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This is where it will happen:300bestplayersintheworld.blogspot.com/First installment of the list is now up.

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LATEST UPDATE:9. December:Well I'm getting closer.I have the 300 best players in the world ordered and ready to go. Every player profile has been "transfered" to their new home. That took way longer than I had expected, but now many of them have been updated as well. Once everyone have been updated The 300 is ready to go and I'll provide the final details. Including some (hopefully nice)

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2010/2011 team previews:MilanNext we have:ChelseaIn a 2009/10 season that had seen the other members of the big four lose key players, Chelsea were in my opinion from very early on by a good margin the best team in the league and should probably (also with their goal difference in mind) have won more comfortable than they ended up doing.There were definitely stumbling along the way. Losing an

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Delayed, but better late than never, here the first of my early season fashionable late team previews/reports and it is none other than AC Milan.Next should be either Chelsea or Roma. Maybe Real Madrid! Whatever gets me going I guess...Will also take suggestions. Preferably from these though (my list):Bayern MünchenNapoliReal MadridBarcelonaRomaParmaLeverkusenValenciaAtletico

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At last I reach the top 50.Unfortunately as announced earlier I didn't have any much time to update the list during August and the time I have now as I've also said I want to use instead (transfer window closed and all) writing some fashionable late team reports/previews on what's still the new season.So definitely not a massive Serie A preview team by team report like last year but rather do

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I'm currently writing on an entry that will be the last one before some different entries with the aforementioned promised team reports/previews of the new season.In the meantime though, with the transfer deadline closing in fast, here is a list of all the players on my list (so far) who have since changed clubs:Alberto Zapater from Genoa to Sporting LissabonNicola Zigic from Valencia to

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I'm tempted to write some team reports with thoughts about various clubs for the upcoming season instead... but yes I should wait and I will until the transfer window is closed. Even if that means clubs will have played already. That should only improve the reports anyway.So on with the list instead we go and this did get pretty long rather than my original intent of getting down the list maybe

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This one got a little delayed unfortunately but other than that not much to say other than I hope to have the next update posted some time tomorrow. Maybe just maybe reach the top 50 even. We shall see.Introduction to the list200 - 101 (and every writeup+honorary mentions) 100 - 95100: Jose Bosingwa - Chelsea - Portugal99: André-Pierre Gignac - Toulouse - France98: Andrés Guardado - Deportivo La

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List is finally back!The new goal (optimistic as always since this will require non stop blogging) is now to finish this (or at least get to the very top) around the 12th of August and then probably around the end of August start some previews of the upcoming season.Not like last season entirely with the focus on for an example Serie A but more on different clubs in different leagues.Then I

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It was a dramatic last round of the group stages. One that had both very good and very bad games.I watched on a couple of TVs simultaneously, which especially with some groups were very exciting but for the specific purposes of this particular exercise it wasn't all good since it resulted in some very divided or other times very one sided attention. Some matches I watched paying nearly 100

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Another round of fixtures gone and another "best of" team from me.This time much harder selections to make with many more eye catching performances than in the opening games.Round 1:1st team2nd teamRound 2:First team:Gk: Diego Benaglio - SwitzerlandRb: Jorge Fucile - UruguayCb. Diego Lugano - UruguayCb: Lucio - BrazilLb: Carlos Salcido - MexicoMf: Rafael Marquez - MexicoMf: Raul Meirelles -

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1st teamAnd here is the 2nd team:Goalkeeper:Tim Howard - USAHe didn't make any mistakes and had many good saves in a game where his team was under a lot of pressure. Just not quite as difficult ones, or as many I don't think, as Enyema in the Nigeria goal.Another candidate was Swiss keeper Benaglio but overall I thought the other two prevented more clear chances.Left-back:Siaka Tiene - Ivory

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No the list isn't dead but any hope of finishing it before the World Cup obviously is...Right now I'm living and breathing the World Cup 24/7 so realistically I don't know how likely new list entries will indeed be. Probably not all that likely to be honest.I might write something about the World Cup though, but already do plenty on forums or blogs...But what I will and can do (right now) with

