All 26 Games; Teams Include Brazil , Argentina , Colombia and U.S Among Others

TORONTO – The Copa America tournament kicks off tonight on GOLTV, Canada ’s only 24/7 soccer network.

GOLTV will provide coverage throughout the entire tournament from Venezuela , as some of the world’s best teams vie for the championship title.

Team powerhouses include the defending champions from Brazil , as well as Argentina , Mexico , and the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup winners, USA . (Read full article…)

The 42nd edition of the Copa America kicks off in Venezuela on June 26 with the expectation that something is about to change in South American football. Long neglected by footballing authorities in the region, the competition has undergone something of a transformation in recent years, and this year promises much.

The investment made by the host country is impressive. A lot of money has been put into the country’s transport and communication infrastructure, while a total of three new stadiums have been built to hold the matches.
Indeed, with many of the smaller nations keen to build on some impressive performances in their World Cup Qualifying campaigns, the likes of Paraguay, Mexico and Brazil will all start the competition under new management, so there could be a few surprises.
Below is a team-by-team guide for the competition, which culminates in the final at Maracaibo on July 15. (Read full article…)

This summer’s hottest premiere will take place on the soccer field when international star David Beckham
makes his debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy in July. As Beckham’s arrival in the U.S. nears, the debate on futbol and football begins with New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush swapping the pigskin for a soccerball. Bush traveled to Madrid to show off some of his fancy footwork and teach Beckham a few things about sports culture in the U.S. as an official welcome to the American sports scene.

“Since I signed with the Galaxy, you know every time I do an interview, I’m trying to get myself to say soccer because I’ve always said football,” Beckham told Bush during their meeting in Madrid where the two world-class
athletes traded sports for a day. (Read full article…)

In successfully defending their CONCACAF GOLD CUP TITLE today,
USA Men ARE NOW UNDEFEATED in all these ways

1 - throughout the Gold Cup Tournament
2 - throughout the year 2007
3- since Bob Bradley took over the helm
(first named interim, then head coach)
4- since 2006 FIFA World Cup over one year ago
(most recent loss in any match was the loss to Ghana in WC group stage) (Read full article…)

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With great thanks to “Edgedevan” who put all the clips on YouTube, we are now proud to present “The 101 great goals of season 2006/7” on five videos:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

The full list can be seen here.

There were of course some notable exceptions, which were pointed out in the comments section of the previous post, these are:

Lampard v (Barcelona, Oct. 31), Kaka (v Anderlecht, Nov. 1), Zhirkov (v Hamburg, Dec. 6), Torres (v Osasuna, Jan 9), Van Nistelrooy (v Valencia, Apr.21), Berbatov (v M’Boro, Apr. 28).

Ten other goals from 2006/7 which just missed out on making the list are here.

(In addition, Wojtek Przybylski has emailed from Poland to point out these three goals scored by Adrian Sikora, Marcin Wachowicz and Marcin Malinowski which are well worth a watch.)

Graciously provided by 101GreatGoals.com

We have finally compiled the list of what we consider to be the “101 greatest goals of the season”.

All these goals were featured on this website throughout season 2006/7. For the purposes of this list, the season finished yesterday with the final day of the Spanish season.
(Read full article…)

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Italy U21 0* - Portugal U21 0 (European under-21 championships, June 21, 2007) Italy won 4-3 on penalties to earn a place at next year’s Beijing Olympics. The place was available since England made the semis. Rossi was sent-off for the Italians with fifteen minutes to go of normal time.

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Canada 1 - United States 2 (CONCACAF, Gold Cup, June 21, 2007) The US went 2-0 up with goals from Hejduk and a penalty from Donovan. Hume pulled one back for Canada. (Read full article…)

Please note that GOLTV is the exclusive National home to LIVE coverage of tomorrow’s two CONCACAF Gold Cup Semifinals.

GOLTV’s live coverage will be exclusive to viewers in Ontario , Manitoba , Saskatchewan , Alberta , N.W.T and Nunavut .

GOLTV Broadcast Schedule:

Semfinal #1: Canada vs. USA : LIVE at 7 pm ET / 4 pm PT

Semifinal #2: Mexico vs. Guadeloupe : LIVE at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT

The CONCACAF Gold Cup is up for grabs on Sunday, June 24th at 3:00pm ET. Tune in LIVE to see which country will come out on top after a grueling two weeks of high octane soccer action.

Tournament action doesn’t stop with the Gold Cup. Copa America kicks off LIVE on Tuesday, June 26 at 6:00pm with Uruguay against Peru . The excitement continues at 8:45pm when host country Venezuela takes on a Bolivian team that’s always up for a potential upset. (Read full article…)

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Real Madrid 3 - Mallorca 1 (La Liga, June 17, 2007) One of the finest seasons of league football in living memory kept the Bernabeu (including Tom Cruise and Rafael Nadal) waiting until the last twenty-two minutes to see Madrid come from behind. Madrid went one down with a goal from Valera after seventeen minutes. Capello must take great credit for this win thanks to the introduction of Reyes who scored the equaliser and the third. Diarra scored the second. (In his final game in a Real shirt, Becks went close with a free-kick in each half, an interview with the former England captain can be seen here.) Celebrations can be seen here, here and here.

Gimnastic 1 - Barcelona 5 (La Liga, June 17, 2007) Goals from Puyol, Messi, Ronaldinho, Messi and Zambrotta were not enough for Barca who in truth lost La Liga because of Raul Tamudo and Espanyol. Grahn got the Gimnastic consolation. (Read full article…)