There is often a fierce rivalry between the two strongest teams in a national league, and this is particularly the case in La Liga, where the game between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid is known as El Cl?sico. From the start the clubs were seen as representatives of two rival regions in Spain, Catalonia and Castile, as well as of the two cities themselves. The rivalry projects what many regard as the political and cultural tensions felt between Catalans and the Castilians.

During the dictatorships of Primo de Rivera and (especially) of Francisco Franco, all regional identities were openly suppressed (e.g. the peripheral languages were officially banned). So FC Barcelona became more than a club (m?s que un club) for Catalonia as a defender of freedom and one of its greatest ambassadors. On the contrary, for most of the Catalans and many other Spaniards, Real Madrid was representing the sovereign oppressive centralism.

However, during the Spanish Civil War itself, members of both clubs, like Josep Sunyol and Rafael S?nchez Guerra, suffered at the hands of Franco supporters.

During the 1950s the rivalry was exacerbated significantly when the clubs disputed the signing of Alfredo Di Stefano, who finally played for Real Madrid, thanks to the help of Franco, who transfered him to Real Madrid by “royal decree” after playing three games with Barcelona’s shirt, who was the key in the subsequent success achieved by the club. The 1960s saw the rivalry reach the European stage when they met twice at the semi-final stage of the European Cup.

As nowadays FC Barcelona and Real Madrid are the two biggest and most successful clubs in Spain, the rivalry is renewed on an almost annual basis with both teams often challenging each other for the league championship. The latest Clasico was played in the Camp Nou and ended with a 3-3 draw, with Lionel Messi scoring his first hat-trick in his Clasico debut at the Camp Nou.

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In group H of the Champions League FC Barcelona and AC Milan have points distributed tonight. At Camp Nou was 2-2. The game was largely dominated by Barcelona, but Milan did in both the first and last minutes to score.
The game started spectacularly. Within 25 seconds gave Milan player Alexandre Pato before the 0-1, Barcelona, ??leaving a confused. Only after ten minutes the players knew the pressure on the Barcelona target of AC Milan to step up and they went hunting for the equalizer. That was easy by the compact game of Milan, but after a good move in the 36th minute Messi managed to reach Pedro. That was half a meter away easy typing.

After the break Barcelona went on the hunt for the lead and within 5 minutes it was hit. With a beautiful free kick shot David Villa in the 2-1. Milan then had nothing more to contribute and it was mainly that Barcelona had the ball. They came not to score in injury time and was punishable by Thiago Silva. From a corner he headed home the equalizer binnnen.

AC Milan were Clarence Seedorf and Mark van Bommel in the base. Emanuelson was like Barcelona player Afellay as a substitute in the field.

The other results in the Champions League today:

group E
Chelsea – Bayer Leverkusen 2 -0
Racing Genk – Valencia 0-0

group F
Borussia Dortmund – Arsenal 1 -1
Olympiakos Piraeus – Olympic Marseille 0 -1

group G
FC Porto – Shakhtar Donetsk 2 -1
APOEL Nicosia – FC Zenit 2-1

group H
Viktoria Plzen – Bate Borisov 1 -1

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Ajax goalkeeper Vermeer against Lyon
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LYON – Ajax begins Tuesday night with Kenneth Vermeer to the away game in the Champions League against Olympique Lyon. The goalkeeper went the last two league games seriously in error.

Yet he gets the confidence of temporary coach Frank de Boer, who last summer goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen NEC had happened.
”Kenneth must show that those errors had an incident,”De Boer was referring to the blunders of his keeper in the league matches against FC Utrecht and Vitesse.
”He must soon be the goalkeeper who picked up points for us, because he certainly did. I also do not feel that he is the defense nervous.”
Lodeiro De Boer misses against Olympique Lyon center injured strikers Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, Siem de Jong and Dmitri Boelikin. Derk Boerrigter, well on his shot this season, is like Nicolai Boilesen Andre Ooijer and injured left in Amsterdam.
De Boer item does Nicolas Lodeiro, originally midfielder, probably central to the attack.
”So many flavors we have not,”said the head coach of Ajax Monday just before the training of his team in Stade Gerland. The reigning champion qualifies for the eighth finals of the Champions League as the away match against Olympique Lyon with a minimum closing tie with goals. ”So here we go for,”said De Boer.
Probable arrangement Ajax: Vermeer, Van der Wiel, Alderweireld, Vertonghen and Anita, Eriksen, Enoh and Janssen, Sulejmani, and Lodeiro Ebecilio.

