UEFA Champions League Quarterfinal Semifinal Draw

Everything is ready ...and the most important is that we are ready to enjoy Quarterfinal of The Champions League. The Final draw took place today and we have the following results: 

APOEL Nicosia                        Real Madrid

vs

First leg March 27, 2012 in Cyprus

Second Leg will be played April 4, 2012 Spain

O.  MARSEILLE                BAYERN MUNICH

vs

First leg March 28, 2012 France

Second Leg April 3, 2012 Germany

BENFICA                                      CHELSEA

VS

First leg March 27, 2012 in Portugal
Second Leg will be played April 4, 2012 England

AC MILAN                                          BARCELONA

VS

First leg March 28, 2012 Italy
Second Leg April 3, 2012 Spain

image  source: http://www.marca.com/2012/03/16/futbol/liga_campeones/1331895128.html

SEMI - FINAL DRAW 

source: 

http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=1770131.html#milan+barca+takes+billing+quarter+final+draw

We really want to enjoy this coming Champions League quarterfinals...because we simply love the best football in the planet! 

REAL MADRID 110 YEARS OF HISTORY

March 6th, 1902  Sociedad Madrid Futbol Club ( Real 

Madrid FC nowadays)  was 

formed and from that day on the history of football

  changed . Today Real Madrid FC celebrates its 

110th anniversary . The Club has become  a leader sports 

entity since its foundation. Real Madrid was awarded 

FIFA'S Best Club of the 20th Century. 

The club has played a very important role in modern 

football. They  have made big contributions as well. Even 

 Michel Platini UEFA President said the following about 

Chamartin club : "Real 

Madrid invented modern football, won the European Cup 

five straight years and is the best club in the world. It has

 mythical status, it is an ideology… It is magic.”

Real Madrid has a great history.  Let's see  

some of the  trophies they

 have won .

They have won 9 European Cup titles

 Real Madrid is the only club that has own  the


 European Cup  for having won the 


Champions League five times in a row. 

1955-56 

1956-57 

1957-58 

1958-59 

1959-60 

1965-66 

1997-98 

1999-00 

2001-02 

*They have won three Intercontinental 


Cups: 

1960 

1998 

2002 

*They have one European Super Cup

2002

* They have 2  UEFA CUPS

1984-85 

1985-86  

* They have 2 little World Cups:

1952 

1956 

* They have 2  Copas Latinas

1955 

1957  

* They have 31 Spanish League Titles

1931-32  1932-33 

1953-54  1954-55 

1956-57  1957-58 

1960-61  1961-62 

1962-63  1963-64 

1964-65  1966-67 

1967-68  1968-69 

1971-72  1974-75 

1975-76  1977-78 

1978-79  1979-80 

1985-86  1986-87 

1987-88  1988-89 

1989-90  1994-95 

1996-97  2000-01 

2002-03  2006-07 

2007-08  

*They have 18 Copas del Rey

1904-05  1905-06 

1906-07  1907-08 

1916-17  1933-34 

1935-36  1945-46 

1946-47  1961-62 

1969-70  1973-74 

1974-75  1979-80 

1981-82  1988-89 

1992-93  2010-11

*They have  8  Spanish Super cups

1988  1989  1990 

1993  1997  2001 

2003  2008  

*They have  1 Spanish League Cup

1984-85  

Congratulations to this club and its history. 


Better things are to come for Los Blancos. 


Happy 110th Anniversary Real Madrid..

BARCELONA AND REAL MADRID AT THE TOP OF THE CLUB WORLD RANKING ACCORDING TO IFFHS

Barcelona and Real Madrid keep leading the Club World Ranking according to IFFHS. 

You can check the info here :

http://www.iffhs.de/?10f42e00fa2d17f73702fa3016e23c17f7370eff3702bb1d20bb6f28f53507

At the top of the list we have FC Barcelona which has 369 points according to IFFHS. No one doubts that Barcelona has been doing an awesome work. They have an advantage of 77 points over the other teams from the list.

 

Second place from the list Real Madrid  has 292 points.  Los blancos lost seven points last month after the goal they received in Moscow against CSK Moscow. 

Third place from the list and the best club in the world in February ,according to the German source, is Velez Sarsfield from Buenos Aires Argentina. They did not lose a single match during local and international matches during the whole month of February. 

Some important things to mention about the latest ranking is that for the first time in many years , we have 5  Latin american teams among the 10 first places from the list. 

Congratulations to all these wonderful clubs !!!

 

GREAT AND WONDERFUL FOOTBALL/SOCCER COMMERCIALS

One of the things that  I love the most about NIKE, ADIDAS, PUMA, and many other sportswear producer companies is the creativity and imagination they use to make TV commercials. I am going to focus on football commercials  which includes of course football players. There are a lot of great commercials that I can include but I am just going to mention some of them. 

One of my favorite football ads of all times is JOSE + 10 by ADIDAS . 

This video was released during  the  2006 World Cup that was held in Germany by ADIDAS. This video was voted as the best video during the WC. That commercial shows how Jose select the best football players to play with him in his neighborhood's field. 

Then I have to mention NIKE. They are just amazing . Watch this commercial.

NIKE's Write the Future commercial enchanted many last 2010 WC. It was just amazing to see all these fantastic players together. 

PEPSI has also shown that football commercials  with famous players are part of their job. Last World Cup they showed these commercials. Enjoy them .

Messi, Kaka, Henry, Drogba and some others showed up ...

Penalties....

Thanks God we have these big companies that put all these fantastic players together to create wonderful scenaries. Meanwhile we have to expect more and more great commercial in order to have fun.  

BAYERN MUNICH IS AT THE TOP OF BUNDESLIGA

Written with the help of Natalia Inhan an expert on Bundesliga. 

source: http://soccernet.espn.go.com

Bayern Munich is at the top of  Bundesliga . Even though there are 17 matches to come in Bundesliga,  Bayern is pretty strong and they ended the first half of the season in first place. The team had gone through a very difficult time when Bastian broke his collarbone but they could handle it and now they lead the Bundesliga. Dortmund is just three points behind the leader and they are strong enough to get the title once again. Bayern has to be focused on winning the Bundesliga. This coming Friday Bayern has an important and difficult match against Monchengladbach since the team is playing away and without one of his important players Ribery.  There are more difficult matches to come but Bayern is an amazing team that will show why they are in first place. 

JUVENTUS IS AT THE TOP OF ITALIAN SERIE A

Juventus is now at the top of the Italian serie A . Alberto Aquilani scored a terrific late winner as Juventus arrested a run of three games without a win a 2-1 success over Bari. Now Juventus takes the lead of Serie A. 

Now Juventus is at the top and it has to continue working to be the leader of la Serie A . 

Enjoy Aquilani's goal!!

MANCHESTER CITY AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

MANCHESTER CITY AT THE TOP 

This Monday Machester City beat Wigan to extend their lead at the top of The Premier League to three points over Manchester United. 

The bosnian striker Edin Dzeko scored the unique goal that made Machester city the winner over Wigan. City's manager Roberto Manccini said he was really happy with the goal Dzeko scored and that he hopes Dzeko continues contributing to the team. 

Today Manchester City is at the top giving his team's fans a victory to sleep happy tonight. 




ENJOY THE GOAL!!