Sentences with phrase «which team championed»

Not exact matches

He's a distinguished IBM engineer who was on the team that built Deep Blue, which, in 1997, became the first computer to defeat a world champion chess player, Garry Kasparov, in match play.

He also helped form the World Pizza Champions dough - tossing team, which took home three gold awards at the Pizza Olympics in Italy.

This could come in the form of a top - down mandate (we've heard a startup founder half - seriously champion the «benevolent dictator» approach) or in a bottom - up dynamic, in which the C - suite empowers its trusted and visionary team members to make things happen.

I would love to take Giroud out of the equation last season, remove his goals last season to show ignorant people what league position we would have finished in, a league position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions League.

This means we scored three goals less than the champions, four less than the team from which the golden boot winner came from.

David, nephew of seven - time F1 champion Michael, will compete for the US Racing team — which is run by his father Ralf and former Mercedes DTM chief Gerhard Ungar.

not me mate, your making up you own arguements, which are flawed by the way.So if Coquelin were to leave where would he go?According to you theory obviously it will be to another Champions league team, so are you saying they won't have legitimate competition in the team?Competition breeds winners, we havent had this at Arsenal in a long time and we still don't have it upfront and in dm, we sort of have it at CB with Gabriel, but until we correct this competition deficit in our squad with at least arguably WC players then we won't win the BIG trophies as usual

Read what he told the Telegraph in 2009; «Of course I regret leaving Arsenal... I was playing every week for one of the most exciting sides in Europe, a team which was always in the top four in the Premier League and were Champions League contenders.»

And by Saturday at dinnertime the last of the verbal battles were raging from the Bluegrass Room to the Julep Lounge, from Gordon's Golden Horse to the Bit»n Spur, and even in that rare unequine setting, the Boom Boom Room, as to which team was going to win the national title: defending champion Cincinnati or its hated foe, the squad that has been ranked No. 1 for two straight seasons, Ohio State?

Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this letter.

I honestly believe that AW has lost an extra element that drives teams and which is necessary to become champions.

As we enter the crucial run in to the end of the season, which is the time that we traditionally up our game to reach the Champions League positions, we also have another big advantage in that all of the five teams above us are still in the Champions League and Man United, City, Tottenham and Chelsea are also still in the FA Cup, and are set to face some very tough games in the coming weeks, or maybe months if they do well.

We are lucky enough to have two competition teams, one of which are current national champions, and a performance team!

Ronaldinho spent five years at Barcelona between 2003 and 2008 achieving a plethora of team and personal accolades which included winning the Champions League and the Ballon D'or.

Since making his first team bow at the Catalan club ambition has been one thing which has not been in question, winning 20 trophies including six league titles and the Champions League three times.

After all, this is a team which could still quite feasibly win the Premier League title, while they are favourites to beat Liverpool and make it to the Champions League final.

The ACC champion was out, and the SEC, Pac - 12, and Big Ten, which began the tournament with a combined 15 teams, were down to four, slightly fewer than expected, based on seeding.

It suddenly has five teams in the Champions League, all of which are relatively settled, have good - to - excellent coaching, and deep, strong squads.

Ronaldo was part of the Portugal national team which were crowned Euro 2016 champions yesterday evening.

In 12 years of competition Souza has been on the winning doubles and triples teams at the national open and runner - up in the U.S. Singles, which pits divisional champions against one another.

First, I released the annual Blue - Chip Ratio piece, showing which teams have met the minimum recruiting standard of national champions for the last decade - plus.

I have a thought on this, the EPL is the most competitive league in the world but the top teams in the league which are Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool have all dropped their levels which is why none of them can compete in the champions league against the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Bayern or Atletico, as great an advert it is that Leicester won but it's a serious indictment on the big teams that they won!

Speaking on the matter before Arsenal's Champions League clash with PSG, a team which has many stars names in their line - up, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger officially confirmed that the Gunners are set to begin contractual negotiations with the pair.

I think Frank McClintock is right in a way, we aren't going to make any major inroads into the Champions League or the Premiership due to not only the team selection which has been baffling for what seems an eternity to me.

Job done weaknesses covered, 2 quality players throughout team which is needed to push on don't do it then hope for another champions league spot n cup run in f.a cup.

I like how professional German players seem to be even in times they aren't reining world champions, I know those players wouldn't necessarily walk straight into their National team but it is only one position which they are all vying over so I would assume good quality will miss out.

The only difference is this team will crash out of the champions league and will be in the europa league which will be another black mark on wenger's legacy so what good does that do for him?

I don't think even Mourinho can stop Pep if he spends the same, Mourinho's teams are old fashioned dogged champions, they win the league by not being beaten easily but pick up away draws from time which would usually be considered clever or hard earned result.

Can a team which scores 3 goals in the first half and none in the second half Win the Champions League against stiffer competition and the League title?

