Philadelphia Independence owner David Halstead says the Philadelphia Independence will be back in 2013.

In a letter to Independence fans on the club's website, Halstead said the decision to cancel the 2012 season was difficult, but necessary.

Halstead points to the ongoing litigation with Dan Borislow about his Florida-based franchise as the reason for the cancellation of the season.

Carlos Tevez's advisor, Kia Joorabchian is quoted in the English newspapers as saying that Tevez will not be sold in the January transfer window:

"We've been in negotiations with three big clubs but I don't think they have reached the figures Manchester City want. Carlos will remain at Man City until the summer.

Manchester United's Mexican striker, Javier Hernandez, acknowledged the need to improve his quality if he wants to compete with the strikers his club possessed at the moment.

Although injuries has been Hernandez's main obstacle in reprising last season's performance, but the 23-years-old stated that the competition is harder this season especially with Danny Wellbeck's arrival from Sunderland.

England national team got themselves a pretty good draw in their Euro 2012 campaign, considering all the worse possibilities, being paired with Ukraine, France and Sweden obviously isn't the toughest group on paper.

This drawing result apparently gave confidence to the Union Jack's manager, Fabio Capello, who revealed that his team obviously got a pretty comfortable group on paper especially compared to Group B which consist the likes of Holland, Germany, Portugal and Denmark.

"Keep D.C. United" is a fan founded and volunteer driven movement with aim at keeping DC United in the Washington, DC area. For 16 years, United has been housed at the certainly historic, but ultimately decrepit RFK Stadium. The fans have certainly formed a bond with the stadium that moves, quite literally, with them.

What is the difference between a dive and a flop? In part two of our series ("Fall of the Superman") PF will discuss the art of the dive, which we defined as any airborne maneuvers employed by a player (such as Emmanuel Eboue's tongue extension in the Champions League Final four years ago). The ensuing "flop" is the second movement to this ballet whereas the magic of flight is ruptured by contact with earth.

Organisation is the key to many of life's success, and this has been ably demonstrated than by Plymouth Argyle fans over recent days, in dealing with two potential obstacles to the club's exit from administration. The starkest issue was highlighted by Ian King on this site on Sunday as the story broke of attempts by former directors to disrupt and potentially threaten outright Argyle's exit from administration, in order to protect personal financial interests.

By J Hutcherson - WASHINGTON, DC (Oct 5, 2011) US Soccer Players --One of the constant complaints during what feels like a never ending season of Major League Soccer has been time. Coaches don't have enough of it. Players are expected to do too much with limited amounts of it. The schedule has turned into the biggest obstacle between a team doing their best and simply making due.

Liverpool may still be considered by many as potential title challenger this season but according to their new star, Luis Suarez, at the moment it's very unlikely for his team to challenge for the league title.

Suarez admitted that the strength of two Manchester clubs alongside Chelsea are a bit further than other teams in the premier league including the Pool, who are still sitting at fifth place in the league table with 13 points.

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Jose Francisco Torres was making plenty of headway for the U.S. national team, getting repeated chances to start under new coach Jurgen Klinsmann.

All of that progress has hit a bit of an obstacle, though, with the word that the midfielder will miss the remainder of Pachuca's Apertura season after suffering an injury to his fifth metatarsal, according to Pachuca's official Twitter feed.

Lugano is about to sign with the Paris Saint-Germain. It's certain to happen in the next day or so. I predict that's a decisive move for the PSG to win the championship this year. Diego Lugano will bring the garra that can overcome any obstacle. Well done Leonardo!

Maracanazos wish a warm welcome to Diego Lugano!

Editor's Note: We've published several op-eds on the Free Beer Movement site, but with no real distinction between what is news and what is opinion. Our editorials are now going to come with the feature tag "Making the Case", well, because its an awesome beer pun, and we love those.

Aquilani's Milan Move Still Has Legs

Alberto Aquilani's long-running transfer saga at Liverpool could soon be facing an end, claims his agent. Franco Zavaglia has notably been extremely outspoken about Aquilani's future during the past few weeks and believes that there is ‘truth' in rumours linking his client to AC Milan.

Milan sealed their eighteenth title in Rome way back in May, though the final few games were a case of dotting the Is and crossing the Ts. The final point was a formality. Whilst it is true to say that last season's Milan were a superb side from top to bottom. There was quality throughout their ranks and enough depth to carry them comfortably over every obstacle they encountered.

