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(The entry is formulated from the transcript obtained via
Integrated Marketing Solutions Group
-IMSG, the PR agency of Nike Singapore)
(P.S: The copyrights of the images depicted in this blog entry belong to
Nike, unless stated
on the images itself.)
In its quest to help players to maintain their game in order to excel further to the next level,
sporting apparel giants Nike had recently launched their latest collection of football boots - the
"4 Silo" with aim to help them in achieving that goal.
(This entry is formulated based on the transcript of the media release from the Football
Association of Singapore)
Picture credit: FAS
SINGAPORE, 15 JANUARY 2012 – The Courts Young Lions emerged victorious over the H-TWO-O
Ultimate Dream Team after a nerve-wrecking penalty shoot-out in a match that was played at Jalan
Besar Stadium this evening.
(This entry is sponsored by Samsung Mobile)
It's a common sight everywhere in Brazil to see the fun-loving natives get together spontaneously
for a game of kick-about on any space they can find.
Be it that it could be an obscure back alley of any street, the famed Copacabana beaches or on
those lush manicured pitches dotted around this football crazy nation, so long inches of space are
made available you bound to see the Brazilians coming together to enjoy a game of street soccer.
(This entry is formulated with the transcript obtained from S.League title sponsor, H-TWO-O, via
the Football Association of Singapore)
Isa and H-TWO-O - a perfect combinationBoasting a score of 13.3 in the pre-season beep test, Home
United and Singapore national team midfielder Isa Halim is one of the best in the business.
(The entry is formulated from the transcript obtained via
Integrated Marketing Solutions
Group -
IMSG, the PR agency of Nike Singapore)
(P.S: The copyrights of the images and video depicted in this blog entry belong to
Nike,
unless stated on the images itself.)
Their exploits on the field in recent weeks would not have been gone unnoticed and possible without
Nike's Tiempo Legend IV Elite.
Back in May life was good at the Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia in Bergamo. Atalanta had
accomplished their mission of making an immediate return to the Italian top-flight by winning the
Serie Bwin championship, coach Stefano Colantuono committed his future to the club and the
players were looking forward to a well earned summer vacation.
In May of this year Qatar Investment Authority bought 70% of the capital of French Football club
Paris Saint-Germain, this was to develop owner presence in Europe. Over a month later it had
emerged that both Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan had held talks for Leonardo to be sporting
director of the French Club not long after it was announced that Leonardo had been confirmed as the
sporting.
Fittingly, for the first Serie A club to fall under foreign ownership, AS Roma's willingness to
embrace change continues with gusto. An influx of youth and experience from various corners of the
globe is creating real fervour amongst tifosi, singling Roma out as one of world football's teams
to watch this season.
After drawing 2-2 in the first leg in Palermo, the Rosanero made the trip to Switzerland knowing
that they would need a win against FC Thun in order to guarantee a spot in the next round of the
Europa League. The club was hoping to avoid another repeat of the Mladá Boleslav debacle from a
few years earlier when Palermo crashed out very early in the UEFA Cup against the minnows from the
Czech.
Ezequiel Ivan Lavezzi had a long campaign. 31 appearances in Serie A last season for Napoli proved
tremendously successful on both a personal and club level, as the player score six goals and fired
his side into the Champions' League qualifying position. He then joined Argentina's National Team
for an ultimately disappointing Copa America, featuring in two group match games as a starter and
one.
The new season in just weeks away and it starts under a cloud for newly promoted Atalanta as they
have been hit with six point deduction for their part in the betting scandal currently rocking
Italian football. The veteran midfielder and club captain Cristiano Doni has been banned for
three-and-a-half years which will effectively end his playing career given that he is now 38 years
old.
In the midst of this week's chaos and rioting around England, one good samaritan on Twitter is
urging people to stop the violence and help out.
Twitter account @Riotcleanup was started by Dan Thompson, who used the medium to encourage
"proud Londoners" to get out and help "reclaim their streets.
Cliché's are, well, clichéd, and even that might be a cliché. They stand as the writing
equivalent of using training wheels, working well enough to "fall back on" and "get the job done"
but preventing any sort of creativity from shining through along the way. Football is full of such
terms, and the 24th Supercoppa Italiana helped to reinforce some of the most popular ones.