The Amsterdam, which Kolbeinn Sigthorsson, Siem de Jong and Derk Boerrigter Dmitry Boelykin miss injuries because, come with a victory at Olympique Lyon on ten points from five matches and are then no longer be retrieved by the French (now four points).

Number four Dinamo Zagreb can be at most one third, the Croats Ajax can not retrieve.

Draw may be enough
Even with a tie – other than 0-0 – Ajax right places for the next round. Only with a scoreless draw, the same result as in the first game between two clubs in Amsterdam, is the sixth round is important.

Ajax plays its final group match at home against Real Madrid. Lyon is visiting Dinamo Zagreb. If Ajax loses and Lyon win, goal difference is important for qualification for the next round to be determined. It is currently heavily in favor of Amsterdam: 6-3 to 2-6.

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Ajax to beat Lyon at home is the best bet in the first Champions League round. That is according to football legends and Betclic.com ambassadors Marcel Desailly and Ruud Gullit.

During the group phase of Europe’s premier football club competition a tips duel will take place between Desailly and Gullit, who have four European Cup winners medals between them, with the duo placing a double on each round. The one with most money at the end will win the clash.

For the first round, French World Champion Marcel Desailly combines Ajax with Olympiacos while Dutch superstar Ruud Gullit is also backing Ajax alongside Manchester City, who he thinks is a solid bet at home to Napoli.

If the results come in Desailly’s double pays 6.24 times the money on betclic.com, while Gullit’s double pays 3.36 with Betclic.

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DUEL DESAILLY VS GULLIT ROUND 1 OF 6

Marcel Desailly
Betclic ambassador Money in wallet: 120 euro
Ajax-Lyon Tips: 1 (odds 2.40)
Olympiacos-Marseille Tips: 1 (odds 2.60)
Double odds: 6.24
Stake: 20 euro
Potential gross win: 124.80 euro

Desailly says: “The French league is getting interesting but it is a bit of a dilemma for the French club. It is more important for Lyon and Marseille to finish in the top three in Ligue 1 than going on a European adventure and in the first round of matches both Lyon and Marseille face tricky away ties. So I’m going against them and backing Ajax and Olympiacos to win.”

Ruud Gullit
Betclic ambassador Money in wallet: 120 euro
Lyon AjaxTips: 1 (odds 2.40)
Manchester City-Napoli Tips: 1 (odds 1.40)
Double odds: 3.36
Stake: 20 euro
Potential gross win: 67.20 euro

Gullit says: “Manchester City looks like an outsider in this season’s Champions League but Mancini knows the Italian game well so they should get past Napoli. The Italian side will struggle here and City should win rather easy. I think the Premier League side can win by three goals. Ajax vs Lyon is a much tighter match but the Dutch side have home-soil and the pace to beat Lyon. Secondly Ajax will be desperate for three points with Real Madrid the massive favourite in the group.”

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Steve Cooper is a guest at Ajax this week. The Liverpool FC youth academy manager is in Amsterdam to learn from Ajax’s youth academy. During his visit to the future, he plans to meet with staff and observe trainings, among other things.
Luis Suarez didn’t even need to do anything to bring the Ajax and Liverpool youth academies together. The star player of the Premier League’s current number six team could have facilitated the contact, given his Ajax history. But it turned out that the Uruguayan’s help wasn’t needed, as technical director Damian Camolli had already arranged a four day visit for Liverpool’s youth academy manager.

Cooper illustrates the current situation with Liverpool’s youth academy with an eye-opening example. Several players who participated in the AEGON Future Cup in the spring of 2010 with the U-17 team are now part of Liverpool’s A-selection. Thus Jack Robinson and Jon Flanagan have since made their debut for The Reds. They tread in the footsteps of such greats as Steve Gerrard, Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher and Robbie Fowler, who all came up through the ranks of the 18 time national champion club. “Liverpool fans love to see that. We’re a club of tradition, where home grown players have a special place. That’s why it’s so important for us to keep developing our youth academy”, says Cooper.

