Rafa considering move for former arch rival striker.

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Liverpool are reported to be lining up a January loan move for Real Madrid striker Ruud van Nistelrooy.

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The Football Finance website "Futebol Finance" (Portugues) publishan interesting article to hightlight the "Top 20 Most Valuable U-21Players in the World". The first Top 3 named "youngsters" all play inthe Spanish League - "La Liga". (Sergio Aguero for Atletico de Madrid)LIST: The TOP 20 players U-21 most valuable in the world 2009Name Age Country Club Amount€1 . Click to continue reading...

En la narración de ESPN buscaban englobar en una frase lo que pasaba en el encuentro entre Francia vs Irlanda, en donde la mano de Henry ponía a los franceses en la siguiente fase.

"La main de Dieu" (según mi traducción) o "La Mano de Dios versión 2009" es como a mi parecer puedo llamar a este acto que intencional o no resulto perjudicial para Irlanda y benéfico para Francia.

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According to a report released by IMScouting, el Kun Aguero is the most expensive U-21 forward in Europe.

Aguero's current transfer market value is 45 million euros.

Pipita Higuain and his Madrid teammate Karim Benzema are in second place with a transfer market value of 35 million euros each.

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Let battle commence.

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Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni has delayed finalising his team for Saturday's World Cup play-off first leg against France at Croke Park.

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In a week's time we will know a near complete list of the nations who will be competing to lift the World Cup in South Africa.� The first legs take place on November 14, with the second legs on the 18th.� The African nations qualification process takes a little longer, so I'll be focusing on the Republic of Ireland Vs France, Bosnia-Herz Vs Portugal, Russia Vs Slovenia and Greece Vs Ukraine.

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This weekend will make and break the careers of some coaches and players. The European play-offs which will begin on Saturday the 14th November and conclude on the following Wednesday, will definitely be a must win for the likes of France, Portugal and Russia.

A world cup without the reigning world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo is simply unimaginable.

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Rafa keen on talented Dutch bench warmer.

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Rafael van der Vaart has confirmed he will be leaving Spanish Giants Real Madrid in January and wants to move to another top European club, after rejecting a return to his old club Ajax.

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Ante la vergonzosa eliminación del Real Madrid en la Copa del Rey, les presentamos las grandes diferencias entre los dos equipos:

Real Madrid

• Temporadas en primera división: Todas
• División: Primera española
• Presupuesto anual: 420 millones de euros
• Capacidad de su estadio: 80,354 personas
• Figuras: Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaká, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonoso, Raúl, Iker Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Ruud Van Nistelrooy e Higuaín
• Director Técnico: Manuel Pellegrini (En las próximas horas puede cambiar)

AD Alcorcón

• Temporadas en primera división: Ninguna
• División: Segunda B española
• Presupuesto anual: 1.

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Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni is refusing to rest on his laurels as he plots France's World Cup downfall.
The 70-year-old Italian will lead Ireland into play-off battle with the 1998 winners, refusing to look back on all the success his distinguished career has brought him to date and concentrating only on what lies ahead. Click to continue reading...

The Republic of Ireland will take on France in the World Cup play-offs which commence next weekend in what will be an intriguing clash between the shrewd Italian coach Giovanni Trapattoni and the much-maligned French national team coach Raymond Domenech.

Trapattoni's record speaks for itself with successful spells almost everywhere he coached yet his most notable job prior to taking over Ireland ended in miserable failure with the Azzurri.

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Real Madrid came into this game knowing that they were yet to beat Milan in their own backyard, and that is how the record stayed, as the sides finished the game level-pegging. Having lost to late goals in the Santiago Bernabeu in the last fixture of this competition, the Spanish club started strongly to right the [. Click to continue reading...

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There was end-to-end action pretty much everywhere you looked on Matchday 4 of the UEFA Champions League. A couple of high profile matches delivered the goods, with late equalizers in Madrid and Manchester scuttling a Chelsea comeback against Atletico and a CSKA upset of United.

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by TRAVIS CLARK

There was end-to-end action pretty much everywhere you looked on Matchday 4 of the UEFA Champions League. A couple of high profile matches delivered the goods, with late equalizers in Madrid and Manchester scuttling a Chelsea comeback against Atletico and a CSKA upset of United.

