International Soccer - General Discussion

So let's point about main national leagues, winners, UCL qualified, and 2nd div moved:

English Premier League:
Winner: Manchester United FC
UEFA Champions League: Chelsea FC, Manchester City FC
UEFA Champions League qualifications: FC Arsenal
UEFA Europa League: Tottenham Hotspur, Birmingham City FC (Carling Cup Winner), Stoke City (FA Cup runner up), Fulham FC (due to fair play ranking);
To Championship: West Ham United FC, Birmingham City FC, Blackpool FC
To Premiership from Championship: Queen's Park Rangers and Norwich City (playoffs final Reading VS Swansea City, who have beaten Nottingham Forest and Cardiff City).
Best scorer: Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United) 21 goals

Serie A Italia:
Winner: AC Milan
UEFA Champions League: FC Internazionale, SSC Napoli
UEFA Champions League qualifications: Udinese Calcio
UEFA Europa League: SS Lazio, AS Roma, Palermo Calcio (Coppa Italia final, next Sunday Night VS FC Internazionale)
To Serie B: AS Bari, Brescia Calcio, UC Sampdoria
From Serie B To Serie A: Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio and AC Siena at the moment, last Serie B round still to play to know about playoffs
Best scorer: Antonio Di Natale (Udinese): 28 goals

German Bundesliga:
Winner: Borussia 09 Dortmund
UEFA Champions League: Bayer 04 Leverkusen
UEFA Champions League qualifications: FC Bayern Munchen
UEFA Europa League: Hannover 96, TSV Mainz, Schalke 04 (Cup Winner)
To Zweite Liga: St.Pauli, Eintracht Frankfurt;
To Bundesliga to zweite: Hertha BSC, Augsburg
Playout winner: Borussia Monchengladbach (still in Bundes)
Best scorer: Mario Gomez (Bayern Munchen) 28 goals

Liga Espanola:
Winner: FC Barcelona
UEFA Champions League: Real Madrid, Valencia
UEFA Champios League qualification: Villareal CF
UEFA Europa League: FC Sevilla, Athletic Bilbao, Atletico Madrid;
Copa Del Rey Winner: Real Madrid (VS FC Barcelona)
To Segunda: Almeria, Hercules Alicante, Deportivo La Coruna
From Segunda to Primera: Real Betis Sevilla, Rayo Vallecano (playoffs still to play between Granada, Elche, Celta Vigo and Real Valladolid)
Top Scorer: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid) 40 goals (in order to win Golden Boot)

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It's saturday.

today, 21:00 cet in London: Champions League Final

Hi fellows

Lille CHAMPION DE FRANCE since last night, completely deserved i find

Have a nice day

Germany: DFB-Cup Final
MSV Duisburg-FC Schalke 04: 0:5

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Well done Porto I also enjoyed the play off with Huddersfield and Bournemouth

Final Result of the Euro-League Final

FC Porto 1 : 0 Sporting Braga

1:0 Falcao (44.min)


After a very good game that we have seen I think at the end the right Team has won.
For the FC Porto it is the 2nd Euro-League/UEFA Cup win in the Club-History (after 2003) and the 4th European Cup win in the total (they have also won 2 times the Champions League/European Cup of National Champions 1987/2004 - they are also 25 Times National Portuguese Champion - 19 Times Potuguese Cup Winner)

After that Final we have a new record in the goal scorers list for the Euro-League (UEFA Cup/Messe Cup).....the new record holder with 17 goals is Falcao (Columbia/FC Porto).

GenaroXP wrote:Today It´s time for the Euro-League Final

"The Duel of the unlike neighbours"

FC Porto - Sporting Braga

It Is the first time that Two Teams from Portugal are opponents in an European Cup Final.
Whistle for the start of play is 20:30 CET in Dublin (Ireland).
The Referee of that game is how it could be otherwise from Spain (Velasco Carballo)

Here is a balance sheet of that Euro-League Season from both Teams :

FC Porto : 16 Games - 13 Victories - 1 Draw - 2 Defeats - (Goals 43 : 16)

Sporting Braga* : 18 Games - 9 Victories - 3 Draws - 6 Defeats - (Goals 20 : 20)

By the way Falcao (FC Porto) leads in the goal scorers list before that final with 16 goals and this is a new record (in the Euro-League/UEFA Cup or Messe Cup) he has outbid the old one from Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayer München/Bavaria Munich) with 15 goals from the UEFA Cup Season 95/96 (in this year Bayern München win this UEFA Cup)

*Sp.Braga has played 2 games more than FC Porto this is because Sp.Braga start their European-Cup season in the Champions League (They only finished their group as 3rd) and they have must play the 3rd & 4th qualification round for the Champions League and FC Porto only the 4th qualification round for the Euro-League and that is the reason why Sp.Braga has played 2 games more than their opponent.

At last good luck for both Teams & may the best team win

You've forgotten to mention that Porto is the only undefeated team,in offical matches,in europe this season.
PS: In the portugese football league

Today It´s time for the Euro-League Final

"The Duel of the unlike neighbours"

FC Porto - Sporting Braga

It Is the first time that Two Teams from Portugal are opponents in an European Cup Final.
Whistle for the start of play is 20:30 CET in Dublin (Ireland).
The Referee of that game is how it could be otherwise from Spain (Velasco Carballo)

Here is a balance sheet of that Euro-League Season from both Teams :

FC Porto : 16 Games - 13 Victories - 1 Draw - 2 Defeats - (Goals 43 : 16)

Sporting Braga* : 18 Games - 9 Victories - 3 Draws - 6 Defeats - (Goals 20 : 20)

By the way Falcao (FC Porto) leads in the goal scorers list before that final with 16 goals and this is a new record (in the Euro-League/UEFA Cup or Messe Cup) he has outbid the old one from Jürgen Klinsmann (Bayer München/Bavaria Munich) with 15 goals from the UEFA Cup Season 95/96 (in this year Bayern München win this UEFA Cup)

*Sp.Braga has played 2 games more than FC Porto this is because Sp.Braga start their European-Cup season in the Champions League (They only finished their group as 3rd) and they have must play the 3rd & 4th qualification round for the Champions League and FC Porto only the 4th qualification round for the Euro-League and that is the reason why Sp.Braga has played 2 games more than their opponent.

At last good luck for both Teams & may the best team win

The FA cup final on the same day as league fixtures shos how much important the competition is nowadays

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I saw a summery....incredible scenes. Even playing football some guys are mentally overcharged.

of course I had an intention to open this topic
but the reason wasn't a nice one.

I saw in the morning a few scenes of the match (or better named "battle") AC Milan - Tottenham Hotspurs in the european Champions League yesterday evening.
I thought about soccer but what I saw was more a kind of unsportsmanlike fighting.

one of various youtube vids:



Everyone will understand what I mean.

A pity that the referee left his eggs and the red card at his lady and gave just yellow cards so that a decision was found and the UEFA has probably no chance to send both (Flamini & Gattuso) into a break till next season or even better to hell.
Let's hope that the Spurs give the right answer and send AC out of a "should be a fair and sportiv" championship.