The Hand of Henry
Think of all those brand names that players pick up as endorsements. And make bags of money in
the process. And the team strips emblazoned with corporate logos. But maybe it's time for a new
logo to be branded across the chests of our favorite soccer stars, those ones who like to dive, or
use their hand to earn a goal.
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The Footie 16 November @ 11:10 PM EST
By Guest Blogger Mark Ferguson
Livorno midfielder Antonio Candreva made his debut for Italy at the weekend in a 0-0 friendly
with the Netherlands with the versatile midfielder attracting a lot of interest from the likes of
Inter Milan and Juventus .
Image: Zuma Press
Candreva's club form has not gone unnoticed with teams said to be circling for the players
signature.
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The Beauty: When you look up WAG in the dictionary, there should be a picture
of Danielle Lloyd. She epitomizes this new breed of players' attention-seeking wives & girlfriends.
She also has all of the elements of a prototypical WAG: (1) she's a beauty queen (Miss Great
Britain 2004), (2) reality star (though not for too long due to some foolish remarks), (3)
actress (sort of), and (4) model (of the nude variety).
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The Beauty: Ms. Gemma Atkinson is famous. For what? I don't know. Let's see.
She's worked as a lingerie model and men's mag centerfold (so she's comfortable wearing next to
nothing). She's been a "TV personality" (aka reality star). She's also plied her trade as an
actress on soap opera programs like Hollyoaks.
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The Footie 14 October @ 12:46 PM EST
It was a blow to the United States soccer community to learn of the recent accident involving
Charlie Davies age 23. He was involved in a deadly vehicle accident that left one passenger dead at
the scene.
Charlie Davies. US Men's National Team vs Honduras at Estadio Olimpico in San Pedro Sula,
Honduras.
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Australian Government Minister for Youth and Sport, the Hon Kate Ellis MP,
joined soccer stars Socceroo Vincenzo Grella, Matilda Sarah Walsh and a coalition of
non-governmental organisations to launch the 1GOAL: Education for All campaign in Australia.
World leaders, including Australia's Prime Minister the Hon Kevin Rudd MP, United Kingdom's Prime
Minister Gordon Brown and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon will joined each other via
video-link to pledge their support for the campaign.
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The Beauty: What is it about WAGS (aka Wives
And GirlfriendS of soccer stars) that captures
the fancy of the public and the media. Is it their bountiful beauty? Is it their fabulous
fame?
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Word is soccer stars across the pond are so fearful for their security that they're getting their
car windows made bulletproof.
It makes sense.
The EPL there is kind of like the NFL here, where party-hearty stars often become targets. No
amount of planning ahead is enough for my money.
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World football's hottest property Christiano Ronaldo got off to a flying start for his new club
with a debut goal on the opening day of La Liga. Real Madrid's most high profile "Galactico"
acquisition of the summer scored from the spot in a 3 - 2 opening day thriller against Deportivo to
make a dream start to his football career at his self confessed dream club.
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U.S. Soccer have partnered to develop this fantastic resource which provides technical
instruction and basic drills for soccer player's age 8 to 12 years old.
CHICAGO (Aug. 19, 2009) U.S. Soccer and EA SPORTS have teamed up to introduce EA SPORTS
Interactive Training, a free, online tutorial that uses EA SPORTS technology to help train the
soccer stars of the future.
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U.S. Soccer have partnered to develop this fantastic resource which provides technical
instruction and basic drills for soccer player's age 8 to 12 years old.
CHICAGO (Aug. 19, 2009) U.S. Soccer and EA SPORTS have teamed up to introduce EA SPORTS
Interactive Training, a free, online tutorial that uses EA SPORTS technology to help train the
soccer stars of the future.
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MLS Rumors 20 August @ 02:06 PM EST
U.S. Soccer and EA SPORTS have teamed up to introduce EA SPORTS Interactive Training, a free,
online tutorial that uses EA SPORTS technology to help train the soccer stars of the future. This
interactive resource, available at EASPORTSinteractivetraining.com employs the EA SPORTS soccer
game engine to illustrate U.
