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Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will face a lot sooner than we thought, will be on 9 February in a friendly match between Portugal and Argentina.

The match will take place in London and will be the first time that both players will see their faces with shirts of your selections.

The Emirates Stadium in London, with capacity for 60,355 spectators will surely be filled to see the clash between the two best players on the planet.

For Argentina is the second game as coach Batista Official Selection after debuting on 17 November in the 1-0 victory against Brazil.

Meanwhile, the group led by Paulo Bento comes with tremendous motivation to be thrashed Spain 4-0.

Cristiano probably try to clean up its image after the beating defending against Real Madrid Messi Barelona.

Paul, who trusted octopus successfully predict the outcome of the 2010 World seven games, found dead in a tank in Germany.

The staff at the maritime park in Oberhausen said they were devastated once knew Paul was dead Monday night.

Oberhausen maritime park manager said Paul looked healthy when checked last time on Monday night (25/10), but was found lifeless again Tuesday morning.

Paul became famous worldwide after he chose the mussels in one of two boxes, each stamped picture state flag that will compete. Box of shells which he chooses according to the country which later won the match.

Octopus rarely more than two years old, so the death of the Paul is not surprising. Read the rest of this entry »

Spain has been quickly without representation in the Toray Pan Pacific Open (Tokyo), integrate circuit tournament of the WTA Tour, worth two million dollars in prizes.

Anabel Medina and María José Martínez, our two best female players fell in the first round.

Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine passed over the Spanish Anabel Medina Garrigues, who he endorsed a tough 6-2, 6-0, apeándola already in the first instance of this Japanese event.

Maria Jose Martinez, who entered the main draw for the injury of China’s Li Na, fell in three sets to Russia’s Maria Kirilenko in a 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1, after 2 hours and fourth game.

In the rest of the day’s biggest surprise was the elimination of Russian Maria Sharapova (No.12), former world number one, who bowed to Japanese veteran Kimiko Kate in three sets, by a score of 7-5, 3 -6, 6-3.

For its part the Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (N.16), left on the road to Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova, which was defeated by a double 7-5, while Germany’s Andrea Petkovic beat Argentina’s Gisela Dulko, 6-3 6-1.

Spain suffered a setback when he fell 4-1 to Argentina in a friendly international match played on Tuesday at the Estadio Monumental de Nuñez de Buenos Aires (Argentina).

The selected directed by Vicente del Bosque fits in this way the biggest win in this great cycle victorious from the “red.”

A superb technical details of Lionel Messi, “biting” the ball over the goalkeeper Pepe Reina, local will be allowed to win 1-0 at 10 minutes.

Those were fatal moments of the Spanish team because at 13, Gonzalo Higuain pica fully enabled, it bypasses the goalkeeper Reina, and scored the second from a very tight angle. Read the rest of this entry »

After a World Cup final of so toxic a nature the stadium is in need of decontamination more than the regular clean-up. To Spain comes rightful glory as they took this prize for the first time. The side prevailed over a Holland team that was reduced to 10 men when the English referee, Howard Webb, eventually dismissed the defender John Heitinga, with a second caution in the 109th minute. Cesc Fábregas, on as a substitute, fed Andrés Iniesta to score the winner seven minutes later.

Holland were already being rebuked prior to the final but these events were on a wholly different scale and FIFA should take additional action considering the harm done to the culmination of a tournament that means so much around the globe. The losers were overwhelmingly the guiltier party, with seven bookings, not including Heitinga’s pair. Spain’s count climbed to five with late cautions for Xavi and Iniesta near the end. Read the rest of this entry »

It is perhaps fair to say that there are not many lasting memories from this World Cup. The biggest stars in the football world have failed to really shine with Lionel Messi, Fernando Torres, Wayne Rooney and the entire Brazil team failing to light up the tournament like the football world anticipated. There has also been a dearth of really outstanding games to be revered.

However two teams have performed consistently well while perhaps more fancied teams around them like Brazil, Argentina, England, France and Italy have flattered so deceive. Or in the case of the last three, not flattered at all. These teams are Holland and Spain. And the irony is they have never played each other in a major tournament before.

So now it comes down to one game. But just who will win the World Cup?

Can Holland Win the World Cup?

Only one team remain undefeated during the entire tournament, the Netherlands. They eased their way through the group phases and then disposed of Slovakia, the mighty Brazil and Uruguay. They have played at a consistently high standard and tempo throughout and have peaked at exactly the right time. Read the rest of this entry »