top 23 players in the world candidate for "golden ball" and top 10 mangers in the world 2013

FIFA and France Football have released the list of 23 players who will be designated as the "Golden Ball" in 2013. Most candidates, six, come from European champions Bayern Munich, followed by FC Barcelona, ​​with four nominations.

The 23 players are:

Philipp Lahm, Thomas Muller, Manuel Neuer, Franck Ribery, Arjen Robben, Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munchen)

Andres Iniesta, Lionel Messi, Neymar, Xavi (FC Barcelona)

Edinson Cavani, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain)

Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)

Robert Lewandowski (Borussia Dortmund)

Radamel Falcao (AS Monaco)

Andrea Pirlo (Juventus)

Eden Hazard (Chelsea)

Mesut Ozil (Arsenal Londra)

Luis Suarez (Liverpool)

Yaya Toure (Manchester City)

Robin Van Persie (Manchester United)

Also Tuesday announced the list of the ten technicians who will be designated as the "manager of the Year": Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid), Rafael Benítez (Napoli), Antonio Conte (Juventus), Vicente Del Bosque (Spain national), Alex Ferguson (was at Manchester United), Jupp Heynckes (Bayern Munich was), Jurgen Klopp (Borussia Dortmund), Jose Mourinho (Chelsea), Luiz Felipe Scolari (Brazilian national) and Arsene Wenger (Arsenal).

In early December, will be announced the three finalists in each category, the player and coach of the year, female and male,

Player and coach of the year will be chosen by coaches and captains of national teams of FIFA member states, but also journalists. Winners will be announced at a gala to be held on 13 January 2014 in Zurich.

Barcelona beat Real Madrid 2-1 in the first 'Clasico' of the season.photo and video

The first 'Clasico' without Mourinho was much quieter. The two teams have preferred to explore the start of the game, and the first shots on goal they belonged to Messi (11 ') and Neymar (18').
Madrid replied by Gareth Bale, whose shots have passed away from the goal defended by Valdes. (15 ', 26')
The Catalans opened the score after 19 minutes when Neymar shot deflected Varane . Retrieved from Brazilian Santos debuted with goal on his first "Clasico" played.
The Real called two penalties. After 43 minutes, Valdes dismissed Khedirashot and the ball hit the hand on Adriano. A controversial second phase occurred after 70 minutes when Ronaldo was fouled in the box by the same Adriano.
Benzema had the great opportunity of Real, but the ball hit the post sent by the French (71 '). Varane was again overtaken by Alexis Sanchez, who scored with a lob over the keeper  (78 ').
Dani Alves was the protagonist of a spectacular action after 83 minutes. Brazilian defender knocked the ball through the legs of Cristiano Ronaldo, but his shot was rejected by Lopez.
Khedira tried Valdes's goal after 86 minutes but the keeper held without emotions .Real Madrid came back into the game too late. Cristiano Ronaldo perfectly pass for Jese Rodriguez, who sent the ball through the legs of Valdes (90 ').

Santiago Bernabeu "could be called" Microsoft Arena "

Real Madrid could open a partnership that will increase revenue and profit every year with Microsoft. the company of billionaire Bill Gates.
According to Spanish media, Gates and Florentino Perez, president of the club have started negotiations for the arena of Real Madrid "Santiago Bernabeu". Microsoft Arena to be named after the model of other great stadiums in Europe, Etihad Stadium, Emirates Stadium, Mercedes-Benz Arena and Allianz Arena. Agreement would enter into force in 2016 after refurbishment and increase capacity of Madrid Arena.
Currently, Microsoft is sponsoring Real Madrid with a million euro annual used for charity events in South America and the Caribbean.
However, Microsoft is not the only company interested to put their name on the legendary arena of Real Madrid. Fly Emirates airline, sponsor of the team blanco would "bid" and it getting right to "baptize" madrilenian stadium.
Arsenal sold "name" stadium for 150 million to a decade, Manchester City take 170 million over ten years to name Etihad Stadium for their arenas, Allianz has paid 88 million for 15 years. Even Barcelona Nou Camp arena baptized, though not officially. On the facade of the stadium in Barcelona Qatar Airways name appears as part of the agreement of 96 million.