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Press release U.S. Soccer and EA SPORTS have teamed up to introduce EA SPORTS Interactive
Training, a free, online tutorial that uses EA SPORTS technology to help train the soccer stars of
the future. This interactive resource, available at www.EASPORTSinteractivetraining.com employs the
EA SPORTS soccer game engine to illustrate U.
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The Beauty: Eva Gonzalez is the Queen of the Spanish WAGs, much like Victoria
Beckham is the ultimate English WAG and Ilary Blasi is the holiest of Italian WAGs. She has all the
credentials to be compared to (if not put on a pedestal above) those two world ranked WAGs
too.
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MLS Rumors 10 August @ 04:02 PM EST
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER STARS BLANCO AND KLJESTAN NAMED
COVER ATHLETES FOR EA SPORTS FIFA SOCCER 10 IN NORTH AMERICA
Chelsea Star Frank Lampard Also To Be Featured On
Packaging In North America
Electronic Arts Inc.
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BWFC 24 07 August @ 01:29 PM EST
If you wonder how South Korean TV reported the news that one of their soccer stars, Lee
Chung–Yong (이청용 ), was heading to England to play for Bolton Wanderers then wonder no more.
Enjoy!
There are a number of videos of the new Wanderers winger on YouTube, hopefully he will be
stunning opposition defences with similar pace and perfect passes exhibited on them.
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It's hard to believe, but the new Bundesliga season is upon us. For those viewers in the United
States and Canada, you can catch a selection of this weekend's opening games as well as most of the
major games this season on GolTV.
Here's the TV schedule for this opening weekend:
Friday, Aug.
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A simply superb display from 17 year old Jack Wilshere helped the Gunners to an easy win over
reigning champions Rangers. His potential is frankly scary!
- Arsenal 2-1 Atletico Madrid Emirates Cup Highlights (Video) (8)
- Ten Strangest Football Injuries Ever! (2)
- TOP TEN Football Derbies: Liverpool, Everton, Arsenal and Tottenham don't make the list!
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The Footie 14 July @ 12:36 PM EST
If Zidane is in town I suppose it would be impolite not to say hi to other international soccer
stars. When Zinedine Zidane was in Canada with his family for the Charity games in Montreal,
Toronto and Vancouver, he took a quick jet down to Los Angeles to meet up with David and Victoria
Beckham.
Zidane and Beckham families meet up at LA Galaxy game - July 11, 2009
It looked like a fun family outing as both families have similar aged kids.
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The Footie 13 July @ 11:52 AM EST
Zinedine Zidane has been in Canada for the past few weeks now traveling from Montreal, Toronto
and Vancouver. His charity matches helped raise money for UNICEF and other causes.
Zinedine Zidane at Montreal Charity Match
His match in Montreal drew the largest crowd of over 15,000 people with Toronto trailing at
10,000 and ended with Vancouver in a shameful 4,000.
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The Footie 07 July @ 12:53 AM EST
Organizers at FIFA headquarters have decided to snub the Los Angeles All-Star soccer event that
was to be held last weekend. Everything was in place to host the U.S. MLS All-Star team crew who
were to play against a select group of world soccer stars.
France's Patrick Viera in action during the international friendly match, France vs Argentina at
the stade de France, in Saint-Denis, near Paris on February 7, 2007.
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The Footie 03 July @ 01:38 PM EST
Zidane was set to play a charity tribute game in Vancouver Saturday, though it seems he will
have to sit this one out. He suffered a back injury after picking up his kid as they watched the
fireworks display on Canada Day in Vancouver.
Fans from all over the Vancouver area have tickets to see the French living soccer legend,
though without Zidane the game must go on.
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The Footie 02 July @ 02:20 PM EST
Cristiano Ronaldo is officially leaving Manchester United after a long year of 'what ifs'. His
new contract with Real Madrid is reportedly worth $153.2 million. That's allot of money for a young
soccer player. So it begs the question, who will replace Cristiano in Manchester U. striker lineup?
