Football(soccer) and More

"El Clasico" in La Liga

2005-11-23T15:27:00.000-08:00

Last sunday Spain and the world witnessed one of the worlds most intense football matches, 'El Clasico' between barcelona and real madrid. This game is intense before, while and after the match; before the match everyone talks about its opponent and the media is always looking to make a big deal out of anybodys comments. During the game, the fans and the players are very concentrated, the players fight every ball as if it was their life and fans celebrate every play and put their heads down for the downfalls of their team. After the game everyone not only goes to the winner but they also want to see what the looser has to say about it.
This past game and all were just like the others everything I described happened except this time something very intresting happened during one of the goals Ronaldinho scored, the madrid fans stood up and clapped after the goal and who wouln't it was litterally a work of art. This kind of thing happens very rarely but it had previously happen to a past derby, when maradona still played for barcelona he also score a wonderful goal, and the fans stood up and clapped for him. Good for Ronaldinho, he is showing the world that he is a great plyayer and maybe even compared to maradona. As far as the match went, Barcelona won with two goals from Ronaldinho and one from Eto'.

A New Star is Beginning to Shine!

2005-10-09T20:35:00.000-07:00

His name is Giovani Dos Santos and no, he is not Brazilian he is 100% Mexican, as he has said it. His father is Brazilian and his mother Mexican but he was born in Mexico and he is very proud of it. He plays for the Barcelona 'B' team and just resently shwoed himself to the world appearing with the Mexican U17 National Team at the world cup in Peru which with a tremendous performance by Giovani and his team mates Mexico won. Mexico started suffering in the play-offs tieing Costa Rica in the last minute of the game and then running over them in over-time. Later in the semi-final they made it seem easy defeating a soccer powerhouse Netherlands whom they beat 4 to 0. In the final again Mexico showed a terrific performance defeating Brazil 3 to 0.
Yeah you got that righ they defeated the 3 times champion at the U17 level, and they didnt just defeat them they made it look easy. Giovani Dos Santos was named the second best soccer player just below Brazilian Anderson who got the 'golden ball'. After this tournament Giovani created great expectations not just in Mexico where some people already want him in the Professional Select team, but he also got attention at his club team where he is being compared to Ronaldinho, who plays in the Professional Team. I think he does look like him but he should not be compared to him he is a different person and he should be different.

Barcelona "La Liga" champs

2005-05-22T19:51:00.000-07:00

Barcelona wone last week the championship in Spain, playing agaist Levante. It was kind-of easy since they only needed a tie after Real Madrid tied in their previous game and lost the chance to cought up with Barca. Barcelona did what they had to do and tied 1-1 with Levante with a goal scoared by Samuel Eto with an assist from Rafael Marquez, the Mexican deffender. Barcelona will be celebrating in Spain the next 3 games they have left. congrats for all you Barcelona fans!!!

FIFA rankings

2005-05-10T09:24:00.000-07:00

What do you think about FIFA rankings? personally I do not think they are very accurate, there are some teams that I think should be on top and are not and there are also teams that I do not think should be on top but are. I think most South American teams should be on the top 20's along with European teams, and then all the other tams. http://www.fifa.com/es/mens/statistics/index/0,2548,All-Apr-2005,00.html here is a link to the rankings, take a look and tell me what you think about them.

Beach Football World Cup.

2005-05-10T09:16:00.000-07:00

For the firts time in history the Beach Football World cup took place. It is being held right now in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. With 12 teams:Brazil, Argentina, France, USA, Thailand, Spain, Ucrain, Japan, South Africa, Australia, Portugal and Uruguay. The strong teams will always be Brazil and Argentina, then Spain and France. The group round is about to end today. My prediction is that Brazil will take it all the way.

Controversial celebrations after scoring a goal.

2005-05-10T09:02:00.000-07:00

How bout Chastain after winning the womens world cup with the U.S.; when she took off her shirt and showed everyone her sports bra. Or Mexian player: Blanco; after scoring a penalty kick went in the goal box and acted like a dog doing its business. Maradona was always controversial, specially that time with his team mate Caniga. I would not even talk about it.

Update on Maradona

2005-05-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

Most of you guys know Diego Armando Maradona, the great Argentine soccer player who won a world cup with Argentina and is considered the best soccer player of the world ever by many. He had a problem with drugs and has been in the hospital many times for his addiction. He also has a problem with obesity and last month went to Colombia to get surgery to loose some weight, he lost about 20 lbs. And now he is in Spain to visit friends in the teams Real Madrid and Barcelona. Back in Argentina Boca Juniors offered him a possition of coach for the reserve team but apperently he is not intrested in that he said he prefers a to be the coach for the firt division team or he would not be a coach.

