Mario Gomez (left) is the top scorer in the Bundesliga this season

FC Bayern München secured the tag of Herbstmeister (autumn champions) in Germany last night. Despite going down to ten men following Franck Ribéry's red card on the half hour mark, FC Bayern were seldom troubled by visiting 1.

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El diablo frances Franck Ribéry, casi siempre da de que hablar, ha chocado autobuses, estuvo involucrado en lios legales con prostitutas antes del mundial 2010 (recordar la nota) y ahora resulta que no da una en la Bundesliga alemana con el Bayer Munich.
El otrora mejor jugador del Bayer, hace poco no pudo ni dar un centro y para rematar en el partido contra el Colonia resulto expulsado en un santiamen por doble amarilla, después de fingir una falta dentro del area chica, así no se puede.

foto por toksuede

El diablo frances Franck Ribéry, casi siempre da de que hablar, ha chocado autobuses, estuvo involucrado en lios legales con prostitutas antes del mundial 2010 (recordar la nota) y ahora resulta que no da una en la Bundesliga alemana con el Bayer Munich.
El otrora mejor jugador del Bayer, hace poco no pudo ni dar un centro y para rematar en el partido contra el Colonia resulto expulsado en un santiamen por doble amarilla, después de fingir una falta dentro del area chica, así no se puede.

Inter Milan, Bayern Munich and Benfica all advanced to the knockout stages tonight, while Ajax and Napoli took huge strides towards joining them. Meanwhile both Manchester teams, City and United, are in real danger of being sent to the Europa League.

Inter knew before their game against Trabzonspor that all they needed was a point to win the group after Lille surprised CSKA Moscow and won 2-0 in Russia.

The United States is set to face its biggest test of the Klinsmann era with a visit to France on Friday in an international friendly. This is just the third meeting between the two teams with France winning the previous two games 6-0 and 3-0 in 1979.

France
France has already qualified for Euro 2012 so expect France coach Laurent Blanc to give some younger players much needed experience.

By Jon Levy The Yanks are over in Europe for a long weekend with their cool Uncle Jurgen; supposedly he's going to take them out to discotheques, let them drink and talk to girls, and really help them find themselves. Meanwhile, they're tasked with making some sort of progress as a national team in the [.

Via US Soccer:

Will it be Chandler's forehead vs. Ribery's....face?

France head coach Laurent Blanc has named a 22-man roster for the upcoming match against the U.S. Men's National Team on Nov. 11. Blanc calls in a formidable squad for the countries' first meeting since 1979, with Ballon d'Or nominees Eric Abidal and Karim Benzema among the headliners.

GK: Cédric Carrasso (Bordeaux), Hugo Lloris (Lyon), Steve Mandanda (Marseille) DEF: Eric Abidal (Barcelona), Matthieu Debuchy (Lille), Jérémy Mathieu (Valencia), Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal), Adil Rami (Valencia), Anthony Réveillère (Lyon), Mamadou Sakho (PSG) MID: Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle), Alou Diarra (Marseille), Florent Malouda (Chelsea) Yann M'Vila (Rennes), Marvin Martin, (Sochaux), Samir Nasri (Manchester City) FOR: Karim Benzema (Real Madrid), Kevin Gameiro (PSG), Jérémy Ménez (PSG), Loïc Rémy (Marseille), Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich), Olivier Giroud (Montpellier)

By Connor Walsh The United States has finalized its next pair of matches with double European dates in November. The team will travel to France for a match with the 1998 World Cup Champion Les Bleus at the Stade de France on Nov. 11, followed four days later with a trip to Ljubljana, Slovenia for [..

From one recalcitrant to another, we have Mancini's first test: curing a suicidal Manchester City malaise (by Darshan Joshi)

At least Roberto Mancini's selection headaches are thinning. The petulance of Edin Džeko will see the Bosnian left out of City's weekend clash with Blackburn, while Carlos Tévez's latest insipid tirade has seen Mancini finally pull the plug on last season's top goalscorer.

