Blind loyalty at Liverpool and Chelsea will not help beat racism | Ian
Prior
Football has fought a long campaign to fight prejudice in the game, but the reaction of two
clubs to recent allegations has been shortsighted and damaging The pictures above were taken less
than five months apart.
Gareth Bale and Craig Bellamy helped Wales to a 4-1 win over Norway in Cardiff today as they
both grabbed a goal a piece as the duo ripped the Norwegians to shreds.
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The U.S. WNT is still the top ranked team in the world according to the latest FIFA rankings
released on Sept. 23.
North Korea is back in the top-10 (8th) on the heels of it successful qualifying run for the 2012
Olympics, while Norway is down to 12th, the lowest ranking ever for the Norwegians since the world
rankings started in 2003.
In our latest column from the club's Academy, Frank McParland offers his thoughts on the NextGen
Series so far and reveals which two Reds legends have visited Kirkby recently.
It's been a frustrating couple of weeks for us with regards to the NextGen Series double header
against Wolfsburg.
I felt we played poorly in the first game at Anfield and were somewhat fortunate to get a point
thanks to a late own goal.
Rodolfo Borrell has called for Liverpool Reserves to produce their best display of the season when
they face Wolfsburg in a crucial NextGen Series encounter in Germany tonight.
The Reds needed a late own goal to salvage a point when the two sides locked horns at Anfield last
week, leaving Group 2 wide open.
Toumba Stadium, Thessaloniki, Greece. 6pm kick off. ESPN.
Spurs start their Europa League Group A campaign with a tricky visit to Greece where they take
on PAOK. While it would be easy to dismiss the opposition as not in Spurs class it would be foolish
to underestimate them.
Against Sporting Lisbon it took Liverpool most of a half to find their feet, and combined with some
poor finishing it added up to a heavy loss and a disappointing start to their NextGen Series
campaign. If their second match against Molde was far from perfect, then, Liverpool at least showed
an ability to hit the ground running at the second time of asking, dominating play for much of the
first half against a side that while a step down from Sporting was nonetheless playing at home
while many of Liverpool's youngsters were facing their first real test on the continent.
Liverpool 3 Valerenga 3Liverpool's pre-season form continued to stutter as they were held to a draw by Norwegian outfit
Valerenga.
Liverpool fielded their Summer signings Stewart Downing, Jordan Henderson and Charlie Adam along
with returning Pepe Reina, Jamie Carragher and Daniel Agger.
SPANISH FOOTBALL action in full & serious swing tonight as ATLETICO DE MADRID attempts to qualify
for the Europa League by overcoming the pre-qualifiers that then gives the team access to the last
step which is the end of August play-off. The Spanish Football Team met Norwegian Club STORMGODSET
& managed to win the 1º leg match 2 - 1.
szólj hozzá: Australia 2-1 Norway
Kyah Simon scored a brace as the Matildas shrugged off a sluggish first half performance to
battle the more experienced Norwegians on even terms in the second half. It was the Norwegians,
however, exploiting the soft Australian defense who went up first through Elise Thorsnes.
If we play like that we'll never beat USA conquerors Sweden.
Wily fox Tom Sermanni ditched Emily Van Egmond, left Sally Shipard on the bench and went for a
three pronged attack against previous World Cup winners Norway this morning - a team we'd never
beaten.
The results said it worked.
The best player in women's soccer history shows up against Norway. Her contribution; two goals
and an assist. This World Cup is turning out to be a no show for Birgit Prinz and Abby Wambach but
Homare Sawa against Mexico and Marta's statement today clearly show we should not write these big
names off too early.
Marta
, the Leo Messi of the women's game,
lit up the World Cup with a
stunning brace as Brazil swatted Norway aside 3-0.
After an unconvincing 1-0 opening win against Australia, the Brazilians, losing finalists in the
last World Cup and Olympics, were on fire in Wolfsburg
today.
Genoveva Anonma is a special player and she showed pace and skill in spades but her finishing
let her down. Still she was a thorn in the Norwegian side and the Guineans put on 20 shots with
eight on goal keeping Ingrid Hjelmseth very busy. The Norwegians came closest with 19 year old
Emilie Haavi's shot hitting the upright.
photo by ISIphotos.com
By FRANCO PANIZO
The U.S. men's national team won't be the only team to suffer from Steve Cherundolo's ankle
injury.
Having picked up the knock in the Gold Cup final against Mexico last Saturday, Cherundolo has
been ruled out for four weeks, meaning he will miss all of Hannover 96's preseason
preparations.
It's now less than two weeks until the 2011 Women's World Cup starts in Germany, and over the
next couple of weeks we are taking the time to bring you a quick run-down of the teams that are
taking part in another of the groups of this year's competition. We have already presented Group A,
Group B, and Group C.
Portugal coach Paulo Bento has announced his squad for the upcoming Euro 2012 qualifier against
Norway. Portugal will be looking to repay the Norwegians back for an earlier loss in Norway 1-0
early in the campaign. The Portuguese would vault themselves into first place in the group with a
victory.
