Savunmacı alacaksan İtalya'dan alacaksın fikrine güvenen Bayern Münih ve O. Lyon Milanlı Oddo'nun peşinde. Zambratto'nun gelişi ile boşa çıkan adam oldu Oddo. Transferin bugün yarın bitmesi gerekiyor, zira ligler başladı / başlayacak. Lyon'da İtalyan Grosso, Münih'te ise Luca Toni var. Click to continue reading...

Bayern Münih-Hamburg: 2-2
Schalke-Hannover: 3-0
Wolsfburg-Köln: 2-1
Bayer Leverkusen-Borussia Dortmund: 2-3
Karlsruhe-Bochum: 1-0
Energie Cottbus-Hoffenheim: 0-3
Arminia Bielefeld-Werder Bremen: 2-2

Emirates Kupası'nı kazanırken iyi futbolu ile dikkat çeken Hamburg'un bu senenin iddialı takımlarından biri olacağı sezilmişti. Click to continue reading...

Apologies for starting this year's Bundesliga blog off with an entry based on ugly rumours (by which I mean allegations and not ex-British PM Tony Blair's ill-fated Stones-esque college band).
Since Euro 2008 ended, I've been feeding my soccer hunger by trawling my favourite sites for any morsel of information that can keep me sated. Click to continue reading...

Jürgen Klinsmann will wake up in the morning to a warm Danish and frothy cappucino to find out it was all a nightmare. He'll swing himself out of his king-size bed, stretch in his cotton PJs before enjoying a leisurely frühstuck. He'll then grab the leash and go wandering along the golden sands with a happy retriever bounding in the surf and a light heart beating in his tanned, relaxed chest. Click to continue reading...

Defending Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich kicked off the new Bundesliga season with a 2-2 tie with Hamburg. Bayern who were playing without Luca Toni and Franck Ribery wasted a 2 goal lead. Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lukas Podolski scored to give Bayern a 2-0 lead only 19 minutes into the game. However, Guerrero scored for Hamburg in the 25th minute, and Trochowski scored in the 57th minute Click to continue reading...

The 1. Bundesliga beat the English Premier League to the big kick-off today, opening with a Friday night game between Bayern Munich and Hamburg. New Bayern boss Juergen Klinsmann must have thought he'd made the perfect start - even without the injured Luca Toni and Franck Ribery - when his team raced into 2-0 lead through [. Click to continue reading...

Luca Toni, dopo i fastidi al polpaccio, è rientrato in gruppo. L'attaccante di Pavullo ha ripreso a correre e farà di tutto per non dover rinunciare all'esordio del Bayern in Bundesliga contro l'Amburgo. Tuttavia, il tecnico dei bavaresi, Jurgen Klinsmann, dovrebbe farlo giocare solo nella seconda giornata, per evitare spiacevoli ricadute. Click to continue reading...

(First, if you haven't done our "Eyes of Euro 2008″ quiz, stop by here and make your best guesses. Then come back to this post for the answers.) Finally, the answers we've all been waiting for. Who did The Eyes belong to? You guys are amazingly good. All of the right answers [...] Click to continue reading...

Doccia fredda per i giallorossi che si aspettavano una risposta
positiva. Accolta la richiesta di Prandelli di tenere l'attaccante

«Mutu rimane alla Fiorentina»

Ore 20.24: il presidente Andrea Della Valle dice no
alla proposta di acquisto della Roma per il romeno

SAN PIERO A SIEVE - Ore 20. Click to continue reading...

Up till now, we recapped the Euros and talked about the positives from that tournament. We laughed, we cried, we screamed at the TV, waiting for Luca Toni to score. But what's done is done. So now, let's focus on the future. To become competitive, and by "competitive" I mean "defend our World Cup title in 2 years", the squad needs some new, younger blood mixed with the good, experienced guys already on the team.

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By JAMES CLARKAn occasional Pardew's Guardian feature leading up to the August kickoff ...1) Will Craig Bellamy be on the pitch enough to form a dream strike partnership with Dean Ashton for West Ham? When he's on his game, "Bellers" (pictured above, top) provides the perfect complement of speed to the power and skill of Ashton, and both of them are among the best finishers in the Premiership. Click to continue reading...

Tottenham are still in contention to sign Bayern Munich star Lukas Podolski according to reports in the Daily Telegraph today. If the German international was to link up with Juande Ramos' side that could see Robbie Keane's rumoured move to Liverpool go through.

