Spain Primere Division News

Barcelona and Real Madrid had an anomaly start this season, their both loose in their first match, Barcelona loosing 1-0 from Numancia in an away game, and so does Real Madrid loosing 2-1 from the home team Deportivo La Coruna.

In Numancia Stadium Despite Barcelona having the majority of possession and the best opportunities, it was the Numancia that win the match, as they packed their defence and looked to play on the break as it proceed to be a successful formula as Mario netted the only goal of the in the 13th minute. After that, the home team sat back to defend their lead and allowed Barcelona to dictate the player while making things very difficult by putting two player in front of four defense.

In Riazor Real Madrid didn't have a good start to the competition. Mista scores the first goal in the first half after he netted a header with a bounce from a set piece by Guardado in 26^th Minute. The second half couldn't have started better for Real Madrid. Raúl tried to lob the ball into the goal, but it hit a defender and landed inside the box with no one near it. It was then that Ruud van Nistelrooy pulled rank, reached it and scored in 47^th minute. Real Madrid tried hard to net another strike, but Deportivo gave no quarter and scored again when Lopo headed the ball into the back of the net from a corner kick by Guardado in 51th minute. The Whites kept trying to score an equalizer, but they always failed, so until the match over the score is still 2- 1 for the home team.

Italy Serie A News

The First week of the Italian Serie A prove to be not a good day for the big team. Last year Champions Inter Milan with their new coach Jose Mourinho can only play draw 1-1 against Sampdoria, while runner up A.S. Roma was also draw 1-1 against napoli, other duel between big team also ended in 1-1 draw between Juventus against Fiorentina. The first week even more disappointed for Milan. Signing a lo of big name such as Ronaldinho, Flamini, and Senderos recently, the Rossoneri loose 1-2 against a promote team Bologna in San Siro.

In Luigi Ferraris Zlatan Ibrahimovic broke the deadlock on 33 minutes, chesting down Mancini's ball over the defence and firing past Mirante after a buildup involving Sulley Muntari.Gennaro Delvecchio brought the teams level and ensured his side a share of the points 23 minutes after the restart, pouncing on a loose ball and converting from close range after Maicon beat Franceschini to Stankevicius' cross. These result is not a good start for Jose mourinho career in Italy, although he wins the Italian Super Cup a weeks ago.

In San Siro Bologna's opening goal by Di Vaio, Milan always seemed capable to rebalance,but still in the first 30 minutes Milan seemed incapable of moving the ball around and be dangerous with or without the ball. It seemed like they were nervous because of it being the opening match, an ideal justification for a match which started badly, but then the goal from Ambrosini on Dinho's perfect assist made it seem things would change.In the second half Ronaldinho continued to display his magic throughout the pitch with moves that were always useful to the team. Inzaghi, Shevchenko, and Pato all tried to convert the chances and it could be felt that everything would turn out well.Unfortunately, after created numerous chances, Bologna midfielder Valiani aim the ball for the top corner of the net, and it was Bologna who had a party in San Siro .

In Artemio Franchi Juventus were unlucky with one man more than Firoentina since 83th minute the game looked over with a 1-0 lead after Nedved scores in the first half but Gilardino's equalizer, coming right at the end, make the score 1-1 which was disappointed the team and the coach. The Juve coach Ranieri said in the Juve Official Site “We accept the draw but it's disappointing for us. We'd controlled the game and had chances to finish it off with Amauri and Del Piero. Shame about that goal we conceded, an experienced team such as ours can't concede a goal like that, even if Gilardino did well with one of his typical moves. At the end we tried to win it instead of slowing the pace down. In any case I'm pleased with how the lads played and for how they interpreted the game play. I liked the new signings, they showed they've settled in immediately, that's another reason I'm happy about the work we've done so far”. These results is same as last year result with Adrian Mutu level the score from penalty spot.

English Premier League News

Third week of the premier league the duo leader of table, Chelsea and Liverpool failed to keep on winning. Chelsea can only play draw 1-1 against Tottenham in London derby game Belletti scores first for Chelsea in 27th minute, but Bent scores the equalize in45th minute . Chelsea coach Scolari said to the Chelsea web after the game "For me we played well. I think we need to respect Tottenham and the quality they have. Sometimes it is impossible to win. It was an interesting derby and a draw for me is a normal result because we had more chances but made mistakes in the final shot.". I other place Liverpool who play without their captain Steven Gerrard cannot convert any goal and play draw against Aston Villa, and it even better worse for the reds after their striker Torres were injured in 30^th minute.

Spain Primere Division Results (August 31)

Spain Primere Division Results (August 31)

Atletico Madrid 4-0 Malaga
26' J. Heitinga, 38' D. Forlan, 43' D. Forlan(pen.), 80' S. Pongolle (A)

Numancia 1-0 Barcelona
12' M.R. Mario (N)

Athletic Bilbao 1-3 Almeria
57' I.V. Martinez (Athl.) ; 7' H. Pellerano, 33' A. Negredo, 51' J.B. Ortiz (Alm.)

Racing Santander 1-1 Sevilla
75' Juanjo (R) ; 70' L. Fabiano (S)

Osasuna 1-1 Villarreal
69' J. Nekounam(pen.) (O) ; 54' M. Senna (V)

Real Betis 0-1 Recreativo Huelva
36' Adrian (Recre.)

