Manchester United appoints Louis van Gaal as new manager

<br /> <br /> <div class="post-footer" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px;"> </div> <br /> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6999050719472292300" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; position: relative; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; width: 616px; word-spacing: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimRDrFkkspX7ehgX407RYrsZ7Tx9Z5GIY_KPJsQBHxhCyHVkc8qy-ip0Tz1h_MFZNc1XuHrNP53DR6VOSui1TbK9fREIHoPxUrwEagg0AUEx6rldsGMh1QwcXjc3sQ6Y__5P2YKpkrEJAi/s1600/unnamed.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div> Manchester United has announced Louis van Gaal as its new manager. He succeeds David Moyes who lost his job in April. In a statement released this afternoon, the club said the 62 year old, who is currently Netherlands manager, will sign a three year contract with Manchester United.</div> <div> </div> <div> Excited about his appointment, van Gaal said;</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <div> "It was always a wish for me to work in the Premier League. To work as a manager for Manchester United, the biggest club in the world makes me proud" he said.</div> </blockquote> Louis van Gaal will assume his new position with Man U after the FIFA World Cup in Brazil.<br /><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div>

Manchester United appoints Louis van Gaal as new manager

Manchester United has announced Louis van Gaal as its new manager. He succeeds David Moyes who lost his job in April. In a statem...

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"Jose Mourinho is a fool for questioning my age' - Samuel Eto'o

<br /> <div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQXZX3flqKSHClqftiLfxZHD2cdr6duXwQdncLoOF7lBV3W5l0MEkk0FEr2lRgsMdrYi9SxwSuiI9-2s5vuLB_6L5u9_a2MENzp_LicQHyk5FT6-ZHIMdVTmZ6rS0FiuuKQaowLTZhZ9Y/s1600/Etoo_Mourinho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #b41e20; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFQXZX3flqKSHClqftiLfxZHD2cdr6duXwQdncLoOF7lBV3W5l0MEkk0FEr2lRgsMdrYi9SxwSuiI9-2s5vuLB_6L5u9_a2MENzp_LicQHyk5FT6-ZHIMdVTmZ6rS0FiuuKQaowLTZhZ9Y/s1600/Etoo_Mourinho.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(180, 30, 32); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Well, Sameul Eto'o can talk now because his contract with Chelsea is finished. He's finally responded to his former coach Jose Mourinho's comments about him being older than 33. Speaking with reporters in Abidjan yesterday, the 3-time African footballer of the year called Mourinho a fool for questioning his age</span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">"I am 33 years old. And it is not because a fool called me an old man that you must believe it. And you may have noticed that the old man was better than the youngsters.'</span></blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px; overflow: hidden;"> <div class="mol-para-with-font"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Eto'o also hinted that he will play for a European club next season rather than sign a lucrative deal in the Middle East. "Some believe I am going to retire in the US or the Middle East, but I have regained the joy of the Champions League and I am going to carry on playing in the Champions League."</span></div> </div>

"Jose Mourinho is a fool for questioning my age' - Samuel Eto'o

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BARCLAY PREMIER LEAGUE RANKING AS AT 9TH DECEMBER [PHOTO]

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"WE ARE IN TROUBLE" MOURINHO

