Real Madrid started the new La Liga season with a victory, but Manuel Pellegrini’s expensively assembled side were made to sweat at the Santiago Bernabéu before sealing a 3-2 triumph over RC Deportivo La Coruña on the first day of the new Liga campaign. Raúl strike New signings Kaká, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema, Xabi Alonso, […]
A 115th-minute goal from substitute Pedro Rodríguez finally ended the resistance of Shakhtar Donetsk and gave Barcelona a third UEFA Super Cup triumph in Monaco. Dramatic victory Spain’s first treble winners last season, Barcelona had started the new campaign as they ended the old by collecting silverware thanks to last weekend’s Spanish Super Cup victory, […]
Italy’s top flight Serie A clubs confirmed they will split from the second division Serie B sides in an attempt to make up ground on England’s Premier League and Spain’s La Liga. The move is based on the English clubs’ 1992 breakaway which transformed the sport and made the Premier League the richest in the […]
European champions Barcelona drew Dynamo Kiev, Rubin Kazan and Inter Milan in Group F of the Champions League, with the latter’s coach José Mourinho booked in for a fourth return to face his former employers. Mourinho memories Mourinho worked as a translator and assistant to the late Sir Bobby Robson during his season as Barça […]
Wesley Sneijder’s move from Real Madrid to Inter Milan is all but complete as the player is on his way to Milan to finalize the deal according to tuttomercatoweb. “Next season I will play in Serie A with Inter. I am traveling from Madrid to Milan to complete the final paperwork and visitations,” he revealed […]
The lineup for the 2009/10 UEFA Champions League group stage has been completed with the final five qualifiers earning their places on Wednesday night. This week’s ten play-off winners join the 22 automatic entrants in Thursday’s group-stage draw. VfL Wolfsburg, Rubin Kazan, AZ Alkmaar, Standard Liège, Unirea Urziceni, Debreceni, APOEL and FC Zürich will all […]
AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has defended the Rossoneri’s transfer dealings this summer. The Serie A outfit have signed Thiago Silva from Fluminense, Oguchi Onyewu from Standard Liege, Flavio Roma from Monaco and Klaas Jan Huntelaar from Real Madrid. However, the Rossoneri have failed to lure their main targets of Sevilla striker Luis Fabiano and […]