The English Premier League is riding high as the top football league in the world. Last season saw two Premier League teams playing in the Champions League Final for the first time and the League continues to attract new investors from overseas, while enjoying a massive television contract. This summer English teams seem more interested […]
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The Houston Dynamo cruised to a 3-1 victory over the DC United aided by former United star Bobby Boswell who scored one of the team’s three goals. Ricardo Clark and Stuart Holden also scored for the two-time MLS champions. Houston now advances to play the second-place finisher from Group B in the semi-finals. Out of […]
You would think from the accolades last week that Zinedine Zidane had just retired. In fact DaMarcus Beasley somehow compared Claudio Reyna to ZuZu before the 2006 World Cup saying: On the field, technically he’s our best player. He’s so smooth. He’s very nonchalant. He always reminds me of [Zinedine Zidane]. Let’s get one thing […]
Real Madrid star Wesley Sneijder is not impressed by his teams pursuit of Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo. Real are the current La Liga champions and Sneijder doesn’t think that they need Ronaldo. “To me this Madrid side doesn’t need to make signings. We’ve been very solid and the team has improved. This squad is […]
Two months after winning the Champions League final in Moscow it has been anything but a quiet summer at Old Trafford. With the long-running Ronaldo soap-opera plus assistant coach Carlos Queiroz leaving to take over at Portugal Sir Alex Ferguson has seen his pres-season plans thrown into turmoil. With United returning almost everyone from last […]
Deciding to go with countrymen Kaka and Alexandre Pato versus Elano and Jo, Ronaldinho has signed with A.C. Milan upon completion of a physical. His contract runs through 2011. Barcelona noted that the San Siro outfit will pay $33.4 million for the Brazilian playmaker. Obviously, A.C. Milan felt that the transfer fee was needed to […]
Beleaguered ex-Manchester City striker Georgios Samaras has made a permanent move to SPL side Celtic. The 23-year-old Greek international joined City for £6million in January 2006 yet failed to find his niche with the Premiership club. Also from the Manchester City front, boss Mark Hughes will move his attention toward acquiring several more players to […]
Recap of this weekend’s games in Major League Soccer which saw two MLS shown red cards. Earthquakes 1, Colorado 1 Ryan Johnson’s second-half goal broke a long scoring drought for the last place San Jose Earthquakes, but Conor Casey scored minutes later to lift the Colorado Rapids into a 1-1 tie Saturday. Johnson ended the […]