El martes 19 de febrero de 2020, se jugó la primera jornada de los octavos de final de la Champion’s League. Uno de estos partidos, entre el Borussia Dortmund y el Paris Saint-Germain, vio un resultado de 2 a 1 a favor del Dortmund. Además de ser un enfrentamiento entre dos equipos que están a… Read More »
As a kid, one of my favorite movies was Moneyball. For those who have never seen it, the movie tells the story of Billie Bean, the General Manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and how he used advanced analytics (known as sabermetrics) to find the most talented players at the cheapest price. Baseball teams… Read More »
Does anybody else miss the drama we saw at the Etihad at the end of the 2011-2012 season? It was Aguero’s strike that sent ripples through Manchester and the rest of England, as Manchester United were forced to stop their celebrations as news of a late extra-time winner meant they were no longer the champions.… Read More »
Depending on your team of choice, the 2018/19 English Premier League season has been a blend of frustration, exhilaration, or heartache. There has been a two-way horse race for the title for essentially the entire season between Liverpool and Manchester City, as they’ve traded places on a weekly basis. Liverpool is seriously challenge for the… Read More »
As a sports fan who has recently become a soccer fan, one of the hardest things to come to grips with is the lack of a season ending tournament. It is inconceivable to think that the team with the most wins at the end of the regular season would just become the champion. Where is… Read More »
Barcelona – Searching for a Return to Glory After failing to make it past the quarterfinals the past three years, Barcelona find themselves back in the driver’s seat of the tournament. Though the Blaugrana are an established team in the UCL (having won four times since 2005 and five times total), they have seen major… Read More »
To this date, the best match that I have watched has been the 2014 Champions League quarter-finals match between Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain. The game in it of itself wasn’t exceptionally thrilling. It was, however, the first Champions League match that I saw in person. Everything about the day was memorable. From the moment we… Read More »
Ajax is a club located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with a rich history of success both in the Netherlands and in Europe. The team has reinvented itself over the years and with each passing year it continues to to do the same, with established talent moving on and new, younger talent coming from their academy. Such… Read More »
When soccer fans typically think about ownership of the top clubs in Europe, people imagine billionaires such as Roman Abramovich (Chelsea), the Glazers (Manchester United), and Stanley Kroenke (Arsenal). However, what might not come immediately to mind are people like you and me. Football clubs used to earn the majority of their revenue simply from… Read More »
With the Champions league finale drawing closer and closer, I have decided to look at what many people, myself included, believed was a club that could go the distance; Paris Saint-Germain. PSG has a long and illustrious career in Ligue 1, the French soccer league, where they have acquired a record number of Coupe de… Read More »
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