The Turkish national football team coach, Fatih Terim, has apologized for his behavior towards Belgium's Rene Vandereycken during the two team's World Cup qualifying group game last Wednesday. Terim responded to what he called an "abusive gesture" by the Belgian, by making a gesture of his own and walking towards Click to continue reading...

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Johnny Exantus, the Haitian-born striker and former star of the Red Bulls Academy team, has left the Red Bulls Academy team and has been linked to Belgian club Royal Racing of Montegnee, but that doesn't mean he has given up on playing for the club that he has spent the past three years developing with.

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According to ex-Galaxy coach and internationally known Ruud Gullit, Major League Soccer is about as good as those minor leagues in Europe.

He's say the standard is "higher than people think". So that's good.

'I'd liken it more to the leagues in Holland, Belgium and Norway.

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Friday Friday, busy busy busy, thanks for your patience and patronage... #1 - I realize today's Cut breaks the F-bomb rule. Please forgive me, but it's Friday, and like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, the Replacements will not be ignored. Just pretend you didn't hear it if you must. #2 - And we have another note on the bounds of good taste: it seems an amateur footballer in Germany, one Click to continue reading...

We'll be underway at the top of the next hour, here are your line-ups: Howard; Baines, Yobo, Lescott, Neville, Castillo, Arteta, Cahill, Anichebe, Yakubu Bench: Nash; Valente, Kissock, Wallace, Agard, Gosling, Rodwell, Vaughan, Baxter Espinoza; Camozzato, Onyewu, Sarr, Dante, Dalmat, Defour, Nicaise, Witsel, De Camargo, Mbokani Bench: De Vriendt; Goreux, Mikulic, Ingrao, Toama, Jovanovic, Click to continue reading...

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As you may have read elsewhere on Tuesday, there is a Belgian soccer team claiming to have signed New York Red Bulls youth prospect Johnny Exantus (left in photo).

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As you may have read elsewhere on Tuesday, there is a Belgian soccer team claiming to have signed New York Red Bulls youth prospect Johnny Exantus (left in photo).

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The Johnny Exantus saga takes a twist abroad.

He's now with Royal Racing in Belgium, whose logo seems to be a rat.

I don't know yet if Red Bull New York got any compensation for him. He was in their youth academy, but was considered a great prospect to sign. They're going abroad at a younger and younger age, it seems. Click to continue reading...

I spent quite a bit of time last night, searching the web for relevant information on Cuauhtemoc Blanco. I fell asleep mid-story and woke up early this morning to finish it, early as in before 5.

So read it!

It's a bit of a tribute to Cuauhtemoc Blanco for SI.com.

The best part of the story I think is the links to various video clips. Click to continue reading...

Group 5 : World Cup 2010 Qualification: Turkey are meeting Belgium Wednesday September 10th. Watch the Livestream and Highlights here  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today   Don`t forget to sign up 11×2.com - the next big football site   Click to continue reading...

Only about two transfer deals that happened late last night, obviously apart from Berbatov and Robinho. The first was the only real major signing from Everton - spending £13 million for Belgium international central-midfielder Marouane Fellaini from Standard Liege. Newcastle United brought in another player from La Liga, signing Ignacio Gonzalez on a season-long loan deal [. Click to continue reading...

I know you're all waiting for info... so am I. When I have something, you'll know first. MINI-UPDATE: I still believe Oguchi Onyewu is on the move as we speak, I'm still digging on this one. There has been some talk of a Jonathan Spector loan move to noted Championship side Nottingham Forest, but I've been unable thus far to pin down his agent so far. Click to continue reading...

Oguchi Onyewu was the only Yank to see action in Belgium this weekend as the league champions dropped their first points of the season in Jupiler Pro League action. Click to continue reading...

We could have done a lot worse, a loss would not have helped our cause. But the game against West-Brom yesterday which ended in an extremely boring 0-0 showed just how badly we need balls in the back of the net. The trotters were par with WBA in just about every category.

This brings me to a slightly more optimistic bit of news.

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Well, it's the start of a new season for my club (whose club anthem you can hear as Cut of the Day), so I will be in and out all day and night. I will add notes to this as I can, sorry for the temporary slack. #1 - The Spidey Sense post is now locked. Anything new will come in a resulting post, such as. Click to continue reading...

less than 24 hours after a formidable showing against Liverpool, reports out of Belgium say the Liege phone is ringing off the hook.  Apparently, and soccer365 talks about this too, clubs in France, Spain, and England are inquiring about the availability of Oguchi "The Boss" Onyewu. The interest is strong, and teams are now asking about [. Click to continue reading...

