Sunday, May 23, 2010

Ribery not played in Final Champions League

Bayern Munich's appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) of the suspended Franck Ribery for the Champions League final failure, does not mean the midfielder play in game.Ribery appealed to UEFA and CAS after receiving a red card against Lyon address for an on-the-ball to Lisandro Lopez and tried the three-game suspension in the standard suspension of each round (where he served already).


But after rejecting the first appeal, UEFA, CAS followed suit and Ribery will now miss the game against Inter Milan at the Bernabeu on Saturday.A CAS statement read:''The Court of Arbitration for Sport has its final decision on the complaint of FC Bayern Munich , Franck Ribery against the decision by the UEFA Appeals Body, 5 May 2010 submitted.


This accelerated procedure''was by a committee of Mr Bernhard worlds CAS (Switzerland) composed President, Dr. Stephan Netzle (Switzerland) and Dr. Andras Gurovits (Switzerland).''A hearing was held today in the Central CAS, while the the parties and their legal representatives had been consulted. The CAS Panel rejected the appeal and upheld the three-game suspension by UEFA's Appeals Body of FC Bayern Munich players Franck Ribery imposed. As a result,''will play the player is not entitled to the final of the Champions League in 2010. The reasons for the decision will be published by the CAS in a few days.''

Monday, May 17, 2010

Inter Milan target beating Bayern Munich in Final Champions League

Inter Milan Bayern Munich should play the Champions League win in Madrid next Saturday for their third European Cup in 1965, since it first objective would Achievement incredible year represent their charismatic Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho told the Sunday Times.

The 47-year-old - who is "add the Serie A title could later" to the Italian Cup on Sunday - Port Said during the Victory in the 2004 edition was great, this would bring something to another level to this success. "Oh, we did it we won in Porto UEFA Cup, League Cup and the Portuguese (2003) and next year we won the Super Cup, League and Champions League, so we have three out of three," said Mourinho, who was the youngest coach of the European Cup Inter fewer viewers "should defeat to win the newly-crowned German champions." Objective this year would be because the Achievement is unbelievable level of competition so high, and o Road was incredibly his road to the final year.

"We Got (the group phase), Barcelona, European champions and Rubin Kazan Dynamo Kiev, Champions of Russia and Ukraine. Then we to get that we Chelsea CSKA A Little Bit of fresh air got in the middle of the storm." And then play we re always in Barcelona and in the second game getting away from home.
"It was incredibly difficult year receive Way to the end, sometimes people forget," added Mourinho. Mourinho said the newspaper that favorite song began at the moment on this site to believe it could "all" the road to Champions League and reach their First Final go in European club football premier club competition since 1972 after beating War form Chelsea side in the last 16 tracks.

"When we played Chelsea, we broke through a wall-psychological," said Mourinho Whose signings of Brazilian defender Lucio world champion team, Samuel Eto'o and Wesley Sneijder, while ditching Several Turbulent Souls SUCH ace Adriano have transformed the club. "Especially the way we've done it, and, above all, because we did it with two wins and no doubt that we deserve to do it. It was what the team needs, especially with the players Sone years and years of disappointment at Inter.

"After the game against Chelsea, you could" do it "against anyone." Mourinho has, whos side Porto, Chelsea and Inter-nots lost home game for seven seasons was also scathing about the recent total of Premier League title under Carlo Ancelotti Chelsea - with the ET less than enjoys friendly relations - landed in a race Went Down To The Wire 2009 Champions Manchester United Against and saw the winner of the overall lowest increase since 2003.

He was particularly critical of the difference in the quality of the teams vying for the title, that those he is responsible, when Chelsea won two titles in 2005 and 2006 faces. "I'm glad Chelsea won. Theys Had the record of objectives. Purpose Please do not compare with my Man Utd Man Utd.

"Not to compare with my Arsenal Arsenal. Your Arsenal was a team that won the league without a defeat comparable to the 2003-04 season not to be. With my Liverpool Liverpool. Liverpool ya une incredible phenomenon." is from 2004 to 2010 looks to improve how the team will instead get worse things. compare "And not with my cette Premiership Premiership. because you can not compare one does not compare to be done."

