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Here are some words and phrases you can hear on languagecaster's Full Podcast's Good, Bad and Ugly section - a review of the footballing news. For more English practice check out our worksheets, football glossary and English for football phrases as well as the Learners' Podcast. Back heel: A shot or pass using the back part [. Click to continue reading...

Barcelona are back, Ibrahimovic has his cake, Joe Kinnear breaks the press conference swearing record and Tottenham sink to the bottom of the Premier League. All of these stories feature in this week's the good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the links for more information about them below. Good Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored an amazing goal [. Click to continue reading...

Headlines from Italy read, A sensational Swedish backheel, Magical Ibra!, Ibra waves his magic wand, Inter go top. Some excellent goals were scored this week including, Del Piero's trade mark free-kick, Gilardino's header and Kuzmanovic's quick take, off the Montolivo free-kick but it should be obvious from the introduction Goal of The Week falls to Zlatan Ibrahimovic with his ballerina technique [. Click to continue reading...

At the end of the 6th Giornata we still saw surprises. Inter is top of the table, but they share a place with Lazio and Udinese, two squads who have been impressing in this start of the season. Both clubs are putting in good performances and don't look like calming down any time soon. Inter beat Bologna (with a splendid goal from Ibrahimovic), while Lazio needed a late equalizer from Simone Inzaghi (his first goal in Serie A in 4 years) to draw with Lecce.

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FC Inter - Honka 0-0 HJK - TPS 1-0 FC Lahti - Haka 1-0 KuPS - MyPa 1-4 VPS - Jaro 2-1 TamU - IFK Mariehamn 1-0 Highlights here, just click the "Veikkausliiga" link below the video. Inter and Honka couldn't spell out a difference between themselves in the long-awaited game between the two top teams in Turku. Click to continue reading...

Welcome to the last Top 25 before a two week break for international competition. It was a very interesting week, with several top 10 teams losing key matches. How would that affect matters? Let's take a look:

1. (Last week: 1). Chelsea
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I still don't understand how this works or how it happened or what bizarre experiments have to be performed on a human body to make it bend this way, but here it is: Ibrahimović's shocking goal in Inter's 2-1 win against Bologna today, a first-time, backward, back-heel roundhouse kick with his back to the goal [. Click to continue reading...

Ibrahimovic has many nicknames... among the self-explanatory "Ibrahimagic" and "Ibracadabra", even "Zlatan!" seems like something a magician would say before he pulled a rabbit out of a top hat (kinda like "Shazam!"). Inter first goal vs. Bologna Saturday night, illustrates just how appropriate the Ibrahimovic-Magic association can be: a marvelous mid-air backheel execution that few [. Click to continue reading...

Francesco Antonioli knows Zlatan. Someone once called him half-gangster, half-ballerina. Got the ballerina part right for sure, because the pure athleticism required to even attempt that shot is astounding. To execute? Unthinkable. (He's humble, too.) Click to continue reading...

Soccer Chicks!!! AAAAIGH!
Originally uploaded by Maxx Manboeuf Inter Milan 2 - 1 Bologna Seria A Italia Soccer Chicks!!!

ROMA (ESPNdeportes.com) - Fue una noche de regalos: Zlatan Ibrahimovic nos regaló a todos los amantes del fútbol un gol extraordinario, luego el referí le regaló a Inter un penal que Adriano transformó en el gol del 2 a 0 y, por último, entre Zanetti y Córdoba se las ingeniaron para regalarle a Vangelis Moras el tanto que fijó el marcador definitivo. Click to continue reading...

Which is a bit of a turnaround because it used to be 'Roy Keane to launch for Patrick Vieira'. And vice versa. But a lot of today's newspapers have the same story that Keano is desperate to bring his old nemesis to the Stadium of Light to boss Sunderland's midfield. The Frenchman is currently in Jose [. Click to continue reading...

The love-story between Mourinho and Inter has hit its first hurdle. Losing the Milan derby was already a big no-no moment this week-end, but Wednesday's home draw to Werder Bremen really did not sit well with some Nerazzurri supporters, who did not hide their discontent in the San Siro stands. And with good reason. Click to continue reading...

A few insights into Hamburg's youth academy. (SoccerLens) In a follow up to last week's edition, here is even more bad Bundesliga hair; scroll down and click on "weiter, nächste Gallery" to browse the pages. (fiese-scheitel.de) Attention Bayern Munich fans! Time for your Oktoberfest exam. I managed to answer 5 out of 12 questions right with a [. Click to continue reading...

Another eight Champions League games today, and I'm going to try and cover them all here in one big LiveBlog. Personally, I think today's games look a bit more interesting than yesterday's. Inter vs Bremen promises excitement and we'll see if Cluj's win at Roma was just a fluke when they host Chelsea in Romania. Click to continue reading...

Match Schedule Wednesday 01 Oct. 2008 20:45 Bordeaux vs AS Roma 20:45 Internazionale vs Werder Bremen all times (CET) The following training video demonstrates a move utilized by Roma's versatile Brazilian winger/midfielder/playmaker Rodrigo Taddei .  Taddei now back healthy in the Giallorossi starting XI, should be a mainstay in the club's Champions League fixtures. Click to continue reading...

Games with Chelsea tend to be quite memorable and hyped up. Little, however, was made of the most recent encounter between the two clubs. Admittedly it was the two sides' reserve teams that met yet, given that they play in different sections of the league, it was an unusual encounter nevertheless.

It may still turn out to be a memorable one, however, as the friendly featured the first reserve team appearance of Lauri Della Valle. Click to continue reading...