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Unfortunately I got a little stuck with this entry when I came to the final central defenders to appear on the list.I went back and forth in my head, if this was really right, the highest ranked at 77, and had to revisit and think harder about my original ideas for ranking them the way I have. Hopefully it makes some sense at least. I'm sticking with it anyway! So yeah, that rambling is in the

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Pretty big update with hopefully more to come in the coming days.The 92 - 86 players were really hard to put in order, and sometimes compare, so I changed my mind several times (and probably will again).The first player in the next update, ranked 82, is possibly the one who's suffered the biggest drop of anyone and was around top 30 early on.Hmmm now I kind of wish I had kept track of every

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No wonder this is taking so long. Loosely I'm at 56 thousand writeup words and that's not including this entry or all the list recaps beginning each entry.I do believe that's a lot pages if this was say a manuscript. As much as 200 plus. I really had no idea I had written that much.Anyway here we go with some more, it's the top 100 at last:Introduction to the list200 - 101 (and every writeup+

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The 200 - 101 ranked players:New order200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194-193194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - Ukraine192-189192: Theo Walcott - Arsenal -

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With this entry I've finally reached the top 100 and when I look at all the players to come all I see are writeups that I can't wait to write and individual rankings that I'm mostly pretty happy with.The last thing is the most important. Countless of times this has been delayed by me instead of doing writeups preferring to waste hours messing with the order. No more of that!Surely this will be

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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah and I had such a good run going, maybe even good enough to finish before the World Cup, then things not entirely inexplicable came to a halt and now I'm way late. I just can't give up though!Must keep going...MUST!Anyway don't call it a comeback, but here is another cool entry:Introduction to the listThe list:New order200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa -

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Another day another update.Introduction to the listThe list:Introduction to the list200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194-193194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München -

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For once these writeups were done pretty quickly and I can just about smell the top 100 now.I haven't even done any real adjustments to the list in a while so no hours wasted on that either.Expect another update tomorrow.Introduction to the listThe list:New order200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio -

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Introduction to the listThe list:New order200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194-193194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - Ukraine192-189192: Theo Walcott - Arsenal -

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This without a doubt is the entry featuring the highest average age.Introduction to the listThe list:New order200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194-193194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij

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Time for some new order:The 200-151 revisited:200: Theo Walcott - Arsenal - England199: Lorik Cana - Sunderland - Albania198: Sergei Semak - Rubin Kazan - Russia197: Ezequiel Lavezzi - Napoli - Argentina196: Carlton Cole - West Ham - England195: Diego Capel - Sevilla - Spain194: Shaun Wright Phillips - Manchester City - England193: Cristian Zapata - Udinese - Colombia192: Kolo Toure - Manchester

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No marathon writeups in this update and I'm just itching to get to the top 100. I can feel it!The list:200-195200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194-193194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk -

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Another update featuring not least 5 Argentinians sharing one ranking, and no that won't happen again.There will be a couple of more spots shared by two players and then in the top 100 it's all one player per spot. I swear!That five player shared spot took quite a bit of time to write and it also includes all kind of talks about Argentina and Messi, so the following writeups are a little

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The 200-150 rankings saw so many changes and running adjustment that looking at it now some of the order almost hurts my eyes...To take it from the start, Sergio Ramos and Sergio Busquets are the first couple of players I did injustice.Ramos and the various reasons for and against I already discussed at length in his write up but the combination of perhaps exaggerating against a little bit too

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This update has the final couple of South American central defenders to even make the list and then another South American to whom defending doesn't even exist. Or shouldn't exist perhaps.Interestingly there aren't even that many central defenders left to come and I have the usual trouble seeing significant difference in quality when comparing them so the inevitable gaps between them occupied by

