With December fast-approaching, The Season is in the air. Christmas? Absolutely not. It's awards season. The Argentine sensation known as Lionel Messi has already nabbed the Onze d'Or, a precursor to the Ballon d'Or (with a heft more patriotism) which has predicted the BdO three times in the last four years. Click to continue reading...

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No TGIF during the International break, so it gives me a chance to go back to traditional blogging. The subject for discussion this week is the vexed question of silverware at Arsenal football Club. The persistent refrain of Arsenal MUST win something this season if the youth experiment is to be hailed as a success is rather doing my head in. Click to continue reading...

Cristiano Ronaldo signed for Real Madrid in the summer and had been a star performer in his Real Madrid shirt before being sidelined by injury and the former Manchester United star has said he would love to see former team mate Wayne Rooney move to the Bernabeu to play alongside him again.

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Cristiano Ronaldo has given United fans more to be frustrated about after the World Player of the Year stated his desire to see Manchester United's Wayne Rooney line up for Real Madrid. Ronaldo joined Los Blancos from United over the summer in a world record breaking £80 million, and the former Red Devils believes that Rooney would flourish in Spain.

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During the summer of 2006 the press predicted the downfall of Manchester United after our two best players had seemingly fallen out during the World Cup.

Apparently there was no way they could both continue at the club and we were doomed.

When on the opening day of the season we beat Fulham 5-1 with Rooney and Ronaldo both scoring and helping each other score, there were lots of disappointed people!

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FC Porto striker Hulk has earned his first ever call-up to the Brazilian national team. Brazilian manager Dunga gave the striker a call-up for next month's friendlies against England and Oman.

Hulk will be lining up against some of Brazil's brightest stars when he makes his international debut, as his fellow strikers will be Manchester City's Robinho, Villareal's Nilmar, and Confederations Cup sensation Luis Fabiano of Sevilla.

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With the Ballon d'Or nominations finally releasing this weekend, the headlines have mostly been devoted to the fact that world champions Italy have no representation whatsoever. But why blame the press for paying excessive attention to an irrelevant detail? After all, the award itself is destined to be heading Lionel Messi's way, which means very little is there to be talked about in terms of debating the winner, right?

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Beyond the nation's borders, Italian football has certainly faded into the background in recent years. A devastating match-fixing scandal in 2006 bitterly overshadowed the country's World Cup triumph that year while the domestic league has clearly become a one-horse race ever since. Reigning champions Inter Milan have shown no signs of a slip up in the Serie A for the last three seasons and that trend continued with their strong start to the current season as well.

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Did you notice how I capitalized the whole title, as if it was some sore of official organ, and not just literally what this post was doing? Wicked.Okay, so it all comes down to Group E, and the Czech Republic v Costa Rica game in particular. Mladá Boleslav strike sensation Jan Chramosta put the Czechs up 1-0 in the 11th minute, and we are now just past the half hour. Click to continue reading...

In an effort to court U.S. soccer fans, American Airlines has teamed up with the AC&M Group to create an interactive soccer game for it's website. The "Penalty Challenge" is an entertainingly creative way for the company to increase membership for their AAdvantage program. By helping the new soccer sensation, Earn Miles, score the maximum number of goals, players can receive discounts and bonus miles. Click to continue reading...

Predictably, the Guardian folk weren't kind to the Croatian diving sensation... Click to continue reading...

Liverpool have announced their full squad for the Champions League campaign 2009/10.It runs along expected lines with most of the first-team squad included, however, injury-prone Phillip Degen fails to make the cut.The main stars are included as is reserve team player David Martin as 3rd choice keeper. Click to continue reading...

This week is World Cup qualifying week, so we continue our feature which takes a look at some of the great World Cup players through the ages. Second in the series is Argentinian sensation, Maradona who is also in action this week as his country's coach in a crunch game against arch-rivals Brazil.

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A great majority of the football world has grown used to laughing off Arsene Wenger's dramatic remarks over major incidents in recent years. This is precisely why the Arsenal manager was largely ignored when he labeled the accusations over Gunners striker Eduardo's recent "dive" against Celtic as a "witch-hunt".

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Nearly 35 years of history, a 23 match winning streak and 13K in the stands on a Friday night; basically Portland are the anti-Red Bull (even though RBNY did manage a surprise win yesterday despite Mac Kandji and Dane Richards best efforts to thwart it at the end by being unintelligent glory-seekers and not taking the ball to the corner). Click to continue reading...

The dog days of summer have descended upon MLS. While both San Jose and Kansas City can basically forget about postseason play, this game provided a glimpse into the future. And, not surprisingly, neither team appears any closer to steadying the ship. San Jose scored to claim a� 1-0 victory in stoppage time, but neither team deserved the moniker "winner.

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We would have said 'vomit-inducing' Liverpool striker (haha, he wishes) Ryan Babel is collaborating (that's what urban artists do, right?) with rapper Sway on his new album. The Dutchman's previous attempts at rocking the mic have made him a YouTube sensation, but he has carried on unperturbed. Sway said: "He's actually on the song with me [. Click to continue reading...

