The Milwaukee Bavarians moved into a tie atop the National Premier Soccer League Midwest Region
Central Conference, at least temporarily, without even taking the field.
League officials awarded the Bavarians a forfeit victory over the Quad City Eagles on Saturday
after the team was ruled to have violated league rules concerning playing host to games, Milwaukee
coach Andreas Davi said.
Two Croatian Eagles teams will play for U.S. Adult Soccer Association Region II
championships.
The club's men's Under-23 and women's sides won their groups Saturday at the tournament in
Overland Park, Kan., to earn berths in Sunday's finals.
In Under-23 play, UW-Green Bay's Anthony Santaga (Green Bay Notre Dame) scored
lone goal as the Croatians topped KC United 1-0 to finish 3-0-0 atop Group B – one of their
matches was a forfeit over a Michigan team that dropped out of the event.
This article titled "Euro 2012: Erik Hamren relies on 'good energy' to sap England resolve" was
written by Barney Ronay in Kiev, for The Guardian on Thursday 14th June 2012 19.19 UTC
In the buildup to Euro 2012 Sweden's manager Erik Hamren said he would be insisting his players
sit talking at breakfast for at least half an hour in order to generate "positive energy".
Earlier this month, the Euro 2012 qualifying match between Italy and Serbia was abandoned due to
to rioting among supporters. Serbian fans threw flares on to the pitch and at Italian supportersÂ
(by climbing over a fence and cutting a hole in the netting intended to prevent objects being
thrown).
After the Italy - Serbia match was abandoned due to fan trouble, people were unsure what UEFA
would do about the entire situation. But UEFA have decided, and there will be punishment for both
sides, not just for Serbia. Here's an official UEFA statement regarding their decision.
"The Control and Disciplinary Body has decided to award the match as a 3-0 forfeit win to
Italy.
The fun never stops at the Reebok Owen Coyle has lifted the lid on the silly games played by his
Bolton players and confirmed what we already knew: footballers are just a bunch of big children.
The Trotters players have become obsessed with the school playground game rock-paper-scissors, with
a sever ear-flicking the forfeit for [.
The fun never stops at the Reebok Owen Coyle has lifted the lid on the silly games played by his
Bolton players and confirmed what we already knew: footballers are just a bunch of big children.
The Trotters players have become obsessed with the school playground game rock-paper-scissors, with
a sever ear-flicking the forfeit for [.
A little more than three years ago, in an an attempt to ramp up my growing passion for Liverpool
FC, I sought out the Chicago branch of the Liverpool Supporters Club. At halftime of the
Liverpool-Chelsea match, Fernando Torres' Anfield debut, I ran into a guy wandering through Fado
with a pen and a legal pad, taking names and e-mail addresses.
A little more than three years ago, in an an attempt to ramp up my growing passion for Liverpool
FC, I sought out the Chicago branch of the Liverpool Supporters Club. At halftime of the
Liverpool-Chelsea match, Fernando Torres' Anfield debut, I ran into a guy wandering through Fado
with a pen and a legal pad, taking names and e-mail addresses.
Dinamo Internazionale's staggering late season form has had us creeping up the table without anyone
noticing. Back to back slayings of table toppers LA United SC and Omega FC have put us within a
point of top slot.
It's a bit tight, but up to now LA United SC have still not been docked a point for their forfeit.
A crazy couple of weeks have completely filled up my schedule. The poor buggers down at Municipal
sports have been working like crazy trying to make up the rained out games. Add to that the
disruption to the schedule caused by the CalSouth State Cup, and we've got Womens team games on a
Tuesday and Thursday, and Dinamo Internazionale playing the same team twice in 18 hours as we play
Saturday afternoon and first thing Sunday morning.
Ancelotti threatens to streak - but the transfer rumours continue We all had a good chuckle over
the festive period when Carlo Ancelotti came out with this gem: "I can tell you, I will not be
buying anybody in January. Absolutely no way. I am willing to pay a forfeit if I do, even to run
[...]
One story we're sure to keep a close eye on over the next couple of weeks is Carlo
Ancelotti's declaration that Chelsea will not be dipping into the January transfer
window to add another striker to the club's ranks. On Friday, Carlo announced, "There's no
way I will sign a new striker and will do a forfeit if I do.
Despite being constantly linked with all kinds of strikers, Carlo Ancelotti's Chelsea will
definately not be signing a striker in the January Transfer window. And to prove he's not lying,
he's promised he'll run naked in the Stamford Bridge snow if he goes back on his word. "There's no
way I [...]
Belgian international Eden Hazard made himself a very rich 21-year-old when he announced his
decision to move from Lille to Chelsea in a £32 million transfer through Twitter on Monday. It was
a decision he teased out over months and turned into a spectacle of self-importance and modern
player power, which was apparently so tiring for Hazard that he ended up missing Belgium's team bus
from their hotel to the training ground on Tuesday -- an offense that will cost him exactly one
bottle of champagne as selected by Belgium captain Vincent Kompany.
We're all fans of male nudity here on Pies right? Right? Right.
On Friday, Sandefjord's junior keepers Stian Antonsen Marius Bentzen challenged the Norwegian
side's veteran goalies to a game of 'football tennis', duly lost and, as a forfeit, were forced to
hand in their dignity at the changing room door.
Lots of Liverpool fans have been asking why the players are often photographed flicking each
other's ears in training, so we got one of Kenny Dalglish's first-team stars to reveal all.
Martin Kelly kindly explained what is going on in the picture above during an interview with
Liverpoolfc.tv earlier this week.
The Rapids traveled to Chicago on Saturday, but everyone might have been better served by Colorado
forfeiting the game and staying home for the rest. A 2-0 loss where Colorado was outplayed and
out-hustled all night wasn't any better than the 3-0 forfeit score line and added rest would have
been.
I'd break down the play and the goals, but honestly they're what you would expect for a tried Mile
High Club.
Seattle and Colorado put on one heck of a show Saturday. (Getty Images)
I can't saw we should be shocked by many of the results this past weekend in MLS. More draws
were the name of the game and a few of them were scoreless yet again. But we did see plenty of
drama over the weekend as a couple games reminded us of how interesting this league can be when the
right players decide to show up at any given moment.
In some unfortunate news from CONCACAF today, the Haitian team is on its way home after members
of the delegation were diagnosed with an illness.
After a 3-1 loss to Costa Rica on Monday, Haiti was scheduled to play El Salvador this
afternoon. El Salvador will receive a 3-0 win from the forfeit, and will take over first place in
Group A.
The CAF, Africa's governing body for soccer, is putting up one of the most ridiculous PR campaigns
I've ever seen in regards to the Togo national team situation. The CAF, instead of being proactive
and postponing Togo's matches or working out a schedule with them in light of members of its
delegation being murdered, is talking trash in the media about the situation.
