AC MILAN

Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to as AC Milan and as just Milan in Italy, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. The club was founded in 1899 by English lace-maker Herbert Kilpin and five other Englishmen and has since spent most of its history in the top flight of Italian football (only two years in Serie B in the eighties).

The team's current stadium is the 80,018 seat San Siro, officially known as Stadio Giuseppe Meazza after the former player who represented both Milan and Internazionale. The name San Siro is taken from the district where it's located. The stadium is shared with Internazionale, the other major football club in Milan. The stadium is well known for its fantastic atmosphere due to the closeness of the stands to the pitch. There is the frequent use of flares by the fans which often cause trouble.

AC Milan players:

12 Christian Abbiati	M32 David Beckham
G1 Dida	M14 Mathias Cardaccio
G16 Zeljko Kalac	M5 Emerson
D77 Luca Antonini	M84 Mathieu Flamini
D25 Daniele Bonera	M8 Ivan Gennaro Gattuso
D36 Matteo Darmian	M22 Kaká
D19 Giuseppe Favalli	M53 Nicola Pasini
D53 Denis Fondrini	M52 Jordan Pedrocchi
D18 Marek Jankulovski	M21 Andrea Pirlo
D4 Kakha Kaladze	M10 Clarence Seedorf
D3 Paolo Maldini	M51 Rodney Strasser
D Felipe	M20 Tabaré Viudez
D13 Alessandro Nesta	M54 Osuji Wilfred
D55 Alessandro Ruggeri	F11 Marco Borriello
D24 Philippe Senderos	F7 Pato
D33 Thiaguinho	F80 Ronaldinho
D15 Gianluca Zambrotta	F9 Filippo Inzaghi
M23 Massimo Ambrosini	F76 Andriy Shevchenko

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Arsenal! ! THE GUNNERSS

Arsenal Football Club (often simply known as Arsenal or The Arsenal, or by their nickname The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in Holloway, North London. They play in the Premier League and are one of the most successful clubs in English football, having won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles and ten FA Cups, and hold the record for the longest uninterrupted period in the English top flight.

For the majority of their time in south-east London, Arsenal played at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, a three-year period at the nearby Invicta Ground between 1890 and 1893 excepted. The Manor Ground was initially just a field, until the club installed stands and terracing in time for their first Football League match in September 1893. They played their home games there for the next twenty years (with two exceptions in 1894–95), until the move to north London in 1913.
Arsenal Stadium, widely referred to as Highbury, was Arsenal's home from September 1913 until May 2006.

Arsenal Players:

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MAN UNITED!! Red Devils

Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at Old Trafford in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is one of the most popular football clubs in the world. The club was a founding member of the Premiere League in 1992.

Manchester United are the most successful Premier League club having won the title 10 times. It all began in 1993 when manager Sir Alex Ferguson ended a 26-year wait to lift the Premier League crown.

Man U won several trophies including League Cup, Title, FA Cup, Super Cup, Charity and Community Shield.

Here are some Man U players..

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Chelsea F.C.. Chelsea! Chelsea!

Chelsea Football Club has been good at celebrating special anniversaries. The year 2005 saw us reach the major milestone of 100 years-old. What better way was there to mark the centenary than by becoming champions of England for the second time in our existence?

Chelsea's home stadium is called Stamford Bridge and has a history as varied and unique as the team itself.
The current capacity stands at 42,055 and the ground has gone from being a huge oval shape to 4 sides close to the pitch. There is almost no part of the current stadium that hasn't markedly changed in the past 10 years with only the old Shed wall remaining of the original stadium. As well as all the work on the stadium itself the whole 12.5 acre site has seen the building of 2 four star hotels, 5 restaurants, conference and banqueting facilities, nightclub, underground car park, health club and business centre. It has come a long long way since the original athletics venue was first built in 1876!

Chelsea won several trophies including League Cup, Title, FA Cup, Super Cup, Charity and Community Shield.

Chelsea Players are versatile and strong players hungry for goals in order for the team to won every matches that they played. Famous Chelsea players includes:

	Goalkeeper	Petr Cech
2	Defender	Branislav Ivanović
3	Defender	Ashley Cole
5	Midfielder	Michael Essien
6	Defender	Ricardo Carvalho
8	Midfielder	Frank Lampard (vice-captain)
9	Forward	Franco Di Santo
10	Midfielder	Joe Cole
11	Forward	Didier Drogba
12	Midfielder	John Obi Mikel
13	Midfielder	Michael Ballack
15	Midfielder	Florent Malouda
17	Defender	José Bosingwa
18	Forward	Ricardo Quaresma
19	Defender	Paulo Ferreira
20	Midfielder	Deco
21	Forward	Salomon Kalou
26	Defender	John Terry (captain)
27	Goalkeeper	Rhys Taylor
30	Defender	Alex
33	Defender	Alex
35	Defender	Juliano Belletti
39	Striker	Nicolas Anelka
40	Goalkeeper	Henrique Hilario
42	Defender	Michael Mancienne
43	Midfielder	Miroslav Stoch
47	Midfielder	Lee Sawyer
48	Forward	Gael Kakuta

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Italian Seria A

Serie A (officially known as the Serie A TIM, for sponsorship reasons) is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the Italian football league system. It is widely regarded as one of the elite leagues of the footballing world. Historically, Serie A has produced the highest number of European Cup finalists. In total Italian clubs have reached the final of the competition on a record of twenty-five different occasions, winning the title eleven times. As of 2008, Serie A is ranked third among European leagues by UEFA, based on the performance of Italian clubs in the Champions League and the UEFA Cup, and second in the IFFHS rating.

