With three games to spare, Chelsea shoved its way over the Premier League finish line on Sunday, reaching an unassailable 83 points after 35 games following another stolid 1-0 win, this time athome to Crystal Palace. For Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho, it was a third Premier League title in five attempts, a second trophy for […]
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PSV Wins Dutch Title, Young Team to be Broken Up
PSV Eindhoven romped to the Dutch Eredivisie title over the weekend after beating Heerenveen 4-1 at home, marking the Dutch giant’s first title for seven years. As ESPN points out, with justone regular starter — Mexican Andres Guardado — over the age of 25, most of this team will be broken up this summer. In particular, […]
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How a Flying Kick Stopped an Unlucky Dark Horse
Thiago Alcantara punctuated Bayern Munich’s progress to the DFB Pokal (German Cup) semifinals on Wednesday, first with a flying-kick in second half stoppage time to the chest of BayerLeverkusen striker Stefan Kiessling (for which he only received a yellow card), and later with the winning penalty in a 5-3 shootout win, after the match ended […]
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Ribery: LVG is a 'Bad Man'
In an interview with Goal.com, Franck Ribery describes former Bayern Munich and current Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal as a “bad man.” According to the Frenchman, whoplayed under LVG during his first few seasons at Bayern, “We had problems on a human basis…His idea was that he did not care about names at all, […]
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SKC 'Cools' VDV Interest
The Kansas City Star reports that Sporting KC has cooled its interest in Hamburg midfielder Rafael van der Vaart, because both sides are “too far apart” on money. The article quotesSKC head coach Peter Vermes as saying, “It wouldn’t make sense for us. No disrespect to him, but it doesn’t make sense for the kind […]
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LVG: Man United Now 'Developed'
Manchester United coach Louis van Gaal believes his team is ready to demonstrate that it has blossomed into a “developed” team when it hosts city rival Manchester City at OldTrafford next Sunday. United, which lost the reverse match 1-0 at the Etihad in November after being reduced to 10 men for more than half of […]
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Hiddink Deflects Speculation Over His Future
Netherlands coach Guus Hiddink on Wednesday deflected questions over his future with the national side, saying the 2-0 win over Spain makes no difference to his position. While he admittedthat Tuesday’s win was a morale-boosting victory for his players, Hiddink refused to discuss speculation over his position. The Dutch are currently third in Euro 2016 […]
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Road to Russia: Kluivert's Curacao advances
Former Dutch great Patrick Kluivert has led Curacao to the second World Cup 2018 qualifying round in Concacaf in his debut as a head coach. Curacao tiedMontserrat, 2-2, in the second leg of their first-round series to advance, 4-3, on aggregate. Charlton Vicento of Willem II had the late goal that decided theseries. Second Round: […]
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Guus Hiddink, For Whom the Bell Tolls
When the European championships contained just 16 teams, it was widely regarded as the hardest international tournament to qualify for, let alone win. Thanks to the expanded format introduced forEuro 2016, eight more nations will be represented at next year’s finals in France. Naturally, some, including Off The Post, expressed concern that the expanded format […]
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Coaching staff at FC Utrecht won't be retained
Young American star Rubio Rubin will have a new coaching staff next season at Dutch club FC Utrecht. Utrecht coach Robby Alflenand his advisor Cor Adriaanse will step down at the end of the season. “At the start of the season,” the club said in a statement,” we agreed a one-yeardeal with Robby Alflen as […]