CSKA Moscow have painted pitch before the game against Manchester City

British Sky News cameras caught the "trick" used by the Russians for the grass to be green
A tractor "armed" with a green paint sprinkler spread over large areas of lawn , hours before the match with English squad. Advertising banners from the sidelines were covered to avoid being splattered with paint.
Manuel Pellegrini said he is shocked that UEFA has given the green light to a UEFA Champions League match on a pitch so pathetic. To temper the criticism, bosses of CSKA, order "greening" the artificial Pitch

Europa League Fixtures 24/10/13

 - GROUP A
Swansea v Kuban Krasnodar
Valencia CF v FC St Gallen
-GRUOP B
Dinamo Zagreb - PSV

FC Chornomorets Odesa - Litex Lovech
-GROUP C
Elfsborg - Esbjerg fB

FC Red Bull Salzburg - Standard Liège
-GROUP D
SV Zulte Waregem - NK Maribor

Wigan - Rubin Kazan
-GROUP E
Fiorentina - Pandurii Targu-Jiu

Paços de Ferreira - FC Dnipro
-GROUP F
Apoel Nicosia - Bordeaux

Eintracht Frankfurt - Maccabi Tel Aviv
-GROUP G
Dynamo Kiev - FC Thun

KRC Genk - SK Rapid Vienna
GROUP H
Slovan Liberec - Sevilla

Sport Club Freiburg - Estoril Praia
-GROUP I
Lyon - HNK Rijeka

Real Betis - Vitória Guimarães
-GROUP J
Apollon Limassol - Lazio

Trabzonspor - Legia Warsaw
-GROUP K
Anzhi Makhachkala - Tromsø

Sheriff Tiraspol - Tottenham
-GROUP L
Shakhter Karagandy - AZ Alkmaar

PAOK Salonika - Maccabi Haifa

Today Champions league games and weekend results

23/10/2013

Group A

Bayer 04 Leverkusen - Shakhtar Donetsk

Hoffenheim 1 - 2 Bayer 04

Illichevets 1 - 3 Shakhtar Donetsk

Manchester United - Real Sociedad

Manchester United 1 - 1 Southampton

Valencia 1 - 2 Real Sociedad

Group B

Real Madrid - Juventus Torino
Real Madrid 2-0 Malaga
Fiorentina 4-2 Juventus
Galatasaray Istanbul - FC Copenhagen
Galatasaray 2-1 Kardemir
Copenhagen 3-0 AaB

Group C

Anderlecht  - Paris SG
Mons 0 - 2 Anderlecht
PSG 4 - 0 Bastia
Benfica Lisbon - Olympiakos Piraeus
Estoril 1 - 2 Benfica
Platanias 1 - 4 Olympiakos Piraeus

Group D

CSKA Moskva - Manchester City

Zenit 2 - 0 CSKA Moskva

West Ham United 1-3 Manchester City

Bayern München - Viktoria Plzeň
Bayern Munich 4-1 Mainz 05
Viktoria Plzen 1-1 Slavia Prague

Champions League full-time scores

UEFA Champions League

Full-time scores:


Milan 1-1 Barcelona
Arsenal 1-2 Dortmund
Celtic 2-1 Ajax
Schalke 04 0-3 Chelsea 

Porto 0-1 Zenit
Marseille 1-2 Napoli
Austria Wien 0-3 Atlético
Steaua 1-1 Basel

Today Champions League games and weekend results

22 October 2013

Group E

Steaua

Basel

Steaua Bucureşti

4 - 0

Viitorul Constanţa

Basel

3 - 0

St. Gallen

Schalke

Chelsea

Eintracht Brau…

2 - 3

Schalke 04

Chelsea

4 - 1

Cardiff City

Group F

Arsenal

Dortmund

Arsenal

4 - 1

Norwich City

Borussia Dortmund

1 - 0

Hannover 96

Marseille

Napoli

Nice

1 - 0

Olympique Marseille

Roma

2 - 0

Napoli

Group G

Porto

Zenit

Arouca

1 - 3

Porto

Zenit

2 - 0

CSKA Moskva

Austria Wien

Atlético

Austria Wien

1 - 2

Salzburg

Espanyol

1 - 0

Atlético Madrid

Group H

Celtic

Ajax

Hibernian

1 - 1

Celtic

Twente

1 - 1

Ajax

Milan

Barcelona

Milan

1 - 0

Udinese

Osasuna

0 - 0

Barcelona

European Play-Off ties

The eight European nations who remain in the hunt for a ticket to the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, have learned their futures in the play-off draw, which took place at the Home of FIFA in Zurich.

Helping with the draw for the two-legged play-offs, which are set to be played on 15 November and 19 November, was Swiss veteran of two World Cups Alexander Frei.

Portugal-Sweden
Ukraine-France
Greece-Romania
Iceland-Croatia

The process saw four seeded teams in Pot 1, determined by their placing in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking, each paired up with one of the sides in Pot 2.

The seeded nations were: Portugal (ranked 14), Greece (15), Croatia (18) and Ukraine (20). The unseeded teams were France (21), Sweden (25), Romania (29) and Iceland (46).

The home-and-away play-off matches are due to be played on 15 November and 19 November respectively.

The team which scores the greater number of goals in the two matches qualifies. In the event of a tie, the team that scores the greater number of away goals will qualify. If the winner is still not decided, the second-leg match will go to extra time with two periods of 15 minutes each, with the away goals rule still applied. If no goals are scored in extra time, then the penalty kick procedures will apply, as described in the Laws of the Game.