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Manchester United and Chelsea came from behind on Tuesday evening as they booked their places in the knockout stages of the UEFA Champions League. Group C is the most evenly contested affair as just one point separates the top three. AC Milan remain on top after they a 1-1 draw with Real Madrid at the San Siro. Click to continue reading...

With the swine flu doubt cleared up, Paris Saint Germain picked up their first win since the 30th August on Sunday, beating Sochaux 4-1.

After years of struggling the Paris side finally had a good season last year, finishing 6th and only missing out on a Champions League place due to their� very poor form in the last league games, picking up only 4 points from a possible 15.

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Oscar Ustari can only stare blankly as Gonzalo Higuaín beats him for a second time.

The fashionable district.� The working-class south.� The established.� The disrespected.� Commerce.� Industry.� A comparison between the two top Madrid clubs.� Getafe just wants to be in the conversation.

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• We know of many mujeres who'd like to be seated in that car with Gangsta Gattuso! He's the Sexiest man in Italy, don't ever forget that. Anyway, the entire Milan squad (yes, including Dida how dare you accuse tio of being ineffective!

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Real Madrid's new 'Galactico' era has not started out the season� quite as expected, and� the struggles continued after� losing in humiliating fashion on Tuesday.

Real Madrid� lost to third division club Alcorcon, 4-0, in a Copa del Rey match. Alcorcon, which has 400 times less the payroll than� los merengues,� humbled a less-than-full-strength Real Madrid, but it still defeated a team which started players like Raul,� Guti and galactico Karim Benzema.

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Real Madrid coach Manuel Pellegrini was left "very embarrassed" after seeing the most expensive team in world football lose 4-0 to a third tier village side Alcorcon in the Spanish King's Cup. Real fielded a strong team but were 3-0 down to the Segunda Division B club by half-time in the round of 32 first leg.

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Real Madrid manager Manuel Pellegrini is clinging to his job after one of the most humiliating defeats in the club's history. Real were beaten 4-0 in the Spanish Cup by a third division side.

Having spent more money in one pre-season than any club in history, Real were expected to hammer minnows Alcorcon in the first leg of the fourth round of the cup.

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Spanish third-division side A.D. Alcorcon humbled a strong Real Madrid side 4 -0 in a Copa del Rey round of 32 match last night. The result of the game reflected the run of play as the minnows from the Madrid suburbs outplayed the European giant in front of 3,000 or so noisy fans. Karim Benzema, Raúl González, [. Click to continue reading...

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The Real Madrid boys were out yesterday afternoon frolicking in the snow with their new Audis and making nice for the press call.

After the flash bulbs took a breather, the team was given instructions on how to drive in the snow.� Incredible. Who knew that it snowed in Madrid?

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The Real Madrid boys were out yesterday afternoon frolicking in the snow with their new Audis and making nice for the press call.

After the flash bulbs took a breather, the team was given instructions on how to drive in the snow.� Incredible. Who knew that it snowed in Madrid?

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Jogaram pelas eliminatórias da Copa do Mundo, no Estádio de Saint-Denis, para um público de 78.099 pessoas, as seleções da França (9º no ranking da FIFA) e Áustria (58º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
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Without Cristiano Ronaldo, the Merengues lacked creativity and an attacking spark.

Karim Benzema and Kaka both had an unmemorable outing. It was the supporting cast of Granero, Marcelo and Raul that provided the threat and in the second half Royston Drenthe had his moments.

Pellegrini turned defensive with Lass and Alonso creating redundancy in the holding midfielder positions, with Alonso a bit more adventurous.

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The 30-man list of nominees for the 2009 Ballon d'Or has been announced. The list consisted of a Who's Who of European football. The most glaring thing is that there is no Italian player nominated in the top 30.

2009 Ballon d'Or Nominees

Andrey Arshavin (Arsenal)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal)
Didier Drogba (Chelsea)
Frank Lampard (Chelsea)
John Terry (Chelsea)
Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Ryan Giggs (Manchester United)
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
Nemanja Vidic (Manchester United)
Karim Benzema (Real Madrid)
Kaka (Real Madrid)
Iker Casillas (Real Madrid)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
Thierry Henry (Barcelona)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Barcelona)
Andres Iniesta (Barcelona)
Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Xavi (Barcelona)
Yaya Toure (Barcelona)
David Villa (Valencia)
Luis Fabiano (Sevilla)
Diego Forlan (Atletico Madrid)
Diego (Juventus)
Samuel Eto'o (Inter Milan)
Julio Cesar (Inter Milan)
Maicon (Inter Milan)
Edin Dzeko (Wolfsburg)
Franck Ribery (Bayern Munich)
Yoann Gourcuff (Bordeaux)
Lionel Messi is arguably the favourite for this award this year. Click to continue reading...

