UEFA Champions League Draw - Last 16 in CL soccer

                

 

Quartet complete knockout cast list. The draw for the UEFA Champions League first knockout round will take place on Friday 15 December from 12.00CET after Manchester United FC, Arsenal FC, FC Porto and LOSC Lille M?tropole sealed the final four spots in the last 16 on Wednesday night. Fascinating ties Eight group winners and eight runners-up are divided into 2 groups.

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2006/07 UEFA Champions League. Round of 16 - to be played 20/21 February and 6/7 March

Group winners
A Chelsea FC (ENG)
B FC Bayern M?nchen (GER)
C Liverpool FC (ENG)
D Valencia CF (ESP)
E Olympique Lyonnais (FRA)
F Manchester United (ENG)
G Arsenal FC (ENG)
H AC Milan (ITA)

Group runners-up

A FC Barcelona (ESP)
B FC Internazionale Milano (ITA)
C PSV Eindhoven (NED)
D AS Roma (ITA)
E Real Madrid CF (ESP)
F Celtic FC (SCO)
G FC Porto (POR)
H LOSC Lille M?tropole (FRA)

But look at this draw conditions:

The draw respects the following principles: * Clubs from the same association must not be drawn against each other. * The winners and runners-up of the same group must not be drawn against each other. * Group winners must not be drawn against each other. * Group runners-up must not be drawn against each other. * All group runners-up will play their first-leg matches at home.

So can not play against each other the same nations, the same groupstage participiants. 1st in the groups against the 2nd teams in the groups. Home court advantage at group winners, the rematch will take place at their stadiums.

But not possible pairs:
- Valencia vs. Real Madrid, not possible.
- Valencia vs. barcelona not possible
- Lyon vs. Lille not possible
- Chelsea vs. Barcelona not possible
- Lyon vs. Real Madrid not possible
- Bayern vs. Inter not possible
- Liverpool vs. PSV. not possible
- Valencia vs. Roma not possible
- MU vs. Celtic not possible
- Arsenal vs. Porto not possible
- Milan vs. Lille not possible

Possible mathups:
- Chelsea can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Barcelona
- Bayern can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Inter
- Liverpool can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except PSV
- Valencia can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Roma
- Lyon can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Real Madrid
- MU can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Celtic
- Arsenal can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Porto
- Milan can get any from the opponent from runners-up, except Lille

Conclusion: very-very interesting...because only the obvious already group stage opponents can not meet each other...plus the same countries are respected, PLUS CHELSEA VS BARCELONA NOT POSSIBLE...

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Quartet complete knockout cast list. The draw for the UEFA Champions League first knockout round

Football, Soccer on PC Live for Free: The Truth about the Live Sport on Your PC and Other Claims

                

 

Now I?m not a mean guy (money-wise, anyway), but I see no point in throwing money away, so when I came across an advert offering ?Free Live Satellite TV on your PC?, I figured I?d give it a look.

On further investigation I found that several sites offered this ?Free TV on your Computer?, information. Whilst all sites provided the same facilities their ?FREE? prices ranged from one-off payments of $18 through to $99.95cents. Even so, I figured, if I could make one payment of even $99.95 and get my Satellite TV for free, then I?d be saving a considerable amount of dollars monthly on what I currently paid.

Like most things, I never got to checking it out for a while, then I came across the SAME facility with the advert targeted mainly at UK and European Soccer fans: It advertised ?Free Live Premiership Football on your Laptop?, and ?Live Soccer Scores on your PC for FREE?. In fact it provided all the other stuff the more expensive sites offered for a One-Time Payment of ?3.99p (about $7.50cents).

As I had a bit of spare time, and was happy to invest $7.50 and chance being robbed, I duly clicked the button which sent my money whisking electronically into some hopeful?s Paypal account. In seconds I received what I had paid for. Two minutes and a bit of experimenting later, I was watching Brazil and Argentina playing live football. Flicking through the channels I picked up all the current information on the UK league teams, and live scores as they came in. I even got to watch snatches of live games as I clicked through.

Later I picked up various Satellite channel News broadcasts; watched some Canadian hockey, a re-run of the Monza Grand Prix, and some ski stuff from Utah. There were several films showing and several Pop Music programs. All this I viewed in ?REAL PLAYER?, or WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER?, though there were other options.

So what did I REALLY get for my huge dollar outlay? ? Well not a lot, and yet a hell of a lot really:

The ?THOUSANDS OF CHANNELS? proved to be rather optimistic. Hundreds would be a more honest description, and although you CAN receive them wherever you and your PC are in the world, the quality varies from the ?As good as on my TV? to the totally unwatchable.

There WAS some really good live stuff, including sport and normal terrestrial as well as satellite programs of all types. However, many of these and many of the films were from other than English-speaking countries and either had foreign subtitles or were broadcast in the native language.

If you are expecting to pay one single payment of under $10 and get the same quality and quantity of programs you currently would have to pay up to ?50 or $100 a month for, then you are living in cloud cuckoo land and going to be disillusioned.

HOWEVER, if you are prepared to accept you are getting a good bargain, and content to watch/listen in a ?window? whilst working on your desktop or laptop, then you CAN be kept up-to-date on sports information, and watch a fair amount of live stuff you may never get chance to see otherwise.

Bottom line is that ?3.99p is hardly going to break your bank, and if you get to watch the ?BIG MATCH? (football, soccer, boxing, baseball etc) for free when you would miss it any other way, then you have made a good investment.

