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We need to get this bloody image of Daniel Agger from our minds, pronto! Quick, Pippo Inzaghi... do something! Anything....

Anyway, all you ferosh futbolitas have probably heard of the epic show from Italy called Chiambretti Night. Well, their exotic dancers have been known to serenade the likes of Mourinho and Ancelotti 'live' on Botox Berlusconi's TV network as music plays in the background.

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Spain regain top slot in this month's Fifa world rankings. Brazil are second followed by the Netherlands, Italy and Portugal. England are in 9th place. Argentina are 8th.
France are in 7th after Thierry Henry handed them victory in their World Cup play off encounter with Ireland in Paris. Cameroon are the highest African team in 11th. Click to continue reading...

This week we focus on teams that are on a run, who have several wins on the trot, or having a hard time breaking a winless streak. As always we cross the globe to choose our matches England, Germany, Italy, Holland, Brazil, and Japan. This week's guest predictor is Mike who is a fan of Manchester City.

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Who can wait a month? I had to speculate the pots and make my own groups:

GROUP A -- South Africa, Greece, North Korea, Paraguay
GROUP B -- Brazil, Slovenia, Honduras, Nigeria
GROUP C -- Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, Uruguay
GROUP D -- Spain, Slovakia, USA, Ghana
GROUP E -- Argentina, Netherlands, Mexico, Cameroon
GROUP F -- Italy, Serbia, South Korea, Chile
GROUP G -- France, Portugal, Australia, Algeria
GROUP H -- England, Switzerland, Japan, Ivory Coast

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FIFA has made official its National Team Ranking for December issuingtheir table today. As advanced earlier in the week, SPAIN regains theNº1 spot from Brazil.Here are the Top 10 places:1. Spain 1622 pts2. Brazil 15923. Holland 12794. Italy 12155. Portugal 11816. Germany 11707. France 11228. Argentina 10859. Click to continue reading...

All of us at COS towers wanted to point you in the direction of a brilliant new website that is a must for all football fans.

Tixdaq.com has had a facelift and is now THE place to get your football tickets whether you support Liverpool or Inter Milan, Manchester United or Juventus.

Tixdaq is a ticket comparison site that has access to thousands of tickets to hundreds of football matches.

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In the wake of Ireland's heartbreaking aggregate defeat to France, where Thierry Henry's handballed assist for William Gallas to score an equaliser in extra time denied a team who had performed magnificently to haul themselves level, we pay tribute to five of the greatest footballing heartbreakers in recent memory.

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My introduction to Daniele De Rossi was the vicious elbow that he threw at Brian McBride, leaving his face bloody in the USA vs Italy match in the 2006 World Cup. It left a negative impression of him but here is De Rossi doing something rare in football nowadays, acknowledging that he used his hand to score a goal against Serie side Messina.

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When I look for a hoodie, I look for two main things, comfort and style. They may seem rather straight-forward, but it is hard to find a hoodie that fits both categories for you. The Inter Milan graphic hoodie fits both categories spot on with a fabulous design, while letting you support Italy's current champions, Inter Milan. Click to continue reading...

As the title reads, former Portuguese international and ex-Mourinho pupil Costinha plays for Atalanta and is probably the biggest waste of money in all of Italian football today. Back in the summer of 2007, Costinha's contract expired at Atletico Madrid. Atalanta thought they were making a real steal signing him, as be brought a wealth of international experience to their midfield.

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Yesterday ended the long and difficult road that is World Cup qualifying. The 32-team field is set and while we won't know until next month what the groups are it does present a good time to discuss each team and how they got there.

(Note: I hope this is a start of many more World Cup posts going into next year.

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Zlatan Ibrahimovic was Barcelona's big money signing in the summer with Samuel Eto'o and a reported £40 million going in the opposite direction to Inter Milan. Few can doubt that Ibrahimovic has ability and on his day is one of the best forwards in the world, however many have criticized him for his work rate and not everyone was convinced he would cut it in Spain.

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I already wrote once about soccer (football) stamps in past, but found again on same site more soccer stamps, and i am amazed, 5-6 stamps in huge format from French 1938 up to modern times and Italy and Portugal stamps. For example football stamp from France (1938) :
I am excited when see something like that because I am huge fan of soccer and of everything related to soccer, so maybe I start myself to collect only footbal stamps. Click to continue reading...

On 19 November 1989 -- twenty years ago today -- Trinidad & Tobago and the USA met each other in Port-of-Spain for their final World Cup qualifier match for the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The circumstances and consequences of that match have made it the most important match in US soccer history, and marked the start of the modern era in American soccer. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal confirmed that Robin van Persie will be out for six weeks. He tore his ankle ligaments against Italy and was stretchered of after a tough Chiellini tackle. Van Persie will travel to Serbia this week to undergo a unique treatment. PSV midfielder Engelaar informed the Gunner about this method and Click to continue reading...

