Fifty-one female officials received the news they have been working towards for four years; the news that they have been selected to officiate at the FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011. The FIFA Referees Committee, under the chairmanship of Ángel María Villar Llona, has appointed 16 referees, 32 Assistant Referees, and three referees who will [...]
The UEFA Europa League‘s most prolific remaining teams meet in the semi-finals with FC Porto looking to improve on a shaky recent home record against Spanish opponents as Villarreal CF come calling. Previous meetings The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA club competition. Porto have played 34 games against Spanish sides in [...]
Real Madrid will be hoping things happen in threes as they welcome arch-rivals FC Barcelona for the first leg of this eagerly awaited all-Spanish UEFA Champions League semi-final. Madrid have got the better of Barcelona twice before at this stage of the competition en route to lifting the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, in 1960 and [...]
First-time UEFA Champions League semi-finalists FC Schalke 04 welcome Manchester United FC to Gelsenkirchen for the first leg of a contest that has the look of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. For the irresistible force, read a Schalke side with a 100% winning record at home en route to the last four. The [...]