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It's back!Look forward to (or don't/no please do) to plenty of updates this month.Well since the list was away I have of course changed my mind, discovered or rediscovered tons of players, so there have been plenty of alterations. I touch upon this in one of the writeups as well...For the time being though I'm very satisfied with the upcoming placements (the previous ones in some cases are a

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I actually started writing on a season so far update but got kinda stuck so instead here comes the list again.Also, I've done some counting andplayers on the list playing in:EPL: 59La Liga: 43 (It feels low when you compare to EPL and Serie A, but they do crush when it comes to top 20, 50 and 100 too I think, where they have the most players)Serie A: 44 (There probably is some unintentional

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In between these updates I really want to make a follow up to the Season so far entry that focused on England (which is looking really interesting this year btw), as well as some kind of half season review of at least some of the other leagues.So yeah, stay tuned to see if I eventually get around to that.But on with the list:First the Introduction (zzz) to the list.And as usual the list so far:

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Introduction to the list.The list so far:200-195194-193192-189188187-185184-182181-177176-173173-170200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München -

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Three more players.Again relatively short writeups.Instead of the Semak's of the world getting all the words and all the space, I guess I'm now saving it for the Xavis and the Kakas instead.Introduction to the list.The list so far:200-195194-193192-189188187-185184-182181-177176-173200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197:

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Hey the list is back!Finally.The goal is a lot more updates at least until Christmas where things inevitably will be delayed some.Certainly I can't wait to reach top 100 where the players chosen and their placings have been much more set unlike the 100-200 ranked players where I find myself constantly changing things up.Anyways here is the update:Introduction to the list.The list so far:200-

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Introduction to the list.The list so far:200-195194-193192-189188187-185184-182200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - Ukraine192: Theo Walcott

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Introduction to the list.The list so far:200-195194-193192-189188187-185200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - Ukraine192: Theo Walcott -

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The list so far:200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - Ukraine192: Theo Walcott - Arsenal - England191: Aaron Ramsey - Arsenal - Wales190:

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One more before the Champions League games start. More later tonight.188:Alberto Aquilani - Liverpool - ItalyMidfielderInjury problems throughout his career and barely having played yet this season is what keeps him this low.But he has more than enough ability I feel to still make the list.Aquilani is a very complete midfielder who while not as good defensively as defensive midfielders per se

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The list so far:200: Alberto Zapater - Genoa - Spain199: Nikola Zigic - Valencia - Serbia198: Sergio Ramos - Real Madrid - Spain197: Lucio - Inter - Brazil196: John Obi Mikel - Chelsea - Nigeria195: Sergio Busquets - Barcelona - Spain194: Philippe Mexes - Roma -France193: Anatolij Tymoshchuk - Bayern München - UkraineAnd it continues with:192:Theo Walcott - Arsenal - EnglandWing - ForwardLike

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A couple more. More coming up194:Philippe Mexes - Roma - FranceDefenderFor many years now Mexes has been one of the most talented central defenders in the world.When it comes to natural ability he pretty much has it all.He is very athletic and good technically with nice ball control and a vision still intact from his earlier days playing as a sweeper.I will say that some years ago he wasn't

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And so it slowly begins!By the way feel very free to comment about anything and you could even do your own rankings as I go along!Like for an example, of these five players who do you think is the best?THEY ALL SUCK!Ah I see.Anyway, here is my long awaited first take (of many):200 :Alberto ZapaterCentral midfielder - Genoa - SpainZapater makes the list because he has no real weaknesses. He is a

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Football journalist Gabriel Marcotti (one of the best it should be said) made this rather unfortunate list back in 2007. It's not as good as mine will be and much shorter, settling on "just" 50 players.But I did like his introduction and agree with most of it and it seems relevant to my list as well: When my editor suggested putting together a list of the top 50 players, I greeted it with a

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A follow up to the season so far focusing on teams from Spain and Italy is in on the way but I want to wait until after the midweek games from Serie A, where especially tonight's game between early front runners Sampdoria, and struggling to find their way, though heavily enforced, Juventus, looks very interesting.In the meantime I'm working on something as simple as a list! Quite simply a list of

