You know, I wasn’t sure where to have my birthday football match this year but I guess I have found the place: Barcelona’s home stadium, Camp Nou. The stadium has opened up for the fans (wallets): for only 40,000 Euros, anyone can have a Ronaldinho/Messi/Eto’o day. With and empty of full stadium. Yay!

Fridays are perfect days for speculation. Today we open a new chapter in English football: Capello and the reason why he did not start Michael Owen. Come on folks, the guy is good looking, plays great football, but Capello kept him off. Why? Speculation is what we are here for today (after all, today is […]

Brazilian forward Afonso Alves has been succesfully transfered to Middlesbrough. The player, who broke all goal records in the Netherlands, was received in England as a king. A Brazilian king. And since all people can remember about Brazil are (1) good soccer players and (2) carnaval, it was easy for the English team to make […]

This is new kit week. Here is Spain’s.

It’s official (and he’s happy about it). George Burley has been appointed the new boss for the Scotts. The former Southampton boss has signed a contract until 2012 and was the chosen one between a four-man shortlist which also included Mark McGhee, Graeme Souness and Tommy Burns. Now let’s be real, the guy has really […]

Back in November 2007, Nike developed a new home jersey to the Brazilian Football squad as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of Brazil’s first title. Now they did it again, quite nicely must I say. The new away kit, the blue one, has been totaly redesigned to remind us of the blue uniform Brazil […]

Imagine if you had the chance (and money) to buy Pele’s first game shirt when he played for Santos. Or Ronaldo’s. Or Zidane’s. Or Ronaldinho’s. Well, now you can (try to) get Pato’s first shirt, used in his first match for AC Milan. Man, I haven’t figured out how this guy takes all this pressure!

Fabio Capello is being inquired about his taxes from the time he was Juventus’ boss, which is part of the wider investigation into allegations of corruption at the club.Truth is that when you are making millions, it makes it easier to sli[ here and there. But the new England manager assures that his finances were […]