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VII.  Scotland

Diary:

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 17, 2019:

-

Friday, January 18, 2019:

-

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

-

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

-

Monday, January 21, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 15, 2019	Brad Lyons	Midfielder	Blackburn	St Mirren	Loan	BBC Football
January 15, 2019	Andy Dales	Winger	Scunthorpe	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 15, 2019	Chris Erskine	Midfielder	Patrick Thistle	Livingston	Purchase	BBC Football
January 16, 2019	Malaury Martin	Midfielder	Dunfermline	Hearts	Loan Return	BBC Football
January 16, 2019	Aidan Keena	Striker	Dunfermline	Hearts	Loan Return	BBC Football
January 16, 2019	Ian Harkes (USA)	-	DC United	Dundee United	Purchase	Fox Sports
January 17, 2019	Scott Allan	Midfielder	Celtic	Hibernian	Next Season	Sky Sports
January 17, 2019	Max Lowe	-	Derby	Aberdeen	Loan	BBC Football
January 17, 2019	Andrew Nelson	-	Sunderland	Dundee	Puchase	BBC Football
January 18, 2019	Tony Andreu (France)	Striker	Coventry	Hamilton	Loan	BBC Football
January 18, 2019	Kyle McAllister	Winger	Derby	St Mirren	Loan	Sky Sports
January 18, 2019	Greg Stewart	Striker	Birmingham	Aberdeen	Loan	BBC Football
January 19, 2019	Jack Aichison	Striker	Celtic	Alloa Athletic	Loan	BBC Football
January 19, 2019	Michael O’Halloran	Winger	Free Agent (formerly Melbourne City)	St Johnstone	Purchase	BBC Football
January 21, 2019	Stephane Omeonga (Belgium)	Midfielder	Genoa	Hibernian	Loan	Sky Sports

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 17, 2019	Scott Tanser	Defender	St Johnstone	2021	BBC Football
January 18, 2019	Ryan Hardie	-	Rangers	2020	BBC Football
January 18, 2019	Anton Ferdinand (England)	Defender	St Mirren	2019	BBC Football

Scottish FA CupCup (January 19-20, 2018):

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

Auchinleck Talbot 1-Ayr 0 (Craig McCracken 78)

Aberdeen 1-Stenhousemuir 1 (Max Lowe 21 / Mark McGuigan 70)

Dundee 1-Queen of the South 1 (Jesse Curran 45 / Stephen Dobbie 28)

East Fife 2-Greenock Morton 1 (Anton Dowds 10, Craig Watson 75 / Robert McHugh 7)

Hibernian 4-Elgin City 0 (Florian Kamberi 21, Daryl Horgan 25, 53, Stephen Maltan 45 pen)

Inverness 4-East Kilbride 0 (Jordan White 6, Aarron Doran 21, Liam Polworth 27, Craig Reid (own goal) 72)

Kilmarnock 2-Forfar 0 (Stuart Findlay 19, Chris Burke 78)

Montrose 0-Dundee United 4 (Pavol Safranko 8, Callum Booth 43, Billy King 81, Ian Harkes 90)

Motherwell 1-Ross County 2 (Jake Hastie 90 / Brian Graham 52, 60)

Patrick Thistle 4-Stranraer 1 (Aidan Fitzpatrick 17, Joe Cardle 50. Steven Saunders 74, Blair Spittal 81 / P.Crossan 52)

Raith 3-Dumfernline 0 (Lewis Vaughan 70 pen, 79, 81)

St Mirren 3-Alloa 2 (Cody Cooke 68, Ethan Erhahon 85, Kyle McAllister 87 / Alan Trouten 26, Kevin Cawley 34)

St Johnstone 2-Hamilton 0 (Jason Kerr 1, Anthony Watt 26)

Celtic 3-Airdrieonians 0 (Scott Sinclair 37, 56, Timothy Weah 83)

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

Hearts 1-Livingston 0 (Sean Clare 48)

VIII.  Portugal

Diary:

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

-Jose Mota has left his post as Aves Manager. He is replaced by Augusto Inacio. (Source MaisFutebol online)

Thursday, January 17, 2019:

-

Friday, January 18, 2019:

-

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

-

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

-

Monday, January 21, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 15, 2019	Carlos Jatocha (Brazil)	Midfielder	Sporting CP	Goianiense (Brazil)	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 15, 2019	Costinha	Midfielder	Setubal	Chaves	Purchase	A Bola
January 15, 2019	Silvio	-	Free Agent	Setubal	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 15, 2019	Idrissa Doumbia (Ivory Coast)	Midfielder	Grozny (Poland)	Sporting CP	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 16, 2019	Joao Paredes	Midfielder	Chaves	Mafra	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 16, 2019	Helder Tavares (Cape Verde)	-	Tondela	Altay	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 16, 2019	Everton (Brazil)	Striker	Maritimo	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	A Bola
January 16, 2019	Tomislav Strkalj (Croatia)*	Striker	Osijek	Rio Ave	Purchase	A Bola
January 16, 2019	Stephen Eustaquio	-	Chaves	Cruz Azul	Purchase	A Bola
January 17, 2019	Alan Ruiz	Striker	Sporting CP	Aldosivi (Argentina)	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 17, 2019	Sardor Rashidov (Uzbekistan)	Striker	Lokomotiv Tashkent	Nacional	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 17, 2019	Pedro Paul	-	Guimaraes	Atl. Goianiense	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 17, 2019	Kgaegelo Sekgota (South Africa)	Striker	Stumbras	Setubal	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 17, 2019	Rodrigo Antunes	-	Alentejano do Moura	Setubal	Purchase	A Bola
January 17, 2019	Pablo Lima (Brazil)	-	-	Santa Clara	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 19, 2019	Keaton Parks	-	Benfica	New York City FC 9USA)	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 19, 2019	Mohamed Abarhoun (Morocco)	-	Moreirense	Rizespor (Turkey)	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 20, 2019	Wilson Manafa	-	Portimonense	Porto	Purchase	A Bola
January 20, 2019	Getterson (Brazil)	-	Fortaleza	Maritimo	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 21, 2019	Victor Garcia	Defender	Guimaraes	Famalicao	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 21, 2019	Gaston Campi (Argentina)	Defender	Estudiantes	Chaves	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 21, 2019	Everton (Brazil)	Striker	Free Agent (foemerly Maritimo)	Al-Muharraq (Bahrain)	Purchase	Maisfutebol

*Tomislav Strkalj was immediately loaned to Rudes.