Play-offs in Mexico

2005-05-10T08:49:00.000-07:00

The Mexican Football is about to end. The regular season ended this week, with 8 teams qualified for the play-offs. Cruz Azul, America, Santos, Tecos, Tigres, Necaxa, Morelia and Monterey. Cruz Azul finished in first place in the table so they will have home field advantage in all of the play-off games. It is hard to predict who will win though; teams that have finished first in the past have never won the championship. America and Necaxa both finished well defeating their opponents in the last week of the regular season and scoring five goals on them. It seems that it will be an exiting tournament we'll see what happenes.

European Football League's Champions are

2005-05-09T18:48:00.000-07:00

In Spain, Barcelona has a six point advantage over Real Madrid, their closest adversary, Barcelona needs 3 more points and they'll be champions of "La Liga".
In Italy Juventus this weekend untied with A.C. Milan and became the leader and possibly the champion of "El Calccio". In France Lyon, for the 4rt consecutive year became champion this pas week-end, it seems that they will not be champions next year though, because their coach got tired of winning and resigned his possition. In England Chealsea conquered the championship two weeks ago, they have been the leader all year long and finally they are champions of "English Premier Football League".

Chivas USA

2005-05-07T20:08:00.000-07:00

The new MLS team Chivas USA is making history; this team is formed by mostly mexican players and will try to make history in their first season in the MLS. This team is co-owned by Mexican entrepenour Jorge Bergara and Californian entrepenour Antonio Que. With the addition of this team to the MLS they are trying to target the Mexican soccer crowd, and I believe they will be successful. As a Mexican I will be following this team and I am sure many more Mexicans and Hispanics in general will as well.
What do you think about Chivas???

How to chest the ball down.

2005-05-05T15:32:00.000-07:00

This skill takes a lot of practice, but seeing it be done, and reading how to do it will help you. The ball is coming to you, first calculate the distance of the ball(to do this you need lots of practice) when the ball hits your chest you push it up with your chest, this gives the ball an effect that favors control. Like I said though you need lots of practice, to calculate the speed and when it will get to you. When you first start dont be surprised to get hit on your face or neck.

How to shoot the ball

2005-05-05T15:31:00.000-07:00

To stop your shots from going on top of the goal, do not swing your leg all the way up, swing and then pull it back as soon as it hits the ball.

Who thinks professor Sova ever played soccer??

2005-05-05T15:29:00.000-07:00

I think so

Iwain(ozzis team) Intramural Champion

2005-05-04T09:08:00.000-07:00

Monday April 2th Iwain, a team made up of soccer players from all over the world including American soccer players, won the LU intramural championship turnament, defeating a team called "evacuating china" which does not have a single Asian soccer player as many people may thinkso. Ozzi dedicated to Daniel Dakum, who past away Saturday morning after suffering from chicken pox the previous weekend. Daniel was a great friend of us and it was a good gesture from Ozzi to dedicate the championship to him and to even sign and give an Arsenal shirt to Daniels Parents. We will always rember Daniel for that great spirit in every single thing he did.

LU Intramural Sports Has Begun

2005-04-04T21:58:00.000-07:00

Liberty University Intramural Sport started two weeks ago, there will be 10 teams according to the intramural soccer manager: Herbert. The teams will play two times against the same team, and here is the trick: every team regardless of how many games they play will advance to the double elimination playoff. Someone in my team said jokingly when we were losing our first game "it dosnt matter if we loose this game and the following ones, just as long as we win the last one". That is right it does not matter if we win or lose just as long as we have fun. Regardles of that i am sure it will be a very competitive tournament.

The Champions league

2005-03-09T10:57:00.000-08:00

It was disapointing yesterday to see that Barcelona was loosing the playoff to Chelsea of England. It was an intense game Barcelona played very hard, I am proud of them. They started the game loosing 3-0 in less than 25 minutes then they came back with two goals from ronaldinho. His second goal was awsome, he was dancing with the ball right outside the box, than all of the sudden he just hit it with his toe and it went right in one of the corners. I think they needed Marquez on the back just to give them a little bit of balance between the lines and more security recuperating balls. Any ways I just hope now that they wont be discouraged and that they win the Spanish Liga.
Manchester Unite also lost to AC milan 0-1 and today Real plays Juve will see who goes to the next round.

'Copa Libertadores'

2005-03-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

Copa Libertadores is a tournament played between clubs from all over South America and Mexico.

