(Note: Sorry that this is later than usual for the week, but the wifi in my current apartment in
Buenos Aires is hit-and-miss and this week, mostly miss. I move this weekend and hopefully, this
will improve.)
In 1991, for the seventh consecutive year, the club that won the Champions League did not finish
on top of the World Club Rankings annual charts.
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The Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates face-off in the Soweto Derby. It ended 0-0..
Photo credit: ndofaya on Flickr, via the Pitch
Invasion Photo Pool.
Related posts:
- Photo Daily: Green Point Stadium, South Africa Green Point Stadium, one of the 2010 World Cup
venues in South Africa, is almost complete.
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Flying with passion.
Photo credit: hugojcardoso via the Pitch Invasion
photo pool.
Related posts:
- Photo daily 06.13.07 A Sea of Scarves The Pitch Invasion Flickr group page is growing rapidly,
so it was hard to pick one out for today's featured.
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Dirty Tackle 19 October @ 07:22 PM EST
Here's a story that slipped by us over the weekend Serbian President Boris Tadic (pictured
above, center) was charged by police last Friday for allegedly breaking an anti-hooligan law
barring the sale or consumption of alcohol in stadiums.
Tadic and other officials reportedly popped bottles of champagne in their VIP lounge at Red Star
Belgrade stadium following Serbia's World Cup qualification clinching victory of Romania.
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DCUMD 22 September @ 06:10 PM EST
By definition, the Nelly Award goes to the United player who has made the most significant
positive impact in his first year with the club. The award's namesake Ryan Nelsen became a starter
shortly into his first season with United, and would go on to guide the team to an MLS Cup in
2004.
It's a testament to the total failure of our 2008 acquisitions that not one of last year's nominees
is still on the team.
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I've held off on using my wild card this week despite carrying a lot of dead weight. My dead weight
is all in the sub 6M range, so will be relatively easy to replace over the next 2-3 weeks, but for
now - I'm still stuck with two Wolves' players -
Sylvan Ebanks-Blake (5.2M) and the woeful
Nenad Milijas (5.
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Fabio da Silva is no longer a member of the San Jose Earthquakes. The Brazilian defender was on the
Quakes' books less than a month, appearing in two exhibition games. He originally signed with San
Jose on August 18th after spending 2009 with Brazil's Rio Branca. da Silva was part of Red Star
Belgrade's Serbian Cup winning squad in 2007.
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The Champions League group stage begins this week and so for this week's quiz we want to know
how much you really know about the Champions League / European cup. Answers can be found tomorrow
in our weekly poll.
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1. Which was the last team to retain the Champions League / European Cup?
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In the aftermath of our comfortable win over Celtic on Wednesday night we couldn't have asked
for much more from the Champions League group stage draw in Monte Carlo yesterday evening.
With no disrespect to Olympiakos, AZAlkmaar and Standard Liège on paper we should qualify
comfortably from this group.
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The Offside 21 August @ 10:00 AM EST
Inside the stadium, outside the stadium - it matters not to fans of Eastern European football.
Where there's a crime to be done, a protest to be made, they'll be there. While Red Star Belgrade
fans were busy making trouble for the Czech police before their fixture, Dinamo Bucharest fans got
busy making trouble for [.
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The Offside 20 August @ 06:15 PM EST
Football is back, which means fans are back. Eastern European football is also back, which means
Eastern European football fans are back. And this means European policeman have much work to do.
One of those clubs whose fans make more noise these days than the football team is Red Star
Belgrade. One half of what might [.
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Dirty Tackle 20 August @ 03:50 PM EST
All the stuff being covered outside the unfriendly confines of the award winning Dirty
Tackle...
talkSPORT have some fun with an Edwin van der Sar interview. [101gg]
Police take a message board comment about Jack Wilshere's girlfriend too seriously. [The
Spoiler]
Eyebrow stitches can't stop Fernando Torres' ability to bitchface.
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MLS Rumors 18 August @ 03:25 PM EST
As we reported earlier, the San Jose Earthquakes have officially announced today that the team has
signed Brazilian defender Fabio da Silva. He will be available to play this Saturday, Aug. 22
against the Kansas City Wizards. Per league and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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MLS Rumors 16 August @ 01:24 AM EST
According to Elliott Almond of the San Jose Mercury News Soccer Twitter (click here for the his
twitter), the San Jose Earthquakes have signed 29 year old Brazilian defender/defensive midfielder,
Fabio (Carleandro) Da Silva. He has played for Serbian giants Red Star Belgrade and well-known
Brazilian clubs Sport Club Do Recife and Nautico.
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One of the tricky parts of any new FF season is choosing players from promoted teams that could
represent good value. Established favourites like Cech, Lampard, Gerrard and Torres are always
going to score points and be selected by thousands of managers. But its the new squads that often
have the cheaper players that hit form early and whose value rockets as players jump on board the
bandwagon early - think of Geovanni's early success at Hull last season.
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Ever wondered why so many rich people and wannabees get involved in football. Clearly Reading the
book by Tom Bower, Broken Dreams, about the amazing corruption of Brian Clough, Socceroos Boss
Terry Venables, Arsenal supremo George Graham and former Leicester player come $25 million dollar
income player agent Dennis Roach football is a great way to pocket the odd $200,000 in cash for
doing sod all.
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DCUMD 23 June @ 07:51 PM EST
16 games in to the season, with a two week break from MLS action, I can think of no better time to
deliver to you the second annual installment of the Mid-Season Review. In this space over the next
10 or so days, we will take a look at the Acquisitions, Departures, and Trades that United has made
since the end of the 2008 season, and then wrap it all up with a Summary.
