Football / Soccer Betting – BallaBets

Yesterday night (CET Time) the online poker world was shaken by the announcement that founders of the three biggest American poker sites were indicted. PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, AbsolutePoker and Ub.com were all seized by FBI and have “lost” their domains to the Bureau.

At this very moment, what most people are failing to realize (mainly because of how the affected sites and people related to them are reacting to it) is that this is a measure against illegal actions taken by these companies in order to run their business and not a direct attempt of blocking the game of poker itself, even though that is the final immediate consequence.

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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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When Adriano left Inter and Inter got Milito to be his substitute in the attack, a lot of people wouldn’t imagine the impact of this player in the Club’s season.

Inter took down three titles, with some of the greatest counter-attack football ever seen. Mourinho set the trap with Motta and Cambiasso guarding the midfield and ready to start the fatal counter-attacks. Both with great pass skills, had the option of Sneijder to create the play and the ball was stolen in their defense field, Pandev and Eto’o in the attacking sides, always ready to supply the man who should finalize the play.

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