Tottenham Hotspur vs Inter Milan | The UEFA Europa League 2013

Tottenham Hotspur vs Inter Milan, The UEFA Europa League 2013 live on Thursday 07 March 2013 at 20:05 (GMT 0).

Tottenham Hotspur welcome Internazionale to White Hart Lane on Thursday night. The two clubs met in the Champions League in 2010 and, unsurprisingly given it has been over two years since then, bounty has updated for both.

Their presence in the Europa League instead of Europe's head club competition is one marker of adapted conditions, especially in Inter Milan's case. The grandiose statures the Nerazzurri arrived at at the turn of the decade have given path to harsher substances of the present monetary atmosphere.

Club president Massimo Moratti is keeping tabs on constructing a more tolerable Inter, and for the time being that has implied an unavoidable weakening of assets for current director Andrea Stramaccioni.

Still, the side that will venture out to North London still control some important talent (a couple of whom were sketched out here, prior without much fanfare). Despite the fact that without harmed first-group regulars Diego Milito and Yuto Nagatomo, dissident forward Antonio Cassano is back in discord in the wake of missing the Catania diversion last weekend.

Prone to be in advance nearby Cassano is the in-structure Rodrigo Palacio, while veteran Argentinian pair Javier Zanetti and Esteban Cambiasso ought to be in tow as well. For all the aforementioned players, victory in the Europa League is an opportunity to help the football planet to remember Inter's importance even in this similar down-spell for the club.

Tottenham supervisor Andre Villas-Boas knows the Milanese club are still an outfit to be considered exceptionally important.

In this manner far they have agreeably advanced through the rivalry, thumping out Romania's Cluj 5-0 on total in the Round of 32. Entomb's main genuine goof returned away at Rubin Kazan in the assembly stage—few however might savor a trek to Russia in late November. Villas-Boas, who worked in Italy for a time as a part of Jose Mourinho's staff, had this to state concerning his group's rivals.

Pakhtakor Tashkent vs Al Ittifaq Dammam | Football AFC Asian Champions League 2013

Pakhtakor Tashkent vs Al Ittifaq Dammam, Football AFC Asian Champions League, live match on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 11:00 GMT.

FC Pakhtakor Tashkent is an Uzbek professional football club, based in the capital Tashkent. Pakhtakor means cotton-grower in English.

Pakhtakor was the only Uzbek club to play in the top-level Soviet football league and was the only Central Asian club to appear in a Soviet Cup final. Playing in the Uzbek League since 1992, the club has been the undisputed powerhouse in Uzbekistan since the fall of the Soviet Union, winning eight Uzbek League titles, including six in a row from 2002–2007. Pakhtakor also won seven consecutive domestic cups between 2001–2007, winning eleven cups in total. Players for the club have won Uzbek footballer of the Year honours eight times, and Pakhtakor teammates swept the top three spots in 2002. Club managers have been named Uzbek coach of the year twice.

The team is also a perennial competitor in the AFC Champions League, having reached the semi-finals of the competition twice in 2003 and 2004.

Ettifaq FC or Al-Ettifaq Club is a Saudi Arabian professional football club based in Dammam. 'Ittifaq' is Arabic for cooperation. Al Ettifaq was established after the merging of three clubs in the City of Dammam at the year 1944. Al Ettifaq is the first Saudi team to win an international title - the 1984 Arab Club Champions Cup. Al Ettifaq is also the first team to win the Saudi Premier League without any defeat. Al Ettifaq is also the first side from Saudi Arabia to win the Gulf Champions Cup. Al Ettifaq have a total of 13 different titles to their name.

After failing to qualify to the group stage of the 2012 AFC Champions League, Al-Ettifaq qualified automatically to the 2012 AFC Cup, and were drawn in Group C with Kuwait SC of Kuwait, Al Ahed of Lebanon, and VB Sports Club of the Maldives.

