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The race on Sunday ended up with the win of the champion Vettel. Ferrari, however, are putting a complain about this as they have been thinking that Vettel has made an overtake of another car while there was a yellow flag. This is against the rules, and if the claim is approved and Vettel is found guilty, then he will recieve a penalty for his actions. The usual penalty in this type of cases is 20 seconds, but that is enough for Alonso to take the first place of the World Championship surpasing Vettel. This is why this action and the decision of the judges are so crucial. They can determine who the winner is going to be in the end. The judges have looked at a video footage about this scene, but they have reached to the conclusion that Vettel did not cheat at all. He gained one position while the green flag was up. How is this possible then when all the viewers on TV including some of the Ferrari crew saw that there was a yellow flag? The answer to that according to the referees is that there was a TV illusion. People looked at the pannel for lights all the time, and Vettel started gaining speeed during that. He surpased the other car after the green flag was up, but the speed gaining started earlier. This is whypeople ot confused and the complain was given. In the end the complain was withdrawn and no penalty was given to Vettel.

Barcelona Celebrates its 113th Birthday

Today, one of the most popular football clubs in the world celebrates its 113th birthday. The Spanish team was created on the 29th November 1899, and the person who had the greatest impact on its creation was the Swiss Max Camper, who later became famous as Joan Gamper. Everything began with just a table, four chairs and two notebooks and naming the newly created Football Club Barcelona. Gulateri Vild is chosen as the first president of the club and Joan Gamper became the first ever captain in Barcelona.



 The first even major trophies of the team were in 1909/1910 when the team won the Cupa del Rey. The first ever "El Classico" was played in 1902 and Barcelona defeated Real Madrid with a score of 3:1.

Top European Goalscorers and Team Performances

So far, the top european leagues have hade some momorable matches and outstanding performances. Plenty of goals had been scored and some uncredible results and standings can be seen so far. We will offer you a list with interesting facts and outstanding performances that will surely make you a bit more interested in what's going on with the European Football.


Surprises of the Season(team perfomance):

Italy - bad performance - Milan

After Milan manager Berluskoni sold two of Milan's most valuable players Milan have a hard time winning matches. After 14 rounds, Milands are 8th in the league with a total of 18 points won, 14 points away from the first Juventus. In addition to that they have scored only 21 goals, 10 of which by Stefan El Sharaawi who proves to be one of the few good players in the team. Still the team has no chance to win the title and it is even the 2nd team to qualify for the elimination stage of Champions League after the spanish team of Malaga.

Italy - good performance - Fiorentina

Fiorentina seem to be playing on a top level again.8 wins out of 14 matches may not seem that impressing but the team has only two lost matches and an outstanding performance by it's main player Stefan Jovetic. Comparing this performance to last year when they barely remained in the league means that there is a great improvement in the team withing the last year.


England - bad performance - Newcastle and Arsenal

Both teams were expected to be in the fisr 6 teams by now but the reality is not quite the same. Newcasle finished in the fisrt 5 last year but now is struggling to get in the first 10(14th position). And even though they are the first in their group in Europa League tournament, this is still no quite what the team managed expected this year. If we take a look at Arsenal their performance is not that different. 6th place and 10 points away from the fisrt in the league is the worst start the team has in 10 years and the worst under the coaching of Arsene Wenger.


England - good performance -West Bromich

Noone ever expected that after the first 13 rounds West Bromich will be in Champions League zone. But after 8 wins out of 13 matches the teams has shows quite some progress in the league. Only one lost in all their domestic matches is the key role of their success.

Formula 1- the end of a season

Yesterday, the last race of the 2012 Formula 1 citcuit came to an end. A large ammount of people gathered in São Paulo for the final showdown between the top F1 pilots of the season:

Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen. The race itself was rather invigurating as all the drives strived to showcase the best of their abilities. A surprising crash by Hamilton caused him to leave the race and so the race for first place was mostly between Button, Alonso and Massa with Vetel being kept away from the first positions. In the end Button won the race  with Alonso Massa and even Vetel being at about 2 seconds from each other. The thing that made the race so memorable was all the emotion felt after the drivers left their cars. Button broke into tears after winning this last race and even though he was 5th in the global drivers ranking, he was still more than happy to have the privilage to hold the last race cup of the year. Of course, even the drivers ranking brought tears to the ones who won the first three positions. Alonso and Vetel were really close contenders for the first position and even after Vetel won by a close 3 point win, both players showed sportsmanship and congratulated each other with mutual wishes that they will win the next one also.

Bayern Munchen continue their strong season with 3 points against Hannover 96

On 24th November Bayern accepted Hannover 96 on Allianz Arena in Munich. They got back to their traiditon this season for winning games with a crushing goal difference. After scoring 5 goals against Hannover, their GD is the amazing +35 in 13 games, scoring an average of 3 goals per game.
The leaders of the Bundesliga already had the classical 3-0 lead at the end of the first half after beautiful goals from Javi Martinez, Toni Kroos and Franck Ribery. During the second half Dante scored the fourth goal in the 63rd minute. The profligate Mandzukic was taken off minutes later and the top striker Gomez made a dream return from injury when he scored with the first touch of the ball. So far Bayern Munchen have a strong lead, but are just 9 points ahead of the champion of 2011 and 2012 - Borussia Dortmund.

