Bolivar Liberators, State Championship game

I'm working on editing and uploading the over 1000 photos I took this weekend, as well as the many videos that I've already posted. This website is a labor of love, in equal parts labor and love, with 9 hour days on site Friday and Saturday followed by as many hours editing, writing and uploading. Click to continue reading...

By Walter Broeckx As Tony recently wrote an article about some terrible grounds in the UK I must say that one of my favourite things during the holidays is going to stadiums. I usually take a tour when I can and so I have seen some fine stadiums in the world. Most grounds in Holland are [...] Click to continue reading...

• Soccer season just flew by. Can't believe the season will be over next weekend! Bring on the holidays. #

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Halloween begins my Four-fecta of favorite holidays, as well as the beginning of my favorite season of the year. For those that would like to know, yes, I am getting dressed up for Halloween this year. My costume? Popeye. The biggest Popeye ever, but Popeye nonetheless.

Now, here is The Offside MVP John Wolyniec doing "THRILLER!

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Well it must be time for the holidays with all the firings that are beginning to occur around the world of football.� Plenty of dismal managers have already been kicked to the curb in other leagues� and now La Liga has its first� prominent replacement� happening this week.� Atletico Madrid's skipper Abel Resino is the first coach to go from any powerhouse squad in Spain and the coach could not last an entire year in total length with his new squad.

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There are, to paraphrase some numpty, few certainties in life. Death of course is one. Stupid people with loud shirts on airplanes another and not forgetting boring soap operas.
But here in Indonesia we have another, uniquelly Indonesia certainty. Changes to the fixture list.
I've not detailed the ones that have happened so far, Persija and Persitara have had games rearranged, but now I will. Click to continue reading...

Instructions, mentality: attacking, passing style: short, tempo: quick. Ohh hang on a second, I can do this for real now.

Last weekend I completed my Football Federation Australia junior coaching license, so am now a 'proper' football manager. Sure I'll be coaching under 12's, but thats not what counts, I can pretend to be educated about the game, shout at my young winger to take more shots, and go to official FFA conferences.

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For those of you who paid attention to my very inactive Twitter feed, I was on holidays all week. I'm back now, and here's a quick summary of what's happened in the past week at Toronto FC...
On August 12, we signed Haitian international left-back Lesley Fellinga, who had previously played in the Eredivisie at Heerenveen. Click to continue reading...

When Celtic lost 1-0 to Luke Wilkshire's Dinamo Moscow this Celtic fan groaned. Out of the Champions League in July.
54,000 saw the first leg in Glasgow. In July for God sake, you don't play football in July in Glasgow, it's 13 degrees, it never gets dark and the Scots are all on their two weeks holidays. Click to continue reading...

Philipp Degen is looking forward to making his first Premier League appearance for Liverpool this season.
Degen signed for the Reds on a free transfer before last season, but only managed two League Cup appearances due to a horrific run of injuries.
Having appeared in all the club's pre-season games thus far, he is now hoping for a better campaign. Click to continue reading...

As previously posted on here, Florent Malouda has put pen to paper on his new three year deal and he told the Chelsea Website :"We agreed during my holidays and i have signed now i've come back. I am really happy because it shows a mutual trust between the club and myself and for me, its just the beginning of the story. Click to continue reading...

Gareth Barry has rejected accusations from Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, who suggested the England midfielder's move to Manchester City was motivated by money.
Barry left Aston Villa to join City in a £12 million switch at the start of last month after snubbing long-standing interest from Liverpool. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal target Felipe Melo revealed he doesn't want to leave the Serie A as he owes the Viola a lot after his first year as regular.

He told Lancenet.com.br:

I come back to Italy when I end my holidays. I have a contract with Fiorentina in which it was written that should I have a good first season, the club would have the possibility to extend my contract automatically from five to six years.

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Iñigo Díaz de Cerio was unveiled as a Athletic Bilbao player today after his Real Sociedad contract officially ended yesterday and has signed on for 4 years with a 50 million euro buy out clause. The player thanked Athletic Club for trusting him after having been sidelined for most of the 2008-9 season due to an injury. Click to continue reading...

Here we go again.

The News feeds are full of 'Arshavin to Barcelona' stories based on a the smallest article in this morning's Sun, which comes with a handy quote to provide authenticity. I have nothing to say about this.

Of course Los Muppetos in the Spanish papers will see this then start running stories about 'Accoring to the English press Arshavin wants to play for Barcelona' and it will spin and spiral and .

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It sucks to play for third or fourth place... but at least you'll get to enjoy the rest of your 'trip' knowing that nothing else can be done. Stable Boy Torres thinks there's no such thing as 'favourites' in the Confederations Cup anymore. Yeah, because Spain were favourites and are now forced to play in the losers pool.

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Goldilocks doesn't think you should mourn or scream at his team for mysteriously losing out to the USA on Wednesday. Instead, you should all sit down and allow la seleccion to take this as a lesson as they battle for third place in the Confederations Cup.