During his visit to Amsterdam, Cooper hopes to learn mainly about the program’s structure. Because of this, he spoke extensively with Ger Boer, the academic coordinator, about the curriculum at de Toekomst. Moreover, the Toekomst training staff has been something of a walking encyclopaedia for the head of Liverpool’s youth academy. Heini Otto has shown the Welshman around extensively at Ajax’s sports complex in the past few days.

“I’m impressed with the facility and the organization”, says the former Wrexham player, who used to have Liverpool’s U-12 to U-16 teams under his charge. In that role, he had visited de Toekomst before, during the AEGON Future Cup. “But now that I’m here alone, I really have the chance to take it all-in and learn a lot. I hope Ajax can learn from Liverpool, too. That would make this information exchange useful for both parties. It’s always good to see how youth academies in other countries are organized. Especially a world famous one like Ajax’s.”

Cooper returns to Liverpool on Thursday with a wealth of acquired information. “Thanks to my ‘all area pass’ from de Toekomst, I’ve have every chance to learn about Ajax’s youth academy. I hope I’ll get to speak to Frank de Boer at some point. And of course, Dennis Bergkamp. He’s a legend in England. I’d love to pick his brain, too.”

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AFC Ajax will be without midfielder Siem de Jong for their UEFA Champions League Group D match at Olympique Lyonnais while Theo Janssen is also an injury doubt.

AFC Ajax have lost Siem de Jong for their UEFA Champions League trip to Olympique Lyonnais after the 22-year-old suffered a thigh injury while fellow midfielder Theo Janssen is a doubt after succumbing to a hamstring problem.

Ajax’s 6-4 defeat at FC Utrecht on Sunday was painful in more ways than one for De Jong, as the Dutch international was substituted after four minutes of the Eredivisie encounter after tearing his thigh muscle while sprinting for the ball.

De Jong, who has featured in all four of Ajax’s Group D games to date and scored in the recent 4-0 victory over GNK Dinamo Zagreb, is expected to be out for between four and six weeks. Such a lay-off also renders him a fitness worry for the matchday six visit of Real Madrid CF on 7 December.

Janssen, meanwhile, has sustained a hamstring complaint which will sideline the 30-year-old for a fortnight. The former FC Twente playmaker and last season’s Dutch player of the year faces a race against time to make the journey to Lyon on 22 November. Ajax, fifth in the Dutch top flight after 12 matches, lie second in their UEFA Champions League section, three points above their matchday five opponents.

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Netherlands midfielder Siem de Jong has extended his stay at AFC Ajax by two years after agreeing a new deal with the Eredivisie champions that ties him to the club until June 2015. Dutch international Siem de Jong has prolonged his stay with AFC Ajax after signing a contract extension keeping him at the Amsterdam club until June 2015.

The new deal adds two years to the contract of a player who had a huge part in Ajax’s 2010/11 Eredivisie title-winning campaign – attacking midfielder De Jong scored 12 goals in 32 games. The 22-year-old also made his international debut against Ukraine last August.

“My goal is to win the championship again and to contribute as much as possible to the team,” said De Jong, who joined the Godenzonen from De Graafschap in September 2007 and has made 86 league appearances in four seasons at the Amsterdam ArenA. “I am happy to extend my contract because I really like it here. Ajax are good for my development.”

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To set aside an interminable poppy dispute and those questions about the national captain’s attitude to race in modern Britain, the visit of the world and European champions to Wembley on Saturday is likely to expose some uncomfortable footballing truths for their hosts.

Here is a game barely burdened by footballing discussion in its build-up. Perhaps this comes as a result of the expectation that a rather under-strength England team will be easily dispatched by a Spain team flush with many of the stars who have guided them to primacy.
This will be the Spanish national team’s first visit to Wembley since a controversial penalty shootout defeat in the quarter-finals of Euro ’96. On English shores, it is a day remembered for the heroics that powered David Seaman to national celebrity and Stuart Pearce to fist-pumping vindication; in Spain, there remains a latency of feeling about two goals chalked off wrongly for offside.

