World Football Challenge Opens Wednesday

World Football Challenge

The World Football Challenge is a series of 14 games — 5 involving M.L.S. clubs — that begin Wednesday when Manchester United opens the tournament against the New England Revolution at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA. The games continue until Aug. 6 when Barcelona plays Club América of Mexico at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX. [...]

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 [...]

20 Players to Watch at Beijing

The World Cup blog is doing Olympic duty and offers their Top 20 list, broken down between 10 you know and 10 you may not know. It includes Freddy Adu and Jozy Altidore from the US (known/may not know respectively). The US Men’s team plays in Group B against Japan, Nigeria and the Netherlands. Here [...]

UEFA Champions League Returns Today

Don’t forget to set the recorders on your way to work today as the knockout round (Sweet 16) begins today with the broadcast of Liverpool vs Inter Milan. 1:30 pm ESPN2 – Liverpool vs Inter 4:00 pm ESPN Classic – AS Roma vs Real Madrid and tomorrow brings 1:30 pm ESPN2 – Arsenal vs AC [...]

Does Pretty Futbol Matter?

The fan of international ball that reads this site is familiar with Fabio Cappello, recently chosen to lead England’s national team. How familiar are you with his previous position as head of Real Madrid? Goal.com looks at the beautiful game as it’s played in Spain and compares and contrasts the approaches being taken by Real, [...]