2012: Rise of the Chinese Football Empire? is a post from: Just Football

Following the arrival of Nicolas Anelka and Jean Tigana at Shanghai Shenhua, the Chinese Super League (CSL) has received more attention in a month than it has previously done in almost a decade.

The CSL itself is coming up to its ninth year as China's top league since it superseded the Jia-A League in 2003.

Every football fan or player in the country should watch this match.
A sold-out crowd at Hindmarsh is simply one of the finest sights in Australian sport. Is it in our top ten regular season games for any code?
And every young player in the country would surely want to imagine him or herself on such a stage.

Mais um jogo do Mundial Sub-20, foi realizado no dia 03/08/2011, na cidade de Armenia-COL, onde jogaram as seleções da Croácia (10º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Nigéria (39º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções nunca haviam jogado.
O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Dario UBRIACO (URU)
O primeiro assistente do jogo, foi: William CASAVIEJA (URU)
O segundo assistente do jogo, foi: Carlos PASTORINO (URU)
O quarto árbitro do jogo, foi: Marlon ESCALANTE (VEN)
O primeiro gol do jogo, foi de Olarenwaju KAYODE, aos 25 minutos do primeiro tempo.

Mais um jogo do Mundial Sub-20, foi realizado no dia 31/07/2011, na cidade de Manizales-COL, onde jogaram as seleções da Costa Rica (56º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Espanha (1º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
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O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Dario Ubriaco-URU
O primeiro assistente do jogo, foi: Willaim Casavieja-URU
O segundo assistente do jogo, foi: Carlos Pastorino-URU
O quarto árbitro do jogo, foi: Patricio Polic-CHI
O primeiro gol do jogo, foi de Rodri, aos 14 minutos do primeiro tempo, para a Espanha.

28.07.2011 - Las siempre recurrentes estadísticas que terminan por delinear el futuro de muchos profesionales del fútbol también nos permite armar un grupo (o bolsa) en el que coinciden, por ejemplo, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Lionel Messi, Albano Bizarri y Maxi López: son los 18 argentinos que se consagraron campeones de la Champions League.

By Chris Wright

Dario Conca, Dario...Conca, struggling to place the name? Allow us to refresh your memory.

Despite no-one really knowing who the bloody bejesus he is, Conca is now the third highest-paid player in world football (behind the 'big two', Messi and Ron) courtesy of Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande, who snapped him up on a mammoth contract from Fluminese a week or so ago.

By Chris Wright

Chinese Super League side Guangzhou Evergrande have announced that they have completed a €10 million transfer for Dario Conca, an attacking midfielder from Brazilian side Fluminense (and 2010 Brazilian Player of the Year) which, you are probably thinking, isn't altogether that startling in itself.

Mais um jogo amistoso, no dia 08/02/2011, na cidade de Moquegua-PER, no Estadio 25 de Noviembre, jogaram as seleções do Peru (68º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do Panamá (60º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
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O árbitro desse jogo, foi: Dario Ubriaco-URU
O único gol do jogo, foi de Orlando Contreras, aos 41 minutos do primeiro tempo, ele que é jogador do Univ.

MOSCOW, Russia — Sergei Ignashevich scored a late equalizer to give CSKA Moscow a 1-1 draw against PAOK Thessaloniki on Tuesday which put the Russian club through to the last 16 of the Europa League. CSKA won the first leg 1-0 away, and advanced 2-1 on aggregate. Zlatan Muslimovic put PAOK in the lead in [.

Great we got to a final with a strong performance over Uzbekistan and a strong but ultimately losing performance in the Asian Cup Final.
No-one more delighted to see the team playing some decent fast forward focused football and let's face it we should have won the final. Will we ever get a better chance?

Tonight's the night. Asian Cup Semi and the Uzbek manager reckons we're not as good as we used to be!
We know that but the guys who have come through in this tournament with a future in the Green and Gold at some level include:
Matt McKay
Mile Jedinak
Neil Kilkenny
Sasa Ognenovski
So we've found four players, we may find more, not World beaters but competent with others around them to get us to a World Cup - we need to be top four in Asia - this we are, but with Harry and Timmy getting older and many many games going our way when they could easily of gone the other.

By FRANCO PANIZO

The 2011 Central American Cup in Panama came to a close on Sunday, and World Cup participant Honduras walked away victorious.

Honduras claimed its third Central American title, defeating a 10-man Costa Rica side, 2-1, in Panama City. Los Catrachos took an early lead through a rifled finish from close range by Walter Martinez in the 8th minute, and Emil Martinez added a second off a free kick in the 53rd.

Victory and poverty are relative. For most of America, Nicaragua is looked down upon as the ugly stepchild. The Ticos complain about Nicas despite giving them visas by the thousands, and everyone else forgets that a certain Mr. Dario, the father of literary postmodernism in Spanish literature, came from this cuna.

Richard Garcia is out, injured and in comes the non-playing Tommy Oar.
We all have high hopes for Tommy but if he's not playing for his club side FC Utrecht and in view of all Holger has said about Tommy... he can't cross, or play the right ball yet according to his Dutch Coaches....should Tommy really be picked?