Since then, these two superpowers have only met on friendly occasions, with the Spanish victorious every time since a rainy February night in 2001 when the Sven Goran Eriksson era began with a 3-0 win at Villa Park. In the three matches since, England have not scored against the Spanish, and rarely looked like doing so either.
The last meeting came in February 2009, when goals from David Villa and Fernando Llorente were just reward for Spanish dominance. It was a night when David Beckham matched the outfield England cap record of 108, as once held by Bobby Moore, but this was no night of celebrations for a country’s favourite son.
“One step into reality” is how Fabio Capello described it when speaking in Seville that night. “I hope in the future we will win. We tried to play like we do usually, but the pressing Spain did to win the ball back showed they are a very good team.”

Since then, how England play usually is a cause for national derision, with an Italian maestro seemingly powerless to effect improvement. His England regime has not overturned the reality served in Seville. Indeed, the intervening years have been especially hard on the realism front. England, a nation that gets so excited, and usually so hopeful about its team’s chances at tournaments is preparing for the worst. A sell-out crowd is a tribute to a country enveloped and devoted to football. They will come to see a footballing masterclass, and expect the Spanish to supply it. England player to watch: Daniel Sturridge
There is, of course, one player on whom many eyes will be placed. But we will press on from there, and let that issue take its course. His Chelsea team-mate is a young man of whom much is expected, but it has not yet been delivered. The early-season signs were that he was deserving of an England place, and many were confused that he was not called for the Montenegro game. He now has his head, but in reduced circumstances, as recent performances have been less impressive, with Arsenal a particular disappointment. His self-confidence is undoubted, and his country needs a forward option in the absence of Wayne Rooney.

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AMSTERDAM (AP) Ajax scored twice in each half to beat Dinamo Zagreb 4-0 on Wednesday and stay second behind runaway leader Real Madrid in Group D of the Champions League.

Gregory van der Wiel drilled an unstoppable shot into the roof of the net from a difficult angle in the 20th minute for a 1-0 lead after a clever backheel from Christian Eriksen.
Miralem Sulejmani, back in the Ajax lineup after a brief injury layoff, doubled the lead five minutes later after finishing off a move started by Siem de Jong.
De Jong made it 3-0 in the 65th with a 10-meter shot before substitute Nicolas Lodeiro scored the fourth in injury time.
“I really liked the way we played tonight,” Van der Wiel said. “It’s always nice if you can score a goal.”
Ajax is second with seven points, three ahead of Lyon. The Dutch side is assured of earning at least a Europa League berth. Real Madrid leads Group D with 12 points after winning all four of its games. Dinamo could have pulled one back a minute into the second half when Luis Ibanez fired a long-range drive, which Kenneth Vermeer saved but spilled back into play before captain Jan Vertongen make a clearance.
De Jong had a chance to put the scoreline beyond Dinamo’s reach after perfectly controlling Toby Alderweireld’s pass in the area but goalkeeper Ivan Kelava made a point-blank save.

“The scoreline is a nice present but I think what’s important is we played as a team,” said Ajax coach Frank de Boer.
Earlier on, some miscommunication between Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen almost led to a Dinamo goal in the 16th but the Ajax captain recovered to clear the ball away from danger.

After missing a couple of chances in the opening minutes, Ajax had Van De Wiel to thank after his ferocious shot gave Kelava no chance.
The second goal was just as eye-catching. Eyong Enoh powered past the Dinamo midfield before the Cameroon midfielder picked out De Jong, who laid the ball into Sulejmani’s path. The Serbian striker dribbled past a badly-positioned Kelava before prodding the ball into an open net.
Van der Wiel started the move that led to Ajax’s third. From the right flank, the Netherlands international teased past two Dinamo defenders before flighting a cross toward goal. Eriksen intervened with another flick leaving De Jong with a simple task of beating Kelava from close range.
Substitutes Lodeiro and Lorenzo Ebecilio combined to score the fourth, wrapping up a win that gives Ajax hope of finishing second in the group.