<img alt="11" height="277" src="http://9jaolofofo.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1166-300x208.jpg" width="400" /><br /> <br /> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Jose Mourinho says his Chelsea side are “in trouble” after suffering a 3-2 defeat against Stoke City on Saturday, while he also called on his side to find their killer instinct in front of goal.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Andre Schurrle netted twice for the profligate visitors, but the Potters claimed all three points thanks to Oussama Assaidi’s stunning 90th-minute strike.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The defeat means Chelsea remain points adrift of Premier League leaders Arsenal, who face Everton on Sunday, and Mourinho blasted his side’s failure to convert their pressure into a win.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“I don’t feel comfortable enough to tell you what I think about the game,” the Portuguese fumed. “We’re in trouble.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><a href="" name="more" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“After 30 minutes we should have been winning 3-0 or 4-0 but we weren’t. When you play so well and it is so easy you find spaces, and when the three players behind the strikers were playing so well, you have to kill the game, and we didn’t.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“We played amazingly well at the beginning of the game, [Juan] Mata, [Eden] Hazard and Schurrle played very, very, well.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“But we didn’t score enough goals and, on top of that you make defensive mistakes and you concede.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“I think this team is a team that has to score goals; has to capitalize on the production and the way we are playing, because we are not a physical team.</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“We are not a team with the conditions to defend against physical teams, so I think we have to score when we have the game in our hands.”</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Despite this latest setback, Mourinho is impressed with the mentality of his team, although he accepted that their performance in the closing stages was below par.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“The team wants to attack, the team wants to have the ball and the initiative,” the former Real Madrid boss argued.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">“In the last part of the game we didn't play well, because we started playing in a way they (Stoke) can control.”</span></span></span>

"WE ARE IN TROUBLE" MOURINHO

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World Cup draw: Nigeria to play Argentina, Bosnia, Iran

<div id="d_dep_titre"> <br /></div> <div id="content"> <div id="main" role="main"> <article class="post-423299 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-sports" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/NewsArticle"><div class="socialButton" id="facebookLike"> <div class="twitter_button"> </div> <div class="plus_button"> <div annotation="bubble" class="g-plusone" data-href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/breaking-news-nigeria-play-argentina-bosnia-iran/" size="medium"> </div> </div> <div class="sharethis_button"> <span class="st_sharethis_large" displaytext="ShareThis"></span></div> </div> <div id="entryContainer"> <div class="entry entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"> <div class="clear"> </div> <div id="d_depeche_header"> <div id="d_dep_titre"> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">COSTA DO SAUIPE  (AFP) -</span>World Cup organisers on Friday opened the draw ceremony for next year’s finals in the Brazilian resort of Costa do Sauipe. A total of 32 teams qualified for the finals and they were drawn into eight groups of four.</div> <div> </div> <div> Nigeria will begin it’s 2014 world cup campaign in Group F as the country will play against Argentina, Iran and Bosnia and Hezogovina  in Brazil.</div> <div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_422891" style="width: 422px;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/12/world-cup-draw-fifa-puts-nigeria-pot-2-raises-prize-money/fifa/" rel="attachment wp-att-422891"><img alt="BRAZIL, Costa do Sauipe : Fifa president Joseph Blatter gestures during a press conference in Costa do Sauipe, state of Bahia, Brazil on December 3, 2013. The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil final draw will take place December 6. AFP PHOTO" class="size-full wp-image-422891" height="250" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Fifa.jpg" width="412" /></a><br /> <div class="wp-caption-text"> BRAZIL, Costa do Sauipe : Fifa president Joseph Blatter gestures during a press conference in Costa do Sauipe, state of Bahia, Brazil on December 3, 2013. The 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil final draw will take place December 6. AFP PHOTO</div> </div> </div> <div> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">      </span></div> <div> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">In Group A – Brazil, Croatia, Mexico, Cameroon</span></div> <div> <div>       Group B – Spain, Netherlands, Chile, Australia<br /> Group C – Colombia, Greece, Ivory Coast, Japan</div> <div>       Group D – Uruguay, Costa Rica, England, Italy</div> </div> <div> </div> <div>       Group E – Switzerland, Ecuador, France, Honduras</div> <div> <span style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">      Group F – Argentina, Bosnia, Iran, Nigeria.</span></div> <div>       Group G – Germany, Portugal, Ghana, USA</div> <div>       Group H – Belgium, Algeria, Russia, South Korea</div> </div> </div> </div> </article></div> </div> <div> <br /></div>

World Cup draw: Nigeria to play Argentina, Bosnia, Iran

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