A week ago it was reported that Cristiano Ronaldo was about to begin running on that repaired ankle that the star player injured over nine games back and earlier this week Ronaldo began doing individual workouts with the team's trainer. As of Tuesday Ronaldo began doing ball dribbling and skill workouts still without the squad and by the end of the week Ronaldo was expected to begin training with Real Madrid once again.

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Last season United beat Everton 1-0 thanks to a penalty scored by Cristiano Ronaldo. This season, United beat Everton 3-0 thanks to goals from Darren Fletcher, Michael Carrick and Antonio Valenca.

I'm not suggesting that United are better this season than they were last just because we beat a weaker Everton side by a larger scoreline, rather reinforcing the point I made when Ronaldo was sold.

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So, today I get up and see that Real Madrid won their match yesterday (without Ronaldo) and I see that Barca allowed Bilbao to draw them. With Barcelona giving up the two points that gave Real Madrid the seat atop the Spanish Premier Division Table. With Real Madrid holding fast without their biggest star I am NOT prepared to take back what I said about them, but I do have to give them credit where credit is due.

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In the end of the year when all is summed up, Kaka will be the biggest loser. When we wrote that Real will realize the sad truth that ‘galacticos 2' will be even a bigger farce than the first version of Perez's team, many thought we were wrong.

As soon as Real came across few serious rivals, things fell into place as making the team by spending €100 million because of someone's ego is simply not how things are done.

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Cada vez más, los personajes de fútbol son buscados para hacer comerciales de TV. ¿Alguna vez pasará algo así en El Salvador? Veamos algunos ejemplos...MOURINHO - SAMSUNGMESSI - ESPNCRISTIANO RONALDO - CASTROLTOTTI - VODAFONEDEL PIERO - ULIVETTOIBRAHIMOVIC - MEDIASETWAYNE ROONEY - NIKEALEMANIA - ADIDAS-------------------IKER CASILLAS - GRUPAMA Click to continue reading...

Deportivo La Coruna-Atletico Madrid

Deportivo has remained strong early on in the year and the squad is currently in fifth place trailing four clubs that are all red hot. They should remain a top five club by the end of the week as they play the very inconsistent (but bad in La Liga so far) Atletico Madrid.

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Most casual observers of Premier League football attribute Manchester United's trilogy of consecutive championships to be largely based on an ingredient no longer present: Cristiano Ronaldo.
But it's intellectual evasion to simply attribute anything to just one factor. The current Galactico's emergence into the world class certainly paralleled United's resurgence against what was Chelsea's brief dominance of the top division, but his influence was not absolute. Click to continue reading...

Fotos: Francisco Paraíso
Poderia falar de outros jogadores cuja classe e dedicação são comprovadas, Ricardo Carvalho, Deco, Raul Meireles, Paulo Ferreira, Eduardo, Duda, Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani, Simão, Bosingwa, Danny, Tiago, Pedro Mendes, entre outros, mas querendo eleger aqueles que num determinado momento foram decisivos para a nossa qualificação, elegeria, sem dúvidas, Pepe, Bruno Alves e Liedson. Click to continue reading...

News from the REAL MADRID "friendly" Sports daily "AS" informsthat SEVILLA FC midfielder DIEGO PERROTI is on the agenda ofthe Madrid Club for next season. The Argentine has called theattention of everyone with some outstanding plays & moreimportantly his goals, in his explosive start to this season. Some seehim as the natural substitute to Cristaino Ronaldo when the latter isinjured or on Click to continue reading...

Chelsea coach Carlo Ancelotti has admitted his surprise at Liverpool's Premier League struggles this season.
Rafa Benitez's men were expected to mount a serious title challenge this term but are already badly off the pace after losing five of their opening 12 games.
The Anfield outfit is already 11 points adrift of Ancelotti's league leaders, who have a five-point cushion over Arsenal and Manchester United following their 1-0 victory against the champions before the international break. Click to continue reading...

REAL MADRID star CRISTIANO RONALDO has contacted SFS Blog ;-)to get his message out to all his millions of fans. He is back frominjury after 51 days sidelined & wishes to thank personally everyonefor their support during the difficult period: Click to continue reading...