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SoccerLens 18 June @ 12:11 PM EST
You can watch the Iraq v New Zealand match live online here.
Iraq v New Zealand (Group A)
Date: Saturday 20th June
Venue: Johannesburg
Kickoff: 19:30 GMT
Asian champions Iraq face already eliminated New Zealand in their final Group A match in
Johannesburg needing nothing less than a win to keep their hopes of qualifying for the semis
alive.
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UPDATE: According to Wolverhampton's official website,
Wolverhampton completed the signing of Nenad Milijas for an
undisclosed fee.
June 14th, 2009 According to Elliot Ball at Sky Sports News, Nenad
Milijas is set to to join Wolverhampton on a four-year deal for
£3million.
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In latest transfer rumours we have the 'craziest' story so far this summer - Fernando Torres to
Manchester United for £40million!
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UPDATE: According to Elliot Ball at Sky Sports News, Nenad
Milijas is set to to join Wolverhampton on a four-year deal for
£3million.
June 11th, 2009 According to Vlatko Siljanovki at Sky Sports News, Red
Star Belgrade captain Nenad Milijas is going to fly to England to begin
talks with Wolverhampton once his international duties are over.
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UPDATE: According to Vlatko Siljanovki at Sky Sports News, Red Star
Belgrade captain Nenad Milijas is going to fly to England to begin talks
with Wolverhampton once his international duties are over.
June 5th, 2009 According to Ricky Brooks at Goal.
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UPDATE: According to Ricky Brooks at Goal.com, Aston Villa and
Birmingmham are planning to send scouts to watch Wolverhampton
target Nenad Milijas.
June 2nd, 2009 According to Ricky Brooks at Goal.
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Germany have been one of the most successful nations in the UEFA cup`s history, with German
clubs having won six cups during the competitions history. The first German team to reach the final
of the UEFA Cup were Borussia Mönchengladbach, in 1973. At the time, the final was held in two
legs, with the team being beaten 3 - 0 by Liverpool at the first (away) leg, and 2 - 0 on the
second (home leg).
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By SEAN RUBIO
With Champions League semi-finals getting most of the attention today, there is not a whole lot
to pass along to you. That being said, there are two great reads about lower-level English clubs,
as well as some of South Africa's neighbors helping to pitch in for 2010:
Southern African Power Pool offers support for
2010 World Cup [AllAfrica]
Tears of joy for
AFC Wimbledon [Guardian]
Red Star Belgrade board quits as clubs nears collapse [ESPNSoccernet]
A look at
Burnley's coach Owen Coyle, and their dream season [BBC]
Alfio Basile offered to replace Mark Hughes as Man City coach [MadAboutFutbol]
Think Basile would be a good fit at Man City?
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By SEAN RUBIO
With Champions League semi-finals getting most of the attention today, there is not a whole lot
to pass along to you. That being said, there are two great reads about lower-level English clubs,
as well as some of South Africa's neighbors helping to pitch in for 2010:
Southern African Power Pool offers support for
2010 World Cup [AllAfrica]
Tears of joy for
AFC Wimbledon [Guardian]
Red Star Belgrade board quits as clubs nears collapse [ESPNSoccernet]
A look at
Burnley's coach Owen Coyle, and their dream season [BBC]
Alfio Basile offered to replace Mark Hughes as Man City coach [MadAboutFutbol]
Think Basile would be a good fit at Man City?
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SoccerLens 05 March @ 05:23 AM EST
Football is a passionate game. That is like saying cliff-walking is a dangerous one. Plenty of
sports have their passion, but to me, football's remains the most tribalistic. How many people do
you know who can transform from run-of-the-mill Mr. Average to vein-through-the-head Mr. Angry, and
all because of a contentious penalty decision.
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MLS Rumors 27 February @ 03:37 PM EST
DC United have signed some defensive help from north of the border in the form of a 23 year old who
played with Red Star Belgrade in two UEFA Cup matches.
Courtesy of Behind The Badge.com The Official Blog of D.C. United.
We'll soon officially announce the club has acquired central defender
Dejan Jakovic.
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FK Čukarički Stankom 0 - 1 FK Vojvodina23-year-old
Vladimir Buač with the game winner.
FK Javor Ivanjica 1 - 1 FK Crvena Zvezda (Red Star Belgrade)Nikola Simić opened up the scoring for Javor Ivanjica, but Red Star's
Ognjen Koroman tied it up midway through the 2nd half.
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The Offside 03 October @ 06:30 PM EST
GAME OF THE WEEK: Serbian Superliga - Red Star Belgrade vs Partizan Belgrade When: Sunday, October
5, 17:00 CET Where: Stadion Crvena Zvezda, Belgrade Why: One of the most heated, violent and
dynamic derbies in world football, this one's extra special because of all the recent happenings in
Belgrade.
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The Offside 22 September @ 05:00 PM EST
For the fans of Red Star Belgrade, being considered a violent hooligan is a badge of honor. The
ultras are more organized than the footballing directors of some clubs, and the games can and often
do take a back seat to the extracurricular activities in and around the stadiums. So when a Red
Star fan, [.
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Notable arrivals: Carlo Nash (Wigan), Louis Saha (Manchester United), Lars Christian Jacobsen,
Segundo Castillo (Red Star Belgrade, loan). Notable departures: Andy Johnson (Fulham), Lee Carsley
(Birmingham City). What grade do you give them for this transfer season?
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Notable arrivals: Louis Saha (Manchester United), Lars Christian Jacobsen, Segundo Castillo (Red
Star Belgrade, loan). Notable departures: Andy Johnson (Fulham), Lee Carsley (Birmingham City).
Michael Owen to Everton. Really? Wigan keeper in Moyes' sights Many have interest in Ghana
international...
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