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Golden Ball 2010: The French magazine France Football has publicly issued the list of 23 candidates for the Golden Ball for 2010 FIFA as the best football player in the calendar year now ending. For the first time the Golden Ball will be unique by combining the old trophy of the FIFA World Player (which [...]

World Cup June 12: probably it is not the big match of the stage group of the World Cup, but England – USA is the first big test for the team coached by Fabio Capello, who is considered a front runner for the victory of the World Cup, and the USA who always did well [...]

Football Argentina: do you remember Captain Tsubasa? Do you remember the twin shot? Do you remember the way in which the twins used to score? Well, two players of Gimnasia la Plata showed that it is not impossible to score in that way. During the match between Gimnasia la Plata and Boca Juniors two players, [...]

We inaugurate a new column of the blog called "Recommended by CaP" (Calcio al Pallone), in which we will publish blogs found by the visitors. We start with "Rolling-Balls", a very original blog, starting from the title. Rolling-Balls is a blog about all the strange news related to the Soccer's world. Example: did you know [...]

Calcio al Pallone wish to all the readers Happy Easter! We are closer to the next World Cup in South Africa (only 2 months) and to the final of the UEFA Champions League 2010. Check in our Archive for the history of the World Cup. FB.init(“3c4f820831769d880115a2e4f2e6e68e”);

During the last match of the Liga, Barcelona beated Zaragoza for 4-2. Three of the 4 goals realized by the Barça have been scored by Lionel Messi, without any doubt the currently best player in the World. La Pulga from Argentina scored the hattrick in three different ways: the first by head; the second stealing [...]

2010 Africa Cup of Nations: … win the 2010 CAF with the final result of Egypt-Ghana 0-0. Top Scorer of the tournament is Mohamed Nagy, alias Geddo with 5 goals. After an unusual boring first half, the second half starts with a different approach by both teams. Ghana weaked the defensive approach and started to [...]

2010 Africa Cup of Nations: after the end of the first half the partial result of Egypt-Ghana is 0-0. Top Scorer of the tournament at the moment is Mohamed Nagy, alias Geddo with 4 goals. At the Estádio 11 de Novembro of Luanda (Angola) Egypt and Ghana played the final of the 27th edition of [...]

Premier League, week 24: the “blues” defender and captain of the English national team scores the victory gol versus Burnley for 2-1. Manchester United and Arsenal will face tomorrow in a match that worth the second place. Chelsea – Burnley 2-1: most taught that the Terry‘ scandal of these days would create some problem to [...]

This video has been selected by ESPN as one of the “Turkeys of the Year“. It has always been common in soccer to find the way to distract the player that has to strike the penalty. From strange movements, to hypnotic Jersey, these tricks never worked. The last one, and probably one of the most [...]

November 27th will be a special day to buy what you need. The Black friday after thanksgiving is a great opportunity to buy online clothes and sport apparel. Here some special deals from Amazon: Adidas Apparel 1. Adidas Men’s Absolado PS TRX Firm Ground Soccer Cleat 2. The Ball is Round: A Global History of [...]

Christmas is coming, it’s time for christmas’ gifts. If you are planning to buy a gift to someone who likes, or is obsessed by soccer, there are a lot of things you can choose. We made a list of the best gift related to soccer in the market. The top of them are definitely the [...]

Apertura Tournament, Argentinian championship: in the match between Boca Juniors and Veleza Sarsfield for the 7th day of the championship, Martin Palermo Boca’s striker, scored a spectacular gol with head by 40 meters. This is a record for Martin Palermo that sometimes uses to score from 40 meters, but only by foot. This is definitely [...]

Is it true that a lot of football players from all around the world are getting carried away by the poker mania. The Liverpool’s goalkeeper Pepe Reina and the english player Teddy Sheringham joined the Ante Up For Africa, where they have raised 260,000 euros. However also two players, very well known from the italian [...]

Whatever he does, Maradona is at the centre of media’s attention, and not always in a positive manner. After the strong critics to his absence at an Argentinian National Team meeting, in order to point out the problems of the team (whose qualification for the 2010 World Cup is at risk), Pelè disputes his role: [...]

Ronaldo is going to be a film’s protagonist. The Fenomeno, actually forwarder in Corinthians (former Real Madrid, Inter, AC Milan e Barcelona), is going to act in a movie, produced by the Iranians Mansur Sohrabpour and Mohammad Latif, who is going to be shot in autumn in Lebanon. The movie is about the true story [...]

TIM Trophy 2009: Juventus wins the trophy that is also an important test for Inter, Juventus and Milan, waiting that the Serie A starts. The matches that took place in Pescara (Abruzzo) this year. Juventus won the TIM Trophy 2009. The team from Turin won the first match versus Inter for 7-6 at penalties. Then, [...]

Friendly matches: Internazionale FC defined the official calendar of friendly matches for summer in order to prepare the new championship 2009/2010. Internazionale FC is going to play a tour in the USA (which include a derby with AC Milan). The next August 8th will be in China for a match versus Lazio for the Supercoppa [...]

Friendly matches: Milan defined the official calendar of friendly matches for summer in order to prepare the new championship 2009/2010. Several matches are scheduled for the AC Milan with the new Coach Leonardo; they will meet the big of European Football like Chelesea and Bayern Munich. At the end of August there will be a [...]

Friendly matches summer: the 2009 edition of the famous TIM trophy will be organized in Abruzzo with the aim to help the earthquake victims. The ninth edition of the TIM trophy will be played the next August 14th 2009 at the Adriatico Stadium in Pescara. As usual, the teams involved are Inter, Milan and Juventus [...]

Under 21 European Championship Sweden 2009: Italy wins against Belarus for 2-1 in the last match of this phase and gets the qualification for the semi-finals of the tournament. Italy – Belarus: at Helsingborg, Casiraghi must do without Balotelli, squalified; the TM chooses on his place Abate. The start is excellent. In the first half [...]

UEFA European U-21 2009 Championship: in the first game for the Italian team in this competition, the young players coached by Casiraghi finish the game 0-0 against Serbia. Italy-Serbia: at Helsingborg Casiraghi choose an offensive Italy. The forwards are Giovinco, Acquafresca e Balotelli. After 10 minutes Giovinco tries a good shot, deviated in corner. Serbia [...]

Thanks to a goal of Jadson in the first of the two overtimes, the Shakhtar beats the Werder Bremen and wins the last UEFA Cup. Istanbul: 2-1 is the final result of the last UEFA Cup final. Shaktar wins the cup, beating the Werder Bremen thanks to a goal during the overtime. The Ukrainian team [...]

The Juventus club dismissed Claudio Ranieri. The news is now official. The team is entrusted to Ciro Ferrara. It was already known that the team didn’t renew Claudio Ranieri as coach of Juventus for the next year. However everybody thank that he should finish all the season at the team. The last bad results (Sunday [...]

Premier League: the Manchester United, thanks to a 0-0 against Arsenal, wins the title of English Champion for the third time in a row. The Red Devils, coached by Alex Ferguson, wins for the third year consecutive the National Title, realizing the “Triple”. With this victory, Manchester reaches the Liverpool with 18 championship won. The [...]