Results and interesting info

In this post I'll show you a nice picture made by me, another picture and also a great clip from youtube.
Lets first start with the manipulated picture. I've made it as a puzzle. As you see it represents a stadium and also has the symbol of the champions league in it. The next rounds will be on the following dates :
First knockout round16 - 24 February 201009 - 17 March 2010
The Quarter-finals will be played on:
30 - 31 March 2010
06 - 07 April 2010
The Semi-finals will be played on:
20 - 21 April 2010
27 - 28 April 2010
And the Final round which will determine the champion will be on 22 May 2010

The video is about some of the best player who were the best 2 years ago. It is really great and you have to watch it! In this video are shown very good soccer tricks and I reaally enjoy it. Best soccer tricks. You will see some stars from the past like Zidane.



The latest soccer results are as following:


17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Ahletic Bilbao vs Bremen
0 - 3

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
CFR Ecomax Cluj vs PSV
0 - 2

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Club Brugge vs Toulouse
1 - 0

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Nacional da Madeira vs Austria Vienna
5 - 1

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Partizan Belgrade vs Shakhtar Donetsk
1 - 0

17-12-2009UEFA Europa League
Sparta Praha vs FC Copenhagen
0 - 3

17-12-2009 EPL
Tottenham vs Manchester City
3 - 0

17-12-2009 EPL
Liverpool vs Wigan
2 - 1

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
PSG vs Lens
1 - 1

17-12-2009 Coppa Italy
Inter Milan vs Livorno
1 - 0

17-12-2009 EPL
Burnley vs Arsenal
1 - 1

17-12-2009 EPL
Chelsea vs Portsmouth
2 - 1

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
Le Mans vs Grenoble
1 - 0

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
Lyon vs Boulogne
2 - 0

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
Lorient vs Marseille
1 - 2

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
Nancy vs Nice
2 - 0

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
Monaco vs Rennes
1 - 0

17-12-2009 French Ligue 1
Montpellier vs Bordeaux
0 - 1

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Basel vs Fulham
2 - 3

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
CSKA Sofia vs Roma
0 - 3

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Hertha Berlin vs Lisbon
1 - 0

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Panathinaikos vs Dinamo Bucuresti
3 - 0

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Heerenveen vs Ventspils
5 - 0

17-12-2009 UEFA Europa League
Sturm Graz vs Galatasaray
1 - 0

And finally I want to share with you one of my favourite soccer players. Unfortunately he doesn't play any more. He was born in 1972 in Marsille. Zidane has scored 95 goals for the domestic league and most of them are with the team of Real Madrid(37). He has also scored 31 goals for the national team of France where he played 10 years. The honours he has recieved are :

Bordeaux

UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1995

Juventus

Serie A: 1996-97, 1997-98
Italian Super Cup: 1997
European Super Cup: 1996
Intercontinental Cup: 1996
UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1999

Real Madrid

La Liga: 2002-03
Spanish Super Cup: 2001, 2003
UEFA Champions League: 2001-02
European Super Cup: 2002
Intercontinental Cup: 2002

International

FIFA World Cup: 1998
UEFA European Championship: 2000

Individual

Ballon d'Or awarded to Zidane in 1998.
Ligue 1 Best Young Player - 1994
Ligue 1 Best Player - 1996
UEFA Champions League Best Midfielder - 1998
Ballon D'or - 1998
UEFA Euro Player of the Tournament - 2000
Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year - 1997, 2001
Serie A Footballer of the Year - 2001
Onze d'Or - 1998, 2000, 2001
French Player of the Year - 1998, 2002
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year - 2002
Don Balón Award Foreign Player of the year in La Liga - 2002
UEFA Team of the Year - 2001, 2002, 2003
FIFA World Player of the Year - 1998, 2000, 2003
UEFA Golden Jubilee Poll - 2004
FIFA 100
UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament - 2000, 2004
FIFA World Cup Golden Ball - 2006
FIFA World Cup All-Star Team - 1998, 2006
FIFPro World XI All-Star Team - 2005, 2006

Orders

Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 1998, promoted to Officer in 2009

info thanx to:
www.wikipedia.org
www.soccerstat.net

The Champions League anthem

The anthem of the Champions league was written by George Frederic Handel. His song was called "Zadok the Priest". It was adapted by Tony Britten. It contains the three official languages of UEFA: French, English and German.

The official text :

Ce sont les meilleure equipes
Es sind sie allerbesten mannschaften
The main event
Die meister
Die besten
Les grande equips
The champions!
Une grande reunion
Eine grosse sportliche veranstaltung
The main event
Ils sont les meilleurs
Sie sind die besten
These are the champions
Die Meister
Die Besten
Les grandes equipes
The champions!

