Let's say you're a backup goalkeeper looking to prove your value to the team. You get your chance in a Cup game where your side is heavily favored. Your side goes down 2-0 early, but then they score a goal and put you back in the game. It's 2-1. What do [...] Click to continue reading...

Stade Rennais Football Club is a French Ligue 1 football club from the city of Rennes. They feature former French international Sylvain Wiltord, United States defender Carlos Bocanegra and Ghanian legend Asamoah Gyan. Rennais are currently in 8th place in Ligue 1. Their 2008/09 Puma home kit features an embroidered Rennais club crest, screened sponsor design, as [. Click to continue reading...

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French footy fans, rejoice. There will be games this weekend. A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the probability that a strike would take down French football this weekend. At the time both sides looked set on their positions, and the strike looked inevitable. I am happy to say that [...] Click to continue reading...

Striking is as French as baguettes, and a source of much French angst and humor. When our readers were chatting recently on the France blog about the emptiness of a stadium in Paris, one reader said, Laurie- No one went to the game because september is the month for strikes. Do you think people will [. Click to continue reading...

Pascal, current winger/forward for St. Etienne and one of their better players, is essentially holding his own club ransom. With the Asian transfer window still open - and absolutely no indication whatsoever of its date on the English-speaking web that I can find - Al Sadd announced they'd agreed a deal sending Pascal to Qatar [. Click to continue reading...

After kicking off the Champions League & UEFA Cup, Europe goes back home and hasn't left us wanting, giving us some very big and very interesting games over the next two days. Though it would be nice if they all go together and split the good ones up evenly between Saturday and Sunday... Prem.: What else? Click to continue reading...

Ligue 1  Week 5: Paris Saint Germain are meeting FC Nantes Sunday September 14 th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com 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...

We told you the omens were good for a more open Ligue 1 title race this season. Lyon can't have it all their own way forever, and after two games they're in the rather unfamiliar position of not being the top team in France. But it's not Bordeaux either: it's tiny Grenoble, freshly promoted to [...] Click to continue reading...

Lyon defeated Toulouse 3-0 in their first game of the 2008-09 French Ligue 1 season. Karim Benzema netted twice and new signing Jean II Makoun scored once, but the French giants suffered a blow as rightback Francois Clerc ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in the first half. Medical tests have revealed [. Click to continue reading...

By Alan
Soccer City FC

The Scottish Premier League and the French Ligue 1 both started last weekend with champions Celtic and Lyon opening their title defences with victories respectively.

Celtic hosted St Mirren in a scrappy encounter at Parkhead and it took a penalty by Barry Robson to claim three points for the Glasgow outfit. Click to continue reading...

French Ligue 1 : Olympique Lyon are meeting Toulouse Sunday August 10th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here at footiedb.com Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today!  Click to continue reading...

Daisuke Matsui, Japanese soccerstar who recently moved to French Ligue 1 club St Etienne, believed to become a successor of former Japanese soccerstar Hidetoshi Nakata in European football competition.

St Etienne chief executive Vincent Tong-Cuong also believe that Matsui to become one of Japanese football legend in europe.

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Even Lyon fans might have to admit that their team's dominance of Ligue 1 is getting silly. They've won the last seven French titles. Which is a lot. They had also won every French Champions Trophy (pre-seasonish league winner vs cup winners game) from 2002 to 2007. And for the 2008/9 French Champions Trophy, Lyon faced [. Click to continue reading...

American defender Oguchi Onyewu played a full 90 minutes for Standard Liege Saturday night in a 3-0 loss to French Ligue 1 side Saint Etienne. Despite the impending transfer of Onyewu, Standard coach Laszlo Boloni chose to use the Maryland native in the friendly.

This may indicate that he intends to use Gooch in the third round of Champion's League qualifying against Liverpool starting August 12th. Click to continue reading...

Adu is on the move again. The US international is but a signature away from a loan deal between his current Portuguese club, the Lisbon based multisports giant Benfica, and his new digs with French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco.

Freddy will settle in at Stade Louis II after a growing CV that also includes DC United and Real Salt Lake. Click to continue reading...

Benfica midfielder Freddy Adu has been loaned to French Ligue 1 giants AS Monaco for the upcoming season, a team official confirmed Wednesday. Click to continue reading...

Over three weeks of tournament action and only one country stood tall: Sweden. Ibrahimovich proved to be unstoppable in the virtual world, earning glory for his country where the real world left a bit to be desired. Standing in the finals against a tough Croatian squad, they dispatched their opponents 2-1 for [. Click to continue reading...

