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If you want to play soccer beyond the high school level, you may be unsure of how to do so. Here are a few steps that any aspiring professional soccer player should be taking.

Arsenal versus AC Milan -this is arguably the tie of the day as the premiership leaders take on the defending champions. Arsenal would not be going into this match with the greatest of confidence as they were trounced 4-0 over the weekend by their main rivals Manchester United albeit in the FA Cup. It is safe to say that their form has not been brilliant of late and they have stuttered in some matches though they have come out victorious in…

It’s just you, the sweeper and the goalie. Your approaching the sweeper thinking of what move you’ll use to slip past him and then it happens. You trip and the ball continues to roll heading right for the sweeper like a present on his birthday. How could this have been avoided? By mastering the art of dribbling. Read on to learn 2 techniques that will assure this scenario never happens to you.

This game is very important to both sides for entirely different reasons. For Liverpool it is the only competition they can win this season and if they fail to do so then it would leave them just chasing 4th place in the league to look forward to. For a squad that has been so expensively assembled it would amount to a great disappointment and underachievement.

There have been some great moments and some not so great moments in the history of English football. Here is a personal view of the ten best.

Though almost nobody in the United States is seeing, the African Nations Cup is providing some of the most exciting and spirited football I have seen in a while. By all accounts, Ghana has put on a compelling a well-run tournament, something that portends well for South Africa 2010. Indeed, many fans of African football look at the constellation of stars playing in Ghana 2008 and feel hopeful about the prospects of Africa’s entrants into the 2010 World Cup. What have we learned about the prospects of the various African nations?

What’s Wrong with Sepp Blatter’s Plan? Reflecting on the era of segregation in baseball, the great baseball union organizer Marvin Miller characterized the so-called Gentleman’s Agreement to exclude black players as a conspiracy to fix the World Series. He note, likely correctly, that at any time a bottom-tier team in the American or National Leagues could have signed all of the top players like Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, or Oscar Charleston and instantly have had championship-caliber talent.

Football was once described by someone as a very funny old game and it is not difficult to see why with all the happenings in recent times. In England most football fans are up in arms because the Premier Chiefs have come up with the hare-brained idea to play premiership matches abroad. Apparently each game is worth £5m to each club and it is not hard to see why the chairmen are up for this idea but you can also …

There were a lot of great performances in this position with a number of players having fantastic a year. Alessandro Nesta, Juan, Rio Ferdinand, Lucio, Julien Escude, Philip Mexes, Ivan Cordoba, Daniel Jarque are among a group of players that performed very admirably at centre back last year. Emanuel Vidic and Jamie Carragher would count themselves extremely unlucky not to have made my team but I have gone for Gabriel Milito and Ricardo Carvalho because they both had a mammoth…

There are a number of players that have excelled throughout the course of the year. Find out those that made it and those that were considered unlucky not to have made it.

It was with great sadness that I was greeted on Wednesday evening with the news that 1 of the greatest players of all time has severely injured his right knee. Ronaldo of AC Milan is undoubtedly 1 of the greatest players of all time and even after having 2 career-threatening knee injuries in the past, he still went on to score 8 goals in the world cup 2002 and that helped for him to be the top goal scorer in world cup history.

The most successful club in English football are once again looking at another year of being unsuccessful in their attempt to be crowned champions of England. It would now be 18 years since their last success and that is far too long for a club of their status and history to go without success.