Djokovic beat Monfils to face Federer in the semi-finals of the Review of the Abu Dhabi Tennis

Stressed the Serbian Novak Djokovic world number one in tennis for a strong return for the new season through the first game in the championship swap reviews of tennis from Abu Dhabi to face the maestro Roger Federer in the semi-finals.
Djokovic managed to qualify at the expense of France's Gael Monfils, ranked sixteenth in the world in the game that was like Balastaradih after defeating two sets to one by 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in about an hour and 35 minutes.
The first group began pressing the clear Djokovic beat France's first post to break him in the game and lead by three runs, and then continued in progress until the Serbian 4-1 result with a few mistakes could end the first set to valid score 6-2 in about 30 minutes.
Email Djokovic at the beginning of the second set to beat for the first time in the game and lose half sent to lead Monfils first-half, and then managed Monfils advances wildly for the first time in the game, and continued to Monfils in progress so as a result of 4-2 conservative on strike to send, and then enable Monfils to win the group second Alastardah score 6-4 to force a separation of the group.
And began the decider and Djokovic to send it to lead the first run in the third set, then went on two players, each maintaining a way to send it until the fifth game equals infinite, but Novak was able in the sixth game of the break points Monfils for the first time in the group to move four games to two, and then enable Aba end of the group and the final score 6-2.
Referred to Federer, Djokovic will meet tomorrow's semi-final of the tournament in the game are expected to interesting profiles Altenseeh a lot of high-end.

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Cup king of Spain could see the face of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the quarter-final

The results of the draw for the 16th King's Cup in Spain before a short timeto face Real Madrid vs Malaga, and Barcelona will face Osasuna Go will be held on 4 Anerpinma return on 11 January, and will meet the winners of these two games in the quarter-final, so it is unlikely to be repeated King's Cup final in Spain last year, again in the quarterfinals, which will be held on January 18 and January 25 round trip.

Here's a list of matches are to:

Córdoba CF - Espanyol Barcelona
CD Mirandés - Racing Santander
Albacete - Athletic Bilbao
Real Sociedad - RCD Mallorca
Valencia CF - Sevilla FC
AD Alcorcón - Levante UD
Real Madrid - Málaga CF
FC Barcelona - CA Osasuna

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French L'Equipe choose Messi "hero heroes"

Chose the newspaper "L'Equipe" French Saturday Lionel Messi FC Barcelona and Argentina to be the "champion of champions" for 2011, beating tennis star Novak Djokovic and world champion for the second year in a row in Formula 1 German Sebastian Vettel.
And confirm the newspaper's front page sports, which led by the star of Argentina: "I have won everything with Barcelona, ​​the goals and great games."
And capped striker tango in 2011 with five titles out of six possible with the Catalans, is La Liga and the Champions League and the Spanish SuperCup, European, and finally the Club World Cup in Japan last week.

It is known that Messi is about to win the Golden Ball award as the bestplayers in the world for the third year in a row, will compete in the final liquidation with the Spanish team mate Xavi Hernandez of Barcelona andCristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid.

Messi got 807 points in a vote of the newspaper's editors, a difference of208 points for Djokovic, world number one, who won three grand slam"Grand Slam" during the past year, and 255 points in front of Vettel's Red Bull team.

Source: Spanish news agency EFE ©

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Di Maria the best playmaker in the world continent

Swept wing Argentine Real Madrid player Angel Di Maria all the gamesmakers continent of Europe because of his personal breathtaking in 2011where he managed de Maria be the best playmaker in the old continentafter 13 assists.

Here are the order of the first five goals makers in the continent of Europefor 2011: 

1 - Angel Di Maria in 14 games, 13 assists passed

2 - David Silva in 15 games, passed 9 assists are critical

3 - Lionel Messi in 16 games passed 8 assists are critical

4 - Mathieu Valbuena in 16 games passed 8 assists are critical

5 - Antonio Cassano in 9 games passed 7 assists are critical

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Ajax apologize for the events in front of Alkmaar

