China's answer to Wayne Rooney joined Manchester United four years ago. Back then, Arsenal were going unbeaten in the league, Roy Carroll was our goalkeeper, Chelsea were finishing above us in the league, and a 19-year-old Portuguese kid had scored for us in the FA Cup final. United forked out £500k, with the potential to pay [. Click to continue reading...

It´s not Spanish Football, but these types of goals are always exciting & catch the attention. Surfing the web SFS ran into this clip: The Brazil Serie B league - Avai goalkeeper Eduardo Martini... Read all the news, results, details & comments in English on Spanish Football & Sports Click to continue reading...

If you've been following the conversations in the comments on this blog, you know that last week Sébastien Frey followed in David Trezeguet's footsteps and announced his international retirement.

You also know that Frey is 28. Which is... Well, it may not be infancy for a goalkeeper, but it's not exactly retirement age either.

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Here's the third installment of the Serie A preview. In this part we take a look at Milan, Napoli, Palermo, Reggina, and Roma.

MILAN

This is the year Milan has to redeem themselves. The Rossoneri had a season way below expectations last year, based on a mix of injuries and a terrible summer transfer market.

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I am not a patient man. At all.

I suppose it's a combination of being 1) a man, 2) Portuguese, 3) Irish, and 4)stubborn. I liked Dark Knight until that part where Harvey Dent becomes Two-Face. It should have ended right there. Cue the credits, check out the sequel in two years. Instead, it dragged on another hour, and by the time all those people were trapped on the ferries, I just wished both of 'em blew up simultaneously and ended it right there. Click to continue reading...

The Kickapoo Chiefs, coming off of their 3rd place finish at State last year, now have a second member of this years team scheduled to play Division I college soccer next year. Senior Ryan Moses recently accepted an offer from Head Coach Dan Donigan to represent the nationally ranked St Louis University Billikens, where he will join his friend and club teammate Devon Newport (Glendale).

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Poor Georg Koch.

The Rapid Vienna goalkeeper had a lot of life goals: touring Europe with his high-school bandmates, climbing Kilimanjaro, that final masterpiece on canvas.

Now after a crazed hooligan threw a firecracker that exploded by his ear, Koch is facing permanent deafness. Click to continue reading...

Shay Given, the 87 times capped Ireland goalkeeper, who is now back to his scintillating best, with two brilliant displays in the Newcastle United goal the last two games, has today emphasized just how important Michael Owen is to the Newcastle club. Newcastle's greatest ever goalkeeper Shay Given Given, who has been at the Tyneside club he [. Click to continue reading...

Bless 101 Great Goals, for they do find us some fantastically odd strikes. Like this one. It's from the Campeonato Brasileiro Série B, where Avaí keeper Eduardo Martini kicks from his hands, launching a long one upfield. That long one got even longer when it bounced straight over the Parana keeper and in. Click to continue reading...

The WNT has won the Olympic Gold. Did they have the most talented team? Nope. Did they have the most talented goalkeeper? Yes. But as you may have noticed, Hope Solo isn't the "star" of the WNT. No, some say she's lucky to be on the team at all. After all, her own teammates voted her out after [...] Click to continue reading...

Well, that wasn't impressive now was it. Almost depressing really.

At least we know Uncle Phil can win ugly.

Chelsea flogged through a 1-0 win at Wigan Sunday, thanks to a sterling free kick from Deco early on. From thereon, it was a dire, slow performance from the Blues.

Wigan were really unlucky not to grab at least a point, Petr Cech making a handful of quality stops to preserve Chelsea's status at the top of the Premier League after Week 2.

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Taylor handled the ball on Saturday and just in case the referee didn't see the first one, he handled again to block the shot, but in any case he gave away the crucial penalty on Saturday. em>Steven Taylor- gave away penalty that Given brillaintly saved But it took our goalkeeper to do what he's done for Newcastle [. Click to continue reading...

