Landon Donovan is celebrating a personal victory this week as he was awarded the MVP for the 2009 MLS season. The MVP is the highest honour for any individual player. Well you can't say he didn't earn it. Donovan almost single handedly carried his the LA Galaxy to the MLS Finals this year, already winning for them the Western Conference Championship.

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The Montreal Impact felt like they were duped when they withdrew their bid for a MLS franchise after finding out that the MLS is charging a $40 million expansion fee. The Impact could have been playing in the MLS by 2011 had they followed through with the deal. However, not all is lost for the Canadian soccer team.

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Real Salt Lake has been in this position before. Last year they won the MLS Eastern Conference but lost the final game. This year Real Salt Lake faces the Los Angeles Galaxy for the coveted MLS Cup. David Beckham has pledged to continue helping the Galaxy towards a victory despite Team England needing him for the World Cup Qualifiers.

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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

A puddle of mud proves to be Notts County goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel's best friend. [Extra Footie]

It was inevitable: the Elizabeth Lambert dating video parody. [Tauntr]

Bookmaker stops taking bets on new Scotland manager because their chief executive is on the SFA board.

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On a horrible wet and windy morning many fans might be glad that they are staying home this afternoon instead of having to travel to football, so maybe this break has come at the right time for once? No – ok, just trying to cheer up the grumpy ones who are missing their footie fix.

Look on the bright side, England play Brazil, so that could be a good game to watch, alternatively there is the France v ROI play off, first leg – difficult choice?

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This right here? This sh*t right here? Pfft, blogger please. This is one of the most fiendish, most diabolical, most ridiculous, most swaggerrifc footie mixtapes ever committed to microchip. Watch your back Alarazboy...they're gunnin' for your number 1 spot.
Also you might want to use headphones to watch this unless you work at MTV, a jail or the back office of a strip club. Click to continue reading...

David Beckham promised himself that he would play for every England national soccer game. With over a hundred games played Beckham now holds the record for most games played with England. However his commitments with England will have to be on hold now that the LA Galaxy have made it to the Western Finals in the MLS.

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It's rare to see players fighting out on the field during a soccer match. In hockey it's almost expected, but in soccer it's almost unheard of. That's why this new video showing a Bringham Young University player elbowing, punching and pulling hair is making it's way around the internet like wildfire.

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Cristiano Ronaldo will be out for at least two more weeks after being off of the field for a month. Doctors confirmed to Real Madrid managers and coaches that Ronaldo should refrain from practices and games until his ankle fully heals. Ronaldo was injured during a Championship League Game last month.

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St. Etienne, of the Ligue 1, has reported that it has been faced with a second case of the H1N1 virus. With Brazilian striker, Ilan hospitalized on the 30th of last month, the club was forced to be quarantined. Now, the team is saying that yet another player has been diagnosed with the virus.

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'Beckham and kid' via Kickette
'Bent's twitter boots' via The Spoiler
'Brazilian love' -- via Futbolita
'Beckham's footie art' -- via Dirty Tackle
'Kai Rooney's twitter' -- via Off the Post
'Dempsey is back' -- via The Original Winger
'Nasty KC throwback' -- via Hillcrest Road
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1. Balloongate via The Guardian
2. Halloween footie via Dirty Tackle
3. Juggling Iker via Futbolita
4. Maradona mural via Noticias
5. Shamans cure C-Ron via Daylife
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After playing a match against Arsenal, Tottenham defender Sebastien Bassong sustained a hamstring injury. To top it off, arsenal wound up winning the game, 3-0. It is being reported that Bassong will be out for five weeks with the injury, a disappointment considering he has started all 11 of the Hotspur's games.

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The U10 lads are in a bit of a slump as it turns out. Last weeks loss and yesterday a 5-3 loss. Now the lads are 4w's and 3l's with no D's. It was one of those games that didn't auger well - the other team only had 6 so I agreed (not my best decision in hindsight) to match them 6 on 6.
Of course, it was disruptive because we've been playing well with a 2-1-2-1 outfield - so I have to take part of it on the chin. Click to continue reading...

Mia Hamm of the United States has been named as ambassador for the 2011 Women's World Cup Games in Germany. The prestigious honor means that Hamm will be going around the world to represent the games and help promote women's soccer. She was named world player of the year back in 2001 and has brought home gold medals for the United States for the last two summer Olympic games.

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Toby from The Office [US Edition]
Bolton Manager Gary Megson
Here in North America the most popular footie highlights review show is The Fox Soccer Report, an hour-long hodgepodge of highlights and analysis delivered with Canadian accents and covering football from all around the world. Click to continue reading...

Nike Manchester United Line Up Jacket - White with Black

I gotta say that Manchester United has a some of the best looking jackets and jerseys in the English Premier League, or any league for that matter. I have a Man. United black sweater that I wear all the time and now I just got the new Nike Manchester United Black/White Jacket. Click to continue reading...

It isn't my intention to steal the MMM's thunder but I figured I'd throw out a few observations from my weekend of watching a pretty crazy amount of footie... 1. This is definitely the year where forwards are re-establishing themselves as the league's goal-getters. In recent seasons we've seen the ascent of CRon, Lamps, Gerrard, Ashley Young, and others among the league's top goal scorers. Click to continue reading...

