Premier League first round goals
In first round on Premier League 2008-2009 season were 32 goals scored. Most goals were scored in Aston Villa vs Man City 4-2, 5 goals in Everton vs Blackburn 2-3. 4 goals were scored in two games :
- Bolton - Stoke City 3-1
- Chelseas - Portsmouth 4-0
3 goals in
- West Ham - Wigan 2-1
- Hull City - Fulham 1-2
- Middlesbrough - Tottenham 2-1
One game with 2 goals Manchester United vs Newcastle and two games with one goal : Arsenal - West Brom 1-0 and Sunderland - Liverpool 0-1.
Chelsea have the biggest win in first round of Premier League winning the game with 4 goals.
There was one draw, home team won 7 games and visitors won 2 games.
Only two players score more than one goal in the game. First player with 2 goals in a game was on West Ham vs Wigan. Dean Ashton score 2 goals in minutes 3 and 10.
First hat-trick this season in Premier League come from Gabriel Agbonlahor who score 3 goals in Aston Villa vs Manchester City, perhaps this is the fastest hat-trick because he score in minutes : 69, 74, 76
Hungaroring F1 Drivers
Statistics about Hungaroring Grand Prix including only active drivers:
Victories
* 1 » Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Jenson Button
Fastest laps
* 2 » Kimi Raikkonen
* 1 » Felipe Massa, David Coulthard
Pole Position
* 1 » Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen, Rubens Barrichello
Podium
* 5 » David Coulthard
* 3 » Rubens Barrichello, Kimi Raikkonen
* 2 » Nick Heidfeld, Fernando Alonso
* 1 » Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button
Finish in points
* 8 » David Coulthard
* 7 » Rubens Barrichello
* 4 » Kimi Raikkonen, Nick Heidfeld
* 3 » Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button
* 2 » Jarno Trulli, Giancarlo Fisichella, Mark Webber, Takuma Sato
* 1 » Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg, Heikki Kovalainen, Robert Kubica
Drivers which achieved points on Hungaroring Grand Prix
* 36.00 » David Coulthard
* 35.00 » Rubens Barrichello
* 29.00 » Kimi Raikkonen
* 21.00 » Fernando Alonso
* 18.00 » Jenson Button
* 16.00 » Nick Heidfeld
* 10.00 » Lewis Hamilton
* 7.00 » Jarno Trulli
* 5.00 » Mark Webber
* 4.00 » Takuma Sato, Robert Kubica
* 2.00 » Felipe Massa, Nico Rosberg, Giancarlo Fisichella
* 1.00 » Heikki Kovalainen
The fastest lap on Hungaroring was set by Michael Schumacher at 1:24.125 in 2004
Pakistani delegation departs for Beijing on Thursday
The 37-member Pakistani delegation for the Beijing Olympic Games will leave for China on Thursday, to participate in Beijing Olympics Games.
The Chinese Embassy will hold a reception in honor of Pakistan contingent on July 31 at 1800 hours in the Chinese Embassy, Islamabad. The reception will be attended by all members of the contingent, senior Officers of the Ministry of Sports, Pakistan Sports Board and Pakistan Olympic Association. Thereafter, Pakistan Contingent will depart for Beijing from Islamabad Airport.
The 37-member Pakistan delegation comprised of hockey, athletics, swimming, shooting and contingent officials will participate in the Olympic scheduled to be held at Beijing (China) from August 8-24.
The men\’s field hockey team has qualified to participate in the Games after Pakistan had won the bronze medal in the 15th Asian Games held at Doha Qatar. The other sportspersons in athletics, swimming and shooting are going to participate in the Beijing Olympics with wild cards.
Pakistan, the three-time Olympic and four-time world champions, expects the country could regain its past glory in the 12-nation hockey event.
\”Our endeavor was to form a combination having experience and youth in the ranks and the team announced for the grand event is capable of fetching glory\”, said President of Pakistan Hockey Federation Zafarullah Jamali earlier.
The Pakistan hockey team gained laurels for the country in the 1960, 1968 and 1984 Olympics separately, but has seen a slump in the past years.
Pakistan is placed in group B together with Australia, the Netherlands, Canada, Britain and South Africa. China, Germany, Spain, South Korea, New Zealand and Belgium are in group A.
Australia’s field hockey team to defend Olympic gold medal
Australia’s field hockey team hopes to defend their gold medal in Beijing as men’s hockey celebrates 100 years at the Olympics without former masters India.
The Kookaburras won their first Olympic gold at Athens four years ago and reclaimed the number one ranking at Germany’s expense by lifting the elite Champions Trophy in the Netherlands last month.
Coach Barry Dancer’s men, who had struggled to build on their Olympic success after losing to Germany in the final of both the 2006 World Cup and the 2007 Champions Trophy, were revived by the victory.
“Teams such as Germany, the Netherlands and Spain are all quality teams who, along with a number of other countries, are all capable of winning gold at Beijing”, Dancer said.
“But in saying that, the Australian team has shown steady signs of improvement throughout the last six months and deserve whatever praise comes their way”.