The text translated in English:

Ce sont les meilleures équipes

Those are the best teams

Sie sind die allerbesten Mannschaften

They are the very best teams

The main event

Chorus:

Die Meister

The Champions

Die Besten

The best

Les Grandes Équipes

The big teams

The Champions

Une grande réunion

A big event

Eine große sportliche Veranstaltung

A big sports event

The main event

Ils sont les meilleurs

They are the best

Sie sind die Besten

They are the best

These are the champions

Chorus: (repeat x2)

English football clubs

This image represents all of the soccer clubs from the United Kingdom. The modern soccer was first codified in 1863 in London. In fact it comes back to the Medieval times and the evidence for this is written in 1170 from William Fitzstephen. The terms for the sport come from the 16th century. The Football Association was formed during 1867. The first professional league in the world was established in 1888 by the manager of Aston Villa. In a research made in 2006 there was found out that there are about 40 000 clubs in The Football Association. Brazil is behind them with about 29 000 clubs. It can't be argued that England is the country with the most soccer clubs in the world.

The Premier league was formed in 1992. In this league play the best soccer teams. In it play 20 the best 20 teams from the country. The Premier League also took the place of the Football league which is the oldest one. Now it is the second one and it consists of 72 clubs. There are 3 divisions - the Championship, League One and League Two. Each one consists of 24 soccer clubs.

The Premier league consists of the best and most popular clubs. Now Manchester United and Chelsea are competing for the first place. Arsenal and Liverpool. Right now the first 8 clubs playing in the Premier league have the following points

1. Chelsea 36
2. Manchester United 34
3. Arsenal 28
4. Tottenham Hotspur 27
5. Aston Villa 26
6. Manchester City 25
7. Liverpool 24
8. Fulham 22

Olympiakos - Arsenal

The game will be played on 09.12.2009 in 21:45 local time. It will be played in Greece where Olympiakos are the hosts. This is the last game of the group phase in group H in the Champions League. The Gunners won't pay too much attention on this game, because they've already classified for the next stage of the league. However, the Greek team needs to win this game, because the difference between them and the team after them is only three points. Unfortunately the star of Olympiakos Kristian Ladesma won't take part this game. Arsene Wenger will rely on the young members of the team. The prognose is 1

Arsenal - Chelsea

The rivalry between this two teams began in 1907 when for the first time 2 teams from London played each other in the First Division. The game on 29.11.2009 had fished with a victory for the leader of the First Division. The result was 0:3 and Drogba was accurate for 2 of the goals. The other goal was scored by Thomas Vermaelen in the 44th minute of the match. Chelsea won on the Emirates Stadium and completely controlled the ball. The next match between Chelsea and the Gunners will be on 06.02.2009. Arsene Wenger will have to make some changes, but they have plenty of time for then. Arsenal is currently with 25 points, which is 11 after the leader Chelsea and 1 after Tottenham, which is on the third place.

Results from the past 2 days of the Champions league

Arsenal 4-1 AZ Alkmaar

"One of the best Arsenal performances I've seen, champagne football. It's a good
time to be a gooner."

The Arshavin Codex

In this match Fabregas scored 2 goals: one in the 25th minute and one in the 52nd minute. The English team won this match against the Dutch without the efforts they've put in the previous one. The previous match which was played in Netherlands finished 1:1.

Dynamo Kiev 1-2 Inter Milan



Fiorentina 5-2 Debrecen

Fiorentina won as it was expected. They scored many goals, but they've also let 2 goals to get into their door. The Hungarian team which won against the Bulgarian team Levski will have to do a lot more efforts if they want to go further in the Champions League

Lyon 1-1 Liverpool

This was absolutely unpredictable. The final score was made during the last 10 minutes. The first goal was made by Liverpool, but several minutes before the end Lyon made the result X

Rubin Kazan 0-0 Barcelona

This match was played during absolutely bad conditions. The temperature was about -5 grad Celsius. The Russian team has made a very good start. It is in the Russian top since very soon, but it makes derbies against the best teams. I think that in several years they will have the real opportunity to win the Champions League.

Sevilla 1-1 VfB Stuttgart



Standard Liege 2-0 Olympiakos



Unirea Urziceni 1-1 Rangers



AC Milan 1-1 Real Madrid



Apoel Nicosia 0-1 FC Porto



Atletico Madrid 2-2 Chelsea


Bayern Munchen 0-2 Bordeaux


Bayern Munchen made a good game, but they lost this match against the leader of group A

Besiktas 0-3 Wolfsburg



Maccabi Haifa 0-1 Juventus



Man Utd 3-3 CSKA Moscow

This match was totally unpredictable. CSKA Moscow played very good, but the chances were against them. CSKA was leading with 2 goals, but the English team made several breaks through the Russian defense. In the final minutes when everyone thought that CSKA is the winner, Man Utd scored a third goal and with a lot of luck they took 1 point from this match.


