Shannon Smyth (Mequon/Milwaukee DSHA) was named to the Republic of Ireland squad for the Algarve Cup in Portugal.

The 24-year-old Smyth, who will start her second season with Amazon Grimstad FK in Norway's Toppserien in April, has six career caps. She has dual citizenship because her father, Brendan, was born and raised in Ireland.

Sadly, this guy is not on the list. (But he should be. And he is certainly fabulous.)

The men to earn hate and derision from entire nations take charge of the Euro 2012 next summer have been given their summons papers, along with, hopefully, a sizable security detail. Refereeing is one of those jobs that knowing the names at hand isn't necessarily a good thing, as the premier among them go unnoticed.

A redesigned version of the Poland Nike EURO 2012 home jersey was relaunched on Friday. The first incarnation of the kit was unveiled on in early November and used for the Biało-czerwoni (white and reds) friendlies against Belarus, Italy and Hungary. However, a well-publicized public outcry at the exclusion of Polish White Eagle (or Orzeł [.

Demba Ba and Tamas Kadar both gained an additional cap yesterday in games their countries won. Tamas Kadar - gained second full cap for Hungary And some other good news is that Yohan Cabaye was an unused substitute in France's 1-0 win over the USA. So Yohan must have been fit enough to have possibly [.

What a game! What a colossal group effort! We won and in dramatic fashion against the second ranked team in the world! Where do I start this post?

This is one of those few times in life where it feels so good to be wrong. I tipped 2-1 to the Netherlands before the game started and to be honest after such weak showings against Hungary, San Marino, and Finland I think I was justified in doing so.

Sweden vs Holland 2011 3-2 Video Goals Euro 2012 qualifying Highlights is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Sweden vs Holland 2011 3-2 Video Goals Euro 2012 qualifying Highlights is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Sweden vs Holland 2011 ( Sweden v Netherlands 2011) Score and result:- Sweden vs Holland 3-2 ( Kallstrom, Larsson penalty, Toivonen/ Kuyt, Huntelaar) Rasunda Stadion, Stockholm, Sweden- Euro 2012 qualifying- 11 October 2011 [.

I have always suspected Pele of being slightly overhyped. The Maradona v Pele debates always seemed interesting enough, but I don't know how many of the people involved had actually watched the latter playing, and if they had, how they were able to make those performances stand up against Maradona's extraoardinary genius.

With Germany, Italy, Holland, England, Spain and hosts Poland and Ukraine already qualified their are still 9 places remaining in the Euro 2012 Finals, so which teams have their own destiny in their own hands and who have to rely on others to keep their Euro 2012 dreams alive.

Bolton Wanderers defender Gary Cahill earned his sixth cap when he lined up for England's Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro last night. While England only needed a draw to secure their place in the finals that was all they got. 2-2 was the final score — England's overall performance was enough but disappointing.

Bolton Wanderers defender Gary Cahill earned his sixth cap when he lined up for England's Euro 2012 qualifier against Montenegro last night. While England only needed a draw to secure their place in the finals that was all they got. 2-2 was the final score — England's overall performance was enough but disappointing.

When the referee blew the final whistle last night, I breathed a big sigh of relief. It was a miserable game from start to finish: a game where there were very few positive moments from a Swedish perspective. Lets start with the good stuff though. Somewhere around ten minutes in Sebastian Larsson makes a run into the middle, puts his arms up and yells for Källström to give him the ball on the run, Källström does just that and after beating the offside trap Larsson thumps the ball on a half-volley into the ground and then watches it bounce past the oncoming Finnish keeper.

England became the seventh team to qualify for EURO 2012 on Friday on a night when Russia and Greece took huge steps towards joining them and the likes of Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina ensured top-two finishes.

Last month holders Spain and former European champions Italy, the Netherlands and Germany ensured their finals berths alongside co-hosts Poland and Ukraine, and to that number can be added England after their 2-2 draw in Montenegro settled Group G.

The Mattheaus experiment is over. After clocking 150+ NT appearances for Germany, several unremarkable club managing stints and a failure with Hungary, Bulgaria has now fired Mattheaus.Lothar had only 1 win and 2 draws in 5 qualifying matches and has effectively eliminated Bulgaria from the Euro 2012 Tournament.

