Young Oranje made a huge step towards the play offs for the Youth EC in 2011. Cor Pot's team won 2-1 against Spain at the Sparta Castle in Rotterdam. There's seven tickets for the Denmark EC 2011 for grabs in the play offs. The confrontation with Spain was the first serious Click to continue reading...

.The Czech Republic got a 2-0 victory over Poland on Oct 10 in a home match at Sparta Stadium. The first half of the match was uneventful. In the first half goalkeeper, Peter Cech saved a closed one to one shot by Irenuesz Jelen in the 33 rd minute. After a few minutes, a goal [...] Click to continue reading...

As last week's rankings were brought to you from a train from Munich to Vienna, this week's is brought to you from a train from Prague to Berlin. I wasn't able to attend a match in Prague, in part because the blood match between Sparta and Slavia was moved to today, so this week's picture is just a random one that I took in Prague.

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First came Toronto FC, then Vancouver Whitecaps got an expansion team and now Montreal L' Beckhams are trying to join MLS. Throw in further interest from Ottawa and Major League Soccer has a sudden influx of Canadiana! Don't tell our friends to the south that a whole list of possible expansion clubs are lining up as we speak. Click to continue reading...

Smerda. Jaromír Smerda. Mais um belo nome que nos chega do futebol de Leste, a juntar aos de Kona ou Pisha, por exemplo. O defesa checo de 29 anos actua no Banik Sokolov, que é o actual segundo classificado da IIª Divisão do seu país. Smerda nunca passou de clubes de pequena dimensão como o Chmel Blšany, Boleslav, FK Příbram, FC Hradec Králové e Sparta Krč, antes de chegar ao Banik Sokolov na época passada. Click to continue reading...

Do me a favor, open the door and let Alta IF defender Jay Needham in, because he just leveled matters at Sparta Sarpsborg. It's only halftime, so the highlight clip won't be here in this post for a good while yet. If anyone else scores today, I'll add it on here as well.And sorry I haven't been around much the last coupe days, really been feeling rough. Click to continue reading...

Seldom has a talented football nation witnessed the kind of humiliation that the� Czech Republic has suffered in the entire last year. In a World Cup qualification campaign where they were placed in perhaps the most competitive of groups alongside Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, and Northern Ireland, perfection was almost always essential for the Czechs.

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It was another full set of matches in UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying. While a few teams have already qualified, most of the spots are still up for grabs. Here's a recap of the all the matches on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 along with video highlights.

UEFA 2010 World Cup Qualifying Recap

In Group 3, the Czech Republic kept their hopes alive with a dominating 7-0 win over San Marino.

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Hablar de Pavel Nedved es hablar de uno de los más grandes mediocampistas que la Republica Checa ha entregado al fútbol mundial.

Su entrega en la cancha , su gran aporte futbolistico y su intachable forma de ser como persona lo han hecho un futbolista en toda la� extensión� de la palabra, por lo que ahora cuando decide colgar las botas no hay más que palabras de agradecimiento para el ex futbolistica de Juventus y Lazio de Italia , y � Sparta Praga y Dukla Praga de� República� Checa.

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One of Utah's youth players is training with the United States U-14 Girls' National Team this week at The Home Depot Center in Carson, California this week.
Darian Jenkins, a striker from Harriman, plays her club soccer for Sparta Premier and is among the 36 players invited into camp after competing at the 101-player U. Click to continue reading...

ESPN360.com is quickly becoming the online destination for soccer fans, and it will be showing a lot of exciting games this weekend. Below is a list of exclusive matches – they can be seen only on ESPN360.com. I hope you'll let your readers know about this so they know exactly where to go to see the best in global soccer.

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Creíamos haber visto de todo en un banderín. Que si la pelota parece que se va fuera y choca contra el banderín y se queda dentro, que si un jugador lo coge como una lanza o se apoya un brazo sobre él en plan chulo para celebrar un gol, que si Villa lo manda al quinto pino de una patada tras un gol en la Concacaf. Click to continue reading...

Juventus legend and Czech veteran Pavel Nedved, who announced his retirement last season, changed his mind, so he will probably continue playing.

Juventus offered the 36-year old midfielder to prolong his contract to another season, but the Czech refused that announcing the end of his career.

