Posts Tagged "European football"

Bundesliga outfit Bayer Leverkusen host reigning European champions FC Barcelona in the first leg of this UEFA Champions League round of 16 tie. Join us for live scores and blog from 6:30am AEDT.

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For the past two seasons, people have been mentioning Chelsea as being a club in transition. And the old boys need to leave and the youngsters need to be integrated into the first team squad.

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The possibility of Europe’s biggest clubs leaving local leagues and playing in a new European league on a weekly basis – which I’m sure they’d label ‘super’ something, such is the lack of imagination in people – is gaining new momentum.

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In the world of football, FIFA’s 208 member nations are split into six different confederations, roughly based on continental boundaries.

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How theatrical, how dramatic. Serie A, Italy’s premier football league, continues to hibernate, albeit forcibly.

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Ljubo Milicevic ‘s move to Hajduk Split might not do much for his tarnished off-field reputation, but does give him the opportunity to let his football do the talking for once.

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Having watched the Champions League final in my lounge room with my jaw somewhere near my ankles, I began to wonder, is the method of playing football starting to drastically change?

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I got up at 6.45am on Sunday morning – set my alarm and everything – expecting to see the last 15 minutes of this year’s Champions League final between Barcelona and Manchester United. What I got was UEFA president Michel Platini handing the cup over to Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, who raised it aloft.

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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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Barcelona confirmed their place in the pantheon of football’s greatest sides after outclassing Manchester United 3-1 at Wembley on Saturday to claim their second Champions League crown in three years.

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How do you pick a winner in this year’s European Cup final? Manchester or Barcelona? The Red Devils or the Catalan connection? Yes, you could spend all your time analysing the strategies likely to be employed by both coaches.

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The recent controversial match between Real Madrid and Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final was certainly a heated one. It was a match that has split many opinions in regards to officiating, coaching and tactics.

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There was plenty of anticipation in the build up to the UEFA Champions League quarter finals, but there was more expectation of tough contests than a shower of goals.

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With the LA lifestyle, the permanent tabloid attention, the numerous (but brief) club moves, regular talk show appearances and the general celebrity fanfare about his appearance, could all this attention beyond his football be detrimental to David Beckham’s legacy as one of the most talented sportspeople of all-time?

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FC Porto completed a devastating turnaround of fortunes in Portuguese football when they romped to a 25th league title, and a seventh of the decade, on the weekend by defeating fierce rivals Benfica 2-1 at the Estadio De Luz.

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The UEFA Champions League has reached its business end for another season. The big boys have qualified for the quarter finals, but there have been few surprises.

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“He’s tall, he’s lean, he’s a goal-scoring machine… Peter Crouch, Peter Crouch.” And he’s good for European football, too, you know…

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It was 1999 and FC Groningen was languishing in the second tier of the Dutch football league system known as the Eerste Divisie. Home games were played at the 12,500 seat Oosterpark Stadion, but the average attendance was far below that. Fast forward to 2011 and it is fair to say that the ‘pride of [...]

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Nearly six months after four dozen or so hope-filled teams set out on the European Champions League trail, the final 16 survivors have been confirmed.

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As the World Cup is coming to an end, you can draw many conclusions. But the most important thing we have all learned from the tournament is that it takes a team to win the Cup.

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