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This week's episode focuses on the title races across Europe, with the first stop being the
Premier League title race and the United v Chelsea game. Manchester United gave a strong showing at
Stamford Bridge on Sunday, possibly one of their best performances at the Bridge post-Ranieri and
despite the defeat all signs point to an open, three-way title race.
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,
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Liverpool's owners are preparing to scoop £100m with a new rights issue, and will fund
their manager's transfer-based desires, which include the 22-year-old Dutch midfielder Eljero Elia,
who only joined Hamburg in August from FC Twente.
Sorry futbol fans as I am again a little late with the television listings again this week, but
it still is busy for us here in Buenos Aires and as long as we get the listings posted by Friday
evening, we feel we're doing pretty well and we hope that everything is here in time to do you some
good.
The most highly-anticipated match of the English Premier League season is upon us, and so are
some truly can't-miss MLS playoff series deciders.
Chelsea plays host to Manchester United on Sunday with a chance to open up a five-point lead
atop the EPL standings, while six MLS teams head into action knowing that defending MLS champions
Columbus has been eliminated from the post-season.
The most highly-anticipated match of the English Premier League season is upon us, and so are
some truly can't-miss MLS playoff series deciders.
Chelsea plays host to Manchester United on Sunday with a chance to open up a five-point lead
atop the EPL standings, while six MLS teams head into action knowing that defending MLS champions
Columbus has been eliminated from the post-season.
Trascorsi i due giorni di Champions, stasera va in scenala quarta giornata di Europa League. In
campo, per quanto riguarda i club italiani, le romane e il Genoa di Gasperini. Alle 19 apre le
danze proprio la formazione giallorossa, impegnata all'Olimpico contro il Fulham. I ragazzi di
Ranieri (nella foto), dopo aver ritrovato il sorriso in campionato, con la vittoria sul Bologna,
cercano punti preziosi in Europa contro gli inglesi di Roy Hodgson. Click to continue reading...
Eduardo's back heel onto Arshavin, who runs and takes the ball and finds the pass to Diaby, who
sets himself up and scores.
That my friends was the goal of the night and the fourth for Arsenal against AZ Alkmaar. The
football recently played by Arsenal is nothing short of phenomenal, offensively of course.
I might be a bit premature in saying this, but with our Champion's League hopes hanging by a
thread, I was looking at the B competition, The Europa League. In it you have some of the powerhouses of European football such as Stum Graz, FC Sheriff, Fc
Twente, Bate, Dinamo Zagreb, Austria Vienna and other Luminaries of the game! Click to continue reading...
We're back in the United States for the week while club football returns to action around the
world. All of the top clubs were in action this past weekend and most of them play twice in the
coming week, so we are back in full force.
The volatility that marked the past few weeks in the rankings has slowed down this week, though
top-ranked Chelsea did manage to lose to Aston Villa to give up its place at the top spot both in
the Premiership and the rankings.
Marquee battles in each of Europe's top leagues and a loaded schedule of important MLS tilts
headline a busy Saturday of soccer action.
Early birds will be able to watch Aston Villa take on Chelsea on ESPN2, while those sleeping in
can still wake up and catch Juventus-Fiorentina, Hamburg-Bayer Leverkusen and Valencia
Barcelona.
Marquee battles in each of Europe's top leagues and a loaded schedule of important MLS tilts
headline a busy Saturday of soccer action.
Early birds will be able to watch Aston Villa take on Chelsea on ESPN2, while those sleeping in
can still wake up and catch Juventus-Fiorentina, Hamburg-Bayer Leverkusen and Valencia
Barcelona.
This season's Champions League and Europa League has its usual cast of superstars such as
Cristiano Ronaldo and Franck Ribery but I wanted to feature a few names that I think you'll be
hearing a lot more about as the January transfer window approaches.
1) Miralem Pjanic midfielder Olympique Lyonnais The "new Juninho" (pictured above) has actually lived up to the moniker thus far.
With a thrilling week of World Cup qualifying action behind us, international club soccer will
once again take center stage this weekend as players change their focus from national teams to club
teams.
There is no shortage of marquee match-ups, whether in England, Spain or MLS, which is winding up
its regular season with some crucial playoff-impacting tilts.
The United States won the Hexagonal with twenty points, while Mexico gave the best accounting in
the second half of the competition, gaining 13 points out of a possible 15 after August. Honduras
qualifies for the first time since 1982 (When the World Cup was a 24 team competition), and Costa
Rica can feel hard done with 16 points yet being forced into a playoff with Uruguay.
Now that was the best tie I've ever watched. Down early 2-0 the US fought back hard to earn a tie
in the final seconds of the game, keeping the US at the top of the table and pushing Honduras into
the World Cup. Bornstien scores as heard on Honduran radio. Two nations exploded with sound as, Bornstien's head hit the ball and sent it bouncing into the
bottom corner of the net. Click to continue reading...
