Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes insists that he has never had any contact with North London rivals Arsenal; as he began to seek a transfer away from Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. "I was told by the press about Arsenal, but they never made any official offer for me," Gomes told setantasports.com. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes insists that he has never had any contact with North London rivals Arsenal; as he began to seek a transfer away from Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven. "I was told by the press about Arsenal, but they never made any official offer for me," Gomes told setantasports.com. "I opted to join Tottenham because they [. Click to continue reading...

A perennial topic of conversation among football fans is whether or not football has become "too predictable" and "too slanted towards the top teams", and often the balme for this is laid at the feet of greedy owners, Sky, globalization or what have you. Veteran denizens of the kingdom will likely know that I'm sceptical of such claims - I'm not sure football's playing field has ever been particularly flat. Click to continue reading...

The 2007-2008 season was a roller coaster for Tottenham Hotspur. Martin Jol was removed from the manager's post in late October, but only found out through a text message sent to his nephew, who then forwarded the news to the Dutchman's phone. A team that was a trendy pick to break into the top four at Arsenal's expense was sitting around 15th place at the time, and for all the plaudits received by Juande Ramos for the job he did after he took over from Jol, Spurs still only wound up in 11th. Click to continue reading...

2008-09 Pre season match: Everton are meeting PSV in a friendly match Saturday August 0th Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here. Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

On Thursday afternoon, Vasco de Gama confirmed the departure of coach Antônio Lopes following the 2-0 home defeat to Coritiba ... Click to continue reading...

There are a ton of great friendly matches this weekend involving WCR Top 25 clubs and, as usual, you can find them on . . . ESPN 360. Wait, what? Yes, ESPN 360. In addition to Russian and Japanese matches, ESPN 360 this weekend is broadcasting a plethora of friendlies, including PSV/Everton, Inter/Ajax, Roma/Tottenham, and Sevilla/Arsenal. Click to continue reading...

Marco van Basten is clearly one of the world's up and coming young coaches. He was the talk of the town this summer in Swissaustria until he met up with an established Dutch legend in Guus Hiddink. He's got the playing career which allows him to tell his players without even a hint of doubt, [...] Click to continue reading...

MANCHESTER CITY Notable arrivals: Tal Ben Haim (Chelsea), Jo (CSKA Moscow) Notable departures: Georgios Samaras (Celtic), Geovanni (Hull City), Andreas Isaksson (PSV) City are still being linked with Blackburn striker Roque Santa Cruz, though the two sides are thought to... Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Tal Ben Haim (Chelsea), Jo (CSKA Moscow) Notable departures: Georgios Samaras (Celtic), Geovanni (Hull City), Andreas Isaksson (PSV) Tal Ben Haim's move became official. The former Chelsea defender is now Mark Hughes' newest signing at City. City and... Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Tal Ben Haim (Chelsea), Jo (CSKA Moscow) Notable departures: Georgios Samaras (Celtic), Geovanni (Hull City), Andreas Isaksson (PSV) Tal Ben Haim's move became official. The former Chelsea defender is now Mark Hughes' newest signing at City. City and... Click to continue reading...

«Macché 25 milioni, Huntelaar costa anche meno di 20. E questo è un momento propizio per chi vuole prenderlo, perché Klaas non ha rinnovato. E...». E se volesse, la Roma potrebbe sferrare oggi stesso l'offensiva per la stella dell'Ajax. Paolo Alberto Faccini, campione con la Roma di Viola, è il procuratore italiano con più conoscenze dalle parti di Amsterdam e dintorni. Click to continue reading...

Notable arrivals: Jo (CSKA Moscow) Notable departures: Georgios Samaras (Celtic), Geovanni (Hull City), Andreas Isaksson (PSV) City are hoping to finalize the deal for Chelsea defender Tal Ben Haim for £5 million in time for him to play their Uefa... Click to continue reading...