Now that Man City have hit the big time there was little need to employ Mr. Vassell in any capacity he was sold to Turkish side Ankaragücü (I haven't got a clue how to say it either) and you know what...he's only gone and scored a goal. If you look at the former Aston Villa man's face he actually looks genuinely surprised to have scored, which given he is a professional footballer who's job it is to score, is a little worrying, perhaps he'll get used to this sensation, but we doubt it!

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After the heartbreak of relegation; after a summer of uncertainty; after all the pessimism, anger and frustration; after all of this, the run up to the Sheffield United game brought one thing back. It brought back anticipation. It brought back that tingle of excitement. It brought back that sensation of the hairs standing up on the back of your neck.

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Saturday evening I was ate Vila Belmiro. The weather was great, the satdium was crowded and I was sit on one of the best places.
When the game began Santos showed that his purposes was to win at any cost. And with almost 10 minutes of game Madson scores, Vila Belmiro explodes. Avaí is one of the best teams on our championship. Click to continue reading...

If gymnasts as young as twelve or thirteen can compete in their senior national squads what stops a 12 year old child from playing professional soccer? Probably the fact that musculoskeletal maturity sets in at age 18 and peaks at 25 to 30 years of age. Having players tackling a player so young can result in serious injuries.

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After the sensation of 12-year old playing for Bolivian first division side, the coach Julio Cesar Baldivieso, has quit as coach of Aurora after the Bolivian club's management told him to leave the boy out of the squad.
The former Bolivia midfielder Baldivieso has also withdrawn his son Mauricio, who made his debut for the 2008 Clausura champions last Sunday as a 12-year-old, from the club. Click to continue reading...

Those who saw last night's World Football Challenge clash between Internazionale and Chelsea� must have noticed� a solid performance from a rapidly emerging star wearing the blue shirt. Branislav Ivanovic, who played fullback for 65 minutes of Chelsea's dominant 2-0 victory over the reigning Italian champions seemed to be the player who was more eager than anyone else to cement his reputation during the high-profile friendly at the Rose Bowl.

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Chicago Fire forward Brian McBride will be undergoing surgery to repair a labral tear in his right shoulder later today, the team has announced in a press release. Depending on the outcome of the operation, the former US international should miss the next 4-6 weeks of action.
McBride, 37, has scored six goals in sixteen appearances this season for the Fire. Click to continue reading...

Everton may have just wrapped up a loan deal for Jo, but David Moyes isn't stopping just yet. The Toffees are now set to bid for Middlesbrough's Turkish sensation Tuncay. With Boro relegated to the Coca Cola Championship, Gareth Southgate is resigned to losing his biggest stars all at cut-throat prices.

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Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to be focussing on 11 of the legendary players� of English football to perhaps give some of you an insight to some names that you may not be aware of. In the modern footballing� climate, we can sometimes forget the players and names that used to play football more as a well paid hobby than a profession.

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Let's check in on Barca's favorite little baller, Baby Bo, shall we? Bojan's been working it with his fellow Spaniards in the European under-21 championship, after he missed out on the call-up to the Spanish first team for the Confed Cup... but sadly, his team couldn't make it past the group stages.
Bo didn't sweat it though, and returned to Spain yesterday for the children's Nike Camp. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool are weighing up a potential move for Argentine sensation Matias De Federico.
The 19-year-old Huracan star is attracting the interest of clubs all around Europe following his impressive performances this season.
Now, according to Sport.co.uk, Rafael Benitez's Reds are seriously considering swooping for the player. Click to continue reading...

Football is a funny game - this is the sport where anything, and I mean anything, can happen completely out of the blue. For example, no one ever imagined that Brazilian star Ronaldinho, who was literally unstoppable not too long ago, would suddenly become as anonymous as he is nowadays.

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Wigan chairman Dave Whelan has talked up our likely signing, Antonio Valencia, claiming that he is world class and that for the price agreed, we're getting him for an 'absolute steal'.

"I think Antonio is the best wide right player anywhere and that includes Franck Ribery," said Whelan.

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Baldomero Toledo booking a Red Bull player while Clint Mathis and a teammate play Simon Says.
Here are some thoughts on Saturday's Chicago-DC match I attended that have been percolating since the weekend:

• I don't think I've seen a match this season where the dissonance between the quality of play and the quality of officiaitng was greater than on Saturday.

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Former Liverpool and England midfield sensation John Barnes is set for a return to professional football in the capacity of manager at another North West based club in Tranmere Rovers. The football League One side have been seeking a replacement after sacking Ronnie Moore at the end of last season, and see former Liverpool wing superstar Barnes as the ideal candidate. Click to continue reading...

The silly summer season has well and truly kicked in and the latest player to be linked to a move to Arsenal is Paris Saint-Germain's nineteen-year-old sensation Mamadou Sakho. Sakho has been tentatively linked with a switch to the Emirates since February, although speculation over his future has intensified in recent . Click to continue reading...

Kolo Toure is once again being linked with a lucrative move to Manchester City. I have no problem with this as much as my mate has a BO problem.
Manchester City will be linked with everyone this summer from Kolo Toure and the Pope. Pay no attention to it. Its as boring as my blue pants.
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