Guardian Announces Their European Goal of the Year

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From the Guardian – Despite the brilliance of Mattie Burrows’s back heel volley for Glentoran and Wayne Rooney’s Twitter campaign, the winner of the 2010-11 European Goal of the Season was this effort by Fredy Guarin for Porto v Maritimo, which came in with 47.2% of the vote (79,903 votes in total). Rooney’s goal was [...]

Euro 2012 Games This Weekend

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The UEFA European Championship continues this weekend with a full slate of games, many of which can be seen on ESPN3.com. The tournament continues the second half of the Group stage, made up of 9 groups with 5 to 6 teams each who play a home-and-away series. The defending World Champion Spanish squad leads Group [...]

Farmers Gastropub Watch Party Saturday – Two Choices For Champions League Final!

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The Champions League Final between Barcelona and Manchester United kicks off at 1:00 pm Saturday on Fox Sports Midwest (same channel as Cardinal’s games, right?) which conflicts with the Springfield Catholic Quarterfinal game. So… For local Soccer fans Bill Griffiths will have two screenings of the game at Farmer’s Gastropub. You can catch it live [...]

ManU vs Chelsea For EPL Title Sunday

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I get annoyed with all of the Fan Boys that Manchester United and Chelsea have attracted the past few years, so I’m rooting for a Spanish side to win the Champions League this season. Despite that, I am reminded by how the youngsters were attracted to one of these sides when a 20-something starts reminiscing [...]

Barcelona and Real Madrid, One More Time!

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It’s the second leg of the semifinals between these two Spanish juggernauts. Game time is 1:45 pm Tuesday, I’m at Farmers Gastropub for this one, feel free to come join me. Here are some stories to get you caught up! Xavi keeping focused on Wembley goal FC Barcelona playmaker Xavi Hernández wants to make up [...]

Heinekens StarPlayer Champions League Game

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Want another way to interact with the game? Here’s a new option as reported by The Offsides: Heineken has launched their groundbreaking StarPlayer app which lets you play along live with Champions League games. Heineken – official Champions League sponsors – rolled out StarPlayer at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium at the semi-final clash between Schalke and [...]

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Lionel Messi, Barcelona

From Wednesday’s win against Real Madrid From the Guardian’s post-game report, The Key Clashes:Pepe and Diarra v Messi Mourinho had asked the energetic Pepe and Lassana Diarra to loiter and snap at Lionel Messi whenever the Argentinian was on the ball. That served to clog up the middle, draining the contest of rhythm and sapping [...]

Champions League Semifinals Tuesday – Wednesday

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It’s down to four teams and we begin the first leg of the semifinals on Tuesday with Schalke (Germany) hosting Manchester United while Real plays Barcelona for the 3rd time in what, a week? TUESDAY, April 26 – FOX SOCCER CHANNEL 1:30 pm SCHALKE-MANCHESTER UNITED (live) Here are Five reasons why Schalke may shock Manchester [...]

Real Madrid vs Barcelona Today

It begins today, 3 pm CDT 4pm on ESPN3.com. Where will you be watching? Four battles, one war: Winner takes all for Barcelona and Real Madrid White Hart Lane’s final whistle became the clásico series’ starting pistol, but both participants had already been up and running for some time. This was confirmation of what has [...]

Champions League Semifinals Set – Viewing Party?

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So, the Champions League semi-finals will feature Manchester United vs Schalke and Real Madrid vs Barcelona. Who’s your favorite? Games will be played the Tue April 26th and Wednesday April 27th. Probably time to set up an afternoon off for some group viewings, wouldn’t you agree? Cristiano Ronaldo is predicting two “very, very difficult” games [...]

Champions League Tuesday and Wednesday

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The Champions League Quarterfinals continue this week with the second leg of the home-and-away series. Tuesday April 12th 1:30 pm – MANCHESTER UNITED-CHELSEA (FSC) 4:00 pm – SHAKHTAR DONETSK-BARCELONA (delay FSC) Wednesday April 13th 1:30 pm – TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR-REAL MADRID (FSC) 4:00 pm – SCHALKE-INTER MILAN (delay FSC) Did you know Fox Soccer’s average audience [...]

Champions League Quarterfinals Tue-Wed

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The 1st leg of the UEFA Champions League Quarterfinals kick off on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The 8 teams remaining will play their home-and-away series this week and next. The winners move on to the semifinals the last week of April and 1st week of May. The games are being broadcast on Fox Soccer [...]

South American Youth Championships Monday

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On MONDAY, March 28th you can catch Final Round play in the South American U17 and U20 Tournament. ESPN3.com is the source of the broadcasts. ESPN3.com South American U-17 Championship FINAL ROUND (live) 3:45 pm. South American U-17 Championship FINAL ROUND (live) 6 pm. South American U-20 Championship FINAL ROUND (live) 8 pm. There is [...]

European Qualifiers For 2012 This Weekend

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ESPN will be treating us to some fine international soccer this weekend. FRIDAY, March 25 ESPN2 – Euro 2012 Qualifier SPAIN-CZECH REPUBLIC (live) 4 pm. ESPN3.com Euro 2012 Qualifier SERBIA-NORTHERN IRELAND (live) 12 pm. Euro 2012 Qualifier SLOVENIA-ITALY (live) 1:30 pm. Euro 2012 Qualifier LUXEMBOURG-FRANCE (live) 1:30 pm. Euro 2012 Qualifier HUNGARY-NETHERLANDS (live) 1:30 pm. [...]

Manchester United Take On Arsenal In The FA Cup Saturday

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The Goal Blog in the New York Times describes what is at stake Saturday when Manchester United vs. Arsenal kicks off at 11 am CST (Fox Soccer Channel). The F.A. Cup, not the league, takes precedence in England this weekend. Nevertheless, this is the matchup between the two outstanding sides in the Premiership, and the [...]