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Group 7 World Cup 2010 Qualification: Romania are meeting  France Saturday October 11th. Watch the LIVESTREAM and Highlights here   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...

In a repeat of their clash at Euro 2008, France meet Romania in a WC 2010 qualifier on Saturday night in Constanta. Anything less than three points could see the axe fall on French coach Raymond Domenech, whose future will be decided by the French Football Federation bosses four days after the game. Both Romania [. Click to continue reading...

Chelsea visited Transylvania to play CFR Cluj in the Champions League this week, and didn't make a particularly good impression on their Romanian hosts. Apparently they were way too picky about what goes on their plates. Much as it pains me to quote anything from The Daily Mail: The players, who flew into the famous Dracula country [. Click to continue reading...

Champions League surprises, Brazilian brawls and the troubles at Tottenham feature in this week's good, the bad and the ugly. Click on the links after each story below to find out more. Good Yet again Romanian side Cluj and Cypriot team Famagusta feature as their Champions League dreams stay alive. Cluj drew at home to fancied Chelsea [. Click to continue reading...

Sokratis Papastathopoulos, former AEK centre back, has made his Serie A debut with Genoa today. Genoa are playing Fiorentina and are currently tied 0-0 early in the second half. Papastathopoulos has apparently been playing a great game and has been marking and closing down dangerous Fiorentina striker Mutu. Click to continue reading...

Alberto Aquilani symbolizing the trapped feeling many of us Roma fans are experiencing at the moment

Luciano Spalletti is going to have to earn his spurs as a manager.Today Roma fell to Cluj of Romania 2-1 in the Champions league. After failing to hold a 1 nil lead against 10 man Napoli at home a 10 days ago and then stumbling on the road against Palermo in Serie A action this past weekend we have todays disaster encapsulating a horrible run of form. Click to continue reading...

Răzvan Cociş's goal fifteen minutes after the break saved Romania from the complete disaster of dropping points to the Faroe Islands. While the Romanian squad went on the attack early they could not break through pesky 'keeper Jakup Mikkelsen and the match went to the half at even. Unfortunately Dinamo Bucureşti's Click to continue reading...

With Romania still searching for answers on Saturday's humiliating 3-0 loss to Lithuania in Cluj, Victor Piţurcă's squad faces the Faroe Islands at Torsvollor Stadium today. Clearly the Tricolorii must take this match seriously but also use it as a time to re-group and mend battered confidence. Christian Chivu is apparently Click to continue reading...

Stuff to read while you eat 23,000 Big Macs...... Player breaks leg during goal celebration. Goal disallowed. Insult, meet injury. (The Beautiful Game) Fergie's hardest ever decision. No, you won't believe it either. (The Spoiler) Picking an England squad Mourinho-style. (Kornheiser's Cartel) The Three Lions need a cricket player. Click to continue reading...

Group 7 : World Cup 2010 Qualification: Faroe Islands are meeting Romania Wednesday September 10th. Livestream and Highlights from the match at footiedb.com Do not forget to sign up on the next big football site 11×2.com:  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today LIVESTREAM  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today Click to continue reading...

Simple and straight-forward, "disaster" is the only way I can describe the unexpected collapse as Lithuania defeated Romania 3-0 in Cluj. The absence of Cristian Chivu, Adrian Mutu, Razvan Rat and Florentin Petre was obviously too much for Victor Piţurcă's squad to deal with as the visitors completely dominated play. Click to continue reading...

Romania's World Cup hopes begin today at 8:00 pm CET against the tough Lithuanian squad in Cluj. With only thirteen spots available for the World Cup, competition will be fierce and the Tricolorii are within the brutally tough Group 7. While it includes minnows Faroe Islands, on the opposite end Click to continue reading...

Follow the first match in Uefa World cup qualifying: Saturday 06.09.2008 at 20.00 ! Livestream and Highlights from the match at footiedb.com Do not forget to sign up on the next big football site 11×2.com:  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today LIVESTREAM  Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today Click to continue reading...

Fifa rankings for August 2008 (previous position in brackets): 1. (1) Spain 2. (3) Italy 3. (2) Germany 4. (4) Netherlands 5. (5) Croatia 6. (6) Brazil 7. (7) Argentina 8. (8) Czech Republic 9. (9) Portugal 10. (13) Turkey 11. (12) France 12. (10) Russia 13. (11) Romania 14. (15) Cameroon 15. (14) England 16 (16) Scotland 16 (17) Bulgaria 18. Click to continue reading...

Victor Piţurcă named Romania's squad the starts World Cup qualifying this Saturday in Cluj against Lithuania. Injuries have hit the Tricolorii hard as they will be without Cristian Chivu, Adrian Mutu, Razvan Rat, Florentin Petre, who has been playing brilliantly for Terek Grozny in the Russian Premier League and Steaua Click to continue reading...

International friendly match: Romania are meeting Latvia Wednesday August 20th. Watch the highlights and LIVESTREAM here. Pre-register at the NEW football site 11×2 today Click to continue reading...

