Saturday Morning Kick-Off

Lots of football coming up this weekend. Barcelona-Valencia for me is the pick of the lot in Europe, though Serie A looks more exciting now with Inter losing to Catania on Friday 3-1. Victory for AC Milan against Chievo on Sunday will bring them within a point of their city rivals and ensure a great finish with 10 matches left (let’s not forget a Roma win would bring them to within four points).

Anyway, on to today’s Morning Kick-Off.

Good Day for Godoy

Godoy Cruz de Mendoza find themselves at the top of the Torneo Clausura standings in Argentina thanks to a 2-1 win over Atletico Tucuman on Friday. Outside of Argentina this is not necessarily a known club and there is a reason for that. Godoy Cruz was founded in 1921 and the club has spent most of its existence in the Argentine provincial leagues. In 1994 the team reached the 2nd division and finally the Primera Division twelve years later.

Since then they have been sort of a yo-yo club between the top two divisions. The team seems to have solidified their place in the top flight now and it remains to be seen whether they can maintain a title charge as the season progresses.

Friday Morning Kick-Off

Welcome to our new feature called Morning Kick-Off. This will basically be just a little piece on an interesting story or two that we’ve come across or a look ahead at the day’s action across the football world. If you were reading a One Game, One World newspaper with your morning coffee then perhaps you would see this type of Morning Kick-Off news tidbit in it.

Goals? How many tickets have you sold?

Can you imagine the likes of Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, or Didier Drogba helping their clubs sell tickets to fans on the street? That is a scenario unlikely to ever happen in the world of top-level European football. In the Maldives however, this is exactly what is being undertaken by players at club team VB Sports Club.