Al Ettifaq started the competition as favorites and a strong candidate to win the competition, winning 5-1 in their first group game against Kuwait SC in Kuwait. The second game was frustrating to the Saudis as they drew in their own stadium 0-0 with Al Ahed. They defeated the underdogs of the group VB Sports Club by 6-3 in the Maldives and 2-0 in the reverse fixture. Al Ettifaq sealed their promotion with a 2-2 draw against Kuwait SC before finishing the group with a 3-1 victory in Lebanon against Al Ahed.

Al Ettifaq finished off their season with a hard-fought 1-0 victory against Omani side Al-Suwaiq SC in the Round of 16 to progress to the quarter-finals of the tournament.

FC Seoul vs Jiangsu Sainty FC | Football AFC Asian Champions League 2013

FC Seoul vs Jiangsu Sainty FC, Football AFC Asian Champions League, live match on Tuesday, 26 February 013 at 10:30 GMT.

FC Seoul is a South Korean professional football club based in Seoul, South Korea, that plays in the K League Classic. It is currently owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group.

The club was officially founded as Lucky-Goldstar FC in 1983, by the Lucky-Goldstar Group. FC Seoul have won 5 League titles, 2 League Cups and 1 FA Cup. FC Seoul is one of the most successful and the most popular club and in the K League Classic, with financial backing from the GS Group. Also, 2012, FC Seoul was evaluated that club had most valuable football brands in K League Classic. FC Seoul are the reigning 2012 K-League winners.

On August 25, 2010, FC Seoul beat Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 3–0 to become the 2010 K-League Cup winner. FC Seoul were also crowned K-League champions as a 2–1 win over Jeju United in the second leg of the play-off series final saw them triumph 4–3 on aggregate in K-League Championship final, thus, achieving their first double in FC Seoul's history. The crowd of 56,769 at the 2nd leg also set the record of the highest attendance in K-League Championship history.

Jiangsu Sainty Football Club is a professional Chinese professional football club based in Nanjing, who currently participates in the Chinese Super League while playing their home matches in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. The team was originally founded in 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team while the current professional football team was established in March 1994. They were also one of the founding members of the first fully professional first tier league in China, the Chinese Jia-A League, however they would struggle within the league until they won promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 2008 season. They would then go on to achieve their best ever league finish when they ended up being runners-up at the end of the 2012 season.

The 2012 Jiangsu Sainty season is Jiangu Sainty's 4th consecutive season in the Chinese Super League after promotion in the 2008 season. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup that year, getting knocked out in that competition.

Vegalta Sendai vs Buriram United | Football AFC Asian Champions League 2013

Vegalta Sendai vs Buriram United, Football AFC Asian Champions League, live match played on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 10:00 GMT.

Vegalta Sendai is a Japanese professional football (soccer) club, currently playing in J. League Division 1. The team is located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Their home stadium is Yurtec Stadium Sendai, in Izumi-ku, Sendai, although a few home games have also been played at nearby Miyagi Stadium.

They were first promoted to the top flight in 2002, but went back down the following season. They were promoted again for the 2010 season.

In 2011, despite the earthquake and tsunami, they achieved their highest position up to that time, 4th place in the top division. In 2012, despite leading the table for most of the season, Sanfrecce Hiroshima's challenge proved too strong, and losing the penultimate week game to relegation battler Albirex Niigata cost them the title, rendering them second place winners, their highest position in history.

Buriram United (Thai: สโมสรฟุตบอลบุรีรัมย์ ยูไนเต็ด), formerly Buriram P.E.A. Football Club, is a professional Thai football club based in Buriram province. The club has played at the top level of Thai football for the majority of their existence and currently competing in the Thai Premier League. The club was founded in 1970 and their new home stadium is New i-mobile Stadium which currently has a capacity of 24,000.

Buriram United won their first Thai Premier League title in 2008, and the Khǒr Royal Cup in 1998 as PEA FC (Provincial Electricity Authority Football Club). The club was previously based in Ayutthaya before moving east to Buriram for the 2010 season. In season 2011, Buriram PEA won triple champions (2011 Thai Premier League, 2011 Thai FA Cup, and 2011 Thai League Cup) in Thailand.

