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Audit and financial advisory firm Deloite & Touche released it's football money league rich list
yesterday with La Liga club Real Madrid topping the list for a seventh successive year. Closing
following Madrid in second was fellow Spanish club Barcelona.
United came in third on the list, however, it is the dominance of English clubs in the top ten
that has got people really talking.
I woke up this morning to Josh Mayers of the Seattle Times reporting that the LA Galaxy had
managed to secure Leonardo on a free transfer and they got Juninho back on a free loan.Suffice it
to say that my initial response was not fit to print.
The top of the LA Galaxy roster boggles the mind.
STARTERS5 minutes into their first preseason game of the year Atiba the Hun Harris of Vancouver picks up a
yellow card for a reckless tackle. The more things change the more they stay exactly the same!
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Crazy cool idea! All Colorado Rapids fans that have renewed their season tickets for the 2012
season, as well as those that purchase new seats by March 1, 2012, will have their names printed
into the design of the Rapids authentic home jerseys in 2013 and 2014!
After winning their respective groups, Ivory Coast and Ghana are on a crash course for a
high-profile final at the African Cup of Nations, but there is still work to be done before the top
two African nations do battle for the continent's top prize.
The Elephants, one of two sides to secure all nine points during the group stage, might have to
go through both host countries to reach the final.
Lausanne, 1 February 2012 The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has decided to grant
the provisional measures requested by the Indonesian Football Club Persipura Jayapura and to order
the reinstatement of the club in the AFC Champions League 2012.
Persipura was supposed to play the 2012 AFC Champions League Playoffs (East-Zone) on 11 February
2012 against Adelaïde United FC (Australia).
By FRANCO PANIZO
A day after a riot at a club soccer game in Egypt left at least 74 dead and many others injured,
Egypt's prime minister has dissolved the Egyptian FA's board.
Kamal el-Ganzouri announced the decision to dissolve the board during Thursday's emergency
parliamentary session, and also said that the governor of Port Said (where the game took place) and
the area's police chief have resigned.
Tottenham 1 Coulthirst 71′Liverpool 0
The NextGen Series was always more important for the experience it would provide to Liverpool's
talented youngsters than for the chance to win a trophy, and so in the end one can only consider a
run to the quarter-finals after a testing group stage to have been a success.
How did Seven Nation Army take over Italy?
It's probably the most indie sports anthem ever, but if anyone was following the 2006 World Cup
then they remember the simple, ever-so-catchy bassline of The White Stripes' Seven Nation Army. It
ended up dominating the whole world of sports, but it became the beloved song of the Italian fans
and players.
Kickoff from White Hart Lane at 7:00PM GMT/2:00PM EST
Liverpool's youngsters return to NextGen Series action today, with their quarterfinal matchup
with Tottenham's U19s taking place in London. The brief break in senior squad action allows for
attentions to turn to a competition that, on the whole, has been a terrific advertisement for youth
football on the continent.
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Wow! Philadelphia really wanted to get rid of Sebastian Le Toux! After he did not get signed by
Bolton this week they turned around and sold him to Vancouver today.
-Why in the world would they dump their best player???
-Jonathan Tannenwald of Philly.com with the Le Toux saga.
Barcelona have been the scourge of Manchester United in Europe over recent campaigns but now the
Spanish giants will not have the chance to scupper the Red Devils' chances of bring home silverware
from the continent.
United fans will be disappointed their side failed to make the knockout stages of the Champions
League but based on their performances in the group stage, the Premier League title holders did not
really deserve to get through.
We've got to post a quick recap of what we watched this past weekend but first, very briefly,
here are two games today that you could tune in for, in case you're looking for something to watch
this afternoon/evening (depending on your timezone):
African Cup of Nations, Côte d'Ivoire vs Angola (1pmET, Al-Jazeera Sports /
Eurosport International): The group stage of AfCON2012 wraps up over the next couple days.