This week we make the short trip west on the A40 from Dortmund past Bochum to Gelsenkirchen, home to Schalke 04 and their new coach, Fred Rutten. Much like his new Ruhr rival, Jürgen Klopp, Rutten has been a one club man for almost his entire 30-year playing and coaching career, all with FC Twente [. Click to continue reading...

Morning all, another week over (nearly) and tomorrow sees our first pre-season friendly take place. Woo hoooo!

There's only one place to start this morning and that's the departure of Gilberto Silva, confirmed officially by the club yesterday. In stark contrast to the rather cutting remarks made by Arsene Wenger about Hleb's move the official website was full of good cheer towards the Brazilian, and so it should be.

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He is quite something... Sent away from PSV by none other than Guus Hiddink. Played for AGOVV in the cellar of professional football. Made a switch to Heerenveen and not much later the switch back to Dutch top football at Ajax. Klaas Jan... Or the Hunter. Doesn't look like a Click to continue reading...

With the departure of first-choice goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes who is off to Premiership side Tottenham Hotspur, PSV Einhoven look ready to bid £2 million for Manchester City's second-choice goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson who recently returned from Euro 2008. Isaksson was Sweden's starting goalkeeper. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham is determined to break into the top four next season in the quest to bring Champions League football to the white side of London, and gaffer Juande Ramos is equally determined to spend a great deal of money in order to do so. His latest target is the replacement for poor old Paul Robinson - and PSV's 9 million rated Brazilian keeper looks to be the object of his affections. Click to continue reading...

Another season at languagecaster is over and this week we look back at the big news stories of the last year. For learners of English there are also: Worksheets and transcripts Vocabulary lists Online quizzes and crossword puzzles Weekly blogs from our football-crazy writers in fans' forum Transcript Damian: As we have reached our final show the languagecaster team thought it would [. Click to continue reading...

Dado el éxito de Carlos Salcido en el PSV de Holanda saliendo bi-campeon con los rayados de la liga holandesa, el PSV acaba de contratar a uno de los defensas que mas división de opinión genera entre el aficionado mexicano, nada mas y nada menos que Francisco ¨Maza ¨Rodriguez.

Hace poco comentaba que los jugadores mexicanos que no son delanteros, o sea defensivos y medios tienen mucho mas oportunidad de triunfar en el extranjero y ahí esta una prueba mas, solo es cuestión de que a los delanteros mexicanos no los ninguneen, por lo menos aquí en México les faltan mas oportunidades. Click to continue reading...

With so much focus on the English Premier League and its dominance of the Champions League, I wanted to switch gears and take a look at some of the other leagues in Europe.

We start in Germany, where FC Bayern München took their first step towards a treble with a win in the DFB Pokal (German Cup) final against Borussia Dortmund. Click to continue reading...

World Soccer News

for week of 04/21

Standard Liege on top 25 years later

An old glory of Belgian soccer, Standard Liege, have finally managed to win the domestic championship, their first in a quarter of the century and indeed the first piece of silverware after 15 years. Click to continue reading...

The surgeon's that operated on Ronaldo have said that the operation was successful but now only time will tell if he can recover and play at an elite level still. There will be a wait of at least nine months to see how he can recuperate but the medics don't think his career is done [...] Click to continue reading...

PSV Eindhoven opened up a nine-point gap at the top of Eredivisie despite only drawing 1-1 with Heerenveen. The result did mean that Heerenveen moved up to second in the table at the expense of Ajax. Heerenveen are level on 44 points with Ajax, but are ahead by seven on goal difference - precisely the number they put past Vitesse Arnhem last week. Click to continue reading...

Table-topping PSV Eindhoven recorded a 0-2 away win over nearest rivals Ajax to open up an eight-point gap. In a bumper week of Eredivisie action, PSV stretched their lead last Wednesday night thanks to goals from Balázs Dzsudzsák and Otman Bakkal. And they followed that up with a 0-2 win over AZ Alkmaar at the weekend. Click to continue reading...