Sentences with phrase «leagues of european»

Wish there was a way to compare performances across the major leagues of European football?

It shows that our investment has paid off and that Bournville is now competing in the Premier League of European factories.»

What seems to be a man who splits opinion more than any other man in football, he on one hand has the vision to take Arsenal into the league of European's elite, while never truly taking the club to European glory.

The problem is; over a season there are more than just the odd day and it takes a fluent, strong, creative team with strong leaders to win a league of European trophy and in Wenger and his mirror image teams I just don't see that.

The Duchess of Atholl, a Unionist MP soliciting support for her League of European Freedom, was politely rebuffed: «I belong to the left and must work within it, much as I hate Russian totalitarianism and its poisonous influence in this country».

Dirk Jan Van Den Berg is president of Delft University, former chairman of the IDEA League of European Universities of Technology, and former Dutch ambassador to China and the UN in New York

The League of European Research Universities (LERU) joins The Wellcome Trust in supporting European Directive 2010 / 63 / EU and in calling upon the European Parliament and the Commission to reject the European Citizens» Initiative (ECI) Stop Vivisection which was submitted yesterday.

We are actively involved in the international research - intensive university network, Universitas 21 (U21) and also the League of European Research Universities (LERU).

The overall impression of the interior is also more in the league of its European luxury rivals.

Not exact matches

And FC Barcelona fights not only to win league titles — it has won Spain's La Liga two dozen times and many European championships — but also to maintain its unique culture within Spain's semiautonomous region of Catalonia, which has battled for its separate rights from Madrid for more than a century.

Vigorate — which has revenues in the $ 4 to 8 million range and ranked 255th on the 2013 PROFIT 500 — opened a Chicago sales office a few years ago to make further inroads with professional sports teams in the U.S. And in 2012, it set up a similar sales hub in Barcelona, reckoning, as Grieve explains, that the sprawling European soccer industry would also be receptive to the sort of digital marketing the company provides to North American leagues.

The Anti-Defamation League says it's ludicrous to claim Germany's Jews could have stopped the Third Reich with personal firearms when the military might of entire European countries could not.»

In the meantime Mr Varoufakis has stated that Greece will prioritise debt repayments to the Global Monetary Fund, some of which arrive owing in March, but that repayments to the European Central Bank are «in a different league» and will need dialogue with Greece's lenders.

Just occurred to me that this whole man show about Islam & Muslims was simply executed as a Sign of the Rejection of «Turkey» from joining the European League... am sure he does not mind Islam but not that of «Turkey» as a Race and Religion....

Promotions by Heineken include the first ever truly global Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League Trophy Tour.

I watch soccer most Saturday afternoons to keep up with European soccer leagues and this involves a lot of game day bites.

In my opinion it would be silly not to play our strongest side against the strongest of European opponents and that of course means the Champions League winner Petr Cech in goal ahead of David Ospina.

The fact is that Wenger did manage to realise at least some of those hopes by keeping the club among the European elite by qualifying for the Champions League group stage every year without fail.

Out of the league cup European Cup, Ho Ho Ho, well it Xmas.

He also lifted the Champions League three times, winning his first title in 2000, while also playing his part in the club's tenth European Cup triumph — the «Decima» success of 2014.

The Egyptian international has extensive European experience from three years of winning the Swiss title and qualifying for the Champions League.

The SPL champions are looking to the European market in a bid to fill the boots of Gary Hooper, who left to join Premier League Norwich City last month.

Watching Barcelona and Bayern has just highlighted how far away in terms of quality are Arsenal and other english clubs from the great european clubs, the premier league is the best league in the world but the best teams in europe are Bayern, Barcelona and Real Madrid

Better yet have to have had a reputable scoring record in a top European league; which I neither think he has the capability of doing, nor has an impressive record to boast about.

I used to watch the European leagues, but as it became clear that only 3 - 4 teams had any hope of winning, I grew bored.

Inter offered him a bumper paycheck, no prospect of being anywhere close to qualifying for any European competition or winning the league.

Challenging the best in Europe will indicate winning our own league and reasoning in the mind of Barca, Real M, Bayern M and more as a «major» treat to their European aspirations... Not just a silent participant pushed aside easily and just competing to get the rewarding money of exiting the group stage (which we are doing right now since we can not imagine winning the greatest trophy in club football).

All three of our away games in Europe are to be played on Tuesday, leaving plenty of time for the team to recover before the next league match and although one of those matches is the north London derby it is at the Emirates stadium and is going to be played on the Sunday, so the European game should not affect our chances, especially as it is against Lodogorets, the weakest team in the group.

As unlikely as it may seem, if they get a draw away to PSG and we beat Basel, they will continue their European adventure in the form of the Europa league and we in turn will win the group.

He declared quite emphatically before the start of the season that he would be focusing on the Premier League, thereby getting us ready for a much weakened Arsenal team being picked for the European games.

