So we approach the end of another Asian Cup qualifying round and how much closer are South ast Asian nations to qualifying? In 2007 thanks to some political compromise there were four countries in Asia's flagship national team competition; Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. For 2011 in Qatar they may be just one. Click to continue reading...

Jogaram amistosamente em Sedan-FRA, no estádio Stade Louis Duguaguez, , as seleções da Bélgica (68º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Qatar (94º no ranking da FIFA).
Esse foi o primeiro jogo entre as 2 seleções na história.
Aos 20 minutos do primeiro tempo, Axel Witsel, abriu para a seleção da Bélgica. Click to continue reading...

There are a few international friendlies on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 as most countries have completed 2010 World Cup Qualifying matches. The matches on Tuesday include Slovakia v Chile, South Africa v Jamaica, and Qatar v Belgium. All three will be covered live on our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the links below.

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Kaka and Dani Alves welcome you to Day 4 of the Brazilian Bootcamp! And you really need to clap your hands at that photo. What on Earth were those two thinking?! They're putting all of us in the spirit of el clasico next week.

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Just a few short weeks ago, Chelsea appeared the strongest team at least squad-wise in the English top flight. How quickly things can change.

Following this weekend's international break, the list of those on the treatment table has grown exponentially and not simply from lining up for their respective countries.

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Joagaram pelas eliminatórias da Copa da Àsia, em Teerã, no Azmadi Stadium, as seleções do Irã (62º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Jordânia (128º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
Eliminatórias Copa do Mundo:
2006
Amman
08/09/2004
JOR
0:2 (0:0)
IRN
Second stage
2006
Tehran
09/06/2004
IRN
0:1 (0:0)
JOR
Second stage
Eliminatórias COpa da Àsia
2004
Amman
26/09/2003
JOR
3:2 (2:1)
IRN
2004
Tehran
05/09/2003
IRN
4:1 (1:1)
JOR
Amistosos:
Tehran
15/08/2008
IRN
2:1 (1:0)
JOR
Second stage
2007
Amman
22/06/2007
JOR
0:2 (0:1)
IRN
Second stage
2006
Amman
06/10/2006
JOR
0:0
IRN
2002
Damascus
30/08/2002
IRN
0:1 (0:1)
JOR
First stage
2000
Amman
30/05/2000
JOR
0:1 (0:1)
IRN
Second stage
O quarteto de arbitragem foi assim definido:
Árbitro: NISHIMURA YUICHI (JAPAN)
Primeiro Assistente: SAGARA TORU (JAPAN)
Segundo Assistente: JEONG HAE SANG (KOREA, REPUBLIC)
Quarto Árbitro: MAWLA HUSSAIN AL RAEISI (QATAR)
O único gol do jogo, foi anotado por NEKONAM JAVAD do Irã. Click to continue reading...

Jogaram em Rouen na França, as seleções do Paraguai (21º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do Qatar (94º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
26-02-1986 - Qatar 1x1 Paraguai (Amistoso)
01-03-1986 - Qatar 0x3 Paraguai (Amistoso)
12-11-1999 - Paraguai 2x0 Qatar (Mundial Sub-17)
O Qatar derrotou o Paraguai por 2 a 0 nesta sexta-feira, em amistoso disputado na cidade francesa de Rouen, preparatório para a Copa do Mundo da África do Sul. Click to continue reading...

Video goal highlights from the Brazil vs England international football friendly in Doha, Qatar on November 14, 2009, Saturday. Game kicks off at 17.00 GMT. Wayne Rooney is set to captain England in the absence of John Terry. Brazil vs England highlights and team lineups to be updated. Related posts:4-0 England Slovakia goals- Highlights All the [. Click to continue reading...

Join Matilda and myself for some chit chat about understrength England vs understrength (but still scary) Brazil, from about 30 minutes before kickoff on Saturday, November 14th, 2009. If you're in the UK it's a 5pm kickoff on ITV1. If you're in the US it's a 12 noon kickoff on Fox Soccer Channel.

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El diario británico The sun, ha dado a conocer que el mediocampista inglés Frank Lampard se lesiono durante su viaje a Qatar, donde el sábado jugará la selección inglesa un partido amistoso contra la selección de Brasil.

Aparentemente, la culpa sería de la Federación Inglesa de futbol (FA).

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Fábio Aurélio

On Thursday, the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) announced that Liverpool's Fábio Aurélio has a problem with his left calf muscle � and would not face England in Qatar on November 14th and Oman three days later. The last time the leftback was called up for Brazil was by Carlos Alberto Parreira for the Confederations Cup in 2003.