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 18, 2019	Joao Henriques	Manager	Santa Clara	2020	Maisfutebol

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
January 17, 2019	Ruben Ferreira (16 years old)	-	Porto	Maisfutebol

Portugal Cup (January 15-16, 2018):

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

Aves 1-Braga 2 (Claudio Falcao 70 / Wilson Eduardo 11, 41)

Leixoes 1-Porto 2(Ze Paulo 78 / Hector Herrera 11, Hernani 118)

Guimaraes 0-Benfica 1(Joao Felix 15)

Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

Feirense 0-Sporting CP 2 (Wendel 64, Bruno Fernandes 66)

Portugal Primeira Liga League Matchday (January 18-20, 2019):

Friday, January 18, 2019:

Nacional 0-Braga 3 (Ricardo Horta 61, Murilo 73, Paulinho 86)

Chaves 1-Porto 4 (Bruno Gallo 76 pen / Soares 24, 42, 68, Nuno Andre Coelho (own goal) 87)

Guimaraes 0-Benfica 1 (Haris Seferovic 81)

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

Belenenses 2-Tondela 2 (Henrique Almeida 2, 48 / Bruno Monteiro 33, Tomane 45)

Sporting CP 2-Moreirense 1 (Nani 3, Bruno Fernnades 26 / Heriberto Tavares 34)

Santa Clara 0-Maritimo 1  (Joel Tagueu 23)

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

Aves 2-Setubal 1(Derley 16, Mama Balde 72 / Jhonder Cadiz 56)

Boavista 0-Portimonense 2 (Wellington Carvalho 20, 78)

Rio Ave 0-Feirense 0 (-)

Top Goalscorer:

Dyego Sousa (Braga) 12 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto	18	15	1	2	38	11	27	46
2	Benfica	18	13	2	3	38	17	21	41
3	Braga	18	12	4	2	35	17	18	40
4	Sporting CP	18	12	2	4	35	19	16	38
5	Belenenses	18	7	8	3	23	18	5	29
6	Guimaraes	18	8	4	6	22	18	4	28

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IX.  Belgium

Diary:

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

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Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

-Hans Vanaken (Club Brugge) was named as the Belgian Player of the year and was awarded the ‘Soulier d’Or’. Eden Hazard (Chelsea) was named as the best Belgian Player in a Foreign League. Croatian Ivan Leko (Club Brugge) was named as the Manager of the year. Wesley Moraes (Club Brugge) was named a sthe young player of the year. Lovre Kalinic was named as the goalkeeper f the year.  Siebe Schrijvers (Club Brugge)’s goal vs. Antwerp was named as the goal of the year.  (Source RTBF.be online)

-Luc Devroe has left his post as Sporting Director at Anderelcht . (Source Jupiler League App online)

Thursday, January 17, 2019:

-

Friday, January 18, 2019:

-

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

-

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

- Tromd Sollied has been dismissed as Lokeren Manager after little over two months in charge. He has been replaced with Glen De Boeck  . (Source RTBF.be online)

- Anderlecht were defeated in Manager Fred Rutten’s first match in charge  . (Source RTBF.be online)

Monday, January 21, 2019:

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Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 15, 2019	Leandro Pereira (Brazil)	Striker	Club Brugge	Matsumoto Yamaga (Japan)	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 15, 2019	Antoine Bernier	Winger	Antwerp	Lierse	Loan	Walfoot.be
January 15, 2019	Daan Heymans	Midfielder	Waasland-Beveren	Lommel	Loan	Jupiler League App
January 15, 2019	Stefano Milosevic (Montenegro)	Striker	Iskra Danilovgrad	Waasland-Beveren	Purchse	Walfoot.be
January 16, 2019	Petr Zulj (Austria)	Midfielder	Sturm Graz	Anderlecht	Purchase	Footnews.be
January 17, 2019	Sidney Friede (Germany)	Midfielder	Hertha Berlin	Mouscron	Loan	RTBF.be
January 17, 2019	Kosuke Kinoshita (Japan)	Striker	Halmstad	St Truiden	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 17, 2019	Erik Gliha (Slovenia)	Defender	Almuniji Kidricevo	St Truiden	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 17	Kanu (Brazil)	-	Kortrijk	Al-Raed (Saudi Arabia)	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 18, 2019	Lior Refaelov (Israel)	-	Club Brugge	Antwerp	Permanent signing (was on loan)	RTBF.be
January 18, 2019	David Simao	-	Boavsita	Antwerp	Purchase	Jupiler League App

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
January 17, 2019	Wout Coomans (17 years old)	Defender	Genk	Footnews.be

First Division A League Matchday (January 18-20, 2019):

Friday, January 18, 2019:

St Truiden 2-Genk 3 (Jordan Botaka 2, Yohan Boli 71 / Mbwana Samatta 29, Leandro Trossard 75, Dieumerci Ndongala 81)

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

Standard 2-Kortrijk 1(Renaud Emond 66 pen, Christian Luyindama 90 / Teddy Chevalier 36)

Eupen 4-Lokeren 1 (Mamadou Fall 5, Yuta Toyokawa 40, Siebe Blondelle 59, 62 / Jakub Reznicek 65)

Waasland-Beveren 1-Cercle Brugge 1  (Johanna Omolo (own goal) 51 / Irvin Cardona 72 pen)

Zulte-Waregem 1-Antwerp 2  (Theo Bongonda 90 / Dieumerci Mbokani 41, Lior Refaelov 49)

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

Club Brugge 0-Charleroi 1 (Gabriele Angella 17)

Gent 1-Anderlecht 0 (Alexander Sorloth 75)

Mouscron 2-Ostend 1  (Manuel Benson 13, Taiwo Awoniyi 68 / Tom De Sutter 9)

Top Goalscorer:

Ally Samatta (Genk) 15 goals

Nany Dimata (Anderlecht) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Genk	22	15	6	1	52	21	31	51
2	Club Brugge	22	12	5	5	48	23	25	41
3	Antwerp	22	12	5	5	32	25	7	41
4	Standard Liege	22	11	6	5	35	23	12	39
5	Anderlecht	22	10	4	8	37	28	9	34
6	Gent	22	10	4	8	40	37	3	34

