Posts Tagged‘soccer’

Who Looks Set To Win This Year’s Champions League?

For me the Champions League is the absolute pinnacle of football and I cannot wait to see who will loft this year’s trophy. In recent years the competition has been dominated by Barcelona and Real Madrid, with only a couple of exceptions but this could be the year that this all changes. With 5 English clubs entering the competition’s last 16, could this be the year that an English club finally buck the trend? I had a chat last week with my buddy Greg Lindae about who he thinks will lift the trophy, and here is what we arrived at.…

Most successful football teams in the world

The old proverb has an undeniable truth to it: nothing succeeds like success. One look at the world of professional football will tell you that. Out of the thousands of clubs that have competed at professional level during the past century, the same dozen or so names always come up when the notion of “overall success” is raised. Some might find it peculiar that all the greatest football clubs on the planet can be whittled down to less than 20 names with relative ease, but that’s sport for you. If you begin to win on a regular basis, the hunger…

Will Terry and Carrick become the next PL stars to join the MLS?

“Steven Gerrard” (CC BY 2.0) by  araizavictor  Premier League legends Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard made the decision to end their respective careers in the English top flight to join the MLS. The former international midfielders opted to play out their final days at Los Angeles Galaxy and New York City FC respectively, despite arguably having enough ability to continue plying their trade in the top division in England. Many footballers from across Europe, including Andrea Pirlo, have also been convinced to leave the continent for the States in search of a warmer climate, while also raising the profile of the game across the pond.…