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Manchester City: Will Summer Shopping for Players Decide Next Season’s League Title, Too?
Premier League champion Manchester City has vowed to spend millions more this summer to further strengthen its already formidable roster — and hopefully win the title again.
Barcelona vs. Chelsea: The Revenge of Soccer’s Short Men
Watch the pre-kickoff handshake between the players of Barcelona and Chelsea ahead of Tuesday’s Champions League semifinal showdown and you’d be forgiven for believing the Catalans had sent a youth team to face the big men from …
Messi vs. Drogba: TIME 100′s Class of 2010 Puts One Over This Year’s Star
How a TIME 2010 honoree didn’t quietly cede the mantle of representing the global game
European Champion’s League Soccer: Will a Mourinho Team Best Barcelona?
Jose Mourinho’s obsession with beating Barcelona may have reached Captain Ahab proportions since he took over as coach of Real Madrid two years ago, but — statistically at least — his chances of getting one over his Catalan …
United and Chelsea Show That English Soccer is a Game for Old Men
Over the past week, both Manchester United and Chelsea, in their improbable 4-1 Champion’s League win over Napoli, have served up reminders of the importance of history, and institutional memory, in the English game.
Yaya Toure Makes the Ivoirians Contenders
The media’s narrative frames for World Cup showdowns usually pit one side’s star goal-scorer against the other: Cristiano Ronaldo vs. Didier Drogba, and so on. But the most important player on the field on Tuesday was Cote D’Ivoire’s Yaya Toure, the imperious midfield general who repeatedly won the ball for his side, dictated the play …
