Missing out on big matches often cost clubs their ambitious players, and it happens more aggressively around summer or winter transfer windows. The EPL club: Tottenham, who recently missed to make it to Championships League, has Brazilian Leandro Damiao into their dream list of players for this summer, but when they could not qualify for the CL, it was believed that player would now be interested in another club where he can get good exposure of big soccer events. But on the contrary, Damiao now says that he still wants to join Spurs if his club officially allows him to do so. Actually, the Brazil international, who is also in his national side for upcoming world cup qualifier against England, was in the target list of White Hart Lane club since last 18 months but everytime they tried to initiate an offer, something otherwise happened. Even this time, they were sure, until their failure to finish among top four in the EPL, that they would certainly capture their desired player, but … [Read more...]
Benitez moves to Italy, signs a deal with Napoli
After the long speculations about a possible survival at Chelsea, temporary manager finally finds a new home as his short term contract with EPL club is coming to an end. Benitez, 53, will replace Walter Mazzarri as Napoli coach who has also made a shift from Napoli to their rival Inter. The deal is said to be completed in last week, but final announcement was only made on yesterday when club President Aurelio De Laurentiis posted a picture of him with Benitez on his twitter account. Napoli has been a top performing club in Serie A hence it would surely look forward to explore Benitez’s experience with EPL into championship where they have already qualified. Even in Serie A, they are just on the second spot after Juventus. Actually, Benitez was always wanted to serve Chelsea for a longer period of time, but off late, he could be successful in winning fans confidence, hence despite taking the Blues to the third spot in the EPL and winning Europa League defeating Benfica in the final, he … [Read more...]
It’s final, Neymar is signed by Barcelona
Neymar is finally a colleague of Messi as confirmed by both Barcelona and star Brazilian who has until been playing for his home club Santos. According to Barca, they have cracked a deal to keep the forward until summer 2018. This is perhaps the biggest news at Camp Nou where everyone has been expecting this to happen since rumors began about a possible understating between Santos and Spanish giant. There was a close competition between Real Madrid and Barcelona coz both of them were wanted to sign the player, and moreover, some EPL clubs were also interested in taking the player to England, but Neymar chose Barca over others to continue his promising career with one of the most appealing soccer personalities: Messi. Neymar announced about his new home through his Instagram and Facebook accounts and told that coming Santos match with Flamengo on Sunday would be his last for the club. Later, Barcelona also added him in its official players’ page and welcomed through their twitter … [Read more...]
Beckham’s official good-bye to soccer
Former England captain David Beckham was off the pitch officially when PSG did not include him in the final squad for Sunday’s match with Lorient, which means, the player has now said goodbye to his most loving thing in the world: a soccer pitch. The star Englishman, who has ever been more popular than he deserves for his performances, has played 115 matches for England along with more than 600 club appearances for four different clubs in four different countries. More especially, he is the only English player to win four tiles playing for four different countries. The 38-year-old starlet played his last match last weekend against Brest and everyone was expecting him to play some more matches despite announcing his retirement last week. But, he decided to leave off right away and concentrate on his post retirement career. In fact, his last match was paused in between to cheer him and applaud his achievements. During his 20 years’ glorious soccer career, he played for Manchester United, … [Read more...]
First openly gay player Robbie Rogers joins Galaxy
Creating the possibilities to harmonize relationships between players, whose personal life is different than others, and soccer’s mentors, Robbie Rogers, the player who openly accepted to be a gay player, has now joined Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Earlier, he had to retire from international soccer after admitting his sexual preferences through a blog post back in February, but after getting an immense support from family, friends, and fans, he decided to return back and face the critics in favor of soccer as a sport. Actually, sexuality has ever been linked with many sports, especially soccer, where we have seen how some players were targeted on doubting to be unnatural as far their sexual preferences are concerned. It happened with woman soccer players as well whenever any woman player admitted to have an unusual private life. Rogers is now the first MLS player who has officially labeled himself as gay, he told about his deal with Galaxy as, “I don't know what I was so … [Read more...]
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