Liverpool stalwart Jamie Carragher will join Sky Sports from the start of next season. The veteran defender had previously announced that he would retire at the end of the current campaign, although the rumour mill had suggested he was thinking of performing a U-turn and staying on for one more season.
One of the world's most historic football clubs has been training at the United States' eldest
university. On Harvard's Ohiri Field, Brendan Rodgers has put a young squad through a grueling 48
hours in Boston. Using an American football-esque...
Barcelona and Real Madrid might be two of the biggest football clubs in the world, but at times they act like petulant children.
According to Catalunya Radio, Barcelona secretly filmed Real Madrid defender's Pepe's during 2010-11's Clasicos, with the goal of recording all his tackles on Barcelona players.
The Groups draw for CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2012-2013 has been celebrated in Monaco with all the candidate
- teams placed in their corresponding Groups according to luck & perhaps fate. Four Spanish
Football Clubs were present, REAL MADRID, FC BARCELONA, VALENCIA CF & MALAGA, this last an
Historical event for the Club.
The Spanish Football Clubs are playing diverse pre-season friendly games locally & around the
World. One of the more interesting games was played yesterday in Paris when PARIS ST GERMAIN hosted
FC BARCELONA. The end result was 2 - 2 full time, but FC Barcelona won the penalty shoot-out 1 - 4
with goalie Pinto making two saves during the shoot-out.
Today is the day we as fans and supporters of football clubs join hands in prayers. If not with
each other, at least clasping our very own hands. As today is the day that the players that we
support goes out to play for the respective national teams. Captain, Thomas Vermaelen is one such
concern but injury happens all the time and probably isn't down to club specifics.
It would appear that Monsieur Platini's pet project is starting to have an effect. Financial
Fair Play, as it is known, seems to be causing some of our bigger clubs to start moving towards a
more sustainable business model.
We are all too well aware of the financial constraints under which Arsene Wenger has had to
operate for the last several seasons, in order to balance the books and to reduce the club's level
of debt.
Football clubs will do all in their power to sell merchandise, and that includes peddling some
absolutely woeful tat. I remember almost shedding a tear after reading the blurb below an Arsenal
child's moneybox, the gist of which was to encourage your children to put their pocket money in an
Arsenal-branded product so that they [.
Keeping with our recent tradition of doing really random posts in the off-season, we must now
naturally move on to pre-season friendlies. Pre-season friendlies are a time of joy for the
marketing heads of football clubs, assorted brands and Chinese-names-on-tshirt-writers. The global
tours of English clubs this summer have practically reached the opposite ends of the world,
everyone apparently glad to avoid the traffic back home during the Olympics.
The "Arsenal Way" Is Very Appealing: Liverpool To Copy Arsenal Yes indeed, a lot of football clubs
around the world look at Arsenal as a gleaming example of how a club is properly run. Some look at
us in a Jealous light (smearing and jeering), because deep down they realise that in the long
run...Arsenal [.
With Arsenal's star team captain's contract due for expiry in a year, Robin van Persie is a hot
favorite in selected for the Italian and England football clubs. The Dutchman has a total of three
packages awaiting his decision, with a salary figure that is twice as much, and more, than his
current wage at [.
Oil. It's marvelous stuff, isn't it? Look at JR Ewing. Where would he have been without oil? And
Bobby. He'd probably still have been swimming like a spasticated seal under the water with his
webbed hands and stuff.
It drives the world, literally, and now it's driving football. The investments in football clubs
from people who have made bazillions from oil and the like continue apace.
Stephan El Shaarawy of AC Milan (Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images)
At only 19 years old, Stephan El Shaarawy is the best player on one of the world's most famous football clubs.
It is improbable to think of. A teenager, well, at least for the next couple weeks, is not only playing every game for AC Milan, a perennial power in world football.
Two of the world's great football clubs, Real Madrid and AC Milan, met Wednesday evening at a
very sticky and humid Yankee Stadium as part of the World Football Challenge. The match was the
second played this summer at the famous baseball stadium in The Bronx, New York, and offered a much
more entertaining show than the earlier exhibition between Chelsea and PSG.
Chelsea 1-1 Paris Saint-Germain: Soccer Comes to Yankee Stadium - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
On a picture perfect summer night in The Bronx, two of the world's bigger football clubs met at
Yankee Stadium as part of this year's edition of the World Football Challenge. In the first soccer
match played at the ‘House That Steinbrenner Built,' Chelsea FC and Paris Saint-German battled to
a 1-1 draw before 38,000 spectators, of which about 90 percent were cheering for Chelsea.
On a picture perfect summer night in The Bronx, two of the world's bigger football clubs met at
Yankee Stadium as part of this year's edition of the World Football Challenge. In the first soccer
match played at the ‘House ...
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Champions League 2012-2013 10 Players to Watch is a post from: Just Football
The 32 teams are primed, the players are ready and the famous anthem has been pre-loaded onto tape ready to be belted out around the grounds of Europe's elite football clubs; yes, the 2012/2013 UEFA Champions League group stages are all but ready to begin.
PSV Eindhoven: Dick Advocaat comeback begins with false start is a post from: Just Football
It was after PSV conceded their second goal that Dick Advocaat
knew he was truly back in the Eredivisie. The maddest league in Europe, and he
couldn't have started in a more significant setting – RKC Waalwijk's Mandemakers Stadion –
scene of PSV's last (and now most recent) competitive defeat.
What seemed like a done deal that would send Dimitar Berbatov from Manchester United's bench to
striker-desperate Fiorentina descended into farce on Wednesday. The result was Berbatov being
linked to Juventus and Fulham, and Fiorentina issuing an amazing press release condemning all
parties involved.
