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There is talk of yet another European club competition crowding an already full calendar of fixtures, as France Football magazine revealed in its most recent issue that the continent’s top pro teams “are ready to break away and form an elite, three-tiered “Super-Championship”, which would usurp the Champions League in importance,” writes Goal.com. Replacing an […]

There will be no “mid-season makeover” like last season, promises Red Bulls coach Juan Carlos Osorio, referring to South American additions Gabriel Cichero, Juan Pietravallo and Jorge Rojas, among others, that arrived in time to help the N.Y.  upstarts make a run all the way to the MLS Cup final. This time around, Osorio went […]

“Some players looked a bit mentally tired. It opens up the race for the title, even though I still believe that Manchester United are in a strong position with the game in hand that they still have. ?They have played many matches since Christmas and it looked to have caught up with them on Saturday.” […]

“If Florentino comes and says ‘Roberto, come back’, I will have to think about it and talk about it…If I said now that I didn’t want to go back, I would be lying…I would return to Madrid to play, to be part of a group of champions. I would not return to play a bit-part […]

“The way I sold it to [co-owner] Joe Roth is that the fans will do your dirty work for you. You always know when a general manager is doing bad in any sport and you always know when they need to go, but nobody ever does anything about it … I think you should do […]

Not wanting a replay of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup in which Costa Rica had three players ejected in a hotly contested match against Mexico, officials from the Costa Rican soccer federation (Fedefutbol) are up in arms over the appointment of U.S. referee Terry Vaughn for the upcoming World Cup qualifier on March 28 in […]

If and when Jose Mourinho is successful in his apparent wish to succeed Sir Alex Ferguson at the helm of Manchester United, he might lose his best player in the process, suggests The Daily Mirror. Giving credence to a suggested feud between Cristiano Ronaldo and the current Inter Milan coach, the 2008 World Player of […]

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. That was perhaps one of the lessons learned by D.C. United and head coach Tom Soehn in last season’s “nightmare” campaign, where “injuries, underachievement and simple bad luck conspired to produce one of the most trying years in the club’s existence,” writes MLSnet.com’s Charles Boehm. So for 2009, […]

FIFA handed down a tough four-game suspension and $4,200 fine to Trinidad & Tobago captain Dwight Yorke in response to a red card tirade following his country’s 2-2 draw with El Salvador on Feb. 11. Having already earned a yellow card in the run of play, Yorke was given a second yellow after making an […]

In an AP report out of Baghdad, an Iraqi player was apparently shot dead during a soccer match between amateur clubs Buhairat and Sinjar on  Sunday. According to Police Major Muthanna Khalid, a Buhairat striker was on a breakaway with just the keeper to beat in the last minute of a game Sinjar was leading, […]

Both England and Australia submitted their official bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups on Monday, just under the wire of the FIFA deadline and joining individual bids by Indonesia and South Korea that were filed this weekend. With the inclusion of those four nations, there are 11 total bids that FIFA will select […]

“I feel a bit like a child. Today I’m celebrating an event that fills me with pride. Three hundred goals is really a lot. I didn’t have time to prepare any celebrations. I’ve scored five goals in two weeks that I didn’t expect.” Italian mainstay Filippo Inzaghi, after scoring two goals in AC Milan’s 5-1 […]

“I believe Liverpool have been the best team in Europe for the last five years. We have beaten Real Madrid and Manchester United in the same week — if we can beat them, we can beat anybody.” Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez, feeling confident (as he should be) after decisive win and four-goal outputs against La […]