On 2012 season, Buriram finished the season ranked fourth in 2012 Thai Premier League and won the 2012 Thailand FA Cup was won 2-1 Army,Buriram right to AFC Champions League qualifier in 2013 and won the Toyota League Cup was won a 4-1 Ratchaburi F.C., which is a double champion in Thailand.

Deportivo Pereira vs Union Magdalena | Football Colombia Primera Divisio 2013

Football Colombia Primera Divisio, Deportivo Pereira vs Union Magdalena live match on Tuesday, 26 February 3012 at 01:10 GMT.

The Asociación Deportiva Unión Magdalena is a Colombian soccer team founded in 1950 as "Los Samarios" (April 19) and based in Santa Marta. The original playing squad was largely composed of Hungarians who were touring Colombia when their club disbanded.[1] It has only won one championship, in 1968 against Deportivo Cali in the final. Red and blue stripes compose its shirt. It is also nicknamed "El Ciclón Bananero" in Colombia, arguably after San Lorenzo de Almagro, which uniform design shares.

Deportivo Pereira is a Colombian soccer team based in Pereira, Risaralda, Colombia. It was founded in 1944. They play in the Colombian Second Division (Categoría Primera B) and their home stadium is Estadio Hernán Ramírez Villegas.

In 1991, Colombia's Dimayor decided to modify the tournament so the Second Division's champion would be promoted to First Division and the Last Team from The First Division would be demoted to Second Division. In 1995, the team got a decent sixth place that placed it comfortably far from Second Division. However, During 1997's tournament, the team was demoted to Second Division and it had to remain in Second Division during 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Led by coach Walter Aristizabal and stars like Rafael Castillo, Hernan Dario Cardona, Daniel Velez and Jairo Serna, the team won the Second Division tournament in the year 2000, and returned to First Division. Since then, the team has reached three First Division semifinals, and achieved fourth place during 2003's tournament.

In 2007, the team finished second to last and had to play against Academia for the Second Division's Demotion/Promotion game. Deportivo Pereira was able to keep its place in the First Division, beating Academia 4 to 2, thanks to striker Óscar Restrepo.

By the end of 2008, and after a splendid season, the club's democratization process was started. After several months of legal processes, the team was confirmed by the División Mayor del Fútbol Colombiano (Dimayor) and the Federación Colombiana de Fútbol as the Deportivo Pereira S.A..

On November 6, 2011, Deportivo Pereira lost its First Division status by losing in Ibagué 1-0 against Deportes Tolima.

Pereira has recently achieved a record to get into the second half of the season 2012 Categoría Primera B season a total of 43 points, making it the first team to have achieved this number.

Lazio vs Pescara | Italy - Serie A

Lazio vs Pescara, Italy - Serie A, live match played on Monday, 25 February 2013 at 20:00 GMT.

Lazio have failed to win in five games as they struggle to score goals in the absence of star striker Miroslav Klose.

A first return to Lazio as a Serie A coach should be a joyous occasion for a man who spent seven happy years as a player in Rome, but Bergodi has other things on his mind.

This week Lazio president Claudio Lotito warned potential suitors away from Petkovic, who has defied his modest reputation to lead an unlikely charge for the Scudetto.

While Cristiano Bergodi battles to secure his own future as Pescara coach by keeping the club in Serie A, his Lazio counterpart has been promised a long career at the Stadio Olimpico if he wants to stay.

All the signs indicate Vladimir Petkovic has significantly less pressure on his shoulders than Bergodi, with the Biancocelesti riding high in the league table ahead of Monday's meeting of the two sides, but reports in Italy suggest the Bosnian is not entirely happy in the Italian capital.

Pescara, meanwhile, are in the bottom three and five points from safety having lost five games from six, but have given their backing to Bergodi, for the time being.

