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Kicks, Kicks, Kicks
No, they're not for sale. *hint hint nudge nudge, Nike* Actually, Nike doesn't even sponsor most
of these clubs, but nevertheless the idea of owning such imposing FC Barcelona or Inter Milan Nike
Dunks is far too mouthwatering.
The past doesn't count. Everything is starting again. Spain continues to
strengthen.
With a friendly against England at Wembley on Saturday and the EUROs on the horizon, the time
has come for Spain to refresh, and forget everything. Everything won. Everything created.
The Message:
Iker: "No one came to welcome us"
Silva: "We didn't create a new way of playing football"
Xabi: "We weren't admired by the whole world"
Iker: "We didn't take a whole country to the streets"
Villa: "I wasn't the top scorer"
Llorente: "We couldn't bear the pressure"
Del Bosque: "We didn't change the conception of football"
Xavi: "I wasn't the best football player in the Euro 2008"
Llorente: "We are not a team"
Xavi: "We are not European Champions"
Villa: "We are not World Champions"
The shirt is new, the meaning of wearing it remains the same.
Fast; one touch; perfect football three phrases that have become synonymous with the Arsenal name
for decades. As arguably the closest equivalent to Barcelona outside of Spain, the players that
have participated in this phenomenon include some of the greats and the list continues today.
However, with an increasingly physical English Premier League, some [.
- Jason Davis
The theme most prevalent thus far in Jurgen Klinsmann's tenure as USMNT head coach - all month and
change of it - is the movement towards integrating America's abundant Latin soccer influence into
the team. In part because Klinsmann has made it his cause cause célèbre (in concert with imbuing
in the team a more attacking, fluid style - more on that in a minute), we can't go more than a few
hours without a new piece waxing on about it, without the Paul Gardners of the world bellowing
"FINALLY!
By Andrew McCarten
In football, truth and fact are often two very different things. While the ‘high ground' of
passing, flowing football is admirable to most fans, the bottom line is what really matters at the
end of the day. Fighting the good fight, only to lose, is nothing but glorious failure, honorable
defeat, and worthless in the sands of time.
By MIKE NASTRI
NEW YORK -- The U.S. Soccer Federation did not just hire the 35th head coach in national team
history, but it perhaps altered the direction of the entire national team program.
Jurgen Klinsmann, the first foreign-born U.S. national team coach in 16 years, touched on a few
topics during his first press conference since being hired to replace Bob Bradley on Friday, but he
frequently emphasized the culture and direction of soccer in the United States.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Johan Cruyff has returned to Ajax on an advisory basis after agreeing to
become a member of one of three "sounding board groups". A meeting on Thursday night between
general manager Rik van den Boog, Ajax's board of directors and Cruyff confirmed the former Holland
playmaker's willingness to advise on technical issues.
Man glaubt es ja kaum! Ein Land, das von sich selber behauptet, die Mutter des Fussballs zu sein,
hat kein richtiges Magazin für Fussballkultur? Kann man gar nicht glauben, ist aber so und das hat
auch viele Fans frustriert. Und was passiert, wenn man frustriert ist und sich nichts an der
Situation ändert?
