Serie A Team of the Season: Pirlo, Ibrahimovic & Di Natale star in the 2011-12 campaign

We choose the best XI from the Italian top flight campaign that came to a conclusion on Sunday, with Juventus winning the Scudetto in unbeaten fashion

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Serie A Team of the Season: Pirlo, Ibrahimovic & Di Natale star in the 2011-12 campaign

Chivas USA at San Jose on Saturday

Chivas USA takes on the high-scoring Earthquakes in San Jose on Saturday. When: 4

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Chivas USA at San Jose on Saturday

Podolski, Reus & the nominees for Goal.com's Bundesliga Player of the Season

Monchengladbach’s saviour & Koln’s hometown hero are among those in the running to claim the honour of the best footballer in the German top flight this term

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Podolski, Reus & the nominees for Goal.com's Bundesliga Player of the Season

Bologna bury Genoa to boost Serie A survival hopes

Bologna virtually assured their Serie A status Sunday with a 3-2 win over Genoa, whose future in Italy’s top flight could be determined by Lecce in their later match with Parma.

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Kaiserslautern's Bulgarian Coach Misses Out on 'Juicy Bonus'

As Kaiserslautern players resigned to the fact they will be relegated from the Bundesliga, their recently appointed Bulgarian coach had to resign to missing out on a EUR 100 000 bonus, media reports say. Balakov and his assistant Iliya Gruev were to receive the juicy bonus if they had managed to keep the southern Germans in the country’s top flight, a mammoth task, which even local commentators …

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Serie A Team of the Week Round 31: Jovetic makes third appearance after plotting Milan downfall as Bonucci debuts

Goal.com picks the best performers from Italy’s top flight as the defender was excellent at both ends of the pitch and the Montenegro international dealt the Rossoneri a setback

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Serie A Team of the Week Round 31: Jovetic makes third appearance after plotting Milan downfall as Bonucci debuts

Norwich City Powerchair FC flying high after promotion

A disability football team from Norwich have emulated their Canary counterparts from Carrow Road by winning promotion to the national top flight.

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Norwich City Powerchair FC flying high after promotion

Cause for concern

Munich – The Bundesliga action gets under way again in style this Friday when Borussia Mönchengladbach play host to Bayern Munich. The 18 top-flight clubs now have just a few days left to fine-tune their fitness and strategies for the campaign run-in.

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Cause for concern

Wins for Hamburg and Freiburg, Hannover lose

Munich – A week ahead of the Bundesliga restart, three top-flight clubs were in friendly action on Saturday. Here’s how they got on.

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Wins for Hamburg and Freiburg, Hannover lose

Freiburg and Sorg part ways

Freiburg – SC Freiburg’s poor first half of the season, which has left them languishing at the bottom of the table, has culminated in the departure of head coach Marcus Sorg. It is the first time the Breisgau club have ever released a coach in the top flight before the end of a contract and means that assistant boss Christian Streich will take over with immediate effect.

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Freiburg and Sorg part ways

Man City beats Stoke 3-0 in Premier League

Manchester City ensured it will spend Christmas Day as leader of the of the English top flight for the first time since 1929 after Sergio Aguero scored twice Wednesday to help secure a 3-0 win over Stoke. Aguero opened the scoring in the 29th minute and Adam Johnson, who started a league game for the first time in over two months, added the second in the 36th to give City a commanding halftime…

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