After the 35th round of Brasileirao, one thing is clear: the champion will be red and black. The only thing that remains unclear is if it will also carry the white of Sao Paulo, or it will have just the two colors of Flamengo.

The two sides took advantage of Palmeiras' tie against Sport and look ready for the title.

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Denial

Although Real Madrid needed five goals to overturn their Round of 32 tie with Alcorcón, a certain sense of denial was important in this particular situation so that they could believe that their task was not impossible. Kaká stated, "For the pride and for the history of Real Madrid, we have to win this tie.

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Marcelo and Pato take their ladies out for the evening. Photo courtesy of as.com

It goes without saying that we completely understand the (somewhat unhealthy) craving of owning a glam and blinding engagement ring from the footballing man of your dreams. Having a high cash value prize to sport on your finger is a lovely way to seperate yourself from those that have to work for a living or clean their own houses.

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Real Madrid held on to win the Spanish capital derby 3-2 at Club Atlético de Madrid on Saturday despite the sending off of defender Sergio Ramos. Kaká scored in the 5th minute, Marcelo in the 25th minute and Gonzalo Higuaín in the 64th put Los Merengues up 3-0. However, after Ramos was ejected in the [. Click to continue reading...

Real Madrid takes on Getafe looking to keep pace with FC Barcelona in the La Liga on Saturday, October 31, 2009. Were they able to win or did Getafe score an upset? Here's a recap along with video highlights of the match.

Real Madrid defeat Getafe 2-0 Video Highlights

Real Madrid did not start out strong as the match was scoreless through 15 minutes.

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Real Madrid's 0-4 calamity at Alcorcan, a wee club from the suburbs of the same city, is my highlight of the week. Oh to have been an ADA fan that night! Here's the awesome fortress of the Santo Domingo (cap. 4,000) and the Real lineup that made history: Dudek; Arbeloa, Albiol, Metzelder, Drenthe; Diarra, Guti (Gago 46'), Van der Vaart, Granero (Marcelo 63'); Raúl (Van Nistelrooy 72'), Click to continue reading...

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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Stankovic's goal against Genoa (at 1:15 but the entire highlight package is worth watching):

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Marcelo's goal against Valladolid:

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Jogaram pelas eliminatórias da América do Sul, na cidade de La Paz, no estádio Hernando Siles Zuazo, para um público de 16.557 pessoas, as seleções da Bolívia (60º no ranking da FIFA) e Brasil (1º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Copa do Mundo: 20-07-1930 - Brasil 4x0 Bolívia
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo: 13 jogos, 3 vitórias da Bolívia, 3 empates, 7 vitórias do Brasil, 12 gols da Bolívia e 33 gols do Brasil. Click to continue reading...

The Spanish Primera Division or La Liga had its two biggest clubs in matches on Saturday, October 17, 2009. Real Madrid hosted Vallodolid while FC Barcelona traveled to play Valencia. Here's a recap of both matches along with video highlights.

Real Madrid beats Vallodolid 4-2 Video Highlights

Raul scored two first half goals, in the 14th and 18th minute, to lead Real Madrid past Vallodolid on Saturday in La Liga.

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Brazil, already qualified for the World Cup, had no answer to a lively Bolivia playing at high altitude here in the Andes on Sunday. The Brazilians were 1-0 down after just 10 minutes when Edgar Olivares netted. Werder Bremen's Marcelo Martins doubled the deficit on the half-hour and although Nilmar pulled one . Click to continue reading...

There was one more CONMEBOL (South America) qualifying match left on the weekend as Bolivia hosted Brazil. Both teams had little to play for as Bolivia was out of contention for qualification and Brazil had already clinched their spot in South Africa. Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights on Sunday, October 11, 2009.

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Cambio en el podio: Vale chumbar tomó el 3º puesto desplazando a EUB (5º).
Cambio en el top ten: Entra La Pelota No Dobla (10º) desplazando a Muy River (11º).
Cambio en el top 20: Entra El blog de Danny Miche (16º) y cae TM (21º).
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I've just watched the Sevilla v Real Madrid game, and it was a bit of a cracker, as was expected. The game may prove to be significant in various ways this season, but anyone watching can have little doubt as to the wonders that La Liga will have to offer this season. A two-horse race? Forget it. More like fools and horses - the fools being those that write off Sevilla, the horses being the chaps who occupy the left side of Real Madrid. Click to continue reading...

Una recorrida audiovisual por la vida deportiva de Marcelo Bielsa (21.07.1955) es un grato programa documental de, hasta ahora, 20 minutos de duración.
En el video 1 (6.18) algunas andanzas por su Barrio del Abasto, el club Estrella Azul y su primera visita a la comisaría cuando, en el momento de patear un córner, el Comando Radioeléctrico de Rosario se lo carga con pelota y todo. Click to continue reading...

Funny thing happened on the way to the battle of the unbeaten between Barcelona and Real Madrid next month. Someone forgot to tell Sevilla who beat Real 2-1 win at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan tonight.

Without the services of the injured Cristiano Ronaldo, Real seemed to lose its attacking swagger that has carried it so far this season, and instead the attention was focused on Madrid's poor defence.

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The Galaxy's 2-0 loss in Columbus earlier today (more on that later) has given Chivas USA the opportunity to pull within one point of their intrastadium rivals with two games in hand. But they need to win today to accomplish that.

Preki makes just one enforced change to the team that drew 0-0 with Seattle last time out, Carey Talley coming in for the suspended Marcelo Saragosa, shown a red card against the Sounders.