Beating Barcelona: A Theoretical Guide With Pretty Pictures - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

So, everyone says that Barcelona are unbeatable, or are least the untouchables. Which is twaddle.

Sure, they have lots of excellent players. (MessiXaviAlvesIniestaPiquePuyolBusquetsVillaSanchezPedroetc.

Damien Comolli was asked, "Why have we loaned out Dani Pacheco?"
Liverpool's Director of Football replied:
Dani has gone on loan because we want to see him play in the first team somewhere. Last year he went to the Championship and had a good start, then he was sub for a few games, but he did well in those games.

I might as well start with the bad news because there is plenty of it at the moment. We are currently tied at 18 points with Hungary for the second place in group E and while Hungary have only one game left (and that is Finland at home), we have two to go and one of them is Finland away and the other is the Netherlands at home.

Newcastle's recent signing, Italian 20 year-old Davide Santon was due back on Tyneside this morning, after captaining the Italian U21 side to a 3-0 win against Hungary, in the European U21 qualifying game. Davide Santon last Tuesday night overjoyed to be at Newcastle Tamas Kadar, who seems to be the forgotten man at Newcastle these days, was in the Hungary side, so [.

Some of Newcastle player were in action yesterday for the second game of the International break. Davide Santon - captained Itakly's U21 side against Hungary Yohan Cabaye remained on the bench in France's win 2-1 win at Albania last Friday, but he starred for the French last night against Romania, before being withdrawn after 75 [.

This is probably the hardest post I have had to write so far. When you are as big of a fan of a team as I am of Sweden, then a game like the one against Hungary really hurts. Lets start things off: I really thought we were going to win this one. All signs prior to the game had pointed in that direction.

The Dutch football team translated the big difference in quality between the number one and the number last on the world ranking into a historic win of 11-0. The good news kept on coming, as Hungary beat Sweden (2-1) later in Budapest.

As a result, Van Marwijk's men are virtually qualified [read more]

Netherlands vs San Marino 11-0 Highlights Goals Video 2011 September Euro Qualifying is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Netherlands vs San Marino 11-0 Highlights Goals Video 2011 September Euro Qualifying is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Netherlands vs San Marino 2011 ( Holland vs San Marino 2011) Final score and result:- Netherlands vs San Marino 11-0 ( Robin Van Persie*4, Wesley Sneijder*2, Johnny Heitinga, Dirk Kuyt, K.

Ireland U21 international Shane Duffy has secured a loan move to League one side Scunthorpe from Everton.
The 19-year-old Derry born defender is presently on international duty alongside fellow Scunthorpe centre-back Niall Canavan for the Ireland's U21 side who host Hungary tomorrow night in their opening 2013 UEFA qualifier, just three weeks after they produced a stunning comeback to defeat Austria 2-1 in a friendly at the same Sligo venue.

On this coming Friday, the second of September, the Swedish National Football Team has a date with destiny. Over a period of ninety minutes, interrupted only by a 15 minute half-time break, our to be or not to be at next years European Championship will be decided. We will be meeting a very game and up for the fight Hungary who also have to win to have any real chance of making it to the summer party.

I am quite busy at the moment and simply do not have the time to give the complete and proper reviews for all the games played in the last two rounds. For this reason, I am giving a quick update here so that I can focus on Friday´s European Championship qualifier against Hungary in more depth. Look for that post tomorrow!

After last week's emphatic 5-0 victory away to Hearts you could have been forgiven for assuming that Spurs would go into the home leg with a changed side to give some fringe players a run out. With a crucial game against Manchester City coming up on Sunday and the tie in the bag, it's a good chance to look at some youngsters but according to Joe Jordan, the strongest possible team awaits our opponents.

1º Spain 25.628,47 2º Netherlands 23.161,67 3º germany 20.936,54 4º Japan 12.061,19 5º Australia 11.023,82 6º Argentina 10.100,91 7º Korea Republic 9.586,72 8º England 9.538,95 9º Brazil 9.531,89 10º Uruguay 9.240,90 11º Italy 9.229,40 12º Panama 9.

