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Dribbling is the ability to go past opposition players with a quick change of direction, burst of pace or a neat trick.

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Did you see the photo Lance Armstrong posted on Twitter? The great man lounging in his trophy room with a collection of yellow jerseys, quite possibly the closest things he has to friends right now.

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Fabio Capello has joined a long list of unsuccessful England managers after he resigned from the position just four months before the Euro championships begin.

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The news last week was met with hardly a flicker of surprise in the football world: Lionel Messi was handed his third Ballon d’Or trophy in a row, crowned as the best footballer on the planet.

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Lionel Messi is the most recent conqueror of Europe, with his mighty Barcelona FC army following. Everyone has asked the question, is he the greatest player to grace a football pitch, drawing comparisons to fellow Argentine Diego Maradona, Brazilian Pele or even Dutchman Johan Cruyff.

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The manner of Barcelona’s victory over Manchester United in the UEFA Champions League final has reopened the debate on whether or not they are the greatest club side of all-time.

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What a week in Australian football! Maradona confesses that he and his La Albiceleste teammates took drugs against the Socceroos before a second-leg World Cup qualifier in 1993, and two of the Socceroos participants couldn’t give a flying fox.

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Robbie Slater says Australian soccer was naive not to ensure drug testing took place at the World Cup qualifiers with Argentina in 1993 but insists Diego Maradona’s claims of doping won’t sour his memories of the experience.

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Well, I’m a little bit over sorting out the problem with scrums, the lack of an ARC, NSW internal politics, Waratah performance, and the continued selection of Baxter and Mumm. Let’s go with something more entertaining.

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While Spain’s buildup will still have an air of celebration for the first match since winning the World Cup, Italy, France and England’s preparations for football friendlies this week will be focussed on repairing tarnished reputations.

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On Wednesday the South Korean FA announced Cho Kwang-Rae as their new national team coach. It’s widely tipped that Diego Maradona will be reinstated as Argentinean coach for the next four years next week and South Africa’s technical committee hired Pitso Mosimane as replacement for Carlos Alberto Parreira weeks ago.

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He has tamed Fabio Capello’s Three Lions, demolished Diego Maradona’s dream and snuffed out Lionel Messi’s magic. Now can Germany’s coach Joachim Loew inflict some World Cup pain on Spain?

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The first lesson: one loss and we hate the Socceroos. The manic and depressive nature of being an Australian football fan. One loss and all of a sudden Australia is a laughing stock and no-one really cares about football.

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Argentina’s footballers head home Sunday with their World Cup dream in tatters and coach Diego Maradona lamenting the toughest day of his life as he ponders whether to quit.

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Diego Maradona’s future as Argentina coach is unclear after the team’s devastating 4-0 loss to Germany in the World Cup quarterfinals.

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Diego Maradona once thought Thomas Müller was a ballboy, but the writing was on the wall for Argentina as early as the third minute when the German youngster headed home. It was the beginning of the end for the Argentines, as the World Cup’s most exciting team got down to business.

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Germany handed Diego Maradona’s Argentina an absolute 4-0 football lesson, on the back of comical defending, clinical build-up play and finishing, and some tactical brilliance from the man on the side line – Joachim Low.

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The highlight of the World Cup to this point has arrived – a quarterfinal clash between Argentina and Germany. Trash talk has been the theme of the build-up, as the two teams dished up plenty of verbal activity with the man himself – Diego Maradona – producing his best German accent.

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Faith in Maradona is growing in Argentina. You can almost hear it, in the plazas, in the streets, the rustle as its roots work their way down into people’s hearts.

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Pele’s war of words with Diego Maradona continued on Thursday as he said the Argentina coach was not a good coach because of his troubled private life.

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