On one hand it's simply just celebrating his team's success and being almost like a fan, on the other, a certain degree of class is needed to avoid these situations from arising as Klopp also annoyed the Sevilla coaching staff earlier this season which led to them refusing to shake his hand after their Champions League meeting.

Champions league semi teams with have committed a foul to prevent the break which resulted in that goal.

It's obvious for me that arsenal need 4 players to become a world class team like bayern and real madrid i couldn't dare mention barcelona because they have unbelievable front three and they maybe the best attack in history of football we are lacking quality in the ST as well as the RW of course giroud and campvell are very good players but in my opinion they are less in quality than the rest of the team so we need to improve the quality in these positins About the DM it's a number issue and i think the position is covered with flamini doing good job and elneny coming which can be deployed there About the fourth signing we need is a center back I don't think i saw till now enough minutes for gabriel to tell if he can make the position his own or not But what makes me doubt him that wenger didn't choose him till now over per which means he is not miles ahead of him so i think we need a new better CB This team can go and fight for every thing even the champions leafue....

Obviously, you'd think that was a bit weird and look behind you, which Hamilton did, and he saw his old team - mate and 2016 champion Nico Rosberg.

The consensus among Arsenal fans and the football media seems to be that the Gunners have two key transfers to make in January in order to turn us from nearly men and from a top four club into a team which could actually mount a serious challenge on the Premier League and Champions League.

And in all those additional things which make a team champions - wenger has been found wanting in most of them.

Much to the disbelief of, not only the Santiago Bernabeu faithful, but football fans as a whole, Cristiano Ronaldo unselfishly passed to his Real Madrid team - mate in the box to set up his side's winning goal, which saw the Spanish giants progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League, ahead of neighbours Atletico Madrid, on Wednesday night.

I suspect Wenger isn't prioritising the Europa league because he knows full well he's not good enough to win it so he'll eventually start putting a weakened team out in the latter rounds providing we even get past Ostersunds which is probably 50/50 so when we fail in the competition he has an excuse «We didn't play our first team, we don't believe qualifying for the champions league through this competition» the man is unbelievable!

Even his team selection and substitutions have come under attack from fan's and pundits, of late, which is more evidence that the once heavyweight champion of a manager is nothing more than a has been, who couldn't even punch his way out of a paper bag and the longer he continues in this way, the more harm he will do to his once highly regarded reputation.

Just like the Mavs swept the reigning champion Lakers out of last year's playoffs, the Thunder did the same to them, which OKC fans have to consider a good omen for a team with championship - or - bust type expectations.

The Capital One Cup has been a stage for the Club to showcase the young talents at our disposal (and which was not possible this season); ousted by a resurgent Southampton team with whom at the moment we are competing for Champions League positions.

I am not even going to try to claim that the two late goals which won the Champions League game against Anderlecht in Brussels last night were just rewards for the team's efforts.

Actually winning cups getting to those finals by beating the best teams in the leagues even though we lost one to the best team in the league this year is more than one fact and what the guy stated in the article is a host of statistical facts and we sniffed the league in 2016 every one but us failed to beat the champions that year twice there is a host of facts that hold up success here an mostly ranting opinions saying yea we won cups and made it to finals so what, we did nt win ecl or epl only 1 team does that and other than Leicester which we were 2nd only city, mu and chelsea have won since we last won so not many clubs do that and totten ham hasnt won a cup since 2008 we have won 5 in 8 seasons and been to 3 other finals

The new talent will be tested early as McKeever set up another challenging nonleague schedule for his team which includes top talent at the Oak Ridge Shootout and West Coast Jamboree in December before the Eagles face state champion Berkeley in early January.

A 6 - 0 win over the champions of Azerbaijan from a team which will be much different to the one we face should be no reason for Arsenal to be afraid of Chelsea.

This has happened before and every time the other teams bottled it, which gave us champions league football.

Even if I am very much mistaken and the Arsenal board and manager do make a real effort on this transfer, which they won't, imagine what an ambitious, up and coming player with the potential to be one of the best in the world would say to joining an Arsenal team that is struggling to even tread water and has to suffer annual humiliation in both the Premier League and Champions League competitions.

You can't expect a team that finished 5th 18 points off the champions to just add 2 players for which I have great expectations but aren't even top 5 in the world let alone the EPL and keep the same team virtually to transfigure this squad and change its fate.

The centre - back played in the Ligue 1 team's Champions League group stage campaign, in which they only conceded one goal in six matches.

The other english teams losses can be explained, Man City to Juventus champions league finalists last season, Chelsea away to Porto champions league quarter finalists, Man U to PSV away from home which can happen while Arsenal lost to Zagreb and Olympiakos!

One team played a game in midweek, a champions league game, and another had time to rest and guess which one looked tired and out of ideas?