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The celebration complete, here is the list of winners at the annual Ballon d’Or presentations: FIFA Ballon d’Or: LIONEL MESSI FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year Award 2012: ABBY WAMBACH FIFA Puskas Award: MIROSLAV STOCH FIFA Coach of the Year: VICENTE DEL BOSQUE FIFA Women’s Coach of the Year: PIA SUNDHAGE FIFA / FIFPro [...]
UPDATED – Via The Guardian – Lionel Messi reached another milestone in his phenomenal career on Sunday when he set a record for goals scored in a calendar year of 86 with a double strike at Real Betis, eclipsing Gerd Müller’s 40-year-old tally of 85. Check out Bundesliga Fanatic (run out of St Louis) look [...]
Via ESPN – The future of American soccer will be determined by one man. And, perhaps surprisingly, he is neither Jurgen Klinsmann, Clint Dempsey nor Ian Darke. Rich Luker, a 59-year-old baseball-loving social scientist based in North Carolina, is the brains behind the ESPN Sports Poll, the complex database that recently pronounced soccer as America’s [...]
Fox Soccer is showing this packaged game featuring many big name stars from South America. Live on Fox Soccer at 6:00 pm Saturday. The game include Clint Dempsey and Carlos Bocanegra on the Star’s squad while Messi, Drogba and Suarez will also be featured. The World Soccer Masters is a new concept that links on [...]
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 [...]
CHICAGO (March 24, 2011) – The U.S. Men’s National Team will debut a new Nike red jersey when they face Argentina on Saturday, March 26 at New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. The new red national team kit was inspired by supporters and is on sale now at ussoccerstore.com. Kickoff for the team’s international [...]
Plenty of good soccer this week, led by the return leg of the Champions League Round of 16. The big game is featured in the Guardian article Arsenal face suffocating assault from a Barcelona provoked by defiance All the striving, all the high ideals, have come to this: a test of exquisite complexity in a [...]
