The Latest on soccer players lives

London Soccer:

Harry Redknapp and Milan Mandaric have to go to court in January for trail for being charged tax evasion. The two of them got these charges after being accused of “cheating the public revenue” (Sports illustrated)

I think these two men think because they are apart of a national pro team that they can do what ever they want. But what they have to realize is that they are as much human as anyone else and the same rules apply to them also.

Rome:

After Luciano Moggi threatened the director of Roma managing Franco Baldini, Luciano Moggi now has to serve four months in prison. Luciano Moggi threatened him by saying, “watch your step, or you’ll have problems” (Franco Moggi). He was originally supposed to serve 8 months, but ends up he only has to serve four months.

I don’t think it is very professional for a manager to act out this way. Not only is it not professional but he is also not being a good example to the world and to the people and team that is around him.

Greece:

In Greece the police had to arrest four fans due to trying to attack the officials of the game that day. The ref had stopped the game to get the fans off the field and when the ref did this other fans went crazy and started running unto the field also. Also after the police arrested them, more fans started a riot with the police.

I feel as if now a days fans that go to professional games are out of control. I feel like people think they can do whatever they want and get away with it. This situation shows us exactly what our world has come to.

Bobsam Elejiko died during his game. During the game Bobsam Elejiko ended up collapsing during his game. After collapsing they tried to revive him but had no luck in do so.  Bobsam Elejiko was 30 years old, and the cause of the death is unknown at this time. Also due to the death of the player the game was cancelled.

I can not imagine what the team of this player is going through. Most teams like soccer teams are extremely close, so for this to happen has to be extremely difficult on them.

Italy:

Last Sunday Italy’s national team showed support for the fight against the mafia by holding an event on their home turf for it. This national team had over 1000 spectators show up to this event. Their coach explained that he gives them the option to attend this in other words he invites them, but the team doesn’t go because of their coach they go because they truly want to. This is also the third year that they have had this event.

I think it is great that there are teams out their who truly care about what is going on in their world. It shows that the team is not only focused on the game that they play but that they also want to be able to help there nation in anyway that they can. I think this is so great because not that many teams do that.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/wires/11/13/2080.ap.soc.italy.crime.1st.ld.writethru.0275/index.html 

the life of soccer players

Milan player Antonio Cassano after Saturdays game against Roma had a mini stroke. Although this player had a mini stroke it is said from his coach that he is sure is player will have full recovery. If I was Cassano I would have been scared out of my mind. I would have been worried that I might have died, also would have been worried that I would never be able to player soccer again. It sucks for him that this had to happen at this time since playoffs are coming up and those are big games. It also sucks for his team mates that they have to play the next few games with out their forward and a man down.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/10/31/cassano.stroke.ap/index.html?sct=sc_t2_a12

Milan tied with Bate Borisov 1-1. This wasn’t just a game that ended in a tie but also was a game that had a lot of meaning behind for the team Milan. One of the players on the Milan team Antonio Cassano  became very ill this past Saturday on their way back to Milan from their game in Roma. Antonio became so ill that he was unable to play in this game. So during this game all of the fans where there supporting not only the team but also really supporting Antonio Cassano. When Zlatan Ibrahimovic from Milan scored he ended up celebrating his goal by wearing Cassano’s shirt and celebrating in his name. This player celebrated in Cassano’s name because he knew that his team mate really wanted that goal for their team.  I think this is very cool, because instead of the team just being like yeah our teammate is ill and in the hospital no big deal, they actually aknowlegded that he is sick and is unable to play. I feel like this is a team that is truly committed to being there for all their teammates and not leaving anyone out.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/11/01/bate.milan.ap/index.html?sct=sc_t2_a3

The captian for Chelsea John Terry has been accused of racially abusing a member on one of the opposing teams. The police after having a person from the public complain decided to look more closely into the issue and has now issued a warrant to further investigate. Not only are the police investigating but so are the head of the soccer association.  Not only is John Terry being investigated but the opposing player that he supposedly made this racial comment to has been putting things about John Terry on Twitter. I feel like If John terry truly made a racial comment to this opposing player during the game then either one of the other players or ref would have heard it and assessed it right then and their. Also I feel like this issue is not something that should be taken as a joke or lightly and by the opposing player tweeting about it is being extremely immature and taking the issue way out of control.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/soccer/11/01/police.terry.ap/index.html?sct=sc_t2_a5

Professional and college updates on soccer

Professional soccer:

Manchester:

Manchester united is now in the English Premier League lead with a 4-1 win over Aston Villa 4-1 on Saturday.

Mario Balotelli scored in the 28th minute with an overhead kick.

Adam Johnson scored in the 47^th minute, Vincent Kompany in the 52^nd minute and James Milner in the 71^st minute.

Spain:

Lionel Messi got into sole possession of second place on Barcelona scoring list, with two goals in a 3-0 win over Racing Santander.

Barcelona has 196 goals in all of the competitons, but now Lionel Messi has 34 more goals then Barcelona.

 Also Gerard Pique will be benched for two weeks after the ninth minute in the game and ending up with a muscle tear in his right leg.

 For the third time Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat trick for spain in the matter of two weeks also for spain Kaka made one goal.

Italy:

Italy ended up losing again.