Pescara are missing Damiano Zanon, Manuele Blasi and Vladimir Weiss through suspension while Gaetano D'Agostino, Juan Quintero and Ferdinando Sforzini continue to nurse injuries.

FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid, Semi Final - Leg 2 | 2013 Copa Del Rey

FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid Semi Final - Leg 2, 2013 Copa Del Rey, live match played on February 27, 2013.

1st leg was draw between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. Barcelona has been changed owing to its prior actions not perform so good that they are doing from recent matches.

The FC Barcelona team have lost the game against the team of AC Milan. Barcelona won thier match against Sevilla FC, ​​but now their game rivlary which nothing is then a matter win. Barcelona are among of the top teams and know whom are faced.

Real Madrid made their game against the Man United, but it still hopefull to obtain another victory against FC Barcelona opposition. Cristiano Ronaldo is in great form and improved goal ratio over the past few weeks following Lionel Messi.

FC Barcelona will be a typical team this weekend that make space for Madrid. Barcelona has left no option to leave the game into the hands of Madrid they need to build pressure on the opposition to score some early goals. Lionel Messi, Xavi and Iñesta must do game better movements to give a cross creaditablity and goes to the other players to complete the match.

Both Ronaldo and Messi have scored four goals in four games since the Clasico. Madrid has only allowed three goals and has pitched one clean sheet since the Clasico while Barcelona has conceded five and has not had a shutout.

Since the start of the 2012-13 there have been four Clasicos. Barcelona won the first leg of the Spanish Super Cup 3-2. Madrid won the return by the score of 2-1. In November the two teams battled to a 2-2 draw that saw Messi and Ronaldo score two goals apiece. The latest matchup was the first leg of the Copa Del Rey. The teams play on Feb. 26 at the Camp Nou and then face off  on March 2 for the third Clasico of 2013.

Italy - Serie A: Udinese vs Napoli 26 Feb 2013 Match Preview

Italy - Serie A, Udinese vs Napoli live match played on February 25, 2013, kick off: 6:00 p.m. GMT, at Stadio Communale Friuli — Udine.

Udinese have only lost 7 matches all season, the same number as AC Milan, Lazio, and Fiorentina. And at the Stadio Friuli they’ve only lost once in 12 matches. It’s really their road form which is keeping them down the table in 9th place.

But Inler feels victory in Udine, where the Swiss spent four years before moving south, will inspire the Azzurri to greater things in the Scudetto run-in.

Udinese defender Mehdi Benatia, meanwhile, is still angry after missing a gilt-edged chance to earn his side a point against Genoa last time out.

The Bianconeri missed Benatia while he was at the African Nations Cup with Morocco but they might have wished he had stayed away when he failed to notch from an easy one-on-one with Sebastien Frey.

Udinese have won four consecutive league games at home, though, and Benatia is urging a fifth against Napoli this weekend.

Napoli has just one competition left, Serie A, and only 13 matches left in until the summer break. This is crunch time, and expect nothing to be held back, even with Juve waiting with one more day’s rest.

Gornik Zabrze vs GKS Piast Gliwice | Football Poland T-Mobile Ekstraklasa

Football Poland T-Mobile Ekstraklasa, Gornik Zabrze vs GKS Piast Gliwice live match on Monda, 25 February 2013 at 17:30 GMT.

Górnik Zabrze (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡurɲiɡ ˈzabʐɛ]) is a Polish football club from Zabrze. The club has won numerous championships, and was a dominant force in the 1960s and 1980s. For now Górnik has the most titles in Poland. The club plays in white or dark blue-red kit, and is based at the Ernest Pohl Stadium. Their main local rival is Ruch Chorzów.

Between 1985 and 1988 Górnik again marked a magnificent streak, with four consecutive championships. Zabrze's side also played versus renowned European powerhouses, such as Bayern Munich, Anderlecht, Hamburger SV, Juventus and Real Madrid.

