About a month ago i wrote about Ghana's potential mouth-watering duel with Brazil in the FIFA U-20 World Cup final in Cairo, Egypt. That night the Black Satelites prevailed against a determined Brazil that had amongst its players the amazing Alan Kardec.

On Sunday however, the spotlight will once again shine on another African nation.

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The one and only Matty Taylor spins us a little yarn on why young boys should not be allowed to have nice cars. I highly recommend checking out the extensive Channelbee Football section. Many hilarious videos.

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Genius or Madness?

Recently, an article by ESPNSoccernet was brought to my attention by one of our faithful readers about the Reserve league in England. The Premier Reserve League is a valuable resource for clubs in the Premiership.� Each club in the Premier League is able to play in the top league against the reserve clubs from other members of the top flight.

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Genius or Madness?

The Premier Reserve League is a valuable resource for clubs in the Premiership.� Each club in the Premier League is able to play in the top league against the reserve clubs from other members of the top flight. It offers teams a chance to give fringe players a run out and give players returning from injury, a competitive environment in order to integrate them to game shape.

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A typically youthful Arsenal Carling Cup side (save captain for a day Mickael Silvestre) defeated Liverpool's mixed bag lineup 2-1 on Wednesday. It was obviously tough fourth round draw for both clubs and ended in controversy when Alberto Aquilani, making his Liverpool first team debut after coming on as a substitute, took an overhead shot at goal in injury that hit Philippe Senderos on the arm.

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Iker Muniain tornou-se no início do mês o futebolista mais jovem de sempre a marcar na Liga Espanhola. Com apenas 16 anos e 289 dias, o avançado do Athletic de Bilbao marcou um dos golos do empate a duas bolas em Valladolid. O jovem, que já é comparado por alguns a Messi e que pode defrontar o Nacional da Madeira na Liga Europa, também já tinha feito o gosto ao pé nas provas europeias frente ao Áustria de Viena e Young Boys. Click to continue reading...

Nationally download Who are the last seven teams to qualify for the last SIX world Cups (not England) and we tell you why Paddy Bordier thinks Nicky over Holman and Eamonn says no way.
Russ Gibbs W-League wrap, did they count the Gold Coast Ambo's who attended to Clive Palmer in the crowd numbers at the Roar game on the weekend. Click to continue reading...

Athletic Bilbao have enjoyed a notable start to the season, sitting in eighth place in La Liga following the weekend's 2-2 draw away at Real Valladolid, as Joaquin Caparros has led the team to one of their brighter La Liga starts in recent years.

Caparros, who made his name as Sevilla manager, has constructed a team that is certainly not lacking in quality.

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Seydou Doumbia of Swiss League side BSC Young Boys celebrates after scoring a goal by shocking FC Aarau's goalkeeper into submission with his horrific choice of hairstyles.

[Photo: Reuters]

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November 29th should be� a date already marked on your calender.� If your a Yank (like me) you might be thinking is this the date for� Thanksgiving Day?� Not really. � Turkey Day is actually three days before this important� date, but in a way� this event� is a lot like� Thanksgiving Day.

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After scoring a brilliant goal in his debut during our 5-0 battering of Stoke last season, Sir Alex Ferguson tipped Danny Welbeck for a big International future, as well as with United.

Welbeck scored our only goal in a 1-0 win over Wolves this week, where we played with ten men for an hour of the match, and says he's more concerned with his United career than with England.

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Swiss football referee, Massimo Busacca, who took charge of Champions League finals between Manchester and Barcelona was banned for three games for raising the middle finger at the fans.

One of the best referees in the world did this during the Swiss Cup game between Young Boys and third-league team FC Baden.

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Respect this ref The Swiss referee who took charge of Barcelona's Champions League final victory against Manchester United has been banned for three matches for sticking his middle finger up at fans. Massimo Busacca was pictured making the gesture during a match between FC Baden and Young Boys. The official claims he was provoked by "verbal abuse" [. Click to continue reading...

El arbitro Suizo, Massimo Busacca, soporto todo lo que pudo durante un encuentro entre el Young Boys y el FC Baden hasta que revento y saludo a los hinchas como su vieja lo hacia con su viejo. Click to continue reading...

Pictures of famous Athletic Bilbao players at San Mamés. Photo courtesy of Nicholas McGowan.

Athletic Bilbao would have no problems with the proposed UEFA plan of mandating eight homegrown players in the squad of eighteen for every match or the theoretical 6 + 5 rule, where six players of the starting eleven would have to be eligible for the national team of their club's country.

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For as much verbal abuse referees must hear everyday of their lives (only a mild exaggeration) and as inhumanly impervious they often seem, we can't forget that they too have their breaking points.

Swiss fans maxed out referee Massimo Busacca's annoyance meter with their insults during cup match between third division FC Baden and first division Young Boys on Saturday, causing Busacca to give them a one finger salute during the match.

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When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored that goal against Bayern Munich, you probably felt you loved him as much as you could love any other man without actually being gay. That was the best moment of my life and Solskjaer gave it to us.

However, since then he's given us more reasons to love him: his strength and determination when coming back from what might have been a career-ending injury for another player, his connection with the fans which saw him become the only player to openly support MUST in our battle against the Glazers, and his willingness to continue on with the club developing stars for the future in the academy.

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Serbian international, Zdravko Kuzmanovic signed the contract with Stuttgart that finished last season third in Bundesliga, thus reserving a place in Champions League group G. After the club's attempts to sign Gojko Kacar from Hertha failed, so they decided to bring another Serb from Fiorentina, who plays on the same position.

