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My condolences to Liverpool and Suarez.

Have a look at this lot of mugs...

Not a bad group, but they remind me of the era when Spain had a nice collection of talent overall yet not enough to fight head to head with the real powerhouses.

Their jerseys are always cool tho.

Japan 2014 World Cup Team

Goalkeepers
Eiji Kawashima (Standard Liege)
Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)
Shuichi Gonda (FC Tokyo)

Defenders
Yuto Nagatomo (Inter Milan)
Maya Yoshida (Southampton)
Yasuyuki Konno (Gamba Osaka)
Masahiko Inoha (Jubilo Iwata)
Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo)
Atsuto Uchida (Schalke 04)
Hiroki Sakai (Hannover 96)
Gotoku Sakai (Stuttgart)

Midfielders
Makoto Hasebe (Nuremberg)
Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka)
Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka)
Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
Hiroshi Kiyotake (Nuremberg)
Keisuke Honda (AC Milan)

Forwards
Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United)
Shinji Okazaki (Mainz 05)
Yuya Osako (1860 Munich)
Yoichiro Kakitani (Cerezo Osaka)
Yoshito Okubo (Kawasaki Frontale)
Manabu Saito (Yokohama Marinos)

diego costa to sign with chelsea for 23 mil pounds.

i rarely watch la liga games except barca vs real madrid, but athletico madrid and barcelona this week.

Watch it. It's the rare one game league final and should be a hell of a match.

Any other GFOP's out there pick up the USMNT World Cup Survival Kit?

Nothing screams "Not in the face!" like a knit cap in July.

i thought madrid was cooked when costa and turan went down.

That's what we all thought, but every player, coach and FO guy interviewed said exactly the same thing while being completely spontaneous and honest: 'we were doing it well, even after their goal, and we had faith that we'd have our chance if we kept going like we should'. That's what Caminero (GM), Cerezo (president), Simeone and some players were answering when asked abut the injuries and the goal againt. They said that, and also again and again that they have one more big game next week.

That means that Simeone has made an indescriptibly great job at motivating his players and building a system and philosophy that runs thorough the whole club, comparable only to what Guardiola did but with the obvious merit of having a roster way less talented and expensive.

This season El Cholo was King Leonidas and his players were the 300. I take my hat off to all of them and as a Real Madrid fan I reckon them as a force beyond typical measurement.

there's uncertainty next year with costa moving to chelsea, but the same thing was said after falcao left. who do you think will be their next goal scoring star?

If Costa goes to Chelsea I could see a return of the Kid. Torres is colchonero through and through and Mou has already let it be known that he doesn't like his current strikers, Torres included. If he accepts a pay cut, he could be back, and I think it is possible with Simeone and the recent success of his team.

If they don't go that route, I guess they'll try to get yet another steal in form of an unknown player, or a rental from a top team. If Real wins the UCL maybe they'd consider sending Morata over, but there are other suitors already, like Juventus.

By the way, Costa is seriouly doubtful for the final but he is not 100% ruled out yet.

It's a shame that the UCL Final has to be overshadowed by the English League 1 playoffs.

Come on Mighty O's!

Flagrant Fowl wrote:It's a shame that the UCL Final has to be overshadowed by the English League 1 playoffs.

Come on Mighty O's!

QPR and Derby prepare for the biggest payday in global sport as Championship play-off final winner will accrue £134m

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... -134m.html

Bad news for Uruguay...

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/85/engla ... ID=HP_HN_1

Flagrant Fowl wrote:Bad news for Uruguay...

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/85/engla ... ID=HP_HN_1

then it's england and italy then.

congrats to qpr. down to ten men, zamora fires 90th minute goal for 1-0 win.

https://sg.sports.yahoo.com/news/zamora ... --sow.html

tony fernandez skrteling

Watching soccer because baseball is boring, this Atletico meltdown was rough to watch.