Who's Up For A Game Of Uno With Gramps News

Best banner I have seen hung in a MLS stadium this season - in front of the most ardent TFC supporters, it simply read: WE DESERVE BETTER. Oh how they do. Come on MLSE, prove to your teams fans that you will not treat them like Maple Leafs and Raptors fans.

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What a start! Danny Cepero made his debut in goal for the New York Red Bulls, and scored on a free kick from 81 yards away. This was the first time a goalkeeper has scored in MLS, outside of a Penalty Kick. The Bulls won 3-1 and continue their charge toward the playoffs.

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Huge thumbs up! Former USA great Earnie Stewart is the Technical Director at NAC Breda in the Dutch Eredivisie and has led the team to the top of the table! Fantastic for them and him!! Hooray Earnie. Boo Earwax!

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You need to go check out this great video highlight blog Yanks Abroad Soccer Highlights. They have clips of Americans playing in Europe & Mexico. Great job done by Matt.


MLS Playoff Picture

The top 3 teams from each conference make the playoffs along with the teams with the 7th & 8th best records (from either conference) as wild card teams.
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Eastern Conference:
-Columbus has won the Supporters Shield, and clinched 1st place in the East.
-Chicago is in the playoffs but still battling for the second seed. They host New York on Thursday.
-New England also in the playoffs and battling Chicago for the second seed. They host KC on Saturday.
-Kansas City currently sit in the 1st wild card spot and go to New England on Saturday.
-New York currently sit in the 2nd wild card spot and play at Chicago on Thursday.
-DC is 2 points out of the wild card with a chance to make it in to the playoffs. They play at Columbus on Sunday.
-Toronto has been elimidated.
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Western Conference:
-Houston clinched the top seed in the West.
-Chivas is in the playoffs and still fighting for the 2nd seed. They host Houston on Saturday.
-Salt Lake currently in the 3rd playoff spot, but not clinched yet. They play at Colorado on Saturday, which will also decide the winner of the Rocky Mountain Cup.
-Colorado is 2 points behind RSL for 3rd in the West, and can still get a wild card spot at well. They host RSL on Saturday for a playoff spot and their rivalry Cup.
-Dallas has been elimidated.
-Los Angeles has been elimidated.
-San Jose has been elimidated.
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MLS Scoreboard