NBA Season 2012-13

        So it is winter and the big show in the USA has started. The big games in the big arenas have arived. The new NBA Season has already started and it started in a fashion and emotion. So before starting to discuss the latest games lets analyze the rosters of the main contenders. In the west one of the main teams that have aimed at the title are the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers have had a big offseason with getting Steve Nash and Dwight Howard. Both acquisitions are expected to contribute to a succesful return to the throne for the Lakers. Gasol, Kobe, Nash and Howard are one of the most talked about lineups in the league, but the reigning West Conference champions the Oklahoma City Thunder are again a strong contender even though they traded James Harden and got only Martin from the Rockets. In the east nothing has changed. Again the main contender not only to win the conference, but to have a double is the Miami Heat. King James is stronger than ever and with the help of Bosh and Wade he has a good support next to him.The new contenders in the east are the newly formed Brooklyn Nets and their rivals the New York Knicks. Both New York based teams started very well the season and now are very dangerous for everyone. Of course the season is in its early stage, but still the leaders are already formed in both of the conferences. The big disappointment so far are the Lakers who started with a 1-3 and are still with a losing record of 5-6. Their new coach Marc D'Antoni has a lot of work in order to reach Erik Spoelstra's team and ultimately take the crown from king James. So expect a great season and don't worry the big games have just started and you will constantly see news about the situation in the NBA.

No Big Transfers in Liverpool

Apparently there will be no big transfers in Liverpool during the winter transfer window. This intention of the Reds was unveiled by the manager of the club Brendan Rodgers. He admitted that new attacking players should be bought in order for Liverpool to score more goals. however, his expectations are that new players will join the club no sonner than during the summer transfer window next year.

"If we add some class to our attack, that would be vital for the development of the whole team. Nevertheless, I'm not convinced that this will happen during the January transfer window. We have to revise our current financial status and documents. After that, we will be able to plan our investment in new players. A lot of players left the club during the summer and there were new investitions as well. If possible, we will try to get the transfers done in January."

STAUT OVERPOWERS IN STUTTGART

Kevin Staut won an amazing victory and disappointed the Germans even though the chances were on their side. He managed to win the fifth qualifying round of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2012/2013 Western European League series at Stuttgart. Together with his mare Silvana HDC, Staut took the almost certain victory of the hands of the German rider Marcus Ehning and his mare Noltes Kuchengirl. In the jump-off he was faster only with one hundredth of a second and managed to go through the 11 obstacles in the round without mistakes quick enough to overpower Ehning.

The third place went to the rider from Portugal Luciana Diniz and her Winningmood and the one who was behind her in his points was Jens Fredricson from Sweden together with Lunatic. The result of Kevin Staut brings him up with the same amount of points as the leader of the Western European League Sergio Alvares Moya from Spain who on the other hand made one mistake in the first round of this competition. However, the rider from Spain continues to be the main leader and goes to the next round in Geneva, Switzerland in December because he has been more consistent in his good results through the Rolex indoor season.

Chelsea's chances for the title are becoming a mirage

Last night's match between Chelsea and Liverpool offered another great derby to the fans. After 90 minutes of non-stop goal attempts at both ends of the putch and some magestic momnets of the striker of the both teams, the final score was 1-1. The fisrt half ended 1-0 for the Blues with some really good opportunities for a goal and only one scored. John Terry socred his first Premier League goal this season but unfortunalely he was badly injured when Luiz Suarez accidentaly fell on his leg 5 minutes before half brake. Later on, up intil the 73 minute, Chelsea fans were delighted to see their favourites organizing a lot of attacks, but the second goal was not coming yet. The attack lead by Oscar, Juan Mata, Ramires, Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres seems the deadlist combination for Roberto Di Matteo, but unfortunately for him Liverpool score with a late goal of Luiz Suarez. Th final score left Chlsea 3 points after Manchester United and 1 point after Manchester City.
The last 6 games of Chelsea reveal that this is not the best period of the club. 1 win, 3 draw matches and two lost games come to show that there is something wrong in the performances of the team lately. Still the only game won during this period was the one against Manchester United for the English Cup and this might be a signal for the hope in Chelsea players. Still improvement is needed, because if Chelsea continue with these unsatisfying results, they may even end up out of the big 4 in England , which would mean they will lose their place in Champions League next season.

Solid win for Moya in Verona

       

          In the day of 11th November at the stadium of in Verona, Italy a rider made an extraordinary victory. Sergio Alvares Moya from Spain made it clear that he is the champion of the fourth part of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2012/2013 Western European League. The competition was special for two reasons. One is that the horse of Moya is only eight years old and the other is that the vice-champion Luca Moneta was so proud of the Spaniard and yet took the place after him. The culmination of the competition was when it was time for the jump-off with 12 horses. The spectators were so into it like watching a scene in the theater that they literally grabbed their seats. Malin Baryard-Johnsson from Sweden finished third and in his excitement he said: “the sport was amazing, I haven’t competed in a class as exciting as this in a very, very long time!”. The win of Moya is a good background result for the rest of the series and especially for the next one which is the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Final in Gothenburg, Sweden next April. He is already in the board of the leaders and with this win has made sure that he is well qualified with solid 58 points.