My Sport Diary

by Kerry Bates With each season that has passed since the departure of Jose Mourinho, there is a growing desperation within Chelsea to taste the sweet success of being English Premier League champions again. This season has the club welcoming their fourth manager in three seasons with Carlo Ancelotti. The Italian moved from AC Milan to Chelsea over the summer and has been tasked with restoring glory to the club not experienced since their Portuguese coach left under acrimonious circumstances. With half the season played, Ancelotti appears to be doing a fine job. Chelsea continues to lead at the top of the Premier League and there are a few key reasons why they could remain there come the end of the season. 1. The manager Carlo Ancelotti. Without a doubt, teams that have become champions over the years have had one similar trait and that is the presence of a great manager. Carlo Ancelotti has already proven himself both in Italy and Europe as a whole. Once dubbed the nearly man in Itali...

by Vladimir Kraev To be selected for a ball such world-class competition, it must meet several requirements. The company works started up soccer balls in 1963 and now Adidas is a leading company in their production. Winner this year is Jabulani, the new Soccer ball World cup 2010. Tests were conducted at The Adidas Innovation Team (A.I.T) of the most rigid laboratory conditions. Then was given and the club teams and professional players to try out the playing field. One of the leading institutions in the world - the Sports Technology Research Group of the University of Loughborough have also conducted research. All tests carried out proved that Jabulani Adidas has a stable flight and is more round than any other ball in various competitions. Quality criteria, which was built by FIFA, ensuring the highest standard of the best players in the most popular sporting event. All tests carried out by Loughborough University and Adidas football laboratory in Scheinfeld prove that Soccer Ball Wo...

by Pete Whittingham It has been a target they have since longed for and Tottenham Hotspur might finally be on ther verge of qualifying for the Champions League next season. However, from a more optimistic vantage point a few months ago, things are not looking so bright at the moment. While Spurs are still sitting pretty in fourth place, which is the last berth available for English Premiership clubs to get into the premier European football tournament, they actually face some disadvantage compared to the three other teams that are competing against them for the treasured spot. For one, Spurs have played a couple of games more than the likes of Aston Villa and Manchester City. In that respect, they also do not have a huge lead over the two clubs in terms of points. The North London club could be easily overtaken by those two if they were to pick up maximum points from their games in hand. Liverpool is the other club in contention for the prestigious competition, and they have experience...

by Mark Ray Playing soccer is a great way to keep active. Playing soccer keeps you on your toes and helps you to work out your muscles and fat and keeps you in shape. It makes you use your limbs as well as your brains at the same time, as you have to follow and some times even build up a strategy on the spur of the moment. If your child likes to run around and play with a soccer ball, then half your problems are over. In any case all you really need for playing soccer is a ball. You could run down to any store and get your child a soccer ball to start with. Apart from a ball, you will need to buy a good pair of sport shoes which fit well and have a good grip. In case, your child normally plays on grass, you must get cleats for the shoes as grass get very slippery when wet and soccer does involve a couple of sharp turns here and there to save a goal. These shoes help to the player to keep his or her balance and prevent any kind of unwanted injuries like twisted ankles or hamstring pulls...

by worldcuplive2010.com A total of 204 teams entered the qualification process of FIFA world cup qualifying matches were played on 25 August 2007 and qualification concluded in 18 November 2009. Africa Africa (CAF) had a preliminary round to reduce teams to 48, followed by 12 groups of 4. 12 winners and 8 best runners-up divided into 5 groups of 4, the winners of these groups qualified for the final rounds of FIFA World Cup 2010. Qualified Teams : Cameroon,Nigeria,Algeria,Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire Asia The preliminary rounds of Asia (AFC) qualifying tournament narrowed the teams down from 42 to 20, which are then split into 5 groups of 4. Winners and runners-up moved on, and these 10 teams are then put into 2 groups of 5. The winner and runner-up of each group qualifies, with the two 3rd placed teams played a playoff against each other. The winner of this game then gone into a playoff with the 1st placed OFC team. Qualified Teams: Australia,Japan,Korea Republic and Korea DPR Europe...