Kevin Nolan played a crucial part in the Newcastle-Bolton game on Saturday when he failed to put away the penalty they were awarded after 57 minutes. Kevin Nolan - crucial penalty miss To be fair to Kevin it wasn't too bad of a penalty, well hit and to the goalkeeper's left, but a world class double save [. Click to continue reading...

Kevin Keegan thinks the penalty save by goalkeeper Shay Given woke his Newcastle team up on Saturday, and while he was pleased with the win, he thinks his team were a shade lucky to take all 3 points. Kevin Keegan - shade lucky to take all 3 points Kevin talked at length to the Evening Chronicle today: "They're going [. Click to continue reading...

Didn't check in with these yesterday, so start your Monday off with some notables from Saturday night's comeback tie.

Notables:

· Following the match, Kansas City sits 6-7-8, 26 pts. in a tie for 5th place tie in the Eastern Conference Toronto FC, who tied the New England Revolution Saturday. Click to continue reading...

Thad, over at The Back Post, and myself are continuing our weekly interview polls.

We pick a few players from the last game and put up a poll for you to decide on who should be interviewed (if possible). Vote either on this site, or over at The Back Post. In addition to that, feel free to post any questions you might have in the comments section of one of the two blogs. Click to continue reading...

Michael Owen is learning very fast from his new mentor Kevin Keegan, and he was full of praise for both Geremi and goalkeeper Shay Given after yesterday's 1-0 win against Bolton Wanderers. Michael Owen - full of praise for his team-mates Owen said after the game: "Geremi is a fantastic crosser of the ball. Click to continue reading...

This was a yawner of a scoreless game punctuated by a few - I stress few - scoring opportunities, mainly for Chivas USA who had the better of the play for much of the game.

Still, the Earthquakes probably had the best chance of the game, Chivas USA goalkeeper Zach Thornton saving with one hand a Ronnie O'Brien shot in the 86th minute from the top of the box that appeared destined for the back of the net.

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The shortlist for the UEFA Player of the Year candidates have been announced, with six United players featuring. Whilst Cristiano Ronaldo will almost certainly win the overall award, five other players have been recognised, with Edwin Van der Sar being named in the UEFA Goalkeeper of the Year category, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic up [. Click to continue reading...

I think if there was ever any doubt that Pia Sundhage is the ideal coach for the U.S. women's team, they've been erased. In gold.

This piece highlights some of the reasons why her approach works.

I can't help but wonder if the men's senior team had taken a similar chance, had been willing to go a different route and stretch their concept of the game by bringing in someone who looks at play in a fundamentally different way, if they might not be better off in the long run. Click to continue reading...

SL Benfica's Freddy Adu now finds himself competing in France on a season-long loan with AS Monaco.  Here is a closer look at the some of his Ligue 1 teammates. Flavio Roma:  The captain of the squad, the 34-year-old Italian goalkeeper was rumored for a return to his native country this summer but appears to be staying [. Click to continue reading...

So far in this transfer window, Lyon have spent nearly €60m on incoming players. They are surely in the top five when it comes to overall spending this summer.

But it's not just the men's team getting the attention. Aulas stayed true to this promise and has strengthened the women's team as well.

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Wembley are currently promoting an "England versus the Rest of the World'' game, which might be an even contest if it were cycling but at football it resembles a massive mismatch.

The event, on Sept 7, is in fact a fundraiser for Unicef, with the illustrious likes of Alan Shearer reviving old rivalries with Peter Schmeichel. Click to continue reading...

It's getting on for 2am and the international friendly between Belarus and Argentina on Wednesday evening was so 'friendly' that neither side bothered to trouble the opposing goalkeeper unduly, by all reports. I can't even offer my own opinions on the matter because like the patriotic idiot I am, I was wasting my evening watching [. Click to continue reading...

The Galaxy face the Fire.

As Luis mentioned before, this match gets spicier with the new additions to both teams - McBride and Arena (though of course, Arena won't play, though he might be a better goalkeeper than Steve Cronin. Actually, probably not, considering that in the one game Arena played for the U. Click to continue reading...