2011 has been incredibly hectic in the world of football, and who better to tell you this than the personalities themselves?! From Zlatan Ibrahimovic's infamous autobiography outburst to Pele's never ending self-praises (groans all around), Ronaldo taking a jab back at opposition fans to the rise of women's football in Japan, there was really no shortage of entertaining quotes this year.

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Depending on whom you believe, David Beckham is either set to make a dent on the Paris-St. Germain payroll or is still very much a free agent.

Despite front-page reports in France that Beckham has signed an 18-month deal with PSG, people in his camp have strongly denied that a deal has been completed.

Perhaps it was only a formality that Barcelona should officially proclaim itself the best team in the world in 2012 after their resounding victory against Real Madrid recently. But surely, their victory in the FIFA Club World Championship against Brazilian Santos was no less resounding. The final had been looked forward to, since Santos is also a club that plays entertaining attacking football

No place for football in the Olympics says hurdles World Champion

"I hope that those big names don't overshadow those people who have trained for four years to be there for that one moment," says Dai Greene

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SPANISH SPORTS has a new World Champion. NICO TEROL proclaimed the World Title of the 125 cc MOTO GP category after his nearest rival Johann Zarco retired from the last race of the season falling at the Cheste (Valencia) circuit. This gave & secured the points for the Spaniard who just needed to finish the race Nico Terol The winner of the 125 cc race was Spaniard Maverick Viñales ( who looks

SPANISH SPORTS has a new World Champion. NICO TEROL proclaimed the World Title of the 125 cc MOTO GP category after his nearest rival Johann Zarco retired from the last race of the season falling at the Cheste (Valencia) circuit. This gave & secured the points for the Spaniard who just needed to finish the race Nico Terol The winner of the 125 cc race was Spaniard Maverick Viñales ( who looks

We may be nearly three years away from the kickoff of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil but the first major step towards determining who will take part occurred in Rio de Janeiro with the preliminary draw for World Cup qualifying on Saturday.

The United States, which gets a buy until the third round of CONCACAF qualifying, was drawn into Group A along with Jamaica and the winners of Group E and Group F from round two.

Judah "World Champion" Friedlander's promo for the MLS All-Star Game against Manchester United.

1998 World Cup champion and 2006 World Cup runner-up France will have to play a top-seeded European team in qualifying it was announced on Wednesday. The draw, which will take place on Saturday, takes one team from each of six pots the pots determined by seeds. The current world champion and top-ranked country in the world is in the top-seeded pot as expected, along with other heavyweights Germany, Holland and Italy.

Remember a few weeks ago when I ran into Judah Friedlander, The World Champion, at a party? This is what came out of it. Big man can move, right?
So let this be a lesson to all the young kids hustlin' out there on how this whole "networking" thing works: you go to a party, have a drink with someone preferably more more juiced than you, talk about work, and spin it in to Youtube gold.

When you're a footballing superstar, world champion, European champion, local icon and about to marry an attractive young woman, I suppose you get to have whatever kind of James Cameron-esque wedding video you damn well please, and then post them on the internet. Jesus Navas took full advantage.

This past Sunday, people from across the country and around the world witnessed one of the greatest come-from-behind victories in all of sports. Truly, the United States stole a victory against all odds. What many don't know is the battles these women have overcome away from the field.

By Andrew Hazelton (Former Afusionado President) - Let's assume that today coach Darryl Shore puts the hammer down and is able to transform this team into championship caliber. The Strikers play beautiful attractive soccer, their offense scores golazo afer golazo, the defense becomes an impenetrable curtain, and the Strikers play out the season undefeated culminating in a NASL championship.

Spanish Football Today is exactly 1 year ago when SPANISH FOOTBALL reached its highest level in World Football & Sports history, recognition, prestige & winning its first ever FIFA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. The SPAIN FOOTBALL NATIONAL TEAM defeated 1 - 0 HOLLAND in the FIFA WORLD CUP Final in SOUTH AFRICA thanks to the ANDRES INIESTA extra-time (116 min) goal the 11th of June 2010.

Great day for SPANISH SPORTS with the victory of Spanish two time F1 World Champion FERNANDO ALONSO adding the 2011 British F1 GP title at Silverstone. Long time since the driver got back in the top of the podium as the Spaniard got his first win of the season & finally managed to break the domination of current World Champ Vettel & the Red Bull cars.

The day after defending World Cup champion Germany was upset by Japan, the U.S. women's national team and Brazil will face off in a match that should go a long way toward determining who the next world champion will be.

The United States will look to rebound from an upset loss to Sweden in the group stage, but must find a way to stop a Brazil attack that has gotten the better of the Americans in the past.

Former World Light-Welterweight World Champion Ricky Hatton (32) has finally seen the light and announced his inevitable retirement from the ring.

