The last 24 hours have been particularly hectic for the 16 coaches heading to Euro 2012. They have
been busy finalising their squads for the summer football festival and after having done so six
Milan players have made the grade. As Sweden's captain, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is Milan's biggest name.
He will wear the number ‘10' [.
Throughout the summer, football pundits wasted no opportunity in hyping the current Premier
League season to be the most competitive in the history of English top flight.
Many described the level of competition to result in a plethora of twists and turns, with
champions Manchester United tipped to lose a ton of sleep due to the star power of neighbors
Manchester City and the strength of Andre Villas-Boas' experienced Chelsea side.
This summer football fans in America got a glimpse of some of the world's top talents and teams
during the World Football Challenge. Chelsea, Club America, AC Milan, and Inter Milan all arrived
in America to massive crowds, high expectations, and lots of fun for everyone. With Premiership
Talk based in Boston, we witnessed first hand how the Italian giants consumed everyone in and
around the Boston area for a weekend.
It's been a while (the 2004 US Tour, to be exact) since the United States last tasted a summer
football event quite like World Football Challenge. This summer's event will bring some of the
biggest names in football together for one week in the States, thereby giving some starved football
fans the chance to watch their favourite club go head-to-head with some of the most storied names
in the sport.
Chelsea,AC Milan,Inter Milan and Club America are the teams taking part and the event kicks off on
the 19th of July.It's been 5 years since the United States last tasted a summer football event
quite like World Football Challenge.
The promo says.... Four international soccer powerhouses are coming to America this summer to compete in the
inaugural World Football Challenge.
Ya mencioné parte del trabajo que EUA tiene en sus selecciones menores y en desarrollo de sus
jugadores con miras a llegar a esta etapa: el profesionalismo. Empecemos con ligas. EUA cuenta con
la MLS, que es la principal y la más conocida, y con la USL (United Soccer League) que son varias
ligas, lo que podrían llamarse divisiones menores, ligas femeniles y ligas de menores.
Euro 2012 Stadium Guide - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With Euro 2012 only a couple of months away, fans from all over Europe will be planning their
summer football trip to Ukraine and Poland. The eastern European nations have been frantically
trying to prepare for the tournament, and have eight stadiums earmarked as venues for the
games.
Euro 2012 Stadium Guide - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
With Euro 2012 only a couple of months away, fans from all over Europe will be planning their
summer football trip to Ukraine and Poland. The eastern European nations have been frantically
trying to prepare for the tournament, and have eight stadiums earmarked as venues for the
games.
With an exciting end to the Premier League campaign, the Champions League last four and the
upcoming Euro 2012 championships in Poland and Ukraine this summer, football fans can be forgiven
for forgetting about the Olympic Games and football's involvement at the London event.
Attitudes in football to the Olympics are in stark contrast to how modern sports in general
perceive the Olympics.
The summer football break is a bleak place at the best of times invented stories, transfer
'sagas', and the endless sight of Harry Redknapp on Sky Sports News. But some things rise above
these mild irritants and become truly infuriating, and while it takes a lot to rile me, I've been
finding myself getting increasingly annoyed or disillusioned with some of the goings-on.
Was this the moment a rather unfortunate Gary Hooper became a convert for summer football?
Amusing as it is to see a professional football fall over his own feet, there must be sympathy for
all the players being asked to perform on pitches in the state Tannadice was in on Sunday.
Not criticising Dundee United, lots of pitches are in a terrible state and the weather has been
following an unsettling pattern of crap through shocking to bloody awful.
Was having my weekly gander at the East Lothian Courier to see which of my erstwhile school mates
were making an appearance in the courts pages when I came across another argument for summer
football:
Davie McGlynn, manager of Superleague outfit Musselburgh Athletic, said a combination of
dreadful winter weather, the economic downturn and cutbacks across Scottish football had created a
"terrible situation" for clubs.
Is summer football going to become a bugbear of mine? Probably not. But there is a problem with our
schedule. And that's mixed in with my traditional moan: our inexplicable problem with scheduling
home-away-home-away games for clubs.
Do we want to make it more difficult for fans to watch Scottish football?
It's snowing outside. Time for a comforting old pattern. The media are obsessed (tip: don't waste
time watching the news tonight, just look out the window for five seconds and you'll get the main
thrust of the day's events). The country's transport infrastructure creaks, groans and ocassionally
grinds to halt.
Summer football? Honest referees? The McLeish Report?
If anybody's got the answer to how Scottish football gets anywhere near the kind of performance we
saw from Barcelona last night, please let me know. And just getting anywhere near would be a
massive improvement.
And yes, changing youth football would be a start.
