Mata Went Home to Face Valencia

During lazy typhoon day, as we are stuck at home, we decided to do a little blog update. After some local footballs, we shall catch up on some Euro football news.

Last two days were the Champions League match days and the giants didn’t tell the same story. Manchester City lost 2-0 to Bayern Munich, but Tevez had apparently grabbed more spotlight then the match result. Manchester United only managed to get one point from the game against FC Basel, despite leading two nil in the first half, the game ended in a 3-3 scoreline. Chelsea too, only managed to get one point, facing their new signing, Mata's former club, Valencia, final score 1-1. On the other hand, Arsenal looks like they are back on their feet, another victory after the weekend game against Bolton, the game ended with 2-1 scoreline, against Greek giant Olympiakos. Barcelona and Real Madrid, too, had another victory, Real Madrid won 3-0 against Ajax and Barcelona trashed BATE Borisov 5-0, top scorer battle between Ronaldo and Messi still continue, both scored in the game.

Sadly, we did not manage to finish watching any of these games, but the results look interesting. What do you think about these games?

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Picture of the Day: Photo inside a photo

Citizen players celebrated their first goal by snatching photographer’s camera and took their own picture. Although Tuen Mun managed to get an equalizer at the beginning of second half, Citizen went on to win the game by scoring a penalty near the end of the game, and this time, they celebrated by ‘playing golf’. Creative huh? And no, they didn’t practice that during training.

We took sometime to get inside the stadium for some local football during our holiday, and we had some great time there, for more match photos, click here! We also had a nice chat with Citizen player, Michael Campion, the article will be up as soon as we finished writing it! So, stay tune.

Chelsea vs Fulham: The Dramatic Moment

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Glad we have stayed up last night, to witness one of the most dramatic penalty shootout ever. How is it dramatic? Because the ball hit the crossbar, hit the white line, but never passed the line. And this penalty cost Fulham the game.

Film Review: She's The Man

Film Title: She's The Man

Cast: Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum, James Kirk

Synopsis: Viola (Bynes) and Sebastian (Kirk) are twins. Viola was in her school's soccer team but it got cut, so while Sebastian was in London for some music performances, she decided to BE Sebastian and joined his new school's men soccer team, a rival team that is going to face her own school. It was like the movie that we introduced last month, Bend It Like Beckham, about a girl trying hard to prove that she is capable to play in this male dominant sports.

Feature: What Happened to Torres?

We have witnessed the great finish in the beginning of the second half against Man Utd on Sunday; we also witnessed the ‘miss of the decade’ later in the game, both done by the same person, the 50 millions Fernando Torres. Somehow, media become more caution about the ‘El Niño is back’ headlines, because of all the false hopes earlier. So, where should we begin?

Picture of The Day: ‘The’ Cristiano Ronaldo

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“I am handsome. I am rich. I am awesome, so where is my goal?!”Well, we guess God is jealous too!

Arsenal’s ‘Awesomeness’ Continues…

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Picture of The Day: David Villa New Trick

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Hmmm world-class strikers can score in various ways, after significant improvements in back-heels and free-kicks, we guess this is El Guaje’s new trick!

Weekly feature is coming up on Sat =) Please come back for it, it will be on Torres.

Pato Scored at 25s Against Barcelona and more…

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More on Champions League…

‘HI, ball, you look yummy and I am feeling hungry.’
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Benfica player, Oscar Cardozo looks like he is going to give the ball a bite, probably too much pressure on having to play Man Utd tomorrow.

We will continue on Champions League Group A,B,C,D today.  Are you ready?

The Champions League Begins Tomorrow..

Wondering what Silva and Pato joked about? Hopefully not about Silva’s shorts being too tight? Image via Daylife/GettyImages

Zalatan looks deep in thoughts, probably thinking about how to score against his former club, Barcelona? Yes, tomorrow is the group stage of Champions League and AC Milan will play at the Camp Nou.

Book Review: Soccernomics

Book Title:Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey and even Iraq are Destined to Become the Kings of the World’s Most Popular Sport

Author:Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski

What is it about: It is about soccer (football) and economic. ;) Yeah, we know you can tell that from the book title. We highly recommend those who love the beautiful game and want to know more in depth statistics about the game to read this book. It analyzes football in a economical way, which is very interesting, and don’t worry, the two authors did not use a lot of economical terms. It is easy to read and easy to understand, even for people like us, who have zero sense in economy. This book analyzes interesting football phenomenon using statistics, graphs, numbers and help you understand more about the relationship between the game, and the outcomes. There is one chapter we strongly recommend, it is chapter 6, The Economist’s fear of the penalty kick: Are penalties cosmically unfair, or only if you are Nicolas Anelka?

The Babunski Brothers

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Their names might not be heard so early if they are not brothers and not playing for these two clubs. David Babunski (left) and Dorian Babunski (right), plays for Barcelona and Real Madrid youth teams, respectively.

Torres Provides Bitch-face for Free

We are terribly sorry for the delay, this week our blog didn’t update as regular as we promised, but things will resume to normal next week! We also want to emphasize that Torres’ bitch-face is not easy to capture.

Apparently, Torres bitch-face is not as pricey as his goals. He managed to show plenty of them during the game between Spain and Liechtenstein, when he was on the stand (not the bench) watching his national teammates played. It was not much of a surprise when Del Bosque finally decided to drop Torres from the lineup, as Spain has plenty of strikers who actually score goals.

Picture of The Day: How to Look Tall Between Two Tall Guys

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This is exactly how you do it! See, Muniain looks taller than his two teammates by standing on the bench. Smart Iker, Smart! Now you get more attention than the biscuit in Martinez’s mouth. =D
And guys, please stick with us, we will update on the qualifiers soon, waiting for some videos!

Feature: Who Can Be A Football Star?

Just a tiny announcement before I begin the feature: Today is the Euro qualifiers, so we will be on Twitter, tweeting Spain-Liechtenstein game live, join us on twitter and discuss with us!

Not sure if it is just me, or people who watch football long enough, sometimes can’t help but wonder, what made a footballer into a football star? Skills? Don’t think so. Achievements? Not really. Luck? More likely. All of above? Well, let’s see.

Picture of The Day: When Lion met Tiger

Although did not play in the Spain-Chile game earlier, Llorente managed to let himself being seen. We spotted him not only from Ramos’ Twitter, but Cescy’s Twitter, and Captain Casillas’ Facebook too.

Some press refer to him as the ‘Lion King’, probably because of his hair? And the Lion Kong/Greek God decided to take on a tiger with Ramos. We hope they won!

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Picture of The Day: Breaking the Ice and more..

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Still worrying about EL Clasico may destroy the harmony in Spain national team? Captain Casillas said, 'No worries, I have it under control.' Spain team went out and about during international week and Greek god Llorente posted this to his Facebook.

Top 10 Transfers, 2011 Summer

The transfer window is finally shut, and we had a lot of fun following the live blog on ESPN, some last minute transfers made us called out, “What?!”. Got to say this to Wenger though, ‘Well done, Arsene.’ The world is looking at him after the 8-2 defeat in Old Trafford and Gunners, are you guys satisfied? 4 players in 24 hours, that was really impressive. Okay, so here we will give you our Top 10 transfers of this summer, feel free to jump in if you don’t agreed with us ;) In the end, we will sum up the last minute transfer for you guys, you can also check out our Twitter for the transfer coverage. We have also updated the Player’s Twitter list, both EPL, and La Liga, in case you want to know more about your new players. Shall we?