Mes: abril 2019
Virgil van Dijk wins the PFA Player of the Year award
Dutch duo Virgil van Dijk and Vivianne Miedema have won the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year awards for 2018-19. The centre-back becomes the second Liverpool player in as many years to take the award, beating out a host of Manchester City stars. Liverpool defender Van Dijk, 27, beat Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva, Sergio Aguero, Sadio Mane and Eden Hazard in the vote by his fellow players. Van Dijk succeeds Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah, who won in 2017-18, and is the first defender to take the award since Chelsea centre-back John Terry in 2004-05. Miedema, who helped Arsenal clinch their first Women’s Super League title since 2012 earlier on Sunday, follows Chelsea and England striker Fran Kirby. Netherlands international Miedema is the top scorer ...
Juventus and PSG crowned themselves as champions
Juventus and PSG crowned themselves as champions. Neymar returns after injury and Ronaldo makes his legend bigger. After some weeks of unexpected results, Juventus and PSG won their games respectively this weekend. These wins make both teams season champions in Italy and France. Even the critics started to put some pressure during the last few weeks, it was inevitable that PSG and Juventus ended up as season champions. It is PSG 8th ligue 1 title and Juventus 37th Serie A title. Neymar came back after his injury problems and could help his team to rise the French trophy for the 6th time in the last 7 seasons. In Italy Ronaldo became the first player to ever win the premier league, La liga and the serie A. Now he has the challenge of winning the champions league with three different teams. ...
Pogba opens the door to a possible future in Real Madrid
F.C. Barcelona only needed, Luke Shaw’s own goal in the first half to win the first leg of the quarterfinals Champions league. In the first half, United gave the ball to Barcelona, and waited for a mistake or a counterattack to surprise the defense leaded by Gerard Pique. It was not until the second half that Solskjaer’s squad started to put some preassure to get a goal and tie the game, however it was too late already. Paul Pogba was one of the most active players for Manchester United, but it was not until the mixed zone after the game that he became the center of attention. Pogba has been linked to a possible transfer to Real Madrid at the end of the season since a couple of weeks ago. Zidane´s return to the white house, and the horrible season that Real Madrid is having this sea...
Messi set foot in the semifinals with a triumph for history
It is possible that people have first noticed the scars of Messi’s battle: the slightly swollen nose, or the faint trace of a bruise, that blooms around his left eye. Or he could have realized that the rest of the characteristics of the Argentine were much more worrying: Messi’s forehead was puckered. His face frowned. His offense was one scuffed pass, a deflating climax to a wonderful, flowing move down Barcelona’s right flank. A better ball, a little more composure, and Messi would have had a glorious chance to double his team’s 1-0 lead, not necessarily enough to settle this Champions League quarterfinal, to doom Manchester United, but a significant tilting of the balance ahead of next week’s second leg in Barcelona at the Camp Nou. By that stage, though, Messi was in no moo...
All U.S. Open Cup games will be broadcasted on ESPN+
The U.S. Open Cup will have more exposure than ever starting in 2019, with ESPN+ and U.S. Soccer agreeing to terms on a deal that will feature every match of the tournament on the streaming platform. The Lamar Hunt U.S. open cup will be running its 106th edition this year. The deal, which runs through 2022–the same year U.S. Soccer and MLS’s current TV rights deal expires–will begin the first week of May, with the first round of the cup, which includes 38 amateur teams. The second round includes twenty-five USL professional teams, but it is not until the third round scheduled for May 29 that MLS teams join the competition. The Executive Vice President of ESPN, Burke Magnus said “The U.S. Open Cup is America’s version of what is truly unique about soccer around the world. Knockout f...
Is Choupo-Moting’s open goal miss for PSG the worst of all time?
Unfortunately for the Cameroon international, it mainly revolves around whether he’s guilty of arguably the worst miss to ever grace the beautiful game. With Kylian Mbappe rested for the visit of Strasbourg, Choupo-Moting started for PSG in a game that would have seen the Ligue 1 leaders crowned champions had they won. The 30-year-old made a great start too, scoring the opening goal at the Parc des Princes. Then came Choupo-Moting’s moment of madness. Breaking into the right-hand side of the Strasbourg box, teammate Christopher Nkunku delicately chipped the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper. With the ball slowly advancing towards the open net, Choupo-Moting sensed an opportunity to not only ensure PSG retook the lead but add to his own tally along the way. Except, it didn’t quick w...