In 1994 Górnik competed again for the title and with players as Jerzy Brzęczek, Grzegorz Mielcarski, Tomasz Wałdoch, hopes were high. Before the last round of the league the standings at the top were: Legia 47 points and Górnik 45 points. Since the two teams were to face each other in Warsaw, Górnik still had a chance to win the title. However the game ended in a 1-1 tie which gave Legia the crown. Before Legia scored the goal which gave her the title (the score 0-1 would mean the title for Gornik), the referee of the match - Mr Redzinski - sent off one by one 3 players from Gornik's squad, and Gornik had to finished match with only 8 players against 11 players of Legia. It was the last match in Mr Redzinski's career.

In the same year Górnik played its last so far game in European Cups, losing to Admira Wacker Vienna.

In the spring of 2007 Górnik got a new sponsor - German insurance company Allianz. However, after finishing 16th in the Ekstraklasa in 2008-09, the club was relegated to the Polish First League, the 2nd level of Polish football, during the 2009-10 season. In June 2010, the club earned promotion back to the Ekstraklasa for the 2010-11 season.

Gliwicki Klub Sportowy Piast Gliwice (Polish pronunciation: [ˈpʲast ɡliˈvit͡sɛ]) is a Polish football club based in Gliwice, Poland. Founded in June 1945 by the Poles who had been forced to leave their homeland in present-day Western Ukraine, Piast's football team played as many as 32 seasons in the Polish Second Division, before finally being promoted to the Ekstraklasa in 2008. Having played two seasons in the top division, the club was relegated in 2010. Piast have twice (1978, 1983) managed to reach the final of the Cup of Poland, losing on both occasions. The club's name comes from the Piast dynasty, which ruled Poland from its beginnings as an independent state in the 10th century, until 1370.

Rheindorf Altach vs Grödig | Football Austria Erste Liga

Football Austria Erste Liga, Rheindorf Altach vs Grödig live match played on Monday, 25 February 2013 at 17:30 GMT.

SC Rheindorf Altach is an Austrian association football team based in Altach, Vorarlberg. The club is currently also known as Cashpoint SC Rheindorf Altach due to sponsorship of Austrian sports betting company Cashpoint.

The club was founded on 26 December 1929 as the football section of the gymnastics and sports club Turnerbund Altach. In 1930, they started to compete in the Vorarlberger B-Klasse as FA Turnerbund Altach, but the club temporarily ceased to exist in 1937 and was not reorganised until the foundation of the Sportvereinigung Altach sports society on 1 March 1946. The sports society ceased to exist in 1949, with its football section becoming independent on 5 March 1949 and renaming itself to Sportclub Rheindorf Altach.

They finished first in the third-division Regionalliga West three times to be promoted to the second-division 1st League, but were twice relegated back to the third division. After their third promotion in the 2003–04 season, the club managed to establish itself in the second division and was eventually promoted to the first-division Bundesliga after finishing first in the second-division 1st League in the 2005–06 season, securing the promotion with a 1–0 win over Austria Lustenau in the second-last match of the season.

Sportverein Grödig is an Austrian association football club from Grödig. The team currently competes in the Austrian First League, the second highest league in Austrian football.

Kayseri Erciyesspor vs TKİ Tavşanlı | Football Turkey TFF 1.Lig

Football Turkey TFF 1.Lig, Kayseri Erciyesspor vs TKİ Tavşanlı live match played on Monday, 25 February 2013 at 17:00 GMT.

TKİ Tavşanlı Linyitspor is a sports club located in Tavşanlı, Kütahya province, Turkey. The football club plays in the TFF First League. In 2009-2010 season of second league, they promoted to Bank Asya 1.Lig after play-off matches.

Kayseri Erciyesspor is a Turkish sports club based in Kayseri from the year 1966 Kayseri Erciyesspor currently plays in TFF 1. League. On 2004, Kayserispor switched names with Erciyesspor. Even though Erciyesspor finished league in 17th place and got relegated, they were still able to play in the 2007-08 UEFA Cup because they reached the Turkish Cup final in 2007.

