David Beckham will go from the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS to AC Milan of the Soccer Betting Italian League beginning in January. It will be a loan from the Galaxy to AC Milan. Much of the details remain unknown. “Terms of the agreement will remain confidential,” said the Major League Soccer and the Italian League.

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Beckham could join AC Milan in late December but it is more likely he will make his first appearance with the team in January. He will return to the Galaxy in March. “He’s going to be back in March, and we believe it’s right around March 1, and he will be available for our opening game,” Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena said, “I haven’t seen the exact details of the loan agreement yet . . . but we fully anticipate that this loan is for approximately two months. There’s a possibility he could go in December.”

The MLS season is expected to begin sometime between March 14th and March 28th. Beckham will be getting a lot of action considering he will probably be playing for England as well. England has a friendly against Slovakia in London on March 28. They then play a World Cup qualifier against Ukraine on April 1st. That is a lot of travel for Beckham. “I am fine with everything. I have a very good feel for the whole situation,” Arena said.

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Liverpool Eliminates Inter Milan. Four English Teams in Champions League Quarterfinals.

Liverpool took out Inter Milan on Tuesday in the Soccer Betting Champions League, winning the second leg 1-0 and completing the sweep of the Italian team. With their victory they join three other English teams in the Champions League quarterfinals. Liverpool won the title three years ago against AC Milan.

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Liverpool was not expected to win against Inter Milan who leads the Serie A League. It was expected that Manchester United would win against Lyon and they did. Chelsea didn’t have much trouble with Olympiakos and Arsenal defeated the defending champion, AC Milan. Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson said that the Premier League is the best soccer league in the world. “I think the Premier League is the strongest in Europe,” he said, “For a spell it was the Spanish league.

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CHAMPIONS LEAUGE MATCH: Arsenal vs. AC Milan

Current UEFA Champions League title holders AC Milan have a tough task ahead of them in the Round of 16 if they are hoping to defend their title. Italian Serie A club AC Milan are set to go up against English Premier League club Arsenal FC. While AC Milan have had some recent success by winning the FIFPro Club World Cup, their performance in the 2007-08 Italian Serie A is very disappointing. AC Milan is just 9th in the Italian Serie A standings.

Meanwhile, Arsenal has been on a great run so far this season, and have only suffered one loss in the English Premier League standings. Well, two losses, including their recent English League Cup semi-final loss to Tottenham Hotspur, losing to a score of 5-1.

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Italian Cup results: Inter Milan 3, Reggina 0

Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan crushed Reggina 3-0 in the 2nd leg of the Round of 16, winning 7-1 on aggregate, and advancing to the quarterfinals of the 2008 Italian Cup or 2008 Coppa Italia if you fancy the term cappucino instead of coffee.

The San Siro in Milan wasn’t filled to a capacity crowd, but those that attended the Italian Cup match between Inter Milan and Reggina were treated to a display of awesome football that resulted in 3 goals. Inter Milan striker Hernan Crespo scored the opening goal jsut a little past the half-hour mark. Reggina’s Emmanuel Cascione scored an own goal just before the break to extend Inter Milan’s advantage to 2-0. In injury time of the second half, Inter Milan’s Cesar Aparecido Rodrigues scored the 3rd goal to put the final scoreline at 3-0.

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Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan still maintain a stronghold at the top of the Italian Serie A standings, earning 3 more points after a 3-2 victory in Siena.

Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored two goals while Esteban Cambiasso also scored a goal to book the win against Siena. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored in the 26th minute on a penalty and in the 52nd on a powerful shot from outside the area.

“Ibrahimovic scored an extraordinary goal today,” Inter’s coach, Roberto Mancini, said of the striker’s second score. “He can do everything.”

Inter’s goalkeeper, Julio Cesar, made several difficult saves before Siena’s Fernando Forestieri scored in second-half injury time.