Formations in 2012/2013 Sir Alex Ferguson has been the manager of Manchester United for 25 years,
and in that time he has become a loyal follower of the 4-4-2 formation that has been dominant in
England for decades. This formation has been the foundation upon which he's built the most
successful football clubs in history.
Football clubs social media ranking in July 2012, showing the number of Twitter "followers" and
Facebook "likes" (official club accounts). FC Barcelona top the league, ahead Real Madrid and
Manchester United.
Perusing acres of statistics that can be found in newspapers on the opening weekend of the
football season can be a most enlightening way to pass the couple of hours, even if focusing on the
attendance figures rather than the results themselves does require a certain degree of furtiveness.
At the top end of the game, there are few surprises to be found.
In November of last year, a non-league football club made its first appearance at its new home
ground. This in itself is nothing truly remarkable. After all, football clubs relocating has been a
common enough sight over the last quarter of a century or so. For this particular club, though, the
move was a special one, bringing, as it did, to an end twelve years of asset-stripping, internecine
arguing and a battle to keep senior football alive in a borough on the periphery of London that had
become synonymous with one of the best known names in non-league football.
I was immensely tickled to read about some disturbances at a recent Thailand Premier League game
between TOT and Bangkok Glass. Tickled because these are two of the corporate clubs that litter the
football landscape in the country and, for me at least, I find it hard to get excited about a club
that is just an extension of a corporate entity.
Oh, is it that time of the year already? The football clubs of the Premier League are
making their preparations for the start of the new football season and this means, of course, the
release of their new kits. So, in the first of a two-parter what he thinks the kits of all Premier
League football clubs should look like will follow here's Ted Carter with his review
(and a league table!
Guest post from Shaz Rahman. For our younger viewers, Coventry's fall may be neither here
nor there. But for a very long time they were one of those unrelegateable teams that simply stuck
around forever, punching above their weight and annoying bigger clubs on an annual basis. They
won the FA Cup, gloriously, in 1987, and it's fair to say they've had some of the great football
kits of all time.
Guest post from Shaz Rahman. For our younger viewers, Coventry's fall may be neither here
nor there. But for a very long time they were one of those unrelegateable teams that simply stuck
around forever, punching above their weight and annoying bigger clubs on an annual basis. They
won the FA Cup, gloriously, in 1987, and it's fair to say they've had some of the great football
kits of all time.
Some weeks back, I had written a post about how well I thought the management of my birthplace
club Blackpool had handled the club's financial affairs despite some scathing criticisms from local
supporters. On Friday last week, we saw the other end of the spectrum as iconic Scottish Old Firm
club Rangers was demoted to the Scottish Division Three for next season as punishment for their
shambolic financial state.
Alan Pardew has always been well aware what a fantastic club Newcastle United is, and he has
come out today and said he is humbled to take the club, one of the best supported football clubs in
the world, back into European competition after an absence of six years. Derek LLambias attended
draw in Nyon, Switzerland yesterday Glenn Roeder was the last Newcastle manager to [.
That this would happen has been rumored for a while now, but official bad news today that
the Newcastle United Youth Academy will not receive Category One status under the new Elite Player
Performance Plan (EPPP). The EPPP is meant to bolster the chances of local young footballers to
break through into the first team squads of football clubs over time, and [.
It's not often you find a true one club man in South East Asian football. The idea of loyalty hasn't quite caught on with club owners who see their football clubs as little more than a toy to be tinkered with and a photo opportunity.
SAFFC coach Richard Bok breaks that mould. He has been with the club since 1996 but his career ended as a player before it ever really got started and since then he moved behind the scenes to do a variety of odd jobs before becoming coach in 2006.
Football clubs are always looking for new ways to prevent and reduce the number of injuries that
they inevitably experience each season and Napoli have one rule that they credit with keeping their
number of muscle injuries low: No sex for two days each match.
From Football Italia:
"Avoiding sexual activity for two days before a game is fundamental to prevent muscular strains,
contractions or inflammations," Professor Alfonso De Nicola [Napoli's chief medic] told the
Corriere del Mezzogiorno newspaper.
I see you've caught me casually standing around in my new Fulham kit. I know it's been far too
long since I last came around to seduce you with my cousin Timitar Berbatov ready to film it all
from angles only seen in medical documentaries, but that's only because I've spent the summer
teasing football clubs across Europe with the chance to get a taste of Berba-bilities.
If you're taking a holiday in Europe, the chances are that there will be a game of football
happening somewhere near you. It's a great opportunity to experience the atmosphere at some of
sport's most iconic grounds.
Football is Europe's most popular game. The season generally starts in August and ends in May,
but there are still international games and tournaments such as the European Championships and
World Cup.
English football is full of eccentricities. Every match day up and down the country there are
people out there busy adding to their collection of match day programmes, badges or tickets. Others
collect scarves, pennants or autographs. You name it and there is probably someone out there
somewhere with a sizeable collection of them.
While All Star games are always met with a touch of apathetic indifference regardless of the
sport, there's no denying that any time the current UEFA Champions League champions take the field
on American soil, the world takes notice. Tonight, in Chester, PA, some of the best players in
Major League Soccer will get the opportunity to test themselves against one of the greatest
football clubs in the world.
OK the Malaysian season has finished. The Malaysia Cup will be drawn at the end of July and will
start after Ramadhan.
Kelantan won the Super League and the FA Cup. They are still going strong in the AFC Cup, facing
Arbil home and away in September.
The Malaysians have decided it has been a few years since they last changed the format of their
league so in 2013 the top flight will have 12 teams instead of the present 14 so we have a mad rush
to escape the drop.
