid temperament and modesty to the point of shyness. Click to continue reading...

Language and Contradictions in The Beautiful Game

The Barcelona – Chelsea game tomorrow is one of monumental implications. It might affect our conceptions of the game's aesthetics, morality, and function. Don't believe me? Check out all the philosophizing, pontificating and aggrandizing going on about the game in columns, soccer-culture blogs, and chat rooms the world over.

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Fears that Madrid would copy Chelsea's match against Barça of tuesday had arisen before tonight's clasico. Minutes after eight o'clock, the Real has given the impression that they were not going to dance in the same way as the Stamford Bridge guys. A recovered Robben was threatening from the right extrem while Abidal was trying to stop him without success.

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video resultado superclasico Real Madrid 2-6 Barcelona
Barcelona ha ganado la Liga, por lo menos se siente en el aire , con uno de los mejores equipos blaugranas de todos los tiempos. Un futbol de fantasía que hace a un lado al Dream Team. Hoy fueron 8 goles en total pero pudieron ser mas; gracias a San Iker Casillas los merengues no recibieron otros escandalosos goles, Casillas quien dijo "que les había pasado un rodillo por encima". Click to continue reading...

El defensor brasileño Juliano Belletti ve el partido de semifinales de la Champions League que mañana disputarán Barcelona y Chelsea en el Camp Nou como una final anticipada y considera que, si bien el club catalán práctica un gran fútbol, "el Barça no es un imparable, porque los equipos imparables no existen".

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As I picked up a newspaper on Sunday, I was faced with the spotty adolescent face of Manchester United's latest teenage ‘sensation', Federico Macheda. After making a cameo appearance from the Old Trafford bench (cushioned armchairs in actuality), the 17-year-old Italian showed a neat touch and a curling shot to clinch the game for his team against Aston Villa.

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One of the most effective soccer dribbling moves is the Cruyff Turn. See how to make this soccer move and watch a soccer drill to reinforce it. To view more great youth soccer drills and soccer tips visit PlaySportsTV at http://www.playsportstv.com/soccer ... Duration : 0:1:3 Technorati Tags: Cruyff, dribble, dribbling, drills, how, play, Soccer, tips, to, youth Click to continue reading...

Preguntado por la situación del deporte rey en la actualidad, Johan Cruyff comentó al diario The Guardian su particular visión del estado del fútbol de nuestros días, señalando que las "grandes diferencias entre los clubes ricos y los pobres está causando graves perjuicios al fútbol, sobre todo en Inglaterra". Click to continue reading...

El Barça juega fenomenal y, además, cuenta sus encuentros por victorias. Esté Messi o no, fulanito de cual o menganito de no sé dónde, el hecho es que el equipo no lo nota. No quiere decir esto que el grupo sea invencible. Recordemos que los dos últimos encuentros ha tenido que comenzar a remolque, algo [. Click to continue reading...

Yeap, it happened again. But reading some articles after each of the Galaxy´s defeats I realize why soccer is never going to be a popular sport in the States. Soccer is a sport about teams not about players. Pele, Cruyff or Di Stefano didn´t win any games playing alone.
It´s a sport where the coach can´t stop the game and change players or the way the players are playing. Click to continue reading...

Well, the window's over, and I've little desire to write about how Manchester City is going to take over the world and has signed Pele, Garrincha, Cruyff and Beckenbauer or how Hicks and Gillett are furiously rubbing two pennies together in the hopes they'll multiply.
But I do want to make sure everyone's aware Carragher has an autobiography coming out (ghost-written by the excellent Brian Reade), and parts are being serialed in the Daily Mirror. Click to continue reading...

After the Euro 2008, UEFA selected Luka Modric among the ten best players of the tournament. Much was expected from him as he was named the Croatian Cruyff, after the Dutch legend, and he lived up to the expectations of his country. Coach Bilic also compared him to AC Milan's ... Click to continue reading...

Many scholars of art, literature, football and music will argue that the classics are far better than the recent and current crop of artistes. Legends such as Dali, Picasso, Shakespeare, Yeats, Dickens, Cruyff, Pele, Pukas, Lennon, Sinatra, Presley and Marley come to mind, people who were far more talented than our present day idols. Click to continue reading...

So dreams can come true. Even Spanish footballing ones. And they can even come true in a wondrous way.
The Cava is still flowing and rightly so. In winning Euro 2008, Spain ended a quest for silverware that at 44 years' length, two more than England's, had defied all sense of fairness or logic. Click to continue reading...