Barcelona: World Champion again!

Words barely do justice to the sustained excellence that Barcelona have achieved during Pep Guardiola’s glittering reign. The European champions hit the heights again on Sunday as they crushed Santos 4-0 to win their second FIFA Club World Cup title in three years, performing with the poise, grace and brilliance that the football world has [...]

Andres Iniesta: “I admire the Japanese personality”

It was nine months ago today that the world watched, utterly aghast, as the first horrific images began filtering through from Japan. None of us is likely to forget where we were as the scale of the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami became horribly clear, with the dead numbering in tens of thousands and a whole [...]

Barcelona cruise against Al-Sadd 4-0 in FIFA Club World Cup semis

Barcelona have coasted through to a FIFA Club World Cup final against Santos, although the European champions’ resounding 4-0 victory over Al-Sadd at the Yokohama International Stadium was overshadowed by a serious injury to striker David Villa. The former Valencia star suffered a broken leg towards the end of the first half and will now miss around six [...]

Junior’s Major Comeback Propels Them Into Colombian Final

The days leading up to the big return leg mach at El Metropolitano had Junior confident that they could revert a 3-0 deficit. The fans showed support during the practices while the queen of the Barranquilla carnival dropped by to practice with the boys and offer some vital motivation. In Bogota, the local newspapers were [...]

Move to homeland working out for Ronaldinho

When players reach the latter days of their career, and have been plying their trade on foreign playing fields for the most of it, it seems quite inevitable that they should go on to finish their careers in their home countries or a league where the expectation levels are a little less.  This has been [...]

Scotland quits international football to focus on Ipswich

BY Shaun Fuentes – Ipswich Town striker Jason Scotland has revealed that he has retired from international football in an effort to concentrate on his professional career at the club level. Scotland made the announcement ahead of the National Men’s team for the upcoming 2014 World Cup qualifiers against Bermuda (October 7) and Barbados on October [...]

Fifteen year old makes professional debut in Trinidad

BY Shaun Fuentes – Young Matthew Woo Ling of Trinidad and Tobago fell in love with the set up at W Connection FC in his first training session under head coach Stuart Charles Fevrier during the summer vacation and decided that he wanted to join the club on a full time basis. Connection is the [...]

Colombian Football’s “New Culture” Faces Its First Big Test

When many talked about not having fencing after the World Cup, many individuals scoffed at the thought that this measure would last. Nine rounds in and there still have not been incidents that have challenged the posture as of yet. Now there haven’t been matchup that have generated a any type of challenge to this [...]

Peruvian Football Rocked By Violence

Peruvian football was rocked after the death of  Walter Oyarce at Sunday’s Clásico between Alianza Lima and Universitario.  Oyarce, fan of Alianza Lima was sitting in the VIP section at the Estadio Monumental when he was attacked and he plunged to his death this past Saturday. David Sánchez Manrique and “El Cholo” Payet, two ultras [...]

T&T not taking India lightly for Sunday’s friendly in Port of Spain

By Shaun Fuentes Forward Andre Toussaint says the current Trinidad and Tobago Senior team will be aiming to produce a tidy as possible performance in Sunday’s friendly international against India at the Hasely Crawford Stadium, Port of Spain from 5pm. Toussaint is one of the senior members in Otto Pfister’s squad which has been in [...]

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