Field hockey was first played at the Summer Games in London in 1908 with six teams drawn from England, Ireland and Scotland, but it was not until the Amsterdam Olympics in 1928 it became a regular medal sport.
India gained supremacy on grass with six consecutive titles from 1928 to 1956 and two more in Tokyo in 1964 and Moscow in 1980, but lately, their Olympic team deceived everyone by failing to qualify for Beijing.
The Indians will miss the Olympics for the first time after losing to Great Britain in a qualifying tournament in Chile in April. They also failed their Asian Games campaign in Doha in 2006.
“No one wanted to see India out of the Olympics but the reality is that the best 12 nations have qualified for Beijing”, said International Hockey Federation (FIH) chief Els van Breda Vriesman.
“The hockey world will obviously miss India, but I am confident they will come back stronger and ready to take on the world again”.
Meanwhile, Germany seems determined to end a 16-year drought and wrest the Olympic gold medal they last won as a unified team in Barcelona in 1992 and, before that, as West Germany in 1972.
The Germans didn’t get more than a bronze medal in Athens four years ago despite being the reigning World Cup champions, but have managed to come back in force. They retained the World Cup title at home in Munchengladbach in 2006 and won the Champions Trophy in Malaysia in 2007. Despite that, they only managed fifth place in this year’s edition, thus faling to finish among the top three in the European championships. Therefore, they missed out on a direct entry to Beijing.
However, in April, The Germans won the Olympic qualifier without conceding a goal in the tournament that included formidable opponents in hosts Japan and Malaysia.
Markus Weise, who fashioned the women’s gold medal winning campaign in Athens, took over the men and revived their team, following Bernhard Peters’ switch to football.
Frank Schleck claims his first yellow jersey
Simon Gerrans (Credit Agricole) took victory on a dramatic stage 15 of the Tour de France in Prato Nevoso while Frank Schleck (CSC) of Luxembourg captured the maillot jaune for the first time in his career.
Schleck took the overall leader’s yellow jersey at the end of the 15th stage thanks to the fierce pace his team-mates set in the final ascent to Prato Nevoso on Sunday.
Schleck now holds a 7 second lead over Austrian mountain specialist Bernhard Kohl and an 8 second lead over Australian Cadel Evans.
“I can promise you that you will see a very aggressive and very strong CSC team in the next two stages” Schleck said.
“We are not here to defend the yellow jersey, we are he to win the Tour” added CSC team manager Bjarne Riis.
Russian Denis Menchov (Rabobank), a twice a winner of the Vuelta, fell as his bike slipped on the wet road in the climb to Prato Nevoso while attacking Schleck and Evans.
Despite his crash, the Russian cyclist lies fourth in the overall standings, 38 seconds behind Schleck ahead of Monday’s rest day.
Spaniard Oscar Pereiro, the 2006 Tour de France champion broke a shoulder and suffered various other injuries after his bike hit a protection wall on the roadside. He plunged on to the tarmac several metres underneath. He is still waiting to be flown to Spain for surgery after his Stage 15 Tour de France crash, his team doctor said.
On Tuesday, the peloton will climb the out-of-category Col de la Lombarde and Col de la Bonette, the highest point of the Tour, culminating at 2,802 metres.
Wednesday’s showdown includes three out-of-category ascents; the Col du Galibier, the Col de la Croix de Fer and the 21 hairpins of the Alpe d’Huez, where the 17th stage will end.
Riis said his team could surprise every one with a new strategy.
“I always stick to my gut feeling, listen to them. Maybe we will come up with a completely different plans” said the Dane.
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Hockenheim F1 2008 Preview
Statistics about Hockenheim Grand Prix including only active drivers:
Victories
* 1 » Fernando Alonso, Rubens Barrichello
Fastest laps
* 3 » David Coulthard
* 2 » Kimi Raikkonen
* 1 » Rubens Barrichello
Pole Position
* 2 » Kimi Raikkonen
* 1 » David Coulthard
Podium
* 4 » David Coulthard
* 2 » Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button
* 1 » Jarno Trulli, Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen
Finish in points
* 9 » David Coulthard
* 6 » Jenson Button
* 4 » Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso
* 3 » Giancarlo Fisichella, Jarno Trulli
* 2 » Felipe Massa
* 1 » Takuma Sato, Nick Heidfeld, Kimi Raikkonen, Mark Webber
Drivers which achieved points on Hockenheim Grand Prix
* 37.00 » David Coulthard
* 25.00 » Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso
* 20.00 » Rubens Barrichello
* 11.00 » Giancarlo Fisichella, Jarno Trulli
* 9.00 » Felipe Massa
* 6.00 » Kimi Raikkonen
* 3.00 » Mark Webber
* 1.00 » Takuma Sato, Nick Heidfeld
The fastest lap on Hockenheim was set by Michael Schumacher at 1:24.125 in 2004
Deco moves to Chelsea in £8 million deal
Deco will join Portugal team-mates Jose Bosingwa and Ricardo Carvalho at Stamford Bridge. The 30 year-old Brazil-born playmaker officially signed on July 1st on a two-year contract, becoming the club’s first signing under Luiz Felipe Scolari and the second of the summer after international team-mate Jose Bosingwa signed in May.