Ajax made a late night on Wednesday apologized for the incidents in the match against AZ Alkmaar, which took place yesterday in the first knockout round of the Cup of the Netherlands for football and that stopped canceled after only 37 minutes from the start.
Ajax and promised to take strict action against a fan who stormed the pitch and attacked the keeper Alkmaar.
 Said Jeroen Slope chief financial Ajax club in a statement posted on its website, "It is disturbing incident in Ajax and we feel very sorry. We offer our apologies. Were handed over to the police is encouraging."
 It was encouraging to have stormed the pitch in the 37th minute of the match which was held in Amsterdam, and assaulted the Costa Rican goalkeeper Esteban Alvarado Alkmaar before falling to the ground and encouraging the guard kicked twice.
The most famous bass Najoas referee red card in the face of Alvarado, which prompted Gert Jan Verbeek AZ Alkmaar coach to order the players leave the pitch and the withdrawal of the game.
The club AZ Alkmaar in a statement that the team is no longer to resume the match because of security concerns.
Raised the sudden stop of the game further clashes outside the stadium, police have used water cannon to disperse the crowd and arrested eight people.
He said that encouraging Slope (19 years), faces a penalty of deprivation for life from entering the Ajax Stadium.
He added that the fan was under the influence of alcohol and that "Alvarado attacked because he does not like."
The ruling said Najoas that he should expel Alvarado is encouraging because it kicked twice after falling on the pitch, and Frank de Boer expressed his coach Ajax sympathy with the guard.
 De Boer said, "Ariane Esteban (Alvarado) was attacked and defended himself. I do not know how you will respond (if exposed to it) but I understand the nature of a player belonging to the South American continent."
The face is also encouraging criminal charges along with the expected sanctions by the club, whereas the Dutch Federation of the game to decide one of three choices, either declared the winner Ajax Ballqa 1 - zero or complete the match or replay.

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Real Madrid close to Mario Fernandez

The newspaper "Marca" that the Spanish team Real Madrid seeks to contract with the club Gremio back Brazilian Mario Fernandez during thewinter break.

And Fernandez (born in Sao Caetano 1990) playing at right-back, and was favored by Mourinho, apparently to consolidate this position in his team isconvinced the club president Florentino Perez, and it seems that the transition process has become a matter of time. As for the contract valueThe amount paid by the club is 15 million euros, but Gremio president PauloOdona announced that the price of the player was 20 million euros and "do not intend to sell for less than that."

Fernandez is characterized by a length and stature (1.90 cm) and his visionof the stadium and tactical discipline.

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Atletico Madrid confirms the dismissal of coach Gregorio Manzano

Confirmed Atletico Madrid football on Thursday sacked coach GregorioManzano for poor results.

He explained that the club is looking for a new coach to replace Manzanoand Argentine Diego Simeone is the leading candidate to take over thistask.

The club, in a statement issued today, "Executive Committee met clubAtletico Madrid on Thursday to discuss the sport and decided unanimouslydismissed Gregorio Manzano's first team coach at the club. Manzano has already told the club's decision to terminate his contract."

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Kaka, AC Milan will not forget after

Despite improvement in the level of Brazilian and Real Madrid player Kakain recent times, but stay away from the player the star hopes Real Madrid at the signing with him as he was with AC Milan, for this reason, keep the dooropen for his departure, and despite some reports which indicated that RealMadrid offer for sale in the past, but no club is estimated to provide 45 million euros requested by Florentino Perez.

Milan is still thinking of hiring a midfielder Real Madrid and not to forget, in fact, declared the President of AC Milan, Silvio Berlusconi, in an interview with Allajazeta that the return of Kaka of AC Milan will be sooner or later, the player did not find a place with Real Madrid and was welcomed by the bestin the Italy, but can not say for sure anything and everything can happen, andthe last word remains to Mourinho.