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Welcome to Selecao Bootcamp, Uma Tradição Futbolita! Everyone gather yourselves because it's that time of the year so ya'll better get excited. Anyway, our manos have landed in Qatar, more specifically, the Four Seasons Hotel where they're putting up during their stay in Doha.

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Could this work of art kill England's World Cup Bid?

OK so perhaps the title is a tad hyperbolic, but really things are getting ridiculous. A quick refresher course for those of you who have missed this: England (as you all should know) is bidding to host the 2018 World Cup. Recently there was a conference in London at which Jack Warner, a FIFA vice-president, was present. Click to continue reading...

Sir Alex Ferguson has always enjoyed a good moan. Especially when it comes to England friendlies. So it wasn't a huge surprise to hear him complain about England's upcoming game vs Brazil in Doha, Qatar on November 14th.

Ferguson doesn't mention the Brazil game specifcially. But he may as well have.

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Just two clips for today. Some curious bit of stuff from Ferguson.

This year on the FA's proposed England friendly in Qatar:

'All the international managers have their jobs to do and we support that, particularly when it comes to the issue of competitive games like the European Championships or the World Cup.

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Brazil will get to lock horns with the country ranked 79th in the world when they play Oman in Muscat on 17th November this year.

Three days before, Brazil take on England in Qatar. The squad for both matches will be announced on October 27th. Dunga (photo) is not expected to call up Brazil-based players whose sides are involved in the final stage of the Campeonato Brasileiro.

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Jogaram em Saint-Gratien, no estádio Michel-Hidalgo, amistosamente as seleções do Qatar (94º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do RD Congo (112º no ranking da FIFA)
Esse foi o primeiro jogo entre as 2 seleções.
Aos 35 minutos do primeiro tempo, Marcel Kibemba Mbayo abriu o placar para a República Democrática do Congo. Click to continue reading...

Jogaram amistosamente no dia 10-10-2009, em Skopje, capital da Macedônia,no estádio Phillip II of Macedon. as seleções da Macedônia (66º do ranking da FIFA) e a seleção do Qatar (94º no ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções já haviam amistosamente jogado no dia 24-07-2001, com o placar de Qatar 1x0 Macedônia. Click to continue reading...

England will play Brazil in a friendly game in Doha, Qatar, on 14 November 2009. The date falls in the last international break of the year and also coincides with the final World Cup qualifying playoffs. Both England and Brazil qualified at the top of their respective groups and therefore directly qualified for next year's World Cup finals.

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Ontem 08/10/2009, jogaram amistosamente, no estádio HRK Rijeka Kantrida Stadium, na cidade de Rijeka-CRO, as seleções da Croácia (9º no ranking da FIFA) e Qatar (83] no ranking da FIFA).
Nunca antes essas 2 seleções jogaram por qualquer competição.
O próximo jogo da seleção da Croácia, será no dia 14/10/2009, contra a seleção do Cazaquistão como visitante. Click to continue reading...

Na manhã de hoje, ocorreu um jogo pelas eliminatórias da Copa Asiática de 2011, que será realizada no Qatar em Shizuoka-JAP, com um público de 16.034 pessoas.
Jogaram as seleções do Japão (40º no ranking da FIFA) e Hong Kong (128º do ranking da FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram:
28/05/1958 - Japão 0x2 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
31/08/1959 - Japão 1x1 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
02/09/1959 - Japão 2x4 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
15/03/1965 - Hong Kong 1x2 Japão (Amistoso)
31/07/1970 - Japão 1x2 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
22/05/1973 - Japão 0x1 Hong Kong (Eliminatórias da Copa)
20/02/1974 - Hong Kong 0x0 Japão (Amistoso)
30/07/1975 - Japão 0x2 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
14/06/1975 - Hong Kong 0x0 Japão - 4x3 penâltis (Eliminatórias Copa da Ásia)
26/06/1975 - Hong Kong 0x1 Japão (Eliminatórias Copa da Ásia)
11/08/1985 - Japão 3x0 Hong Kong (Eliminatórias da Copa)
22/09/1985 - Hong Kong 1x2 Japão (Eliminatórias da Copa)
22/05/1989 - Hong Kong 0x0 Japão (Eliminatórias da Copa)
18/06/1989 - Japão 0x0 Hong Kong (Eliminatórias da Copa)
19/02/1995 - Hong Kong 0x3 Japão (Amistoso)
04/03/1998 - Japão 5x1 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
07/12/2003 - Japão 1x0 Hong Kong (Amistoso)
O próximo jogo da seleção japonesa é contra a Escócia no dia 10-10-2009 e o próximo jogo de Hong Kong é contra a seleção do Japão em 18-11-2009. Click to continue reading...

