Maicon moves to Manchester City

Drama regarding Douglas Maicon's destiny in Inter is finally over. The 31-old right back from Brazil today sign a contract with the richer club from Manchester - City, and that way ending the saga over Maicon's future in the black and blue shirt of Inter, previously linked with a transfer in Real Madrid.  Maicon was one of Roberto Mancini's biggest wishes, with whom he previously worked when he was head coach in Inter, for a two year period of time between 2006 and 2008. Maicon had 235 matches for Inter in which he scored 20 goals and has 66 matches for the Brazilian national team.&nb...

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Athletics: Results from Zurich Samsung Diamond League

Another beautiful night in world of athletics, all thanks to top-class athletes who gave us another enjoyable meeting, with top performance results and few surprises.Greatest surprise of the evening was that Olympic and world record holder at 800 meters, David Rudisha, was defeated by Ethiopian Mohammed Aman, setting a new national record of 1:42,53, while Rudisha ended with 1:42,81. World fastest man, Usain Bolt, showed his dominance in the 200 meters again, giving the crowd a high performance race that ended with a meeting record of 19.66, finishing before Nickel Ashmeade with a PB of 19.85 and Jason Young with 20.08, all from Jamaica.His training partner, Yohan Blake, won again in the 100 meters mark, as well as Bolt, setting a new meeting...

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World class athletes at Zurich

Samsung Diamond League will once again gather world class track&field athletes for a night-to-remember meeting, tonight in Zurich, one of the two remaining meetings for this season.What can we expect to see at Letzigrund Stadium with the appearance of 15 Olympic and 14 World Champions? Only high performance results. And the names who are going to take care of that, are the names you just can't imagine world athletics without.Focus is set on sprint races. In men's 100 meters, world champion Yohan Blake will be challenged by US top sprinters in the names of Tyson Gay and Ryan Balley, as well as French top class sprinter Cristophe Lemaitre. Women's 100 meters race brings the names of 100 meters Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (JAM),...

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Seattle Seahawks showed the door for Terrell Owens "T.O."

On his Twitter profile on Sunday T.O. published a post, saying he is no longer a Seahawk and that he thanks the team for the opportunity, adding that his faith is intact and that he is blessed beyond beleif. Owens, who hasn't played in the NFL since 2010 due to last year's knee surgery, signed a one-year contract with Seattle Seahawks on August 6, after team coaches were impressed with the workout he showed after 18-month break.Seattle gave the veteran a chance to find his old top form, but things didn't went so good for T.O. Аfter a disappointing first preseason match against Denver Broncos in which he didn't complete any of the five passes towards him, he had another pale game against Kansas City on Friday night.It was a clear sign for Seattle...

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Real Madrid finally signs Modric

Finally it happened. After a long summer transfer negotiations between Real and Tottenham, Luka Modric finally arrives in Madrid. Croatia's best football player and Mourinho's first target for this summer, today passed the medical tests and was presented at Santiago Bernabeu, where he signed a 5-year contract. Total amount of the transfer was set at a price of 35 million euro and it's suppose to be Real's answer to the worst start of the season in 29 years. "Finally this happened and I'm relieved. It's the biggest challenge of my football career and I'm sure I will succeed. I have everything I need here, best coach in the world, best players, and I just need to enjoy everything and play my football." - said Modric at the press...

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Rooney done with Manchester United?

A day after Rooney received ugly deep cut on his right tie in a 3-2 win over Fulham, rumors about his future in "Red Devils" shirt are starting to erupt.Horror cut will cost Rooney a month off the pitch, but the real question is - is he ever going to wear United's shirt again? Speculations say that the match against Fulham might be his last for United, and the reason for that can be found in Alex Ferguson's dissatisfaction in Rooney's performances on and off the pitch.London tabloid Sun quotes Sir Alex Ferguson - "If I hear a player has fallen out of love with us, and is looking elsewhere I invariably help them out of the door."Impatience between Ferguson and Rooney started by the end of 2010, when Rooney was caught several times on pictures...

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FC Barcelona signs 9-year old Irish wonder kid

Latest news coming from the capital of Catalonia, are that football giant Barcelona signed Ireland's biggest football talent, who is only nine years old.Zak Gilsenan, born Dubliner who now lives in Australia, is on his way to move to Barcelona with his family, after he managed to provide himself a place in the FCB Academy.Zak's talent was first noticed in a football camp organized by Spurs in Australia. He was suppose to go to Spurs, but than he was noticed by a former Barcelona player who recommended him to the Catalonian club.He passed the first trials consisted of 400 talents from all over the world in May, and was asked back in June for the second trials when that number was consisted of 90 players. In a match played between top 16 boys,...

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Lance Armstrong is giving up - enough is enough

It's over. On Thursday night, seven times winner of the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong, announced that he can't continue fighting against U.S. Anti Doping Agency anymore. In a statement for Associated Press, Lance said that there is a moment in every man's life when he has to say enough, that this moment has come for him and that he is done fighting against USADA, adding his disappointment and unbelieve how this affected on his work, family and organization. The U.S. Anti Doping Agency declared that will strip Lance Armstrong seven titles from Tour de France and that he would probably be banned from sports for lifetime.Armstrong retired from the sport in 2011 and was followed with a two year investigation for using banned substances, but without...

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