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Globalization has changed almost every single aspect of our lives. Some for good and some not. If you are from my generation (myself born in 1980) you will remember how hard it was to get information about anything, even for simple school or universities tasks. Nowadays, the biggest case of how globalization did us well is on the internet itself. I would need to write for a big media company to be able to get some readers, thing that happens today without much effort.

It has brought us some bad stuff as well, which I won’t spend my time speaking of here. My focus point is football, so the attempt here is to make an accurate analysis of the impact of globalization on football.

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It was already a trend in UK’s Premier League. Gambling companies closing big sponsorship deals with clubs, looking after a huge potential market. But now, that legalized online poker is being played in Italy and France and more countries are looking the same way into betting, there might be a new round of big investments from online betting operators into the the biggest sport in the world.

Biggest change can be noticed on Ligue 1, the top French league. Major teams signed with biggest poker operators in France and this should be only the beginning. To mention a couple, Lyon now displays Everest Poker’s logo in their shirt, while Olympique de Marseille will have BetClic’s French division showing on theirs.

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After a rather long pause because of work reasons, I’m back now to talk about latest football transfers rumors and the done deals. This summer big transactions are still not happening as often as they used to, but many big names have accepted new challenges. Among them, we can point, Michael Ballack, that moved from Chelsea back to his home country to play for Bayern Munich. Meanwhile, Thierry Henry, that is not the same from Arsenal times, move to the weak MLS, to play for the NY Red Bulls. From Madrid, two surprising departures. Raúl and Guti, taken as sons of Madrid, went for Schalke 04 and Besiktas respectively.

Thierry Henry adventures himself at MLS.

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And it is finally over. Fortunately, Spain took home the prize and gave a little bit of beauty to this tragic tournament. As a synthesis of it, the final was a really bad display of football. Hopefully, next time in Brazil we get more “samba” to it.

But, of course, there were those players that tried their best and produced some moments. Among then, I’d like to highlight the following: Read the rest of this entry »

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Hello! Thought that it would be nice to make an analysis of how both Spain and Netherlands got to this surprising final. Will try to point as well weakness of both teams, key players and their opponents strength. So, let’s roll!

Group Stage
Theoretically, the Dutch group was supposed to be far more difficult than the Spanish one but it proved to be as weak as the other. With Denmark, Japan and Cameroon, it was expected that this group had exciting matches and both qualifiers would be unpredictable. What it was showed instead, was a lost Denmark, a good Japan and a messy Cameroon. None was a real threat to the Dutch.

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