Sporting Gijon 1-2 Getafe
35' D. Castro (S) ; 14' J. Albin, 86' F.J. Casquero (G)

Deportivo La Coruna 2-1 Real Madrid
26' Mista, 51' A. Lopo (D) ; 47' Van. Nistelrooy (R)

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Italy Serie A Results (August 31)

Italy Serie A Results (August 31)

AC Milan 1-2 Bologna
41' M. Ambrosini (M) ; 18' M.D. Vaio, 79' F. Vailani (B)

AS Roma 1-1 Napoli
29' A. Aquilani (R) ; 55' M. Hamsik (N)

Atalanta 1-0 Siena
15' S. Padoin (A)

Cagliari 1-4 Lazio
31' J. Larrivey (C) ; 62' M. Zarate (pen.), 71' M. Zarate, 75' P. Foggia, 84' G. Pandev (L)

Catania 1-0 Genoa
61' G. Mascara (C)

Chievo 2-1 Reggina
76' M. Marcolini (pen), 88' V. Italiano (C) ; 72' B. Corradi (R)

Torino 3-0 Lecce
29' A. Rosina (pen.), 33' P. Zanetti, 74' R. Bianchi (T)

Fiorentina 1-1 Juventus
89' A. Gilardino (F) ; 39' P. Nedved (J)

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Spain Primera Divison Results (August 30)

Spain Primera Divison Results (August 30)

Espanyol 1-0 Valladolid
46' L. Garcia (E)

Valencia 3-0 Mallorca
34' D.Villa, 38' J.M. Mata, 82' Vicente (V)

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Italy Serie A Results (August 30)

Italy Serie A Results (August 30)

Udinese 3-1 Palermo
9' A.D. Natale, 34' A.D. Natale, 70' G. Inler (U) ; 69' M. Bresciano (P)

Sampdoria 1-1 Inter Milan
68' G. Delvecchio (S) ; 33' Z. Ibrahimovic (I)

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Barclays Premier League Results (August 30)

Barclays Premier League Results (August 30)

Bolton W 0-0 West Bromwich A

Everton 0-3 Portsmouth
12' J. Defoe, 40. G. Johnson, 68' P. Crouch (P)

Hull C 0-5 Wigan Athletic
5' S. Ricketts(o.g.), 13' L.A. Valencia, 63' A. Zaki, 68' E. Heskey, 81' A. Zaki (W)

Middlesbrough 2-1 Stoke C
37' A. Alves, 85' T. Sanli (M) ; 71' J. Hoyte(o.g.)

West Ham U 4-1 Blackburn R
12' C. Davenport, 20' C.S. Veijeany(o.g), 90' C. Bellamy, 90' C. Cole (W) ; 22' J. Roberts (B)

Arsenal 3-0 Newcastle
18' R.V. Persie(pen.), 41' R.V. Persie, 59' Denilson (A)

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Zenit St Petersburg wins European Super Cup

Zenit St. Petersburg beat Manchester United 2-1 to win the European Super Cup for the first time on Friday. Pavel Pogrebnyak put Zenit ahead a minute before halftime from close range after Igor Denisov flicked on a corner from Alejandro Dominguez. Danny, signed for a Russian record US$44 million from Dynamo Moscow, added the second goal in the 59th when he drifted past two defenders and beat goalkeeper Edwin Van der Sar with a low shot.Nemanja Vidic pulled a goal back in the 73rd after good work by Carlos Tevez down the left. United midfielder Paul Scholes was shown a second yellow card and sent off in injury time for punching the ball into the net.

Stade Louis II

Manchester United (4-4-2): 1-Edwin Van der Sar ; 2-Gary Neville (6-Wes Brown 76), 5-Rio Ferdinand, 15-Nemanja Vidic, 3-Patrice Evra; 8-Anderson (22-John O'Shea 60), 17-Nani, 18-Paul Scholes, 24-Darren Fletcher (13-Park Ji-sung 60); 10-Wayne Rooney, 32-Carlos Tevez

Zenit St Petersburg (3-4-3): 16-Vyacheslav Malafeev; 22-Alexander Anyukov, 4-Ivica Krizanac (2-Vladislav Radimov 71), 28-Sebastien Puygrenier (15-Roman Shirokov 62); 11-Radek Sirl, 27-Igor Denisov, 44-Anatoly Tymoschuk, 18-Konstantin Zyrianov; 7-Alejandro Dominguez (10-Andrei Arshavin 46), 8-Pavel Pogrebnyak, 19-Danny.

Referee: Claus Bo Larsen (Denmark)

Champions League Groups

Results of Champions League campaign groups draw in Monaco.

Group A
1. Chelsea
2. A.S. Roma
3. Bordeaux
4. CFR Cluj

Group B
1. Inter Milan
2. Werder Bremen
3. Panathinaikos
4. Anorthosis Famagusta

Group C
1. Barcelona
2. Sporting Lisbon
3. Basel
4. Shakhtar Donetsk

Group D
1. Liverpool
2. PSV Eindhoven
3. Marseille
4. Atletico Madrid

Group E
1. Manchester United
2. Glasgow Celtic
3. Villareal
4. Aalborg

Group F
1. Bayern Munich
2. Lyon
3. Fiorentina
4. Steua Bucharest

Group G
1. Arsenal
2. FC Porto
3. Fenerbahce
4. Dynamo Kiev

Group H
1. Real Madrid
2. Juventus
3. Zenit St Petersburg
4. Bate Borisov

Transfer News and Rumors

1. Everton have agreed to sign the French International striker Louis Saha from Manchester United. The Frenchman is set to sign a two-year deal — with the option for a third year — for an undisclosed fee, with the move subject to a medical.
2. Atletico Madrid has signed Valencia midfielder Ever Banega on loan for the season.
3. Rafael Benitez is preparing an offer for James Milner, after the England Under-21 international handed in a transfer request at Newcastle United.
4. Argentinian full back Pablo Zabaleta join Manchester City from Espanyol for £6.5m after agreeing a four-year deal with the club.
5. Everton have completed the loan capture of Inter Milan striker Victor Obinna

