Month: May 2011

CONCACAF’s regional championship is just two and half weeks away and two teams are the clear favorites to take the Gold Cup and a coveted spot in the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil. Those two teams: the United States and Mexico.

These two teams are the deepest and most talented squads in the North and Central American region, but which is the favorite? Heading into the tournament – which starts in Dallas, TX June 5th – a poll would likely come out split. With that being the case, let’s take a look at each team.

As part of our extensive Barcelona v Manchester United Champions League final coverage on Soccerlens, today we look at key head-to-head stats between the two Champions League finalists. VAN DER…

Lionel Messi’s incomparable dribbling skills this season could be the decisive factor in a tight clash with Manchester United. Messi has completed 6.5 dribbles per 90 minutes in Champions League…

Wayne Rooney’s resurgent goalscoring form in 2011 and his increasingly central role in Manchester United’s build-up play means that he is the key man for the Red Devils in the…

Nike has launched the 2011 USA Women National Soccer Team kit. The kit is designed for increased performance and a lower environmental impact. This summer in Germany, USWNT will be…

Blasphemous though it may seem, for all the dazzling array of skills which they bestow upon me as a mere spectator, I do not worship at the altar of Barcelona….

2008/2009 was all-in-all Barcelona’s season. Pep Guardiola led his childhood club to glory like no other manager had done before him. United on the other hand, weren’t too bad the…

Champions of La Liga and Champions League finalists have finally revealed the 2011/2012 kits. Last month there were two images circulating the internet showing the Barcelona home shirt. One was…

SEATTLE – Since the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers inaugurated Major League Soccer’s Cascadia Cup rivalry on Saturday night, fans and journalists alike have been proclaiming that the game was…

Is your club completely skint? Still waiting for your Arab oil sheikh to sink billions of his black gold profits into your first team? Just like the rest of us,…

West Ham are down – but not out. Here are six points suggesting how they can rebound straight back up.

Newly-promoted Queens Park Rangers are still no closer to holding their end of season promotion party, after it emerged that the FA are investigating reports that the R’s have hired…

Bayern Munich are set to play three post-season friendlies before releasing their players on their summer break. The first of these friendlies is away to Zenit St Petersburg on Wednesday,…

Barcelona announced today that they have agreed to extend the partnership with UNICEF through to the 2011/2012 season. The current contract was ending in June 2011. The UNICEF logo will…

To celebrate Manchester City’s 1-0 win over Stoke City in the final of FA Cup marks their first FA Cup triumph after 1969 and the first major trophy since. However,…

As Manchester United celebrate a historic 19th league title, there’s scarcely enough time to list all the records that have been broken by Sir Alex Ferguson’s team. They’ve won 4…

Zlatan Ibrahimovic was Silvio Berlusconi’s marquee signing last summer in a bid to discontinue Milan’s seven year drought without a Scudetto. Not only has the big Swede taken to Italian…

That’s it…the lads have done it, we’ve finally knocked Liverpool off their perch. It might haven’t been a vintage season, but it was damn sure it was a exciting one….

Liverpool were not so much knocked as bundled off their perch as a typically below-par away performance from Manchester United sealed a scrappy 1-1 draw at Blackburn Rovers to gift…

It’s been 35 long, painful years, but Manchester City fans can finally trade in tears of anguish for tears of joy. The Citizens won the FA Cup with a 1-0…

In the clash of two very disparate Cities, there are a certain amount of similarities. Both feature powerful teams capable of grinding out necessary results thanks to a sturdy defensive…

Nearly 25 years have passed since Diego Maradona scored the infamous “hand of God” goal that took England out of the World Cup in1986. A few months before the World…

It seems that the Championship Playoff finals are often won by the team who is playing best at the end of the season. Last year, Ian Holloway masterminded a Blackpool offensive (cough) juggernaut to promotion behind Charlie Adam and against a Cardiff side who’ve developed the nasty reputation of being playoff chokers. This year, the popular picks from pundits have gone to anyone but the Bluebirds. But is there really a trend to which clubs are most successful come playoff time?

In the last several years of the Championship, there has been a trend developing that I’m surprised has not been made a big deal of.  Since the end of the…

Bundesliga team Schalke 04 has revealed their 2011/2012 away and third kits. The kits are manufactured by adidas. The away kit is white with light blue pinstripes and the adidas…

Last week Everton revealed their away 2011/2012 kits with Jack Rodwell. A couple of weeks ago there were rumors that Barcelona are finally dropping their choice of bright away colors…

The home goalkeepers 2011/2012 kits for Newcastle are white and cream in color. The collar and the shoulders give a nice Star Wars look but the rest is just a…