World Cup Lists (2 of 4): Players with Long Last Names

You think you have a tough time getting prescription medications filled at the Rite-Aid on Battleground Avenue in Greesnboro, NC? Well, imagine how you would feel if you the burden of these long and difficult names. Of course, Greece, Iran and Russia provided us with some of the longest names you would find in a Dayton, Ohio, phone book!

NOTE: If we make a mistake spelling anyone's name, it's not like we Jenny Slate on "Saturday Night Live," but even after the f-bomb incident, her career is doing well. Of course, she's no longer with "SNL."


Here we go:

1. Lazaros Christodoulpoulos. 27. Greece. Club team: Bologna (Italy)

2. Dimitris Salpingidis. 32. Greece. PAOK (Greece)

3. Alireza Jahanbakhsh. 20. Iran. NEC Nijmegen (Holland; pict. bottom)

4. Stephan Lichsteiner. 30. Switzerland. Juventus (Italy)

5. Mario Mandzukic. 28. Croatia. Bayern Munich.

6. Vincent Aboubakar. 22. Cameroon. Lorient (France; pict. center)

7. Bastian Schweinsteiger. 29. Germany. Bayern Munich. (pict. top)

8. Aron Johannsson. 23. USA. AZ Alkmaar (Holland)

9. Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu. 23. Ghana. Udinese (Italy)

10. Raul Meireles. 31. Portugal. Fenerbahce (Turkey)

11. Chris Wondolowski. 31. USA. San Jose Earthquakes (USA/MLS)

http://www.mls.com

http://www.worldcup.usatoday.com

Soccer Week (5 of 8) Games of the Week Scores

Stefan Klessing (pictured) a German national player who scored two goals this week for his team Bayer Leverkusen in the German Bundesliga is one of the items we will cover as we look at the results of the Games of the Week, which were mentioned in Friday's blog entry:


Germany:

Bayern Munich 2 Hannover 0

Bayer Leverkusen 3 Wolfsburg 1

Netherlands:

Ajax Amsterdam 2 Zwolle 1

Twente 2 PSV Eindhoven 2 (tie)

England:

Stoke City 0 Manchester City 0

Sunderland 1 Arsenal 3

USA/Major League Soccer:

Real Salt Lake 0 Seattle Sounders 2

Colorado Rapids 2 FC Dallas 1

Mexico:

Santos Laguna 1 Club America 0

Cruz Azul 0 UANL Tigres 1

Soccer Night_ Barcelona and Real Madrid Focus on Home Turf

It was a disastrous UEFA Champions League semi-finals for both Barcelona and Real Madrid, who were widely considered to be the best two soccer teams in the world. But, both lost to German clubs Brassiere Dortmund and Bayern Munich respectively.

Here is a look at LAST week's domestic play in the Spanish Premiere League where Barcelona has a very comfortable 11-point lead over Real Madrid_ their cross-town rivals Athletico Madrid, a team that beat 2-1 last weekend is in the third place.

The images are of Alex Song, a Senegal international who plays for Barcelona, the Real Madrid logo, and Arda Turan, a Turkish international who was also a star player at GalataSaray (Istanbul).

Here are the scores:

1. Valledolid 1 Sevilla 1, tie

2. Real Sociedad 4 Valencia 2

3. Real Betlis 1 Doprtivo 1, tie

4. Celta Vigo 1 Levante 0

5, Athletico Bilbao 2 Barcelona 2, tie

6. Real Madrid 2 Athletico Madrid 1

7. Zaragoz 3 Mallorca 2

8. Granada 1 Espanyol 0

9. Royo Vallercano 2 Ossusana 2, tie

http://www.fcbarcelona.com

http://www.realmadrid.com

German Soocer Scores (from weekend from March 15-17)

Turkish national Nuri Sahin (pictured) had a proverbial good day at the office as he helped his team Dortmund score a 5-1 win over the struggling SC Freiburg, thanks in large part to two goals from Sahin.

FC Nuremberg beat an star-filled FC Shalke 04 team 3-0 with goals from three German futbolers Markus Feulner, Alexander Esswein and Mike Frantz.

Meanwhile the league leading Bayern Munich scored a 2-1 win over rival Bayer Leverkusen due to an unexpected late on-goal from Leverkusen.

Bayern Munich has a comfortable 20-point lead over second place Dortmund and a 24-point lead over third place Leverkusen.

This weekend, Match Day 27 in the Bundesliga will see Bayern Munich will face Hamburg SV which fell to FC Augsburg 1-0 in their last match.

Here is a look at the scoreboard:

Dortmund 5 SC Freiburg 1

VL Wolfsburg 1 Fortuna Dusseldorf 1, tie

1899 Hoffenheim 0 FSV Mainz 05 0, tie

FC Nuremberg 3 FC Shalke 0

FC Augsburg 1 Hamburg SV 0

Bayern Munich 2 Bayer Leverkusen 1

SV Wereder Bremen 2 Grewth Fruth 2, tie

VB Stuggart 2 Eintracht Frankfurt 1

Borrusia Monchengladblach 1 Hannover 0

http://www.bundesliga.com/en/

http://www.fcbayern.telekom.de/en

http://www.dw.de

Quote of the Day- Jurgen Klinsmann

Today, we continue to quote famous Germans as we quote German soccer legend Jurgen Klinsmann, who is now the head coach of the United States national team which beat Slovenia 3-2 in a foggy, messy game in Slovenia with goals from Edson Buddle, Clint Dempsey and Jozy Altidore.

Like Franz Beckenbauer before him, Klinsmann is among the German soccer great who have played for Bayern Munich as he was with the team from 1995-97. While playing for Bayern Munich, Klinsmann and his teammates won the UEFA Cup in 1996.

Klinsmann also helped a new united Germany win a World Cup in 1990. He also played soccer for VB Stuggart (Germany), Inter Milan (Italy), Monaco (France) and Tottenham (England).

Here is his quote:

"If the national coach lets decisions be made from the outside, he's lost the team."