Portugal R-on Their Way: A Closer Look At The World Cup Qualifying Results

Well, I discussed it last week and the results are finally in! The winners of the week’s most exciting UEFA World Cup qualifiers were determined yesterday.

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Who Will Be Booking Their Ticket to Brazil This Week?

Unfortunately for all of us football fans, all domestic leagues are on hold yet again this weekend for International play. Some are just friendlies, but there are still a few juicy world cup qualifiers to look forward to. For UEFA, on Friday, France is playing the Ukraine while Portugal will be matched up against Sweden. Both sides will also meet again on Tuesday to finish up this playoff round. So the question is why am I to be excited about this?

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Clash Of The Titans: Ibrahimovic vs Ronaldo

It's only just dawned on me that one of these two colossuses will miss out on the World Cup next year. What a massive shame to football fans around the world.

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Is Zlatan Ibrahimovic one of football's true greats?

On Wednesday evening, Zlatan Ibrahimovic added another three goals to his already highly impressive collection of strikes. 

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Santi Cazorla and Mesut Ozil - match made in heaven for Arsenal?

Arsenal fans don't usually have a lot to cheer about after an international break, except from the fact that their beloved club returns to action. International breaks usually mean, injuries, injuries and even more injuries. Perhaps broken up by the occasional fatigue factor when players travel as far as the South Americas. Santi Cazorla, for example, often returns from some exotic location or island floating somewhere far away from the comfort of Europe and he also doesn't return until it's too late. 

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European World Cup Qualification – 4 Things to look out for

With England stealing the majority of press coverage as we approach the crunch in European qualification, we look at some of the other key talking points of this final round of group games.

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One way to deal with hooliganism (Video)

Football hooliganism has, thankfully, not been a problem in our country for some years now. Unfortunately, there is still the odd occasion (Milwall at last year's FA Cup semi-final, for example) but on the whole it is generally quite a safe experience going to a football match these days.

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A Look At Sweden's International Longevity

At the age of 37 Anders Svensson became Sweden’s joint most capped player on Friday night – equalling ex goalkeeper Tomas Ravelli on 143 appearances.

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Unbeatable Germans clinch another title

Few periods of dominance in sport can come close the German control over women’s European football, with Sunday’s win over Norway signifying a remarkable sixth straight crown – a run stretching all the way back to 1993.

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Free scoring Swedes set up Germany tussle

It was the semi-final that we were all hoping for and yesterday’s results mean that on Wednesday hosts Sweden will take on five times holders Germany – turning that hope into what promises to be an intriguing reality.

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Sweden arrive at Euro 2013 with thumping win

Given how the Women’s European championships have been embraced by the people of Sweden it was a real disappointed to see their side struggle to live up to the heightened expectation in their opening encounter against Denmark – however any worries that the entire tournament would prove too much were quashed on Saturday night with a thumping win over Finland.

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Looking at the Women's European Championship (Video)

In a few days’ time the Euro 2013 tournament will get under way in Sweden and hopefully England can do better than their male counterparts in the recent U21 and U20 tournaments that have brought so much criticism of the youth football system in this country.

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Women's European Championships - Preview

This month sees the biggest contest in European women’s football take place in Sweden. Many might be quick to knock it but the female game has improved beyond belief over the past decade and this tournament is likely to provide ample evidence of that.

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European World Cup Qualification Round Up - The Winners

Following another night of enthralling qualification action across Europe on Friday, we outline who moved a step further to qualification.

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Can Trappatoni give the perfect parting gift?

Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trappatoni has of late led what many would call a charmed managerial life. Many would have thanked him and said goodnight after what was an occasionally embarrassing Euro 2012 tournament, which ended with no points and only one goal. The FAI saw fit to give him a chance to lead Ireland to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, but can he do it?

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