Well they have found someone already.
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MLS Rumors 23 June @ 05:00 PM EST
The New York China Town charity exhibition from last year that involved NBA and world soccer stars
is back Wednesday June 24th at 6:00 PM(tomarrow). Steve Nash, Claudio Reyna, Thierry Henry, Tony
Parker, Javier Zanetti, Raja Bell, Adrian Mutu, Chris Bosh, Ivan Cordoba, Grant Hill, Giovanni van
Brockhurst, and Yao Ming will be the participating athletes.
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WVHooligan 23 June @ 04:09 PM EST
I meant to bring this up earlier in the day but nearly forgot. For those of you lucky bastards
in the New York City area, there is an event that you need to be at tomorrow in Chinatown. What is
it? The second annual Showdown in Chinatown featuring NBA stars and international soccer stars such
as Steve Nash and Thierry Henry.
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Photo by New York Times
In case you missed it last year, the Showdown in Chinatown was one of the most memorable soccer
events in New York City in recent memory.
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Background: Peter (though some would spell it Piotr) Nowak was the former
assistant coach for the US Men's National Team, but his glory days were spent plying his trade on
MLS pitches. Statistically, he may not appear to stack up to some other MLS greats, but his
leadership and dedication make him a shoo-in for my Hall of Fame.
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The Footie 29 May @ 12:00 AM EST
Two of the biggest USA soccer stars have been asked to help a United States bid for the 2018 or
2020 World Cup. Mia Hamm and Landon Donovan have been asked and have agreed to help the National
Bid Committee in their ensuing efforts.
image by newscom
Being able to host the FIFA World Cup games is one of the best economic boosts a country could
have.
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The Footie 23 May @ 01:04 PM EST
Two of the biggest soccer stars for Brazil have just been left off of the Brazil national team
list. Ronaldo and Ronaldinho will not be playing for different reasons according to Brazil's coach,
Dunga.
Head coach for the Brazil National team has just released their World Cup roster for the games
in South Africa and they do not include Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.
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Or, Rodney Wallace May be a Dick, and That's Okay
I'm going to be terribly unfair to Rodney Wallace and take one comment from the Patrick Stevens
profile in the Washington Times completely out of context:
Wallace lived in Costa Rica until age 9, when work brought his parents to the
D.
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This doesn't really have anything to do with the Orange or the MLS, but WTF? I saw this a second
ago and thought I'd share.
Two UK Soccer Stars Join Chrome Mercedes SLR McLaren Craze
If the Dynamo players made this kind of money, which one do you think would be the first to buy
a chrome car?
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The Footie 12 May @ 01:08 PM EST
The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) president, John Fahey has lashed out today against FIFA
for the headache caused by their unwillingness to adhere to new rules.
WADA and FIFA came to an agreement after soccer players voiced concern over the new rules
enforced by WADA. At first WADA pointed out that they could have complained earlier if there was a
problem but they went ahead with renegotiations anyways.
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Pro Soccer Comes to City Hall Plaza
The New England Revolution and the Boston Breakers join the kids of America SCORES New England for
FitKick 2009
Pro soccer is coming to downtown Boston. The top-ranked New England Revolution and the Boston
Breakers will join the Boston Public School kids of America SCORES New England for FitKick 2009.
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It´s a "mash-up" & what an effort. All the great Football (Soccer)stars represented following the
orders of Ronaldo in which they payhomeage. Its a must been seen to believe clip, SFS has very
littlewords more to add:
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The Footie 29 April @ 02:44 PM EST
Juventus fans will have to sit the next one out for racist remarks. An Italian
sports judge upheld a ruling that will make Juventus play their next Series A home game without the
normal cheering fans.
Fans are being punished for the onslaught of racist remarks dished out by the Juventus fans to
Inter Milan striker Mario Balotelli.
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