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After yesterday's post from the Sparta-Twente match, comes this piece of action from Boquita of Corinthians who is having a little trouble taking a corner.
Sparta's solution was much more effective!
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The most fun we had at the corner flag last year was poking fun at Chelsea's Jose Bosingwa for losing his composure and going all Karate Kid into Yossi Benayoun's back.
But forget that unibrowed very expensive, dirty cheater and let's focus on the Dutch Eredivisie's opening weekend for our corner flag fun today. Click to continue reading...

Frank Rijkaard volverá a sentarse en los banquillos un año después de que abandonara su puesto de entrenador del Barcelona. Lo hará en el Galatasaray turco, que si bien en un primer momento mantuvo contactos con otros técnicos como Bernd Schuster o Juande Ramos, la opción del holandés ha terminado siendo considerada la mejor para sacar a los 'leones' de la pequeña crisis que han sufrido en esta pasada temporada.

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After Ruud Gullit and Frank Rijkaard, Marco van Basten is the third AC Milan crack failing as an Eredivisie coach. Like his Milan buddies, Van Basten will go down in history as the coach who got lost in the Dutch league. His two illustrious predecessors stumbled at Sparta and Feyenoord Click to continue reading...

You wonder what is the matter with Ajax. Two games to go. Sparta away, Twente at home. The ideal position for Ajax to take matters in their own hands. But after the humiliating defeat against PSV, this time it was Rotterdam's second club Sparta sending the Sons of Gods back Click to continue reading...

Milan-Zurigo
Sampdoria-Kaunas
Napoli-Benfica
Borussia Dortmund-Udinese
Timisoara-Partizan Belgrado
Hertha Berlino-St Patrick's
Banik Ostrava-Spartak Mosca
Metalist-Besiktas
Portsmouth-Vitoria Guimaraes
Kaiserispor-Paris Saint Germain
Siviglia-Salisburgo
Wolfsburg-Rapid Bucarest
Maritimo-Valencia
Dinamo Zagabria-Sparta Praga
Manchester City-Omonia Nicosia
Young Boys-Bruges
Nancy-Motherwell
Everton-Standard Liegi
Bellinzona-Galatasaray
NEC Nijmegen-Dinamo Bucarest
Racing Santander-Honka
Apoel Nicosia-Schalke 04
Litex Lovech-Aston Villa
Austria Vienna-Lech Poznan
Vitoria Setubal-Heerenveen
Brann-Deportivo La Coruna
Slavia Praga-Vaslui
Slaven-Cska Mosca
Brondny-Rosenborg
Cherno More-Stoccarda
Rennes-Twente
Ajax-Borac
Tottenham-Wisla Cracovia
FC Copenaghen-FC Mosca
Zilina-Levski Sofia
Braga-Artmedia
Feyenoord-Kalmar
Amburgo-Unirea Urziceni
Hapoel Tel Aviv-Saint Etienne
Nordsjaelland-Olympiakos
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Barcelona, Juventus and Arsenal should all stroll into the Champions League group stage this week but there could be a nasty surprise in store for Liverpool. Barcelona, European champions in 2006 with their victory over Arsenal in the Paris final, were 4-0 winners over Wisla Krakow two weeks ago in the first leg of their third qualifying round tie. Click to continue reading...

Adrie now... EC1988 winner Adrie van Tiggelen is assistant coach at Sparta and is a happy trooper. "Head coach Foeke Booy allows me to do the training often. He just observes, while I do the work. I keep track of progress and discuss the program with him. When Aandewiel was coach, Click to continue reading...

Self-explanatory, eh? Adrian Mutu: Fiorentina v Slavia. Christian Pander: Schalke v Atletico. Alessandro Del Piero: Juventus v Artmedia. Hatem Ben Arfa & Benoit Cheyrou: Marseille v Brann. Simao: Panathinaikos v Sparta. Goal of the Matchday? ( polls) Thanks to 101GreatGoals.com for the vids. Click to continue reading...

The 3rd qualifying round usually goes unnoticed unless your team is participating simply because it usually shakes out how it should. The minnows go home and the teams deserving of a spot in the group stages somehow found their way. Couple of relatively surprising early exits this year came in the form of Rangers, well [. Click to continue reading...