Reporter Phil Collin follows up Thursday's initial news with a more detailed story in today's newspaper you can read here.

Preki, as usual playing his cards close to his chest, doesn't reveal a whole lot:

"I've been here four years and I think we have done a pretty decent job advancing Chivas to a certain level.

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Tomorrow sees us take on Sunderland at home in what has now become a massive match. Steve Bruce has taken them to the next level, although they're a sort of Jackal and Hyde side as they're nowhere near as good on their travels as they are when playing at home. Sound familiar?
The good news is that Jones won't be bullying King and Woodgate, but we'll still have Darren Bent to worry about. Click to continue reading...

Andre Akpan could be a beast on the next level. (Harvard photos)

Last week I threw out some names that you may have already heard in line for next year's MLS SuperDraft and I am back today with a few more. I hope to start making this list at least a twice a month deal up until the draft in January.

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Duders. I think it's been obvious over the past couple of months that my productivity levels with regard to this blog have fallen. New commitments have forced me to stretch myself a tad too thin. Of course, my quality of writing is still pristine you know it to be true but I really want to start bombarding the people with a plethora of intelligent, insightful, satirical, comedic, humorous, pompous, demented, borderline insane material.

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The Austin Aztex will announce today the hiring of Djorn Buchholz as Chief Executive Officer of the USL-1 franchise.

Buchholz, a 30-year-old Nebraska native, has been with the Minnesota Thunder for 6 years. He was hired as a sales and marketing manager and was promoted his second year to director of marketing.

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The Austin Aztex will announce today the hiring of Djorn Buchholz as Chief Executive Officer of the USL-1 franchise.

Buchholz, a 30-year-old Nebraska native, has been with the Minnesota Thunder for 6 years. He was hired as a sales and marketing manager and was promoted his second year to director of marketing.

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Teal Bunbury is a player to watch out for. (University of Akron photos)

While the MLS season is about to end it only means one thing, the SuperDraft is just right around the corner. Yes, that means a boat load of college kids will head to the combine for MLS coaches and scouts to pick out and find the very best of the best.

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Hot on the heels of more Robinho exit rumours comes Guillem Balague's considered view:

The Premier league club have no intention of selling their star player and Barcelona do not have sufficient funds to even consider making a large enough bid that might give City reason to reconsider.

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Quick blog today as it really has been one hectic day at the office.

Nasri and Fabianski travel to Wolves to get some match fitness after recovering from their pre-season injuries, it should be a couple of weeks until Nasri is fully sharp but he has a fight on to get his place in the team back after Arshavin, Rosicky, Song and lately Diaby have all put in some great performances.

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El Reportero is the nationwide search for the ultimate sports fan, ready to take their sports knowledge to the next level as an ESPN Deportes soccer reporter. The second installation of the reality show allows participants to audition for the opportunity to become part of the network's team and a fixture in the world of sports. Click to continue reading...

This advert is probably the best and the most famous football advert for those of you who have been Sky Sports fans since it was created. Sheffield United fan Sean Bean fronts this fantastic advert...

Life

It can be difficult

You know that

We all need someone to rely on

Someone who's going to be there

Someone who's going to make you feel like you belong

Someone constant

It's ectasy, anguish, joy and despair
Part of our history
Part of our country
And it will be part of our future
It's theatre, art, war and love
It should be predictable .

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Springfield Catholic, Reid Harbach

Glendale Falcons, Austin Hart

Two players from the Springfield S.C. 93/94 Boys team were selected for the USYS Region II 1994 ODP Camp held in Rockford, IL this summer. Reid Harbach (Catholic) and Austin Hart (Glendale) both competed in the Regional Camp held for players born in 1994 from the Midwest 14 State Associations. Click to continue reading...

Springfield Catholic, Reid Harbach

Glendale Falcons, Austin Hart

Two players from the Springfield S.C. 93/94 Boys team were selected for the USYS Region II 1994 ODP Camp held in Rockford, IL this summer. Reid Harbach (Catholic) and Austin Hart (Glendale) both competed in the Regional Camp held for players born in 1994 from the Midwest 14 State Associations. Click to continue reading...

Rafa Benitez has offered a unique insight into the driven nature of his skipper Steven Gerrard, which he believes makes the midfielder one of the best in the world.
The Liverpool manager revealed that Gerrard, even after playing at the very top for the past decade, and is still desperate to learn and take his game to the next level, and analyses his performances in microscopic detail. Click to continue reading...

By CHRIS LARKIN With Rugby Union's blood gate incident taking up the majority of Sky Sports' time I was relieved to see Football back as the main focus point of the channel and was shocked to see that Chelsea had been ban from making any transfers until January 2011.

I do have sympathy towards Chelsea's case in the way they appear to be singled out but if I'm quite honest I find it hard to actually feel sorry for teams when so many Stockport County players have been poached over the years for pittance, it's disgraceful we spend time and money training quality players that could get County to the next level and then get sold on for alot of money but the ‘bigger' clubs always come in and coax the naive kids into coming to the bigger team, when in actual fact all it does if deprive County of a player that could've really helped us and in many cases will ruin the players career.

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Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez has urged the club's owners to make funds available in order to secure the transfer of David Villa from Spanish Primera Division side Valencia.
Villa was courted by both Barcelona and Real Madrid during the summer but while the Blaugrana eventually opted to sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Inter Milan, Los Blancos signed Karim Benzema from Lyon. Click to continue reading...