Cliché's are, well, clichéd, and even that might be a cliché. They stand as the writing
equivalent of using training wheels, working well enough to "fall back on" and "get the job done"
but preventing any sort of creativity from shining through along the way. Football is full of such
terms, and the 24th Supercoppa Italiana helped to reinforce some of the most popular ones.
Since he no longer plies his trade on the Italian peninsula, Serie A Weekly turned to Jack
Pitt-Brooke who writes for UK newspaper The Independent and is a huge Manchester City fan for an
update on the striker and how fans of the Premier League club feel about 'Super Mario'. Here's what
he had to say For all the magic of David Silva, the excellence of Vincent.
Down goes Thiago Motta but check out the special event jersey. At least Inter fans in the Far East
were given something to remember their heroes by as it was not the final scoreline that caused them
to jump for joy. Hopefully for Nerazzurri tifosi this image won't mirror the Italian Serie A season
ahead.
The Serie A season begins in a little over three weeks, yet the curtain raiser for Italy's top
flight takes place this Saturday. While Inter have been a constant in the Supercoppa over the
last six years, this year's matchup holds special significance. Not only is it once again being
held in Beijing's historic Bird's Nest Stadium, Inter's opponents are city rivals and last season's
Scudetto.
(The entry is formulated from the transcript obtained via
Integrated Marketing Solutions Group
-IMSG, the PR agency of Nike Singapore)
(P.S: The copyrights of the images and video depicted in this blog entry belong to Nike, unless
stated on the images itself.)
With its "DRI-FIT" apparel and Tiempo Legend by Nike, Hariss is always at the top of his gameHis
performance on the last Saturday night captivated those who were at the Jalan Besar Stadium and
also the millions of those who watched the crucial World Cup Qualifier match between Singapore and
Malaysia at home.
Who would have thought the day would come when we would Paolo Di Canio in management? I
didn't but it did happen as on May 20th2011 he agreed a deal to be the manager of recently
relegated side Swindon Town and May 23rd he was presented to the press, a fashionable 40 minutes
late to his own press conference.
Inter's preseason is well underway, with three friendlies and three wins under their belt. Ritiro
in the idyllic setting of Pinzolo has come and gone and after ten days, the squad has returned to
Milan with training to resume at Appiano Gentile. While the pitch and training grounds have been
quite busy with double training sessions and matches, they are not the only place seeing action.
As Roma welcome new recruits into Giallorosso, fresh speculation about Daniele De Rossi's future
has arisen. So what will this mercato have in store for Roma's ‘capitano futuro'? Recent press
speculation suggests that Manchester City's Roberto Mancini has designs on Daniele De Rossi, with a
sensational salary apparently on the table – a deal which practically doubles the package already
being.
As Roma welcome new recruits into Giallorosso, fresh speculation about Daniele De Rossi's future
has arisen. So what will this mercato have in store for Roma's ‘capitano futuro'? Recent press
speculation suggests that Manchester City's Roberto Mancini has designs on Daniele De Rossi, with a
sensational salary apparently on the table – a deal which practically doubles the package already
being.
As news broke of Roma's latest signing, Serie A Weekly turned to Spanish football expert David
Cartlidge to find out more about a man replacing Fulham-bound John Arne Riise at left-back for the
Giallorossi. Here's his view; The transition over the years for Spanish players going to Italy and
plying their trade has been a one mostly of an underwhelming nature, but a young man from.
Lazio, perhaps more than any other Italian side, have made some tremendously interesting moves in
the summer mercato. "Interesting," that is, because acquiring two strikers and swapping fullbacks
and potentially goalies is quite the gamble, a roll of the dice that could see the club challenge
for the top or fall apart into a mess of distraught egos and poor decisions.
In late June Fiorentina announced that after five years at the club that Adrian Mutu had left to
join Cesena on a two year deal. A statement on the official Viola website read; "ACF Fiorentina
communicates to have sold Adrian Mutu to Cesena on a permanent basis. The club wishes to thank
Adrian for his work over the past few seasons and wish him all the best for the future.
As the final whistle sounded, the Dino Manuzzi exploded into delirium. Not only had Cesena just
earned a 1-0 win over Brescia but, most importantly, it signified that the Seahorses would be
playing in Serie A the following season. It was a remarkable feat for a club that many had pegged
to be immediate relegation candidates prior to any games being played.