Transfer News and Rumors

1. Shaun Wright Phillips rejoin manchester city on a four year deal in undisclosed fee.
2. Striker Jeremy Menez is due to join Roma from French-league side Monaco on Thursday, Roma have paid 12 million euros (17.7 million dollars) for the player.
3. Arsenal are set to snap up Feyenoord’s Jonathan de Guzman, Arsene Wenger making a £12million approach for the midfield enforcer. (Rumors)
4. Massimo Oddo will link up with Bayern Muenchen for the season, subject to a medical, with the option of making the move permanent at the end of the campaign. (Rumors)
5. Monaco look set to sign Juventus midfielder Tiago, on a loan with buying option deal. (Rumors)

Tansfer Rumors

1. Real Madrid interested in sign Spain International Santi Cazorla from Villarreal
2. Real Madrid are increase their offer for Valencia forward David Villa from 47 to52 Million pound in a final attempt to land the EURO 2008 top score.
3. David Suazo will move from Inter to Roma.

Panathinaikos, Juventus, And Barcelona Progress

Panathinaikos goes to group stage after beating Sparta Prague 1-0 in the second leg through An injury-time goal by their new player Rodrigo Souza, with result Panathinaikos through a 3-1 aggregate, after they also win 2-1 in the first match.

Juventus returned to the Champions League proper for the first time in three seasons after a 1-1 draw at Artmedia Bratislava, Bodrek score first for Artmedia in 13th minute, but Amauri score his first goal in official game in 26th minute. with this results the Italians win 5-1 aggregate.

Barcelona chalked up a 4-1 aggregate win over Poland's Wisla Krakow despite a 1-0 defeat in the second leg. The Spanish team were joined in the lucrative group stages by Juventus and Panathinaikos.

Transfer News

1. Anton Ferdinand moves from West Ham to Sunderland
2. Liverpool Signed Albert Riera fro Espanyol
3. Roman Pavlyuchenko moves to Tottenham Hotspus from Spartak Moscow on 12 million pounds deal

Robinho moves to Chelsea

Real Madrid finally agree to let go Robinho to Chelsea 0n 45 million pounds. it is said that Robinho will get £70,000 a week, twice what he earns at the Bernabeu. Robinho has recently said to the journalist that he really wants to move to Chelsea, and now his dreams comes true.

Philippe Senderos join Milan

Switzerland International Philippe Senderos join A.C. Milan in a loan deal. Senderos will meet his teammate in Arsenal Flamini. With the confirmation of signed Senderos and Shevchenko afew days ago, it looks like milan will not making any transfer again, because just like the spoke person in the club said, that the squad is now completely, and with this squad milan can win anything.

Transfer Rumours

1. Robinho will move to Chelsea in coming days.
2. Anton ferdinand will move from West ham to Sunderland this week.
3 Milan will sign Arsenal defender Senderos on a loan deal this week.
4. Inter Milan still chasing Quaresma
5. Real Madrid make new bid to land David Villa.
6. Manchester must pay 30 million pound to land Tottenham striker Berbatov.
7. Liverpool chasing Boro winger Steward Downing.

Real Madrid Wins Spanish Super Cup

Real Madrid shows their winning spirit, the Whites won The Spanish Super Cup with only nine Players. A red card for new Real signing Rafael van der Vaart just before the break and a second yellow for Dutch compatriot Ruud van Nistelrooy after he had in the levelled from the penalty spot in the 50th minute

Valencia scored first in this match when David Silva scored from a low shot from outside the box that grazed past the left post in 33th minute, and it even become worse for the White after referee Iturralde González sent off Rafael van der Vaart for tackling Mata late on the 4oth minute. First Half ended with 1-0 score for Valencia.

Three minutes into the second half, Guti served a free kick and Ramos headed it towards the far post, where Van Nistelrooy was ready to finish it off. The ball was sent out by Raúl Albiol with his arm and the referee awarded Real Madrid a penalty. Ruud took the penalty kick and scored his team's first goal of the evening in 50th minute. The Whites kept trying but failed to score, and Then disaster hit the team again when Ruud van Nistelrooy was sent off with a second booking 73th minute.

Despite having only nine men on the pitch, Real Madrid kept trying and soon were rewarded with another strike. Guti crossed the ball into the box and Diarra headed it to the crossbar. The ball then reached Sergio Ramos practically on the goal-line and the defender scored in 75th minute..

The Whites continued to try to net more strikes. Soon after taking the pitch, Rubén de la Red scores with spectacular shot close to 30 meters away from goal in 87th minute, Two minutes later, Higuaín took advantage of a mistake made by Valencia's defenders and scored his team's fourth and final goal in 89th minute. Valencia, managed to save face with a strike by Morientes close to the final whistle in 90th minute.

When Referee Iturralde González decided the match is over, all of Real Madrid players fell on the pitch as the Club's anthem thundered through the speakers. They won the Spanish Super Cup by aggregate 6-5. The circle the 25 players formed on the pitch symbolised the excitement they lived throughout the encounter. Raúl was the first to reach the Presidential Balcony to receive the first title of the season, the Spanish Super Cup, from the President of the Spanish FA. Deeply moved, Ramón Calderón hugged all of his children as they reached the balcony.
From the balcony the players proceeded to run a victory lap. The fans joined in, but no one's feet left the ground; the season has just begun and many months of hard work lie ahead.

MATCH REPORT:
Real Madrid C.F (4-4-2): Casillas - Sergio Ramos, Pepe, Heinze, M. Torres (Drenthe, 63’) - Robben, Guti (De la Red, 76’), Diarra, Van der Vaart - Raúl (Higuaín, 77’) & Van Nistelrooy.

Valencia C.F (4-4-2): Hildebrant; Raúl Albiol (Morientes, 81’), Alexis, Miguel, Moretti - Albelda, Joaquín (Pablo Hernández, 67’), Silva, Baraja - Mata (Vicente, 59’) & Villa.

