Intertoto Cup
Video: Bohemian 5-1 Rhyl
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The Intertoto Cup has begun, which means that the long hard off-season of European club football (aka late May-Early June) is finally over. And to welcome you back to the UEFA Cup Offside, here’s a less than welcoming performance from Ireland’s Bohemians, who hosted Rhyl of Wales in the first round of the Intertoto [...]
Category: Hey, we’re starting too … oh, nobody cares …
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As the first Champions League matches await, the world is once again focused on the big teams and their quest for the nearly endless pot of money that is the modern European Cup. But, hey, look, what’s that over there? In the shadows, behind the dumpster, back that alley? It’s the UEFA [...]
Sweden’s European Beat-Down, and more…
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It may not seem like it, but going into this big week of European football, with both UEFA Cup and Champions League matches on cue, we’ve already played a lot of European games. In fact, between the three major UEFA tournaments (Intertoto, UEFA Cup and Champions League), there have already been 208 matches played [...]
Eleven Intertoto winners move on to UEFA Cup
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The match results are in, and these are the eleven clubs from the Intertoto Cup moving on to UEFA Cup qualifying:
União Leiria (Portugal)
Sampdoria (Italy)
Atlético Madrid (Spain)
Oţelul Galaţi (Romania)
Tobol Kostanay (Kazakhstan)
Hamburger SV (Germany)
Lens (France)
Rapid Vienna (Austria)
Blackburn Rovers (England)
Hammarby (Sweden)
Aalborg BK (Denmark)
Hammarby are lone first-round Intertoto survivors
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Last season, two first-round Intertoto teams made it all the way through that tournament and into the UEFA Cup: Ethnikos of Cyprus and Maribor of Slovenia. This year, neither of these made it past the second round, and there is only one hero of the minnows this season, Hammarby of Sweden. Although the [...]
Tags: Asian Cup, Europe, Hammarby IF, Intertoto Cup, Iraq, Sweden, Third Round, Tournament News, UEFA CupToday’s video lesson: Don’t clear into the box
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Video from Atletico Madrid 1-0 Gloria Bistrita yesterday. It was a nice attack and cross, and all credit to Diego Forlan for the finish, but to be fair, the ball should have been well handled. After all, two defenders got feet on it. This was a rare mistake from a Gloria team [...]
End of the road for Gloria. Madrid barely survives.
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Well, as Meat Loaf would have said if he was slightly less optimistic, three out of five ain’t bad. I called all the easy ones in today’s Intertoto matches – I just mixed up my Romanian sides. I blame the weeks of constant copying and pasting of the letter “Å£”. Anyway, I [...]
Can the Romanians hold on to Intertoto glory?
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Today, the first five of the eleven UEFA Cup spots will be decided in the Intertoto Cup. Two of the highlight matches feature Romanian clubs who scored big in the first leg, and look to hold on as the tie goes on the road. Gloria Bistriţa is up 2-1 on Atlético Madrid after [...]
Partizan out of UC … what’s next?
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Another week, another European ejection for fan violence. All we need now is one from the Champions League and we’ll have the UEFA Trifecta of Shame, a feat not accomplished in modern football history. Sigh … let’s get down to the details.
I predicted … let me look … “a former Yugo derby that [...]
Video: Atletico Madrid falls to Gloria Bistriţa
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All the goals from the shock of the weekend – Atletico Madrid’s 2-1 loss to Romanian side Gloria Bistrita in the third round of the Intertoto Cup. Gloria has been well-named thus far in the tournament, only making the tournament at all because of the spot made available by Scotland’s withdrawal (Damn you, Elton!). [...]
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