Picture of The Day: A Promised Tattoo

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Someone promised to tattoo World Cup trophy on his body if his team won it. It was more than a year since World Cup and he finally did it. Do you still remember who is he? Yes, the one and only Sergio Ramos has just added another tattoo to his body. This is his 13th tattoo and we wonder if he will add more in the future? Maybe the Euro trophy on the other leg if Spain wins it again! ;)

Feature: Dear AFC, Time for Some Changes

I didn’t try to hide my shock and disappointed face when I heard all Japanese and Korean players who were running for AFC player of the year were unable to attend the event. Because it means that these four players would be ineligible for the award. Why is that? Well, AFC has this rule that player must attend the annual awards ceremony to win the trophy. With this rule, a lot of questions arose.

Inside AFC Annual Awards Ceremony

Yes, this was the table for media. We were lucky to be able to attend this ceremony with Rene from Eito Arena, along with many other media representatives from around the world. Although the absence of Honda, Kagawa, Homare Sawa and so on is a big disappointment for us, we are happy to be able to witness this event.

Sepp Blatter Emphasizes Zero Tolerant in Racism

FIFA president Sepp Blatter was in Kuala Lumpur yesterday to attend AFC Annual Award ceremony, and we are delighted to be able to attend this press conference.

Honda Lost in AFC Player of The Year Race

The nominees of AFC Player of the Year award have arrived in Malaysia. As you can see, Honda, Kagawa, Koo Ja- Cheol and Yeom Ki-hun are not able to attend the award ceremony due to club commitments. In other word, the winner will be either Hadi Aghily or Server Djeparov as player must be able to attend the event to win the award.

Picture of The Day: Donovan Gives Becks a Dream Exit

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Champion of MLS Cup is the first title Becks won in the United States. As well as the first title for LA Galaxy since 2005. David Beckham’s five years contract with LA Galaxy is coming to an end. The MLS Cup final against Houston Dynamo is believed to be David Beckham last game with LA Galaxy. So nothing could be better than being the winner of the game and takes the trophy back home. With a little help from Landon Donovan, Becks has gotten both.

Referee Attempted Suicide: No Replay in Life

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While most attentions were on yesterday’s Man City versus Newcastle league game. In Germany, Cologne's game against Mainz was called off as the referee did not show up.

The referee, Babak Rafati, was found attempted suicide in his hotel room, not long before the game’s scheduled starting time. Fortunately, they found him in the hotel room soon after he had committed suicide. Rafati is alive.

Match to Catch: Chelsea vs Liverpool

The international week is over and the Leagues are back. A couple of big games await us this weekend in the Premier League. It will begin with Manchester City versus Newcastle United, just a few hours later. Both teams remain unbeaten since the season began. Will someone’s record ends today, or will the game ends with a draw instead? If Newcastle managed to win tonight, they will become second on the table (at least for a while until Man Utd beats Swansea).

Player Thursday: A Real Fighter, Scott Parker

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There are many reasons for us, football fan, to like a player. It can be as simple as he scored the winning goal of an important game; or he has good skills; he plays beautiful football; he is nice; he doesn’t play aggressively, and so on. But it is very hard for me, to admire a player. Scott Parker, is one of the rare.

Portugal, Croatia, Czech Rep, Rep of Ireland: Welcome to Euro 2012

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Well well, too bad that we had to miss the play-offs. 6-2 is quite a shock to us when the two teams managed to have a nil nil draw just a few days ago. Portugal has scored some brilliant goals last night and they certainly deserve this victory. No surprises in other games, as everyone could have predicted. Croatia, Czech Republic and Republic of Ireland are qualified to Euro 2012, all of these three teams scored in the 1st leg.

