It is Friday, which means it is time to prepare for non-stop action from Spain with La Liga back in the fray. After an intense week of World Cup qualifying playoffs, the focus turns back to the domestic responsibilities.

The times listed are Eastern Standard Time (EST) and include the pregame pleasantries, although sometimes the matches on the DIRECTV La Liga specific channels may not go to match coverage until right before kickoff.

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Group A
Bayern Munich 0-2 Bordeaux -- A frustrating home loss for the Germans will add some more heat to coach Louis Van Gaal's seat. Bayern will likely miss out of the round of 16 thanks to goals from Yoann Gourcuff and Marouane Chamakh. The French team advanced.
Maccabi Haifa 0-1 Juventus -- The Italian side was riddled with injuries, but only needed a 45th minute goal from Camoranesi for the road win. Click to continue reading...

This week's Champions League games could see several big names all but knocked out of the tournament, and leave several big name managers looking for new jobs.

Fresh from stunning holders Barcelona at the Nou Camp, Rubin Kazan have the chance to repeat the feat at the Centralniy Stadium, with a place in the knockout phase now a realistic ambition for the Russian champions.

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The UEFA Champions League has complete three rounds of group stage matches or its half-way point. A few teams are very close to clinching a spot to the knockout stage while some clubs have a lot of work to do. Manchester United and Chelsea are both 3-0-0 and a win away from clinching their spots to the next round.

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The UEFA Champions wrapped up the third set of group stage matches on Wednesday, October 21, 2009. The match of the night was Real Madrid v AC Milan. Other top teams in action were Bayern Munich, Chelsea, and Manchester United. Here's a recap along with video highlights for the UEFA Champions League group stage matches on Wednesday, October 21, 2009.

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The UEFA Champions League continued on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 with AC Milan v FC Zurich. Here's a recap and video highlights of that match.

FC Zurich stuns AC Milan 1-0 Video Highlights

Italian Serie A side AC Milan started off poorly against FC Zurich. Milan were clearly the favorites heading into the match.

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The UEFA Champions League began its group stage on Tuesday with many of the favorites in action such as Manchester United, Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Bayern Munich. There were not many upsets as most of the favorites won their matches. Here's a recap of all the matches along with video highlights for Tuesday, September 15, 2009.

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Here are the final 10 teams that have qualified for today's draw: Arsenal, Fiorentina, Olympiakos, Stuttgart, Lyon, Atletico Madrid, Maccabi Haifa, FC Zürich, Apoel Nicosia and Debrecen.
The draw for the group stage is later today.
Teams like Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Juventus are in the second bowl -- meaning there could be some fun matchups between some big boys. Click to continue reading...

The lineup for the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League group stage has been completed with the final five qualifiers earning their places on Wednesday night.

This week's ten play-off winners join the 22 automatic entrants in Thursday's group-stage draw. VfL Wolfsburg, Rubin Kazan, AZ Alkmaar, Standard Liège, Unirea Urziceni, Debreceni, APOEL and FC Zürich will all be making their debuts in a competition which sees 18 nations represented in the group stage this year.

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The UEFA Champions League play-off round begins today with the ten remaining places in the group stage up for grabs.

History beckons
For the likes of Arsenal and Lyon the prospect of missing a season in the continent's premier club competition does not bear thinking about. At the same time, history beckons for Sheriff and entspils as they bid to become the first sides from Moldova and Latvia respectively to take their place at Europe's top table.

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The last qualifying round of the Champions League is the playoff round with the winners advancing to the group stage. On Friday the draw was released with the most intriguing matchup of English club Arsenal against Scottish side Celtic. The matches will begin with the first legs on August 18/19, and finish with the second legs on August 25/26.

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Football is a passionate game. That is like saying cliff-walking is a dangerous one. Plenty of sports have their passion, but to me, football's remains the most tribalistic. How many people do you know who can transform from run-of-the-mill Mr. Average to vein-through-the-head Mr. Angry, and all because of a contentious penalty decision. Click to continue reading...

One team short. Serie A's chance to get a "perfect quartet" into the UEFA Cup GS round will have to wait another year. Indeed, three of Italy's four UEFA Cup contenders are through to the group stage as AC Milan, Sampdoria and Udinese all won their first-round ties. Udinese needed a penalty shoot-out to thwart [. Click to continue reading...

Italian teams made 4 out of 4 in the UEFA Cup Thursday night. Indeed, in the round just before the Group Stage all four Serie A sides in action recorded first-leg victories, some welcome news after the difficulties Roma and Fiorentina encountered in the Champions League. Uefa.com reports. Partial video highlights here. Click to continue reading...

It was an outstanding performance for Italian football in the first round of UEFA Cup action, as all four Serie A clubs registered first-leg victory.  AC Milan adjusting to a non-Champions League season are full steam ahead winning 3 - 1 over FC Zürich.  This triumph couldn't have come at a better time for Rossoneri manager [. Click to continue reading...

One day after that of the Champions League, the draw for the First Round of the UEFA Cup 2008-09 took place in Monaco Friday. Lots of teams involved, but of course right now we're only concerned with the Serie A clubs, which didn't fare too badly to be quite honest. .   2008/09 UEFA CupFirst Roundto be played [. Click to continue reading...

This is the squad for Finland v Israel on Wednesday: Goalkeepers Jussi Jääskeläinen, Bolton Wanderers, 42 /   0 Niki Mäenpää, FC Den Bosch, 1 /   0 Magnus Bahne, Halmstads BK, 2 /   0 Defenders Hannu Tihinen, FC Zürich, 64 /   4 Veli Lampi, FC Zürich, 8 /   0 Petri Pasanen, Werder Bremen, 45 /   1 Ari Nyman, FC Thun, 18 /   0 Toni Kuivasto, Djurgårdens [. Click to continue reading...

Serie A Udinese and Swiss International midfielder Gokhan Inler reported to move to English Premiership club Arsenal with at least £5 million amount to transfer refer to Inler release clause in Udinese. Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger want Goekhan Inler on his midfielder line up squad next season.

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The AEK youth club will be participitating at the FIFA Youth Cup. The tournament will take place between the 30th of April to the 1st of May in Zurich, Switzerland. Manchester United and Villareal, along with other clubs from South America and Europe, will be a couple of the other clubs participating. Click to continue reading...