While both teams already qualified for the London 2012 Olympiad there is a certain amount of
pride at play. For Canada's women this is an opportunity to declare that they deserve to be in that
top tier of teams challenging for Gold or Women's World Cups. With the Great White North hosting
the 2015 Women's World Cup it is matches like this and their second straight 20k+ crowd that
demonstrate that they are a top nation in the women's game.
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- Photo Compilation of QPR and Chelsea Fans and the Security/Police Measures
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Whoa. I forgot we were still involved in the CL for a second. More, after the jump:
The Shove Heard Round Naples
Get this: Napoli's manager, Walter Mazzarri, has been banned by UEFA for two matches after
shoving Nilmar during Napoli's final group stage match with Villareal.
photo by Stephen Brashear/ISIphotos.com
The U.S. women's national team cruised through the Group Stage of Olympic qualifying and now
just needs a win on Friday against Costa Rica to reach the Summer Games in London.
There's one problem: Hope Solo might not play.
Some good things; some bad things...
The United States went south to Panama Wednesday night and came away with a win against a
CONCACAF up-and-comer and little else.
The small margin of victory came early in the contest as Zach Loyd lofted a ball into the box.
Chris Wondolowski challenged his defender for it as it skipped (or grazed) past their heads.
The U.S. Under-23 men's national team finished off its January training camp with a victory,
topping Alajuelense 1-0 in a friendly in Costa Rica.
Tony Taylor scored the lone goal, taking a pass from the Columbus Crew's Dilly Duka at the top
of the box and finishing in the 41st minute.
Photo by Stephen Brashear/ISIphotos.com
They might have been held to single digits on the scoreboard for the first time during the
CONCACAF Olympic qualifying tournament, but the U.S. women's national team remains on a roll.
Carli Lloyd netted a hat trick, and the U.
Midfielder Carli Lloyd scored a hat trick to lead the United States Women's National Soccer Team to
a 4-0 win over Mexico in both teams' final group stage match of...
The US Women's National Team knocked off Mexico 4-0 in their final match of the group stage of
Olympic qualifying to win Group B. Carli Lloyd had a hat trick and Heather O'Reilly added a goal as
the USWNT rolled to an easy victory. They will face Costa Rica for a chance to qualify on Friday
(8pm, concacaf.
The U-23 Men's National Team wrapped up their January training camp with a scrimmage today against
Alajuelense of Costa Rica.
Caleb Porter's squad has been in Central American since last week as they continue to prepare for
Olympic Qualifying in March. A big part of that preparation as been acclimating themselves to the
rhythm of a qualifying tournament and that's where this trip has come in: playing two games in four
days is just the type of schedule the team will face when they take the field in Nashville for the
group stage of the competition.
Poland's 58,000 seat chocolate national stadium. That's right.
If you're hungry, look away. Poland's new national stadium in Warsaw will host the opening match
of EURO 2012 (only 134 days away!), along with two other group stage matches, a quarterfinal, and a
semifinal.
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US Soccer has named Clint Dempsey as the 2011 Male Athlete of the Year. And Brek Shea was named the
Young Male Athlete of the Year.
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Richie Williams, the original Ankle Biter, has been named the new head coach of the USA U17 team.
He had been serving as coach of the U18s, so I guess they are looking for a new boss now.
On the eve of one of the more important matches of the season for Real Madrid, manager Jose
Mourinho is making headlines again for all the wrong reasons.
According to reports out of Spain, Mourinho is letting it be known that he wants out of Madrid
at the end of this season, which would be two years into his four-year contract with the club.
The last time the United States and Panama met was the 2011 Gold Cup. The US lost the June 11th
group stage game in Tampa Bay 2-1. Trailing from the 19th minute, the US was down two goals after
giving up a 36th-minute penalty. Clarence Goodson pulled a goal back in the 68th, but the USA was
unable to come up with an equalizer.
The U.S. Women's national team figured to face a tougher task against Guatemala on Sunday than
it did after a 14-0 thrashing of the Dominican Republic to open CONCACAF Olympic qualifying on
Friday.