Picture of The Day: WOW! Balotelli at the Goal

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For the million things that Balotelli has done, like setting up firework in his bathroom, asking god why he always scores. What would he do if he plays as a goalkeeper? Maybe….Catch the ball with his mouth? Oh man, we would love to see that happens! lol

Have to keep this one short, exam coming up tomorrow. Wish me luck, and happy watching football without me later! =(

Picture of The Day: Iker 126

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126, a record set by Andoni Zubizarreta, who was Spain’s most-capped player. Was? Because we all know Iker Casillas will break the record soon enough and set a much higher number for others to break. Iker Casillas used just 11 years to equal the record, and he is just at his 30, fairly young for a goalkeeper. It was good that he managed to celebrate his 126 appearances at Wembley with a clean sheet, as Lampard didn’t score until Reina stood in front of goal.

Congrats Iker, one of the best goalkeeper in the world! 126 and counting…

England vs Spain: The Story of Poppy

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Why Poppy?Before I talk about the game, let’s talk about a little history here. England tried so hard just to get FIFA to allow the national team wears poppies in the friendly match against Spain. So what is so significant of this flower? It simply because the poppies was one of the only plants that grew on the battlefields, around the fallen soldiers, after World War One. Therefore, people nowadays wear the flower as memorial to those who died during World War One and many other conflicts after. Poppy day is also for people to raise money and help ex-soldiers and their families.

Turkey, Portugal: On Their Way OUT of Euro 2012?

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Well, this isn’t what we were expecting. Most people think Turkey has the upper hand, not only because they are taking on Croatia at home. Also because they have a coach who can do magic, or maybe creating miracles is the right words. None expected a 0-3 result that you can’t even look at.

Feature: Messi-Ronaldo Competition is Hurting La Liga

When everyone is enjoying the rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid, counting whether Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo scored more hat-tricks in a season…Have you realized a big problem is evolving in the La Liga? Let’s call it, the Messi-Ronaldo syndrome.

How do you tell when someone is suffering from this syndrome?

Symptom 1:
They care about who score the goals more than who won the game.

2011 AFC Player of the Year award: Last 10

Former winner, Server Djeparov
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This year, the AFC Player of the Year award ceremony will be held on November 23, 2011, which is really soon, at the Mandarin Oriental, Kuala Lumpur. AFC has just announced the second shortlist today:

Picture of The Day: Rio’s Birthday Present

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Picture speaks louder than words. We will leave it for you to decide, will Rio leads a new trend in fashion. Maybe he can consider being a model after he retires from football, no?

Picture of The Day: The Sir Alex Ferguson Stand

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Serving a club for 25 years, won many titles and have the North Stand of Old Trafford named after you, what else can you ask for? Alex Ferguson celebrated his 25th years at Manchester United with a victory at home against Sunderland yesterday, the game ended in 1-0 with an own goal scored by former Man United player, Wes Brown. Maybe that’s his way of thanking Fergie? =P

Picture of The Day: ‘I Want It!’

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Well well, Fabregas looked all lovey-dowey while touching Puyol’s hand watch. His heart must be screaming ‘I want it!’, 'Okay kid, I will get you one as Christmas gift. Stop touching me!!’

Player Thursday: The True Hero, Billy Sharp

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Please welcome, Player Thursday! From this week onwards, every two weeks, we will have a Player Thursday, to introduce you players that we think you should know or know more about. And we would like to begin it with, Billy Sharp, a brave dad.

Jonas Scores 2nd Fastest Goal in Champions League History

If you missed the goal last night, like us, you can watch it from the video above! This goal scored by Valencia’s player Jonas, got into the back of the net around 11s but still, cannot beat Roy Makaay’s goal for Bayern Munich against Real Madrid in 2007, which scored at 10s, just slightly quicker than Jonas.

Our Prediction for FIFA Ballon d'Or

'So Pep, if Messi and Xavi both got into the final 3 this year, who do you think will win?’
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Yes yes, the 2011 FIFA Ballon d’Or is just around the corner and the 23-man shortlist was just released. No doubt that Messi, Ronaldo are both in the running and we are not surprised that Barcelona players have dominated the list, there are all together 8 of them on the list:

Picture of The Day: Trick or Treat?

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Well, where is little Archie’s head? So I guess Jack’s big head plus a baby skeleton body does look a bit scary, no? Nah, think Archie is just too cute to scare people away, I think this team must have gotten themselves a lot of candies yesterday!