Match Day 2 is upon us, finally! Unfortunately, our injury list still contains quite a few names: Maniche, Seitaridis, Pablo, Forlán & Simão. Here's who we are left with: STARTING 11: Leo Franco, Perea, Heitinga, Ujfalusi, Pernía, Assunção, Raúl García, Maxi, Sinama-Pongolle & Agüero. Click to continue reading...

The speculation is over, Artur Boruc and Dariusz Dudka paid the price for their insubordination in Lvov and both return to the national team. The biggest surprise, however, is a call up for Lukasz Sosin, a player who scored more than 100 league goals in the Cyprian league. Can a 31 year old striker be an answer for Leo's problems?

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  Back to Champions, in style! Leo Franco; Perea, Ujfalusi, Heitinga, Antonio López; Assunçao, Maniche (54′ Banega), Luis García, Simao; Forlán (31′ Sinama) & Agüero (63′ Raúl García). THE GOOD 8′ Agüero, assisted by Luis García. 35′Agüero, great effort by Sinama. Click to continue reading...

I've finally recovered from that disastrous 2-1 loss to Valladolid. ONWARDS. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE FINALLY! Players experienced with Champions: Coupet, Forlán, Simao, Luis García, Seitaridis, Maniche, Assunçao, Heitinga, Sinama, & Leo Franco. Excluded players: Maxi & Pernía (suspension) and Pablo (injury). Click to continue reading...

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Originally uploaded by anam1973 Javier Aguirre , Maxy Rodriguez y Leo Franco tuvieron suerte y fueron escogidos para escoger a las proximas modelos recoge pelotas del Masters Series de Madrid en el Madrid Arena.

El Estadio Vicente Calderón fue la sede en donde las candidatas a ser recogepelotas fueron examinadas por Aguirre, Franco y Rodríguez, quienes estuvieron acompañados por Gerard Tsobanian, Director del Masters de Madrid, y Brian Pinault, Director del principal patrocinador del evento. Click to continue reading...

Not very often do we see a superb goal scored by a Pole against a top European club. This season we may witness it more often as Kuba Blaszczykowski is having a tremendous start of the season. Artur Wichniarek is currently Bundesliga's top goalscorer with 3 goals to his name, not that Leo cares. Pawel Brozek strengthened his claim for the spot in the nt by scoring another goal in the Polish league.

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Nella girandola di nomi accostati alla Roma, dopo l'acquisto di Julio Baptista, si fa largo un altro brasiliano: Thiago Neves, trequartista del Fluminense, si sarebbe offerto alla società giallorossa. Nei mesi scorsi erano già circolate voci di un interessamento dalle parti di Trigoria nei confronti del calciatore. Click to continue reading...

Leo decided to include some surprises in our starting lineup for the Ukraine friendly. Have a look.

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                                                                                                                               The 08/09 Premier League season will start up this weekend and undoubtedly many of us will be keeping an eye out on that, in terms of build-up. Click to continue reading...

Against all the odds Persija maintained their 100% record and moved to the top of the ISL, at least for a couple of hours, after a hard fought victory against Sriwijaya at Jakabaring Stadium.

In truth Persija weren't at their best with sloppy passing at the back handing the inititative to double winners Sriwijaya. Click to continue reading...

I'm back from hot, hot, hot Florida. Last Pre-season friendly: Rayo 2 Atlético 4 I didn't watch it, but apparently Maxi had a great game as did Ujfalusi. Poor positioning by Leo Franco led to the second goal. CHAMPIONS Aguirre submitted this squad for our Champions clash against Schalke: GK: Leo Franco, Coupet, Ángel Bernabé. Click to continue reading...

Lucky Melbourne. Lucky Lucky Michael Theoklitos. He should be watching the first few games from his lounge room. He still may if the FFA decides to review the DVD of the game.

Melbourne won but it took them 9 kicks in the penalty shootout. Theoklitos saved them. But he may have been sent off in about the 50th. Click to continue reading...

