OFK Beograd 1 – 5 Galatasaray
Teteks 1 – 2 Elfsborg
Din. Minsk 3 – 1 M. Haifa
Karabakh 3 – 2 Wisla
Ostrava 1 – 2 Dnepr M.
Zestafoni 0 – 1 Karpaty
Din. Tbilisi 1 – 1 Sturm
Anorthosis 3 – 1 Cercle Brugge
Apollon 2 – 1 Sibir Novosibirsk
Dnepr 2 – 0 Sp. Subotica
IFK Göteborg 1 – 0 Alkmaar
Brondby 1 – 0 Buducnost P.
FC Timisoara 3 – 3 MyPa
Lausanne 1 – 1 Randers
Aris 2 – 2 Jagiellonia
Levski 5 – 2 Kalmar
Luzern 1 – 3 Utrecht
Besiktas 3 – 0 Plzen
Genk 3 – 2 Inter Turku
Jablonec 1 – 3 APOEL
M. Tel Aviv 1 – 0 Olympiakos
Austria Vienna 3 – 0 Ruch
Bangor 1 – 2 Maritimo
Hajduk Split 3 – 0 Dinamo Bucharest
Stuttgart 2 – 2 Molde
Cliftonville 1 – 2 CSKA Sofia
Hibernian 2 – 3 Maribor
Juventus 1 – 0 Shamrock
Liverpool 2 – 0 Rabotnicki
Motherwell 3 – 0 Aalesunds
Europa League Qualification – 5 Aug 2010
Big blow for Fiorentina as Jovetic will be out for around 7 months
Fiorentina‘s wonderkid Stevan Jovetic will be out for around 7 months with a knee ligament damage.
The Montenegro footballer will undergo surgery in the next couple of days. Jovetic injured in a training session after a clash with Mario Bolatti.
Fiorentina had their higher hopes on Jovetic this year. The club refused to sell the player and also Jojo resisted the temptation of Barcelona, Arsenal or Manchester, clubs who were very interested in signing him.
Now Fiorentina and Mihajlovic will have to do it without two of its star players, Jovetic who is injured and Mutu who is suspended.
The Viola fans are asking themselves if the club is somehow cursed with all this bad luck on them.
Anyway some of the most optimistic supporters hope that Ljajic and Babacar will take advantage of the situation.
Fiorentina hope that this year will reenter into the Champions League curse after a disappointing last season when they finished 11th.
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Genoa signed Miguel Veloso from Sporting
Genoa have manage to capture one of the most wanted Portuguese by signing Miguel Veloso from Sporting Lisabon.
Veloso was in the attention of the big Serie A and Premier League clubs since last summer but no team has made a concrete move until now.
The transfer sum is supposed to be around €9millions and 20% from the profit of eventually next sale. There are reports claiming that the 24 years old midfielder has signed a 4 years contract at Genoa.
The player admitted that the financial part was not that important as the opportunity to play in a better league.
Veloso played 94 games for Genoa and made 14 appearances for his national team. By bringing Veloso to the club Genoa will try to fill the void left by Thiago Motta who left for Inter Milan last summer.
Also there are rumors that Shalke wing back Rafinha will join the team. Gasperini was looking also for a good full-back and Rafinha is the best option around.
Rafinha was always in the starting line-up for Shalke since his arrival from Coritiba in 2005.
Schalke signed legendary Raul from Real Madrid
Raul was officially presented at Schalke today after passing the medical tests. The former Real Madrid captain will wear the same number seven as in Madrid.
Real Madrid all-time scorer signed a two years contract with the German side. Raul declared himself very excited about this new challenge. Also Felix Magath, the Schalke manager, declared himself very pleased with the arrival and praised the management for this move.
Magath believes that Raul is still a top class forward and is confident that he will help the team to win more trophies.
Football betting fans, but not only, consider him one of the greatest strikers ever. Football players with his qualities are few this days and that’s why he is so loved at Bernabeu. Even other players from rival clubs respect him and saw him as a model.
Francesco Totti declared that Real Madrid have not lost only their captain but their soul. And indeed Raul was the heart of the team , the player that not many teams have, the true leader.
Despite having this qualities Raul is a humble person. Raul has won a lot of trophies, has beaten a lot of records but probably his greatest disappointment is that he did not won the Ballon D’or.
Raul and Guti were the first big victims after Mourinho’s arrival at Bernabeu although he declared that he would have wanted Raul to stay.
Why Eduardo made the right choice signing for Shakhtar
The Croatian international Eduardo is very close to a move to Shakhtor Donetsk according to latest reports in England.
The talented striker was in the attention of Lyon, Valencia or Aston Villa but it looks that the Ukrainians are in pole position.
Eduardo failed to rediscover his best form after that horrific injury from February 2008 and this move might revive his career.
Shakhtar are also playing in Champions League almost every year, so also from this point of view everything is perfect for the 27 year old footballer.
As we get used in the last couple of years the clubs from Ukraine and Russia invested a lot of moneys in football, and sports in general, so also from the financial point of view the move is not a bad one.
The transfer sum is around £6 millions and Eduardo is supposed to have agreed a 3 year deal.
Another good argument will be the fact that he will play alongside his national teammate Dario Srna. There are reports that suggest that Shakhtor head coach asked his captain to convince Eduardo to join them. Also in the team there are a lot of Brazilians and the style of play fits him.
Lucescu declared that he was interested in signing the player also before moving to Arsenal and that he is very happy with the acquisition.
Eduardo started his senior career at Dinamo Zagreb where he played before moving to Arsenal.