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Diary (extra):

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

-The South Korean Federation has given gold medals to the families of four deceased players who had received fake medals after their 1960 Asian Cup Victory. (Source BBC Football online)

-Former Israeli goalkeeper from the 40s and 50s, Avraham Bendori passed away aged 90. (Source Wikipedia online)

-Former Czechoslovakia footballer from the 60s and 70s, Antonin Kramerius passed away aged 79. (Source Wikipedia online)

-Austin FC will be the new MLS Franchise team. They are set to make theor debut in 2021. (Source Walfoot.be online)

Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

-Slovenian Manager Slavisa Stojanovic is set to become the new Latvia National Team Manager. (Source Reuters UK online)

-Josh Wolff has joined the USA coaching staff as Assistant Manager. (Source Fox Sports online)

Thursday, January 17, 2019:

-Kazakshtan National Team Manager Stanimir Stoilov has left his post by mutual consent . (Source Reuters UK online)

-Greg Garza (Cincinnati) has withdrawn from USA training camp due to injury. (Source Fox Sports online)

-Former Brazil star Rivaldo is set to manage Moroccan Third Division side Chabab Mohammedia. (Source Maisfutebol online)

Friday, January 18, 2019:

-Former Bulgarian defender from the 50s into the 70s, Ivan Vutsov passed away aged 79. He later Managed the National team in two separate spells. (Source Wikipedia online)

-Brazil will play a friendly vs. Czech repunlic in Prague on March 26, 2019 at Eden Arena. (Source Fox Sports online)

-Rivaldo has denied reports stating he had managed the coaching staff of Moroccan Third Division side Chabab Mohammedia.  (Source BBC Football online)

Saturday, January 19, 2019:

-Czech Manager Michal Bilek was named as the new National Team Manager of Kazakhstan. (Source L’Equipe Online)

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

-The Preident of the Indonesian Federation has resigned due to a fixed-matches scandal. (Source L’Equipe online)

Monday, January 21, 2019:

-Former Argentina striker Pedro Mandredini passed away aged 83. (Source Corriere dello Sport online)

-Juan Antonio Pizzi has ended his time as Saudi Arabia National Team Manager following their elimination in the Asian Nations Cup (Source L’Equipe online)

International Friendlies

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

Estonia 0-Iceland 0 (-)

Asian Nations Cup:

Asian Nations Cup-Group B:

Tuesday, January 15, 2019:

Australia 3-Syria 2 (Awer Mabil 41, C.Ikonomidis 54, Tom Rogic 90 / Omar Khribin 43, Omar Al Somah 80 pen)

Palestine 0-Jordan 0 (-)

Asian Nations Cup-Group C:

Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

Kyrgyzstan 3-Phillipnes 1 (Vitalij Lux 24, 51, 77 / Stephan Schrock 80)

South Korea 2-China 0 (Ui-Jo Hwang 14 pen, Min-Jae Kim 51)

Asian Nations Cup-Group D:

Wednesday, January 16, 2019:

Iran 0-Iraq 0 (-)

Vietnam 2-Yemen 0 (Quang Hai Nguyen 38, Ngoc Hai Que 64 pen)

Asian Nations Cup-Group E:

Thursday, January 17, 2019:

Lebanon 4-North Korea 1 (Felix Michel 27, Hilal El-Helwe 65, 909, Hassan Maatouk 80 pen / Kwang-Ryong Pak 9)

Saudi Arabia 0-Qatar 2 (Almoez Ali 45, 80)

Asian Nations Cup-Group F:

Thursday, January 17, 2019:

Japan 2-Uzbekistan 1 (Yoshinori Muto 43, Tsukasa Shiotani 58 / Eldor Shomurodov 40)

Oman 3-Turkmenistan 1 (Ahmed Al Mahajiri 20, Mohsin Al Ghassani 84, M.Al Musalami 90 / A.Annadurdjyev 41)

Asian Nations Cup-Round of 16:

Sunday, January 20, 2019:

Jordan 1-Vietnam 1 (Bahaa Abdulrahman 39 / C.Phuong Nguyen 51) (Vietnam won 4-2 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Thailand 1-China 2 (Supachai Jaided 31 / Zhi Xiao 67, Lin Gao 71 pen)

Iran 2-Oman 0 (Alireza Jahanbakhsh 32, Ashkan Dejagah 41 pen)

Monday, January 21, 2019:

Japan 1-Saud Arabia 0 (Takehiro Tomiyasu 20)

Australia 0-Uzbekistan 0 (-) (Australia won 4-2 on penalty kick shoot-out)

United Arab Emirates 3-Kyrgysztan 2 (Khamis Esmail 14, Ali Ahmed Mabkhout 64, Ahmed Khalil 103 pn / Mirlan Murzaev 26, Tursunali Rustamov 90)

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Note:

The purpose of this section is to summarize the week in question, it is not meant to give a full statistical analysis of the matches.

We live in a viral age and all that information can be accessed.

I welcome all contributions from anyone, even for the Leagues that I did not cover.

I.  England

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-The private plane transportiung new Cardiff signing Emiliano Sala has been reported misisng. He is feared to be have died as search efforts continue. (Source BBC Football online)

-Dele Alli (Totenham) will be out injured until March . (Source Sky Sports online)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-Fulham’s French striker Aboubakar Kamara has been suspended indefintley after he was arrested following a fight with a staff of the club at the club’s training center. (Source L’Equipe Online)

-Welsh goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace) has been charged by the FA for allegedly making a Nazi salute in a team photo. (Source Sky Sports Online)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

- The search for the plane of Emiliano Sala has been called off. (Source BBC Footballonline)

-British Sportswriter Hugh McIlvanney passed away aged 84. (Source Fox Sports online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

- Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) has handed in a transfer request. (Source BBC Football online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-Croatia’s Ivan Perisic (Inter) has been linked to Arsenal. (Source vi.nl online)

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-Roy Keane has been confirmed to be Martin O’Neill’s assistant at Nottingham Forest. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Leicester have turned down Aston Villa’s offer for Christian Fuchs. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Everton confirmed that they have turned down an offer from PSG for Idrissa Gueye. (Source vi.nl online)