France qualified for the World Cup in South Africa in the summer thanks to a William Gallas header against Ireland in Paris. With French supporters everywhere celebrating, replays showed in the build-up to the goal, Thierry Henry hand-balling the ball onto his foot to cross. Of course, that is against the rules and it is very unfortunate that he should have done that however, would we be complaining if Kevin Doyle had done it for Richard Dunne to score?

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I'm iller today than I was yesterday and can hardly see straight to watch TV let alone put something out there in a blog but after the reaction to Henry's hand I felt I had to blog. On Twitter last night as I signed of for the evening I advised everyone to keep a look out for how this would all be Arsenal's fault.

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A Parigi, ieri sera, un clamoroso "errore" arbitrale spezza definitivamente il sogno del Trap di portare l'Eire ai Mondiali e regala, invece, il pass per il Sudafrica ai galletti di Domenech. Ma la qualficazione della Francia ai Mondiali del prossimo anno è immeritata e, soprattutto, viziata da un fallo di mano pazzesco di Henry che consente a Gallas di realizzare il prezioso pari (gli irlandesi erano passati in vantaggio con Robbie Keane). Click to continue reading...

Image by Ricardo Machado design e ilustração via Flickr Portugal Carlos Queiroz was delighted to see his boys maintain the early second half goal where he addressed that his team plays well away than at home. Without the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo in their ranks it was always tense and a 50-50 chances in [. Click to continue reading...

Robin van Persie suffered one of the Premier League's most significant injuries over last weekend in his friendly match with the Netherlands verses Italy. The star forward of Arsenal went down in the twelfth minute and was taken off on a stretcher due to a serious ankle injury. Apparently van Persie has suffered a torn ligament in the ankle and he claims that he will only miss a little bit over a month to around six weeks.

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Portugal qualificou-se para o Mundial 2010 com um triunfo na Bósnia. Não fez mais que a sua obrigação e só custa ter que esperar pelo último jogo e ver a equipa a abusar do tão criticado "anti-jogo", a abusar de tempo perdido em lançamentos, pontapés de baliza e por aí fora... Espero que a campanha no Mundial seja bem melhor e que Cristiano Ronaldo finalmente se lembre de começar a jogar. Click to continue reading...

No more. Done. Finito. Acabou. The fight for the 32 golden spots to play the most exciting football (and sports) tournament on the planet has ended. Some big ones almost did not manage. And some return after 24 years.

Today was the day for the last 6 squads to qualify. The brave (or lucky?

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Ireland aren't going! Neither is Gus Hiddink.
Could we bring him back....too late I guess!
Ronaldo should be there..if fit...but not the Ukraine's or Egyptians.
Still in the modern world if your country doesn't make it (Ireland) you can support the country you grew up in (England) the country you live in and love (Socceroos) or the countries you have visited, (NZ, USA, Germany, Japan, France, Greece, Italy etc etc,) or countries you'd like to see do well. Click to continue reading...

In München schlagen derzeit die Spieler in regelmäßigen Abständen Alarm; doch nicht nur dort herrscht Unruhe, sondern auch beim derzeitigen Deutschen Meister VfL Wolfsburg. Nachdem zunächst Trainer Armin Veh in der Kritik stand, sorgen nun die neuesten Schlagzeilen über Transfergerüchte für Sorgenfalten bei den Anhängern der "Wölfe".

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At 2:45 today the Portuguese National Team (minus Cristiano Ronaldo) will square off against the Bosnians to defend their 1 goal aggregate advantage over the boys from the shores of the Adriatic. This is an interesting match because everyone on earth expects Portugal to be in the World Cup, but I think the Bosnians have other ideas.

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El doctor holandés Van Dijk ha dado su aprobación para que Cristiano Ronaldo vuelva a las canchas.

Cuidado para todos los que le van al Barcelona porque recuerden que el jugador que en verdad revoluciona al Real Madrid es CR9.

A pesar de su lesión, sigue siendo el máximo goleador merengue con cinco tantos en liga y cuatro en Champions League.

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The following list of elite midfield players in the world will exclude the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka since they sometimes play as forwards or as support strikers depending on the strategy deployed by their team. Kaka has previously played as a second striker during his spell with Milan while both Messi and Ronaldo have played in various attacking positions for their club (mostly on the wing though).

