Thursday, November 26, 2009

Fabio Capello’s first day as England manager

Fabio Capello began his first day as England manager on Saturday as he accompanied the FA’s Brian Barwick to the third round tie between Villa and Manchester United at Villa Park.

The game it self was a dull and scrappy affair as Villa tried to stifle United. The only saving grace of the game was Wayne Rooney’s introduction in the 70th minute which brought united to life and lend to the two goals. Capello as suitbaly impressed by Waynes contribution.

It was good to be at a game where a lot of the players were English players. And, of course, to see a player like Wayne Rooney come on as a substitute in such good form and have a major impact on the game was good for me on my first day.

Fabio was also happy with the support the fans showed him,It was very good to start work today. I am delighted with the reception I got from everyone I met at the stadium. The fans were fantastic to me and Aston Villa Football Club could not have been more helpful. I am now looking forward to seeing a lot of games very quickly over the next few weeks.

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

English Champions League

The English Champions League (often referred to as The Championship for short, or the Coca-Cola Football League Championship for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League.

The Football League Championship was introduced for the 2004–05 season, having been previously known as the Football League First Division. According to Deloitte, in the 2004–05 season it was the richest non-top flight football division in the world, and the sixth richest division in Europe.

The winners of the Coca Cola Championship receive the Football League Championship trophy which is the same trophy as the old First Division Champions (now the Premier League) were handed prior to the Premier League's inception in the 1992/1993 season.

The current champions are Wolverhampton Wanderers, who won promotion to the Premier League on 18 April 2009, and were crowned champions the following weekend. The team were presented with the trophy on 3 May 2009, in front of a sell-out Molineux crowd. The last time the club had received The Championship trophy was back in 1959, the last time they had won the top-flight of English football.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

English Premier League

The Premier League is an English professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League.

The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal. The Premier League has since become the world's most watched sporting league. It is the world's most lucrative football league, with combined club revenues of £1.93 billion ($3.15bn) in 2007–08.

A total of 43 clubs have competed in the Premier League, but only four have won the title: Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, and Chelsea. The current champions are Manchester United, who won their eleventh Premier League title in the 2008–09 season, the most of any Premier League team. Chelsea currently hold the record for most points in a season, while Arsenal are the only team in the history of the league to go unbeaten in a single season. Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United are collectively called the big four, although Liverpool has never won the league.

As of the end of the 2008–09 season, there had been 17 completed seasons of the Premier League. The league held its first season in 1992–93 and was originally composed of 22 clubs. The first ever Premier League goal was scored by Brian Deane of Sheffield United in a 2–1 win against Manchester United. Due to insistence by FIFA, the international governing body of football, that domestic leagues reduce the number of games clubs played, the number of clubs was reduced to 20 in 1995 when four teams were relegated from the league and only two teams promoted. On 8 June 2006, FIFA requested that all major European leagues, including Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga be reduced to 18 teams by the start of the 2007–08 season. The Premier League responded by announcing their intention to resist such a reduction. Ultimately, the 2007–08 season kicked off again with 20 teams. The league changed its name from the FA Premier League to simply the Premier League in 2007.

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Why "England vs Belarus" is Actually Quite Exciting

Weirdly, I’m kind of excited for England vs Belarus. Neither team has anything to play for, but with Rooney and Gerrard out injured (or as The Fiver put it yesterday: “Wayne Rooney has pulled out of the game against Belarus at Wembley with a severe case of having his wages paid by Manchester United.”) we get a chance to see some of the squad players have a run out.

Capello has confirmed that his starting strikers will be… Peter Crouch and Gabby Agbonlahor. Smart money would also be on James Milner to start on the left in Gerrard’s place, and Aaron Lennon to get the 90 minutes that was denied him on Saturday when he was the substitute victim of Robert Green’s sending off.

So it will be a different looking England team. Maybe even a different formation.

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Monday, November 16, 2009

England team in Recent years

Steve McClaren was appointed as the head coach following the 2006 World Cup. The reign was marked with little success, with England failing to qualify for the 2008 European Championships. McClaren left on 22 November 2007, after only 16 months in charge and making him the shortest tenured full time England manager ever since the inauguration of the post in 1946. He was replaced on 14 December 2007 by the former Real Madrid and AC Milan manager Fabio Capello.

The Italian is the second foreign manager to coach England, after Eriksson, and took charge of his first game on 6 February 2008 against Switzerland. England won 2–1. England have enjoyed more success under Capello, having won all but one of their qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup. A 5-1 victory over Croatia at Wembley Stadium ensured the team qualified for the final tournament with two games to spare, a feat that has never been achieved before.

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Saturday, November 14, 2009

About England's Captain "John Terry"

John Terry was confirmed as the England captain in August, and will captain England in qualifying for the 2010 World Cup. During his first match after being reinstated as the permanent England captain he was given a torrid time by Milan Baros and was turned far too easily when Baros scored the first goal for the Czech Republic. The match ended 2-2 with Joe Cole scoring a fortunate equaliser for England in the 92nd minute of the game. He scored his first competitive England goal against Ukraine in the qualifiers for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, grabbing a late winner after earlier giving away a free kick which saw Andriy Shevchenko equalise for Ukraine.

Terry beat out Liverpool’s Stephen Gerrard for the right to wear the armband. Gerrard was named vice-captain, which presumably means he’ll take over if Terry dies or is otherwise indisposed.

Terry is a powerful, domineering centre-half who underlined his magnificent ability by winning the 1998/99 Chelsea Young Player of the Year award. Such has been his meteoric progress that he made his debut for Chelsea in a Worthingtons Cup tie against Aston Villa in the 1998/99 season and went on to appear in several games, even getting on the scoresheet. In 2000/01, he won Chelsea's Player of the Year award.

