For quite a while now, I've been getting questions and comments about the WCR Weekly Top 25.  Some weeks, I try to go into a little detail regarding the purpose and reasoning of the rankings, but it becomes cumbersome to try to give explanations and principles on a weekly basis.

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Vasco de Gama are in trouble. The usually pretty successful club (they've won a Brazilian championship in every decade since the '70s, and the Copa Libertadores in 1998) are currently in the bottom four of the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, so if the season ended right now they'd be relegated to Série B. Click to continue reading...

It was League Cup day in England and Scotland, but halfway across the world, Boca Juniors also fielded a side largely made up of youngsters in a second-rate knockout competition. In this case it was the Copa Sudamericana, and the opposition were the champions of South America - recent Copa Libertadores winners Liga de Quito. Click to continue reading...

The Copa Sudamericana, South American Cup like Uefa Cup in Europe. One lever lower then the Copa Libertadores. Boca Juniors are meeting LDU Quito  Wednesday September 24th. Don`t forget to sign up 11×2.com - the next big football site   WATCH THE MATCH LIVE HERE! Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today  Click to continue reading...

The concepts of the game are universally renowned at every level, from watching our stars dazzle the pitch through a flash of virtuosity on our TVs or simply playing five-a-side down the local pitch with our friends. The ultimate objective? To be triumphant through scoring as many as goals as possible and thereby beating the opposition. Click to continue reading...

As many of us MLS fans were in angst over the pathetic performance of our clubs in the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League this week, perhaps it is only fitting to turn the clock back to 1998 and take a look back to an MLS team which, a decade ago, won not only the CONCACAF Champions Cup but then went on to beat the Copa Libertadores Champion, Brazil's famed,Vasco da Gama, in the final match of the final Copa Interamericana. Click to continue reading...

Club Atlético Bucaramanga (Bucaramanga Athletic Club) were founded in 1948 by Rafael Chaberman, a Lebanese immigrant.The Leopards entered almost straightaway into Colombia's top division - the Dimayor - and have spent only one season outside the top since, and that a half-season in 1995 when the Colombian calendar was shifted. Click to continue reading...

We've shown you the UEFA Champions League, Copa Libertadores, CONCACAF Champions League, now it is Africa's turn.

Why Africa? Because with the recent influx of talent from that continent to teams such as New England Revolution, and DC United it may be interesting to watch on a full day of football. Click to continue reading...

File this under: Official MLS Libertadores Connection Uncovered.

Our crack MLSR tech staff has uncovered the following domain name was registered and is currently held and maintained by MLS through next year:




LIGALIBERTADORES.COM



Registrant:

LLC, Major League Soccer


420 5th Avenue
7th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US


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(Note: Since there was only minimal club action this weekend involving the WCR Top 25 Clubs, I am posting the next in my series of Annual Rankings. I hope you enjoy it – or at least find it interesting. The WCR Top 25 Clubs list will return next week.)

In the past, I've started off writing about each year by discussing events in the UEFA Champions Cup tournament. Click to continue reading...

The goals from Wednesday night's Recopa Sudamericana second leg between Boca Juniors and Arsenal de Sarandí are now online. Just read on to watch them... Click to continue reading...

This is the Super Cup season and its coming to an end. They go by different names, e.g., Community Shield, Recopa Sudamericana, etc., and they tend to come in two forms – domestic and continental. In the domestic versions, they usually take place a week or so before the beginning of the regular season and serve as a tune-up for the upcoming season. Click to continue reading...

En la serie de dos partidos que enfrenta a los ganadores de los torneos de Conmebol: Copa Libertadores (Boca Juniors) y Copa Sudamericana (Arsenal de Sarandí), el Boca Juniors dirigido por Carlos Ischia dio un paso importante hacia el título de la Recopa Sudamericana. En partido celebrado en el estadio de Racing de Avellaneda, Martín [. Click to continue reading...

In a glorified all-Argentine continental pre-season friendly, Boca Juniors hosted Arsenal de Sarandí in Racing's ground on Wednesday night, in the first leg of the Recopa Sudamericana, played between the winners of the previous year's (not season, confusingly) Copas Sudamericana and Libertadores. Boca ran out 3-1 winners after an early flurry saw them leading 2-1 after [. Click to continue reading...

Yes, we are talking about the Recopa Sudamericana – not to be confused with the Copa Sudamericana, which is also going on at the moment and in which the same two clubs participating in the Recopa have or will also participate.

What is the Recopa Sudamericana? The Recopa Sudamericana is the South American equivalent to the UEFA Super Cup. Click to continue reading...

Monday

19:45 Hamilton v Dundee Utd, Scottish Premier League, Setanta Sports 1
Given the dominance of the Old Firm, the SPL is often pegged as a weak league. Having said that, small clubs who come into the Scottish top flight often struggle against all-comers and the Accies are in for a tough season after their promotion for the first time in twenty years. Click to continue reading...

The 2008 Torneo Apertura kicks off on Friday evening, so I think it's about time for the annual season preview, don't you? Long-time readers may notice that this is largely an updated version of last year's potted histories, but I've added a few things - you can now find out how much I really know [. Click to continue reading...

The Olympic Football Tournament is probably not going to be the highlight of your year as a fan. Be honest, football isn't what you'll be watching the Olympics for, after all. And with the European Championship and the Copa Libertadores having provided some brilliant football and no end of surprises, and the UEFA Champions League [. Click to continue reading...

DIAaDIA -
Al Bianchini Torres
Perforó las redes.

El Caracas FC, en el que milita el panameño Rolando "Talentoso" Escobar, jugó su primer amistoso de pretemporada ante el Nacional de Medellín.

El equipo vale derrotó por 4 a 1, al conjunto "paisa".