Dani Alves is wanted in Turkey

Galatasaray fans had accustomed in recent years, with the transfer of celebrities arrived towards at the end of career. Sneijder  Drogba impressed those in Istanbul , and now the Turks are ready to given another shot.
Galatasaray's primary objective is to transfer of Dani Alves of Barcelona. Press in Turkey is extremely excited and the possible coming of Alves to Galatasaray  as "the best transfer in the world".
Dani Alves has reached 30 years but is considered one of the best Right Back in Europe, being a very important player in the mechanism thought by coach Gerardo Martino. However, Barcelona could part with Brazilian footballer, in exchange for 20 million euros.
Under contract with Barcelona until 2015, Dani Alves is seen at Galatasaray the perfect replacement for Ivorian Emmanuel Eboue, who played more poorly lately and is far from good developments that we had in the Premier League at Arsenal.

20 million is the share of Dani Alves, according transfermarkt.de

168 matches gathered Dani Alves for Barcelona in the Primera Division

2008 is the year when Dani Alves came to Barcelona from Sevilla

brazuca ball !

According to World Soccer Talk, this is the model that 32 nations will be kicking around in Brazil next summer.

They say a picture of the Adidas "Brazuca" was leaked on Friday.

As per Adidas, the name "Brazuca" was chosen by Brazilian football fans in September 2012. This is what the company had to say back then about the ball itself:

At the 2014 FIFA World Cup™ the official match ball will be called adidasBrazuca—an informal term used by Brazilians to describe national pride in the Brazilian way of life. As with their approach to football, it is always full of emotion, pride and goodwill to all.

Let's hope it goes down better than the Adidas Jabulani, the ball used at the 2010 World Cup. It was criticized for its unpredictably in the air by the likes of goalkeepers Julio Cesar and Iker Casillas, as per Goal.com.

Madness in Australia. the MotoGP race! VIDEO

Madness in Australia. the MotoGP race! Marc Marquez was disqualified, Jorge Lorenzo won the race. and the world title is played in the last two rounds!
The first race whit pit stop in the history of motogp  created the most bizarre situations. The only thing consistent was winning of Jorge Lorenzo.
Reigning world champion went from pole position and led the entire race got the victory at Phillip Island
Two rounds before the end of the season, Lorenzo reduced at only 18 points overall handicap by taking advantage of disqualification of leader Marc Marquez.
In his debut season at the premier class, Marc Marquez wants them all. And as it lacked a black flag rack took it in Australia. MotoGP race disqualification cost him precious points, Marquez was the number 2 when he had to withdraw to the pits.And the first shot at the world title has turned into a major disaster for Team Honda rookie prodigy. Half of the blame belongs to those from Bridgestone. Tire manufacturer stated that it guarantees the integrity of the rear tires more than 14 laps on the new asphalt surface at Philip Island.
And the first shot at the world title has turned into a major disaster for Team Honda rookie prodigy. Half of the blame belongs to those from Bridgestone. Tire manufacturer stated that it guarantees the integrity of the rear tires more than 14 laps on the new asphalt surface at Philip Island.
And therefore led to repeated changes of regulation, spending the last morning before the race. The MotoGP race was reduced to just 19 laps, and the pilots were forced to change motorcycle at the latest at the end of the 10th lap.
Pit Stop premiere caused confusion. Everyone respected this, less Marc Marquez, which came at the end of lap 11. Therefore, the overall standings leader was disqualified, and his advance was reduced from 43 points at just 18 when there are 50 points available in the last two stages.
Australia became Sunday Lorenzo's Land and Yamaha rider won the first Philip Island. It is number 29 in career victory for Jorge Lorenzo and second departing from pole position this season.The following podium places were occupied by Dani Pedrosa and Valentino Rossi. Dani Pedrosa has questioned the result, exceeding legal speed limit on pit lane may cost him a place in the final standings.

If he stay on the 2nd and shall receive the appropriate points, Pedrosa  keeps fighting chance for the world title, from the third position overall.

Arsenal prepare a formal offer for Benzema !

Mesut Ozil's transfer to Arsenal has surprised many people, but Gunners are extremely pleased with the progress of midfielder. so the English are inclined to do more business with Real Madrid.
Disgraced by the Bernabeu fans, Karim Benzema could leave Real Madrid at the end of this season
.The Spanish press is talking more and more about Falcao's return to La Liga at real madrid
Given that Real Madrid plays the 4-2-3-1 system, the eventual coming of another striker put in danger his place in the team
Arsene Wenger appreciates  the former Lyon striker and is determined to make a formal offer for his transfer to the Emirates. According to The Independent, Londoners have ready the sum of 20 million pounds to achieve the move.
Aged 25, Karim Benzema arrived in 2009 in Santiago Bernabeu and gave satisfaction in the early years. Unfortunately for him, the last two seasons was not up to expectations, managing to score only 11 goals in all last championship in La Liga.
He has scored just twice in eight games played  since the beginning of the new season in Spain.