Michael Essien is hosting a charity match in Ghana and to raise awareness, he enlisted some of his Real Madrid teammates to record a video message. The tricky part? He asked them to do it in English.
The last time a Real Madrid player attempted to record a message in the foreign tongue, it was Sergio Ramos and he was mocked by a lower division club.
Valencia lifted themselves back up to fourth place in the Liga with one match to go after defeating Granada 1-0, with Real Sociedad slipping out of Spain's final Champions League berth following their 3-3 draw against Real Madrid.
Real Sociedad held the upper hand ahead of Sunday's games but needed a win against Madrid to keep themselves in the top four, and were thus dealt a heavy blow when Gonzalo HiguaÃn found the net after six minutes.
Champions League Semi-Final II Borussia Dortmund vs Real Madrid
German midfielder Sami Khedira once admitted that he had never been a big fan of the media spotlight which often trails his Real Madrid teammates. A pity, really, because Khedira has a modest quality about him that makes him a compelling personality to profile.
Cristiano Ronaldo scored a couple of crackers on his way to yet another hat-trick as Real Madrid reversed their Copa Del Rey last-16 first leg defeat against Celta Vigo by coasting to a 4-0 yomp in the Bernabeu on Wednesday night Sami Khedira steering the fourth home with a couple of minutes left to play.
El Real Madrid y el Barcelona aportan más de la mitad de sus plantillas a las selecciones ya que entre ambos equipos suman 29 futbolistas: 16 cede el conjunto madrileño y 13 el equipo catalán. Del total de jugadores que aportan ambos clubes, 13 vestirán la camiseta de la selección española en los choques frente a Bielorrusia y Francia.
Sami Khedira and his fiancee, Germany's Next Top Model (Cycle 1) winner Lena Gercke kicked off their Oktoberfest celebrations in style earlier this week, although clearly, there was no beer in sight (Coke, anybody?!)
The Real Madrid midfield made sure to turn up in an outfit that the entire Indiana Jones' section of your Costume Shop would be jealous of.
Playing at Santiago Bernabeu Champions League Home Team Real Madrid Keeper Iker Casillas Midfield Sami Khedira; Xabi Alonso; Angel Di Maria; Luka Modric; Cristiano Ronaldo; Forwards Karim Benzema; Defense Alvaro Arbeloa; Pepe; Sergio Ramos; Fabio Coentrao; Subs Away Team Man City Keeper Joe [...]
Football Match just over at Estadio Santiago Bernab�u La Liga Home Team Real Madrid Goals &
Scorers 76′: Gonzalo Higuain;54′: Cristiano Ronaldo;26′: Cristiano Ronaldo; Keeper Iker
Casillas Midfield Jose Maria Callejon; Luka Modric; Cristiano Ronaldo; Sami Khedira; Xabi Alonso;
Forwards Karim Benzema; Defense Sergio Ramos; Marcelo; Alvaro [.
Playing at Estadio Santiago Bernab�u La Liga Home Team Real Madrid Keeper Iker Casillas Midfield
Mesut Özil; Cristiano Ronaldo; Sami Khedira; Xabi Alonso; Angel Di Maria; Forwards Gonzalo
Higuain; Defense Marcelo; Alvaro Arbeloa; Pepe; Sergio Ramos; Subs Away Team Granada Keeper Roberto
Fernandez [.
Two of the world's great football clubs, Real Madrid and AC Milan, met Wednesday evening at a
very sticky and humid Yankee Stadium as part of the World Football Challenge. The match was the
second played this summer at the famous baseball stadium in The Bronx, New York, and offered a much
more entertaining show than the earlier exhibition between Chelsea and PSG.
Xabi Alonso and Sami Khedira scored in each half to give Real Madrid a 2-1 win over Mexican club
Santos Laguna in a friendly on Sunday in Las Vegas.The Mexican champions offered a lot more
competition for Madrid than what the LA Galaxy had in what what a competitive game.
It has been a long time since "Sin City" has seen a marquee team like Real Madrid and the 29,152
fans in attendance seem to enjoy the game despite the 102 degrees at kickoff.
Real Madrid beat Santos Laguna 2-1 in the World Football Challenge (?) last night and Sami
Khedira's second-half winner was a thing of true beauty fluke, with the Santos Laguna 'keeper
parrying Karim Benzema's shot directly off Khedira's face from point-blank range and back into the
goal.