Week 30
Matches & Scores:
-Wed Oct 15
Houston 2-1 San Jose - HD goals both by Stuart Holden. SJE goal by Scott Sealy.
Attendance: 12,327
Venue: Robertson Stadium, Houston TX
-Thu Oct 16
DC 2-1 New England - DCU goals both by Grandpa Doe. NER goal by Taylor Twellman.
Attendance: 16,672
Venue: RFK Stadium, Washington DC
-Sat Oct 18
Toronto 3-2 Chicago - TFC goals by Amado Guevara & Rohan Ricketts (2). CF goals by Justin Mapp & Cuauhtemoc Blanco.
Attendance: 20,294
Venue: BMO Field, Toronto ON
Match report by Larry Millson of the Toronto Globe & Mail.
Match report by Morgan Campbell of the Toronto Star.
Match report by Dean McNulty of the Toronto Sun.
Post game notes by Luis Arroyave of the Chicago Tribune on his blog The Red Card.
New York 3-1 Columbus - NYRB goals by Juan Pablo Angel (2) & Danny Cepero. CC goal by Steven Lenhart.
Attendance: 18,546
Venue: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford NJ
Match report by Michael Lewis of the NY Daily News.
Match report by Brian Lewis of the NY Post.
Match report by Frank Giase of the Newark Star Ledger.
Match report by Stefan Bondy of the Herald News.
Post game analysis by Ives Galarcep of Soccer by Ives.
Post game notes by Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch.
Post game video interviews with Red Bulls players from the teams official blog Red Bulls Reader.
Kansas City 3-2 San Jose - KCW goals by Claudio Lopez, Davy Arnaud & Herculez Gomez. SJE goals by Scott Sealy & Shea Salinas.
Attendance: 9,841
Venue: CommunityAmerica Ballpark, Kansas City KS
Match report from the KC Star.
Match report by Pete Ratajczak of Center Line Soccer.
Post game notes from the Wizards official team blog Hillcrest Road.
Post game notes by Jay Hipps of Center Line Soccer.
Post game notes from the Star.
Houston 3-0 Los Angeles - HD goals by Bryan Jordan (OG), Dwayne DeRosario & Brian Ching.
Attendance: 30,361
Venue: Robertson Stadium, Houston TX
Match report by Bernardo Fallas of the Houston Chronicle.
Post game notes by Fallas.
More post game notes by Fallas on his blog Soccer y Futbol.
Salt Lake 3-1 Dallas - RSL goals by Yura Movsisyan, Will Johnson & Robbie Findley. FCD goal by Marcelo Saragosa.
Attendance: 17,628
Venue: Rio Tinto Stadium, Sandy UT
Match report by James Edward of the Deseret News.
Match report by Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune.
Match report from the Dallas Morning News.
Player ratings for RSL by Michael Black of the Deseret News RSL blog.
-Sun Oct 19
Chivas 1-2 Colorado - CUSA goal by Jonathan Bornstein. CR goals by Colin Clark & Conor Casey (PK).
Attendance: 13,427
Venue: Home Depot Center, Carson CA
Match report by Phil Collin of the LA Daily News.
Match report by Graham Jones of the LA Times.
Match report from the Rocky Mountain News.
Post game notes and stuff by Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on his blog 100 Percent Soccer.
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Ejections:
-Kei Kamara - Houston Dynamo - Red Card
-Marcelo Saragosa - Dallas - 2 Yellow Cards
-Pablo Richetti - Dallas - Red Card
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League Standings
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MLS News

COLUMBUS CREW

Shawn Mitchell of the Columbus Dispatch with an article on the Crew goalkeeper William Hesmer and Russian coach Vadim Kirillov. (posted before Saturday's game)
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FC DALLAS

Our friend DJ Walker, writing for 3rd Degree, musters up the courage to see his Toros get elimidated from MLS playoff contention and tell us about it - Stream of Consciousness: FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake
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DC UNITED

On Wednesday at RFK Stadium in DC, forward Jaime Moreno will play his last international game for his country Bolivia. They take on El Salvador in a friendly.
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John Haydon of the Washington Times says Moreno is long overdue for a league MVP award.
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HOUSTON DYNAMO

DDR notched his 50th MLS goal on Saturday night.
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LOS ANGELES GALAXY

Grahame Jones of the LA Times on their blog The Fabulous Forum on the Gals being elimidated from the playoffs.
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Landon Donovan has played in 200 MLS games. He has scored 96 goals. He has assisted on 76 others. Not bad for such a "crappy player"!
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RED BULL NEW YORK

Metrofanatic with the teams simple playoff scenarios.
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Michael C Lewis of Big Apple Soccer on Danny Cepero's incredible debut for the Bulls.
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Lewis also has quotes from Jeff Parke on his suspension.
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Kyle McCarthy of Goal.com looks at the suspensions of Jon Conway & Jeff Parke for Performance Enhancing Drug use from a legal perspective.
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The Jersey Journal on Cepero's grand entrance to MLS.
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Brian Lewis of the NY Post on his blog Extra Time wonders if Cepero's goal was an all-time great in soccer history.
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The teams official blog has this special video clip of Cepero being interviewed in the locker room after the game.
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Jack Bell on the New York Times blog Goal looks at another great performance from Juan Pablo Angel on Saturday.
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REAL SALT LAKE