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Time to take an in depth look at what I've watched so far of football this season.After the very very time consuming Serie A preview I don't think it' a bad idea to start somwhere else entirely. So let's start in Engerland (england engerland)!Top of the table we find Chelsea who is off to an impressive start.I already wrote quite a bit about Chelsea after the first few games I watched them play

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Finally the final installment! Meaning I can now, in hopefully not too long, proceed to talk about some of the games I watched this weekend.Here are the previous parts:Part 1: Milan, Atalanta, Bari, Bologna, Cagliari and CataniaPart 2: Chievo, Fiorentina and GenoaPart 3: InterPart 4: JuventusPart 5: Lazio, Livorno, Napoli and PalermoThe Roma part of this preview was written some days ago and of

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So I'm currently finishing the Serie A preview.I have just done Parma, Roma and Sampdoria which means only three teams to go! Finally.I have of course also watched some football and will do so tomorrow as well.The plan is to post thoughts about, if not all, then definitely some of the games I've been watching. Whether that will start late sunday after everything is done or maybe monday, I'm not

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It continues (still in alphabetical order) and not just with one team this time.LAZIO:Just when this team on paper was starting to shape up rather nicely again, highlighted by a Coppa Italia win last season, conflict arrives and there is currently a situation where three (good) players are left out of the squad because of dispute.De Silvestri, plus recent key players Pandev and Ledesma are all

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JUVENTUS:For the first time since rejoining Serie A Juventus has a realistic chance of the scudetto.But a lot of things have to go right and very things wrong.The transfer campaign has been promising. Brazilian star playmaker Diego has joined and he instantly becomes one of the best players in the league.One who was that last year was his compatriot Felipe Melo. Joining from Fiorentina he is a

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INTER:Inter has been a very easy team to predict and break down for quite a few years now.This year however it looks a lot more difficult and I'm not really sure what will happen which I'm sure this preview will reflect.For starters. removing Ibrahimovic from this team spells huge change and the right tactical adjusments are very needed but what they'll actually be I'm not sure about at

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Btw I've added a "worth watching player" for every team in part I.Still in alphabetical order:CHIEVO:The flying donkeys are still around. People in Verona still prefer... Well Verona, and captain Sergio Pellisser is still the best player.Coach Di Carlo or maybe rather the club apparently have ambitions of securing Euro League play for the club.If so, then some of the many draws from last season

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The above is the legendary intro to legendary Channel 4 program Football Italia presented by James Richardson who gave Serie A to the UK in the 90s, but must also have been used here where I'm from one way or the other, for one of our Serie A shows, since I'm quite certain I remember seeing it, and being from Denmark I've never watched neither Channel 4 or Football Italia.Anyway I thought it

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Three matches I want to talk about.The Manchester City-Blackburn game that I watched at the weekend and forgot about in the last entry.A very entertaining Berlusconi Cup game between Juventus and AC Milan yesterday.And finally the Champions League qualifier that finished a few hours ago between Celtic and Arsenal.How much will be about the actual games and how much will be about the individual

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This weekend I was never home and my sporting viewing experience suffered somewhat because of it.Some things that could have been watched on tv had to be watched online and some things that was watched online could have been watched in better quality!Oh well it wasn't that bad but a nice reminder of why as a devoted sports addict I should always try and stay at home even moreso than I do already!

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So the european football season has now finally begun!About time too after weeks and weeks of crazy transfer rumors and even crazier transfers has left me starving for actual action.So naturally this weekend I watched a lot!Things started of very slow with the second half of the Italian Super Cup. And on what was a crappy stream I'm not sure how much I have to offer there about the game itself

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Today was a great day for the team I spend the most time watching in any sport, the Atlanta Braves.They FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY! Got rid of Jeff Francoeur aka failcore aka the human out machine.It's hard to put into words the agony and frustration it has been watching him day in and day out the last couple of years. He has been one of the worst major leaguers for a while now, yet there he was on