Socceroo Jason Culina would love the opportunity to defeat the Netherlands in front of a sold-out
home crowd at the Sydney Football Stadium on Saturday, October 10. Having spent the last ten years
playing his club football in Holland, making 160 appearances with Dutch clubs Ajax Amsterdam, De
Graafschap, FC Twente Click to continue reading...
Hamburg SV maintain their great start to the season with a convincing
3-1 win over Stuttgart, New signing Eljero Elia, fresh from his
first goal international goal in the week, put in a man of the match performance, providing the
pass for Petric's screamer, before scoring a scorcher himself.
Cheer Up Alan Shearer's Top 10 Football Moments 9. Schteeeeeeve McLaren talks jibberish No-one really blamed Steve McLaren for moving abroad after the wally-brolly failure of England to
qualify for Euro 2008. In a path trodden by his one of his predecessors, Bobby Robson, the
ex-England boss ran to the relative safety of the Eredivisie after his international experiences to
take charge of little known FC Twente. Click to continue reading...
This weekend (Labor Day Weekend here in the May-Day-Hating United States) signals the end of the
Summer. Â The other thing that always signals the end of Summer for me is the closing of the
transfer window. Â It's done now, but not before we squeezed in two last signings. Â I meant to
post this a few days ago, but better late than never:
FC Twente have captured Perparim Hetemaj from AEK Athens FC
in a swap deal that takes Dutch midfielder Youssouf Hersi from the Netherlands to the Greek
capital.
Mario Been didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His club had just secured a draw at home against
rival FC Twente, with a late equalizer by Roy Makaay. The veteran sub kept his head cool to convert
the questionable penalty kick awarded by a shonky leading Roel Luinge. It was Click to continue reading...
The draw for the group stages of the Champions League was made today and it threw together some
mouth watering Spain v Italy matchups.
Defending Champions Barcelona were drawn against Inter Milan, Dynamo Kiev and Rubin Kazan.
Barcelona will open up defense of their title away to Inter Milan on September 16th.
Schteve is inschensched Ex-England boss Steve McClaren was not best pleased to see his FC Twente
side knocked out of the Champions League by a late Sporting Lisbon goal. He expressed his anger
verbally to a global television audience! Spotted on 101GG
McClaren the FC Twente manager speaks English with a Dutch accent and unusual grammar these
days..We have a video of Steve swearing when his FC Twente team drew 1-1 with Sporting Lisbon when
goalkeeper Rui Patricio scored a last minute away goal to dump FC Twente out the Champions
League.It makes me feel better when they lost the game. Click to continue reading...
Former winners Celtic are amongst a number of big name teams already fighting for their lives in
this season's UEFA Champions League.
Celtic travel to Russia desperate to overturn a 1-0 deficit, but with opponents Dinamo Moscow on
a fine run of form, defender Gary Caldwell knows it will take something special to emerge
victorious.
Trailing Sporting Lisbon 1-0 from the first leg in the Champions League qualifier, Steve McLaren's
FC Twente got off to the perfect start this evening in the second leg, when Douglas headed them
into the lead in the second minute of the match. However, with the tie all square and well into injury time, Sporting got a corner and up came their
goalkeeper Rui Patricio, who's header took deflections off two Twente defenders before finding its
way into the bottom corner of the net, to the absolute delight of Sporting and despair for Twente
and McLaren. Click to continue reading...
The 2009-10 Champions League Qualifying third round wraps up this week as the second legs took
place. On Tuesday five teams advanced to the next round of qualifying. Here's a recap of the
matches on Tuesday along with video highlights.
Maccabi Haifa FC advances past FK Atobe 4-3 on aggregate Video Highlights
It was 0-0 after the first leg and Maccabi had to come from behind to advance 4-3 on
aggregate.
The most fun we had at the corner flag last year was poking fun at Chelsea's Jose Bosingwa for
losing his composure and going all Karate Kid into Yossi Benayoun's back. But forget that unibrowed very expensive, dirty cheater and let's focus on the Dutch Eredivisie's
opening weekend for our corner flag fun today. Click to continue reading...
What do you do when a defender has backed you all the way up to the corner flag, and you have no
where to go? In this game between Sparta Rotterdam and FC Twente at the weekend, in the first round of
Eredivisie matches, rather than the Sparta forward just kicking it against the defender and out for
a throw or corner, he gets his team mate to remove the offending corner flag so that he can cross
the ball in. Click to continue reading...
The dramatic moment in Lisbon FC Twente keeps sight on the second round in the CL qualifications.
On a night full of drama in Lisbon, the Tukkers were able to go home with a draw playing with ten
men for a large part of the game. It looked bleak for the Twente Click to continue reading...
