British newspaper reports say that Chelsea are closing in on a deal for Sergio Aguero from Atletico Madrid which could be worth £50million.

The deal would make the Argentina striker the highest-paid player in the Barclays Premier League at more than £170,000-a-week.

Over the summer Chelsea had a £31m bid for Aguero turned down last summer but are now prepared to increase their offer after seeing Aguero score two stunning goals against Chelsea in the Champions League earlier this month.

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The Galaxy weathered two power outages, a disallowed goal by Andrew Hainault, and a dominant Dynamo display in the second half to score two extra time goals.

Landon Donovan becomes the MLS all time leader in goals scored as he converted the penalty after Alan Gordon was brought down by Ricardo Clark in the box.

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FC Barcelona hosted Cultural Leonesa on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in the second leg of the round of 32 of the Spanish Copa del Rey. Barcelona had a 2-0 lead after the first leg and are the overwhelming favorites to advance. Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

FC Barcelona beats Cultural Leonesa 5-0 (7-0 on aggregate) Video Highlights

Barcelona were in total control in the match as they had a lead heading into the match and outclassed Cultural Leonesa.

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On the eve of Real Madrid's Copa del Rey second leg match against their third division embarrassment dealers, Alcorcon, Kaka yet again decided to try and do a good deed by answering the questions of local school children. The following is a transcript of that event.

Kaka: Good afternoon, children!

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Real Madrid faced rivals Atletico Madrid on Saturday, November 7, 2009 in the Spanish Primera Division or La Liga. Who won the match and was Real Madrid able to win to keep pace with Barcelona? Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights

Real Madrid beats Atletico Madrid 3-2 Video Highlights

Real Madrid started off strong in the match but Atletico Madrid would make a late charge in the second half.

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Villarreal's Offense

With the month of pink just ending maybe November will be known as the month of yellow? The Yellow Submarines have finally reached the surface and as a result have ended all jokes and metaphores about them sinking into the ocean depths. Villarreal looked like a different team this last weekend then they have all season.

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The UEFA Champions League had a full set of group stage matches on Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Real Madrid, AC Milan, Chelsea, and Manchester United were all in action on Tuesday. So, who win and what happened? Here's a recap of all the matches along with video highlights.

UEFA Champions League Recap Tuesday, November 3, 2009

There were several draws on Tuesday as some of the favorites struggled.

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After starting a new job, losing Internet access for a bit, and just being on the go for the last 2 weeks or so, it's nice to finally be able to sit down and crank out something - anything!
So why not go back to an old reliable, with a full slate of Champions League matches on tap for tomorrow afternoon - eight matches in Groups A-D. Click to continue reading...

The English Carling Cup wrapped up its fourth round (round of 16) matches on Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The favorites on Wednesday advanced as their were any upsets. Two of the matches included Chelsea v Bolton Wanderers and Manchester City v Scunthorpe United. Here's a recap along with video highlights of both matches.

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Full back looks to restart his stuttering career back in Italy.

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According to agent, Federico Pastorello, Liverpool defender Andrea Dossena hopes to return to Italy after having a tough time breaking into Rafa Benitez's starting lineup.

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The English Premier League had four matches on Sunday, October 25, 2009 including West Ham United v Arsenal. The match important for West Ham who are struggling at the bottom of the table. Arsenal, on the other end, will be looking to remain near Chelsea at the top of the table. Here's a recap along with video highlights of the match.

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After last season's 4-1 and 2-1 defeats to the hands of Liverpool at Old Trafford, Man United defender Rio Ferdinand is ready for revenge. Liverpool did the double over United last season but we still managed to go on and win the Premier League title. We may have won the title but the defeats still linger in the memories of the United players and fans minds. Click to continue reading...

Raul

The forgotten man in Real Madrid's offensive rotation reminded La Liga fans that he is still among the best goal scorers. With Cristiano Ronaldo out for a while it is Raul's time to shine and prove once again in his career that he is as valuable as any player on the squad.

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The UEFA Champions League group stage returned on Tuesday with eight matches. One of them was Liverpool v Lyon at Anfield. Here's a recap of the match along with video highlights.

Lyon beats Liverpool 2-1 Video Highlights

Liverpool has been struggling and once again was without Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres for the match.

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In November 2008, Jamie Carragher made history by breaking a Liverpool FC record set by Ron Yeats in 1969. Normally, this would be a reason to celebrate, but not in Carra's case - breaking the record has now made him the club's unluckiest player ever.
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Greenwood Blue Jays 2
Ozark Tigers 1
The Jays, fresh from their title at the Lakers Shootout, get a big win at Ozark tonight including holding off a wild flurry of shots in the final seconds. KSPR had the highlights tonight, catch the late broadcast (photo from Nixa game Sep 11th)

Bolivar Liberators 6
Marshfield Blue Jays 2
Bolivar goals by Jacob Hampton, Josh Condren, Bradley Stillwagon, Mitchell Waters and Matt Magana (2).

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SPAIN lost 1-3 to ITALY in the last 16 round of the U/20 FIFA WorldChampionships in Egypt after a brilliant group phase & go home.The Spanish team started slow & without rhythm, & then lost BOITAin the 28th min to a red card. With Spain down to 10 men, theItalians took over & exploited the advantage to score two quickgoals via MUSTACCHIO & MAZZARINI to knock out the Spaniardsearly in the 2ºhalf. Click to continue reading...

