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I am sure, Maradona’s fans must be happy to hear that Maradona officially took charge of Argentina National Team as a new coach. He was quite happy too, and its obvious. I too happy. He shared his feeling in the conference as follows:

“It’s an honor,” Maradona said. “It’s a dream come true being named coach of the national team.

“I’m going to give it my all to make sure that things go well. We’re going to work every day so that Argentina has a national team that keeps getting better and better.”

“This is the best moment in my life,” he said. “I have my two daughters, I get up every morning and I look forward to the day. That’s something I’ve gotten back.

“I’m earning back the confidence of my daughters and I have the beautiful dream that is the national team … it’s like touching heaven with my hands.”

But many people including Maradona’s fans were doubtful that Maradona can translate his technical skills into coaching expertise.

During the conference, one of the reporters asked if he was daunted by the prospect of failure while leading the team and further damaging his reputation as a living football great,

Maradona said, “I’m not afraid that my crown will fall. It would be worse to hide myself.”

After taking over the charge, one of Maradona’s first decisions was to replace Javier Zanetti as captain with Javier Mascherano.

Maradona put forward some more changes which were disapproved by the AFA.

But the question is, can his boys qualify for 2010 would cup in South Africa ? Will they repeat the history of 1986 there ?

All Argentinian are looking forward for this moment.

Lets wait and watch….

Whenever we think about the Bejing Olympic 2008 running track. Only one name come into our mind and thats none other than “Usain Bolt”. Yeah, he has captured 3 Gold Medals and created a world records in 100m, 200m and 4 X 100m relay at the Bejing games. And now he has got offer to train Spanish Football giants Real Madrid. Hope RM team gonna do well in next season. And I think RM fans are quite happy with this news.

Btw I heard that Bolt is a great fan of Ruud van Nistelrooy. He is eagerly looking forward to meet him.

I am a huge soccer fan and I sometimes like to place a small wager on the outcome of the games, especially if England or Germany are playing. If you want the same fun after the final goal then give online slots, roulette, bingo or craps a try.

AC Milan’s kaka, 25 year old has been officially announced as the outstanding footballer of 2007 and this was confirmed through his wining the FIFA Player of the Year award on Monday to add to his European Footballer of the Year honour.

He played his first World Cup for World’s Dream Team - Brazil when he was just 20 years old. With him Brazil won the title for the 5th time as well. Kaka is the highest paid soccer player in Italy. You would find him on the field wearing the classic number 10 mantle amongst soccer greats such as Pele, Diego Maradona, Michel Platini and Zinedine Zidane.

Yeh there is nothing in the world which is impossible. If you are determined then there is no one who can stop you to reach your goal. In the year 1969, Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) presented a special gold medal for former Brazilian soccerstar Pele, who was the 1st and foremost player to reach 1000 goals in his career. And today history repeats again, Romario, 41 year-old, reached the 1,000 goals-mark in his soccer career. And the CBF awarded exactly the same medal to him. “The Federation is honoured to be able to pay homage to a player of such importance as Romario, a player of vital importance in the history of Brazilian football” said CBF President Teixeira. Alongwith the medal, Romario also received a special jersey with the number 1,000 stamped on the back.

Alan Ball 61, died of a heart attack yesterday. In the World Cup 1966, he was the youngest player from the England side. They won the cup by defeating West Germany 4-2 at Wembley.

Ball was part of Everton’s 1970 league championship-winning side and also played in the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico.

He used to play in midfielder position and was found very industrious at his position. He began his career at Blackpool and before moving to Everton in August 1966 for a British record transfer fee of £110,000. Eighteen months later, Ball was sold to Arsenal for £220,000. He spent five years at Arsenal before joining Southampton where he had two spells, interrupted by a brief period in North American soccer, before finishing his playing career at Bristol Rovers in 1983.

He scored eight international goals.

Ball then went in to management, taking charge of Portsmouth (twice), Manchester City, Southampton, Blackpool, Stoke City and Exeter. But his managerial career was significantly less successful than his time as a player.

Ball was awarded an MBE in 2000 for his services to football.

Surely this is going to keep the football field fair and clean. I guess, from now onwards players would be afraid of involving themselves in any kind of argument on the ground. And try to show their skills to win the match and spectators heart too.

Yeh, I am talking about the League Cup Final at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff between Chelsea and Arsenal. It was played on 25th February 2007. And there was only few minutes left to final whistle. Chelsea was leading by 2-1. But suddenly an argument between Chelsea’s Jon Obi Mikel and Arsenal captain Kolo Toure, caused an bitter end of the match.

On Tuesday the FA’s disciplinary commission clearly stated that they viewed the incident as “serious, unacceptable and damaging to the image of the game.” So, both the clubs have been slapped with a 100,000-pound fine each for the behavior of players and backroom staff during the match.

The Arsenal captain and France Striker, Thiery Henry will not be playing in rest of the matches of this season because of injuries. He was already suffering from a foot injury but hurt his groin and stomach muscles during Arsenal’s match against Dutch side PSV Eindhoven in the Champions League. He will miss three qualifying games for Euro 2008 as well.

Henry scored 27 goals in the Premiership last season and was voted player of the year in England. He has 12 goals this season.

But fans do not loose your heart as Henry has vouched to get back to full fitness soon.

On Sunday’s Serie-A match between Inter Milan vs. Sampdoris, a same incident was repeated!!!! This happened in the last World Cup Final too. You guys must be remembering Zidane’s headbutt. Yes it has happened again! But this time the villain is Sampdoria’s Gennaro Delvecchio. Delvecchio was sent off after just 7 mins. into the game.

“My reaction was instinctive and all I wanted to do was protect my keeper,” Materazzi said who lay on the ground after being hit.
“I went over to say to him ‘What do you think you’re doing’?. He then pushed me and I didn’t go down. Then he head butted me and I fell to the ground. He hurt my lip”.

“I admit it when I make a mistake, but on this occasion I didn’t do anything wrong.”

A small message to Mr. M. Materazzi - Sorry for the incident, but I would suggest you to use some sort of mask in the upcoming matches. And the reason you know very well!!

Argentina forward Javier Saviola is to be rewarded for his midweek hat-trick by being offered a new Barcelona contract. Saviola struck three times as Barca knocked Alaves out of the Spanish Cup with a 3-2 victory (5-2 on aggregate) at the Nou Camp on Tuesday. Saviola has scored eight goals in just 11 games this season despite starting only three times, with five of his goals coming in his two cup starts. Read more…………

Spanish giants Real Madrid have made a bid for on-fire Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo. Read more……..