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Interesting article on The Roar today regarding the viability of having the A-League on Free To Air (FTA) TV. It has generated a substantial amount of discussion amongst the readers and got me thinking about where I stand on the topic.
Although author Adrian Musolino makes some good points I cannot help but think he has missed a critical one. Click to continue reading...

ATHLETIC DE BILBAO managed to pull back a 0-1 first round result& defeat YOUNG BOYS ( Switzerland) 1-2 in the second leg gameyesterday to go into the 2º round of the preliminaries of theEUROPA LEAGUE ( ex UEFA). Goals came from FERNANDO LLORENTE& 16 year old sensation MUNIAN for Bilbao & FRIMPONG for YoungBoys. Click to continue reading...

Athletic Bilbao avoided an embarrassing Europa League exit at the hands of Swiss side Young Boys tonight as they sneaked into the play-off round on away goals.

The Spanish cup finalists lost the first leg of their third qualifying round tie 1-0 last week but goals from Fernando Llorente and Iker Muniain put them on course in Berne.

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The UEFA Europa League finished up its qualifying round on Thursday with the second legs of each tie. Overall there were several matches and over 30 teams advancing to the next round. Here's a recap of some of the matches including Fulham v Vetra, Hamburg v Randers, Roma v KAA Gent, PSV v Cherno and Athletic Bilbao v Young Boys.

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Here's a team chant some young boys use before their game... a little bit sexist, but fitting for boys who are at an age where they still (officially) think girls have "cooties"

No Barbie Dolls

We don't wear mini skirts
All we wear soccer shirts!
We don't drink lemonade
All we drink gatorade
We don't play with barbie dolls!

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Steven Taylor is showing some leadership in the Newcastle squad, as he talked to the Evening Chronicle yesterday, about how the experienced players have to help our young lads through the current crisis. Steven Taylor showing leadership at Newcastle Steven told the Evening Chronicle: "There are a lot of young boys in the squad, and [. Click to continue reading...

Cristiano Ronaldo shows off his ball skills at presentation ceremony Cristiano Ronaldo was unveiled at the Santiago Bernabeu last night and showed that, just like English, he can only speak Spanish if he says all the letters the Portoogisch way, that he can't do keepy-uppies and that he enjoys passionate moments with young boys. Click to continue reading...

I am ashamed to admit, I opted not to watch the USMNT in the Gold Cup and instead chose to enjoy a beautiful Seattle day on my 4th of July.
I don't think there's much to take from the young boys' 4-0 win against Grenada. But I've embedded the highlights below.
And here are the results thus far:
Sunday
Mexico 2-0 Nicaragua
Guadeloupe 2-1 Panama
Saturday
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The lads of Canberra, mates, Aussie till the end can continue to look forward to playing against their mates in the Kanga Cup, next week at 10 and then every year thru to 18 and then continue to play against their mates in the local leagues and maybe one day in the local Premier League, and then the lower leagues as they get older and finally again in the Masters. Click to continue reading...

And if so why?
We came across this article on The Huffington Post today which raised the question and it is one we all debate. Welcome to the land where sport and politics collide.
Here is an excerpt:

Gary Schmitt's riff on America's victory over Spain is rightfully getting ripped.

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Nearpost football hosts Russ and Aaron are convinced the Jets will lose, nay get pumped tonight against the Pohang Denilson led Steelers in the Asian Champions League one-off last 16 game in Korea.
I'm not. I think they can win.
Either way watching Ben Kantarovski, Jason Hoffman, Tarek Elrich, Brodie Mooy, Mark Jesic, Adam D'Apuzzo, Kaz Patafta and Sean Rooney all young Aussies being tested on the continental stage is a joy. Click to continue reading...

I often wonder if Arsene Wenger and Michel Platini had a falling out as children and ever since Platini has held the biggest Grudge since that Japanese film with Buffy the Vampire Slayer in it.
Perhaps Wenger gave Platini a wedgie when they were young boys?
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I can almost smell it.

At the end of tomorrow's match we could be celebrating our third consecutive EPL title for the second time since the league's inception in 1992.

As it stands we sit six points ahead of Liverpool in second with two games to go, with that in mind we need only one point from our remaining two games to win this year's Premier League.

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How good is the next crop of youngsters coming through the ranks at Hale End and London Colney?� We have been waiting for OUR golden generation of youngsters for some time, the club has invested millions in training young boys and hoping they will be the real deal.� We have had several false dawns, namely the back to back FA Youth cup winning teams of 2000 and 2001.

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It's certainly a tough day for fans of the Arse. The number of them calling for Wenger's head all over the internet is quite astounding. Panic surrounding the futures of Fabregas, Adebayor and Van Persie is rife and it has turned into yet another trophy-less season for a club that expects a lot more.

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By 1970's GoonerThis was men against boys. The difference in class was so obvious to see. The United players were more experienced, stronger and covered so well for each other that even if Gibbs did not slip to let Park score the first goal they would have still run out comfortable winners.The Arsenal team was littered with young boys and seeing them try to get to grips with the United pros was Click to continue reading...

Are our youngsters good enough? Everyone talks about the youngsters at Arsenal and how talented they are, and this is certainly true but what about the youngsters at Man Utd, are they good enough to make the grade or are we going to have to splash out ridiculous sums on more top names?

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