UEFA Cup
Group Stage Draw and Thoughts
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GROUP A: Ajax Amsterdam – Anderlecht- Dinamo Zagreb- Timisoara
GROUP B: Valenica- Lille OSC – Slavia Prague- Genoa
GROUP C: Hamburg SV- Celtic- Hapoel Tel Aviv- Rapid Vienna
GROUP D: Sporting Lisbon- Heerenveen- Hertha Berlin- Ventspils
GROUP E: AS Roma- FC Basel- Fulham- CSKA Sofia [...]
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Playoff Round: First Leg Results
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I’m currently on vacation and very much out of the regular news loop, although I was able to watch the PSV 4 – Ajax 3 match, and a couple of the Champions League qualifiers on Fox Soccer. At any rate, I have commandeered a laptop and have had a chance to take a [...]
Know Your Minnows: FC Zestaponi
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An 11-1 aggregate score is bound to attract attention, even when it takes place in early Europa League qualifying rounds between two teams that even the most dedicated observers are unfamiliar with. FC Zestaponi, the club that administered this beating to Northern Ireland’s Lisburn Distillery, definitely fits this description.
The amount of background [...]
First Qualifying Round: Second Leg Results
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It’s still rather early in the summer. There are people here in the U.S. still recovering from holiday weekend bottle rocket injuries. Nevertheless, as of today, there are clubs who are out of Europe.
Aggregate scores in parentheses
Sutjeska Niksic 1 – MTZ-RIPO 2 (MTZ-RIPO 3 – Sutjeska Niksic [...]
First Qualifying Round- First Leg Results
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Competitive football returns: in gamecast form for me, visually for luckier individuals.
Sutjeska Niksic 1 – MTZ RIPO 1
Lahti 4 – Dinamo Tirana 1
Grevenmacher 0 – Vetra 3
NSI Runavik 0 – Rosenborg 3
Szombathelyi Haladas 1 – Irtysh 0
Sligo Rovers 1 – Vllaznia 2
Olimpi Rustavi 2 – B36 Torshavn 0
Anorthosis 5 – Kaerjeng 0
Slaven [...]
Random Thoughts on the First and Second Qualifying Rounds
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Even taking UEFA’s excessively long ceremonies for its competition draws into account, no one is going to accuse the early qualifying rounds of the Europa League of vulgar, conspicuous consumption. Although a familiar name pops up now and again, this time of year is the domain of Europe’s minnows, who are ready for their [...]
Europa League to Host Referee Experiments
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If you have not seen Daryl’s entry on the front page, UEFA has declared that their experiments with two extra officials, placed behind the goals, will take place during the Europa League next season.
Any experiment, to move beyond theory, will have to be tested in the real world at some point. Running [...]
Idle speculation about next season.
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With the exception of the Romanian qualifiers, next season’s Europa League teams are now firmly in place. UEFA probably could not be more pleased with the way events have played out. Of course there is the usual mixture of up and coming teams, Metalist Kharkiv is back, for instance, and big names from [...]
Hertha In Europe: Sensible Bites
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Remaining objective about the team you support is one of the great challenges in football. Even if you aren’t writing about it, there’s always the impulse, as a fan, to view every decision against as a grave injustice, to confuse the affection you have for a player with a realistic assessment of his skills. [...]
European Restructuring Part One: The Wealth of Nations
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European competition used to be relatively straightforward. There was the European cup, for domestic champions, the Cup Winners’ Cup, for domestic cup winners and the UEFA Cup, to reward teams that completed a successful league campaign. All three competitions paired teams from an open draw into knock out ties against each other all [...]
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