- Cheslea have informed Bayern Muncih that they will not sell Callum Hudson-Odoi (Chelsea) this month. (Source Bulinews online)

- Cardiff Manager Neil Warnock described the Emiliano Sala disappearance as the “the most difficult week of his career” and has considered retiring . (Source BBC Football online)

Photo From: L'Equipe, January 23, 2019

(Emiliano Sala)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Chris Mepham	Defender	Brentford	Bournemouth	Purchase	Sky Sports
January 22, 2019	Marc Pugh	Midfielder	Bournemouth	Hull City	Loan	The Guardian
January 23, 2019	Emiliano Martinez	Goalkeeper	Arsenal	Reading	Loan	Sky Sports
January 23, 2019	Gonzalo Higuain (Argentina)	Striker	Juventus (loaned at AC Milan)	Chelsea	Loan with option to buy	BBC Football
January 23, 2019	Mark Harris	Striker	Cardiff	Port Vale	Loan	The Guardian
January 23, 2019	Adam Parkes	Goalkeeper	Southampton	Watford	Purchase	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Jon Obi Mikel (Nigeria)	Midfielder	Free Agent (formerly Tianjin Teda)	Middlesbrough	Purchase (until end of season)	BBC Football
January 24, 2019	Billy Arce	Winger	Brighton	Emelec	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Lucas Perri	Goalkeeper	Santos	Crystal palace	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Alexis Mac Allister	Midfielder	Argentinos Juniors	Brighton	Purchase	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Alexis Mac Allister	Midfielder	Brighton	Argentinos Juniors	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Luke Bolton	Winger	Manchester City	Wycombe	Loan	The Guardain
January 25, 2019	Victor Moses (Nigeria)	Midfielder	Cheslea	Fenerbahce	Loan	Sky Sports
January 25, 2019	Matt Miazga (USA)	Defender	Chelsea	Reading	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 25, 2019	Charlie Colkett	Midfielder	Chelsea	Ostersund	Purchase	The Guardain
January 26, 2019	Marlos Moreno (Colombia)	Striker	Manchester City	Santos Laguna	Loan	L’Equipe
January 26, 2019	Jamie Sterry	Defender	Newcastle	Crewe Alexandra	Loan	The Guardian
January 27, 2019	Bakary Sako	Striker	WBA	Crystal Palace	Purchase	BBC Football
January 27, 2019	Omar Bogle	Striker	Birmingham	Cardiff	Loan Return	The Guardian
January 27, 2019	Mathias Normann	Midfielder	Brighton	FC Rostov	Purchase	The Guardian
January 28, 2019	Ibrahim Affelay (Holland)	-	Stoke	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Omar Bogle	Striker	Cardiff	Portsmouth	Loan	The Guardian

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 26, 2019	Marko Arnautovic (Austria)	Striker	West Ham	2022	L’Equipe

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
January 28, 2019	James Olayinka	Midfielder	Arsenal	Arsenal.com

English League Cup-Semifinals-Second Leg (January 23-January 24, 2019):

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Burton Albion 0-Manchester City 1 (Sergio Aguero 26)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

Chelsea 2-Tottenham 1(N’Golo Kante 27, Eden Hazard 38 / Fernando Llorente 50) (Chelsea won 4-2 on penalty kick shoot-out)

English FA Matchday (January 25-January 27, 2019):

Friday, January 25, 2019:

Bristol City 2-Bolton 1 (Callum O’Dowda 8, Niclas Eliasson 30 / Mark Beevers 6)

Arsenal 1-Manchester United 3 (Pierre-Erick Aubameyang 43 / Alexis Sanchez 31, Jese Lingard 33, Anthony Martial 82)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Accrington Stanley 0-Derby 1 (Martyn Waghorn 78)

Brighton 0-WBA 0 (-)

Doncaster 2-Oldham 1(Benjamin Whiteman 68, 90 pen / Peter Clarke 84)

Manchetser City 5-Burnely 0  (Gabriel Jesus 23, Bernardo Silva 52, Kevin De Bruyne 61, Kevin Long (own goal) 73, Sergio Aguero 85 pen)

Middlebrough 1-Newport 1(Daniel Ayala 51 / Matthew Dolan 90)

Newcastle 0-Watford 2(Andre Gray 62, Isaac Success 90)

Portsmouth 1-QPR 1(Lee Brown 63 / Nakhi Wells 74)

Shrewsbury 2-Wolves 2(Greg Docherty 47, Luke Waterfall 71 / Raul Jimenez 75, Matt Doherty 90)

Swansea 4-Gillingham 1(Oliver McBurnie 10, Olver McBurnie 33, Bersant Celina 73, Barry McKay 85 / Josh Rees 51)

Milwall 3-Everton 2(Lee Gregory 45, Jake Cooper 75, Murray Wallace 90 / Richarlison 43, Cenk Tosun 72)

Wimbledon 4-West Ham 2(Kwesi Appiah 34, Scott Wagstaff 41, 46, Toby Sibbick 88 / Lucas Perez 57, Felipe Anderson 71)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Crystal Palace 2-Tottenham 0 (Connor Wickham 9, Andros Townsend 34 pen)

Chelsea 3-Sheffield Wednesday 0 (Willian 26 pen, 83, Callum Hudson-Odoi 64)

Monday, January 28, 2019:

Barnet 3-Brentford 3(Shaquile Coulthirst 50, 53, Daniel Sparkes 75 / Ollie Watkins 40, Neal Maupay 60 pen, Sergi Canos 72)

II.  Italy

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

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Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

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Thursday, January 24, 2019:

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Friday, January 25, 2019:

-Erick Thohir has sold his Inter share to Hong Kong’s LionRock capital. (Source Football Italia online)

-Marcello Lippi has left his post as China Manager after Asian Nations Cup exit. (Source Football Italia online)

-Jordan Lukaku’s proposed transfer from Lazio to Newcastle has fallen through. (Source Sky Sports online)                                            

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

- Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) scored in his 11^thconsecutive match, tying Gabriel Batistuta’s record from 1994. (Source Calciomercato online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

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Monday, January 28, 2019:

-Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus) will be out injured for a few weeks. (Source Calciomercato online)