Euro Qualifying Group D Standings
France – 13 points from 6 matches
Belarus – 12 points from 7 matches
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 10 points from 6 matches
Romania – 8 points from 6 matches
Albania – 8 points from 6 matches
Luxembourg – 1 point from 7 matches

France's Remaining Qualifiers
Friday, September 2, 2011 Away to Albania
Tuesday, September 6, 2011 Away to Romania
Friday, October 7, 2011 Home against Albania
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Home against Bosnia and Herzegovina

Here is the call-up for next week's qualifiers away to Albania and Romania:

Goalkeepers
Hugo Lloris (Lyon)
Cédric Carrasso (Bordeaux)
Stève Mandanda (Marseille)

Defenders
Bacary Sagna (Arsenal)
Younès Kaboul (Tottenham)
Eric Abidal (Barcelona)
Patrice Evra (Manchester United)
Laurent Koscielny (Arsenal)
Adil Rami (Valencia)
Anthony Réveillère (Lyon)

Midfielders
Yohan Cabaye (Newcastle)
Alou Diarra (Marseille)
Yann M'Vila (Rennes)
Marvin Martin (Sochaux)
Blaise Matuidi (PSG)

Attacking Midfielders/Wingers
Samir Nasri (Manchester City)
Franck Ribéry (Bayern Munich)
Jérémy Ménez (PSG)
Mathieu Valbuena (Marseille)
Florent Malouda (Chelsea)

Strikers
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
Kevin Gameiro (PSG)
Guillaume Hoarau (PSG)
Loïc Rémy (Marseille)

That's a squad of 24, which is already one more than France can take to official tournaments, but I still find it curious to see Gael Clichy dropped after having started the previous match in the friendly against Chile.

Wenn ich nun wieder hundertprozentig fit und frei im Kopf bin, dazu ein gutes Verhältnis mit dem Trainer habe, kann ich das Niveau von Messi erreichen. Das steht für mich außer Frage.

Franck Ribery, Mittelfeldspieler des FC Bayern München, ist sich trotz einer nicht gerade überragenden Vorbereitung sicher, was sein eigenes Niveau anbelangt.

With France's next Euro Qualifier a week from today, let's a take a look at where things stand:

France's Upcoming Matches
Friday, June 3, 2011 – Qualifier 6 of 10 – Away to Belarus
Monday, June 6, 2011 – A friendly away to Euro 2012 co-host Ukraine
Thursday, June 9, 2011 – A friendly away to Euro 2012 co-host Poland

Euro Qualifying Group D Standings
France – 12 points from 5 matches
Belarus – 8 points from 5 matches
Albania – 8 points from 5 matches
Bosnia and Herzegovina – 7 points from 4 matches
Romania – 5 points from 5 matches
Luxembourg – 1 point from 6 matches

Here are the players called up to face Belarus, who defeated France 1-0 in Paris in September.

Image taken 2nd April, 2011.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, so we hear they say.

More often than not, as you can probably attest, we prefer taking the easier way out. We do wonder, though, if in a year from now, we'll find ourselves agonising over all the times this site fell short of your skin expectations.

Reality called us this weekend, but we sent him straight to voice mail. We definitely had better things to do, like collect the three convertible bra straps that we hung on our neighborhood pub's walls, which was our drunk membranes' unsuccessful attempt at telling the 'last call' minder to go kick rocks.

Inter Milan have been revived in 2011 under Leonardo but as the coach takes charge of the holders in the Champions League for the first time, against the side the Nerazzurri beat in last season's final, he admits that European football is another thing entirely. Bayern Munich are also in good form going into Wednesday's round of 16 first leg and Louis van Gaal says the return of the likes of Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry has turned their season.

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Gourcuff padre
Antiguo centrocampista del estilo tiqui-taquero que estilaban hace treinta años los Tigana, Platini y compañía, Christian Gourcuff decidió pronto que lo suyo era el banquillo.
Profesor de matemáticas, papá Gourcuff fue de los primeros en utilizar los ordenadores para programar sus entrenamientos.

The last we saw of Raymond Domenech, he was immersed in a witness protection program masquerading as some sort of poker crash course. Now that the money's dried up from that little venture, he's back for more cash with his very first exclusive post-World Cup meltdown interview to be released amidst pomp and several forms of circumstance tomorrow.

Una vez mas Cristiano Ronaldo es el jugador mejor pagado en el mundo solo así puede superar a Lionel Messi quien en la cancha y en los premios de este 2010 le ha ganado todo.
Según un estudio realizado por la revista belga «Sport Foot Magazine». La actual estrella madridista, con un salario de 12 millones de euros al año.

Things really couldn't have gone more swimmingly for Bayern Munich during its winter training camp in Qatar. Long-term absentee Arjen Robben was back on the pitch, moving freely and feeling good. Franck Ribéry, another worry in recent months, was as sharp as he has been since getting injured in Euro 2008.

Das Schönste wären natürlich alle drei. Aber zwei sind auf jeden Fall möglich!

Franck Ribery, Mittelfeldspieler des FC Bayern München, auf die Frage, wieviele Titel der FC Bayern in dieser Saison noch holen wird. (Quelle: Bild)