Game #2 in the new stadium on a gorgeous Saturday night, and what happens? They come up 2,500 short of a sellout. Wow. That is really disappointing. But I'm sure there is an excuse.
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Michael C Lewis of the Salt Lake Tribune looks at the injury that forced centerback Nat Borchers to miss his first minutes of the season, and the job Robbie Russell did filling in for him.
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Michael Black of the Deseret News on Will Johnson's exciting and important goal on Saturday.
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James Edward of the Deseret News talks to former RSL head coach and now Dallas assistant John Ellinger about Rio Tinto stadium, and other RSL notes.
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TORONTO FC

John Molinaro of the CBC says midfielder Carl Robinson has a decision to make when this season ends - to stay with TFC or head back to the UK.
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The National Post on midfielder Rohan Ricketts rewarding coach John Carver for giving him the start on Saturday.
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GENERAL

Kansas City forward Claudio Lopez has been named Player Of The Week. I guess he decided that it was time to start earning all that money and lead his team into the playoffs instead of being one of the seasons biggest busts. They will need to go far for that tag to be removed.
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Steve Davis at ESPN Soccernet gives us Six Things To Note From Week 30.
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Davis writing for MLSnet looks at the huge bonus of long term team stability.
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Kyle McCarthy at Goal.com with his breakdown of all last weeks action.
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Steven Goff of the Washington Post on his blog Soccer Insider with his weekly recap - The Good, The Bad & The Coyote Ugly.
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Glenn Davis on his blog The Soccer Hour reviews the 4 teams elimidated from the playoffs this weekend.
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Ridge Mahoney of Soccer America looks at the mid-season signings and their impact as we head to the playoffs.
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MLS Golden Boot

19 Landon Donovan
18 Kenny Cooper
14 Edson Buddle
13 Brian Ching
13 Juan Pablo Angel
11 Luciano Emilio
10 Jaime Moreno
10 Conor Casey
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MLS Rumor City - Don't Tease Me Bro!

David Mosse of ESPN Soccernet on the "Beckman to Milan" story.
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MLS Expansion News

The Philadelphia Business Journal gives us a little up date on the non-soccer side of the team from that city that will begin play in 2010.
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College News

Soccer America reports: The crowd of 11,075 at Spanos Stadium in San Luis Obispo for the Cal Poly v UC Santa Barbara match on Friday was third largest on record to witness a regular-season college soccer game. UCSB, the road team won 0-1 in extra time.
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Team USA

I find it interesting that so many people I talk to lately see Brian Ching as over the hill and not worthy of first team status for the USA, but his 13 goals in MLS this season are a career high for him. What does that say?
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Americans In Europe

Nick Green of the Daily Breeze on his blog 100 Percent Soccer talks to a virtually unknown American who is playing in Croatia.
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Ravi Ubha of ESPN Soccernet with an article on Millwall defender Zak Whitbread.
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MOST RECENT MATCHES
(only players who saw the field are listed)