The Kid – a very appropriate term – has only 21 years of age.Frenchmen KARIM BENZEMA has jumped from a great Club in Franceto historically the "Best Club in The World"; you cannot get higher.Along with the "career promotion" you come with a 35M€ price tag& the expectations from half the world to become the next "GoldenBall" winner in the future. Click to continue reading...

"Lisandro is better than Rooney," says the iconic Portuguese defender Jorge Costa in a matter-of-fact voice.
The former Porto captain is on a speakerphone and has been on the road for at least four hours, so there is a temptation to put his claim down to weariness.
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Who deserves the plaudits?

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Veteran Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs is one of five British footballers nominated for the 2009 European Player of the Year award.

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Jogaram pelas Eliminatórias da Eurocopa, em Guingamp, no estádio Roudourou, as seleções da França (9º no ranking da FIFA) e Ilhas Färoe (122º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
08-09-2004 - Ilhas Färoe 0x2 França - Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
03-09-2005 - França 3x0 Ilhas Färoe - Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo
11-10-2006 - França 5x0 Ilhas Färoe - Eliminatórias Eurocopa
13-10-2007 - Ilhas Färoe 0x6 França - Eliminatórias Eurocopa
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With the Ballon d'Or nominations finally releasing this weekend, the headlines have mostly been devoted to the fact that world champions Italy have no representation whatsoever. But why blame the press for paying excessive attention to an irrelevant detail? After all, the award itself is destined to be heading Lionel Messi's way, which means very little is there to be talked about in terms of debating the winner, right?

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It always makes me laugh a little bit when you see two national players that play so well together play against one another in league play.� It is one of those odd things we just don't really have here in the States.� I mean I guess stars play together in All Star games and what not, but not as zany as the way it works in European football.

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France Football magazine has announced the following 30 nominees for their 2009 Golden Ball (Ballon D'Or) Award:
Andrei Arshavin (Russia and Arsenal)
Karim Benzema (France and OL/Real Madrid)
Iker Casillas (Spain and Real Madrid)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal and Manchester United/Real Madrid)
Diego (Brazil and Werder Bremen/Juventus)
Didier Drogba (Ivory Coast and Chelsea)
Edin Dzeko (Bosnia and Wolfsburg)
Samuel Eto'o (Cameroon and Barcelona/Inter Milan)
Cesc Fabregas (Spain and Arsenal)
Fernando Torres (Spain and Liverpool)
Diego Forlan (Uruguay and Atletico Madrid)
Steven Gerrard (England and Liverpool)
Ryan Giggs (Wales and Manchester United)
Yoann Gourcuff (France and Bordeaux)
Thierry Henry (France and Barcelona)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Sweden and Inter Milan/Barcelona)
Andres Iniesta (Spain and Barcelona)
Julio Cesar (Brazil and Inter Milan)
Kaka' (Brazil and AC Milan/Real Madrid)
Frank Lampard (England and Chelsea)
Maicon (Brazil and Inter Milan)
Lionel Messi (Argentina and Barcelona)
Luis Fabiano (Brazil and FC Seville)
Franck Ribery (France and Bayern Munich)
Wayne Rooney (England and Manchester United)
John Terry (England and Chelsea)
Nemanja Vidic (Serbia and Manchester United)
David Villa (Spain and Valencia)
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10 Premier League players have been named in the 30 strong list for the European Player Of The Year Awards- three of which are Man United players.
Here is the list-
Arsenal- Andrey Arshavin and Cesc Fabregas
Atletico Madrid- Diego Forlan
Barcelona- Thierry Henry, Xavi, Yaya Toure, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Andres Iniesta and Lionel Messi
Bayern Munich- Franck Ribery
Bordeaux- Yoann Gourcuff
Chelsea- John Terry, Frank Lampard and Didier Drogba
Inter Milan- Samuel Eto'o, Julio Cesar and Maicon
Juventus- Diego
Liverpool- Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres
Man United- Nemanja Vidic, Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney
Real Madrid- Karim Benzema, Iker Casillas, Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo
Sevilla- Luis Fabiano
Valencia- David Silva
Wolfsburg- Edin Dzeko
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