Deco joined Barca from Porto in 2004 after helping the Portuguese side win the UEFA Cup, Champions League and domestic league titles under former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho. Chelsea have signed Portugal midfielder Deco for a fee believed to be £8 million from Barcelona. Deco will team up with his former international manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who officially started working at Chelsea this morning.
The Portugese midfielder was a key member of Scolari’s squad in Austria and Switzerland as Portugal reached the quarter-finals and has long been viewed as the coach’s on-pitch lieutenant. The talented playmaker had recently been told by Barcelona that he no longer featured in their future plans and had been linked with a move to Stamford Bridge on numerous occasions in recent years.
“It is good for me to be here and first of all I am very happy to be here,” Deco said on Chelsea’s official website. “”I am sure I have come at the right time to do great things and be able to help Chelsea go back to the way it was and come back to being the first one, not only in England but also to win the Champions League that has been their dream for so long.”
Deco’s arrival might threaten Lampard’s place in the team.The England midfielder is currently on holiday in Italy but with only a year to run on his contract he has been courted by Chelsea’s former manager, Jose Mourinho, who is now at Internazionale.
Scolari also might lose defender Carvalho, another target for former Blues boss Mourinho at Inter.
EURO 2008: facts, figures and impressions
The 2008 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2008, was the 13th UEFA European Football Championship and is credited to have been a tremendous success. It proved to be quite a spectacular tournament, with 31 matches played and 77 goals scored (2.48 per match). Euro 2008 was attended by 1,140,902 spectators (36,803 per match).
Spain won the tournament by defeating Germany 1–0 in the final. This was only the second time in the history of the tournament that the winning team won all their matches in the group stage. The other team to do so was France in 1984. Spain performed superbly from start to finish, they scored 12 goals and nobody can question their right to the title.
The UEFA EURO 2008 Team of the Tournament, named by the UEFA Technical Team was also dominated by Spain as no fewer than nine Spanish players being picked in the final 23: goalkeeper Iker Casillas, defenders Carlos Marchena and Carles Puyol, midfielders Marcos Senna, Xavi Hernandez, Cesc Fabregas and Andres Iniesta, and forwards Fernando Torres and David Villa.
Also, Spain midfielder Xavi Hernandez has been named the Castrol Player of the Tournament for UEFA EURO 2008. The 28-year-old FC Barcelona player appeared in five matches at the finals, scoring once in the semi-final against Russia, as Spain earned their first major international success since beating the Soviet Union to win the 1964 UEFA European Championship.
UEFA technical director Andy Roxburgh said: “We chose him because we think he epitomises the Spanish style of play. He was extremely influential in the whole possession, passing, penetrating kind of game that Spain played.”
My personal impression is that the so-called “small teams”, that is the underdogs, proved to be more determined and performance-oriented than the big favorites. In this particular order, Turkey and Russia provided the most pleasant surprises of this EURO 2008. Also some of the best players of this European Championship were some Turkish and Russian playmakers like Semith Senturk, Hamit Altintop or Andrei Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko. In my eyes, the only favorite team who reached the level of everybody’s expectations was Spain. Their national team dispayed some skillful and beautiful football, both effective and spectacular.
As European champions, Spain earned the right to compete for the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup in South Africa.
Premier league will start in the middle of August
The best football championship, Premier League, will start in the middle of august. A few days and EURO 2008 will end.Some teams perhaps will take some players from this EURO, the players from EURO which played at EURO 2008 need a holiday finally. But will be a small one, because they have to join the clubs to practice for the new Premier League Season
First match day :
Arsenal vs West Brom
Aston Villa vs Man City
Bolton vs Stoke
Chelsea v Portsmouth
Everton vs Blackburn
Hull vs Fulham
Man Utd vs Newcastle
Middlesbrough vs Tottenham
Sunderland vs Liverpool
West Ham vs Wigan
Massimo Busacca referee at Germany vs Turkey
First semifinals at EURO 2008 will found at the center Massimo Busaca, a referee from Switzerland. Born 6 february 1969 in Bellinzona.
Massimo play football in lower divisions but he bacame referee in 1990, after 6 years he referee in Swiss Super League and since 1999 he is a FIFA referee.
From international career we have to mention that Busacca participate at 2006 FIFA World Cup, and the UEFA final Cup from 2007.
At EURO 2008 Busacca was referee at Netherlands vs Romania and Greece vs Sweden, both games in groups (C and D) and bo th ended with 2-0 (Netherlands and Sweden won). Massimo Busacca football statistics at EURO 2008:
- goals 4
- yellow cards 4
- fouls committed 54
- corners 15
- offside 12
Massimo Busacca is the referee from the “Basel Hooligan Incident” in 2006. It was the last match day in season 2005-2006. Basel play at home and to win the championship they need at least a draw. At that moment FC Basel did not lost in 59 games. It was draw in minute 90 and look OK for the Basel team. But I. Filipescu, the Zurich defender scored a goal. After some minutes Basel funs enter in the field and attack players from Zurich, incidents continued in the streets.
Busacca enjoy to play tennis, skiing.
