Sentences with phrase «of excellent footballers»

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The USFL, as chronicled in an excellent installment of ESPN's 30 for 30 series, was envisioned by founder David Dixon as a complement to the National Football League that would play in the spring, leaving fall to the NFL.

Pro football, far and away the most riveting of television sports events, is clearly superior to its college counterpart, which, excellent at its best, can fade to unutterable tedium when the game is the Utah School of Mines vs. the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople.

In the USA, it is a time we set aside to give thanks for all the things that are important to us and pay homage to an excellent dinner with an afternoon of football watching and screaming at the television screen (at least that's what you do if you live in Detroit).

Excellent servant but time to move on.Being harsh but sentiment has no place in the running of a football club.We must evolve.

that is the only way wenger will progress in the c / l and league title if not we do need a manager who can do all of those things and a manager that will keep the team motivated from the sidelines, not that i am saying that he should definitely come in but just watch how jurgen klopp interacts with his players all the time and how animated he is from the sideline he motivates his players, (this is what we need sometimes being excellent technically is enough alone) and he is changing games plans form the dugout if something ai nt working unfortunately football is a young managers game now.

The Belgian playmaker had an excellent season out on loan at Werder Bremen last term which explains why a number of Bundesliga side are leading the chase for the 22 year old and a move to Wolfsburg will offer De Bruyne the regular first team football he needs ahead of the 2014 World Cup finals.

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«I am not surprised, Gyan have been one of the excellent players in Black Stars, to me he is one of the best strikers in Africa,» began Sarpong — who oversaw Gyan's development at the Accra Academy — to Kasapa FM [as per Football Ghana].

Or, is that «recollection» actually only generated because that five year period in Florida football was one of tremendous success and excellent players?

4) In spite of all the excellent midfielders we have, footballers and ball artists every one, we do not have a Patrick Vieira.

The Portuguese giants have excellent youth training facilities as the nature of Portuguese football has forced them to build on those facilities, even though they have often been able to attract enough big stars to in to help the cause.

In August, I spoke to Sean Pamphilon, director of the excellent United States of Football, and asked him about bridging the gap between loving the sport and realizing the damage it causes to those who play it.

Regardless of everything else, we've got some excellent footballers that can play excellent football.

According to Goal Singapore in a statement Johor FA described Fandhi as «an excellent and dedicated coach and had a large contribution to the development of football in Johor.

In terms of football what matters is the probability which makes him the worst finisher, whereas Walcott with excellent movement and pace will have about five shots on goal per match that him the best player to turn to for goals and hence the best finisher.

Between Diaby and Sanogo you have 100k worth of wages that could be put towards ad excellent, ROBUST footballer like Schneiderlin or Sissoko.

With some excellent performances in both the Premier League and the Champions League, Martinez has quickly become one of the most talked about goalkeepers in European football.

«It will be dictated by what happens this season,» said Smith, who recently published an excellent book called The Deal on the inner workings of football transfers.

Despite playing some impressive football, the Gunners were unable to find a breakthrough with Mohamed Elneny guilty of missing some excellent opportunities.

I'm not surprised he's missing the sunshine from the South Coast of Spain, but he is obviously enjoying his football and his life in London, but he rues the fact that, despite his excellent form for Arsenal, he has been mostly overlooked by the Spanish national side when it has come to the major tournaments.

coquelin is a decent player but overrated by many fans because he did fill a gap a couple of seasons ago when he came back from charlton and did it well... but like ramsey running around non-stop is not in itself the defining feature of a quality footballer for a DM tackling, positioning, link up play and passing are equally important coquelin is excellent on two of these good on one and poor on last two... xhaka overall is a better DM and should be starting all the time to make him an integral part of a cohesive set up

Simeone would be an excellent option he is one of the most attractive mangers in football at the moment many players would want to invest their potential in him, he'd certainly not have any sh!t and would get us going again, Raplh Hassenhuttl looks to be an under the sun manger and wouldn't mind seeing him make the switch but question whether he can do what he's doing with Leipzig in the Bundesliga with Arsenal in the premier league is another matter.

like arsenal «s football under wenger a piece with some excellent insights and a lot of tired argument..

He took advantage of the opportunity and played excellent football

This will be the third edition of the College Football Playoff and, although Penn State would likely disagree, the selection committee did an excellent job selecting the four most deserving schools.

Where is our Matic, Hummels etc.Wengers style of football which was excellent for it's time is no longer relevant and our opponents know exactly how to play against us.

