The Champions League draw was just announced, and here are the full results:
Group A
Paris Saint-Germain
Real Madrid
Shakhtar Donetsk
Malmo
Group B
PSV Eindhoven
Manchester United
CSKA Moscow
Wolfsburg
Group C
Benfica
Atletico Madrid
Galatasaray
Astana
Group D
Juventus
Manchester City
Sevilla
Borussia Monchengladbach
Group E
Barcelona
Zlatan's full smartassery (a word we just made up) was on full display in this Bleacher Report video of Zlatan reading Zlatan facts.
For those unacquanited, Zlatan facts are akin to Chuck Norris facts (Zlatan beat the Mona Lisa in a staring competition, etc). Zlatan, it appears, is in on the joke, which makes the video even better.
The beginning of the video sets the tone:
It’s time to face facts: the two best players in the world, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, are getting older.
Entering the 2015/2016 La Liga Season, which kicked off this weekend, Cristiano Ronaldo is 30. He will be 31 by February. The baby-faced flea, Messi, is now 28.
Both men have grown up, from young guns to team captains and leaders.
Now, just what does the future hold for the two best players alive?
Zlatan fans have something to get excited about.
Go to the link, watch the teaser then come back.
That was exciting, right? Now watch this one.
Yes, Zhowtime is a searchable Zlatan goal database. We can hardly contain ourselves.
Zhowtime will launch August 28.
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Be careful what you tweet. Especially if you have a ton of followers and devoted fans paying attention to your words on social media.
Think twice about whether or not you want to or should tweet whatever is on your mind. Real Sociedad fans are teaching that lesson to star forward Carlos Vela.
Real Sociedad fans are furious at Vela over a tweet that Vela sent out not too long ago that centered on Athletic Bilbao’s incredible win over Barcelona.
It seems with each passing game the USMNT acquires a new potential savior, the athletic, skilled player that will become a superstar and lead the U.S. to glory and cement America as a world power. Right now, fans are bandying about around five potential saviors, and we have uptades on all of them (except for maybe John Brooks, but whatever).
Bobby Wood
As much as we like to believe that superstar footballers live lives of fantasy and glamour, constantly doing things that other people would pay to see, that really isn’t the case. All Footballers, including the superstars, have to make sacrifices just like anyone else in pursuit of any other dream.
Often, this pursuit leads to the sacrifice of a steady home for their family to grow in, and no one takes this harder, or is more affected by it, than kids.
This season brings with it a new face to European football: the face of Major League Baseball-esque statistical analysis. In March, Dutch side AZ Alkmaar hired Billy Beane as an official advisor.
While the manager (he's now the general manager) of the MLB's Oakland Athletics, Beane helped usher in the strategy of using statistical analysis to identify and recruit players who are undervalued in order to compete with teams that have larger budgets.
Cristiano Ronaldo has been named to the top of the 2015 "Athletes Gone Good" list, compiled by DoSomething.org.
Ronaldo gained the top spot by finding a hot girl's phone in Vegas and returning it, then partying with her and her hot friends. Talk about do-gooder.
Give PSG owner Nasser Al-Khelaïfi this: he's nothing if not ambitious.
French Newspaper Le Parisien reported that PSG will use its newfound oil money to try to sign Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, the two best players in the world.
Never mind the exhorbitant release clauses. Never mind previous rejections. They are going to try again! And we applaud them for it.
Al-Khelaifi is the proud owner of quite a lot of money, and if there's anyone with the testicular fortitude to make a serious run at both Messi and Ronaldo, it's the Qatari oil baron.