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What, you haven't heard of that holiday? Comes around every time the U.S. Men's National Team is playing midweek games against the BEST team in the world in the semifinals of a major international tournament. We know we've seen it on a calendar somewhere.
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You know, the distressing fact that one's daughter has left school and is now almost 18 and can then stay out as long as she wants without having to listen to her somewhat strict father saying "Make sure you're home by this time or you're in big trouble" and hang around with boys and other reprobates like that, is somewhat tempered by the fact I no longer have to get up really early to give her a lift to school.

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Sky Sports News must be relieved. England's inevitably comfortable win over Andorra finally signalled the end of the English football season and as players, managers and chairman disappear off to sunnier climbs, the news stories quickly dry up.
So Sky have to fill that gaping hole in their schedules. Click to continue reading...

Some of the Tottenham FC crew have headed to Miami beach for their holidays.

We give you: Tom "pinky" Huddlestone and Aaron "see my drawers" Lennon, who have been seen relaxing by the pool and taking in some sun in Florida.

Miami is definitely one of the hot spots for footballer vacations this year - and we are still waiting for our beach-based Kickettes to email us with their stalker-cam evidence of shenanigans and bad behaviour.

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Some of the Tottenham FC crew have headed to Miami beach for their holidays.

We give you: Tom "pinky" Huddlestone and Aaron "see my drawers" Lennon, who have been seen relaxing by the pool and taking in some sun in Florida.

Miami is definitely one of the hot spots for footballer vacations this year - and we are still waiting for our beach-based Kickettes to email us with their stalker-cam evidence of shenanigans and bad behaviour.

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UPDATE: According to Toby Davis at Setanta Sports, Real Madrid striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar stated that he has not received any offers. He said,

"I have had no offers ... I now have two games for Holland and then I can enjoy my holidays.

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According to Tom Adams at Setanta Sports, Portsmouth have released Theofanis Gekas. Gekas' agent Paul Koutsoliakos said,

"Paul Hart told him that he doesn't need him anymore, for the moment he can go for holidays ... It would be a surprise if something changes.

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By Graig Carbino - ALBANY, NY (May 18, 2009) USSoccerPlayers -- We are getting an up close and personal lesson of a team not quite making it back to the summit and their over-blown reaction to a tough failure. Reading FC of the English Championship flew out of the gates in 2008 and looked all set to make their return to the Premiership next season. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool midfielder Steven Gerrard is set to sign his new contract with the club in the next few weeks, according to the player himself.
The Reds captain agreed to a new contract last month, stating that it would be signed once the season is over.
This now seems set to go through as the England international revealed he would sign a new four-year-contract in the next few weeks. Click to continue reading...

This weekend's installment of Special1TV wasn't the best you'll ever see, but still has plenty of quality lines to make you enjoy a laugh or two.

Here it is:

"They're going down faster than Ricky Hatton."

"Oh, you were talking about the holidays."

"Very, very poignant Dave.

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This weekend's installment of Special1TV wasn't the best you'll ever see, but still has plenty of quality lines to make you enjoy a laugh or two.

Here it is:

"They're going down faster than Ricky Hatton."

"Oh, you were talking about the holidays."

"Very, very poignant Dave.

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Steven Gerrard has the taste for winning the Premier League title - and believes Liverpool now have the necessary experience to claim top spot.
The Reds have pushed Manchester United all the way this season but had to admit defeat when United picked up a point from a 0-0 draw with Arsenal on Saturday to seal a third successive crown. Click to continue reading...

So the travelling Corporate Circus that is AC Milan made their midweek rounds once again to play another friendly - this time against the Albanian national team. They couldn't pull off a win and only managed a 3-3 draw which went into penalties. These guys are really enjoying their holidays, aren't they?

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We went to the San Siro with a lot on the line. It was the 1910 Derby, which made it a massive game in itself. With our season collapsing around us, we'd fallen to Genoa, but come from behind to beat Juventus at the Silvio Piola, meaning we still had an outside chance of finishing in seventh and taking the last UEFA Cup spot but only if we could beat Inter.

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Refs are human beings - which means on one hand players, coaches, and fans should treat us like one; on the other it means that if you don't, we will do what we need to do. That may mean tossing you, and it may go as far as making fun of you, or even gloating when your behavior finally catches up to you. Click to continue reading...

After a few weeks off due to some holidays, the Premiership Talk Podcast is back at last. A bit different from ordinary podcasts, this episode sees Brian Lofrumento joined by a new co-host (no word on Taylor Fisher's whereabouts, but he was last spotted somewhere in Brazil). Who is it? You'll have to find out!

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After having negotiated a special status with the World's Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), FIFA is upsetting other sports associations by being untouchable when it comes to doping. The operative point of that status is that footballers should not be tested when they are on holidays, thus ignoring the notification of the whereabouts of individual players.

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In these dire times of shaky world economy and computer-less writers, best wishes for a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and happy holidays on behalf of mCalcio.com. Santa brought me plenty of soccer-related gifts this morning: from sportswear (Juve's full kit -jersey, shorts, and socks) to books (Gigi Buffon's "Numero 1″ and Antonio Cassano's "Dico [. Click to continue reading...