In its current format, the Italian Football Championship was revised from having regional and interregional rounds, to just one solid league for the 1929–30 season onwards; the Serie A system carries on today. The championship titles won before 1929 are officially recognised by FIGC as a championship in the same way the ones since then are.

The league hosts some of the world's most famous clubs: Juventus, Milan, Internazionale, Roma, Napoli, Fiorentina, Lazio, Genoa and Torino. Juventus, Milan and Inter were all founding members of the G-14 a group representing the largest and most prestigious European football clubs; Serie A was the only league to produce three founding members. More players have won the coveted Ballon d'Or award while playing at a Serie A club than any other league in the world. Milan is one of two clubs with the most official international titles in the world. Juventus, the most successful Italian team, is tied for third in Europe and tied sixth in the world in the same ranking. They are also the only club on the planet to have won all official club competitions.

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Spanish La Liga

The Primera División (First Division) of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional (Professional Football League), commonly known as La Liga or Liga BBVA since 2008, is the top professional football league in Spain. It is contested by 20 teams, with the three lowest placed teams relegated to the Segunda División and replaced by the top three teams in that division. La Liga is one of the top national football leagues in the world, currently ranked second in Europe behind the FA Premier League. It has been ranked as the top European league by UEFA more than any other European league.

A total of 58 teams have competed in La Liga, nine of which have been crowned champions. Since the 1950s, Real Madrid and Barcelona have dominated the championship. The former have won the title 31 times while the latter have won it on 18 occasions. However, during the 1930s and 1940s and in the last two decades, La Liga has seen other champions including Atlético Madrid, Athletic Bilbao, Valencia, Sevilla, Deportivo La Coruña, Real Sociedad and Real Betis.

La Liga is one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the world, with an average attendance of 29,029 for league matches in the 2007-2008 season. This is the eighth highest of any domestic professional sports league in the world and the third highest of any professional football league, behind the Bundesliga and the Premier League.

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English Premier League

The Premier League is an English professional league for football clubs. At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. It is contested by 20 clubs, operating a system of promotion and relegation with The Football League. The Premier League is a corporation in which the 20 member clubs act as shareholders. Seasons run from August to May, with teams playing 38 games each. It is sponsored by Barclays Bank, and is therefore officially known as the Barclays Premier League.

The competition formed as the FA Premier League on 20 February 1992 following the decision of clubs in the Football League First Division to break away from The Football League, which was originally founded in 1888, and take advantage of a lucrative television rights deal. The Premier League has since become the world's most watched sporting leagueIt is the world's most lucrative football league, with combined club revenues of around £1.4 billion in 2005–06, which are expected to rise to around £1.8 billion for 2007–08 due to media revenues.It is also ranked first in the UEFA rankings of leagues based on performances in European competitions over the last five-years, ahead of Spain's La Liga and Italy's Serie A

A total of 42 clubs have competed in the Premier League, but only four have won the title: Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Arsenal, and Chelsea. The current champions are Manchester United, who won their tenth Premier League title in the 2007–08 season, the most of any Premier League team.

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UEFA Champions League

The UEFA Champions League (usually referred to as simply the Champions League or less frequently as the European Cup) is an annual football cup competition organised by UEFA since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. It is the most prestigious club trophy in European football.

Prior to 1992 the tournament was officially called the European Champion Clubs' Cup but was usually referred to as simply the European Cup or European Champions' Cup. The competition was initially a straight knockout competition open only to the champion club of each country. During the 1990s the tournament began to be expanded, incorporating a round-robin group phase and more teams. Europe's strongest national leagues now provide up to four teams each for the competition. The UEFA Champions League is not to be confused with the UEFA cup.

The tournament consists of several stages. In the present format it begins in mid-July with three knockout qualifying rounds. The 16 surviving teams join 16 seeded teams in the group stage, in which there are eight groups consisting of four teams each. The eight group winners and eight runners-up enter the final knockout phase, which ends with the final match in May.

The title has been won by 21 different clubs, 12 of which have won the title more than once. The all-time record-holder is Real Madrid, who have won the competition nine times, including the first five seasons it was contested. Since AC Milan successfully retained the trophy in 1990, no club has managed consecutive wins. The latest winner last season is Manchester United.

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