The games are getting tight in MLS. Chivas USA was the only team to score two goals last week.
MLS also has hit a lull in the schedule thanks to World Cup qualifying. Just one game Wednesday, three on Saturday and one the next Wednesday. Several teams will be watching at 4 p.m. ET Saturday hoping to see Toronto lose at home to San Jose, which would all but clinch playoff spots for the three teams on 41 points. Click to continue reading...

Drury Lady Panthers 4
UMSL Tritons 1
Katie Pritchard (pictured) came off the bench to score two goals, one in each half, leading Drury to a 4-1 victory over Missouri-St. Louis in Great Lakes Valley Conference play Friday night at Harrison Stadium.

Drury took a 1-0 lead just six minute into the contest on sophomore Nicole Williams' team-leading eighth goal of the season and 18th of her career, coming off an assist by senior Mandi Little.

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Carlos Tevez is a no good, two cent, hooker. The reason why i sit and write these words today is in response to his comments made after the West Ham game. You know..that game where he was so polite as to score two goals in front of their fans only to put his hand up, say [...] Click to continue reading...

Goals from Darren Bent and Kenwyne Jones gave Sunderland a two goal lead only to see Wolves score two goals in five minutes to level the game before Steve Bruce's side scores two goals in three minutes through Jones and Michael Turner. Darren Bent then added a fifth deep into injury time.

1-0 Bent

2-0 Jones

2-1 Mensah (Own Goal)

2-2 Doyle

3-2 Jones

4-2 Turner

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A burning sense of injustice could spur on South Korea's two teams remaining in the Asian Champions League. In the first leg of their respective quarter finals, both Pohang Steelers and FC Seoul suffered defeats on their travels to Uzbekistan and Qatar respectively.
The K-League clubs have a chance to right the perceived wrongs on Wednesday evening in the second leg of their encounters. Click to continue reading...

There were several interesting matches in the top European leagues on Saturday and a few upsets. In the Italian Serie A, Sampdoria was able to defeat Inter Milan (Internazionale). In Germany, Hamburg beat Bayern Munich 1-0 in the Bundesliga and Lyon lost at home to Toulouse in the French Ligue 1. Here's a recap of all these matches along with video highlights.

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Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has revealed he is a changed man after his recent court case, which he found "frightening and intimidating".
The England midfielder found himself charged with affray following an altercation in a Southport bar after the Reds' 5-1 victory over Newcastle in December last year. Click to continue reading...

Jefferson City Jays 2
Rolla Bulldogs 1
Rolla scores with fifteen minutes left in the first half, Jays score two in the final fourteen minutes of game to win.

The game was a rematch of last year's sectional game, which the Jays won 3-0. The score line is a positive one given the strong results JC had in their visit to Springfield.

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Well we all know what happened yesterday, one man is stealing the headlines for all the wrong reasons and it overshadows a performance from Arsenal that was tepid, lethargic and toothless. Yes, we managed to score two goals but it is not like we tore them apart on occasions, we didn't have that extra bit of [. Click to continue reading...

Wolff celebrates a goal earlier in the year. He now has three two-goal games this season.
As we first guessed here late Saturday night, striker Josh Wolff has been named MLS Player of the Week for his outstanding two-goal effort against New England. Not only did he score two goals himself, but he set up Claudio Lopez's opener and played the ball the turned into an own goal. Click to continue reading...

The St Leo men's (2-1-0) soccer team lost to the University of West Florida 2-1 Friday night despite scoring the first goal of the match. The Argos (2-0-0), ranked number seventeen in the country, came back to score two second half goals to end the Lions' upset bid.
Two hundred seventy-three spectators came out to see St Leo match the highly ranked Argos almost shot for shot in the first half. Click to continue reading...

Manchester United beat Arsenal 2-1 on Saturday after the Gunners dominated much of the play. Worryingly for them, they couldn't finish off a United side who were enduring what will probably be remembered as their worst performance of the season. Regardless, Arsenal tested Ben Foster on just one occasion after scoring, which allowed United back in to the game.

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Week 3 would bring more outstanding football action to your favorite football league. Chelsea would continue their dominant ways and prove not to go down the same negative path as they did last year in the Carling Cup with a 3-0 victory over Burnley. Chelsea's offense is clicking on all cylinders and looks like it might be the best in the league this season.

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La Gazzetta Dello Sport profiles Jozy Altidore under this headline.

It is the usual missive on his massive presence.

What's intriguing is that he is juxtaposed against Freddy Adu.

Altidore's move to Hull is seen as a step in the right direction whereas Adu's European perambulations are going nowhere.

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The (Torrance) Daily Breeze, LA Daily News and other sisters newspapers in Southern California have a nice-looking graphic preview of today's game in the print editions; sadly that does not translate to the Web.

So here's what you need to know:

*I set the stage earlier in the week with this column.

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The English Football League Cup or Carling Cup as its known continued its round 2 of matches on Wednesday August 26, 2009. Most of the Premier League teams advanced including Tottenham and Stoke City while Wigan fell 1-4 to Blackpool. Here's a recap of Wednesday's matches along with video highlights.

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Yuck. You stay up late on a Saturday night to watch the team play in Los Angeles and wish you hadn't bothered. I am detecting a trend. I was on vacation for the victory in San Jose, so I admit that my trend is selective. The last time TFC looked this bad to my eyes on a Saturday night was on the road in Utah against Real Salt Lake. Click to continue reading...

So the Argie press are hailing Guillermo Marino for saving Boca's blushes when he came off the bench to score two goals yesterday against Argentinos Juniors. Riquelme was out on a one-match ban and as for Alfio Basile, it was his first official game in charge of these tipos.

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