Referee: Iturralde González.

Goals:
50' R.Van Nistelrooy, 76' S.Ramos, 85' R.De la Red, 87' G.Higuaín (R) ; 33' D.Silva,
90' F.Morientes (V)

Inter Milan wins Super Italian Cup

Inter Milan wins Super Italian Cup. the Serie A champions beat Cup-holders AS Roma on penalties after a thrilling match ended 2-2 at the San Siro.

Inter twice took the lead but conceded as many equalizers as the Italian Cup winners. Roma's Daniele De Rossi equalized for the visitors just before the hour mark after Ghana midfielder Sulley Muntari, who joined Inter from English club Portsmouth last month, opened for the champions in the 18th minute. Montenegro forward Mirko Vucinic took the game to extra time in the 90th minute when he headed Roma level from a corner just seven minutes after 18-year-old striker Mario Balotelli thought he had won it for Inter with a cool finish after the ball filtered through the Roma defence from a goalkick.

After the score still 2-2 in extra time the match goes to penalties. Roma captain Totti, who came off the bench in the 86th to make his first competitive appearance since injuring his knee in April, missed a chance to win the game when he hit his penalty over the bar with the shoot-out score at 4-3 after Dejan Stankovic had crashed his penalty against the crossbar. Finally Juan missed the crucial spot kick in the shootout to give Inter victory.

INTER: 12 Julio Cesar; 13 Maicon, 19 Cambiasso, 16 Burdisso, 6 Maxwell; 4 Zanetti, 5 Stankovic, 20 Muntari; 7 Figo, 8 Ibrahimovic, 30 Mancini.
Subs: 1 Toldo, 24 Rivas, 30 Pelé, 11 Jimenez, 45 Balotelli, 18 Crespo, 9 Cruz.
Coach: José Mourinho


ROMA - 32 Doni; 17 Riise, 5 Mexes, 4 Juan, 77 Cassetti; 7 Pizarro, 16 De Rossi, 8 Aquilani; 20 Perrotta, 30 Vucinic, 19 Baptista.
Subs: 25 Artur, 2 Panucci, 15 Loria, 22 Tonetto, 33 Brighi, 10 Totti, 89 Okaka.
Coach: Luciano Spalletti.

Referee: Massimiliano Saccani (Mantua)

Only Liverpool and Chelsea

Second week of the English premier league, there were only two teams that still has a perfect point. Liverpool and Chelsea wins again in their second match, from Liverpool it was Steven Gerrard was the hero after bags the winning goal in extra time, while Chelsea new player Deco scores again in his second match nad it is the only goal in that match. Meanwhile Arsenal one of the big four team surprisingly loose against fulham by 1-0.

Team

Chelsea	2	6
Liverpool	2	6
Blackburn	2	4
Hull City	2	4
Newcastle	2	4
Aston Villa	2	3
Bolton	2	3
West Ham Utd	1	3
Everton	2	3
Middlesbrough	2	3
Fulham	2	3
Sunderland	2	3
Arsenal	2	3
Stoke City	2	3
Man Utd	1	1
Man City	1	0
Tottenham	2	0
WBA	2	0
Wigan Athletic	2	0
Portsmouth	1	0

English Premier League Results (August 24)

English Premier League Results (August 24)

Wigan Athletic 0-1 Chelsea
4' Deco (C)

Manchester City 3-0 West Ham Utd
65' D.Sturridge, 70' B.elano, 76 B.Elano (M)

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Welcome Home Sheva

After a long negotiation finally Andriy Shevchenko comes home to AC Milan. Shevchenko will sign contract on tuesday, after he passes the medical check up. Both Chelsea and Milan has an agreement that the negotiation agreement is confidential.

English Premier League Results(August 23)

English Premier League Results (August 23) :

Blackburn Rovers 1-1 Hull City
38' J.Roberts (B) ; 40' R. Garcia (H)

Liverpool 2-1 Middlesbrough
86' E.Pogatetz (o.g.), 90' S.Gerrard (L) ; 70' Mido (M)

Newcastle Utd 1-0 Bolton W
71' M.Owen (N)

Stoke C 3-2 Aston Villa
30' L.Lawrence (Pen.), 80' R.Fuller, 90' M.Sidibe (S) ; 63' J.Carew, 84' M.Laursen (AV)

Tottenham H 1-2 Sunderland
73' J.Jenas (T) ; 55' K.Richardson, 83' D.Cisse (S)

WBA 1-2 Everton
89' R.Bednar (Pen.) (W) ; 65' L.Osman, 76' A.Yakubu (E)

Fulham 1-0 Arsenal
21' B.Hangeland (F)

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Argentina win the Gold Medal

Argentina won the gold medal after beating Nigeria in the final 1-0. It was Di Maria who score the only goal in that match at 58th minute.

1. Vanzekin, Ambruse 2. Okonkwo, Chibuzor 4. Apam 5. Adeleye, Dele 8. Kaita, Sani 9. Obinna, Victor 10. Isaac, Promise 11. Okoronkwo, Solomon 12. Ajilore, Ebenezer 13. Adefemi, Olubayo 14. Odemwingie, Peter Osaze 6. James, Monday 7. Obasi, Chinedu 15. Ambrose, Efe 16. Anichebe, Victor 17. Ekpo, Emmanuel 18. Ezenwa, Ikechukwu 19. Olufemi, Oladapo

2. Garay, Ezequiel 3. Monzon, Luciano 4. Zabaleta, Pablo 5. Gago, Fernando 10. Riquelme, Juan Román 11. Di María, Ángel 12. Pareja, Nicolas 14. Mascherano, Javier 15. Messi, Lionel 16. Agüero, Sergio 18. Romero, Sergio 6. Fazio, Federico 7. Sosa, José Ernesto 8. Banega, Ever 9. Lavezzi, Ezequiel 13. Acosta, Lautaro Germán 17. Buonanotte, Diego 22. Navarro, Nicolas

Juventus win Trofeo Birra Moretti

Juventus won the 12th Trofeo Birra Moretti at San Paolo Stadium after beating both Milan and Napoli on penalties. Milan were the runner up after beating Napoli 1-0.