The challenge was slightly tougher, but only by a goal.
Abby Wambach scored two goals to move into third place on the all-time international goals
scored list, while Sydney LeRoux added five goals in a 13-0 thrashing of Guatemala in Vancouver on
Sunday.
Photo by Patricia Giobetti/ISIphotos.com
D.C. United's wing options got a little more intriguing on Friday.
The club acquired midfielder Danny Cruz from the Houston Dynamo in exchange for a partial
allocation, adding an up-and-coming player to the team's already up-and-coming nucleus.
STARTERSDavid Beckham made it official today and signed a new 2 year contract with the LA Galaxy.
-But Beckham is staying with a team that will have at least 2 giant holes to fill this season -
central midfielder Juninho returned to Sao Paulo and centerback Omar Gonzalez blew out his knee.
Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Luka Modric firmly believes that his side can win away to league
leaders Manchester City this Sunday despite the hosts having a perfect record at the Eastlands this
season.
Modric, who endured a shaky start to the campaign due to being distracted by a potential move to
Chelsea, has rediscovered his form of late and after scoring in the Spurs' 1-1 draw against Wolves,
he is approaching the clash with City with a strong mindset.
The 2012 African Cup of Nations begins this weekend with two host nations, Equatorial Guinea and
Gabon, which have such a limited record in this competition. The former has never qualified for an
African Cup of Nations before and will be an unknown quantity to most observers of this year's
tournament whilst the latter have competed in just four previous tournaments and have only
progressed beyond the group stage on just one occasion when reaching the last eight in 1996.
The recent changes to the Major League Soccer schedule and competition format are hardly the
only ones impacting professional soccer teams in North America.
Coinciding with the MLS SuperDraft, U.S. Soccer and CONCACAF announced major changes to the
CONCACAF Champions League and U.
The changes to the CONCACAF Champions League may have slipped by some due to all the MLS
SuperDraft news. The new format breaks into four positives and three negatives. Travel for most
clubs will be reduced, for the clubs in the Preliminary Round that advance it can drop by about
10,000 miles through the elimination of two cross-continental trips (there was a scenario last year
where Seattle could travel 4700 miles one way in the Group Stage).
Next year's CONCACAF Champions League competition will look significantly different from current
and previous versions. Ted Howard, CONCACAF's acting general secretary, announced today that the
preliminary round would be eliminated from the competition, and all 24 qualifying clubs will
proceed directly to a group stage containing eight groups of three teams each.
Big time changes are ahead for the CONCACAF Champions League. A change that will certainly help
out a couple MLS sides this summer.
Starting this summer, the two-leg preliminary round – in which 16 teams would face off in a
home-and-home series – has been eliminated. Instead, all 24 teams in the event will be drawn
straight into the group stage.
The 2012-13 CONCACAF Champions League will drop the preliminary round, expand the group stage, and
seed it by country North and Central America's Confederation announced on Thursday. "This new
format will streamline the first phase of the competition," CONCACAF acting general secretary Ted
Howard said.
Photo by ISIphotos.com
The long-rumored friendly between the United States and Italy appears to have come to
fruition.
The Italian soccer federation announced that the Azzurri will host the United States at Stadio
Luigi Ferraris in Genoa on Feb. 29, the first FIFA international fixture date of the new year.
Last week Brian Straus made it known that the USWNT got off too light. He said that if the women
didn't choke in the World Cup final, well, then they "folded":
In the aftermath of the U.S. women's national team's heartbreaking penalty kick
shootout loss to Japan in the Women's World Cup final, usage of the word "choke" was frowned
upon.
Last year was a good year for one of MLS's premier franchises. The Sounders won yet another U.S.
Open Cup and advanced past the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League. While they could not
vanquish their nemesis Galaxy in ...
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Oguchi Onyewu's third goal of the season gave Sporting a tie in the first game of the Taca da Liga
group stage.