This time they lost to Catania 2 to 1

Italy is only in the competition with a total of four points.

Germany:

For Germany Franck Ribery scored one goal. Also made two more and got a penalty kick allowing the team to  beat Hertha Berlin 4-0. Also it allowed the team to extend its lead in the Bundesliga. The match contained six penalty kicks. The refs also had to issue three red cards during the game on Saturday.

Ribery with an assist allowed Mario Gomez to score during the fifth minute making the score it 2-0 two minutes later, and then later the team had Bastian Schweinsteiger  score in the 13^th minute of the game.

France:

Michel Bastos scored causing their team to be in the lead against Lyon over Nancy 3-1 he also caused his team even on points at the top of the French league with Paris Saint-Germain and Montpellier.

Also for france Olivier Giroud scored a hat trick beating Dijon 5-3.

Scotland:

Rangers lost to Celtics 3-0

Anthony Stokes had two goals in the game three minutes before Celtic scored again with a goal made by Charlie Mulgrew during the 80^th minute.

College soccer:

Rochester college beat calvin college 3-1

Stanford womens team beat UCLA

Stanford scored four goals in the first half

This was the most goals UCLA had scored on them all season so far.

But during the 18^th minute of the second half UCLA finally scored on Stanford. This left the game 4-1

 http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/

introduction to blog

This blog is going to mainly be about soccer.  Although a lot of people think soccer is only a fall sport soccer is year round and will allow people to keep up with all the latest on soccer. It will not be just about any soccer, but about professional teams around the world, college teams, and local teams. The things that will be discussed about these teams are certain games that will be going on during that week or month, scores of games that have occurred, and who scored those goals. Also there will be information on any huge news about any of the teams or players. The reason why I am choosing to blog about soccer is one because soccer is a huge passion of mine. Not only do I love to watch soccer games but I also love to play soccer myself. Soccer can also be a very intense and fun sport to watch so it will also allow me to stay updated on my favorite teams and all the games that will be going on. Not only am I so interested in this sport because I love playing it so much but I am also very interested in learning about all the new players that have started playing on the professional teams and learning about how skilled some of the colleges are. It is also interesting to see if a team with a new coach especially a professional team if they improve from last year or not. In blogging about soccer I hope to learn many things. I hope to learn more about specific professional teams, I hope to learn about all the college teams that are around me, I hope to learn about all different tactics that different teams use to win their games, and I hope that my knowledge of soccer widens.  I also hope that this will allow me to stay updated on all my teams that I wont be able to watch games of since I am at college and unable to watch them on tv. I also hope that through doing this I will learn more about other teams and grow to like more teams. I also hope to improve my writing and grammar skills through this since I will have to constantly write a blog on soccer. Lastly I hope to correctly site any work that I may use in this blog, so that in the end I am not committing plagiarism.

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/

http://soccnation.bondwaresite.com/soccer-update-cms-1681

http://thedailystar.com/

the latest on soccer

Russian beat Macedonia 1-0 on friday. For this win to be possible Andrey Arshavin and Aleksandr Kerzhakov had to work very hard on the front line.

Denmark beat Norway 3-2 and Romania beat France 4-1

On friday night Rodney Wallace from from Costa Rica scored the winning goal by heading it in the goal off a rebound against the U.S. This loss for the U.S. caused their coach Jurgen Klinsmann a loss for the second time as a U.S. coach. His first loss was a tie against mexico 1-1 on August 10th.  The last 20 minutes of the game became very physical causing the refs to give five yellow cards in the matter of those 20 minutes. The U.S. next game is on September 6th against Belgium in Brussels.
The U.S. will also play Honduras on October 8th giving their coach an early start on scouting for the world cup.

Saturday Tripoli, Libya won against Mozambique 1-0. Rabie el-Lafi scored 30 minutes into the game by making a shot into the far right corner. This win gave Libya six points and second place in Africa's cup competition.

While Chile played in Spain hundred of dollars and credit cards where stollen from their hotel.

World cup beach soccer is taking place in Italy. This world cup beach soccer will be the 6th year doing this.

Egypt will be hosting olympic qualifier for soccer in 2012.

Spain won the UEFA European U-21 championships with a 2-0 victory against Switzerland. Ander Herrera and Thiago Alcantara are the ones that scored the two goals.
http://www.fifa.com/mensolympic/news/index.html

South Florida beat Wake Forest 2-0

Kentucky beat Dayton 2-0 and Michigan with a score of 2-1. Taylor Riggs scored both winning goals.

Gael Rivera and Paul Hogan from Northern Illinois University scored the goals in the victory against Saint Louis.

With 23 seconds remaining in game Eric Schoehle's scored with a diving header in game West Virginia Vs Virginia.

College of Charleston opened their season with a 3-2 win over South Carolina on sunday night.

Sophomore who plays the position of a forward or front line Andy Craven led the Cougars with two goals.

Florida Alantic University tied with Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers one to one leaving Florida Gulf Coast University very upset.

UNC Greens boro defeated Duke University 3-2 at UNCG  soccer stadium. Hakan Ilhan scored twice for Greens boro and Andrew Wegner scored twice for Duke University.

5,241 fans where at first energy stadium for cleveland state. And 7,821 fans where at Cardinal Park for UCLA.