Nigeria African champions for the third time in its history, with a view to including in Burkina .

Nigeria achieved the title of the African Cup of Nations 2013, winning 1-0 in the final game against Burkina Faso on Sunday evening.

 

The goal came Super Eagles won the title by including in the forty minute.

After an absence of 19 years has made the Eagles the third continental title in its history after the years 1980 and 1994.

And Burkina Faso fought for the first time in its history the final of the African wedding at Soccer City stadium.

Summary of the meeting goes the game since its inception in the direction of Burkinabe goalkeeper under a clear determination to Nigeria to complete the three African titles.

And passed a direct free kick from midfield Burkina Faso to top Ambrosi, who fired a header passed casual top goalkeeper Diactah after seven minutes.

It is a corner kick Nigerian succeeded his hands to draw the ball out of the hands of goalkeeper Diactah and quick play the ball passed the top of the crossbar.

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It is wrong for the Burkinabe defender Coulibaly and got the ball to the Nigerian attack but poor scrolling on the edge of the area killed dangerous game.

The indispensable Jonathan Pitroipa .

Pitroipa the key player in Burkina Faso.

The Rennes striker will play the final against Nigeria, Sunday (19h), since the second yellow card he had been given by mistake in the semifinals was withdrawn. Good news for Burkina Faso, which is one of the best.

  It Saving Private Pitroipa! It was a little national cause in recent days in Burkina Faso. Supports the Rennais 26 years have multiplied. "My former teammate Vincent Kompany in Hamburg even made ​​a tweet to support me," welcomed the Burkinabe. "At the time I fell but now I laugh ..." he breathed into the team. Happy weekend. The Disciplinary Committee of the African Confederation (CAF) has canceled Friday's red card. It may therefore eventually play the final on Sunday in Johannesburg against Nigeria. The Tunisian referee M.Slim Jdidi - since suspended by CAF-recognized erred in imposing a second yellow card Pitroipa for simulation in the penalty area at the end of extra time against Ghana on Wednesday ( 1-1 aet, 3-2 pens).

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As Abou Zeid in 1986 :

Real Madrid prepare summer bid to woo Gareth Bale from Tottenham.

Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale is much in demand.

• Spurs need Champions League to keep him, says Villas-Boas.
• 'I think we can reach our objectives with him at this level'.

André Villas-Boas has admitted that Tottenham Hotspur must qualify for the Champions League in order to keep Gareth Bale from the clutches of predatory clubs, with Real Madrid preparing an offer for the player in the summer. The Tottenham manager also hopes that a massive price tag could serve as a deterrent for interested parties.
Bale is one of the hottest properties in European football and Real are monitoring his – and Tottenham's – situation closely. The Wales winger, who has scored 13 goals for Tottenham this season, plus four more for his country, is on record as stating his admiration for the Spanish champions.
Villas-Boas, though, believes that Tottenham would be set fair to retain Bale's services if they were to reach the Champions League. Bale got the taste for the competition in 2010-11 and, mindful that his opportunities might be limited at major international tournaments with Wales, he is determined to play regularly in Europe's leading club competition.

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"Players who are performing at this level always get the attention," Villas-Boas said. "It doesn't mean that the club doesn't foresee a future with Gareth. It's intimately related to the objectives that we achieve for the season. Hopefully, we can do just that with the Champions League and continue to progress on what we are doing.

Burkina Faso heighten the surprise factor in Africa Cup of Nations.

Burkina Faso players celebrate after beating Ghana to reach the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final.

Nigeria's opponents in final prove that the continent's middle-ranking teams can take on and beat Africa's best.

To the question of where African football is progressing, there are two answers. On the one hand, it has stagnated, perhaps even gone backwards: we are no closer to an African team winning the World Cup now than we were when Cameroon reached the quarter-finals in 1990 (yes, Ghana were within a Luis Suárez handball and an Asamoah Gyan missed penalty of becoming the first African side to reach a semi-final, but they would also have gone out in the first round had an Australian handball with two minutes of their final group game remaining been punished and Serbia converted the penalty; stuff happens).
And yet in an another way it has improved immeasurably: the top may not have progressed but the middle certainly has and Mali, Angola, Togo and Cape Verde – even Gabon and Sudan, although neither qualified for this Cup of Nations – are all teams worthy of respect, capable of taking on the best their continent has to offer. The pyramid of talent may not have got higher, but it has got broader.

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"You can no longer differentiate so much between which teams are better," said the Nigeria coach, Stephen Keshi, earlier in the tournament. "In the old days you could predict how many goals one team was going to score against the other but now you don't know what is going to happen. You might think one side will win but you don't know. I think this is wonderful for African football. The competition is so tight: you look at the likes of Ethiopia and Cape Verde and some of the other countries. I am very impressed with their performances and the standard they are reaching."

Sir Alex Ferguson fined £12,000 for criticism of official Simon Beck.

Sir Alex Ferguson during Manchester United's 1-1 draw at Tottenham Hotspur, which led to him getting a £12,000 FA fine. 