SoccerTimes.com is reporting that French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco is interested in acquiring the... Click to continue reading...

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Ex-Houston Dynamo striker Joseph Ngwenya's name has popped up in the news recently after the 27-year-old began a trial three-week spell with German superpower Bayern Munich. If you'll direct your attention to Texas you'll see a collective mouth-watering from the Dynamo faithful.

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Ex-Houston Dynamo striker Joseph Ngwenya's name has popped up in the news recently after the 27-year-old began a trial three-week spell with German superpower Bayern Munich. If you'll direct your attention to Texas you'll see a collective mouth-watering from the Dynamo faithful.

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All signs were pointing toward Hatem Ben Arfa joining Olympique de Marseille in Le Championnat. L'OM even announced the highly publicized move on their official website. Not so fast. Olympique Lyon have since said that move is not going to... Click to continue reading...

All signs were pointing toward Hatem Ben Arfa joining Olympique de Marseille in Le Championnat. L'OM even announced the highly publicized move on their official website. Not so fast. Olympique Lyon have since said that move is not going to... Click to continue reading...

Marseille are looking to seal a €12million (£9.5million) deal for a Lyon star who was heralded as the future of French football, along with team-mate Karim Benzema, only 4 months ago. Reports suggested that Premiership teams like Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester United had been tracking the player, but with this "sideways" move to Marseille on [. Click to continue reading...

American center back Carlos Bocanegra has joined French Ligue 1 team Rennes on a three year contract. Click to continue reading...

All French Ligue 1 transfers going through in the summer of 2008 are on this page. For our transfer news column, see our transfer news section. This page is updated frequently, so if you find a transfer not listed here, put it in the comments and we'll add it. This page [...] Click to continue reading...

Karim Benzema might be picking up a World Footballer of the Year award within the next few seasons. The French striker is still far from the real deal, although he's had a fantastic season for Lyon and demonstrated in the Champions League against Manchester United that's he's hot property. It's little surprise that the likes [. Click to continue reading...

There's no doubt that Chelsea striker Didier Drogba is an attention whore. Whether it's flailing on the pitch because the wind blew him over, or because he's not getting enough "money love" from Roman, the Ivory Coast striker has to be in the spotlight. Well, judging from the report coming from the Daily Mirror, Drogba looks [. Click to continue reading...

It appeared to be a done deal. Many newspapers were last week reporting that Samir Nasri was practically an Arsenal player, thus bolstering the Gunners squad after the departure of Mathieu Flamini. However, the Daily Telegraph report that Arsene Wenger is not so confident anymore, and has conceded that he will have to wait until [. Click to continue reading...

Kevin Keegan has made it clear that he needs to make three or four important signings this summer (as well as re-signing Michael Owen) if Newcastle want any chance of making a move up the Premiership table next year. Setanta is reporting that Newcastle might be interested in signing Toulouse midfielder Achille Emana, if the [. Click to continue reading...

On this week's good, the bad and the ugly we feature lots of winners, some losers and Joey Barton! Click on the links below to find out more about the stories we feature. Good Manchester United are the winners of the Champions League for the third time in their history after beating Chelsea on penalties. Click to continue reading...

For those of you who follow the French league, you'll know that goals aren't easy to come by in France. But apparently, it looks like everybody saved the best for last. A total of 43 goals were scored yesterday to bring an end to this year's season. And what an exciting end it was! Of [...] Click to continue reading...

Fred and Kim Källström celebrate Lyon's seventh straight Ligue 1 title with a 3-1 win at Auxerre, and are now one game away from the first domestic double in club history. It was a crazy day in France, with goals galore and battles for Europe and relegation coming down to the wire. Inara's [...] Click to continue reading...

Some news to read as you use a corpse head to smoke marijuana: Because 2000 naked people are the obvious way to promote a footy tournament (Euro 2008 at WCB) An England fan's ode to the Polish National Team (Poland Euro 2008) Photo Gallery: How the Premier League was won and lost (The Guardian) When reality TV and [. Click to continue reading...

A couple of titles were settled this weekend, and a couple of challenges got more complicated. Here's what the Title Watch looks like after this weekend's games: Italy: Serie A In an odd turn of events, AS Roma were AC Milan's biggest fans this weekend as Milan dispatched cross-town rivals Inter, 2-1. Click to continue reading...