In Arsenal's Champions League match against Olympiakos, in which they won 2-0, Eduardo seemed to aggravate a thigh muscle and will now miss Croatia's friendly with Qatar and most likely their last WC qualifier with Kazakhstan. The Croatian Football Federation announced that despite being injured, Dudu will still join the . Click to continue reading...

England's build-up to next year's World Cup finals will include a friendly against Brazil in Doha on November 14, the Football Association (FA) confirmed on Wednesday. The clash with the five-times World Cup winners will take place at the 50,000-capacity Khalifa International Stadium and will be England's first visit to Qatar. Click to continue reading...

It is a game that brings up lots of memories for both England and Brazil fans. The 23rd meeting between England and the five-time World Cup winners Brazil will take place in Qatar on Saturday, November 14.

The match at the 50,000-capacity Khalifa International Stadium will be a first visit to the Middle Eastern state for England and is payback for Brazil agreeing to be the first visitors to the new Wembley in 2007.

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CBF announced today that Brazil will play a friendly match against England on November 14th. Where? Doha, Qatar. Why? The organization sold the right of all friendlies of the national team. And the people who bought it can organize the matches wherever they please.

In the meantime, While CBF pockets money and Brazilian fans do not get to see their national squad, Brazilian clubs struggle financially.

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Pepe's Portuguese picks Scientists to investigate rift in Old Trafford time continuum [NewsArse] Top 10 controversial celebrations [FourFourTwo] Hyperbole of the day [TribalFootball] Craig Bellamy's wall of shame [MirrorFootball] Daniel De Rossi finds an unexpected lover [YouTube]

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Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Qatar's Emir and football association president

Saving the world's oldest football club has an emotionally satisfying ring to it. Like bringing back the Elgin Marbles And what grander experiment then taking it from League 2 all the way to the Premier League.

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So the transfer window firmly closed and fans were left scratching their heads at the complete lack of activity from Middlesbrough. All day long rumours of different players being spotted in and around Rockliffe were floating around the internet, 99% of which were complete fabrications, but at the end of the day the only player who we ever looked likely to sign was Rob Hulse.

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Apparently a little exhibition game between the Chelsea reserves and a team from Qatar, Al-Ahli, turned into a massive brawl and was abandoned 35 minutes in.
The EPL club is trying to keep this as quiet as possible, but get a load of these reported details.

Chelsea's players were reportedly assaulted with karate kicks, knee-high tackles and had their hair pulled out and eyes gouged.

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Vamos a comenzar el fin de semana con una nueva entrada dedicada a un jugador legendario, que si bien no tuvo una carrera con títulos o en el primerísimo nivel, siempre era un jugador a seguir y que dejó grandes imágenes a lo largo de su carrera. El protagonista de hoy es el mediapunta nigeriano Agustine "Jay-Jay" Okocha. Click to continue reading...

After careful consideration, Brazilian Juninho, arguably the best free-kick taker in the World, decided to call the quits on Lyon after eight very successful years at Gerland. The news alerted pretty much every notable European club since Brazilian playmaker is still in a very good condition even though he is 34 years old.

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The Blackburn Rovers forward El-Hadji Diouf has made it known that playing in the US is an option he will consider.
Courtesy of Goal.com:
"You never know what is going to happen tomorrow in football," he added.
"The fact that I signed a four-year contract with Sunderland but left after six months proves it. Click to continue reading...

The move into the Asian confederation has created so many possibilities for the World Cup-bound Socceroos, but it has unexpectedly robbed them of something - a proper climax to qualifying.
Few punters will forget that November night in 2005 when a bare-chested John Aloisi wheeled away after scoring the decisive penalty in Australia's shootout victory over Uruguay, a goal, which combined with Mark Schwarzer's heroics, confirming only the country's second appearance in a World Cup finals. Click to continue reading...

Arsenal announced yesterday that they will be opening their first store in the Middle East in Bahrain.� This appears to be the first in a series of stores due to be opened in the Middle East, with other stores due in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, in addition there will also be an official Arsenal online store aimed at the Arab speaking market.

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40,000 people are expected to show there support for the triumphant Socceroos.
What does this say?
Bahrain can't pull much of a crowd, and the Socceroos should be playing the lower tier nations at smaller 50,000 capacity stadiums until the game grows futher in Australia.
England, Germany and some other countries would pull in more than 40,000 having qualified but the game is slightly bigger in those countries. Click to continue reading...