-Filippo Inzaghi was dismissed as Bologna Manager. He was replaced with Sinisa Mihajlovic. (Source L’Equipe online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Mamadou Coulibaly	Midfielder	Udinese	Carpi	Loan	The Guardian
January 22, 2019	Emil Hallfedsson (Iceland)	Midfielder	Frosinone	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Football Italia
January 22, 2019	Bartlomiej Dragowski (Poland)	Goalkeeper	Fiorentina	Empoli	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 22, 2019	Pietro Terracciano	Goalkeeper	Empoli	Fiorentin	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 22, 2019	Gianluca Sacamacca	-	PEC Zwolle	Sassuolo	Loan Return	vi.nl
January 22, 2019	Alessandro Tripaldelli	-	PEC Zwolle	Sassuolo	Loan Return	vi.nl
January 22, 2019	Mouhamed Menaour belkheir (Franco-Algerian)	Striker	Brescia	Torino	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 22, 2019	Marios Oikonomou	Defender	Bologna	AEK	Loan Return	The Guardian
January 22, 2019	Antonio Di Gaudio	Striker	Parma	Hellas Verona	Loan	Football Italia
January 23, 2019	Leroy Abanda Mfomo (France)	Defender	Monaco	AC Milan	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 23, 2019	Gabriele Moncini	Striker	SPAL	Cittadella	Loan	Corriere dello Sport
January 23, 2019	Dodo (Brazil)	Defender	Sampdoria	Cruzeiro	Loan	Corriere dello Sport
January 23, 2019	Antonio Sanabria (Paraguay)	Striker	Betis	Genoa	18-month loan with option to buy	L’Equipe
January 23, 2019	Krzysztof Piatek (Poland)	Striker	Genoa	AC Milan	Purchase	Bleacher Report
January 23, 2019	Zinedine Machach	Midfielder	Napoli	Crotone	Loan	The Guardian
January 23, 2019	Federico Viviani	Midfielder	SPAL	Frosinone	Loan	The Guardian
January 23, 2019	Lorenzo Crisetig	Midfielder	Bologna	Benevento	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Stefano Sturaro	Defender	Sporting CP	Juventus	Loan Return	Football Italia
January 24, 2019	Stefano Sturaro	Defender	Juventus	Genoa	Loan	Football Italia
January 24, 2019	Stefan Simic	Defender	AC Milan	Frosinone	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Marco Carraro	Midfielder	Atalanta	Perugia	Loan	The Guardian
January 25, 2019	Mcedric Soares (Portugal)	Defender	Southmpton	Inter	Loan	BBC Football
January 25, 2019	Sebastien De Maio (Franco-Italy)	Defender	Bologna	Udinese	Loan with obligatory option to buy	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Amato Ciciretti	Striker	Napoli (on loan at Parma)	Ascoli	Loan	Football Italia
January 25, 2019	Abdou Diakhate (Senegal)	Midfielder	Fiorentina	Parma	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Christian Oliva (Uruguay)	Midfielder	Nacional Montevideo	Cagliari	Loan with option to buy	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Marcello Trotta	Striker	Sassuolo	Frosninone	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Andras Schafer	-	MTK Budapest	Genoa	Purchase	Football Italia
January 26, 2019	Medhi Benatia (Morocco)	Defender	Juventus	Al Duhail (Qatar)	Purchase	BBC Football
January 26, 2019	Martin Caceres (Uruguay)	Defender	Lazio	Juventus	Purchase	BBC Football
January 26, 2019	Joel Campbell (Costa Rica)	Striker	Frosinone	Leon (Mexico)	Purchase	Transfer Market Web
January 26, 2019	Stipe Perica (Croatia)	Striker	Udinese	Kasimpasa	Loan	L’Equipe
January 26, 2019	Filippo Perucchini	Goalkeeper	Ascoli	Empoli	Permanent signing	Serie A News Live
January 27, 2019	Eduardo Soleri	-	Almere City	Roma	Loan Return	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Szymon Zurkowski (Poland)	Midfielder	Gornik Zabrze	Fiorentina	Purcahse	Maisfutebol
January 28, 2019	Ezequiel Schelotto	Defender	Brighton	Chievo	Loan	A Bola
January 28, 2019	Dimitrios Nikolaou	Defender	Olympiakos	Empoli	Loan	The Guardian
January 28, 2019	Marco Tumminello	Striker	Atalanata	Lecce	Loan	The Guardian
January 28, 2019	Andrew Gravillon	Defender	Pescara	Inter	Next season (He has been loaned back to Pescara for rest of season)	Football Italia
January 28, 2019	Filippo Inzaghi	Manager	Bologna	Free Agent	Dismissed as Manager	L’Equipe
January 28, 2019	Sinisa Mihajlovic (Serbia)	Manager	Free Agent	Bologna	New Appointment	L’Equipe

Italian Serie A Matchday (January 26-January 28, 2019):

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Sassuolo 3-Cagliari 0(Manuel Locatelli 9, Khouma Babacar 45 pen, Alessandro Matri 87)

Sampdoria 4-Udinese 0(Fabio Quagliarella 33 pen, 56 pen, Karol Linetty 68, Manolo Gabbiadini 78)

AC Milan 0-Napoli 0 (-)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Chievo 3-Fiorentina 4(Mariusz Stepinski 38, Sergio Pellissier 60 pen, Filip Djordjevic 89 / Luis Muriel 4, Marco Benassi 26, Federico Chiesa 79, 86)

Atalanta 3-Roma 3(Timothy Castagne 44, Rafael Toloi 59, Duvan Zapata 71 / Edin Dzeko 3, 33, Stephan El Shaarawy 40)

Bologna 0-Frosinone 4(Paolo Ghiglione 18, Camillo Ciano 21,75, Andrea Pinamonti 52)

Parma 2-SPAL 3 (Roberto Inglese 11 pen, 53 / Matia Valoti 70, Andrea Petagna 75, Mohamed Fares 87)

Torino 1-Inter 0(Armando Izzo 35)

Lazio 1-Juventus 2(Emre Can (own goal) 59 / Joao Cancelo 74, Cristiano Ronaldo 88 pen)

Monday, January 28, 2019:

Empoli 1-Genoa 3(Giovanni Di Lorenzo 6 / Christian Kouame 18, Darko Lazovic 70, Antonio Sanabria 73)