Real Madrid beat Santos Laguna 2-1 in the World Football Challenge (?) last night and Sami
Khedira's second-half winner was a thing of true beauty fluke, with the Santos Laguna 'keeper
parrying Karim Benzema's shot directly off Khedira's face from point-blank range and back into the
goal.
Real Madrid defeated Mexico's Santos Laguna 2-1 in the middle of the scorching
Las Vegas desert heat a few hours ago and because it was so unbearably hot,
Sami Khedira's forehead lurched forward to score from Karim
Benzema's volley!
Real Madrid are in the U.S. ahead of their four game tour and there are a couple of surprises
with who did and did not step off the plane in Los Angeles.
Not here is Portuguese defender Ricardo Carvalho, who started just 10 matches in all
competitions for Jose Mourinho's side last season.
German midfielder, Sami Khedira and his fiance, model Lena
Gercke, have both joined the 845,149 other footballers in the lovely city of Miami for
their summer holidays! After a swim yesterday, the couple rented a bike and explored the beach.
Earlier this week, Sami and Lena both visited the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
Real Madrid midfielder Sami Khedira and his WAG have gone for a more subdued holiday in Miami
Beach this year. Earlier today the couple took a ride on bicycles down Ocean Drive before stopping
on the beach for a romantic swim in the ocean.
Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger is a huge admirer of Andrea Pirlo's game but tonight, he has
set his sights on stopping the acclaimed Italian midfielder by playing a strong box-to-box game
alongside Real Madrid's Sami Khedira.
Khedira, 25, has significantly improved as a player between the 2010 World Cup and this summer's
Euro 2012 as a stint with the Spanish champions has elevated him to a whole new class.
Legendary Croatia striker Davor Suker was quoted over the weekend urging his compatriot Luka
Modric to join Real Madrid this summer
Modric has been heavily linked with a move away from Tottenham Hotspur following the firing of
Spurs manager Harry Redknapp.
Modric, who wants to play Champions League football, has been long been linked with a move to
Manchester United and also came close to signing for Chelsea last summer.
Germany showed off their impressive depth on Wednesday afternoon, defeating 10th ranked Ecuador, 4-2, in the first of two friendly matches in the United States.
Missing a number of starters due to Bayern Munich's participation in the German Cup and Borussia Dortmund's recent participation in the Champions League final with Bayern, Joachim Löw's side proved that they could play sublime soccer even without the likes of Mario Götze, Mesut Özil, and Sami Khedira in the midfield.
This week, Joey Barton's best friend -Neymar celebrated his 21st birthday with the Brazilian national team, one day before falling to a humiliating 2-1 defeat to England. As usual, he received a tiramisu cake from the chefs, which really is the best thing you can ever ask for on a birthday before hitting the gym, of course!
The last thing you'd want to do after getting unexpectedly booted out of Euro 2012 is to stay
within the confines of your hotel room or see the city. So naturally, the
German national team scheduled the earliest flight out of Poland yesterday morning
their wives and girlfriends in tow and arrived at the Frankfurt airport to be greeted by rain and
smiling men carrying umbrellas.
Balotelli brace stuns Germany and sends Italy through to Euro 2012 final - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
Italy stunned highly-fancied Germany with 2-1 win on Thursday night to book a place in the Euro
2012 final against holders Spain. Mario Balotelli was the hero, scoring both Azzurri goals in a
commanding Italy performance before Mesut Ozil grabbed a consolation from the penalty spot in
injury-time.
Balotelli brace stuns Germany and sends Italy through to Euro 2012 final - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
Italy stunned highly-fancied Germany with 2-1 win on Thursday night to book a place in the Euro
2012 final against holders Spain. Mario Balotelli was the hero, scoring both Azzurri goals in a
commanding Italy performance before Mesut Ozil grabbed a consolation from the penalty spot in
injury-time.
The German national team spent Tuesday afternoon watching 'The Amazing
Spiderman' in 3D at a special screening in the team hotel in Gdansk. Tim Wiese,
Sami Khedira, Mesut Ozil, Andre Schuerrle, Marco Reus, Ilkay Guendogan
and team manager Oliver Bierhoff were the only enthusiastic ones in the room with
their geeky 3-D glasses on and sadly, the Bayern Munich gang of
Schweinsteiger, Lahm and Gomez were nowhere to be seen at the event.
