The Belgrade Derby: A World Phenomenon
Crvena Zvezda 0-2 Partizan Belgrade (26:11:11)
The taxi ground to a halt with the floodlights of the Marakana rising in the distance, writes Andy Hudson. A single policeman tried to control the traffic from six different directions; the angles of his hands lost amidst the steam billowing from his mouth.

The Calm Before The Storm
BSK Borča 0-4 Vojvodina (26:11:11)
It's the morning of The Eternal Derby in Belgrade. Before living and breathing that dream fixture, Ken Morton and friends took in a match in relatively serene surroundings...
The Luton Ibis is far from glamorous but the prospect of a big European derby made it slightly easier to rise from my slumber.

Bru-no you want me If you are on loan at a club then you want to impress to try and get a permanent deal. But when Red Star Belgrade decided to play loanee Bruno Mezenge in their Serbian Cup game against Smederevo, they probably didn't expect him to impress them to this extent. Brazilian Mezenge [...

Red Star Belgrade's on loan striker Bruno Mezenga scores this amazing backheel volley against Smerderevo.

By Chris Wright

Red Star Belgrade's on-loan striker Bruno Mezenga did this in a Serbian Cup game against Smerderevo the other day...

Sign him up, sign him up, sign him up!

Thanks to Pies fan Milutin for bringing this little peach to our attention.

The Belgrade derby has some, shall we say, "behavioral issues" which require constant considerations. How best to combat a problem of lighting the stands on fire whilst also throwing Molotov seat cocktails?

Remove the damn seats.
Good in theory, questionable in its successful application.

The Belgrade derby has some, shall we say, "behavioral issues" which require constant considerations. How best to combat a problem of lighting the stands on fire whilst also throwing Molotov seat cocktails?

Remove the damn seats.
Good in theory, questionable in its successful application.

A curious article appeared on the online version of the Wall Street Journal earlier today on the subject of the economic woes that European football is facing. It was, largely, a thoroughly reasonable article, talking of the gap between rich and poor in terms of the tensions that this may come to create within the infrastructure of the pan-European game (even withstanding the at best mixed week that the biggest European clubs endured, which can easily be justified as unfortunate timing), the debt levels that clubs have racked and are racking up in the pursuit of success and the unsustainable amount of money being squandered on players' wages.

Spurs' Michael Dawson takes his shirt off to celebrate his side's 5-0 win over the SPL's Heart of Midlothian. Maybe this Europa League stuff isn't as bad as we thought... Image: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Europe/Zimbio.

As you know, we can't be bothered to write stuff about the Europa League until someone actually wins it.

Red Star Belgrade Crvena Zvezda 7-0 Ventspils Highlights 2011 Goals Video Europa League is a post from Soccer Blogger. Follow Soccer Blogger on Twitter

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The way that Klaus Augenthaler left the green fields can be a very good story for a light drama movie. The guy who had great career with Bayern Munich, which was his club since he was 18 years old till he retired at 1991. He had only 27 appearances with the national team in 7 years, but really very valuable 27 caps (the quality, not the quantity).

Sporting KC continued to fill their roster today as they announced the signing of 24 year old Montenegrin midfielder, Milos Stojcev. In the preseason games that he's played in he seems to be playing a more of an attacking midfielder. Stojcev came up through Red Star Belgrade's youth system, but never appeared for the first team.

Fudbalski Klub Crvena Zvezda (known in English as Red Star Belgrade) is a soccer club from Belgrade currently campaigning in the Serbian SuperLiga. Red Star became the only Serbian and ex-Yugoslav club to claim European and World club championships when it won the 1991 European Cup (predecessor to the UEFA Champions League) and the 1991 Intercontinental [.

Fudbalski Klub Crvena Zvezda (known in English as Red Star Belgrade) is a soccer club from Belgrade currently campaigning in the Serbian SuperLiga. Red Star became the only Serbian and ex-Yugoslav club to claim European and World club championships when it won the 1991 European Cup (predecessor to the UEFA Champions League) and the 1991 Intercontinental [.

Whether it's the Trialist 1 from the midweek intrasquad scrimmage or a new trialist, there's a new player on the field for KC in their preseason game against Colorado this morning. He's Montenegrin left sided midfielder, Milos Stojcev. Stojcev is from Red Star Belgrade's youth system but never appeared once for the club.

photo by Hugo Ivan Muñoz/D.C. United

Charlie Davies played his first full scrimmage with D.C. United on Monday and contributed a goal and assist in 74 minutes to help D.C. top the Canadian Under-20 national team, 5-1, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Newly-acquired D.

Del Boy's got loads of TFC clobber back there! Lovely Jubbly!

There are so many glaring differences between the 2011 TFC training camp and those that were held under the old regime. The current "Oranje Revolution" management are open with information, invite seemingly qualified trialists to camp and schedule challenging friendlies.

It's amazing how quickly news moves in today's age. Earlier today I was shown this article from Ecuador saying that former LDU Quito forward, Franklin Salas was on his way to KC. The article made it sound like the deal was done. After Tweeting about the rumor, it was picked up by Charles Gooch from the Star and The Full 90.

Inspired by the recent attempts by others to map which soccer teams people in London support as well as which teams people in Wales support, I wondered what a map of the United States would like broken down by which European teams residents support.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it's almost impossible.