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MLS Commissioner Don Garber: Soccer's Steward Sits Down With FanHouse

NEW YORK -- Wednesday was a good day to be at Major League Soccer headquarters. The league unveiled its 2011 playoff format, which will include 10 clubs rather than eight for the first time. It was an eagerly awaited announcement that, like a lot of what's handed down from the midtown Manhattan office, generated plenty of...

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Lionel Messi Wins FIFA's Player of the Year Award Despite Poor World Cup

It's hard to argue with anyone who claims that Lionel Messi is the best soccer player in the world. But was he the player of the year? For the first time since it was introduced in 1991, the FIFA player of the year award has gone to someone who did not lift the World Cup the preceding summer. Fifty-eight goals in 54 club...

FanHouse's Soccer Quotes of the Year for 2010

FanHouse's first year of full-time soccer coverage began with a snowy tour of the New York Red Bulls' amazing new stadium in Harrison, NJ and ended amid awkward celebration at Al Jazeera's bureau in Washington, DC. In between, we covered an MLS season that concluded with a hard-fought championship victory for the Colorado...

Barcelona Trio Named FIFA Ballon d'Or Finalists

Inter Milan may have walked away with the UEFA Champions League title in May, but when it comes to individual talent, it would appear Barcelona comes second to none. Barcelona's Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernandez and Andres Iniesta were named finalists for the 2010 FIFA Ballon d'Or on Monday, ensuring that the title of world's...

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05/29/12 Messi teams up with Higuain, Di Maria, Aguero for... Source: The Straits Times - Singapore Lionel Messi pulled on the Argentina shirt on Tuesday in the team's first official practice as it prepares for a World Cup qualifier on Saturday against Ecuador in the Argentine capital.
05/29/12 'Unfair' Champions League elimination still angers... Source: Goal.com Lionel Messi has admitted that he is still tormented by Barcelona 's "unfair" elimination at the hands of Chelsea in the semifinals of the Champions League.
05/29/12 Good played football and results the key to recover... Source: Buenos Aires Herald - Argentina Lionel Messi appeared before journalists after his first training with the national team on the verge of Saturday's qualifier against Ecuador, and emphasized that the only way the team can recover the love and appreciation fo the fans is by "offering a high level game and positive results."
05/29/12 England's new game plan to find its 'indigenous' Messi Source: New Kerala Dot Com The Football Association has approved new rules that would ensure that small kids play in small-sided games with goals and balls of an appropriate size, and without the pressure of playing league matches with points at stake.
05/29/12 Lionel Messi declared dead by US website Source: Express.co.uk Fox Sports posted a message on their Latin American Twitter site declaring that the 24-year-old has suffered a 'cardiopulmonary arrest' during training.

Background on Lionel Messi

Lionel Andrés Messi (, born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine footballer who plays in La Liga for FC Barcelona and is the captain of the Argentina national team, mainly as a forward.

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