Top Goalscorer:

Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) 16 goals

Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Juventus	21	19	2	0	43	12	31	59
2	Napoli	21	15	3	3	39	18	21	48
3	Inter	21	12	4	5	31	15	16	40
4	AC Milan	21	9	8	4	28	20	8	35
5	Roma	21	9	7	5	40	29	11	34
6	Sampdoria	21	9	6	6	39	26	13	33

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

III.  Spain

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-In his ongoing tax problems with Spanish Authorities, Cristiano Ronaldo was fined and received a suspended prison sentence of two years. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Levante have asked for the Copa Del Rey to be suspended temporarily while their appeal against Barcelona is being considered. (Source Football Espana online)

-There are reports that Real Madrid might include James Rodriguez as part of a deal with Tottenham to sign Christian Eriksen. (Source AS.com online)

-Frenkie De Jong (Ajax) has reportedly agreed to join Barcelona in the summer. (Source Bleacher Report online)

-Xabi Alonso has refused aplea bargain in his tax fraud case and is intent in clearing his name. (Source Athe 42.ieonline)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-The CAS (Court of Arbitration of Sport) has denied Levante’s appeal for the reversal of their Copa Del Rey match vs. Barcelona. (Source Marca online)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-Moussa wague (Barcelona) has been suspended for four matches for striking a fan who insulted him. (Source L’Equipe online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-Former Real Madrid player (1967/68 season), Antonio Iznata Dimas has passed away aged 75. (Source realmadrid.comonline)

 Saturday, January 26, 2019:

-Barcelona Manager Ernesto Valverde has criticized Pep Guardiola for allegedly directly contacting Frenkie De Jon in hopes of signing him. (Source Football Espana online)

-Real Madrid will not pursue and try to sign Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen . (Source Football Espana online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Wesly Hoedt	Defender	Southampton	Celta	Loan with option to buy	Sky Sports
January 22, 2019	Nikola Stojiljkovic (Serbia)	Striker	Braga	Mallorca	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 23, 2019	Andre Moreira (Portugal)	Goalkeeper	Aston Villa	Atletico Madrid	Loan Return	L’Equipe
January 23, 2019	Lass Bangoura	Winger	Rayo Vallecano	Vancouver Whitecaps	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Takashi Inui	Winger	Betis	Alaves	Loan	The Guardian
January 23, 2019	Pablo Hervias	Winger	Eibar	Valladolid	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Carlos Redruello	Defender	Betis	Santander	Loan	Transfer Market Web
January 24, 2019	Aderlan Santos (Brazil)	Defender	Valencia (had been on loan at Vitoria)	Al Ahli (Saudi Araia)	Loan	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Sergi Guardiola	Striker	Cordoba	Valladolid	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 28, 2019	Wu Lei (China)	Striker	Shanghai SIPG	Espanyol	Purchase	BBC Football
January 28, 2019	Alvaro Morata	Striker	Chelsea	Atletico Madrid	18-month Loan	Sport Bild
January 28, 2019	Marko Rog	Midfielder	Napoli	Sevilla	Loan	Football Italia
January 28, 2019	Diego Reyes (Mexico)	Defender	Fenerbahce	Leganes	Loan	Maisfutebol

Copa Del Rey (January 22-January 24, 2019):

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

Getafe 1-Valencia 0 (Jorge Molina 77)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Sevilla 2-Bacelona 0 (Pablo Sanabria 58, Wissam Ben Yedder 76)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

Espanyol 1 -Betis 1 (Borja Iglesias 27 / Antonio Sanabria 81)

Real Madrid 4-Girona 2 (Lucas Vazquez 18, Sergio Ramos 42 pen, 77, Karim Benzema 80 / Anthony Lozano 7, Alex Granell 66 pen)

Spanish La Liga Matchday (January 26-January 28, 2019):

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Sevilla 5-Levante 0 (Wissam Ben Yedder 48, Andre Silva 60, Franco Vazquez 71, Pablo Sarabia 80 pen, Quincy Promes 90)

Atletico Madrid 2-Getafe 0 (Antoine Griezmann 27, Saul Niguez 37)

Leganes 2-Eibar 2 (Youssef En-Nesyri 46, 67 / Kike 29, Joan Jordan 36)

Valencia 3-Villareal 0 (Mouctar Diakhaby 4, Denis Cheryshev 51, Rodrigo Moreno 86)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Valldolid 2-Celta 1(Oscar Plano 55, Keko 69 / Pione Sisto 16)

Girona 0-Barcelona 2 (Nelson Semedo 9, Lionel Messi 68)

Bilbao 1-Betis 0 (Iker Muniain 21)

Sociedad 0-Huesca 0 (-)

Espanyol 2-Real Madrid 4 (Leo Baptistao 25, Roberto Rosales 81 / Karim Benzema 4, 45, Sergio Ramos 15, Gareth Bale 67)

Monday, January 28, 2019:

Alaves 0-Vallecano 1  (Raul De Tomas 47)

Top Goalscorer:

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 19 goals

Luis Suarez (Barcelona) 15 goals

Cristhian Stuani (Girona) 12 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	21	15	4	2	58	21	37	49
2	Atletico Madrid	21	12	8	1	32	13	19	44
3	Real Madrid	21	12	5	4	34	26	8	39
4	Sevilla	21	10	6	5	36	22	14	36
5	Alaves	20	9	5	6	22	23	-1	32
6	Getafe	21	8	7	6	25	18	7	31

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IV.  Germany

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-Raphael Framberger (Augsburg) will be out injured for the remainder of the season. (Source Sport Bild online)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

- Ryan Johansson (Bayern Munich) has pledged his International future to republic of Ireland. (Source Irish Football Fan TV online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-Andre Breitenreiter has been dismissed as Hannover Manager. (Source Sport Bild online)

-Thomas Doll has been named as the new Hannover Manager. (Source Bulinews online)

