Zenit 3 – 1 Young Boys
Leverkusen 2 – 0 Metalist Kharkiv
Liverpool 1 – 0 Sparta Prague
PSV 3 – 1 Lille
Sp. Moscow 1 – 1 Basel
Sporting 2 – 2 Rangers
Ajax 2 – 0 Anderlecht
Braga 2 – 0 Lech
Din. Kiev 4 – 0 Besiktas
Manchester City 3 – 0 Aris
PSG 0 – 0 BATE
Stuttgart 0 – 2 Benfica
Twente 2 – 2 Kazan
Villarreal 2 – 1 Napoli
Europa League Round of 32 second game results – 2010 – 2011
Montella is the new AS Roma coach
Vicenzo Montella has been officially named the new AS Roma coach. Claudio Ranieri, the former coach, has resigned immediately after Genoa game.
Roma suffered the fourth consecutive loss in a surprisingly way after they lead with 3 -0. Genoa managed to came back from 3 goals behind and produced one of the biggest surprises of the season.
Vicenzo Montella was part of AS Roma technical staff also before, as he was working at AS Roma Primavera team.
The former Italian international retired from football playing in 2009 after a glorious career. He was most of his career a Roma player but played also for Empoli, Genoa, Sampdoria and Fullham.
He played 20 games for Italy and managed to score 3 goals.
Montella will be at the helm of the team until the end of the season but if there will be convincing results it will be probably extended.
Europa League Round of 32 results – 2010 – 2011
Kazan 0 – 2 Twente
Metalist Kharkiv 0 – 4 Leverkusen
Anderlecht 0 – 3 Ajax
BATE 2 – 2 PSG
Benfica 2 – 1 Stuttgart
Besiktas 1 – 4 Din. Kiev
Lech 1 – 0 Braga
Napoli 0 – 0 Villarreal
Basel 2 – 3 Sp. Moscow
Lille 2 – 2 PSV
PAOK 0 – 1 CSKA Moscow
Rangers 1 – 1 Sporting
Sevilla 1 – 2 FC Porto
Sparta Prague 0 – 0 Liverpool
Young Boys 2 – 1 Zenit
Dinamo Bucharest interested on Ciprian Marica
Dinamo Bucharest are interested in signing Ciprian Marica from Stuttgart on loan until the end of the season.
Marica joined the German team from Shakthar Donetsk for a sum of around €8 millions, the highest amount of money paid by Stuttgart for a player. Although he was considered an important acquisition, Marica never established as a key member for the squad. Maybe because he was not used too often in the position that feels best, as advanced forward.
The 25 years old forward was banned from the first team after declaring that he is disappointing of not playing too much. As the transfer period has ended in most of the European Championship, Marica has few options available.
Dinamo are looking to strengthen their team by adding their former player to their attack. Anyway Dinamo could face the players refusal as the Romanian international is not keen to return so quickly in Romanian Championship.
Marica started his career at Dinamo Bucharest where he scored 4 goals in 23 appearances. He was transferred at Shakthar in 2004 where he played 73 games and scored 16 goals. Marica has also 45 appearances for the Romanian team where he scored 13 goals.
Ronaldo retires from football
Brazilian superstar Ronaldo has officially announced that he retires from football.
Ronaldo motivated his decision by the fact that his body is not listening him anymore. He also mentioned that it is a hard decision but he had no other choice.
Ronaldo is suffering from a disease that slows his metabolism. The 34 years old legend suffered 3 big injuries during his career and everybody tough that he will retire sooner. But he proved the strength of character every time by recovering back stronger than ever.
The Brazilian forward is considered by most of the football specialist the best striker from the entire history and one of the best football players. Ronaldo is also one of the most loved football players.
Ronaldo played during his career at Cruzeiro, PSV, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Real Madrid, Milan and finally Corinthians from where he retired.
Ronaldo has some performances hard to achieve by any other player, he scored 247 goals in 343 club appearances and 62 goals for the national squad in 97 appearances. He has won every trophy a player could won with the club or with the national squad and more than that he is the all time World Cup top scorer with 15 goals.