El "Talentoso" marcó el segundo gol de su equipo. Click to continue reading...

Andrés D'Alessandro was heading back out of the country on Wednesday, again in a north-easterly direction, but not this time as far as Europe. In fact, he's making a short hop over the Río de la Plata and Uruguay to the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, where 2005 Copa Libertadores winners Internacional are waiting [. Click to continue reading...

In 1981, for the third time in five years, Liverpool took home the Champions Cup trophy. This time Liverpool won the title by defeating Real Madrid 1-0 in Paris, France on an 82nd minute goal by Alan Kennedy. As was the case in 1978, however, Liverpool was unable to secure the top spot in the World Club Rankings in 1981, despite the European Championship, because of a fifth-place showing in domestic action. Click to continue reading...

One in a row wasn't enough for Ajax, Bayern Munich or Liverpool; what makes you think it would be enough for Nottingham Forest? If your answer was "nothing," then you are correct. The 1980 European Champions Cup saw Nottingham Forest not only reach the final at the Bernabeu in Madrid, it saw Forest defeat Hamburger in the final 1-0 on the leg of John Robertson, who scored the match's only goal in the twenty-first minute. Click to continue reading...

I found this article by Luis Bueno that was written for Sports Illustrated to be very interesting. Luis describes some of the results that MLS clubs have been able to achieve against their Mexican opposition. As a result the MLS clubs are gaining some respect amongst the Mexican teams and some of their players. Click to continue reading...

Continuing the history series which began with a nostalgic look at the 1978 World Cup win, I wanted to write something for the second installment which looked at a player forgotten by many today. Those who read my recent article looking back on the 1991 Apertura in UK magazine When Saturday Comes will recognise the [. Click to continue reading...

I've been reading about the different results from the Superliga, the tournament between top clubs from MLS and the Mexican Primera División and I can think about our - where are the rest of the CONCACAF clubs? The entire region is missing the point, there are other countries that have their own leagues and clubs with their own traditions. Click to continue reading...

Liverpool was unable to follow in the footsteps of Ajax and Bayern Munich with a third consecutive Champions Cup title in 1979 as they fell in the first round of the tournament to fellow English club Nottingham Forest. Forest carried the national banner valiantly, however, moving past AEK Athens, Grasshopper Club and FC Cologne on their way to the championship match. Click to continue reading...

Via Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias
Caracas, 18 Jul ABN.- El Caracas Fútbol Club confirmó la contratación del volante ofensivo panameño Rolando Escobar, quien en la temporada pasada, había militado con el némesis de los capitalinos, el actual campeón Deportivo Táchira.

El panameño anunció su salida del Táchira para militar en el extranjero. Click to continue reading...

Last week, I believe I said that the Superliga was the most exciting thing going on over the weekend. Even though the group stage of the Superliga concludes this weekend, now that D.C. United has been all but mathematically eliminated from the tournament, I'm not so excited about it. TeleFutura will be broadcasting the last matchdays of the group stage on Saturday and Sunday, but I'm more excited about the Uruguayan Copa Artigas, which concludes this weekend, so we will soon learn which Uruguayan teams advance to the 2008 Copa Sudamericana and which advance (in addition to Defensor Sporting) to the 2009 Copa Libertadores. Click to continue reading...

It's been a while since we've added a new feature here at WCR. We have Weekly Rankings (which will return in September), Annual Rankings and Television Schedules, but to avoid getting stale, it's time to add something more. This new feature is called What's Going On. Each week, we'll focus on a league or a tournament or something of that nature and preview the upcoming events associated therewith. Click to continue reading...

If you've been following this blog or Latin American soccer you should be very familiar with the name Thiago Neves. The Fluminense midfielder notched a hat trick in the finale of the Copa Libertadores--ultimately in a losing cause, as his club lost to Ecuador's LDU Quito.

"Thiago is a 23 year old Brazilian attacking midfielder who was capped a few times by Brazil's Under 23 national team but somehow was never signed by a European club.

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Following in the footsteps of Ajax and Bayern Munich, Liverpool repeated as European champion in 1978. This time they did it by continuing their dominance over Borussia Monchengladbach, who they defeated in the 1977 final and the 1978 semifinals, and over Club Brugge, who they defeated in the 1976 UEFA Cup final and again, 1-0, in the European Cup final at Wembley Stadium, with Kenny Dalglish providing the winning margin in the 65th minute. Click to continue reading...

When it comes to controversies, Oscar Ahumada has been the first one on the list lately. Upon River's incredible elimination in the Copa Libertadores in May of this year, Ahumada made some shocking remarks to the press, suggesting that the loss came in the hands of the fans who were momentarily silent after San Lorenzo's first goal. Click to continue reading...

Odd to be thinking this, never mind writing it, so soon after the previous season ended in South America (and delayed congratulations, by the way, to forwards Damián Mansó and Claudio Bieler, and manager Edgardo Bauza for ensuring some Argentine glory in the Copa Libertadores as Liga de Quito beat Fluminense on penalties last week), but [. Click to continue reading...

In the quarterfinals of the 1977 Champions Cup, Soviet club Dynamo Kiev defeated Bayern Munich 2-1 in aggregate, ending Bayern's three-year run as European champions. Another West German club made it to the European Cup final, but Borussia Monchengladbach fell 3-1 in the final to Liverpool in Rome, Italy. Click to continue reading...

More on the story we first brought you yesterday. This time we have the following thanks to Goal.com and SI.com


Club América interested in sister team in MLS

Is Club América on the verge of following Chivas into Major League Soccer? Three years ago, Chivas de Guadalajara began an intriguing experiment by starting a sister team north of the border. Click to continue reading...