Created in honour of Ferenc Puskás, captain and star of the Hungarian national team during the 1950s, the FIFA Puskás Award will be bestowed upon the player from either the men’s or women’s game judged to have scored the best goal of the year. The final decision gets determined by FIFA.com users. In making their decision, the… Read More »
From the game between Athletic Bilbao vs. Barcelona. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/UfDzV0AgECA” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]
As I have purchased my tickets for several football games in Istanbul during the winter break, I wanted to share some videos with you that make me get excited each time I see them. Yet, before that, I want to say something about the team and supporters culture back home. Firstly, although I am a… Read More »
The drawing of lots for the 2010 World Cup will be determined on the 4th of December. FIFA have yet to announce the seeding procedure and thus a mixture of geographical draw precedent, current FIFA rankings and past World Cup performance points, and upcoming ranking changes, have been used to complete the below. Goal.com underlines… Read More »
You have probably heard of Wigan’s destruction while facing Tottenham Spurs this past Saturday. Just in case you have not, here is a link: Tottenham-Wigan Athletic. Wigan took their first step towards the Premier League in 1997 when they won the Third Division under John Deehan. Paul Jewell then earned promotion to the First Division with… Read More »
Tuttosport of Italy has been publishing a list of U-21 players for its Golden Boy Awards since 2003. The award went to Raffael Van der Vaart in 2003, Wayne Rooney in 2004, Lionel Messi in 2005, Cesc Fabregas in 2006, Sergio Aguero in 2007 and to Anderson last year. 2008 witnessed the tightest competition as… Read More »
This photo has been taken by Phil Noble at the Liverpool-Manchester United game during the 1999-2000 season. This was the first match of Massimo Taibi wearing the Manchester jersey where he made spectacular saves during the game. Unfortunately, Taibi had the chance to play only four matches including this match during the whole season. Another… Read More »
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