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-Jens Lehmann has been named as Assistant Manager at Augsburg. (Source Bulinews online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 23, 2019	Tomasz Kucz (Poland)	Goalkeeper	Leverkusen	Dunajska Streda	Loan	Sport Bild
January 23, 2019	Ebenezer Ofori	Midfielder	Stuttgart	New York City FC	Loan extended to end of season	Sport Bild
January 23, 2019	Hannes Wolf	Midfielder	RB Salzburg	RB Leipzig	Next season	Kicker.de
January 23, 2019	Hans Sarpei	Midfielder	Stutggart	Greuther Furth	Loan with option to buy	Kicker.de
January 23, 2019	Caleb Stanko	Midfielder	Freiburg	Cincinatti	Purchase	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Chris Richards (USA)	Defender	FC Dallas	Bayern Munich	Purchase	vi.nl
January 24, 2019	Berkay Ozcan	Midfielder	Stuttgart	Hamburg	Purchase	The Guardian
January 25, 2019	Carlos Mane (Portugal)	-	Sporting CP	Union Berlin	Loan	Sport Bild
January 25, 2019	Taylan Duman	Midfielder	Dusseldorf	Dortmund II	Purchase	Kicker.de
January 27, 2019	Andre Breitenreiter	Manager	Hannover	Free Agent	Dismissed as Manager	Sport Bild
January 28, 2019	Fabian Lustenberger (Switzerland)	Midfielder	Hertha Berlin	Young Boys Bern	Next Season	Sport Bild
January 28, 2019	Lucas Ribeiro (Brazil)	Defender	Vitoria	Hoffenheim	Purchase	Kicker.de
January 28, 2019	Amos Pieper	Defender	Dortmund	Arminia Bielfeld	Purchase	Kicker.de
January 28, 2019	Patrick Kammerbauer	Midfielder	Freiburg	Holstein Kiel	Loan	The Guardian
January 28, 2019	Caiuby (Brazil)	-	Augsburg	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Kicker.de

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Per Skjelbred	-	Hertha Berlin	2020	Kicker.de
January 23, 2019	Pal Dardai (Hungary)	Manager	Hertha Berlin	2020	Kicker.de

German Bundesliga Matchday (January 25-January 27, 2019):

Friday, January 25, 2019:

Hertha Berlin 2-Schalke 2 (-Marko Grujic 39, Vedad Ibisevic 45 / Yevhen Konoplyanka 17, Mark Uth 44)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Mainz 2-Nuremberg 1 (Daniel Brosinski 12 pen, Robin Quaison 73 / Georg Margreitter 43)

Dortmund 5-Hannover 1 (Achraf Hakimi 24, Marco Reus 60, Mario Gotze 62, Raphale Guerreiro 67, Axel Witsel 90 / Marvin Bakalorz 86)

Moenchengladbach 2-Augsburg 0 (Oscar Wendt 78, Patrick Herrmann 90)

Freiburg 2-Hoffenheim 4(Lucas Holer 42, F.Niederlechner 77 / Joelinton 19, Andrej Kramaric 59 pen, 72, Kerem Demirbay 85)

Wolfsburg 0-Leverkusen 3 (Kai Havertz 45 pen, Kevin Volland 62, Julian Brandt 88)

Werder Bremen 2-Frankfurt 2 (M.Eggestein 27, Martin Harnik 52 / Ante Rebic 35, Sebastian Haller 68 pen)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Bayern Munich 4-Stuttgart 1 (Thiago Alcantara 5, Christian Gentner (own goal) 55, Leon Goretzka 71, Robert Lewandowski 84 / Anastasios Donis 26)

Dusseldorf 0-RB Leipzig 4 (Yussuf Poulsen 2, 16, Ibrahima Konate 9, Konrad Laimer 68)

Top Goalscorer:

Luka Jovic (Frankfurt) 13 goals

Paco Alcacer (Dortmund) 12 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dortmund	19	15	3	1	50	19	31	48
2	Bayern Munich	19	13	3	3	43	20	23	42
3	M’Gladbach	19	12	3	4	39	18	21	39
4	RB Leipzig	19	10	4	5	35	18	17	34
5	Frankfurt	19	9	4	6	39	26	13	31
6	Hoffenheim	19	7	7	5	37	28	9	28

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

V.  France

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-Nantes’ Cup match vs. Entente Sannois Saoint-Gratien has been postponed due to the disappearance of the plane carrying Emiliano Sala. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Jonas Martin (Strasbourg) will be out injured 2-3 months. (Source L’Équipe online)

-Mario Balotelli (Nice) is reportedly set to join OM. (Source L’Equipe online)

-PSG have been fined for racially profiling youth signings. (Source BBC Football online)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-Neymar was injured in PSG’s cup victory over Strasbourg. (Source BBC Football online)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-Thierry Henry has been suspended as Monaco after three months in charge and will likely be sacked. Leonardo Jardim has been re-appointed as Manager. (Source The Guardian online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-Alain Bernard, a former French Footballer from the 70s and 80s, passed away aged 65. (Source L’Équipe online)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

- Monaco’s new signing Naldo was sent off for the second time in three matches in their match vs. Dijon. (Source voetbalzone.nl online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-Pierre Delauney, former General Secretary of UEFA (1955-60) has passed away aged 99. (Source UEFA.com online)

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-Bordeaux have denied reports that they demanded a portion of the transfer fee of Emiliano Sala following his transfer to Cardiff. (Source Sky Sports online)

-OM are to play their next home match behind closed doors due to a firework incident in their last match vs. Lille. (Source BBC Football online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Alexandros Katranis (Greece)	Defender	St Etienne	Atromitos (Greece)	Loan	L’Equipe
January 22, 2019	Steven Fortes	Defender	Toulouse	Lens	Loan	L’Equipe
January 23, 2019	Boubakar Kouyate (Mali)	Defender	Sporting CP	Troyes	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 23, 2019	Mario Balotelli (Italy)	Striker	Nic e	OM	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 23, 2019	Yoann Gourcuff	Midfielder	Dijon	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	L’Equipe
January 24, 2019	Gil Dias	Winger	Nottingham Forest	Moanco	Loan return	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Gil Dias	Winger	Monaco	Olympiakos	Loan	The Guardian
January 24, 2019	Carlos Vinicius (Brazil)	Striker	Napoli (had been loaned to Rio Ave)	Moanco	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 24, 2019	Leandro Paredes (Argentina)	Midfielder	Zenit St Petersburg	PSG	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Romain Metanire	Defender	Reims	Minnesota United (USA)	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Denis-Will Poha	Midfielder	Rennes	Nancy	Loan	L’Equipe
January 25, 2019	Dorian Bertrand	Midfielder	Angers	Beziers	Loan	L’Equipe
January 26, 2019	Josh Maja	Striker	Sunderland	Bordeaux	Purchase	BBC Football
January 26, 2019	Arber Zeneli (Kosovo)	Midfielder	Heerenveen	Reims	Purchase	vi.nl
January 26, 2019	ArbeKolbeinn Sigthorsson (Iceland)	Striker	Nantes	Vancouver Whitecamps	Loan with option to buy	vi.nl
January 27, 2019	Gelson Martins (Portugal)	Winger	Atletico Madrid	Monaco	Loan	L’Equipe
January 28, 2019	Sanjin Prcic	Midfielder	Levante	Strasbourg	Loan	The Guardian