Marseille 6-1 FC Zurich



info thanx to BBC Sport

The Champions League Calendar

The Champions League is a very old soccer competition and has started in 1955. L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot was the man who gave the idea. In it are playing the top soccer clubs in Europe. The trophy was won by 21 different teams and 12 teams won it more than once. The most successful club is Real Madrid, which has won the Champions League 9 times. Currently the sponsors of the event are: Ford, Sony, Heineken, UniCredit and MasterCard. Adidas is another sponsor which provides the ball with which the matches are played.

As you all know the UEFA Champion League 2009-2010 has already started. I've created a calendar that is connected with that theme and I've posted a link below. If you like it, you could easily print it colorful and write whatever you want on the places, that are left near the numbers. If I were you, I would have put some important football matches on the dates when they will be played.
The matches that will be played on 03 November 2009 are :

Group Home Away
A FC Bayern München 20:45 FC Girondins de Bordeaux
A Maccabi Haifa FC 20:45 Juventus
B Manchester United FC 20:45 PFC CSKA Moskva
B Beşiktaş JK 20:45 VfL Wolfsburg
C AC Milan 20:45 Real Madrid CF
C Olympique de Marseille 20:45 FC Zürich
D APOEL FC 20:45 FC Porto
D Club Atlético de Madrid 20:45 Chelsea FC

The ones that will be played on the next day are:

Group Home Away
E ACF Fiorentina 20:45 Debreceni VSC
E Olympique Lyonnais 20:45 Liverpool FC
F FC Rubin Kazan 18:30 FC Barcelona
F FC Dynamo Kyiv 20:45 FC Internazionale Milano
G FC Unirea Urziceni 20:45 Rangers FC
G Sevilla FC 20:45 VfB Stuttgart
H Arsenal FC 20:45 AZ Alkmaar
H R. Standard de Liège 20:45 Olympiacos FC

Until now the leaders in the groups are :
Group A - Bordeaux
Group B - Manchester United
Group C - Milan
Group D - Chelsea
Group E - Lyon
Group F - Barcelona
Group G - Sevilla
Group H - Arsenal

I will find some info after the bigges derbies and I will publish it too. I hope that all the matches will be derbies and you will enjoy the fourth Matchday of the Champions League.





image from SportVox

Inch by Inch

A lot of people ask: what is football? Why do you watch sports? After searching in the web I finally found the best way to answer them. Watch this video from youtube and you will also understand the real meaning of sports.



Other clip that is interesting to see is the clip about the top 10 greatest goals



it is also interesting to see the calendar about the world's sport events on

http://www.digitaldiscounts.com/sports.html

Bulgaria - Georgia

After the last significant match of the Bulgarian National soccer team, Bulgaria met Georgia in Sofia on "Vasil Levski" stadium. The match was played yesterday - 14.10.2009 and started in 21:00. Although none of the team needed a victory, both of them played at their maximum. Last time when they met in Georgia the result was 0:0 and the game wasn't very dynamic, but this time the teams played more beautiful soccer and the result showed it.

The Bulgarian team was leading with 6-1 before the half-time. Berbatov was precise for the first goal in the 6th minute of the match. The doorkeeper had no chance against Martin Petrov who scored the second goal for the Bulgarians in the 14th minute. 9 minutes after him the player of Manchester United Berbatov made the result 3:0. 10 minutes after him Angelov scored the fourth goal. When it seemed the the Georgians have given up Dvalishvili scored the firs goal for Georgia. During the 41st minute Berbatov shot the Georgian doorkeeper once more and the result happened to be 5:1. 2 minutes before the half-time Martin Petrov scored again one goal and made the result 6:1. After a penalty Levan Kobiashvili scored for the final result - Bulgaria 6:2 Georgia.

The result was as it was expected - Bulgaria won this game although it didn't qualify for the World Championship in South Africa in 2010. The coach Stanimir Stoilov said that the team will prepare better for the European Championship.

image from www.dnes.bg

Bulgarian Volleyball Superleague

The Bulgarian volleyball super-league will start on 16.10.2009 and the teams that will be included are : CSKA, Levski Sikonko, Marek, Pirin Razlog, Lukoil Neftohimik, Slavia, Arda Kardzhali and Montana. The lot for the Bulgarian volleyball super-league for the new season has set the date for the national derby CSKA - Levski Sikonko to be on 6.11.2009 during the fourth round of the league.

Cyprus - Bulgaria

Bulgaria has last chance to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. The match from Group 8 will be played in Cyprus and the team will have the support of its fans. The match will be played tomorrow (10.10.2009) and will start in 20:00 Bulgarian time on Antonis Papadopolus stadium in Larnaka. It will be hard time for the Bulgarian team, because it needs only victories in its next two matches. The chances for Bulgaria to qualify are little, but Cyprus has no chances. The Bulgarians hope that Ireland will lose the game with Italia and after that with Montenegro. Tomorrow will be a hard day and everyone hopes for a miracle.