Free Mourinho admits that he loves, while Inter is not as ET with Italian football and the atmosphere and the environment, it could "easily estimated kidnap look forward to the summer." Everybody knew I was in love with football français, with the competition Français, Français mentality, "said Mourinho.
"In Italy it was a bit the opposite - just as I was honest in England, here I am honest, and I said, many many things in the game I do not accept, I do not understand." When people get this kind of feedback ITS probably just love for 'em not in me. "Gate last weekend,

Genoa-Milan: zero audience closed the game security, because the reason. What is this? Is that football? Is this war? Cup final in Rome: Inter supporters fear to go.
"What is it? Is that a Cup Final? Some decisions in the game that exposes them to me, she interrupts them, the way the President talk about other presidents, managers talk about how other executives. This is not my natural habitat. "

Friday, May 14, 2010

UEFA Champions League Tournament


The tournament begins with the right stage of a group of 32 teams, divided into 8 groups. Seeding is used and also the draw for this step if the teams from the same country can not be drawn into groups. Each team plays the others in a group home, and in one format. The top two teams from each group will be the round of 16, which begins ahead of the knockout tournament. The third team in the Euro League.

At this stage, the winners play the group against another group of runners-up, and teams from the same country will be drawn against each other. From the quarter-finals, the draw is completely random, with the protection of countries is no longer in force.

The preliminary round was played in the fall, while the knockout phase begins after the winter break. Links knockout format are played in two legs, except the last. This is usually in the last two weeks of May

History of UEFA European Football Championship

The tournament was in 1955 at the suggestion of the French sports journalist and editor of L'Équipe Gabriel Hanot, who conceived the idea of receiving the reports of its journalists during the extremely successful Campeonato Campeones 1948 Sudamericano inaugurated by. In reaction to a statement from the British press from Wolverhampton Wanderers to be "World Champions" After a good European kindly in the 1950s, it Hanot finally managed to persuade UEFA to a continental tournament in the implementation scale. The tournament was designed as competition for the winners of European football leagues, such as the European Champion Clubs' Cup, abbreviated to European Cup.

The competition started as from 1955 to 1956 with a knockout format with two legs, where the teams play two games, is one home and one away game and the team with the highest overall score qualifying for the next round of competition. Until 1992, was refused entry to teams that have won national championships, as well as the current holder of the European Cup limited the national champion. In the season 1992/93 the format has been modified to include a group stage and the tournament was renamed the UEFA Champions League.

There have been many changes to the eligibility for the competition, the number of qualifying rounds and the structure of the group. In 1997-98 eligibility has been expanded to include the finalists of some countries according to the UEFA coefficient rankings. The examination system is such that countries participating in the junior national champion in one or more qualifying rounds before the group restructured stage, while the finalists of the rise of divided countries in later rounds. Up to four teams from the top of the countries currently have the authorization given to the competition.

Between 1960 and 2004, the winner of the tournament qualified for the now defunct Intercontinental Cup against the winner of the Copa Libertadores of South America. Since then, the winner automatically qualifies for the FIFA World Cup held in clubs with other winners of continental championships.

UEFA Champions League Introduction


UEFA Champions League (commonly referred to as simply the Champions League or historically known as the European Cup) is an annual competition of the Association Cup soccer organized by UEFA since 1955 for teams in Europe. The final of the competition - with the NFL Super Bowl - the most watched sporting event in the world every year, drawing just over 100 million viewers.

Prior to 1992 the tournament was officially called the European Champion Clubs' Cup, but usually just as the European Cup and European Cup champions mentioned. The competition was open for the first time a straight knockout competition for the champions of each country. started in the 1990s, the tournament has to be expanded, including a group stage of the preliminary round, and several teams. Europe's biggest leagues now a maximum of four teams for the competition. UEFA Champions League should not be mistaken for the UEFA Champions League, formerly known as the UEFA Cup.

The tournament will consist of several phases. In the current format, it begins in mid-July with three qualifying rounds and a playoff round of sixteen. The 10 surviving teams join 22 teams in the group stage, where there is seeded eight groups of four teams each. The eight group winners and eight finalists for the final knockout phase, which ends with the final in May as the tournament has changed its name and structure in 1992, no club has managed wins in a row. The winner of the UEFA Champions League to qualify for the FIFA Club World Cup (the version of the Intercontinental Cup in 2005) and the UEFA Super Cup.

The title was from 21 different clubs, 12 of which have won the title more than once won. All-time record-holder is Real Madrid, the event nine times, including the first five seasons he has been attacked, and won. Spain Primera Liga is slightly more success, after accumulating 12 victories, all from two clubs. Italy and England produced 11 winners from each of three to four clubs. English teams were not controversial in the competition for five years after the events of Heysel in 1985. Barcelona are the champions after Manchester United 2-0 in the final 2008-09.