The regulation of this tournament is : -There are three 45 minutes games
-Three point awarded for win
-Two point for win in penalties
-One Point for a defeat in Penalties
Napoli VS Juventus Score : 0-0 (4-5 in Penalties)

NAPOLI (3-5-2) : Iezzo - Santacroce, Cannavaro, Rinaudo - Montervino, Blasi, Amodio, Pazienza, Vitale - De Zerbi, Zalayeta.

JUVENTUS (4-4-2) : Chimenti - Salihamidzic, Legrottaglie, Ariaudo De Ceglie - Nedved, Sissoko, Rossi, Ekdal - Giovinco, Amauri.

Juventus control the game in the first 22 minutes, Amauri headed over from a right wing cross early on, before Sebastian Giovinco supplied the Brazilian with a perfect through pass on 16 minutes, but Gennaro Iezzo was equal to his effort. Rossi had a chances a few seconds before the break, fed by an excellent Ekdal pass. After the short break, Esposito came on for Rossi. Zalayeta and Rinaudo were lively for Napoli but the first save was by Iezzo on a Giovinco right foot shot from outside the area. After 41 minutes, De Zerbi tried a free kick that went just wide outside the post on Chimenti's right side. Before the end, Giovinco made a great run and his shot was off target by inches. The game went to penalties after 0-0 score and Chimenti saved the first penalty, taken by De Zerbi. Esposito, Zalayeta, Nedved, Blasi, Giovinco, Vitale, Salihamidzic, and Cannavaro were all successful, and finally it was Amauri, who stroke the winning penalty.
Napoli VS Milan Score : 0-1

NAPOLI (3-5-2): Gianello - Santacroce, Rinaudo, Grava - Maggio, Blasi, Amodio, Montervino, Vitale - Russotto, Pià.

MILAN (4-4-2): Dida - Antonini, Darmian, Favalli, Cardacio - Brocchi, Ambrosini Seedorf, Albertazzi - Paloschi, F.Inzaghi

The game was far more entertaining than the first one. The game almost ended in 0-0 score, but in the very last minute Paloschi stole the win, heading from close range after a cross from the left from substitute Viudez.

Milan VS Juventus Score : 0-0 (4-5 in penalties)

JUVENTUS (4-4-2) : Chimenti - Salihamidzic, Legrottaglie, Ariaudo, Molinaro - Tiago, Ekdal, Nedved, Rossi - Amauri, Pasquato

MILAN (4-4-2) : Kalac - Pasini, Favalli, Darmian, Antonin - Ambrosini, Strasser, Brocchi, Seedorf - Viudez, Paloschi

There were Three changes made from the line-up in the first match. De Ceglie and Giovinco, who just recently back from the Olympics and also Sissoko were being replaced by Molinaro, Pasquato and Tiago. The Bianconeri control the game in the first half they almost scoring twice, when they had two incredible chances. On the first Amauri forced a miracle save out of Kalac, and then Pasquato shot high after a great build-up involving several players. Although in the second half, Juventus still Control the game there still no goals came, but most regretfully Ranieri had to replace Nedved and Salihamidzic, who were both hit hard and had to be substituted. The game went to penalties after 0-0 score, with the winner taking all. Seedorf, Ariaudo, Brocchi, Chimenti, Paloschi, Legrottaglie, Osuji and Pasquato all scored, before Ambrosini skied his effort over the bar. This left Amauri with the chance to win the trophy for Juve but he had his central effort saved by Kalac. It was now sudden death, and Chimenti made a fine stop from Favalli. Molinaro stepped up next and he made no mistake as Juve won 5-4 on penalties.

Juve The Champion
With four points from two wins in penalties Juventus is The Champion of Trofeo Birra Moretti, while Milan is in the second position with four points (lost in head to head by Juventus) , and the Napoli is in the last place with one point.

Brazil wins the Bronze Medal

Brazil wins the Bronze Medal after beating belgium 3-0 in the football men third place playoff in Olympic Games. Jo scores 2 goals in 45th and 90th minute, and Diego scores 1 goal in28th minute.

Kompany move to City

Manchester City confirm the signing of Belgian International Vincent Kompany from Hamburg SV for undisclosed fee. Kompany signed a contact for four years.
Kompany is the third player that comes to Mark Hughes squad in this summer.
Kompany who join Hamburg from Anderlecht in 2006 has just recently play for his country Belgia in Olympics game until the quarterfinals. He not play in semifinals, because he must return to Germany to play for hamburg in the opening season. The club officials said that he hoped Vincent will receive all the relevant clearance to be able to feature in Sunday's home clash with West Ham United.

Sunderland Signed Cisse and Healy

Sunderland confirm that they added two striker in the team. They have followed up the loan signing of French International Djibril Cisse from Marseille and signed of Northern Ireland International David Healy from Fulham for an undisclosed fee.
Cisse gets No 9 shirt in the squad., while Healy gets No 23.

Healy has moved to the Stadium of Light on a three-year deal and becomes the sixth new signing of the summer following the arrivals of Cisse, Teemu Tainio, Pascal Chimbonda, Steed Malbranque and El-Hadji Diouf.

