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FIFA Announces End Of The Year Awards

FIFA announced their awards for 2010 including the FIFA Ballon D’or that combined the Ballon D’or and FIFA World Player Of The Year awards into a single award. Here is a complete list of the winners. FIFA Ballon D’or: Lionel

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2010, My Top Goals Of The Year

In the second recap of the season, I take a look at the top goals of the year. There are plenty of other top goals, but these are from the ones that I saw in the games not just highlights.

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2010, My Top Games Of The Year

It’s the end of the year and it is time to look back at the best games of 2010. Here is my top 10 of the games I watched in the past year.

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Superliga 2010: Semifinals Preview

The Superliga starts back up tonight with the semifinals which showcase two battles between Mexican and MLS teams. Mexican teams are now into their season so their fitness should not be an issue. For MLS, they feature two teams that

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North American Superliga Preview

The North American Superliga is around for its 2010 version. The tournament is still trying to find its place especially with the CONCACAF Champions League. The tournament feels like the UEFA Cup Europa League of North America to give anyone

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United States World Cup Roster February 2010 Edition

Another month has passed and the domestic United States players had another opportunity to prove themselves in a 2-1 win over El Salvador. These players will hope for another chance to prove themselves against Netherlands next week when the European

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Weekly List: World Cup Power Rankings

This is the start of something that I want to do on a weekly basis and generate a list of the week because lists are great at generating discussion. If you have any suggestions, leave me a comment or write

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Best XI and Recap

I enjoyed my first time watching this tournament and with it finally over to take a look back and give some remarks on the tournament as a whole. The obvious sour points to this tournament was the Togo team shooting

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Egypt Win Final

Egypt finished off a impressive performance in the Africa Cup Of Nations taking the title. Ghana put up a great fight and caused all sorts of problems for Egypt on the counter attack, but Egypt got closer and closer and

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Nigeria Finish Third

This was a bit of a dull game even though there was not much to lose for either team. A 55th minute goal by Victor Osofor Obinna was the difference as Nigeria took third place over Algeria with a deserved

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