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.