Video Info:
18.11.2009 - Friendly Game
Italy - Sweden 1:0

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The Gazzetta dello Sport is arguably the most famous sports newspaper in Italy, selling more copies than rivals Corriere dello Sport and Tuttosport. It is world famous for it's pink pages and has been printed in pink since 1899. The current head editor of the Gazzetta, Luigi Garlando, has always been a critic of Lippi since his return to the national team, has always been pro-Cassano, and doesn't understand why Lippi hates to answer questions at press conferences.

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It is the last international match day of the year and we will be treated both to some decisive World Cup qualifiers as well as some quality international friendlies.

You already know about today's qualifiers, but there are also some great friendlies, including Germany-Ivory Coast, Italy-Sweden and Netherlands-Paraguay.

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There are a number of international friendlies on Wednesday, November 18, 2009. Many of the top countries who have qualified for next summer's World Cup Final include Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the United States. Our other site, Free Live Sports TV, will be providing live coverage of the matches at the links below.

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Bacary Sagna's agent has stressed the France international is happy to stay with Arsenal following renewed speculation of interest from Juventus.
He was courted by Real Madrid during the summer, while reports have recently suggested that Juventus have revived an interest in the 26-year-old. Click to continue reading...

Yes, despite cara's hectic schedule with the selecao late last week, Brazil's Felipe Melo found the time to answer Futbolita's questions. En realidad, we spent the whole day running in the airport and walking in the rain last Friday before the all-important call from Felipe's agent came through!

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I was watching Eastbound & Down again, and it hit me: we need a soccer equivalent, perhaps set in England to raise the likelihood of someone being that big a star at one point. I'm gonna think about this more, you watch TV...The ESPN Press Pass crew look ahead to a few of the remaining World Cup qualification battles. Click to continue reading...

USA - Denmark starts on ESPN Classic at 2:30pm and picking up on ESPN2 when their coverage of Ukraine - Greece (starts at 1pm) ends. ESPN Classic will show the entire game uninterrupted. GolTV has Italy - Sweden at 2:30pm. Setanta has Bosnia - Portugal at 2:40pm and Slovenia - Russia on Xtra at the same time (5pm on Setanta). Click to continue reading...

A double international milestone was reached this past weekend, when both Italy's Gigi Buffon and Spain's Iker Casillas made their 100th international appearances on the same day. Nice little co-incidence as they are arguably (or maybe inarguably) the two best keepers in the world today.

Let me tell you what this is not: This is not a Buffon vs Casillas "who's better?

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The UEFA 2011 U-21 European Championships are less than a few years away as the qualification process is underway. On Tuesday, November 17, 2009 there are several matches including France, England, Northern Ireland, and Italy all in action. Some of the matches will be covered live on our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the links below.

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Holland teammate Orlando Engelaar hopes his advice has lifted the spirits of injured Arsenal striker Robin van Persie.
Van Persie was told about Mariana Kovacevic, the housewife who is said to have the amazing healing powers, by two of his former Feyenoord team-mates Danko Lazovic and Orlando Engelaar, who both now play for PSV Eindhoven. Click to continue reading...

According to Spanish daily MARCA, the bowls for the World Cup final draw have already been arranged. Now, the arrangements are pending approval by the FIFA Executive Committee, and MARCA tends to be wrong quite a bit, so take this with some grains of salt. Given all that, the composition of the bowls is the following: Seeds (Bowl 1): South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany, Argentina, England, France (if they beat Ireland) Bowl 2: the remaining UEFA teams Bowl 3: the CAF/CONMEBOL teams Bowl 4: the AFC/CONCACAF teams (Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Honduras) The. Click to continue reading...

Poor Amauri... at the rate things are going for RobinHood's long lost cousin, he'll never find a national team to call his own! Before you blame it on Little John, it's all because Dopey and Lippi can't make up their minds.

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Recently, it was reported everywhere that Christian Vieri was hanging up his boots. Vieri, at one time one of the most feared strikers in all of world football, had given all he had and was going more and more into a decline, so he it looked like he wanted to finally call it quits at age 36.

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A number of players can stake a claim for being part of the best team in the world at this early period of the European domestic leagues. However, very few players standout the way those listed below have in terms of their contribution to their team, their role as leaders, and certainly their crucial involvement in their respective clubs.

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According to Simone Bargellini at Sky Sports News, Roberto La Florio, the agent of Liverpool defender Andrea Dossena, has urged Liverpool to let his client go. He told Radio Kiss Kiss,

"The will of Andrea returning to Italy is now clearly established .

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Andrea Dossena's agent hopes his client will be allowed to leave Liverpool so he can secure a World Cup place.
The Italian left-back has struggled to make much of an impact since moving to Anfield from Udinese in the summer of 2008.
He has been heavily linked with a return to his homeland, with Napoli making no secret of their interest, but a move failed to materialise in the summer. Click to continue reading...

The striker suffered an ankle injury 10 minutes into Holland's goalless draw with Italy on Saturday and had to be stretchered from the field. Click to continue reading...

Bert van Marwijk praised his defense. Which basically means Oranje didn't play well. "We couldn't bring it tonight. It was disappointing. You sometimes get those games. But it was pretty poor. Still, to not concede against Italy when you're not at your best means our defense and controlling players were Click to continue reading...