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In European football, this is the era of the petro dollar. Manchester City was purchased by Sheikh Mansour, of the ruling family of the United Arab Emirates, and over the next two seasons acquired forwards Edin Dzeko, Sergio Aguero, Mario Balotelli, ...

January is nearly upon us! Or at least it feels that way if you spend any time reading the words of the soothsayers who try to predict what will happen when European football's transfer window reopens on January 1, 2013. Speculation is particularly r...

Last week, watching soccer in the United States changed forever. While ESPN and Fox Soccer Channel still have the biggest matches — American World Cup qualifiers in the U.S., the English Premier League, and the Champions League — a networ...

In January 1992, when I was 11 years old, I piled into my travel soccer coach's conversion van with a bunch of teammates and set out from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to watch the U.S. National Team play the Commonwealth of Independent States (better known a...

I arrived at Parc des Princes at about 3:45 on Saturday afternoon to watch Paris Saint-Germain take on FC Barcelona. I took the 9 train from the Champs Elysees to Porte de St. Cloud and exited the station with a compilation of '80s music pumping thro...

Real Madrid hired Jose Mourinho to do two things: Knock FC Barcelona off their perch and deliver the club's 10th Champions League title. With this weekend's 2-1 victory over Barcelona, Mourinho took a significant step toward delivering the first part...

He could have celebrated, he could have expressed relief, he could have run over to his teammates or made a bee line to the visitors' bench to embrace his manager. Instead, when Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 73rd-minute game-winning goal (his 42nd in ...

On Saturday, Real Madrid will play Barcelona in El Clasico. The prize, ostensibly, is the Spanish Primera Division title. (If Madrid wins, they go seven points clear of Barca; lose and their lead shrinks to one.) Jose Mourinho will gesticulate. Pep G...

On Wednesday, Real Madrid dropped points to Villarreal, drawing 1-1. Sergio Ramos, Mesut Ozil, and manager Jose Mourinho were all sent off. It was the second straight match in which Real left points on the table (or the field, as it were), beckoning ...

Not to be outdone by Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo just scored his 99th La Liga goal for Real Madrid in a match against Villareal. Psych, he's totally being outdone by Lionel Messi. Still ... nice goal, CR7....

Jose Mourinho has pulled off some pretty impressive feats in his time - winning the Champions League with both Inter Milan and Porto, going unbeaten at home for 60 games as boss of Chelsea - but perhaps the greatest trick he's ever pulled was getting...