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Friday, November 13, 2009

Prizes for England team if they win the World Cup 2010

The England football team players will get four lakh pounds each as bonus if they win the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Talks are ongoing between the players and the Football Association about bonuses for next summer’s tournament in South Africa.But the governing body has indicated they are willing to shell out 5.5 million pounds if the Three Lions are successful.

Bobby Moore and his 1966 winners got 1,000 pounds each for lifting the trophy at Wembley, The Sun reported. The 23-man squad which takes part in the finals will split the bonus on a pro-rata basis depending on how many games each plays. That means that the core of the team could easily see their share rise to nearer 400,000 pounds. The sum on offer to the stars is still small change compared to the windfall of up to 60 million pounds, which the Football Association could earn should the team go all the way.

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Thursday, November 12, 2009

England Position in 2010 FIFA World Cup

Fabio Capello’s appointment has given some hope, although the real redemption will begin with the February friendly where Capello will take charge of England for the first time. His brief is to firstly qualify for, and secondly get as close as possible to winning, the 2010 World Cup.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

After the World Cup 1966

The performance in the later World Cups England team varied in many occasions, at some times it look quite obvious that England is going t0 take the title but all of thier efforts have not come up with the results and still England have not won the World Cup again. The performance of Engalnd team in the World Cup Football after 1966 is provided below.

MEXICO 1970: Despite the loss of virus-stricken Gordon Banks, England went 2-0 ahead, but Sir Alf Ramsey’s decision to substitute Bobby Charlton in the closing stages coincided with a German fightback that resulted in a 3-2 defeat for England.

SPAIN 1982:

Injuries to key figures Kevin Keegan and Trevor Brooking dogged Greenwood, but a 3-1 opening game victory over France, in which Bryan Robson scored after just 27 seconds, set England on course for three group victories. But successive draws against West Germany and Spain in the next group phase led to England’s exit.

MEXICO 1986:

Another 3-0 victory against the Paraguayans in Mexico City teed up a quarter-final encounter against Argentina which was won by Diego Maradona’s two most memorable goals.His ‘Hand of God’ goal put Argentina ahead, but England had no answer to Maradona’s majestic solo goal three minutes later.

ITALY 1990: Just as the World Cup beckoned, England ran into the Germans again and a penalty shoot-out defeat in the Turin semi-final was marked by Gazza’s tears and spot-kick misses by Stuart Pearce and Chris Waddle.

FRANCE 1998: Michael Owen’s wonder goal and David Beckham’s dismissal for kicking out at Diego Simeone are enduring images, but shoot-out misses by Paul Ince and David Batty prompted England’s exit.

JAPAN/SOUTH KOREA 2002: Yet again, the Brazilians stood between England and World Cup glory and despite Michael Owen’s opening goal, Rivaldo and Ronaldinho – courtesy of David Seaman’s inability to save his long-range free-kick – progressed to the semi-finals.

GERMANY 2006:

With Wayne Rooney’s metatarsal injury hovering over Eriksson, England reached the second round following victories against Paraguay and Trinidad & Tobago and a draw against Sweden which was marred by a serious knee injury suffered by Michael Owen.David Beckham’s free-kick saw off Ecuador in round two, but Rooney’s red card in the 0-0 quarter-final draw against Portugal preceded a 3-1 shoot-out defeat.

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The 1966 World Cup win

The 1966 World Cup was held in England - there were 4 groups with the top 2 teams of each group qualifying for the quarter-finals. England, who played all their games at Wembley, qualified top of their group and then went on to win the World Cup.

A 0-0 opening draw against Uruguay led to doubts over England's ability to dethrone Brazil, but England reached the last eight following victories over Mexico and France. In the game against Argentina, Geoff Hurst took over from Jimmy Greaves in attack- Greaves had received an injury to his leg in the victory over France but had not scored in the group phase and he did not get his place back in the team for the rest of the tournament. The Argentineans played a very physical game and their captain, Antonio Rattin was sent off in the match (and had to be escorted off the pitch). With the advantage of the extra man, Hurst headed in the only goal to win the game for England.

The World Cup Football tickets in the final were sold out quite earliar than the match as it was to be played in between two of the most capable teams of that time thats why football tickets were bought by the fans of both teams,in the match Germans started well and Helmet Haller scored after only 12 minutes after a mistake by the full back Ray Wilson. After 18 minutes, however, Geoff Hurst replied for England with a header. England controlled the early part of the second half and in the 78th minute Hurst's shot was blocked and Martin Peters put the loose ball into the net. England were now leading 2-l but just before the full time whistle the referee Dienst (from Switzerland) awarded West Germany a free kick just outside the box. Weber scored from short range after a mix up in the box to make the full time score 2-2. England then took the lead 3-2 in the first half of extra time (after 98 minutes) - Alan Ball crossed and Hurst had a shot that that came off the top of the crossbar before "just" crossing the line (in the opinion of the Soviet linesman Bakhramov - he may not have been right but he gave the benefit of the doubt to the home team). Geoff Hurst completed the only World Cup Final hat-trick to date right at the end of extra time by running onto a long ball by Bobby Moore and shooting past the German goalkeeper into the roof of the net.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The England Football Team

The English national football team represents England in international association football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England , one of the four nations of the United Kingdom, has its own football team. Although cricket is the rage in the country, football also has carved a niche for itself in England’s sports. In the early years football matches were played on cricket grounds. Even the first official international match against Scotland in November 1872 was played in the cricket grounds of the West of Scotland Cricket Club.

Traditionally, England’s greatest rivals have been Scotland in football history and also in other tournaments the World Cup Football Tickets for the matches in between these two matches, who were their opponents in the first-ever international football match in 1870.

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