Spanish club Valencia CF have announced the dates of their upcoming United States pre-season summer tour. The club will embark on an ambitious world tour, visiting Japan, Jamaica, the United Kingdom and the United States in an attempt to expand their international presence. US dates listed below:
July 31st: Philadelphia Union in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
August 3rd: [...]

The season long two-horse race between PSV Eindhoven and Twente Enschede may have just added another contender.  An emphatic 4-1 win over PSV now puts Ajax Amsterdam within a point of it biggest rival.  As well, Ajax is just six points from Twente and the Eredivisie’s top spot.
With seven matches to go this season, six points will [...]

For a day, anyway, talk of the decline of Italian football will be put to rest.

Inter Milan’s 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge Tuesday eliminated one of the presumed favorites, and provided a needed boost for a league that was suffering under the European failures of Juventus, AC Milan and Fiorentina.
Not surprisingly, it was Samuel Eto’o [...]

The Turkish Football Federation will have a decision to make this week.  As discussed in last week’s Turkish Football Weekly podcast, Diyarbakirspor had a match abandoned in the week before last against Bursaspor.  Now with that having already been discussed, what happened this week would be even more shocking.  Diyarbakirspor had already had one match [...]

Six teams changed place on the weekend, and FC Schalke finally claimed top spot in the table. Though they only held it for 24 hours, it shows the intensity of the battle for the Bundesliga title this season.

As the season nears its end,  the race for the Ligue 1 title mirrors a summer festival lineup. Are Auxerre and Montpellier opening acts – doing their best to gear up the crowd despite waning interests on a scorching day – only for headliners Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux to take center stage [...]

So, what now for Real Madrid?
Los merengues were on top of the football world Sunday morning, having come back from a 2-0 second half deficit to defeat Sevilla, 3-2, at the Santiago Bernabeu Saturday night.
Less than two hours before Rafael van der Vaart poked in the injury time game-winner, Barcelona was held to a 2-2 [...]

This week on Turkish Football Weekly: Ata and Bugra discuss the week’s results, go into detail on the events at last Saturday’s Diyarbakirspor-Bursaspor match, the background behind the events that took place, and it’s abandonment. Chris Riordan of the Russian Football Now podcast stops by to discuss the three Turkish players currently playing in the [...]

PSV Eindhoven players surrounded the match official arguing the fall of its own, Dirk Marcellis, after suddenly finding itself down 2-1 with 18 minutes to play. 
Panic struck the faces of the Eindhoven faithful when a 72nd minute quick free-kick by NAC Breda’s Tom van der Leegte found Robbert Schilder, who held off Marcellis, in route to [...]

FC Schalke took hold of second place in the table, and Bayer 04 Leverkusen suffered their first loss of the season to fall to third.