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All Eyes on Mourinho in Champions League Final
By Michael Cardillo - AOL NewsNever mind the fact that Saturday's Champions League final pits the current champions of Italy and Germany vying for their third major trophy of the season. Never mind, either, that the match between Inter Milan and Bayern Munich at the Bernabeu in Madrid serves as a perfect preview of next month's World Cup. The 2009-10 Champion League final begins and ends with the self-appointed "Special One", Jose Mourinho. Saturday's Champions League is a first in America since it'll air live on network television, as Fox acquired the tournament's domestic rights away from ESPN. So instead of a ...
Mourinho, Inter KO Chelsea
By Michael Cardillo - AOL NewsJose Mourinho vs. Chelsea, need we say any more? The Portuguese manager going up against his ex-club at Stamford Bridge would ooze with intrigue even if it were a lowly youth team reserve match. Tuesday the stakes were just a wee bit higher when Mourinho brought his Inter Milan club into West London carrying a 2-1 advantage into the second leg of their Champions Lague knockout stage match. Before the match began, Mourinho said that win or lose he'd still remain the "Special One" -- his self-appointed nickname upon taking over Chelsea coaching duties in 2004. After guiding Inter to a 1-0 ...
Mourinho Goes Home Again in Champions League
By Michael Cardillo - AOL NewsTwo weeks ago soccer fans across the planet were hypothesizing all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories for the 2010 World Cup draw. As it turned out, unless you live on Portugal, you don't have much beef with Sepp Blatter and the rest of his FIFA cronies. (Draw host Charlize Theron gets an understandable pass.) That said, Friday's draw for the Round of 16 of the 2009-10 UEFA Champions League might raise a couple eyebrows as a couple of the matchups seem a little, ahem, convenient.First and foremost is the tantalizing Cheslea/Inter Milan showdown that brings back Jose Mourinho to Stamford ...
A Reluctant Soccer Mom
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyI had a formative cultural experience in London last night. No, it didn't entail that controversial new Damien Hirst exhibit at the Wallace Collection. Nor did I catch that hot new production at the Donmar Warehouse. Nope. My cultural immersion was much more authentically British: I attended my first professional soccer game. ...
Real Madrid Avoids English Clubs in Champions League Draw
By Michael Cardillo - AOL NewsLet's face it, the European method of pulling names out from the proverbial hat to determine the pairings for its knockout competitions is, well, a foreign concept. About the only Stateside comparison is the selection committee drawing up the NCAA Tournament brackets every March. To whit, Thursday in Monaco, UEFA staged its annual gala to determine the groups for the 2009-10 Champions League replete with glitz, glamor and the former Miss Switzerland pulling balls out of pots. Certainly a far cry from a group of middle-aged men sitting together in a hotel room discussing RPI.Ahead of the draw ...
Manchester United and Their Fans Both Take a Beating
By mjd - AOL NewsTwo things you don't have to happen when you make a road trip to watch your favorite team play: One, your team loses. And two, you get billy-clubbed in the head repeatedly by Italian cops in riot gear. Many Manchester United fans experienced both of those unpleasant sensations today. United lost 2-1 to Roma, and violence erupted in the stands just before halftime. Cops confronted some Manchester United fans for allegedly throwing things ... and not being ones to back down, the cops and fans got into it, and as they usually do, the cops won. One guy was seen laying motionless on the ground ...
Champions League Draw Friendly to the Brits
By mjd - AOL NewsWith three Premiership sides in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League, they were lucky enough to avoid one another in the quarterfinal pairings, which were announced this afternoon. They are as follows:Liverpool vs. PSV Eindhoven.Chelsea vs. Valencia.Manchester United vs. AS Roma.AC Milan vs. Bayern Munich.Chelsea and Liverpool could renew their Premiership rivalry in the semifinals, should they both advance. And truthfully, they both probably got the easiest draws. Liverpool's actually played Eindhoven before in the Champions League, playing them twice in the earlier group stage, ...
Valancia Gets Away With Cheap Shot; Advances
By mjd - AOL NewsIt was a fine day of soccer in the Champions League -- including this scoreless Valencia/Inter Milan draw that sent Valencia through to the quarterfinals -- and what would a day of soccer be without a little violence? Actually, I'm not even sure if this qualifies as violence. I'm not sure what started the initial scuffle, but one guy runs in and accosts another, and then that guy runs like hell. Someone tried to kick him, but couldn't catch him. Video is below. Watch for the guy in the yellow entering the right side of the frame, just a few seconds into the video. I believe that's Nicolas ...
Champions League Preview: Barcelona's in Trouble
By mjd - AOL NewsThe European Champions League goes from sixteen teams down to eight over the next two days, with some sweet matchups on the schedule. All matches are in their second leg (they play a home-and-home series, with the team scoring the most goals in two matches advancing). Let's get you primed and ready. On Tuesday: Liverpool vs. Barcelona. The glamour match, pitting the winners of the last two Champions Leagues against each other. Liverpool upset Barcelona on the road earlier, giving them a huge advantage in moving on (in the event of a tie, the team with the most road goals moves on). But ...
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