French Ligue 1
-Freddy Adu - Monaco - came on as a sub in the 82nd minute but lost 1-2 at home to Nice.
-Carlos Bocanegra - Rennes - played all 90 and drew 0-0 at Auxerre.
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Spanish La Liga
-Jozy Altidore - Villarreal - came on as a sub in the 80th minute of a 0-0 draw at Espanyol.
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German Bundesliga 1
-Michael Bradley - Monchengladbach - went the full 90 as they drew 2-2 at Bochum.
-Steve Cherundolo - Hannover - played the whole 90 and got smoked 2-5 at home by Hoffenheim, who are for real.
-Neven Subotic - Borussia Dortmund - went the full match and drew 3-3 at Werder Bremen.
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German Bundesliga 2
-Gregg Berhalter - 1860 Munich - played the full 90 of a 3-1 home win over Greuther Furth.
-Matt Taylor - Koblenz - started and went 62 minutes in a vicious 9-0 road beating at the hands of Hansa Rostock.
-David Yelldell - Koblenz - played the full match in goal but got shellacked 9-0 at Hansa Rostock. Not good.
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Italian Serie B
-Danny Szetela - Brescia - came on as a 51st minute sub and scored the game winning goal 3-2 at home over Triestina.
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Dutch Erstedivisie
-Charles Kazlauskas - TOP Oss - went the full match but lost 0-3 at home to RKC Waalwijk.
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League of Ireland
-Ryan Guy - St Patricks Athletic - went the full 90 and brilliantly hit 3 goals as they won 1-3 at Shamrock Rovers in the Dublin derby!
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Austrian Bundesliga
-Preston Zimmerman - Kapfenberg - started and went 87 minutes in a 2-0 home win over Josko Ried.
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English Premier League
-Clint Dempsey - Fulham - came on as a sub in the 73rd minute of a 0-0 home tie with Sunderland.
-Brad Friedel - Aston Villa - played the whole match as usual and kept a clean sheet 0-0 at home against Portsmouth.
-Tim Howard - Everton - went the full 90 but lost 3-1 at Arsenal.
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English Championship Division
-Marcus Hahnemann - Reading - played the full 90 but lost 2-1 at Preston.
-Eddie Johnson - Cardiff - came off the bench in the dying seconds of a 2-0 home win over Charlton.
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English League One
-Jemal Johnson - MK Dons - came on as a sub in the 72nd minute of a 2-2 tie game at Crewe.
-Zak Whitbread - Millwall - went the distance in a 3-1 home win over Leeds. The 3 points move them up to 3rd place after 11 of 46 games.
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Danish SAS Ligaen
-Dan Califf - Midjtylland - went the full 90 as they beat Aarhus 2-1 at home.
-Jeremiah White - Aarhus - played the whole match but lost 2-1 at Midtjylland.
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Norwegian Tippeligaen
-Troy Perkins - Valerenga - started as usual and won 3-1 at home over Lillestrom.
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Norwegian Adeccoligaen
-Clarence Goodson - Start - came on in the 72nd minute as they drew 1-1 at home against Sogndal.
-Joe Lapira - Nybergsund - started and went 75 minutes but they lost big, 0-5 at home against Moss.
-Jay Needham - Alta - played all 90 and won 2-3 at Sarpsborg Sparta.
-Kyle Veris - Hodd - played all 90 but lost 0-1 at home to Honefoss.
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Swedish Allsvenskan
-Colin Burns - Ljungskile - played all 90 in goal but lost 0-3 at home to Halmstad.
-Charlie Davies - Hammarby - started, went 89 minutes and scored the teams 2nd goal in a 3-0 home win over Djurgarden.
-Etchu Tabe - Ljungskile - went the full 90 in a 0-3 losing effort at home against Halmstad.
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CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying News

Guatemala fired coach Ramon Maradiaga on Saturday. From the AP.
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CONCACAF Champions League News

Official CCL website
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Matchday 5
Matches & Scores:
-Tue Oct 21
Impact de Montreal v Olimpia - 7pm central on FSC
Cruz Azul v DC United - 9pm central on FSC
Joe Public v Atlante
-Wed Oct 22
Houston Dynamo v UNAM Pumas - 9pm central on FSC
San Francisco v Luis Angel Firpo
Santos Laguna v Tauro
-Thu Oct 23
Puerto Rico Islanders v Municipal - 10pm central on FSC
Marathon v Saprissa
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Canada & CSA News

Gareth Wheeler of the Toronto Sun does a good thing and goes positive on his view point of the CSA and Toronto FC today. We all could use a little sunshine sometimes.
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Mexico & FMF News

It seems that former Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe never learns to keep his mouth shut. Remember when he used to rag on the USA team, and then lose constantly? Well this weekend his Monterrey played their cross town rival of Tigres and he spent the lead up to the match slagging them off. Well guess what happened? His team got pounded 1-4 at home. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy with a 70's mustache.
-Reuters with a match report. La Volpe was sent off by the referee too!
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South American News