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Ronaldo opened the scoring in the 24th minute by curling home a free kick.
The Portugal winger then notched his 100th goal for the Spanish club by converting a penalty in the 69th after Lyon fullback Mouhamadou Dabo had fouled him.
Madrid tops Group D with 12 points, five clear of Ajax, which routed Dinamo Zagreb 4-0. Lyon remains third with four points.
“We knew a win here would secure qualification,” Ronaldo said. “We played well but it was a difficult game against a tough team. We are happy that we’re through.”
Madrid is the only team in the group stage that has won all its matches and has yet to concede a goal. It outplayed Lyon by stifling the hosts in midfield with its pressing.
Madrid striker Karim Benzema collected a through ball from Mesut Oezil to be clean through but was denied by goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in the 10th.
The Spanish side threatened again in the 23rd. Oezil found Benzema with a backheel flick but Lyon midfielder Yoann Gourcuff stopped the play by shoving Benzema on the edge of the box.

Ronaldo exploited a crack in the Lyon wall from the ensuing free kick to place the ball out of the goalkeeper’s reach.
Madrid came close to adding a second goal before halftime. Lassana Diarra played Oezil in but Lloris came off his line to knock the ball away in the 29th.
The France goalkeeper saved his team again in the 32nd by parrying a shot from Benzema from Ronaldo’s pass.
Madrid winger Angel Di Maria led a counterattack in the 44th and fed Oezil but the Germany playmaker’s tame effort was no trouble for Lloris.
Lyon nearly equalized twice against the run of play. Winger Jimmy Briand chested down a high cross from Dabo to shoot straight at goalkeeper Iker Casillas in the 35th.
On the stroke of halftime, Lyon striker Bafetimbi Gomis won the ball in midfield to release Gourcuff down the right wing, but Casillas tipped Gourcuff’s powerful strike over the bar.

Ronaldo threatened a couple of times in the second half before firing the spot kick into the middle of the net to make it 2-0.
“We faced a team that was stronger than us,” Lloris said. “I think it’s probably the best team in Europe right now.”
Lloris prevented Madrid from adding a third goal by stopping a low curling shot from Di Maria in the 73rd.
Lyon almost scored a consolation goal in the 78th but Briand’s header from a corner by Gourcuff crashed against the bar. The Lyon winger beat the offside trap to have another chance in the 89th but his chip sailed wide.

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Germany have become the first team to qualify for next year’s European Football Championships after thrashing Austria 6-2 in Gelsenkirchen.
Mesut Ozil bagged a brace as the three-time European champions continued their 100% percent record in the campaign.
Miroslav Klose opened the scoring in the eighth minute, with Ozil doubling the advantage after 23 minutes. Lukas Podolski made it 3-0 five minutes later before Marko Arnautovic pulled one back for the visitors.
Ozil all but sealed victory two minutes after the restart with Andre Schurrle and Mario Gotze adding late goals to cap another impressive German display.
It is our philosophy to constantly attack and we are working all the time to have a team in which we can interchange players

“We got caught out twice defensively, but I think we restricted the Austrians to just two chances and I prefer that we created so many chances,” German coach Joachim Low said after the game, AFP reported.
“It is our philosophy to constantly attack and we are working all the time to have a team in which we can interchange players. This is what you have to have if you want to be amongst the best in the world,” Low added, AFP reported.
In the other Group A matches, Belgium’s chances of qualifying took a knock when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Azerbaijan – Rauf Aliyev’s 86th minute equalizer canceling out defender Timmy Simons penalty kick.
Turkey consolidated second place in the group with a 2-1 home win against bottom-placed Kazakhstan.
Robin Van Persie scored four as the Netherlands put San Marino to the sword with an 11-0 thrashing.
Wesley Sneijder and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar both scored twice as the Dutch consolidated their lead at the top of Group E. San Marino have now conceded 44 goals in eight matches without managing a single goal themselves.
Hungary are now level on points with Sweden after beating them 2-1 in Budapest. Both teams now have 15 points although Hungary have played a game more.
In the other Group E match, Finland beat Moldova 4-1 in Helsinki.

Two goals from Wayne Rooney and a first international goal for Gary Cahill helped England to a 3-0 win over Bulgaria in Sofia in Group G.
Wales’ 2-1 victory over second-placed Montenegro in Cardiff also helped Fabio Capello’s men open up a three point gap at the top of the table.
Russia are top of Group B after they beat Macedonia 1-0 — Igor Semshov’s goal in the 41st minute separating the teams.
The Republic of Ireland drew 0-0 with Slovakia in Dublin as both teams missed out on going top of the table.
Armenia kept their slim hopes of qualification alive with a 3-0 win over Andorra.

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