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Gerrard Pique shows his poker skills

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There is no secret that football players like Tomas Brolin, Jan Molby, Teddy Sheringham, Dwight Yorke and many others love poker. Gerrard Pique from Barcelona is another player that loves poker.

In his free time Piques participates at tournaments around the World. Last year the World Cup winner has participated at the 44th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event from Las Vegas. This year he did a good job at EPT 10 Barcelona. At the end of the first day he was among the best players.

There are a lot of footballers that play poker and casino online. For most of them is just a way having fun but there are cases when poker turned to be the priority. Pique supposedly won around €70000 from poker, a sum that he earns in less than a week at Barcelona.

The Spanish defender has started his career at Barcelona but made his professional debut at Manchester United in 2004. He returned to Barcelona in 2008 and since then he has won everything with his club and with the national team.

 

World Cup 2014 teams

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World Cup 2014 is getting closer and closer. There is only one game left to play from the qualifications group stage.
Tomorrow we will find out which European teams will play the play-offs for the last places at World Cup 2014.
From Europe Croatia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Romania, Turkey, Hungary, Iceland, Slovenia, Portugal, Greece, Ukraine and France are fighting for a spot in the play-offs. The second spot in the group does not guarantee a place into the elimination round as there are nine teams battling for four places. The worst placed second place will be eliminated. The draw is not random as there will be the first four teams against the other according to Fifa rankings.

There are 10 teams from Africa that will fight for five places. Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Egypt, Cameroon, Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso, and Cape Verde are the teams.

From the North America besides USA and Costa Rica which are already qualified, there are 2 more places, one qualification spot and a play-off spot.

Chile, Ecuador and Uruguay from South America are having big changes of qualification. Australia, Japan, South Korea and Iran qualified automatically. Another team will play against a team from a different continent.

According to bwin Brazil, Spain and Germany  are the favorites to win the trophy. Brazil, Italy and Germany are the teams that have won the trophy on most occasions with 5, 4 and 3 titles respectively.

Spain are the current holders but it’s hard to believe that they will manage to retain the title.

The teams that have already qualified for next year event are Brazil(guests), Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Iran, SUA, Costa Rica, Argentina and Columbia.
The tournament will start in June 12th and will last until 13th of July. The final will be played on Estadio do Maracana from Rio de Janeiro.

Will Richards leave City?

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Last season Micah Richards was decided to leave the club as he was the third option for the right back position after Pablo Zabaleta and Maicon.

The things have changed after Manuel Pellegrini took over the club as he is an adept of the rotation policy. Richards has not played in Premier League yet but started the game against Bayern Munchen in Champions League.

It look like the England international is satisfied with this rotation and he is determined to wait for his chance.

Manchester City have put a £15 millions tag on his name under Mancini but is believed that they are convinced to keep him at the club for long period. The club are willing to offer him a new long term deal in order to remove the potential buyers.

Newcastle United are interested in buying him and have already approached City over the player.

Richards made 177 appearances for the club since 2005 and 13 appearances for the England team.

Galasaray appointed Mancini as coach

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Galatasaray have announced that they reached an agreement with Roberto Mancini. The Italian coach has signed a three years deal with the Turkish giants. The contract value is of €4.5 a year.

Mancini will replace Fatih Terim who was sacked by the club after an altercation with the president.

Mancini was a free agent since he left Manchester City last summer. Lucescu and Hagi where the other names on the list but Mancini was the first option and more accessible.

Galatasaray have not started the season too well as they are on 10th position in Super Liga with only 7 points from 5 games and have lost their first group game in Champions League against Real Madrid.

Mancini started his coach career at Fiorentina. He also coached Lazio, Inter and Manchester City before joining Galatasaray.

 

Totti extends Roma deal

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AS Roma  have confirmed that they reached an agreement over extending Francesco Totti’s deal with two years. The Italian striker’s contract was about to expire next year and the club decided to add two more years to the contract.

Totti declared that he is delighted with the new deal and that it is something that both parts wanted. He also wanted to thank the president for offering him the opportunity to finish his career at his beloved club. Unlike Juventus or Real Madrid, Roma decided to hold on on their captain and offer him a new contract.

Even if Totti is 36 already he is still an important player for Roma, and the statistics prove that. His recent form added him into consideration for Italy’s squad.

Totti made Roma debut in 1992 and since then he won Serie A, Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italiana.

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