Qualification for next summer's UEFA U21 Tournament in Israel has finished with only England and Spain returning from the 2011 finals in Denmark.
All the big Euro guns have made it through this time, with the exception of France, eliminated by Norway in the playoffs.
Spain will be looking to regain their crown and erase the memory of their Olympic failure in London and Germany will be aiming to maintain the youth revolution which saw the likes of Mesut Ozil and Sami Khedira take the stage at U21 level in 2009.
Mais um jogo amistoso, foi disputado no dia 15/08/2012, na cidade de Frankfurt-ALE, onde jogaram as
seleções da Alemanha (2º no ranking da FIFA) e a seleção da Argentina (7º no ranking da
FIFA).
Antes desse jogo, as 2 seleções jogaram: Copa do Mundo
2010Cape Town03/07/2010 ARG0:4 (0:1)GER Quartas-de-Final2006Berlin30/06/2006 GER1:1 Prorr.
15.08.2012 - Con goles de Khedira (e/c ´46), Lionel Messi (´53) y Angel
Di MarÃa (´72), Argentina venció (1-3) a Alemania (Howedes ´81) en el Commerzbank Arena
(Frankfurt).
El partido, que venÃa parejo (o favorable a los locales), se quebró a los 30 minutos del primer
tiempo cuando (por último recurso) fue expulsado el arquero alemán Ron-Robert Zieler.
Germany starting lineup (4-2-3-1): Manuel Neuer; Philipp Lahm, Holger Badstuber, Mats Hummels,
Jerome Boateng; Bastian Schweinsteiger, Sami Khedira; Lukas Podolski, Toni Kroos, Mesut Ozil; Mario
Gomez.
Italy starting lineup (4-3-1-2): Gianluigi Buffon; Giorgio Chiellini, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo
Bonucci, Federico Balzaretti; Daniele de Rossi, Andrea Pirlo, Claudio Marchisio; Riccardo
Montolivo; Antonio Cassano, Mario Balotelli.
Real Madrid are in the U.S. ahead of their four game tour and there are a couple of surprises
with who did and did not step off the plane in Los Angeles.
Not here is Portuguese defender Ricardo Carvalho, who started just 10 matches in all
competitions for Jose Mourinho's side last season.
Liverpool are thought to have had a bid for Real Madrid midfielder Esteban Granero rejected, if
reports in the The Daily Mail are to be believed.
Brendan Rodgers is looking to stamp his mark on his inherited Reds squad, and is eager to bring new
players to Anfield this summer.
Granero is the latest homegrown player to emerge from the Real Madrid Castilla, and has been part
of the Santiago Bernabeu first team for a number of years now.
He of ghostly palour and lightning-quick feet, Andres Iniesta, has been named by the player of
Euro 2012 by the UEFA bigwigs after a starring role in La Roja's third major tournament triumph on
the bounce. Â I don't think there'll be too many dissenting voices on this one, with arguably only
Azzurri star Andrea Pirlo, Portugal numero uno Cristiano Ronaldo or Spanish defenders Jordi Alba
and Sergio Ramos deserving of the award.
UEFA announced its top 23 man squad and there are some eyebrow raisers with Steve Gerrard and
Daniele De Rossi included.
If we had to select an Englishman, then John Terry should have been a top
choice and he finds a place in Soccerblog's XI. As centre back, Terry was brilliant against Italy
and Ukraine.
Im Jahr 2009 schafften Manuel Neuer, Mesut Özil, Sami Khedira und Benedikt Höwedes etwas wunderbares. Sie wurden mit der deutschen U21-Nationalmannschaft Europameister und legten damit den Grundstein für ihre eigene goldene Generation. Sie alle wurden bald darauf A-Nationalspieler und gehören heute zu den begehrtesten Fussballspielern der Welt.
Jurgen Klopp just might be the "it" coach in football right now. There's some epic talent at his disposal in Dortmund, but he's got them successful and playing an aesthetic brand of football, so he gets mentioned for all the big job openings. Plus he's just kind of awesome all-around, and he's the only coach I've ever seen to join up in a rap video.
Sami Khedira races into the Manchester City box with only Joe Hart to beat and tries to chip the ball over the advancing keeper but kicks the turf rather than the ball before spectacularly falling over Hart.
