Wednesday Football Crossbars - September 8, 2010

North America

Canada recently participated in two friendlies during the international fixture window and ended up with a 1-1 record, losing to Peru in Toronto and beating Honduras in Montreal

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/james-on-soccer/plenty-of-positives-from-canadian-win-over-honduras/article1699295/

What were the lessons learned for Canada

http://www.cansoc.org/entry.php?23-Lessons-Learned

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/soccer/world-cup-hopes-carried-on-aging-shoulders/article1697617/

England

Mario Balotelli looks like he is set to miss out on his home debut against Blackburn Rovers this weekend

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/07/mario-balotelli-blackburn-knee-injury

Edgar Davids, now of Crystal Palace, is facing charges for slapping a female in Amsterdam, I am hoping it was not in the Red Light District

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1309780/Crystal-Palace-star-Edgar-Davids-set-quizzed-police-claims-slapped-woman.html?ITO=1490

Kolo Toure has claimed that he gave up the captaincy at Manchester City to Carlos Tevez for the sake of the team . . . ok, and I gave up my dream of playing professional soccer for the sake of my intramural team

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1309959/Kolo-Toure-claims-Carlos-Tevez-handed-captains-armband-help-make-friends.html?ITO=1490

Pepe Reina claims that Liverpool will miss Javier Mascherano more than the club has let on

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1310050/Javier-Mascherano-left-hole-Liverpool-says-Pepe-Reina.html

Italy

Inter Milan could be using some of their cash to make a bid for Kaka in the January transfer window

http://football-italia.net/sep08n.html

Andriy Shevchenko is claiming that Pato is his rightful heir at AC Milan

http://football-italia.net/sep08i.html

Diego Maradona, who wants to play for Napoli on his 50th birthday, is at odds with the taxman . . . shocking

http://football-italia.net/sep08f.html

European Qualifying Round-Up

Greece salvaged their dismal draw at home against Georgia by securing a point in Croatia

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2010-09-07-1309824790_x.htm

Scotland narrowly avoided humiliation by scoring late injury time winner against Liechtenstein

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/08/scotland-liechtenstein-euro-2012-humiliation

With all the news of Wayne Rooney and his scandalous ways, he played a key role in England's big victory against Switzerland

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/sep/08/wayne-rooney-england-switzerland

Thoughts On The Game

Rohan Ricketts on sex and footballers

http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/diary-of-a-pro-footballer-the-truth-about-sex-and-footballers/

Fanhouse with a great recap of the FIFA World Cup Technical Report

http://soccer.fanhouse.com/2010/09/07/fanhouse-presents-fifas-world-cup-technical-report-distilled/

Videos Of The Week

Wayne Rooney's behavior has made it overseas

Kevin Doyle with a screamer for Ireland against Andorra

Highlights from Argentina's thrashing of Spain

Highlights from Cyprus' 4-4 draw with Portugal . . . I love it

Our favorite Icelandic team is back with a new celebration, too bad it wasn't quite up to their typical standards

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