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If Villarreal continues their poor run of form, El Madrigal will look similar to this on match nights.

After another underwhelming performance in a 0-2 loss to Real Madrid at El Madrigal on Wednesday evening, Villarreal currently sits in 18th place with only two points from four La Liga matches.

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For those of you not heading to tonight's Chivas-Chivas USA game at 8 o'clock in Pasadena, know that Galavision will carry the friendly live.

Incidentally, this game is being billed as the first between the teams in American soil because the two met in a charity game in Guadalajara two years ago.

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According to Ole, Gonzalo Higuain will finally receive a call up from Maradona and it will be for the last WQ qualifiers.

Diego citará al Pipita para las finales con Perú y Uruguay. El punta del Madrid aún no recibió el llamado que el viernes será oficial.

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Galaxy 2 Toronto FC 0

Edson Buddle made it two in the 83rd minute, stroking home the ball from seven yards out off a one-time pass from Landon Donovan who had tapped along a low David Beckham cross. That's Buddle's fifth goal of the season and his second in two games.

The Galaxy should have scored more, Beckham most notably squandering an opportunity in the 80th minute after Chris Birchall had again set him up with a pass from a long Landon Donovan cross field ball.

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REAL MADRID Brazilian defender MARCELO is a funny guy who in typical Brazilian fashion lifts the spirits & humour at his Club. Histeam-mates appreciated it as seen yesterday at the Real Madridtraining session. Marcelo speaks to Cristiano Ronaldo to give himsome valuable feedback; on his style & how Ronaldo runs on thefield of play. Click to continue reading...

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Ok, Marta throwing a baseball at a LA Dodgers game is pretty random. They should've included a bonus round with Mickey Mouse Beckham as he elegantly manhandles a Javelin. What a spectacle that would've been.

On a more serious note, Pele will officially announce Marta as a Santos player in the squad's attempt to win the first ever female edition of the Libertadores Cup on October 4th.

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He leído la mejor reseña y análisis del Argentina vs Brasil, de lado argentino. Una genialidad de redacción, orden de ideas, pero sobre todo de lucidez futbolística y un sentido crítico necesario cuando las cosas no van.

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The game was a little boring and regular but at least it's a win, the best part was chillin' with the NYC MADRIDISTAS as we welcomed a few new faces and smoked a few Honduran cigars at halftime.
Real Madrid defeated Deportivo La Coruna 3-2 in typical workmanlike fashion. That MADRIDISTA flowing futbol swagger is still not there, but let's give them time. Click to continue reading...

Galaxy 0 Chivas USA 0

A typically, tight derby although both teams exchanged chances, especially in the opening 15 minutes. Chivas USA ended up out-shooting the Galaxy 8-3 though, which had Bruce Arena up off the bench and pacing early.

Both sides served up too many aimless long balls or inaccurate crosses, however, something that was emphasized when Maykel Galindo was sent through twice in quick succession just before the break with low, purposeful balls.

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Werder Bremen spent a long time waiting for the official confirmation for the transfer of Claudio Pizzaro from Chelsea and now they can gladly announce that they have finally managed to bring the striker that left a deep trace in the club. Peruvian signed a contract for three years with the club in Bremen.

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Overview
Tomorrow Santos will face Cruzeiro away from home 19th round of the Brasileirão. This is the crucial halfway point of the season.
The referee is Marcelo de Lima Henrique, with his assistants being Vagner de Almeida Santos and Jackson L. Massara do Santos. They are all from Rio de Janeiro. Click to continue reading...

Vaya lío que se traen en Argentina con los derechos de transmisión, la tirada era romper el contrato con TyC y de alguna manera tendrán que resarcir el daño a la empresa por esta rescisión unilateral del contrato.

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On Sunday TyC Sports president Marcelo Bombau talked to Olé, telling them that he considered the AFA's attitude towards the TV companies in the ongoing dispute over player wages to be 'illicit, unjust and disrespectful.' Last week, of course, it was announced that the championship won't be starting as scheduled this coming weekend. Click to continue reading...

Filipe Luís

Deportivo La Coruña leftback, Filipe Luís, has been drafted in to replace Real Madrid's Marcelo for the friendly international against Estonia on August 12th.

The 23-year-old was brought in after Marcelo picked up an ankle injury.

Even though UEFA picked him out as Spain's best leftback in the 2008/2009 season, Filipe Luís is something of an unknown in his native Brazil.

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Having travelled to Japan, Inter are the first Brazilian club to compete in the Suruga Bank Intercontinental Championship (Copa Suruga) since the championship was formed by the Japanese Football Association and CONMEBOL in 2008.
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FC Dallas have signed Chivas USA striker Atiba Harris in exchange for midfielder Marcelo Saragosa. "We are excited to be able to bring Atiba Harris to FC Dallas," said FC Dallas Head Coach Schellas Hyndman. "He is a tough, hard-nosed player who can play as both a wide midfielder and forward. As a player with tremendous athleticism, speed and power, we feel he will be able to make an immediate impact.

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The Chicago Fire is considered one of the deepest teams in Major League Soccer and will now have that depth tested as the Easter Conference power is forced to deal with the loss of star striker Brian McBride.

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Apparently trying to beef up a wimpy midfield, Chivas USA today sent Atiba Harris to Dallas in exchange for midfielder Marcelo Saragosa, who played for the Galaxy from 2004-2006.

Here's a sprawling Saragosa playing against once and former teammate Paulo Nagamura last year in this Daily Breeze file photo.

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