There is a news circulating that South Africa plans on kicking off the 2010 World Cup games by 'sacrificing' a cow (check out the article at Yahoo.com). This of course is upsetting some people as they seem to care if a cow get's killed. South Africa is defending their decision by stating that the ceremony needs to be blessed 'African Style' for the games to run smoothly.

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The Seattle Sounders shut down any hopes for the F.C. Dallas winning the Major League Soccer Cup this year by eliminating them from the playoffs. Saturday night's game at the Qwest Fields in Seattle was a saddening loss for Dallas when they let in two goals, ending the game 2-1.

Sigi Schmid waves to the fans, in a 3-0 Seattle Sounders victory over the New Your Red Bulls, Thursday, March 19, 2009.

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In France's Ligue 1 the defending Bordeaux F.C. champions fought to retake the lead in their division. It was a special game for the Bordeaux Girondins after defeating Les Mans 3-0 to retake the one point lead over Monaco. Also in the league Lyon lost to Nice 4-1.

Bordeaux has been trying to stay on the top of the league after winning last years Ligue 1 cup.

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The 2010 World Cup in South Africa looms ever closer as teams from around the world compete for a chance to play in the worlds most prestigious sporting event. The FIFA World Cup Games begin on June 1th this summer and will run until July 11th. Only 32 nations will be honored enough to play in the games.

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On April 26, 2007 Will Brooks had the bright idea of re-inventing the way soccer is managed. He started MyFootballClub.com, a site that is basically a community of fans who get together and play a fantasy soccer, except the team is real. The community of members pooled all of their money and collectively purchased Ebbsfleet United, a soccer club that plays in the Conference National League in England.

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It was a blow to the United States soccer community to learn of the recent accident involving Charlie Davies age 23. He was involved in a deadly vehicle accident that left one passenger dead at the scene.

Charlie Davies. US Men's National Team vs Honduras at Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

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It was decided in today's game that Germany and Italy will be joining the ranks of other countries who have made it into the World Cup qualifying matches. Denmark as well as Serbia can be proud to also have the chance to play in the World Cup after beating out France. So far, the countries that still remain undecided are Switzerland and Slovakia, whose fate will be decided this Wednesday.

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The Toronto FC soccer club has gone from bad to worse for midfielder Carl Robinson. Toronto FC are three points behind a spot that would give them a chance to play towards the MLS Cup this year and they have no hope of making it. To make matters worse Robinson collided with a team member during practice injuring his face.

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There's more trouble brewing for Serbian Soccer. The FIFA has decided ti fine the Serbian National Soccer Association 25,000 Swiss Francs over the latest incident at a Serbian/France World Cup Qualifying match. Rowdy fans decided to throw fire crackers and lighters onto the soccer pitch at French players.

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Oh wow. It's like N'Sync became a new footie-themed boy band called the Backpass Boys. Obviously Danleigh Borman is the Justin Timberlake of the bunch but when it comes to who is the Joey Fatone I'm out of answers. You know what would make them really bump though? A posse cut remix by Youri Djorkaeff featuring the ESC on hypeman duty. Click to continue reading...

David Beckham is starting it all over again. He's talking to LA Galaxy club coach and managers about his desire to be loaned out to AC Milan for another season. While Beckham's last visit to Milan lasted longer than agreed upon, he returned to a team who acted like they didn't want him back.

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It's a lovely fall day here at Fullback World Headquarters, so let's take a few moments to enjoy the crisp, cool air...the leaves going to gold and scarlet...the bright sun and billowing white clouds...and some American Footie news! Deuce's Bum... Click to continue reading...

Extra Footie is reporting that Fulham are interested in buying Brek Shea from FC Dallas for £2 million. Good for him. I know he's a top prospect for the USA and Dallas, but I was pretty unimpressed with his performance at the u-20 world cup.

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ESPN reviewed our win over Benfica in the Europa League here.

UEFA published not one, but two seperate articles on the match. You can read them here and here.

PortuGOAL's coverage here.

Sky Sports covered the game as well; article posted here.

Article on the entire Group I by Extra Footie here.

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The small quiet town of Siroki Brijeg, Bosnia/Herzegovina was the scene of a horrific act of violence yesterday Sunday afternoon October 4th, 2009 when a trainload of soccer fans from Sarajevo arrived to watch the match.

Siroki Brijeg - Bosnia/Herzegovina

The game played between the two teams was friendly, but what was going on in the streets was anything but.

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Jeff Baker at New University wrote an interesting article today about David Beckham and his contributions (or lack thereof) to the development of soccer in North America. It's true that this is a tough market to crack. We seem to love technical games like football and baseball or fighting games like boxing, ultimate fighting, wrestling and hockey.

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In a historic turn of events the Kuwaiti soccer club will be visiting Iraq for the first time since the first Gulf War to play in the AFC Cup's quarterfinals. Iraq's Irbil club have been pinned up against the Kuwait Sports Club in what looks like a battle to the finish. Iraq won the Aisia Cup last season and have proven themselves the stronger contenders.

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