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“A great player cannot exist without a great team. If my performances have been good I owe much of it to my team mates who put me in the best conditions to do well. In Tokyo, it was the victory of Milan, not of Kaka. And we are all very happy about this victory which brought us on top of the world. Every individual performance is the result of the team’s work.” - Kaka, AC Milan midfielder

AC Milan midfielder Ricardo Izecson Dos Santos Leite, or better known around the world as KAKA, was just named as the 2007 FIFA World Player less than 48 hours after leading AC Milan to the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup championship. In a poll of national team coaches and captains, Kaka received 1,047 votes compared with 504 for 2nd top vote-getter FC Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, followed by Manchester United’s Cristiano Ronaldo who had 426 votes.

Kaka’s recent 2007 FIFA World Player Award is his third accolade this year, having won the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year and also collecting the Ballon d’Or. The 25-year old Kaka has helped AC Milan win the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League title, and was the top-scorer of last season’s tournament with 10 goals. Kaka also provided 2 assists and 1 goal as they beat Argentina Primera Division club Boca Juniors 4-2 to win the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup in Yokohama, Japan.

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AC Milan 4, Boca Juniors 2

UEFA Champions League champions and Italian Serie A giant AC Milan beat Argentina Primer Cisvision club Boca Juniors 4-2 in the finals of the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup held in the Yokohama Stadium in Japan. The FIFA Club World Cup tournament features some of the best football clubs in the world, particularly in Asia, Europe and South America. In previous years, the tournament has also been called the Toyota Cup or the Intercontinental Cup. However, in the past years, this prestigious tournament was called the FIFA Club World Cup.

In any case, AC Milan is the first European winner of the FIFA Club World Cup, although in history this is the fourth time that they’ve won the Intercontinental crown. Prior to the match both Boca Juniors and AC Milan each had 3 Intercontinental championships, but this victory of AC Milan over Boca Juniors has given them a 4th Intercontinental championship and a place in the football history books.

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Italian Serie A club AS Roma are favored to win against AC Torino in their match to compete for the Coppa Italia this coming December 20. 8 teams remain in the race for one of Italy’s most prestigious football titles.

Torino is currently at the bottom of the Italian Serie A standings. Torino is coached by Walter Novellino, who hopes to beat AS Roma through his pool of talents, which include the likes of Gianluca Comotto, Dominic Malonga, Nikola Lazetic, David Di Michele, Masahi Oguro and Alvaro Recoba.

AS Roma are second in the Italian Serie A standings with 33 points, 7 points behind Italian Serie A leaders Inter Milan with 40 points. AS Roma is coached by Luciano Spalleti, who will be looking on his pool of superstar footballers to beat Torino. Some of these superstars for AS Roma include: Philippe Mexes, Francesco Totti, Ludovic Giuly, Cicinho, Daniele De Rossi, David Pizarro and Christian Panucci.

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The group stage qualifiers have ended, and the first knockout round will kick off on February 2008 with the top 16 teams who advanced through the group stages by being among the top 2 of their respective group. Among the top 16 football clubs who qualified are: Portuguese Liga champions FC Porto, English Premiership club Liverpool, English Premier League club Chelsea, German Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04, Spanish La Liga champions Real Madrid, Super League Greece champions Olympiacos FC, UEFA Champions League title holders AC Milan, Scottish Premier League champions Celtic FC, Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona, French Ligue 1 champions Olympique Lyon, English Premiership champions Manchester United, Italian Serie A team AS Roma, Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan, Turkish Super Lig champions Fenerbahce SK, UEFA Cup champions and Spanish Super Cup champions Sevilla FC and English Premier League club Arsenal FC.

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Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan maintain their lead at the top of the Italian Serie A following a 2-0 victory against Fiorentina at Florence, Italy, over the weekend.

Inter Milan opened up the scoring in the 9th minute with a goal from Inter Milan midfielder Luis Antonio Jimenez, who received the pass from Inter Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Inter Milan’s Ibrahimovic played another asisst in the 44th minute to Inter Milan striker Julio Cruz who scored a goal to put Inter Milan up 2-0 against Fiorentina.

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