It's been over two years since Hatton's last fight, a defeat to arguably the best pound for pound boxer in the world Manny Pacquaio, his only other loss coming against another classy boxer in Floyd Mayweather.

spanish sports SPANISH SPORT lived spectacular moments in Italy today in the ITALIAN MOTO Gran Prix with Spaniards winning in all three categories. The races were as expected emotional & with exciting comebacks in 125 cc & MotoGp that will be remembered this season. Jorge Lorenzo wins Italian MotoGp Spanish rider & the current MOTOGP World Champion JORGE LORENZO managed to pull back a 2

Great day for SPANISH SPORTS in MOTOGP held in Assen (Dutch Gran Prix) with domination in two of the three categories. In the 125cc category the top three places were Spanish, in the Moto2 category a Spaniard won & in the Gp category Spanish World Champion Jorge Lorenzo finished 6th after Italian Simoncelli did one of his party tricks & took Lorenzo ( & himself ) out in the 5th curve after

Apologies for all of those who hate hearing about Manchester United (there's been quite a lot of posts related to the club recently), but this is a story that caught our attention.

World champion athletic sprinter Usain Bolt has stated that when he retires from athletics he would like to become a footballer.

Apologies for all of those who hate hearing about Manchester United (there's been quite a lot of posts related to the club recently), but this is a story that caught our attention.

World champion athletic sprinter Usain Bolt has stated that when he retires from athletics he would like to become a footballer.

After watching World Champion Spain dispose of the Americans 4-0, I'm left wondering. I'm left wondering a lot of things. It seems as though the game would have gone about much differently if not for some questionable personnel decisions, but we'll get to that.
This game never needed to happen.

Legendary Milwaukee soccer coach Bob Gansler will receive his latest – and perhaps greatest – honor Saturday.

Gansler will be inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in a ceremony at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. The ceremony precedes the U.S. national team's friendly against world champion Spain.

By Clemente Lisi – FOXBOROUGH, MA (Jun 3, 2011) US Soccer Players – The United States will take on world champion Spain on Saturday afternoon in a marquee friendly ahead of next week's Gold Cup. For Spain, the game at Gillette Stadium in suburban Boston represents its first-ever meeting with the USA on American soil.

Zlatan Ibrahimović, Sweden

The UEFA European Championship continues this weekend with a full slate of games, many of which can be seen on ESPN3.com. The tournament continues the second half of the Group stage, made up of 9 groups with 5 to 6 teams each who play a home-and-away series.

The defending World Champion Spanish squad leads Group I but will not play since they are in the US to play the US Men's National team in a Friendly.

It's not often that somebody could upstage Lionel Messi at the Nou Camp but that's exactly what Nine times Trial World Champion Toni Bou did as he performed trick's and stunts on his Motor -cycle which not even Messi could equal with a ball at his feet.

High Ladder To Climb is a new feature for the Brotherly Game. Current Atlanta Silverbacks (NASL) defender Tyler Ruthven gives readers insight into the life of a player in America's lower tier leagues. His updates will be about his continued quest to make it to MLS. Follow him as he details his day-to-day trials and tribulations based on the life he is able to live through the constraints of his job - and paycheck.

World Champion Spain is coming to America to play the United States Mens National Team on June 4.

The two will face at Gillette Stadium at 4:30 in the afternoon with the game being on ESPN.

It will be the final warm-up match for the USMNT before the Gold Cup this summer.

Spain has not been looking overly impressive since winning the World Cup, and last night's match against Colombia was no exception. Colombia had numerous big chances against a meager Spanish defense, and can only blame enormous inefficiency on not having taken the lead. Instead, Spain showed its power credentials when David Silva scored the winner at the end of the match.

Follow Nenad Stojkovic, the 2010 FIFA Interactive World Cup Champion as he meets up with some of soccer's current athletes and shows some of his own skills on the field with the controller in this FIFA interactive trailer Author: 5minVideoGames Tags: FIFA playstation 3 World Fifa World Cup 2010 Cup 2010 FIFA World Cup 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa sports video game 2010 FIFA wc sa ea sports Fifa Interactive World Champion Nenad Stojkovic FIFA Players Longe Greatest g4tv 360FIFA Interactive soccer video game Wii xbox Player Video Posted: 01 February 2011 Rating: 0.

Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe and Heptathlon World Champion Jessica Ennis gave 10 lucky winner who found their runners in London after a four day trek as part of a competition, a Speed session showing them how to get faster on the track and field.

The amazing Marta won her fifth consecutive FIFA player of the year award Monday, ahead of Germany's Fatmire Bajramaj and Birgit Prinz.

Hosted at the Zurich Kongresshaus, the evening's FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala raised the curtain on the new decade in style. Attracting the cream of the soccer world, who had come to pay tribute to the leading players and coaches of 2010, the event reached its long-awaited climax with the award of the inaugural FIFA Ballon d'Or, a fusion of the FIFA World Player of the Year award and France Football magazine's Ballon d'Or.