The 23 - year - old remains a crucial component of Mauricio Pochettino's plans in North London, and if the Lilywhites are realistic about establishing themselves as a regular Champions League side, they would be wise to extend Eriksen's contract and see off the attentions of the European giants.

Season after season we suffer from same syndrome, if we really want to win league aur european championships... We need To sought This issue, I mean look at chelsea this season just look at Leicester City previous season... Yes it is important that you have squad depth... But if the players keep getting injured like this then that will also be of little good...

I just feel that sticking with wenger, as a fan, I'm essentially saying I'm happy with 4th place, to play in a European competition we realistically can't win, as arsene is simply incapable of winning the league again, football has moved on, arsene hasn't kept up unfortunately.

Is that we will not have a team that will be capable of winning the league or to be crowned european champions because it will require spending on a larger scale and this would go against the business model.

Good article Ozzie, If George Graham had twenty goes at the Champions League he'd have had at least three under he's belt, George was brilliant tactician who won a European trophy with the likes of Morrow and McGoldrick in midfield.

As previously reported by SI.com, the Premier League's big six, all four Champions League semifinalists, two Europa League semifinalists and a slew of other European powers are involved in the tournament, which takes place during the preseasons for all participating clubs and will kick off less than a week after the conclusion of the 2018 World Cup.

Another former Barcelona manager, Frank Rijkaard, won the Champions League in 2006, yet fast forward eleven years and he has disappeared entirely from the managerial merry go round of European football.

Gianluigi Buffon, Zlatan Ibrahimovich, Fabio Cannavaro, Lothar Mattheus, Micheal Ballack, Pavel Nedved, [El Diego] Maradona, [El Phenomeno] Ronaldo, Roberto Baggio are some of the greatest name ever to grace a soccer pitch, yet they never won the Champions League or European Cup while a player like Anderson has won it.

He has won all the trophies possible with Arsenal with the exception of Premier League, Champions League, European League and League Cup.

Do nt we need to finish at least 6th for Europa league entry, with 5 games left, 3 away from home and we haven't picked up a single point this year on our travels, add to that, that Burnley are 1 of the teams we play at home, if we don't win the Europa this year, we could miss out on any European football next season.

Champions League rascal Jamie Vardy helped Leicester City reach the last eight of the European Cup on Tuesday night, but he blew he chances of getting an invite to one of Samir Nasri's infamous summer blowouts.

Might I suggest you were Hot Property back in the day because you were Manager of a team that every season were up there fighting for Premiere League and European Trophies.Of course you were in demand.I do not recall hearing too much about how all these top clubs were approaching you (which of course is illegal as you were under contract so you should not have been talking to them anyway) or how you had never broken a contract in your life when we were considered one of the top teams sat home and in Europe.

u have to be an utterly moronic corporate lacky to try to pretend that it is some kind of achievement to win it) to be a triumph fa cup is now a second level trophy just like finishing 4th is not like winning the league... we were told that moving in to a fancy new stadium was our path to competing with the top European clubs while instead we have since moving in fallen consistently behind..

A treble in his first season at Barcelona and another Champions League in just his first three seasons in management was a remarkable achievement, no question, and if anything his struggles at Bayern show that one can not simply inherit a good set of players and let them do the rest, but while he revolutionised the game in 2009, he is now being found out and it is something of a surprise that he has no other European Cup to his name since 2011 given the quality of teams he's had at his disposal since then.

Iturraspe (statistically one of the best def mid in top 5 European leagues this season and is as good as schnederlin with the same age and 6ft1.

Alex Texeira's European experience of which you speak is in the Ukrainian league - hardly immediately translatable to the Premier League, not to mention he is a mercenary who moved to the Chinese league on a # 150,000 aleague - hardly immediately translatable to the Premier League, not to mention he is a mercenary who moved to the Chinese league on a # 150,000 aLeague, not to mention he is a mercenary who moved to the Chinese league on a # 150,000 aleague on a # 150,000 a week.

I know some are saying we shouldn't worry but to be honest I'm worried, we are playing a Mourinho team next after the international break and we all know Wenger doesn't even have a single league victory against him, the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea have no european football so can fully focus on the league all this has me worried!

Although Arsenal fans are 99 % certain that the Gunners can not qualify for the Champions League by finishing in the Top Four of the Premier League and our only remaining hope is to win the Europa League and sneak in the back door, like Man United did next season, it would appear that the Boss thinks his team need to win against some «big teams» before we can consider winning the minor European trophy.

However, it was for Bayern that the versatile defender really shone, with Lahm leading his club side to an historic Treble of league, cup and European Cup that had never before been achieved in Germany.

Ronald Koeman's side lost Adam Lallana, Rickie Lambert, Luke Shaw, Dejan Lovren and Calum Chambers last year, but have defied expectations to reach third place in the Premier League standings, and now have aspirations of securing a European spot.