Diego Maradona says he wants to be the next coach of Argentina. So do I.
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Reuters with the story of squabbling Boca, who pulled it together to win the Superclasico.
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England News

Renaissance man Russell Brand for the Guardian tells us about the understated excellence of Don Fabio and hands out some well needed fashion advice!
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Duncan Castles of the Observer with a big article on the fine fine qualities of Man U left back Patrice Evra.
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FIFA.com has a Q & A with Chelsea & Portugal midfielder Deco.
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Tom Lutz from the Guardian wraps up the undercard leagues of England.
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Rob Hughes from the International Herald Tribune says new manager Luiz Scolari has taken Chelsea's quality and added style.
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The Independent talks to Roma forward Julio Baptista about his year in London with Arsenal. He loved all of it, except for one thing.
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The Independent also talks to legend Bobby Charlton about Fabio Capello.
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ESPN Soccernet takes a look back at the first "high paid footballer", Fulham's Johnny Hayes. (thanks to Brian for this one)
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Our favorite German playing in England, Moritz Volz of Ipswich, writing for the Times of London, tells us that there is little difference between Premiership teams, and Championship Division teams.
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The Telegraph calls Chelsea & England midfielder Frank Lampard a Rolls Royce. He is good, but he isn't that good.
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Andrew Rogers at Soccer 365 does a Q & A with Chelsea & Ivory Coast forward Didier Drogba who has released an autobiography, and talks about staying at Chelsea.
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European News

France Football has named the 30 players nominated for the Ballon d'Or aka the European Player of the Year:
Emmanuel Adebayor - Arsenal - Togo
Sergio Aguero - Atletico Madrid - Argentina
Andrei Arshavin - Zenit St Petersburg - Russia
Michael Ballack - Chelsea - Germany
Karim Benzema - Lyon - France
Gianluigi Buffon - Juventus - Italy
Iker Casillas - Real Madrid - Spain
Cristiano Ronaldo - Manchester United - Portugal
Didier Drogba - Chelsea - Cote d'Ivoire
Samuel Eto'o - Barcelona - Cameroon
Cesc Fabregas - Arsenal - Spain
Fernando Torres - Liverpool - Spain
Steven Gerrard - Liverpool - England
Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Inter Milan - Sweden
Kaka - AC Milan - Brazil
Frank Lampard - Chelsea - England
Lionel Messi - Barcelona - Argentina
Pepe - Real Madrid - Portugal
Franck Ribery - Bayern Munich - France
Wayne Rooney - Manchester United - England
Marcos Senna - Villarreal - Spain
Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain
Luca Toni - Bayern Munich - Italy
Edwin van der Sar - Manchester United - Netherlands
Rafael van der Vaart - Hamburg/Real Madrid - Netherlands
Ruud van Nistelrooy - Real Madrid - Netherlands
Nemanja Vidic - Manchester United - Serbia
David Villa - Valencia - Spain
Xavi - Barcelona - Spain
Youri Zhirkov - CSKA Moscow - Russia
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ITALY

Football Italia with the highlights, lowlights, zingers, clangers and the rest from Round 7 in Serie A.
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Alberto Cerruti of Gazzetta rates the performance of the Serie A teams this weekend. A great way to review a round of matches.
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Paolo Bandini of the Guardian says Francesco Totti was good for Roma against Inter, but the rest of the team was awful. And more from Serie A.
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After losing yet another game, Juventus coach Claudio Renieri can't get long for his job. After 7 rounds they are in 12th place with just 9 points.
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Alberto Gilardino, currently of Fiorentina, scored his 100th goal in Serie A. He has 6 from 7 games this season.
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NETHERLANDS

Leander Schaerlaeckens of the Guardian on Marco Van Basten's Ajax team, surprise leaders NAC, and the Eredivisie.
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RUSSIA