The Gold Coast Blue Rinse Set were hardly in this match. They appear to be suffering from taking victories for granted. Although the real message is about their lack of tactical wisdom. CCM were not great, the Blue Rinses were poor.
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Yet another brilliant advert from Nike that we have to show you this week, they should really pay us for this. This weeks is the Portugal vs Brazil Ole advert, which includes brilliant skill, funny moments, the obvious Eric Cantona cameo and a great tackle by the ref. I love how they all look battered at the end and what a soundtrack.

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Learning to freestyle has become increasingly more popular as more young people realize that the techniques could help improve their soccer playing skills. You see it being used by professional players to help dodge the competition. Though the techniques are impressive you should never neglect the skill of getting the ball into the net!

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Nike has done a series of commercials with some clubs' top players making a "pledge" to reach certain goals this season. Arsenal's is pretty sweet:

Man, I love this team. Although am I evil for thinking it would have been funny if it had had Diaby saying something like "Dribble past 6 defenders and kick the ball out of bounds for no reason," Emmanuel Eboue saying "Tackle the ball away from my own teammates," or Lukasz Fabianski saying "Come and out and challenge for every ball .

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(maybe she's upset at the illustrated vandalism)
Stefany Miley is a judge. She also went a little crazy the other day at the soccer field. Credit Unprofessional Foul with the great find, and as they say, there aren't many details.
These short paragraphs suffice:

A Clark County judge could face charges for an altercation last month on a soccer field.

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by Usman Azad, Football Perth Editor
RIGHTO, it's another Friday and for some reason I have a cracking headache. But forget that, let's get cracking with some Perth Glory news.
Continuing on with the Brazilian with the heart of gold - well not really - Amaral trained with the Glory yesterday seeking another chance of slipping on a Perth Glory kit and strutting his stuff in the A-League. Click to continue reading...

UPDATE: According to Sky Sports News, Bafana Bafana midfielder Kagiso Dikgacoi stated that he has completed a move to Fulham. He told Football365.co.za,

"Yes it is completed now. I return next week to Fulham ..

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Two players from the Springfield S.C. 93/94 Boys team recently returned from the USYS Region II 1994 ODP Camp held in Rockford, IL with great success. Reid Harbach and Austin Hart both competed in the Regional Camp held for players born in 1994 from the Midwest 14 State Associations.

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Two players from the Springfield S.C. 93/94 Boys team recently returned from the USYS Region II 1994 ODP Camp held in Rockford, IL with great success. Reid Harbach and Austin Hart both competed in the Regional Camp held for players born in 1994 from the Midwest 14 State Associations.

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I saw this video and could not resist posting it.

This is the second video of the FA's football participation programme. Looking a lot like Guy Ritchie's Nike commercial (see that video below) however it is much better because it offers much better insight of what football really is.

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With the unbelievable offensive production this season, it was hard to choose a single player that stood out to such a degree that they are deemed worthy of the 2009 LLTO Most Improved Player of the Primera Division. This year it would be joint award winners and the two men that are taking home the hardware are Samuel Eto'o and Thierry Henry of Barcelona.

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UPDATE: According to Kickoff.com, Bafana Bafana midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi is close to signing for Fulham. He said,

"I started a medical test today and will complete it tomorrow. Everything has gone well and depending on the medical test I will sign soon.

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All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty Tackle...

Even if you've already seen it, it's worth watching again The FA's spoof of Nike's "Take It To The Next Level" short in support of their 11-a-side football initiative.

Man Utd players insanely bored in their Kuala Lumpur hotel.

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This came to me via email:

The FA are just kicking off a campaign to get people back into 11 a side football, as sadly the amount of teams registering each year is in decline. The film we've created went live this week after a sneak peak showing at the England vs Andorra mach at Wembley a few weeks ago.

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'CRAMPED CAR JOURNEYS, MISSING STUDS, LATE CHALLENGES. THIS IS REAL FOOTBALL.'-TheFAThe Football Association created a spoof of the Nike viral 'Take it to the next level' to encourage people to play football.In the Viral, You are the Sunday league footballer who drives a 'Fiat Punto' with an 'A' cup girlfriend. Click to continue reading...

Man City are continuing their relentless pursuit of John Terry, with crazy figures like £300k per week being mooted in the press, in addition to a possible £30m transfer fee.

Is he worth it? Purely as a player, arguably not. He is 28, increasingly injury prone, and there are whisperings of impending vulnerability.

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According to ESPN Soccernet, Bafana Bafana midfielder Kagiso Dikgacoi is set to train with Fulham during pre-season.

His agent Mike Makaab also denied earlier that he was set to go on trial for Portsmouth. He said,

"I've not heard anything from Portsmouth.

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"Charleston is a lock to get to the semifinals. They've beaten Houston the past two years, the Dynamo are starting their bench, and even if you count their San Jose years this franchise has been to the semifinals all of once ever. And even if you did like the Dynamo's chances - oops, they're missing Holden for the Gold Cup. Click to continue reading...

Hold the front page! Something happened at last. The earth didn't exactly move for me, more of a tremor than an earthquake but enough to wake me from my transfer window slumbers.
Didier Zokora finally left us for Sevilla for roughly the amount that we paid for him so the accountants as well as many fans will be happy. Click to continue reading...