When Catania were promoted to Serie A back in 2006 most people thought they would not really
survive in the top flight, but over the following seasons they have undoubtedly proved those people
wrong with some really good displays against the top sides, while playing some very attack-minded
football. Last year the club finished in 13th and went through two managers during the season.
Aurelio de Laurentiis, clearly a man with a sense of the epic, seems intent on building upon the
Partonopei's already stratospheric rise. As Napoli enters the grandest of all European stages the
Champions League - will their ascendency continue, or will added responsibility impinge upon
their domestic ambitions, leaving them stranded on both fronts?
Serie A Weekly's Michael Moruzzi looks at co-ownership and asks if other countries could benefit
from adopting a similar system. Some things in life are so universally derided that only a complete
fool would dare to endorse them, like FIFA's code of ethics, Sarah Palin's grasp of geopolitical
issues, and the Italian administrative system.
The last seven days for Inter were supposed to be a dawning of a new season. A new coach was
officially presented on Tuesday, a new player welcomed on Thursday, the new shirt unveiled Friday.
Unfortunately, all the good news this week has been overshadowed by the news that was announced
last Monday.
Truth in football is dead. The internet killed it. Well, perhaps maybe not dead. But "truth" as it
was once known is seemingly disappearing. It should be a rather simple, black-and-white concept: X
is true, therefore Y isn't. Circumstances can change but what is simply is, simply should be.
However, this week in football saw quite a few challenges to such a rigid definition.
With the dust barely settled on last season's campaign, Palermo have already taken to the field in
preparation for next season. The Stefano Pioli era has officially begun as the squad met in Malles,
a small town tucked away in the Trentino-Alto Adige region less than a hundred kilometers away from
the Swiss-Austria border.
After a brilliant season last year, Francesco Guidolin steered Udinese to 4th place and a place in
the Champions league qualifying stage, with this a lot is expected in the coming term. With all the
success, vultures have swarmed Udine and are looking at their best players. The very talented
forward Alexis Sanchez is turning heads with both Manchester United and Manchester City interested,
along.
In what was a turmoil ridden campaign for the Giallorossi, there were always going to be
causalities – the question is, will ‘il capitano futuro', the disaffected Daniele De Rossi,
follow Philippe Mexes out of Rome? Understandably, vultures in the form of European football's big
guns are circling over Roma's carcass, hoping to pick from the bones of last season, before Thomas
di Benedetto can.
It may not seem so now, but Parma was once a major protagonist in Italian football. After
financial turmoil and relegation a short few years ago, it may seem that the club is a far cry from
the likes of Inter and Milan, but the truth is quite the opposite. As recently as 2002 the side won
the Coppa Italia as well as the UEFA Cup: two competitions in which Parma were regulars in between
the late.
Sergio Aguero: Striker, surely. Argentine, indubitably. Statement of intent? Quite possibly. After
putting himself on the transfer market, via Twitter of all places, the Atletico Madrid striker has
become one of the hottest strikers available, albeit with an immensely high price tag. If Juventus
can somehow scrape the money together however, the move may pay off immensely.
On October 24, 2010, Antonio Cassano took to the field with Sampdoria in a crucial match against a
then-second place Inter side. At the Giuseppe Meazza, the Bari-born fantasista was instrumental
once again, delivering a pinpoint perfect cross to Stefano Guberti which temporarily gave Sampdoria
a 1-0 lead.
As the official start of another transfer window draws near (for those unaware, in Italy it doesn't
officially until July 1) the time has come to examine Inter's summer 2011 calciomercato. The first
and most important move of the close season has been announcing Gian Piero Gasperini as the new
head coach.
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"I realized that he (Withaya) understands me the most and he could guide me to be a good
player.
"I'm not just saying this but because he did turn me to a player everyone looked up to when I was
16 during which everyone had given up hope on me but "coach" was the only one who saw something in
me.
Despite finishing tenth last season there seems to be a constant state of upheaval at Genoa. A new
coach has been installed and a highly rated youngster has already gone to champions Milan, with
more on their way both in and out. On Monday last week Genoa appointed former Bologna manager
Alberto Malesani after the club decided not to renew the contract of Bruce Willis look-a-like
Davide.