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Major League Soccer announced the league's Best XI yesterday, as voted for by media, players, coaches and GMs. Here's what they came up with: GOALKEEPER (1): Zach Thornton (Chivas USA) DEFENDERS (3): Geoff Cameron (Houston Dynamo), Wilman Conde (Chicago Fire), Chad Marshall (Columbus Crew) MIDFIELDERS (5): Dwayne De Rosario (Toronto FC), Landon Donovan (Los Angeles Galaxy), [. Click to continue reading...

The World´s leading ankle specialist Dr Dijk has travelled today to Madrid to see how the ankle of CRISTIANO RONALDO was progressing.After a medical examination with an "on-field" trail with hard exercisethis afternoon, the verdict is very positive.So much so, that he Ronaldo could receive the medical all-clear for thisThursday, thus opening the way for his return as soon as next week inChampions Click to continue reading...

If you haven't heard by now, Sir Alex Ferguson has received a 2 match ban (and a 20,000 pound fine) for comments made about Alan Wiley, the official for our 2-2 draw with Sunderland. Sir Alex may have implied that Wiley was "fat", simply by stating that he was not "fit" to officiate the match.

Now we all know that officiating is a very hard job.

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Rafael Van der Vaart is a good sport. After being pushed to the side like an old piece of furniture and neglected from many of the powerhouse's preseason matches, the star Dutch midfielder still wants to stick around and help out real Madrid as a part time player.Â

In the modern day this notion is nearly unheard of.

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Nani, who turns 23 today, needs to toughen up mentally if he wants to make the grade at United.

When Nani broke into the Sporting CP first-team he was seen as the next big thing to come out of Portugal, after Cristiano Ronaldo that is. After his big move to Manchester United he has lived in the shadow of his more glorified countryman.

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Felipao is coming to the rescue!!!Different media outlets are reporting that Real Madrid is currently negotiating with Luiz Felipe Scolari (Big Phil) to become the teams' new manager. It has been reported that the former Portuguese national team and Chelsea coach has the blessing from Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo as they believe he'll be the right man for the job. Click to continue reading...

Bruno Alves may be Portugal's Man of the Moment, but our sad and forgotten hero is Greaseano. He returned to training with the Pellegrini Pack yesterday, after witnessing his national team's narrow 1-0 victory over Bosnia. No one came to ask him if he wanted M&Ms during half time, so do forgive his bitterness.

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Europe
With four places left to be filled, the eight best runners-up from the group stage took to the field on Saturday to kick-off the first leg of the European play-offs.
In Dublin, Ireland battled tenaciously against the visiting French team but somewhat frustrating played true to form, i. Click to continue reading...

If your one of the millions of fans of CRISTIANO RONALDO, thesespictures should bring a smile to your face, not to mention as wellas to the Real Madrid fans around the World.The player has begun to "touch" the ball which is an excellent signthat his ankle injury is progressing. Today a small "obstacle" coursewas set up for Ronaldo to test the ankle "sensations" as he dodgedthe cones with the ball Click to continue reading...

Sabato scorso sono andati in scena i match di andata degli spareggi per i Mondiali del 2010. Benino Francia e Portogallo che, di misura e non facilmente, hanno avuto la meglio su rispettivi avversari. I galletti di Domenech hanno espugnato Dublino con un "gollonzo" di Anelka (conclusione nettamente deviata) e si apprestano quindi a completare l'opera in terra transalpina. Click to continue reading...

Valencia has had a rough year in the books, but so far not on the pitch. The perennial powerhouse squad has the potential to finish the season a top four squad with a birth in next year's UEFA Champions League. But if Valencia is going to lock up that bid then they will most likely need to do it without many of their key players.

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Los fines de semana en los que no hay jornada de Liga me parecen menos fin de semana. Cuando la liga se va poniendo interesante jornada a jornada, haciéndote desear que llegue el próximo partido, llega, casi sin que nos demos cuenta, una nueva cita para las selecciones. Puede que haya a quien le guste este cohitus interruptus, pero a mí, no me gustan nada. Click to continue reading...