Search around and pay what you like ? they are all much of a muchness. The cheapest I found which covered everything like the others, but advertised to soccer fans was: www.worldcupsoccersite.com

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Quiet Please, Soccer Game In Progress

                

 

Icy temperatures far below normal. Gale force winds. Stinging sheets of horizontal rain. Cascading rivers of mud.

This abnormal change in our weather patterns can only mean one thing. Somebody somewhere has scheduled a children's soccer game.

My daughter had two games this weekend. Like every game before them -- it rained. Temperatures never got above 46 degrees unless you were lucky enough to spill coffee in your lap. I saw two four-year old girls selling shots of sambucca out of the back of their parent's Suburban.

In spite of the inclement weather parents were there in force. This was an end of the season tournament and there were eleven fields, all of them filled with hard charging boys and girls and all of them lined with parents, siblings, spectators, coaches, assistant coaches, and the occasional European trainer, whose ubiquitous cries of "Unlucky!" or "Well done!" in English and Irish accents provided a little extra ambience in a "Tom Brown's School Days" sort of way.

While my daughter warmed up in preparation of warming up for her game, I took a walk along the line of soccer fields, stopping occasionally to watch the games for a moment or two. The ages of the children varied, as did the gender and the level of skill but nonetheless a similar pattern emerged and along with it a revelation. Some adults are just plain nuts.

The screaming, the endless screaming. "Go! To goal, to goal!" "Watch number 3, watch number 3! Nooooooo!! I told you to watch number 3!" "Shoot! Shoot! Now shoot! Now, now, now!" "Take it up the side! The side, keep going, keep going!" "Sarah's in the middle, she's in the middle! The middle, the middle! PASS! PASS!" "Ohhhhhhh!!!!"

I stood mesmerized by a coach who stalked along the sidelines shouting detailed instructions to his players as if he were a human joystick that could control their physical movements with just the sound of his voice. "Danny, move left." "Dribble right and go, right and go!" "Take it left and cross. Cross! Aahh, for God's sake! I said cross!"

Note to all parents and coaches who scream from the sidelines: Your kids can't hear a word you say. Want to control your players every move? Get a foosball table. As much as you want your kids to score, there are kids on the other team who don't want them to score. I'm surprised parents haven't tried screaming at the kids on the opposing team. "Hey number 11, stand still and do nothing!"

I heard a mother offer the following words of encouragement to her daughter as she waited for the second half to begin, "Do it up right. Make me proud." Do it up right? I was tempted to alert the referee, "Mangled syntax on the field. Everyone take a knee."

Can you imagine how parents who shout at their kids at soccer games would fare if they were subjected to the same treatment at work? Say they're in the process of admitting an emergency room patient while the boss watches from across the room. "Not the injury, the insurance card, check the insurance card first! We don't take United Health anymore. Oxford, yes! Oxford! Quick, the copy machine's free, the machine's free. Hurry! Someone's coming with a huge file, run! Run! Keep going! Oooooh!"

Years ago, I used to play little league baseball. Most game days, I slid my glove on the handlebars of my bike and rode over to the field by myself. My teammates did the same thing. Our parents came to watch if they had the time, if they were busy, they didn't. Sometimes we won, sometimes we lost. Sometimes I got a couple of hits and caught a couple of balls and sometimes I didn't. Big deal. It was summertime.

After the game, I'd ride back, put my bike in the garage and walk in the house. My father would ask me how we did, I'd tell him a little bit about how the game went and that would be it.

Two minutes of conversation at best --and in my mind-- still the perfect length of time to spend discussing any game between a bunch of nine-year-old kids.

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Soccer Camps And International Tours

                

 

Golden opportunity comes to young up and coming soccer players in the form of many national and international soccer camps and tours which gives them the opportunity to learn from retired professionals including former World Cup stars. It also allows talent scouts to view the next generation of players and pre-pick their future stars.

The most popular of these tours takes players to Brazil. Brazil is considered the leader in training professional soccer players due to their five consecutive World Cup wins. While the idea of sending their child to Brazil may strike fear in the hearts of many parents, they need not worry as their child is supervised 24 hours per day by their hosts, professional coaches, youth coaches, youth counselors and chaperones.

These camps and tours last from 7 days to 3 months. The longest give a solid introduction to the world of international soccer and enough time for improvement of skills. Other countries that provide excellent tours and camps are the United States, Germany, England, and Argentina.

These international camps are very different from their domestic counterparts. When one thinks of a ?soccer camp? often what comes to mind is the ideal version of a summer camp based around soccer. The international camps are run with the idea of creating professionals, this gives them a strictly boot camp atmosphere. While this design seems overdone to many a soccer Mom, it is a tested and proven method of turning out the best soccer players in world.

Some of the more elite soccer camps and tours may be prohibitive in their cost, but one can rest assured that not only are the players given the best instruction possible, most camps are all inclusive. These soccer filled weeks or months are often dreamed about and heartily welcomed days every young soccer player who wants to join the star studded international league imagines. There is also the chance that the player in your life can be picked up by one or more of the talent scouts and offered not only a position on a team, but also training with the very people who coach the World Cup teams.

Soccer aside, these camps offer a once in a lifetime opportunity for teenagers to experience the thrill of international travel while under the close eye of watchful adults who are there to help them grow as individuals and as athletes. http://SoccerGearDeals.com has a great selection of clothing for everyone.

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