14 in a Row for Trabzonspor

14 in a Row for Trabzonspor

Trabzonspor is a soccer club from Turkey and is currently on a '14 game unbeaten' streak in European competition.  

 

The club finished on top of the 'J Group' in this seasons UEFA Europa Cup League, to make it to the last 32 teams in the competition.  

The last 'loss' in European competition for Trabzonspor was on February 23, 2012, 675 days ago, when they lost to PSV Eindhoven of Holland, 4 - 1. 

 

In the 14 game streak, the club has 9 wins and 5 ties; which is a definite success for a club from Turkey.  

 

The club is trying to surpass the record held by Galatasaray of Istanbul, Turkey, who hold the record of '15 games unbeaten streak' in Europe.  

The next game is on February 20, 2014, against a very difficult team of Juventus, from Turin, Italy. 

Below, are the last 14 games for Tranzonspor:

Trabzonspor - Videoton, 0-0

Videoton - Trabzonspor, 0-0 (On penalty kicks won 4 - 2)

Trabzonspor - Derry City, 4-2

Derry City - Trabzonspor, 0-3

Dinamo Minsk - Trabzonspor, 0-1

Trabzonspor - Dinamo Minsk, 0-0

Kukesi - Trabzonspor, 0-2

Trabzonspor - Kukesi, 3-1

Apollon Limassol - Trabzonspor, 1-2

Lazio - Trabzonspor, 3-3

Trabzonspor - Legia Varsova, 2-0

Legia Varsova - Trabzonspor, 0-2

Trabzonspor - Apollon Limassol, 4-2

Lazio - Trabzonspor, 0-0

I wish Trabzonspor continued success in Europe, and do wish they succeed in eliminating Juventus from the competition to make it to the 'last 16' of the 'UEFA Europa Cup League', and break the record, mentioned above.  

Thank you for visiting, 

Ben here 

World Cup Final of 2014

World Cup Final of 2014

The final of the prestigious World Cup Final will be played on July 13th, 2014.  

The teams that made it to the final are Germany  and Argentina. 

   Germany

This will be a fantastic final against two very good team. 

   Argentina

Hopefully you will make time to watch this game.  

Sincerely, 

3rd Place

3rd Place

This years uefa champions league is well underway and after 3 games, Galatasaray SK is sitting in last place in their group, which has the following teams, from first to last:

Dortmund, 9 points

Arsenal, 6 points,

Anderlecht, 1 point, & 

Gala, 1 point.  

The first two teams make it to the last 16 of the champions league.  The third place team goes to the uefa cup competition, and will be in the last 32 teams in this competition.  And the last place team will be eliminated from European soccer competition for this season.  

I would recommend to Gala to really try to finish this years competition in third place, therefore they could continue  their journey in uefa cup competition, instead of the champions league.  Let us be honest, Gala is not very strong this year and they are not firing in all cylinders.  

The uefa cup competition will be better suited for Gala this year as the teams in this competition are more likely competitors for Gala. 

The last 3 games remaining for Gala are: 

Borussia Dirtmund, at Germany,

Anderlecht, in Belgium, &

Arsenal, in Turkey. 

I cannot see the team get even 1 point from the Germany game.  However, they should be able to secure a minimum of 1 point from Belgium.  The last game will surely need to be a win.  Therefore, Gala will hopefully finish with 5 points. 

Their direct competitor will be Anderletch.  The Belgium sides last 3 games are: 

Arsenal, at home,

Gala, at home, &

Dortmund, in Germany. 

I cannot see Anderlecht winning or tiring with Arsenal and the game against Borusia Dortmunf will be a definite win for  Dortmund.  

This is my analysis of this group within the champions league, therefore, from first to last, here below is the standing after 6 games: 

Borussia Dortmund,

Arsenal, 

Galatasaray, &

Anderletch.  

What do you think?

Sincerely. 

World Cup Semi Finals

World Cup Semi Finals

The semi-finals of the prestigious World Cup have the following match-ups:

Brazil vs Germany 

&

Argentina vs Holland 

These will be exciting games. 

   Brazil

   Germany

   Argentina

   Holland

Hopefully you will make time to watch these games.  

Sincerely, 

2014 World Cup Tournament

2014 World Cup Tournament 

          Jesus is messi'n around

I really like this drawing, well done...

Sincerely,

Ben

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World Cup Balls

World Cup Balls

   1974

   1978

   1982

   1986

   1990

   1994

   1998

   2002

   2006

   2010

I saw these balls displayed at Sport Check, west Edmonton mall location.  

Enjoy, 

Ben

2014 World Cup Draw

2014 World Cup Draw

The FIFA 2014 World Cup, will be played in Brazil in June of 2014.  The Final Draw for setting up of the 'Groups' for this tournament will take place at the city of Costa do Sauipe, which is near the city of Salvador, in Brazil. 

The 'Draw' will be completed on December 6, 2013.  

The 'Pots' are listed below, and the way it works is like this.  

There will be 1 country picked per pot, to form 8 groups of 4 teams.  A look at the Pots, shows that there will be interesting and difficult match-ups  lurking for us viewers.  

Pot 1: Brazil, Spain, Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Belgium, Uruguay and Switzerland.

Pot 2: USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Japan, Iran, South Korea and Australia.

Pot 3: Chile, Ecuador, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Algeria, Nigeria, Cameroon, France

Pot 4: Netherlands, Italy, England, Portugal, Greece, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Russia.

I'm looking forward to the draw and finally, the World Cup. 

Happy viewing to everyone in the World.