Manager Roy Keane underlined Healy's top-level experience and international scoring record as one of the main reasons behind the striker's arrival in the north-east. He told the club's website, safc.com: "David will be a good signing for us, He has lots of experience at the top level and his international record is phenomenal."

Keane continued: "He scored a few goals for Fulham last season, one of them was a well-taken strike against us at Craven Cottage and he is another signing who will increase competition for places."

Keane also underlined the importance of Cisse's experience as the Black Cats look to improve on their efforts last season when they finished 15th following their return to the top flight.

He continued: "The signing of Djibril shows how far this club have moved on since the end of last season.

"His experience will bring a lot to the squad and he will hopefully add some goals to the side.

"He is known for scoring them as well as creating them."

Cisse spent two years at Anfield during which he scored 24 goals for the Reds following his £14million switch from Auxerre where he played alongside fellow new Sunderland recruit Tainio.

He then moved on to Marseille, initially on loan before making the move permanent in 2007 but he claimed he was tempted to return to England by the Black Cats' ambition.

"I'm really pleased to join a good club with good players.

"Sunderland are a club I think is going to achieve things, they have big ambitions, that is why I chose to come here.

"I liked what the club had to say to me."

Indonesia 1 wins 7-0 against Cambodia

Indonesia 1 was made it to make a good start in their first match in Freedom Cup. Budi Sudarsono was the star of the match after score 4 goals in that match. the other goalscorer in that uneven match is C. Yulianto,M. Ilham, and B. Pamungkas. The freedom cup itself was opened by a match between Indonesia 2 against Brunei, with the final score 2-0 for Indonesia 2

United States wins the Gold Medal

United States beat Brazil in Olympics woman's football by 1-0. It was Carli Lloyd who score the only goal in that match, she score in an extra time at 96th minute. The match goes to the over time after both team cannot score a goal in a normal time.

Germany wins the Bronze medal

Germany wins the Bronze Medal after beating Japan 2-0 in the woman's football third place play off in the olympics game. Fatmire Bajramaj was a hero for Germany after score two goals in 69th and 87th minute.

Capello choose John Terry

Fabio Capello finally choose the Chelsea captain John Terry as the new England captain. The coach said that it was a difficult to choose who is the right person as the captain, but now he is believe that Terry is the right person to hold the captain armbands.

Giorgio Chiellini injured

Juventus and Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini must cannot play for two months because of a knee problem. Chiellini got that injury in Luigi Berlusconi trophy against Milan. It looks like Juventus always got an injury problem after participating in this competition, last year Buffon were injured after this competition, and now they having the same problem.

Mateja Kezman move to PSG

French Football Club Paris Saint Germain confirm that they have signed Serbia striker Mateja Kezman from Turkish side Fenerbahce for an undisclosed fee, the French side said on Tuesday. Mateja Kezman joined Fenerbahce from Atletico Madrid two years ago. He scored 20 goals in 46 games in the Turkish league

Milan wins the Luigi Berlusconi Trophy

Milan wins against Juventus by 4-1 In the 18th edition of the Luigi Berlusconi Trophy. Milan who is still playing without there two Brazillian star score their first goal in 21th minute by the Czech Player Jankulovski. Milan double the score by Ambrosini goal in 25th minute, and then Inzaghi score the third goal in 52th minute. Juventus manage to steal one goal 70th minute, it was Pasquato who was subbed in eight minute before the goal. Ambrosini score the last goal for milan to ensure their 4-1 wins. Juventus was far from lucky that night, a 4-1 score is far too harsh on Juve from what we saw on the pitch tonight.

AC MILAN-JUVENTUS 4-1 (2-0)

AC MILAN: Abbiati (Dida 46 mins); Zambrotta (Oddo 64 mins), Bonera (Darmian 85 mins), Favalli, Jankulovski (Antonini 81 mins); Gattuso (Brocchi 64 mins), Flamini, Pirlo, Ambrosini (Cardacio 84 mins); Seedorf (Viudez 64 mins); Paloschi (Inzaghi 46 mins). Manager: Ancelotti.

JUVENTUS: Chimenti (Manninger 46 mins); Grygera, Mellberg, Chiellini (Legrottaglie 36 mins), Molinaro; Tiago (Esposito 62 mins), Sissoko (Rossi 62 mins), Poulsen, Nedved (Ekdal 46 mins); Amauri, Del Piero (Pasquato 62 mins). Sub not used: Salihamidzic.

GOALS: Jankulovski 21 mins, Ambrosini 25 and 79 mins, Inzaghi 52 mins, Pasquato 70 mins.

REFEREE: Rizzoli from Bologna.

YELLOW CARDS: Amauri 67 mins, Ekdal 72 mins.

Argentina VS Nigeria in Olympic football final

Argentina are through to final after beating their rival Brazil 3-0. Sergio Aguero score his first goal in Olympic football tournament in 52th minute, then make it double in 58th minute, and then Riquelme score the last goal from penalty kick. Opponents of Argentina in the final, Nigeria beat Belgia by 4-1, it was a fantastic team performance, capped by a brace from Chinedu Ogbuke Obasi, ensured Nigeria beat Belgium. Obasi score 2 goals, while the other 2 goals were scored by Olubayo Adefemi in 17th minute and Chibuzor Okonkwo in78th minute. The gold-medal match between Argentina and Nigeria will take place at the Bird's Nest National Stadium on 23 August., while Brazil will take on Belgium for Bronze in Shanghai the day before.

Manchester Utd failed to win their first match

First game of the season the champion of 2007/2008 BPL were failed to win their match. Red Devils only play draw 1-1 with Newcastle utd . Newcastle utd manage to score, it was Obafemi martins who score at 22th minute, but only just two minute after that Darren Fletcher manage to equalize the score for Manchester Utd. These result is a good start for Newcastle Utd, while for Manchester Utd these result shows that they need Cristiano Ronaldo to back to the field again.