Today let's have a look at Poles who play in minor European leages. Well, even though I called them minor they're certainly better than the Polish league (well, maybe apart from Cyprus). That stated, if a player performs well in those leagues he certainly should have been given a call up to the national team.

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OUR FIRST PRE-SEASON WIN, albeit against a lower division team. In any case, it's all about building confidence and continuing to blend as a team. According to match reports, we played a stronger game in the second half... First half squad: Leo Franco; Seitaridis, Valera, Pablo, Pernía; Camacho; Miguel, Cléber, Reyes; Diego Costa & Luis García. Click to continue reading...

At last, in today's Gazeta Wyborcza I read the first decent interview with Leo after our Euro failure. A lot of usual grumbling about the poor state of Polish football and lack of necessary infrastructure (we don't have a place to train in Warsaw, we'll have to play in Wroclaw, where there is only 9500 capacity stadium etc.

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By Andrew K In Leo Bertos, Andrew Durante, Jon McKain, Leilei Gao, Troy Hearfield, Ben Sigmund, Adam Kwasnik and David Mulligan Ricky Herbert has acquired some terrific additions to his squad for the 2008/09 season. Leo Bertos has returned home after 2 seasons with Perth Glory, Troy Hearfield comes across from the Newcastle Jets, and Leilei Gao returns [. Click to continue reading...

Today's Przeglad Sportowy published an interesting list of players who are to be watched in the first rounds of the Polish league by Leo and his assistants. They are to be called up for a special training camp in Wronki in the beginning of August. I don't know if it's only a result of journalists' imagination or if the list really comes from our national team staff.

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Los camoteros sorprendieron , y al equipo al que menos se pensaría que podían ganar en su pretemporada, fue al que vencieron, con la mínima diferencia, gol del Bola Gonzalez ante una mala marca y una mala salida de Leo Franco.

Atlético de Madrid tuvo muchas oportunidades para empatar en el segundo tiempo pero no lo lograron. Click to continue reading...

It's me Leo!

Definitely gotta a career waiting for me after football, eh? Like they always say, big things come in small packages.

Be sure to show Cheryl...

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The info is yet to be confirmed by Leo or Polish FA, but it can already be found on Zaglebie Lubin's official webpage. They wish good luck to Ulatowski with his work and unveil their new manager Dariusz Fornalak. I think Ulatowski is an interesting choice.

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Por: Marlon Torres
El volante panameño Rolando Escobar viajará mañana lunes, a las 7:30 a.m., con rumbo a Grecia para fichar con el Panthrakikos F.C. de la primera división griega.

Escobar, quien jugó y se coronó campeon con el Deportivo Táchira de Venezuela la temporada pasada, estaba a la espera de volver a jugar en el fútbol internacional, luego de que el Deportivo Táchira no le llegase a renovar el contrato. Click to continue reading...

If you are as Euro-obsessive as we are, you probably noticed that both games yesterday were played at the same time.

No, this is not UEFA's attempt to drive you crazy and run down the batteries of your remote as you flip frantically back and forth between channels. It's the footballing world's attempt to make things fair for the bookmakers teams, players and viewers.

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Things went from bad to worse for the Carolina RailHawks as their four game roadtrip continued Saturday night in Miami. After dropping an embarrassing 3-0 loss to the last place Islanders on Thursday, Carolina opened up against Miami disastrously when keeper Chris McClellan cleared a backpass into the chest of an on-rushing Alex Alfonso just 15 seconds into the match and saw the ricochet carom into his own net. Click to continue reading...

Hat-trick hero, favourites upset, hosts 'go home' and Polish sour grapes all feature in today's good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the links to discover more about each story. Good David Villa's hat trick for Spain against Russia was the stand out performance after the first set of matches leading many to tip Spain for [. Click to continue reading...

I think we can all agree that running a front-page tabloid article featuring a Photoshopped image of Poland coach Leo Beenhakker triumphantly lifting the severed, bloody heads of Germany captain Michael Ballack and coach Joachim Löw is behavior that lands hard with both feet in the category of "not cool. Click to continue reading...