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CONCACAF Qualifiying Wrapup

The US 2-0 victory over Mexico and Costa Rica's 2-0 victory over Honduras put the Ticos and US tied atop the Hexagonal. Andy Furtado scored two brilliant goals for Costa Rica in the second half. Amado Guevara had a good chance to score a late goal, but hit it just wide. The Ticos controlled possession […]

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Doodle of the Day: Feb. 12, 2009

"I can confirm... that Real Madrid has begun to put together money in order to obtain Cristiano Ronaldo..."

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Is Downtown Stadium in Houston on the Eve of Being a Done Deal?

With the Houston Dynamo’s opening match of the CONCACAF Champions League’s knockout stage quickly approaching on February 24th, it’s time to take a quick look at what’s going on here in Houston. The franchise made the move from San Jose to Houston, with the impression that it would be easier to obtain a stadium deal […]

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Breaking Bundesliga News: Hummels Looks Out For the Season.

Bild is reporting that Mats Hummels has sustained another in a long line of ankle injuries. Having just returned to training following the healing of tears in the inner and outer bands on his ankle, he left training due to the ankle again today. This is the 3rd injury to the right ankle in a […]

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Money League: Bayern 4th and closing fast!

Club Wealth Real Madrid €365.8m Manchester United €324.8m Barcelona €308.8m Bayern Munich €295.3m Chelsea €268.9m Arsenal €264.4m Liverpool €210.9m AC Milan €209.5m AS Roma €175.4m Inter Milan €172.9m Juventus €167.5m Olympique Lyon €155.7m Schalke 04 €148.4m Tottenham Hotspur €145m Hamburg SV €127.9m Olympique Marseille €126.8m Newcastle United €125.6m VfB Stuttgart €111.5m Fenerbahçe €111.3m Manchester City […]

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Top 7 Essential Soccer Websites

Type 'soccer' into Google, and the search engine will return 180 million search engine results. Whether you're new or a veteran of soccer, here are the top 7 essential ones that every soccer fan should have bookmarked: Soccerbase. There's more than meets the eye at Soccerbase. At first, the site looks deceivingly limited in the […]

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Barcelona, Madrid The Most Popular Clubs In Europe

Premier League say what? The Premiership lovers will talk to people about how their league is the best around but it seems like they aren't talking anymore. When a fan hears that their team is the biggest, a sense of pride emerges.

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Barca-Pool Give England A Spanish Lesson

Spain chewed England up and spit them out. There was no other way that the game could be put. It was ironic to have done it to Fabio Cappello's team in Spain. The home side was simply a machine and there was no doubt that they are the best team in the world.

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Chelsea Players Play Blame Game and Other Premier League News

It took a couple of days, but the rift in the Chelsea dressing room seems to have finally made it out onto the public forum of the press. It all had to start with John Terry, doing his best to absolve his blame in Scolari's sacking by saying he was behind the manager 100 percent, […]

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Same Scoreline: Different Story

2-0. The scoreline which rings so familiar in US-Mexico clashes was again repeated tonight. But this game was different. Firstly, Mexico with a virtual "B" attacking squad thanks partly to suspensions and injuries and also to the stubbornness of El Tri's manager was playing with a foot tied. This allowed the US to maintain greater […]

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Premier League Clubs Can't Afford to Be Patient With Managers

The firings of Tony Adams by Portsmouth and Big Phil Scolari by Chelsea brought the total number of clubs that have changed managers this season to seven, and the number of managerial changes to eight. That turnover rate seems quite high and quickly cycling managers seldom leads to success. It would seem that managers […]

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Plastic & Artificial pitches – 25 years on & we're still no closer to beating the weather!

Last Saturday was another frustrating day as for the second time in four days (& the third time in a month) Crystal Palace's Championship fixture was called off – not due to Peaches Geldof's pending divorce, Michael Phelps being pictured purportedly smoking marijuana from a bong or that 'idiot' Gordon Brown…........no you guessed it, it […]

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United States v Mexico Live and Online

CONCACAF World Cup Qualification begins the home stretch tonight as round one of the hexagonal begins and what a clash to start out with. The weather is miserable, but not cold in Columbus and the United States only have Mexico to contend with. Can the United States get off on the right foot? Will this […]

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Possible Upsets In the FA Cup?

The 5th round of the FA Cup gets underway this Saturday and Sunday and the question is will there be any upsets or will it be business as usual? Watford v Chelsea – Vicarage Road Just last week I would have said there was no chance of Watford pulling an upset but I’m not sure. […]

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MLS Gives a Friday Deadline on Beckham Deal

The LA Galaxy and AC Milan have until Friday to work out an agreement to see where David Beckham will play for after the March transfer date. With the start of the MLS season coming quickly it will be nice to have this finally come to an end so it won’t distract the Galaxy as […]