Writing a blog about football means having to admit that you are wrong more often than not. In this latest instance, it was my idea about whom Hamren was going to select for the friendly against the Ukraine tomorrow. I was wrong about Mellberg (vacation), Ibrahimovic (vacation), Martin Olsson (who knows why?

We've never been to Hungary before, but this is the right kind of justification we need to schedule our flights. Image taken 28.7.2011.

Paksi vs Hearts Highlights 2011 1-1 Europa League Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

Paksi vs Hearts Highlights 2011 1-1 Europa League Goals Video is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter Paksi vs Hearts 2011 ( Paks v Hearts of Midlothian) Europa League Qualifying- Third Round- 28th July, 2011- Hungary Final score:- Paksi v Hearts 1-1 ( Sipeki/ Jamie Hamill) Paksi v Hearts attendance:- 2,800 [.

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Today I am prostituting myself and as the title would suggest, I am appealing to the Asian Market for my "Hits". Now that I am a record breaking AA Poster, I would like to move swiftly on to today's topic. Total Football and The Wenger Way. At this point, I am about to drop a bomb on some heads, and would therefore urge the likes of TA to "Tin Hat Up".

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Uruguay vs Netherlands 2011 ( Copa Confraternidad) Final score:- Uruguay vs Netherlands 1-1 ( Luis Suarez/ Dirk Kuyt) Uruguay win 4-3 on penalties 7 June, 2011- Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay- 19.30 BST Uruguay beat the Netherlands 4-3 on penalties after Liverpool duo Suarez and Kuyt had exchanged late goals to send the game into [.

Ah yes, another witty and original joke over our name. Hilarious, I know. This is why I'm a blogger. Anyway, I haven't been much of one recently and for that I apologise. Maybe I'll get my act together one of these days. Maybe. Not to worry though, as there hasn't been much going on. While some of our players get to lie back and relax during their holidays, others have been busy representing their country.

La Selección Mexicana de Fútbol Sub-20, que dirige el técnico Juan Carlos Chávez, debutó con el pie izquierdo en el Torneo Esperanzas de Toulon al perder contra el equipo anfitrión Francia 4 goles a 1 pero este sábado se reivindico dando un muy buen partido.

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(Toulon Tornament, Junio 4, 2011) Goles de Davila que anoto el primero que fue un verdadero golazo y el segundo fue del actual campeón juvenil con Pumas Orrantia ellos le dieron la victoria mexicana.

Liverpool goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi is set to leave Anfield on a season long loan according to manager Kenny Dalglish according to reports on Sky Sports.
Gulacsi has been with Liverpool since 2007 but is yet to feature for the Reds and is currently the second choice keeper at the Merseyside club.

The Netherlands survived a scare Tuesday to beat Hungary 5-3 and maintain its perfect record in European Championship qualifying, while Spain extended its unblemished start to Group I with a 3-1 win at Lithuania.

Spain's 15 points puts it six ahead of the Czech Republic, which beat Liechtenstein 2-0.

When Hungary scored the 3-3 in Amsterdam, Bert van Marwijk could be seen kicking and screaming at the sideline in total anger with this team's shabby performance.

Two late Dirk Kuyt goals ( one after a brilliant Afellay move and the second maybe a lucky?) made sure the 3 points stayed [read more]

Today Netherlands defeated Hungary 5-3 home in the qualifications for Euro 2012. This second-legg game was played just four days after Netherlands crashed Hungary 4-0 in an away game. We started to see this pattern more often in European calenders.
Europe usually got the most accurate and organized scheduling calender compared to the rest of the world.

Holland ( Netherlands) vs Hungary 2011 Euro 2012 Qualifying-29/3/11- Amsterdam Arena Final score:- Holland vs Hungary 5-3 ( Van Persie, Sneijder, Van Nistelrooy, Kuyt*2/ Rudolf, Gera*2) Holland come from 2-1 down to beat Hungary 5-3 in an eight goal thriller. The result came days after Holland's emphatic 4-0 win over Hungary and maintained their unbeaten [.