I decided to extract this entire portion from the previous post as it continues to grow and grow... With less than four days left in the silly season, I guess it's time I put my money where my mouth is concerning my personal thought on the likelihood of a move for several recent American transfer topics. Click to continue reading...

Following Liverpool's blinding performance against Standard Liege (a really great team in Belgium if you didn't know) Steven Gerrard is undergoing surgery on his groin. This means that he could be missing for the game against us. "We decided that Steven would play through the pain against Liege and then have the operation," Rafa Benitez, of [. Click to continue reading...

As if often the case, this edition will be updated through the day... #1 - Gooch... Standard... Bravo! If coach Boloni had replaced one of his tiring wingbacks, they may have made it to penalties. My hats off to you boys. Good luck to Standard with all the offers I'm sure their about to receive for Onyewu, Defour, Felliani, Mbokani, Espinoza, Marcos, Dalmat, Witsel. Click to continue reading...

Some players score a lot of goals, some players score a lot of beauties and then some players can only score wonder goals. Dennis Bergkamp comes to mind. Marco van Basten, of course. Robin van Persie. And that Belgium bloke who won over our Dutch hearts. Luc Nilis. Had to Click to continue reading...

Gooch Kent has landed on Mersey... I will have Belgian TV tuned to the Liverpool v Standard Liège winner-take-all Champions League qualifying showdown, so come back around at 3 p.m. ET for live updates on the proceedings at Anfield. From what I understand, the visitors have no intention of backing down and will prove it by fielding two strikers. Click to continue reading...

Pepe Reina is confident it will not take more goalkeeping heroics for Liverpool to overcome Standard Liege on Wednesday.

The Spanish stopper had to be on top form to keep a clean sheet during the first leg in Belgium, thwarting a penalty just minutes after a superb goalline save.

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It's still early, so I may add to or update this edition as the day unfolds... #1 - It appears I got a false positive on yesterday's Michael Bradley transfer saga Spidey sense. Heerenveen exec Yme Kuiper just told me that yesterday's afternoon meetings revolved around another hot topic, Danijel Pranjić. Click to continue reading...

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Hamburg coach Martin Jol always seemed a cool head. Sure, he looks like a movie character that would throw you off a bridge for looking at him sideways and you could always see his mind moving, but external reactions were a bit muted. This past week, he apparently snapped. This past week, he metaphorically pushed Vincent Kompany down those stairs in an odd snit. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano has become the first Argentinian footballer in history to win two Olympic gold medals.

Javier Mascherano helped the Albiceleste beat Nigeria 1-0 in this morning's Olympic final in Beijing‘s Bird‘s Nest Stadium, the winning goal for the South Americans being scored by Angel Di Maria in the 58th minute. Click to continue reading...

Spurred by a question from NSC reader Ryan in one of the comments, I decided to give an update on what I have gathered from the Gooch situation to this point (though I'm hoping to learn more this week): I can say with 98% certainty that nothing will happen until Standard plays the second CL leg against Liverpool on Wednesday. Click to continue reading...

Pocognoli is definitely interesting Newcastle United. There are various reports that came out of Belgium over the last couple of days, that suggest a transfer to Newcastle could be unfolding, but we can never be sure. But the 21 year-old expressed his desire to play in England or Spain earlier this week, when he talked about his [. Click to continue reading...

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Brasil win the bronze medal with a 3-nil victory over surprise finalists Belgium. Diego opened scoring in the 27th minute after darting past last man Tom de Mul and connecting with a cross from Rafinha to tuck the ball inside the far post. Lanky striker Jo added another two goals at the ... Click to continue reading...

How could I convey confusion and shirts... hmmmmm... how about his ambulance style tee?

Here's a quick synopsis. Germany was uber-upset because they thought their starters had to wear numbers 1-11 with no names on the back in a friendly against Belgium.

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Manchester City summer signing Jô notched a brace for his national side as Brazil defeated Belgium to capture the men's Bronze medal at the 2008 Olympics. He appears likely to compete in City's third fixture of the season. The former CSKA Moscow striker could be back for the UEFA Cup match against FC Midtjylland next Thursday. Click to continue reading...

After being humiliated by Argentina in the semi-finals, Brazil overcame Belgium 3-0 in today's match played for the bronze medal. Anderson had a good game, playing in a more defensive role for Brazil, breaking up play and bursting forward with good pace. However, as the bluenoses will love to tell you, it was their new £19 million [. Click to continue reading...

Oguchi Onyewu is back in Belgium to take on Westerlo, while Jared Jeffrey and Club Brugge have another weekend off in Belgian soccer. Click to continue reading...