Kayserispor stayed in second level until of 2003-2004 season. After the season Kayseri Erciyesspor promoted to Super League. Before the start of 2004-2005 season, 2 teams of Kayseri switched their names, chairmans and managers. Thus, Kayserispor became Kayseri Erciyesspor and changed their colours as blue-black. They finished 2nd level as 3rd and thus returned to top level after 7 seasons. They finished Super League with respectable 10th place in 2005-2006 season. But they were relegated to second level end of the following season despite becoming runner-ups to Turkey Cup, went to Beşiktaş. Since 2007, Kayseri Erciyesspor has played in First League.

League participations:

Turkish Super League: 1973–75, 1979–80, 1985–86, 1992–96, 1997–98, 2005–07
TFF First League: 1966–73, 1975–79, 1980–85, 1986–89, 1991–92, 1996–97, 1998–05, 2007–
TFF Second League: 1989–91

Zbrojovka Brno vs Viktoria Plzen | Football Czech Republic Gambrinus Liga

Football Czech Republic Gambrinus Liga, Zbrojovka Brno vs Viktoria Plzen live match on Tuesday, 25 February 2013 at 17:00 GMT

FC Viktoria Plzeň is a Czech professional football club based in Plzeň. They currently play in the Gambrinus liga, the top division of football in the country. As runners up in the 1970–71 Czechoslovak Cup they gained the right to play in the following season's UEFA Cup Winners' Cup as winners Spartak Trnava also won the championship and played in the European Cup. In 2010, they played in the UEFA Europa League after winning the 2009–10 Czech Cup. In 2011, the club won the Czech league for the first time,[2] and participated in the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League group stage, during which they won their first Champions League match, earning five points and qualifying for the Round of 32 in the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.

FC Zbrojovka Brno is a professional football club based in the city of Brno, Czech Republic. Founded in 1913 as SK Židenice, the club later became known as Zbrojovka Brno. Brno won the Czechoslovak First League in the 1977–78 season and finished as runners-up in 1979–80.

Brno have competed a number of times in European competitions, reaching the second round of the 1978–79 European Cup in their only appearance to date in the competition. The club played in the 1993–94 European Cup Winners' Cup but lost in the first round.

Brno took part in the UEFA Cup three times, reaching the quarter finals in 1979/80 and also playing in 1980/81 and 1997/98.

Brno played five times in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, reaching the quarter finals in 1963–64. They competed in the Mitropa Cup three times before World War II, reaching the quarter finals in 1935.

Astra Giurgiu vs FC Viitorul Constanta | Football Romania Liga 1

Astra Giurgiu vs Viitorul Constanţa live on  Monday, 25 February, 2013, Kick-off: 18:00 (GMT+2), Stadium: Stadionul Astra, Competition: Romania – Liga I.

Astra Giurgiu are undefeated in their last 9 home matches in Liga I. Fotbal Club Astra Giurgiu is a Romanian professional football club from Giurgiu, Giurgiu County, Romania. They were founded in 1934 and spent their vast majority in the lower leagues, only recently achieving some performances. They are currently playing in the country's top league, Liga I, after obtaining the promotion in 2009. Astra Giurgiu was known as Astra Ploiești until September 2012 when it was moved from Ploieşti to Giurgiu, by owner Ioan Niculae. The traditional colors of the team are white and black.

FC Viitorul Constanta have failed to win their last 6 matches in Liga I. Viitorul Constanța is a Romanian professional football club from Constanţa, Constanţa County, south-east Romania, founded in 2009. They currently play in the Liga I, after coming second in Liga II Seria I in the 2010-2011 season. Before that, they finished 1st in the Liga III, Seria II in the 2009-2010 season. Recently, the club promoted to the top Romanian league, Liga I, after a 2-0 victory over Săgeata Năvodari on June 2, 2012.