Chelsea’s abnormally slow start to the Premier League season after winning the league last year has caused some concern among the blue London supporters. Who’s to blame? Can the seven points in six games be placed on any one man’s shoulders? Paris St. Germain seems to think so and by all means, do they have an interesting solution for this English disaster.
Now in his second season at Manchester United Louis Van Gaal has wasted no time in doing what he has become legendary for: pissing everybody off.
Ex and current players alike are coming out of the woodwork. Even players who have never had Van Gaal as a manager hate Louis Van Gaal.
Zlatan doesn’t see eye to eye with Van Gaal, but then again the only person Zlatan really sees eye to eye with is Zlatan.
Borussia Dortmund spent $100.5 million on player salaries in 2014. Let’s get that out of the way, because the idea that BVB are anything but a financial giant in German soccer is at the best untrue and at worst annoying. Ok, we can have fun now!
This article was written at a time when Paul Pogba and Juventus were struggling. Those struggles got worse before they got better, but Juve have now won 15 straight Serie A games, find themselves in first place, and Pogba is playing with all of the confidence and leadership one could hope for. This article sheds some light on how Pogba got out of an unencouraging start to the season with some help from his manager, Massimiliano Allegri.
Carlo Ancelotti has seen it all. If you think that the Real Madrid team he coached last year was the most talented team he has ever managed, then you haven’t heard of the AC Milan sides of the mid 2000s. Yes, the 2014/15 version of Real Madrid had Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez, Sergio Ramos, Karim Benzema, Luka Modric, and Toni Kroos; yes, all of those players could be the best player at a top club.
The man who led Borussia Dortmund above and beyond everyone’s expectations during his seven year spell has now spoken out about returning to football since leaving the club. The German manager who is currently in a hiatus in his career to “take stock of the countless memories” has hinted at where he may end up when returning to football.
The world found out who Anthony Martial was the way you or I found out about a movie like Sharknado.
16 thousand people crowded into Dick’s Sporting Goods park to watch the Colorado Rapids beat Sporting Kansas City in what some are calling the Rapids’ best home game of the year. Though, the result was not always secure.
After a scoreless first half, things took a turn for the worse when Sporting’s Dom Dwyer scored from close range just two minutes into the second. But, the Rapids responded.
Mexico's national team has found its coach, at least for the moment.
Brazilian Ricardo Ferretti, who manages Tigres in Liga MX and once said he would rather be a street sweeper than the coach of the Mexico national team, has been named the interim coach of the Mexico national team.
This season brings with it a new face to European football: the face of Major League Baseball-esque statistical analysis. In March, Dutch side AZ Alkmaar hired Billy Beane as an official advisor.
While the manager (he's now the general manager) of the MLB's Oakland Athletics, Beane helped usher in the strategy of using statistical analysis to identify and recruit players who are undervalued in order to compete with teams that have larger budgets.