Manchester United (4-4-2): Van der Sar - Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra - Fletcher, Carrick (O’Shea 25), Scholes, Giggs (c) (Possebon, 63) - Rooney, Campbell (Rafael, 80).

Subs not used: Kusczak, Neville, J.Evans, Gibson.
Booked: Campbell, Brown, Rooney

Newcastle United (4-5-1): Given - Beye, Coloccini, Taylor, N’Zogbia - Milner, Guthrie, Butt (c), Gutierrez, Duff - Martin.

Subs not used: Harper, Enrique, Geremi, Smith, Edgar, Bassong, Donaldson.

Booked: Campbell, Brown, Rooney

Agbonlahor bags three goals

Aston Villa won 4-2 in their first game of Barclays Premier League against Mancehester City. Gabriel Agbonlahor was star of the match after he scores three goal in eight minute while another goal scored by John Carew. Manchester City can only score 2 goals by Elano and Corluka, by these result Mark Hughes has fail to make a good start in his new club as Manager. while for Aston Villa these is a good start in their journey at BPL, and they still can see the captain Garreth Barry play for the team, at least for one more seasons.

Teams

Villa (4-4-2): Friedel - L Young, Laursen (c), Davies, Shorey - Barry, S Petrov, Reo-Coker, A Young - Agbonlahor, Carew.

unused subs: Taylor, Harewood, Knight, Salifou, Routledge, Gardner, Osbourne.

City (4-4-1-1): Hart - Corluka, Ben Haim, Richards (c), Garrido - Etuhu, Johnson, Fernandes (Ireland 80), Petrov - Elano - Evans (Sturridge 80).

unused subs: Schmeichel, Ball, Onuoha, Hamann, Caicedo.

Goals: 1-0 (Carew 47), 1-1 (Elano pen 64), 2-1 (Agbonlahor 67), 3-1 (Agbonlahor 74), 4-1 (Agbonlahor 75), 4-2 (Corluka 89)

Bookings:

Villa: Agbonlahor (84)

City: Ben Haim (26)

Referee: P Dowd

Arsenal Wins 1-0 Against West Bromwich Albion

Arsenal has made a good start of BPL after winning 1-0 against WBA. Samir Nasri the new player play a good match and score in his debut at 4th minute. After the game the Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger said to the Arsenal website that he is pleased with the fact that the team didn't concede a goal. He said "We scored two on Wednesday, one today, so it's better than the reverse. Overall it was a good week for us. A winning start, a win in the Champions League, so yes a good week." well this maybe a really good week for Arsenal because they still can win their first game, even there were a few important player that cannot play in this game.


Susunan pemain:
Arsenal (4-4-2): Almunia; Sagna, Djourou, Gallas, Clichy; Walcott (Toure 72), Eboue, Denilson, Nasri; Adebayor, Bendtner (Van Persie 68)

WBA (4-5-1): Carson; Hoefkens, Barnett, Meite, Robinson; Brunt (Beattie 79), Morrison, Greening, Kim, Cech (MacDonald 67); Miller (Bednar 73)

Referee : Howard Webb

Goalscorer : Samir Nasri (4')

Manchester Utd vs Newcastle Utd Prediction

The First Game of BPL will be start for Manchester utd. their first opponent is Newcastle utd. Without signing big name this summer it looks like Red Devils still counting their old player such as Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo. there were only three names that comes to Old Trafford and all of them is still young, so they won't playing much in the first team. Against Newcastle Rooney will play from the beginning after the red devil medical say that he already cover and fit enough to play, while their top goal scorer last season Cristiano Ronaldo will be missed the game. will Manchester United win the game easily after won the community shield trophy? I think it is not gonna be that easy, Newcastle has recently signed Fabricio Coloccini from Deportivo To high up standard in their defence, so I think without Ronaldo and high up standard in defence of Newcastle, Manchester is going to face a tough game although their still got a chance to win the match

Prediction : 55%-45%

Prediction Squad :

Manchester Utd (4-2-3-1): Van Der Sar - Neville, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra – Carrick, Possebon - Giggs, Nani, Tevez – Rooney


Newcastle Utd (4-4-2): Given – Taylor, Coloccini, cacapa, Enrique - Gutierrez, Smith, Butt, Duff – Owen, Martins

PERSIB 2 - PERSITARA 0

Persib won 2-0 against Persitara with 2 goals from their Brazilian Striker Rafael Bastos in Indonesian Super League today. Bastos score the first goal in 59th minute with a strike to the corner of Persitara goal, the second goal Bastos was made to release from offside trap and than strike through the goalkeeper

Sunderland Versus Liverpool

Liverpool will play their first match in the stadium of light against Sunderland. The new Liverpool duet Robbie Keane and Fernando Torres were failed to convert a goal against standard liege, and now it is their time to prove that they are the most dangerous duet striker in BPL just like Mr Benitez said. with Steven Gerrard fit enough to play, liverpool have a big chance to win their first games. beside gerrard it looks like Xabi Alonso will also play in the midfield. From Sunderland El Hadji Diouf could gave a problem to Reds as long as he can control his emotion. another new player that could cause problem is the new three player that comes from Tottenham Hotspur.

Predicition : 45%-55%


Predicition Player :

Sunderland (4-4-2): Gordon - Chimbonda, Collins, Mcshane, Nosworthy – Whitehead, Tainio, Malbranque, Richardson – Diouf, Jones


Liverpool (4-4-1-1): Reina – Finnan, Carragher, Agger, Dossena - Pennant, Gerrard, Alonso, Babel – Keane - Torres

Baptista Finally Move To AS Roma

Julio Baptista finally move to AS Roma with 9 million Euro transfer fee plus 2 million Euro depend on the player performance. Baptista who can play in a lot position is gonna be a useful player for AS Roma

Bayern Munich Failed to Win The First Match

Bayern Munich failed to win their first games after Hamburg comeback from two goals down make the score 2-2. Bayern Munich control the game at beginning and they score the first goal with bastian schweinsteiger make the champion lead at 12th minute. 4th minute later Podolski doubled the advantage from penalty spot, but the visitors can pulled one back midway through Paolo Guerrero at 25th minute and then Piotr Trochowski levelled it up on the hour with the game’s second penalty.