Top 6 from the Premier League after 25 of 30 rounds:
54 Rubin Kazan
47 CSK Moskva
44 Dinamo Moskva
40 Amkar Perm
38 Zenit St Petersburg (only 24 played)
38 Samara Kryliya Sovetov
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SPAIN

Phil Ball of ESPN Soccernet on the bad week at Atletico Madrid. And the rest of La Liga. Did you know that Atletico are nicknamed the Mattress Makers?
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Sid Lowe of the Guardian on the Madrid derby and the other games in La Liga.
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The New York Times blog Goal calls Spain the new Brazil. If they keep it up for several decades and win multiple World Cups then I will agree. Otherwise.......
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UEFA Champions League

Matchday 3 is next week on Tue Oct 21 & Wed Oct 22.
-Tue Oct 21
Manchester United v Celtic - 1:30pm central on ESPN2 & 6:30pm central on ESPN Deportes
Juventus v Real Madrid - 1:30pm central on ESPN Deportes & 4pm central on ESPN Classic
Zenit St Petersburg v BATE Borisov - 11:15pm central on Setanta
Fenerbahce v Arsenal - 1:45pm central on Setanta & 3:45pm central on ESPN Deportes
Porto v Dynamo Kyiv - 5pm central on Setanta
Villarreal v Aalborg
Bayern Munich v Fiorentina
Steaua Bucuresti v Lyon
-Wed Oct 22
Atletico Madrid v Liverpool - 1:30pm central on ESPN2 & 3:45pm central on ESPN Deportes
Chelsea v Roma - 1pm central on Setanta, 4pm central on ESPN Classic & 6:30pm central on ESPN Deportes
Panathinaikos v Werder Bremen - 4:30pm central on Setanta
Shakhtar Donetsk v Sporting - 7pm central on Setanta
Basel v Barcelona - 1:30pm central on ESPN Deportes
Bordeaux v Cluj
Inter v Anorthosis
PSV v Marseille
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Big Club Matches This Week

Argentine Primera
-Sun Oct 19
River Plate 0-1 Boca Juniors - Boca wins the ultimate South American derby playing the last 39 minutes (and scoring) while a man down.
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Brasileiro
-Sun Oct 19
Vasco da Gama 0-1 Flamengo - Mengo win the Millions derby, the biggest in Brazil, on an Own Goal.
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La Liga
-Sat Oct 18
Atletico Madrid 1-2 Real Madrid - the Madrid derby won on a 95th minute PK.
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Serie A
-Sun Oct 19
Roma 0-4 Inter - it wasn't even that close, and Inter take the #1 spot.
Catania 2-0 Palermo - the home team take the Sicilian derby.
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Bundesliga
-Sat Oct 18
Werder Bremen 3-3 Borussia Dortmund - neither gain any ground.
-Sun Oct 19
Hamburg 1-1 Schalke - Hamburg stay at the top.
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Ligue Un
-Sat Oct 18
Bordeaux 2-1 Toulouse - the winner moves up to #4 while the loser drops to #5.
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Scottish Premier League
-Sun Oct 19
Hibernian 1-1 Hearts - the Edinbrough derby is unsettled.
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Belgian Jupiler League
-Sun Oct 19
Club Brugge 3-1 Cercle Brugge - the traditional power beats the upstarts in the Brugge derby.
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Mexican Primera
-Sat Oct 18
Monterrey 1-4 UANL Tigres - not even close in the Monterrey derby.
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Eredivisie
-Sat Oct 18
NAC Breda 2-1 PSV - big upset and Breda now claim the #1 spot with PSV dropping to 4th.
Ajax 1-0 Groningen - the perennial champs knock the upstart leaders out of the top spot
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World News

FIFA.com looks at all the derby matches that took place around the world this weekend.
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Martin Rogers of Yahoo Sports on the money situation in world football, and various notes from around the globe. As for #11, you can keep those nasty silicon stuffed babes.
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This Is The End

Elimidate