Sunday, July 3, 2011

Copa América 2011: Paraguay, Ecuador draw 0 - 0


Paraguay tied 0 – 0 with Ecuador in the first round of Copa America’s 2011 Group B in the Argentine city of Santa Fe. "Today was a very complicated game, we wanted to win, tried to score the goal but could not, now let's see how it’s going to be”, Nelson Haedo said in his interview after a very tough match with Ecuador.

Paraguay began the match with advantage in the opening stages but failed to maintain the momentum. Ecuador's attackers did not deliver and the match ended in draw 0 - 0. 

Copa América 2011: Brazil 0 - Venezuela 0

Copa America Argenita 2011 edition is turning out to be full of surprises as Venezuela drew inspiration from such teams as Costa Rica, who put up a good fight against a definite favorite in their group. Brazil kept relentless pressure from the beginning of the match, while Venezuela made more then few mistakes on defense.

However Venezuela's Juan Arango had a chance to put the ball in the net of the opponent but Brazilian defenders were relieved when the ball curved away from the goal. From Brazil's side the chance came as Dani Alvez picked out Alexandre Pato who missed the net hitting the crossbar.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Lionel Messi not too impressed with Argentina's 1-1 draw with Bolivia

Lionel Messi was not impressed with a goal by Edivaldo Rojas, who shocked Argentina’s defense with stunnig goal and opened the score in Group A opener of Copa America 2011 tournament.

In his interview Messi said,  "They surprised us with a shitty goal and we drew level thanks to Kun [Aguero]. But we are upset because we didn't achieve our goal.” "We did some things well, but we have to keep growing and improving."

Sergio Batista, who replaced Diego Maradona was not happy as Messi, Tevez and Lavezzi failed to ignite Argentina's attacks and Bolivians should be proud of the game that they played. However the host nation was able to score an equalizer to pull a draw after Sergio Aguero delivered an excruciating goal off of a chest pass from Nicolas Burdisso.

Friday, July 1, 2011

YouTube streaming Copa America 2011 Live - Tournament starts July 1st

Copa America Argentina 2011 is finally here and great news for the fans of this wonderful South American football tournament is that YouTube will begin broadcasting it live on their channel.

Now you can watch all Copa America Argentina 2011 matches inducing all the group stage matches, knock-out stage matches, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third-place match and certainly the Final match from Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires! 

Watch Copa America 2011 live on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/CopaAmerica

Full list of times, fixtures and results is available on ESPN Soccernet.

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Mexican striker Pedroza joins Tottenham

Mexican striker Antonio Pedroza is set to join Tottenham. Young 20-year-old striker, who was born in England was recently transferred from Jaguares.

Pedroza expressed his joy over being invited to English Premier League: " I am very happy and satisfied having played for an important team like Jaguares. Now I have the chance to make a dream come true to play in Europe."

Antonio Pedroza will likely receive under £1million and he will become the first signing for the Spurs during this summer transfer window as his contract with the Jaguares has expired.

Villa's Ashley Young to transfer to Manchester United

Now that the summer transfer window is officially open, it is most certain  that the exceptionally talented English international Ashley Young will make his move to Old Trafford. Young will become a second addition to the Red Devils along with Phil Jones who made a move to Manchester United from Blackburn Rovers.

While in Aston Villa Ashley Young has made 193 appearances and scored 39 goals for the Birmingham club. Young admitted that he will miss the stadium and great fans of Aston Villa but as he said it " the opportunity to come and play for one of the biggest clubs in the world is one I couldn't turn down."

Watch video: Interview with Ashley Young (Manchester United)



EPL 2011: Arsenal rejects Barcelona's offer for Cesc Fabregas' transfer

Barcelona may look forward to revising original £27 million offer for transfer of Cesc Fabregas to the Catalonian club and is aiming to offer £31 million, while the Gunners stated that the price tag is no less than £45 million for the Spanish striker.

On the other hand Arsen Wenger might be tempted to let Fabregas go to Barcelona, considering that the Spanish striker did not live up to the expectations of the manager or the fans in 2010/2011 EPL season. Releasing Fabregas might free up some money to be able to purchase new players such as Ricardo Alvarez and Gervinho.

No question that these are tough times for the fans of Arsenal as the future of key players such as Fabregas and Nasri, who might be transferred to Manchester City FC, still remains cloudy. However with talents such as Andrei Arshavin and Robin van Persie the Gunners have showed resilience and toughness regardless of losses on the bench in past and are aiming to have a strong season in English Premiere League.