Racism in European Stadiums

2005-03-02T11:16:00.000-08:00

In the past months Europe has been victim of racism from fans towards black, and South American soccer players. This racism started in France but later it became something very common in Spanish stadiums. Although authorities have been condeming it since it started it dosnt seem that they are doing anything to stop it and more cases occur every week in Spanish stadiums. Fans call black and South American soccer players monkeys and immitate the screams of a monkey, making fun of their color of skin. We hope authorities really start doing something about this before the situations worsens.

Soccer Most Popular Sport in the World

2005-03-02T08:55:00.000-08:00

Soccer has been since it was invented the most popular sport in the world, and although there might be some countries that have resisted its passion it is slowly taking over. The US is one of those countries which resisted ant still to some degree the development of soccer. We could see this in schools where officials dont give soccer the importance it should, some times it even seems that they hate it. Traditionally other sports have been more important in the US but I think schools should realize that soccer would eventually be the most popular sport everywhere.

Barcelona VS Espanyol

2005-03-01T22:28:00.000-08:00

The 'Catalan Derby' between Barcelona and Espanyol de Barcelona endeup in a tie. Although Barcelona FC had control the whole game the good performance by the goalie from Cameroon Kamendi and the defensive set up by Espanyol kept Barcelona from scoring. The best things from Barcelona were the great effort by Maxi Lopez, consistency of Eto up front and the good judgement of Marquez at midfield.
Barcelona started the week tieing with Numancia at their field, which was littarly frozen. Next week they will face Osasuna wich promeses to be a great game, since Osasuna wants to get their first victory of the year. Later on the week they will face Chelsea again but now in London to see who goes to the next round. Barcelona has a 2-1 advantage but will see if they can keep it.

Barcelona VS Chealsea, face to face in 'The Champions League'

2005-02-25T11:34:00.000-08:00

The Champions League is a tournament played in Europe between the best soccer clubs from all the leagues in Europe: Spain, England, Italy, Germany, etc....

This weak there were multiple matches but the best one in my own opinion was the one between Barcelona of Spain and Chealsea of England. Both teams came to the match in excelent conditions as they are both leading the leagues in their countries. Barcelona with fotball players from all over the world and Chealsea with football players mainly from Europe and Africa.

The game was played in Spain, so Bercelona had home field advatage but Chelsea is a hard team in every single aspect and everyone thought they were going to win. Although no one disregarded Barcelona who has one of the best offense in Europe with Ronaldinho, Deco, Eto, Giuly and their all new Maxi Lopez. They also have a strong midfield that can contain and create as well, with Rafel Marquez and Albertini who adjusted to the team after being recruited just a few weeks ago. They also have a good goalie Victor Valdez who does not let anything get in his goal.

The game started with a Barcelona coming to the attack very aggresively and a Chelsea who was just waiting and planning counter attacks. Aperently this worked for Chealse, for although Barcelona had posession of the ball most of the time, Chelsea with only two counter attacks scored the firs goal of the night.

The first half ended with Chelsea on top 1-0 but in the second half Barcelona came in more aggresive. Coach Frankjirard Switched Giuly for Maxi Lopez, this changed Barcelona completely for he was the author of a goal and helped scored the next one. The game ended and Barcelona won partially because they still have to play another game in England, the team accumulating more goals in both games will go to the next round and the looser will be disqualified. Good luck for both teams!

Rafael Marquez

2005-02-21T20:38:00.000-08:00

Rafael Marquez is currently the best Mexican soccer player, he is only 25 years old and is playing in Barcelona FC of Spain, one of the best and richest soccer clubs of the world. Marquez started his carreer in Mexico at the age of 17 playing for Pumas a first division team. Then he was transfered to Atlas where he started to become known for his defensive skills and his goals when coming up for corner kicks. At the age of 20 Marquez was recruited by Monaco, a French league first division team. While at Monaco, Marquez won a title with the club and was named the best defender of the legue during that year. In 2003 Barcelona became intrested in Marquez and payed 14 thousand dollars to aquire him. He had a slow start, at first he was having some difficulties gaining credivility from Frank Rikjard, Barcelonas coach, who did not know much about Marquez. After a while Rikjard realized the capacity of Marquez and since last season Marquez has been a started and one of the main peaces for the good functioning of Barcelona FC, which right now is in position number one in the Spanish league. Marquez has also been a great piece for the Mexican soccer team. Since Marquez has been in the team, it has been very difficult for other teams to beat the Mexican national team.
Marquez right now is in excellent football conditions he is playing his best with both teams, Barcelona, and Mexico. If he keeps playing like he is there is no doubt that Barcelona will endup winnig the Spanish league and that Mexico will have no problems qualifying for the next World Cup.

Welcome!!

2005-02-21T20:35:00.000-08:00

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