The 23 year old who is currently playing in the Bundesliga is thought to be one of Juande Ramos top Summer transfer targets, especially after his eye catching performances for Germany in Euro 2008. Click to continue reading...

If would have told you one year ago that a member of the Houston Dynamo would be on trial with German juggernauts Bayern Munich you would have told me I was high, high, high. And even if you thought I wasn't under the influence you would have thought it was DeRo or Chingy that was getting the eye from abroad. Click to continue reading...

Expect David Villa not to be in the line up, the Valencia striker has a muscle tear in his thigh and has been ruled out.

Expect Cesc Fabregas to start. Arsenal's maestro has been having quite a tournament

Expect Michael Ballack to be a gametime decision.

Expect a foul filled initial 20 minutes as the Germans try and break the rhythm of the free flowing Spanish midfield.

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With Rafa Benitez reportedly on the look out for a foil to play alongside Fernando Torres next season, and names such as David Villa being bandied about by the press, one striker who could be available for the right price has confirmed he is thinking about a move from his present club.

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Luca Toni's topping the charts again... only this time, it isn't very flattering. English tabloid The Sun just dished out another Top 10 list, regrouping the "Biggest flops" of this Summer's Euro championship tournament. The Italy striker tops the list, despite receiving a pat on the back from Bayern Munich chairman Karl Heinz Rummenigge. Click to continue reading...

Luca Toni's topping the charts again... only this time, it isn't very flattering. English tabloid The Sun just dished out another Top 10 list, regrouping the "Biggest flops" of this Summer's Euro championship tournament. The Italy striker tops the list, despite receiving a pat on the back from Bayern Munich chairman Karl Heinz Rummenigge. Click to continue reading...

The Germany vs Turkey game was one of the best games of the tournament. Back and forth action, great goals, multiple comebacks, and despite the losing effort a tremendously brave performance from the Turkish team, many of whom would not be in the starting XI except for injuries. Full credit to the Germans though as they showed their talent and class by maintaining their composure and getting the victory. Click to continue reading...

The Germany vs Turkey game was one of the best games of the tournament. Back and forth action, great goals, multiple comebacks, and despite the losing effort a tremendously brave performance from the Turkish team, many of whom would not be in the starting XI except for injuries. Full credit to the Germans though as they showed their talent and class by maintaining their composure and getting the victory. Click to continue reading...

World Soccer news
For week of June 26th

The Germans defend Luca Toni: It's the Italians' fault!

Luca Toni spent the whole European Championship without netting a goal, but his German fans know that it was down to the Italian negative tactics.
"What did the Italians do to Toni? Click to continue reading...

I am often amused by "soccer haters" in the United States who claim, for no real reason whatsoever that I can think of, that footballers are a dainty species. No doubt this perception arise from watching the likes of a Luca Toni, who dives like Greg Louganis, but the vast majority of the footballing world tend to play on at all costs. Click to continue reading...

Italian sports newspapers Gazzetta dello Sport rated the Azzurri players at the end of their European adventure. Along with Gigi Buffon, positive scores were obtained by Chiellini and Grosso. All the strikers flunked the test, while some midfielders could have done better. The overall form however, was never great. Click to continue reading...

In todays German newspaper "Bild" The paper editorialised that Luca Toni was misused in a system never meant to exploit his real abilities. At Bayern they argued Miroslav Klosse and Frank Ribery would feed and support Luca Toni allowing each to pin point passes within millimeters of his feet while at the same time playing off his physical strength. Click to continue reading...

I was absolutely disgusted by Luca Toni when Italy played Spain on Sunday, 22 June, 08, for the Euro 2008 Semi final spot. Here is a guy who is 6'5", can turn a football on a dime, yet whenever a Spanish defender so much as breathed on him, he would collapse like a house of tinker toys.

Andy Gray had a great quote on one of Toni's more egregious bits of theatrical crap when he said in that wonderful Glasgow phonology, "sure the defender grazed him there, but he's gone down like he's been hit by a sniper. Click to continue reading...

While the smell of corporate jollies is far less obvious than at the World Cup, that still has not stopped ten brands from trying their best to muscle in on the Beautiful Game again.

A credit card company, villains of the 2006 World Cup, when they managed to persuade FIFA to deny bearers of any rival cards from using them to buy tickets, are one of the terrible ten at EURO 2008, as are an American fast food giant, purveyors of the sort of diet that will never make you a footballer.

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