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It was yet another epic Wimbledon final and Andy Roddick was closer than ever to victory.He started of by serving great and apart from little dips in first serve percentage here and there he managed to do so throughout.And even when his first serve percentage at times dropped he still survived and despite putting him to the test numerous times Federer just was not able to break.Just tremendous

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One of my all time favorite moments in sport was Goran Ivanisevic's amazing Wimbledon victory in 2001.It was his fourth final and at least twice he had been desperately close.In 1992 where he beat both Edberg and Sampras along the way, he succumbed in a very close 5 setter to Andre Agassi in the final.With his huge serve and a game seemingly made for this era's game on grass I think most people

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So this is the aforementioned giant (check) list of various all time favorite people in sports.If I eventually get around to make entries about even half of these all very deserving people I'll be satisfied, but for now here is just the list itself.Tomorrow the goal is to have some Roddick-Federer Wimbledon final preview stuff.Maybe some Tour de France "prologue" thoughts (it's too long to be an

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I wil admit that I didn't think Roddick would ever reach another grand slam final.And in the post match interview a few hours ago, after brilliantly beating the much favored Andy Murray, he strongly hinted that following last season, he didn't even think so himself, but after deliberation with swimsuit-model-wife Brooklyn Decker, decided making a full commitment:Q. You said when you came off the

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And hopefully this 2nd run will be much longer than the original.The plan is to follow especially soccer/football season very close but until then I'm not sure what to write about exactly.Any requests? Be it something current or something in the past?Right now I am of course following the transfer market which is very busy to say the least, and I'm of course watching Wimbledon as well.I'm

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So much has happened since my last entry that I'm not sure where to start even.Well as I predicted in my last entry Russia beat Holland, and then what I unfortunately didn't make an entry about, but which I also predicted, Spain then beat Russia.Both of these games were really good examples of how it's not only in boxing but very often in football as well, that styles make fights. A great example

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Holland have played the best so far.Holland have the best allround midfield in the competion.Russia will beat Holland.WAT?Playing Russia will be a shock almost and so completely different from the matches they've played so far. What worked so brilliantly for Holland against teams like Italy and France won't work as well against Russia.Only Spain pass the ball around better than Russia and I'm not

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To follow up from the last entry, of course Germany DID rebound and put in a similar performance of fussball to what we saw when they hosted the World Cup.Lots of pressure on the opponent. Especially in the beginning they overran Portugal and throughout the game it was evident just how much physically stronger Germany were on almost every position. Portugal came back though and are just too good

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No!But I wish!By the way this should be the shortest entry so far because this is really just meant to stress that for a true sports addict, sundays are simply the best and that today certainly was a great example of it.AND if this blog continues for a while, which is the plan, it's what's happening on these sundays which will likely be a major part of the content.The other side of the coin is

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The tournament is just flying by and recapping everyday, while actually watching the games and while doing other things, is not something I've been quite able to do, so instead here and I think in the next few entries as well, are general thoughts on what has happened so far.First of all we just watched Holland take France apart. That's seven goals now in two matches against the two best

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In the coming days I will be touching a great deal upon different tactics for different teams during EURO 2008.In my last post I was slamming Croatia for their very poor and I think very dated tactics used against Austria.To see where I'm sort of coming from, before I go into these things even further in future matches, I think it's a good idea, kind of as an introduction, to post some things I

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HE IS NOT WEARING ANY CLOTHES!Yes that is the very peculiar feeling this game left me with.But first things first. Croatia started like you would expect.Looking quite dominant against, host nation or not, what's been widely predicted to be by far the weakest team in the competition.FIFA world rankings are usually something very useless and should always be taken with a grain of salt, but being

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First of all, just to get it out of the way, YES I am totally addicted to sports and have been ever since the tender age of about six or seven years old.That's obviously quite a long time ago now and a lot of that time have been spent, some might say wasted, but eff them, watching and thinking sports.Through those years I've followed a great number of sports. Some closer than others and some

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