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Juventus wants to lead

All eyes on Wednesday to meet with leaders Juventus Udinese away when they meet at the "Friuli" in the first phase of the Italian league, which was postponed due to strike by the players at the beginning of the season.
And hope Juventus to enter the holiday season is in the lead by himself in on Sunday, and maintained their unbeaten record by winning at home to wounded Novara 2 - zero, taking advantage of the end face of the summit between Udinese and away to Lazio in a 2-2 draw in the sixth stage ten.
Juventus were giving up the lead Saturday to the interest of AC Milan champions after winning the last at home to Siena 2 - zero as well, but the team "old lady" reaffirmed readiness to regain his position among the top and win his first title since 2003, and the twenty-eighth in its history (a record) topping again two points for the team "Allombardi" and four for Udinese and Lazio.
Will be the task team coach Antonio Conte, easy to maintain unbeaten record to match the seventeenth consecutive (one in the domestic cup), but he succeeded so far in all the tests that fought against rivals adults as they beat AC Milan 2 - zero in the home and Inter Milan 2-1, Lazio 1 - zero outside the home, in addition to the draw with Napoli Roma 3-3, and 1-1 away from the audience.
The team hopes the "old lady" to repeat the result of his recent visit to the stadium, "Friuli" When I came out the winner ice cool in the first leg last season before it is equally Udinese win at Torino 2-1.
It would be Milan Mitrbesa to arch-rivals to end the year in the lead, which solves in turn, on Tuesday, travel to Cagliari, who lost to rival Allombardi in the last five matches between the two, note that the title holder has not had a taste of defeat at home to only twice out of 32 showdown between the two so far (20 wins and 10 draws) and back again to the first of June 1997 and 18 October / October 1998.
For his part, plays Wednesday at home to Lazio, Chievo, will meet in Naples, who suffered their second defeat of the fans, and fourth this season and came at the hands of the other pole of the capital Rome score 1-3, at home to Genoa.
The Inter Milan, who benefited from the fall of Naples to climb to fifth place, hoping to continue their revival at the expense of home to bottom club Lecce.
The Inter beat Cesena away yesterday on a single goal scored by Andrea Ranocchia, to bring the team coach Claudio Ranieri, the third consecutive victory and seventh this season to score 23 points in fifth place, taking advantage of the loss of Naples and Palermo fall away to zero -2.
In other games, plays Tuesday with Fiorentina, Siena, Atalanta and Wednesday with Cesena, with Rome and Bologna, Parma and Catania, and Palermo with Novara.

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Ranieri: Inter fans happy team

Considered the artistic director of Inter Milan, Claudio Ranieri is happy that the team began their fans again in the period
Recent results have improved after the start of this disappointing season.

Ranieri said at a news conference Tuesday, "I think our fans a happy team.They see the players are making a great effort. We have lost several games this season in our home but we are determined that we shall not be subject to loss in the San Siro."

Inter and achieved victory in the last three Serie A matches, to take his tallyto 23 points in fifth place and stay late, ten points behind league leadersJuventus.


On the other hand, Ranieri denied press reports that spoke of the approaching departure of Argentine striker Diego Milito from Inter ranks, saying "He's very important for me."

Ranieri also praised the presence of Dutch playmaker Wesley Sneijder in the ranks of the Nerazzurri, indicating that it gives to artistic touches on the team. .

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Champions League Draw

Everyone is waiting eagerly and events draw for the last sixteen of the Champions League and declare that tomorrow o'clock GMT wishes whereevery fan of a team with the discount is relatively easy, there is no easyopponent roles developed
The first level teams: Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Bayern Munich, Chelsea,Arsenal, Apoel, Benfica, Inter Milan

Second-level teams: Naples, CSKA Moscow, Basel, Lyon, BayernLeverkusen, Marseille, Zenit, Milan

This stage, teams play the first level leg out of the ground, and does notmeet teams from the same country

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Fabregas: We're not scared of Real Madrid want to win

Said Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona TV channel some of the statements about the game exciting Clasico Santiago BernabeuStadium, which will bring together rivals Real Madrid back 3 points with a game in hand and Barcelona runner-up, which does not have games in hand ....

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.Di Maria best assist balls in La Liga

The International Federation FIFA and in partnership with the French magazine France Football on the final list and nominated for the prize ballof> flame and the best player in the world for 2011 and limited the award tothe three players Cristiano Ronaldo from Real Madrid in addition to Xaviand Messi from Barcelona ...

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OFFICIAL: Xavi, Messi and Ronaldo for the Golden Ball

The International Federation FIFA and in partnership with the French magazine France Football on the final list and nominated for the prize ballof>

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Mourinho and Ferguson and Guardiola candidates for the best coach in the world 2011

Also announced the final list for the best coach in the world for 2011 and that have been adopted since the last season and got his first copy of the Portuguese Mourinho was the announcement of the names of the trainers of the three candidates for this award did not come out the names of the expected names ...

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