Bayern Munich – Hamburger SV 2-2 (H-T: 2-1)

Bayern Munich: Rensing - Lell, van Buyten, Lucio, Lahm – Schweinsteiger (Borowski 65), Kroos, van Bommel, Zé Roberto (Ottl 81) – Klose (Muller 79), Podolski

Substitution : Kraft, Niedermeier, Jansen, Borowski,Ottl,Muller

Hamburger SV: Rost – Boateng (Demel 30), Reinhardt (Kompany 52), Mathijsen, Benjamin - Jarolim, de Jong – Trochowski, Pitroipa (Atouba 76) - Guerrero, Olic

Substitution : Hesl, Ben-Hatira, Zidan, Aogo,Demel,Kompany,Atouba

Goals: 1-0 Schweinsteiger (12), 2-0 Podolski (16, pen), 2-1 Guerrero (25), 2-2 Trochowski (57, pen)

Yellow cards: Van Bommel / Jarolim, Guerrero, de Jong, Benjamin

Harmstring injury for Fabregas

Arsene Wenger faces a lot of problem before the first games of this season against West Bromwich Albion. After losing eight player because of injury (Kolo Toure, Philippe Senderos, Samir Nasri, Abou Diaby, Tomas Rosicky, Eduardo Da Silva, Alexandre Song, Amaury Bischoff) now he losing one again player, it is Fabregas who having harmstring injured and must rest for at least two weeks. with nine player out wenger must prepare another player to cover them. and a new player Aaron Ramsey is prepare to cover Fabregas. So it is gonna be a difficult first match for Arsenal? let just wait the result..

Do Real Madrid need another Striker?

After draw 1-1 with Eintracht Frankfurt, Real madrid coach, admitted that his team is still need a player, especially a striker. Schuster said that his team need a new striker to replace Raul and Van Nistelrooy, in case something happen to both of them. there were two option striker that Real Madrid wants, First Director Pedja Mijatovic wants Klaas Jan Huntelaar move to Bernabeu, while Second Director Miguel Angel Portugal wants David Villa. in the other side Schuster is worry that none of them will move to bernabeu, so that's why he want to keep Robinho in El Real. well after Failed in Transfering Cristiano Ronaldo, loks like Madrid still facing a lot problem in transfer market.

Julio Baptista Future put on hold

After Real madrid agree to change transfer fee from 15 million euro to 9 million Euro plus 2 Euro depend on Baptista performance. now there is a new problem in transfer julio baptista to AS Roma. AS Roma has a salary cap 2,5 Million Euro, while Baptista is asking 3 Million Euro same salary that he get in Real Madrid. this problem might be causing Baptista not move to the capital team in Italy, because AS Roma is not possible to change their salary cap, this is because a lot of experience player in that team like Philippe Mexes, or Daniele De Rossi that already gave anything to the club were got salary at salary cap, so it would not be fair if a new player like baptista get a bigger salary.

FENERBAHCE

Baptista Agent Herminio menendez said that if there were no agreement between two side in a few day, his player might be move to fenerbahce, because the agent said that Fenerbahce was also interest to get Baptista who can play in a lot of position in midfield.

Steven Gerrard is fit enough to play

Gerrard was played as a second half substitute against in midweek Standard Liege and there is no problem with his thigh Injury which forced him to miss the end of the pre-season programme.

Liverpool will play their first game against Roy keane teams Sunderland. surely the news that Gerrard has been passed fit, will make manager Rafael Benitez pleased, however he will make late checks on a number of his other players before finalising his first team selection of the campaign for the clash in the north east.

Newcastle United signed Fabricio Coloccini

Newcastle United confirm that they have signed Argentina defender Fabricio Coloccini from Deportivo La Coruna. however there is unknown how much money that newcastel have to paid to Deportivo La Coruna. The 26-year-old Argentinian has agreed a five-year deal at St James' Park following his move from the Spanish side where he played every minute of their campaign in La Liga last season. Coloccini will be palying in central defender with Brazil International Player Cacapa

Welcome Barclays Premier League

Welcome Barclays Premier League

A week After Manchester United won the Community Shield one of the best football competition in the world Barclay's Premier League will be playing their first match this week. 7 match will be play in 16th August and the others will be play on 17th August. at the launching 0f BPL these week there were a new campaign called Get On With The Game. This campaign give a bigger responsibility to the captain team in controlling their teammate. in premier league The Big Four (Manchester utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, & Chelsea) has well controlling these league, their quality is above the other team in these competition. since changing the name becoming premier league in1992 there is only blackburn rovers beside the Big Four that can win these competition in 1995, although Liverpool has never becoming the winner.well how about this year?? will the Big Four still in the top four?? or there will be another team??

Player Transfer
There were a new big name come to premier league, Giovani Dos Santos, Luca Modric, Samir Nasri, etc. on the transfer market this year Tottenham Hotspur is the champion, their spent 56 million pound in buying a new player, with Luca Modric becoming the most expensive that come to this club. Liverpool is in the second position in the transfer, their totally spent 29 million pound, with Robbie Keane becoming the most expensive name that come to this club. what about another Big Four? Chelsea spent 23,5 million, arsenal 11,93 millio, while Manchester united has not doing anything in the transfer market.