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Cuando la seleccion mexicana estaba en el top 10 muchos cronistas negaban que esa fuera la posicion real de nuestro balonpie. Estar en el lugar 32 tampoco refleja nuestra verdadera posicion, para mi gusto estamos en el lugar 15 y 20 en lo que a selecciones se refiere. Click to continue reading...

Making their third appearance in Romania's Liga I are Gaz Metan Mediaş from the city of Mediaş in Sibiu County, Transylvania. Their 1947-48 debut season was their best, finishing 12th. Three years later they were losing finalists in the Romanian Cup, their best ever performance in that tournament. Click to continue reading...

Juan Toja played 2 season in Major League Soccer and played in 2 all star games. Now Toja is off to Romania - sold to Steaua Bucharest by FC Dallas. The Columbian midfielder will be the third Columbian on the Steaua Bucharest roster. He will join another attacking midfielder Dayro Moreno and goalkeeper Róbinson Zapata.

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We officially launch another new section of Albion Road today - the Scoreboard (scoreboard/scoreboard.html) . We'll be providing the results and standings of the top division league in every country we cover, from the Austrian Bundesliga to the Turkish Super League. You'll be able to access them via each league profile as well as an all-purpose scoreboard page (available via the main menu) which will include a link to each league's current standings. Click to continue reading...

Making the long journey from village football to the Romanian First Division is CS Otopeni, who make their Liga I bow in the 2008-09 season. Otopeni is a small town of approximately 10,000 people just north of Bucharest and will be the smallest town ever to play host to a Liga I club. It's also home to Romania's main international airport, Otopeni International Airport. Click to continue reading...

In the long line of exciting Footballers from Romania, Gabriel Torje is emerging in the footsteps of the regions tradition. The youngest player of Romania's U21 squad at only eighteen years of age commands respect on the pitch for his creativity and flourish. Plying his trade for the illustrious FC Click to continue reading...

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With reports circulating about transfer deals being completed for both FC Dallas midfielder Juan Toja and forward Kenny Cooper, but MLS All-Stars denied that deals were done while a team source told SBI that multiple teams have made strong inquiries about Cooper.

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Is Juan Toja about to play his final match as a MLS player?

Rumor has it that the longhair midfielder will fly to Romania tonight, after the All-Star match, to finish a deal with Romanian powerhouse Steaua Bucharest.

Then again, it is just a rumor. Accord to FCD coach Schellas Hyndman, "I expect him here to play against LA (on Sunday). Click to continue reading...

The rumors are true y'all. The word I'm getting of All-Starsville is that the story that Los Toros picked up about Juan Toja pulling up stakes for Romania --yes, Romania-- is indeed going to happen. Not much else to say about it other than some of the more ghetto women-folk that are in Toronto for the match may have poured a little out for their soon-to-be transfered homey last night. Click to continue reading...

Talk in the Big D today centers around All-Star midfielder Juan Toja and his possible transfer to FC Steaua Bucureşti in Romania. Diego Aparicio of Al Dia here in Dallas reports today that the Romanian side upped their offer from $500,00 to between $1 million and $1.5 million. **Translation from the Aparicio article that was originally [. Click to continue reading...

First: Robbie Rogers is going to Beijing. Go Robbie. Second: It's been surprisingly quiet July for Columbus regarding roster changes. So and Hernandez were waived, but nothing's come to fruition since then. We've heard about the Nigerian forward Ibezito Ogbonna coming to camp from Israel via Romania, and I take it that a deal for Pat Noonan is still dead. Click to continue reading...

We received this tip from a loyal MLSR reader.


Could another Nigerian striker be headed to Crew Stadium to join Ekpo?

According to this report, and this one on the Columbus Dispatch Crew blog:

--Here's what I know so far about the Nigerian striker the Crew is attempting to bring in for a look-see: He is 25 and played in Israel for several years.

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Pantelis Kapetanos, former AEK striker who did not get to see much playing time this season, largely due to injury, will continue his career in Romania with Steaua Bucharest. 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...

UEFA Under 21 qualifying continues with Romania visiting Wales at Wrexham on August 20th. At present Romania has yet to lose a match with the only a single goal scored against them in the opening match against France. Emil Săndoi's squad is presently four points behind Wales with a game Click to continue reading...

Raymond Domenech continues on as the manager of the French national team and that is a huge mistake. The time has come for a change at that position and Didier Deschamps is and was the person to take over and lead the team through the 2010 World Cup qualifiers. It seems like there are a lot of politics at play in this decision, but ultimately the right decision for the team must be made and that would have been to go ahead with Deschamps. Click to continue reading...

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Special thanks to a loyal member of the MLSR Sunglasses Crew and his friend in Romania for the tip off:

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1. Could Dallas be looking to sell good King Mullet just because the Colombian is having a bad season? Click to continue reading...

In positive news from Bucureşti, Steaua Bucureşti has been cleared of all bribery charges by Romania's soccer Arbitrage Court and had the seven-point deduction that the LPF (Liga Profesionista de Footbal) overturned. This courts decision is final and cannot be appealed. The court additionally reduced sanctions against Steaua Bucureşti owner, Click to continue reading...