Agent: Jovanovic Definitely Going to Anderlecht

The agent of Liverpool flop Milan Jovanovic insists the player's proposed most to Anderlecht will definitely go ahead, despite talks stalling between the two parties regarding the player's wages. We first reported this story early this month, when Jovanovic first met with Anderlecht officials to discuss a possible transfer.

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KATHMANDU, July 17: Nepali national football coach Graham Roberts on Sunday claimed that All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) is not providing proper training facilities to the team and alleged that ANFA itself wants to lose the 2014 World Cup Qualifying match against Jordan.

Malaysian XI 3-6 Liverpool | Friendly match report

• Malaysian XI 3-6 Liverpool • Rahim 40, Mohd Sali 79 80; Adam 27pen, Ngog 68 69, Rodríguez 76 90, Kuyt 94 Alberto Aquilani and David Ngog, two Liverpool players who appeared closest to the exit at Anfield, have been given public backing from the club's owner, John W Henry.

Neville claims fear the obstacle to England success

Ex-Man United defender believes players turn up to play for their country full of fear

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Earlier, I took a look at the players who might be signed by Arsenal this summer. Naturally, for there to be incoming players, there has to be departures. There has been numerous times, not only this last season but over the last few seasons where a large number of players have let us down with their sub-standard performances.

It took twelve months but Fulham have finally hired Martin Jol as their manager. Jol signed a two year deal worth a reported £1.5million-a-year plus bonuses.

A year ago Fulham wanted to hire Jol after Roy Hodgson left for Liverpool. but Ajax would not release him. Ajax was no longer an obstacle as Jol quit Ajax in December of last year.

It took twelve months but Fulham have finally hired Martin Jol as their manager. Jol signed a two year deal worth a reported £1.5million-a-year plus bonuses.

A year ago Fulham wanted to hire Jol after Roy Hodgson left for Liverpool. but Ajax would not release him. Ajax was no longer an obstacle as Jol quit Ajax in December of last year.

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Aberdeen v Celtic.
Four games so far this season and Celtic have racked up an aggregate score of 17-1. They probably just edge it as favourites today.
Coming into the weekend this was seen as the semi-final that would likely turn out the more one sided affair. Then marvellous Motherwell led the sorry Saints on a first half dance at Hampden yesterday.

Congratulations to Real Salt Lake for reaching the finals of the 2010/11 CONCACAF Champions League. They become the first Major League Soccer team to do so since the tournament changed from its previous format as the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The LA Galaxy were the last MLS team to reach a CONCACAF tournament final back in 2000.

Director of football strategy Damien Comolli wants to take Liverpool back to trophy-winning ways - and has revealed that a busy summer of big-money transfer dealings is in the offing to kick-start their re-emergence.
Recently promoted by club owners Fenway Sport Group, Comolli has been briefed to help manager Kenny Dalglish do all he can to bring in top-quality players for next season.

Plymouth Argyle are languishing at the bottom of League 1, ten points having been deducted by the Football League for an ‘insolvency event', giving notice of their intention to appoint administrators.Players have not been paid since November and their debts are estimated at £13m.

Yet in 2008 they finished 10th in the Championship, had posted a £1.

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Those doing sports betting at BetUs have been watching Arsenal try to pull off a historic quadruple as they are in the Carling Cup final on Sunday against Birmingham, and they're still alive in the FA Cup, the Champions League and the Premiership. But with the fixtures piling up, injuries could be a major obstacle for the Gunners.

After a rather dull start, the transfer window has turned into quite the circus for your average Liverpool fan. And today could be somewhat interesting, to put it mildly.

In "News that has unfortunately been overshadowed by the Torres situation" news, new record signing Luis Suarez has passed his medical, and having already agreed to personal terms it's the last obstacle before officially signing on as the newest member of Liverpool Football Club.

When Francesco Guidolin left Parma to manage Udinese, I was disappointed. Guidolin had united a set of strong individuals, managing Parma all the way up to eighth in the table last season. Udinese finished 15th this past season, yet Guidolin saw something in the club and decided to join them.

By Darshan Joshi, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For a few years now, Everton have only needed that final piece of their jigsaw: a top-notch forward, but cash has proven to be their sole obstacle. Their season has been wretched thus far, given that expectations were rightfully high, and the Toffees may just be risking losing David Moyes, and all the progress he has made with the team in the last nine years.