Gordon Smith's resignation this week, after nearly three years as Chief Executive at the
Scottish Football Association, came initially as a surprise, though it seems rather less of one now
that the idea has sunk in. Smith always seemed a man somewhat apart from the usual array of
gruff-voiced men in suits who make up the Scottish football fraternity, and throughout his tenure
he continued to show an idealism some might say naivety and a willingness to speak candidly even
when it led him to say some daft things.
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It's a strange feeling. I am only now coming to terms with the fact the Fernando Torres' locks
and Stevie G's scouse-ness won't be in Europe, but the fight for fourth place has finally ended in
dramatic fashion. Tottenham defeated Manchester City 1-0 in an epic cup final-esque atmosphere at
the City of Manchester Stadium, and Mr.
My local club Majura FC had football from May - September. We couldn't run other programs, we had
no grounds beyond September, our volunteers were exhausted.
We've changed the model and now have football March 1 - December 10 every year. Read on to see the
changes at one club.A number of Majura FC players/parents have expressed desire for more football,
locally based, outside the normal May - September season and as a result Majura FC will offer a
number of new exciting football opportunities in 2011 and in 2012.
We got all the issues from Jesse Fink to Fozzie, Socceroos to Dan Silkman, Greg Baum, to Ange
Postecoglou, Ben Kennedy replaces Tando Velaphi, where should Harry play, should Dario play, why
Aussies are sick of the Socceroos...well the Aussie media, is the A_League boring.
A summer season for Scotland? John Boyle, chairman of Motherwell, raised the prospect once again
as he advocated a switch to a summer season and a long winter break.
This adds to the support for the move from Walter Smith, the Rangers manager, and Gordon Smith,
the SFA chief executive, but Boyle was far more assertive in making the economic argument for the
move saying "To be candid, I think the financial case for summer football has overrun the football
case.
Gordon Smith is a man who, judging by his ever present tan, enjoys summer. For years now he has
preached the joys of summer football with an evangelical zeal the equal of anything Billy Graham
ever managed.Perhaps he is scarred by memories of turning out on the mudbath pitches that British
football used to do so well.
Gordon Smith is a man who, judging by his ever present tan, enjoys summer. For years now he has
preached the joys of summer football with an evangelical zeal the equal of anything Billy Graham
ever managed.Perhaps he is scarred by memories of turning out on the mudbath pitches that British
football used to do so well.
Can Kaka, Ronaldo and Benzema co-exist on the same football pitch?
The Peace Cup returns to the summer football schedule with the fourth edition of the event
hosted by Spain. The first three Peace Cup's were played in South Korea, and the event is usually
played every other year.
This year's marquee story will of course be the addition of Real Madrid to the Peace Cup.
Every year, once the season ends, the rumors really start buzzing around our heads like a dark
swarm of thirsty mosquitoes. And where we should wisely swat the nasty beasts away, the depth of
our summer football boredom makes us strip off our shirts, hold out our arms, and beg them to
land.
The last international friendly for the season kicks off tomorrow against Argentina's own
Independiente! Not a huge team, mind you, but I do recall a few people in a poll I created earlier
this year that specifically asked for a South American club to come visit. I hope you're pleased
with the choice.
Often times these days I find myself ruminating on the past. In days of yore and of my youth, when
Edinburgh's trams were of the distant past rather than of the distant future, football boots were a
different beast altogether.
Like Henry Ford's motor vehicles you could have any colour you wanted as long as it was black.
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Germany beat Nigeria 2-0 yesterday to win the FIFA'S Women's U-20 World Cup on home soil. Korea
also beat Colombia 1-0 to clinch the Bronze in the third attempt at this stage of the
competition.
Germany's victory however is the main talking point as the hosts finished the tournament with a
perfect record winning all their matches.
Former Scottish Labour politician and ex-East Fife player Henry McLeish's 74-page Scottish
Football Review was finally released to the public yesterday, recommending, among other things, the
establishment of 20 football academies to save Scottish football from what McLeish calls "chronic
underachievement" at both the club and national level.
So the big freeze pretty much froze out the Active Nation Scottish Cup at the weekend. And the
arguments for summer football gather pace.On the plus side the much mocked sponsorship deal worked.
The moment I read Active Nation in the paper I immediately got off the couch and did 100 sit ups.
Or not.That aside the games that did go ahead were quite diverting and we've got the added bonus of
being
Modern football is a relentless beast - it's literally on 365 days an year, there's no break
even during the summer (thank you transfer window, pre-season tournaments and weird international
football schedules) and there's always the sideshow attractions - the obligatory footballer orgy or
someone finding new ways to stick it to the Premier League.
