Valencia have signed Russian Premier-Liga player of the year Alejandro Domínguez from FC Rubin Kazan on a free transfer. The 28-year-old Argentinian attacking midfielder completed a medical at Mestalla on Monday before signing a three-and-a-half year deal with Valencia. Domínguez finished joint top scorer to help Rubin to their second successive Russian league title as […]
Everton are expected to sign USA international Landon Donovan on a three-month loan deal in January. Donovan needs to play competitive football at the end of the Major League Soccer to maintain his fitness for the World Cup finals in South Africa in June and he spent last winter at Bayern Munich. Newspaper reports say […]
Juventus were sensationally knocked out of the Champions League Tuesday when Bayern Munich scored three second-half goals to beat Juventus 4-1 in Turin. With the win Bayern progress to the knockout round of the Champions League and Juventus are sent to the Europa League. “You could say that Juventus was bad, but you could also […]
It promises to be a great Carling Cup Final. Defending champions Manchester United, who defeated rivals Manchester City 4-3 in a thrilling semi-final to get to Wembley. Their opponents will be Aston Villa who reached the Carling Cup final after a 7-4 aggregate win over Blackburn. Villa came from two goals down to win a […]
FIFA has officially announced its seedings for Friday’s World Cup draw. The big surprise is in the #1 seeds which does not include France. The eight seeded teams in the draw are: Brazil, Spain, Holland, Italy, Germany, Argentina, South Africa and England. That means that Portugal, currently ranked fifth in the world rankings, and France, […]
The teams, groups and schedule for InterLiga™ 2010 were announced earlier this week. The seventh edition of InterLiga will be played from January 2-13, 2010 in Houston and Dallas, Texas, as well as the Home Depot Center in Calif. InterLiga 2010 is far from a series of exhibition games, as the results will determine two […]
It’s derby weekend in the Premier League with huge local derbies taking place in London, the Midlands and on Merseyside. Everton vs. Liverpool The series: In league play, the Reds have won 67 matches while Everton has won 56 times. There have also been 56 draws. This is always a big game, but it takes […]
The Philadelphia Union selected the first 10 players in a league expansion draft yesterday. Highlighting Union head coach Peter Nowak’s 10 selections are MLS veterans Alejandro Moreno and Shavar Thomas, both of whom started 17 games for their respective clubs in 2009. Moreno, a Venezuelan international, just completed his eighth year in MLS, has scored […]