Sir Alex Ferguson has been fined £12,000 after being found guilty of misconduct by the Football Association.
The FA brought the charge following the Manchester United manager's outspoken attack on the assistant referee Simon Beck following the 1-1 draw at Tottenham Hotspur last month.
Ferguson appealed against the charge and requested a paper hearing. However, the verdict, which has been released by the FA, has gone against the Scot.
"Following an independent regulatory commission hearing today, Sir Alex Ferguson has been fined £12,000 in relation to media comments made after Manchester United's game at Tottenham Hotspur on 20 January 2013," said an FA statement.
"It was alleged that the Manchester United manager's post-match media comments implied that the match official was motivated by bias.
"Ferguson had denied the misconduct charge and requested a paper hearing at which the independent regulatory commission found proven the breach of FA Rule E3."

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New record deficit for European football .

  According to the annual benchmarking UEFA European clubs have accumulated 1.7 billion loss for 2011, against 1.64 billion euros in 2010 and 1.2 billion in 2009.


Work for compliance with European clubs the rules of fair play in UEFA financial measure is to require clubs participating in European Cups to balance income and expenditure in 2014 - remains enormous. In the preface to the fifth edition of the benchmarking report on the procedure for granting licenses to clubs, covering the financial results of 679 first division clubs spread across the 53 member associations of UEFA president Michel Platini gives a uncompromising statement: "Many football clubs, including some of the most prestigious, have encountered serious financial difficulties, which have led to a further increase in overall losses of first division clubs."
 
55% of clubs reported net losses:

And 63% of European clubs first division reported operating losses and net losses of 55%. This increase in net loss was, as the previous season, was reinforced by the slowdown in remittances. In 2011, European clubs have dug their deficits to 1.7 billion euros, half of which is attributable to only ten clubs. A new record after those established in 2010 (€ 1.64 billion) and 2009 (€ 1.2 billion). This deterioration of finances of European clubs is spectacular. Their cumulative losses amounted to only 600 million in 2007.
The UEFA Study also highlights that despite the growth of their overall revenue, which amounted to € 13.2 billion in 2011 (+3% compared to 2010), European clubs have invested a small share their resources in long-term investment. The value of fixed assets (stadium, training ground, training center and other equipment) of the 237 registered clubs in UEFA competitions this season amounted to € 4.8 billion. A sum less than the spending on player salaries and related costs in 2011 (€ 6.9 billion).

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46 clubs must improve their balance sheets :

Match-fixing - where do we go from here?

We are 48 hours on from the Europol revelations about the extent of match-fixing in Europe and beyond. So how much more have we learned and where do we go from here? 

So far, the response from the football authorities has been fairly terse: Fifa and Uefa's position is that they have not seen all the documentation from Europol and are not willing to say much that is specific about the 700 or so suspicious games.

Like the rest of us, they are probably still trying to work out how much of what Europol announced on Monday is new, how much relates to already concluded cases, and whether legal action is continuing.

Defeating organised crime is clearly not the responsibility of the footballing authorities, although they are inevitably drawn into the process when it affects what they do.

They have a responsibility to investigate those who fall under their jurisdiction, like players, referees, and club officials. Europol say that might run to in excess of 400 people.

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Europol's investigation:

Inquiry started 18 months ago.
Initially involved Germany, Finland and Hungary, before being extended to Slovenia and Austria.
Ended up looking at 680 matches in 30 countries.
13,000 emails were analysed.
A total of 425 suspects were identified.
50 people have been arrested.
80 search warrants obtained.
A number of criminal investigations taking place.

I suspect the compliance departments of both Fifa and Uefa will be swallowing hard at the thought of trying to sift through all that paperwork.

Burkina Faso horses off and topple the "black stars Ghana" and reach the final of the African Nations for the first time.

Won 3-2 on penalties in a signed "playground sand bad" .. and the referee too!

Mubarak wakasso win Ghana from the penalty spot.

Burkinabe striker naughty Nakoulma mount an attack on Ghana's goal.

Bance scorer equalized for Burkina horses

Achieved Burkina Faso historic achievement qualification to the final African Cup of Nations football championships in South Africa, for the first time in its history, after beating Ghana 3-2 on penalties in the semi-final and exciting marathon, after the end of the game and overtime tie positive 1/1 in the meeting between them at the Mbombela Stadium "bad" in Nabusrot, and qualify to meet Nigeria in the final of the tournament to be held next Sunday in Johannesburg.

Time for the original game is over and draw additional positive 1/1, offering Mubarak, Acasso Ghana in the 13th minute from a penalty kick, tied Aristide Bance of Burkina in the 60th minute, to invoke the two teams to the penalty shootout from the penalty spot.

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Burkina Kone scored, and Traore, Bance, while wasting Coulibaly, while Ghana scored Christian Atsu, Harrison Afful, and missed vorsah, and Boateng.

Sweden Join deny Messi .. And allow for Higuain and Sergio Aguero led Argentina to win with three.

Sweden succeeded in preventing football Lionel Messi from registration but lost 3-2 at home to Argentina in a friendly match in Stockholm on Wednesday.