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Since Roman Abramovich decided that a west London football club would make an excellent repository for a fair chunk of Russia's mineral wealth, Chelsea have won 13 proper trophies.

Ancelotti is another excellent choice — so much experience Loew scratches his arse on the touchline — been out of club football for too long.

We now know we can play excellent football and we should now be full of confidence to follow it up, but we must remember to never ever underestimate any of our opponents.

Wenger never addresses the weakness of Arsenal as we know.eg Manolas who we should have signed was excellent for Roma today The naivety that because you spend 30 years in football you know all.

The players u see today erforming extraordinarily for their teams today may turn out to be shadows cuz of Wenger's playing tactics and methods (slow ball possession football with no killer instinct and no excellent wing play)

The reason this season's Blues have been such fun to watch — from a neutral point of view, that is; I'm sure their fans aren't particularly enjoying the conniptions — is because they've played generally decent and occasionally excellent football in a profoundly insecure manner, and while the Premier League is flabby enough to absorb plenty such stumbles, Europe is an altogether more awkward place to stutter.

I hope we win this Europa and Wenger leaves at the end of this season, with Champions League football, we can sign excellent players for the new manager to compete at the highest level without paying a huge amount of money, but I am afraid of Atletico honestly speaking.

He has played a big part in the excellent recent recruitment of the Foxes which has allowed first Nigel Pearson and now Claudio Ranieri to make big waves in football and punch above their weight.

This would be an excellent unifying force on the campus and I am convinced that Chicago can play this type of football and maintain its superior academic standing.

Ramsey has the qualities needed for the modern box to box were as wilshere doesn't really he is ok over a short distance with a short burst but beyond that he is quite static in the middle, but is excellent technically and can play a quick pass when he is on form use him as a springboard to launch counter attacks from any new manager that comes in will either help him improve or he will be a casualty of the new regime, unfortunately that reality of life in football i hope for one both of them stay and help us win trophies in years to come COYG

More than 10 years removed from his last De La Salle game and contact with Coach Lad, Rasmussen said the brief banter about life and football was an excellent reconnection and reminder of Ladouceur's greatness as a man and a coach.

Even with his excellent start to the campaign, there remain some lingering doubts about his decision making in the final third of the pitch, a contributing factor, perhaps, to the fact that the football betting markets still have him out at 20/1 to win the PFA Player of the Year award.

PSV are not a top side in European football and to take the lead and then lose it will disappoint them because whatever you say about Manchester United's attacking play, in defence they have been excellent for a few months now - at the end of last season and the start of this one.

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Sadly, had they taken that path of dishonor to go on and win the 62 year old CL, such is the fake hype that they might well have received more credit for that than for their excellent EPL season which is still ongoing and likely to lead to several records in that 120 year old competition - the first in modern football.

The Bavarian immediately took control of proceeding with their possession football and after 15 minutes, they got in front through Robert Lewandowski's excellent strike.

Afc ladies bossed the first half and the standard of football was excellent from both teams.

But at his Dortmund best, Jürgen Klopp had both a phenomenal attack AND an excellent defence, and repeating that will give him a fantastic chance of succeeding in what I still believe is arguably the hardest job in football.

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He was one of the original defensive minded footballers and played 333 times for Roma, proving to be an excellent midfield partner alongside Emerson or Hidetoshi Nakata during the 2000/01 triumph.

Lionel Messi is once again, perhaps correctly, labelled the greatest footballer of all time, and his teammates praised as an excellent supporting cast.

Maksim you are 100 % percent right about Dan Petrescu's faith in youngsters.In just a few months he gave chances to Ivan Solovyov, Pavel Solomatin and Vladimir Sobolev to play in the first team.As for Mogilevets i think he will become and excellent player but not at Zenit.He needs to move elsewhere (and not on loan) to play first team football like Ionov did a few years ago.In my opoinion Zenit needs a striker (if they sell Hulk to AS Monaco) to score goals.Kerzhakov is not at his best, Bukharov has forgotten when was the last time he score and Dordevic is not gonna get a chance.I understand that midfielders of Zenit are all capable of scoring goals like Shirokov, Danny, Witsel, Bystrov and Fayzulin but thats striker's job and Zenit may lose a player on the filed.And something else, i was so impressed with Yuri Lodigin's performance against Krasnodar and maybe Zenit found a great replacement for Malafeev.