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/ 4368 days agoInter Milan's Home, Away and Third Shirts for 2014/15 Season
Last week, Italian giants Inter Milan released their 2014/15 home kit. With a radical new design and an updated crest, this shirt is something of a break with tradition. As their nickname suggests, the Nerazzurri are known for wearing equal parts black and blue. This year, however, they’ve gone for a predominately black jersey, with […]

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/ 4368 days agoMessi Will Most Likely Never Be The Best Ever And That's Okay
Following Sunday's World Cup final loss to Germany, albeit in extra time, Lionel Messi's legacy took a sharp hit. If he never wins the game's most prestigious trophy, Messi will never be considered the greatest soccer player ever, and that's okay because he is already an iconic figure in the sport with a lot […]

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/ 4368 days agoZinedine Zidane Reveals His Thoughts On Headbutts And Penalties
Earlier today, Real Madrid legend Zinedine Zidane presided over his first training session as the new coach of Real Madrid Castilla, otherwise known as the club’s ‘B’ team. Zidane was most recently part of Carlo Ancelotti’s coaching staff that won ‘La Decima’ for Real Madrid last season. Today was the first time the former French […]

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/ 4368 days agoWest Ham United Consider New Club Crest Featuring London
As they prepare for their 2016 move to the Olympic Stadium, West Ham United are considering a change to their club crest. In an official statement, the East London club have expressed the need to “better reflect and celebrate the things that make West Ham so special, particularly its rich history.” As soccer becomes even more […]

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/ 4368 days agoEngland to Play in Scotland For First Time In 15 Years
England has scheduled a friendly against Scotland to be played in Celtic Park on November 18. It's the first time England will play Scotland north of the border in 15 years. The last time these teams met in Scotland, Paul Scholes scored two goals at Hampden Park to defeat the Scots in a Euro 2000 […]

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/ 4368 days agoWorld Cup 2014 closing montages: ESPN, BBC, ITV, CBC & RTE
After the final whistle was blown and Germany was declared World Cup Champions, the major sports networks started to wrap up their coverage of the 2014 World Cup, and many of them closed their broadcasts with a montage of some of the special moments of the World Cup tournament. The amount of attention to the […]

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/ 4368 days agoWhy Germany Won the 2014 World Cup
Ten years. That’s how long the German team, their head coach, and the entire backroom staff have worked – worked hard and determined, that is – to reach the ultimate goal: World Champions. We have seen it before. In the late 1990s France began to dominate the European and World scenes. Then Spain took over. […]

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/ 4368 days agoRebuilding Brazil Won't Be Easy For Scolari's Successor
The World Cup is over, and whilst the Germans are probably still celebrating their thoroughly deserved victory, as a Brazilian, I am more concerned about the mess that the national team is now in. Over the course of 180 minutes in Belo Horizonte and then Brasilia over the last week, the current crop of Brazilian […]

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/ 4369 days agoSchedule of Premier League Games On US TV Revealed For August Through September
The return of the soccer season is just weeks away with the Premier League scheduled to return to action on Saturday, August 10. Now that Sky Sports and BT Sport have carved out which games the UK broadcasters will show during the early stages of the 2014/15 season, we can defer which matches will be […]

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/ 4369 days agoWorld Soccer Talk's Best Starting XI Of The 2014 World Cup
In arguably the greatest World Cup ever, the five week adventure that is the grand global tournament in Brazil has now concluded. Now in a fitting conclusion that saw a resilient and mentally strong German side win their fourth world championship (and first as a unified national side), we've put together a final team of […]

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/ 4369 days agoLionel Messi Didn't Deserve to Win the Golden Ball Award at the World Cup
The free-kick in the dying moments of extra time saw Lionel Messi in a position where he could etch himself into immortality. He was not going to win the match at that point, but if he had scored, Argentina could have flirted with victory at least. The problem was Messi blasted the ball over Manuel […]

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/ 4369 days agoManchester United Are Planning To Dominate The Post-World Cup Headlines
Now that the World Cup is over, it appears the Manchester United commercial machine is moving full steam ahead in order to capitalize on the buzz surrounding the global event before it dies down. That means football fans can expect more news to be come out of Old Trafford in the following days, as Manchester […]

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/ 4369 days agoLiverpool Could Be A Possible Destination For PSG's Edinson Cavani
Edinson Cavani is prepared to leave Paris Saint-Germain in favor of a move to a Premier League club after reports have emerged that the Uruguayan forward has informed his agent to find him a move to the Premier League. Stories surfaced last season Cavani had become frustrated with his use and position on the pitch […]

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/ 4369 days agoManchester United Secure $1.2 Billion Shirt Deal With Adidas
Manchester United have secured a new shirt deal with adidas, where the Old Trafford club will net $1.2 billion over the next 10 years. The £75million-a-year deal begins with the 2015/16 season when Manchester United will wear adidas shirts instead of Nike. The last time United wore adidas was 1992. The German manufacturer had a […]

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/ 4369 days agoFive Observations From the 2014 World Cup Final
The 2014 World Cup final was not a classic but it would be hard to argue that the Germans were not deserving winners. They were the best collective unit, achieved the outstanding result in the World Cup demolishing the hosts, Brazil, 7-1 in the semifinals and were by far the most consistent team in the […]