Argentina went ahead in the third minute when Mikael Lustig Sweden player Gonzalo Higuain shot accidentally in his team's goal.

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Sweden faced difficulty in controlling the game in the light of Argentina's acquisition of the ball easily.

Goals from Muller and Khedira .. Germany ended 26 years of waiting and invincible French rivals in their own home.

Rid the German team finally from the node that stayed with him for 26 years and achieved the first victory of his French counterpart since 1987 as they beat him 2/1 in a football game friendly collected two teams on Wednesday evening in Paris within اtheir preparations qualifying European qualifying for the World Cup 2014.

French team offers his target in the final seconds of the first half through Mathieu Valbuena, but the German team the heart of balances in the second half settled the match in his favor with two goals from Thomas Mueller and Sami Khedira scored in the 51 and 74.

Defeat in the match came as a shock strong French Mntib after a series of positive results in their last games under coach Didier Deschamps.

I miss the Deschamps efforts Rafael Paran player central defender for Real Madrid and who gave a great performance and scored the equalizer 1/1 for Real in Barcelona nets during the Clasico, which was held last week.

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The German team has won despite suffering several cases of absence due to injury, but he managed to take revenge for the defeat in front of his French counterpart, the same score in the last year the German city of Bremen.

Azzurri "ragged" snatch a draw is due to the Dutch windmills.

Tied teams Netherlands and Italy with a view to each in the match that took place between them on Wednesday evening at the Arena stadium in the Dutch capital Amsterdam.

Linz offers a view of the orange in the 33rd minute, and succeeded Varatne in catching equalizer for the Azzurri in the first minute of stoppage time in the second half.

BET coach Louis van Gaal on young players such as Adam Maher and Linz and first John and pay their basic configuration, and left on the bench, Dirk Kuyt and Arjen Robben. In the time in which they were adopted coach Cesare Prandelli for Italy on releases of Mario Balotelli, who played a suicide candid and behind Stefan Hubert and Candreva.

Dominated the Dutch team on the course of the first half, and was the most dangerous on goal thanks to movements Robin van Persie and Adam Maher, and releases of Linz from the right wing and first John of the left wing, and took control of Strautaman and Classy on the maneuvers in the superiority of a clear veteran De Rossi and Andrea Pirlo.

It was quiet caution title match in the first quarter of an hour, and in the 16th minute started the excitement actually, when goalkeeper Buffon saved a great opportunity for Adam Maher, who hit the ball on the spot, without any censorship, but Buffon saved the ball with his foot brilliantly.

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Buffon returned to shine on two occasions, the first when he saved another goal to Adam Maher, who took advantage of occasional Linz to pay off the ball in the middle of the net and pay it Buffon miraculously, and the second with a ground shot to van Persie.

Black England crash node and check wins Brazilian samba long awaited for 23 years.

 British made their best game since a long time .. Ronaldinho came out and no longer!!

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After waiting for 23 years .. Succeeded England to win the team Brazilian samba 2-1 in the match between the two teams on Wednesday evening at Wembley Stadium in celebration FA marking 150 years to create. offers Rooney to the English in 27 minutes and tied the alternative unique to Brazil in the 48th minute, before to succeed Alternative English Lampard to make the winning goal in minute 60. feet England and one of the best matches in the last period especially at the level of the attack, and return another victory to the English on Brazil to year 90 with a goal scored Gary Lineker. in the time of failure when the Brazilian team in persuading fans after disappointing performance under Scolari return to lead the team, and sounded this confrontation alarm for

Joachim Löw, the aesthete .

Under the leadership of Joachim Löw, the team of Germany offers a shimmering and offensive game. A philosophy of laudable game and delightful. The only hitch, this does not win … 

«Football is a very simple game: 22 players run after a ball during 90 minutes and at the end, it is Germany which wins». This famous expression of Gary Lineker does not any more take place to be today. Since the Euro 1996 and a champion title of Europe acquired at the expense of the Czech Republic, Germany did not raise the slightest trophy anymore. An eternity for a nation used to glory and to prestige. A detail for Joachim Löw. In posts for 7 years, the selector of Mannschaft takes entirely this period of famine. «Titles, it is very nice, everybody wants to earn it, but it is also necessary to leave the trace of game», he answers so in a maintenance granted to the Parisian.

People have to be able say: «This team is tremendous», even if he sometimes loses.
— Joachim Löw

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The ancient assistant of Jürgen Klinsmann does not hide from it. It doesn't much matter the bottle provided that they are drunkenness, little for him ! Löw is an aesthete. A coach supporter of nice game. «People have to be able say: «This team is tremendous», even if he succeeds at it to lose, notes Löw. It is essential to provoke emotions and that they remember us in future». Finished therefore Germany severe and harsh version. Put to a national team turned to offensive. Even if it means losing of his effectiveness. «Germany could orientate its football after 2000s. This selection always counts in its ranks of the warriors, forts in duels, but it also leans on technical and quick players, admits Didier Deschamps. It is the new philosophy of Joachim Löw that cut with what was before made».