Jupp Heynckes, the current manager of Bundesliga club Bayern Munich, is on the threshold of creating a milestone of its kind by participating in his 1000th game in the league. Bayern Munich upcoming clash with Werder Bremen will be his 1000th match while being in the league either as a player or as a manager. During his long running career, he played 369 matches as a player for both Borussia Monchengladbach and Hannover along with serving in 630 more games as manager of various clubs, like Bayern Munich, Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer Leverkusen, Monchengladbach, and Schalke. At the moment, Bayern Munich is leading the tally in Bundesliga with its comprehensive lead than second placeholder Dortmund. Since, it has to play 12 more matches; it is surely the most favorite to be German champions this season. Its president Karl-Heinz Rummenigge also acknowledged Heynckes’ role and said recently, “It is a big obligation but also a major responsibility for the team to ensure we complete the … [Read more...]
Neymar is not ready to lead Brazilian attack; Pele
Twenty one year old Neymar could be the most favorite player for Pele, but it is also true that he is his biggest critic as well. Like, until few weeks ago, Pele was placing him in parallel to Messi or Maradona, but now; he himself is criticizing his style of play citing he tries to do too much when he is on the field. Pele has lots of expectations from this youngster, and as he is doing, Pele doubts he can lead Brazilian attack in 2014 world cup. Pele gave an interview recently where he talked about Neymar, his playing style, and what he is lacking at the moment. He admits Neymar has to deal with his tens of sponsorship deals, and since he is young right now, he is not able to make a balance between his on-field and off-field lifestyle. He said, “There's an awful lot of confidence in him but he's just an ordinary player when he plays for Brazil. Everything is based around Neymar, but he's a player who doesn't have international experience. He's an excellent player but doesn't have … [Read more...]
Spurs fans attacked by so called thugs in Lyon
You can call it just another incident where Tottenham Hotspur fans were targeted by a group of hooligans – this time in Lyon. The English club confirmed about such an incident where three of its fans sustained minor injuries. Looking at the injuries, it looks to be a minor incident, but on the contrary, the attack was severe enough and aimed towards Spurs fans only. Is it also a mare incident that attackers were belonged to Nazis who also gave Nazi salutes during their attack? This is not the first time Spurs fans have been targeted in such an incident. A group of their fans were also targeted in similar attack in Rome back in November when they were celebrating their game against Lazio. These anti-Semitic attacks look to be organized and intentionally spreading a massage. Tottenham issued a statement where it said, “Club officials attended an incident last night in Lyon. A group of around 50 people confronted fans. The situation was dealt with and arrests were made within the hour. … [Read more...]
Maradona dreams his son plays with Messi and Aguero’s kids
When two legendry soccer players of their time are compared with other; they often lack one thing, i.e., playing with each other. It holds true with everyone; like every person dreams of watching Messi and Maradona are playing with each other. Anyways, dreams can sometime be true in some other forms, like in present case where Maradona has confirmed of wishing his newly born son playing with the kids of Messi and Aguero. Messi is one of the undisputed champions of contemporary soccer and Maradona is also one of the legendry soccer stars of his time, so it would be interested to see if these newborn kids will ever play with each other in future or not. Maradona, who just became a father for the fourth time, has not seen his newly born baby due to his busy schedule. He is in Dubai at the moment as sporting ambassador for Dubai and looking forward taking a short leave to have a glimpse of his newest clone. Actually, Maradona, Messi, and Aguero, all have been among the greatest soccer … [Read more...]
Technology enters soccer; Goal-Line Technology is now a reality
The most talk about technological input in soccer has finally been approved for use by soccer’s global governing body FIFA, and after its go ahead signal, such a technology will officially be a part of 2014 FIFA world cup in Brazil. Broadly, there are four providers of this technology based on their own method and which one of them will be used is not yet decided. FIFA has planned to issue a tender asking all interested providers and then it will decide which one should be used finally. The ultimate chosen technology will then be used in summer’s Confederations Cup in Brazil before world up. If everything goes as planned, EPL has also promised to implement it from next season, and as expected, more leagues will also follow this innovative product of the twenty first century. There have been comprehensive debate over the issue in last few months about how such a technology can change the quality of the game; perhaps many legendry players showed their grieve over the use of a technology … [Read more...]
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