Match Schedule Tuesday 30 Sept. 2008   20:45 Fiorentina vs FC Steaua Bucuresti 20:45 FC BATE Borisov vs Juventus Wednesday 01 Oct. 2008 20:45 Bordeaux vs AS Roma 20:45 Internazionale vs Werder Bremen all times (CET) UEFA.com Magazine Interviews UEFA.com magazine interviews Juventus legend, UEFA president Michel Platini UEFA. Click to continue reading...

Neither wind nor rain nor stock market crashes nor presidential debates could keep the Top 25 ranking committee from convening for its weekly session. Sure, we're a bit late (we know you like to have these things in your inbox Monday morning so you can kick off the "work" week in fashion) but we make up for it with an extremely high quality edition of the rankings--even by our absurdly high standards. Click to continue reading...

When looking at the schedule of the 5th Giornata, all eyes had to be on Milan-Inter. The Derby was important not only for fans of those teams but for fans of other teams, as everyone had to hope Inter were stopped. And they were stopped, as the Rossoneri prevailed with a thunderous header from Ronaldinho, who scored his first goal in a Milan jersey.

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Hell hath no fury like a manager scorned. Jose Mourinho (formerly at Chelsea, currently at Inter, for those who've been asleep for the last year) just gave an interview in the Gazzetta dello Sport where he expresses great disappointment that Frank Lampard re-signed with Chelsea. Does anybody else think this sounds more like [. Click to continue reading...

Things could not have been worse for Ronaldinho coming into the latest edition of the Derby Della Madonnina.  He was still not at the level that people though he could be at, but then the big stab in his heart came midweek. Brazil coach Dunga left the AC Milan midfielder out of his 23-man callup for [. Click to continue reading...

Ronaldinho shines as AC Milan take the Milan Derby 1 - 0. Match Highlights Match Day Five Results Saturday Sept. 27 Sampdoria 0 - 0 Juventus Fiorentina 1 - 0 Genoa   Sunday Sept. 28  AS Roma 2 - 0 Atalanta Bologna 0 - 1 Napoli Catania 1 - 0 Chievo Lecce 2 - 0 Cagliari Palermo 1 - 0 Reggina Torino 1 - 3 Lazio Udinese 2 - [. Click to continue reading...

1. Everton - Liverpool. And yet, no amount of having a soccer blog could keep me from writing email throughout this tedious chore of a match. 2. Espanyol - Barcelona. Madness, violence, confusion, controversy: this was the match of the season for every one of soccer's wicked shadow synonyms. After giving up a goal on a [. Click to continue reading...

Or should I say... R80? Either way ladies & gentlemen, Ronaldinho could not have picked a better day to score the first Serie A goal of his AC Milan career. With the first edition of 2008-09's "Derby della Madonnina", the Rossoneri have struck a big blow to Inter and José Mourinho's big "confidence plan". Click to continue reading...

AC Milan v/s Inter Milan.Mourinho's unbeaten run as Inter Milan manager came to an end when Kaka beat the offside trap on the right to pick up a long pass from Ronaldinho. He jogged it down to the right of the penalty area and then scooped it perfectly back to Ronaldinho to head home from 10 metres out.

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Oh, the ups and downs of being Ronaldinho. The toothy legend was recently left out of the Brazil squad by Dunga, and it wasn't clear whether he's start the Milan derby or not. But not only did he start, he went and won the game with an absolutely glorious header. The header is impressive enough - [.. Click to continue reading...

Grande MILAN!
Originally uploaded by Yep? En un clásico plagado de figuras mundiales, el Milan gano, pero no de forma contundente, de hecho de no ser por el arbitro, quien expulso y amonesto a jugadores del Inter de forma rigorista y de que no le marco un penal al Inter ya para finalizar ; el juego pudo dar otro giro. Click to continue reading...

Derby Preview Goalday preview -Inter Milan take lead ahead of city derby with AC Milan Title holders Inter Milan lead the Serie A standings as they go into a classic city derby with struggling but recovering AC Milan that late Sunday closes the Serie A weekend. Inter, on 10 points after four games, celebrated their 100th unbeaten [. Click to continue reading...

Genoa striker Diego Milito is making quite an impact his second time around at Genoa.  For this type of performance Alfio Basile gave the former Zaragoza man a callup to the national team.  If there were any doubts that about his worthiness to wear his country´s colors, maybe the win last week against AC Milan [. Click to continue reading...

I'm predicting the Milan derby will have a similar result as last season's first meeting.    AC Milan Triumph 05.04.08 07-08 Milan Derby Highlights Bookmark to: Click to continue reading...

Premier League - Everton vs Liverpool When: Saturday, Septemmber 27, 12:45 GMT Where: Goodison Park Why: Some early afternoon red vs blue action in the Merseyside derby. It's maybe second to the Liverpool vs Man Utd rivalry these days, but still nice and fiery. Just ask Phil Neville. The Toffees are hoping for a repeat of 2006 while [. Click to continue reading...

Arrival of Match Day Five brings forth the ancient rivialry of A.C. Milan against F.C. Internazionale. Welcome to the Derby della Madonnina. I was alerted to Mark Meadow's article, Friday afternoon question: Which is the best derby? this afternoon of course and it reminds of how wild things get at the San Siro when these clubs meet. Click to continue reading...

The first derby of the Serie A season will take place Sunday night between Milan and Inter. Inter command the table with 10 points while Milan are at 6. Milan will want to defeat rivals Inter to keep them in the higher spots of the table and to avoid going -7 behind Inter. Here are some videos of great derbies of the past:

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