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 28, 2019	Daniel Congre	Defender	Montpellier	-	L’Equipe
January 28, 2019	Dimitry Bertaud	Goalkeeper	Montpellier	-	L’Equipe

Coupe de France (January 22-January 24, 2018):

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

Andrezieux 1-Lyon la Duchere 2 (Lenny Leonil 15 / Frank Julienne 49, 63)

Nancy 1-Guingamp 2 (Santy Ngom 66 / Sylvio Ronny Rodelin 27, Papy Djilobodji 102)

Toulouse 4-Reims 4 (Aaron Leya Iseka 44, 82, Manu Garcia 68, Max-Alain Gradel 119 pen / Boulaye Dia 47, Remi Oudin 77, Xavier Chavalerin 87, Mathieu Cafaro 108) (Toulouse won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Villefranche Beaujolais 2-Les Herbiers 0 (Ali M’Madi 63, Brighton Labeau 90)

Monaco 1-Metz 3 (Radamel Falcao 39 / Gauthier Hein 32, Marvin Gakpa 62, Ibrahima Niane 74)

Sete 0-Lille 1 (Jonatahn Bamba 48)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Bergerac Perigord 2-Orleans 3 (Terence Pinto 89, Diego Gomez 90 / J.Romeric Lopy 51, Gaetan Perrin 77, Maxime D’Arpino 99)

Marignane Gignac 0-Croix 0 (-) (Croix won on penalty kick shoot-out)

St Etienne 3-Dijon 6 (Loic Diony 14, Robert Beric 60, K.Monnet-Paquet 64 / Naim Sliti 11, 28, 51 pen, Jules Keita 47, Julio Tavares 52, Jordan Marie 90)

St-Pryve St-Hilaire 0-Rennes 2 (T.J.Siebatcheu 39, Adrien Hunou 51)

Viry Chatillon 0-Caen 6 (Yacine Bammou 5, Saif-Eddine Khaoui 13, 30, Malik Tchokounte 79, Adama Mbengue 88, J.Mouadibb 90)

PSG 2-Strasbourg 0 (Edinson Cavani 3, Angel Di Maria 80)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

Bastia 2-Noisy Le Grand 1 (Pierre Petit Homme (own goal) 33, Naoufal Mesbah 45 / Yves Yao 90)

Vitre 3-Le Havre 0 (Jordan Le Bacle 33, Eliott Sorin 47, Marwane Elaz 57)

Amiens 0-Lyon 2 (Moussa Dembele 28, Leo Dubois 35)

French Ligue 1 Matchday (Postponed matches) (January 23, 2018):

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Nimes 3-Angers 1 (Clement Depres 31, 49, Loick Landre 34 / Stephane Bahoken 90 pen)

French Ligue 1 Matchday (January 25-January 27, 2019):

Friday, January 25, 2019:

OM 1-Lille 2 (Mario Balotelli 90+ / Nicolas Pepe 45 pen, 90)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Nantes –St Etienne(postponed)

Dijon 2-Monaco 0 (Kwin-Chang-Hoon 24, Naim Sliti 69)

Guingamp 0-Reims 1  (Mathieu Cafaro 38)

Nice 2-Nimes 0(Youcef Atal 41, Allan Saint-Maximin 54)

Strabourg 1-Bordeaux 0  (Kenny Lala 90)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Montpellier 2-Caen 0(Gaetan Laborde 51, Paul Baysse (own goal) 59)

Amiens 0-Lyon 1 (Jason Denayer 50)

Toulouse 0-Angers 0  (-)

PSG 4-Rennes 1  (Edinson Cavani 7, 71, Angel Di Maria 60, Kylian Mbappe 66 / Mbaye Niang 34)

Top Goalscorer:

Kylian Mbappe (PSG) 18 goals

Edinson Cavani (PSG) 16 goals

Nicolas Pepe (Lille) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSG	20	18	2	0	66	11	55	56
2	Lille	22	12	5	5	35	31	13	43
4	Lyon	22	11	7	4	36	25	11	40
3	St Etienne	21	10	6	5	32	25	7	36
6	Strasbourg	22	9	8	5	38	25	13	35
5	Montpellier	21	9	8	4	28	16	12	35

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

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VI  Holland

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

- Giovanni Van Bronckhurst will leave his post as Feyenoord Manager at the end of the season. (Source Sky Sports online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

- Muhammed Ihattaren became the fourth youngest debutante player of PSV Eindhoven’s history at the age of 16 years and 348 days. (Source vi.nl online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-John van den Brom is to become Manager of Utrecht at the end of season replacing Dick Advocaat. (Source vi.nl online)

- Former Striker from 70s into 90s (ex-PSV Eindhoven in 80s), Jurrie Koolhof has passed away aged 59 . (Source vi.nl online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Jan Lammers	Defender	RKC	Pusamania Borneo (Indonesia)	Purchase	vi.nl
January 22, 2019	Marco Rojas (New Zealand)	Striker	Heerenveen	SonderjyskE (Denmark)	Purchase	vi.nl
January 22, 2019	Michiel Kramer	Striker	Maccabi Haifa (Israel)	Utrecht	Purchase	vi.nl
January 23, 2019	Jeroen Houwen	Goalkeeper	Telstar	Vitesse	Loan Return	vi.nl
January 23, 2019	Sven Braken	Striker	NEC	Emmen	Purchase	vi.nl
January 23, 2019	Charlison Benschop	Striker	Ingolstadt (Germany)	De Graafschap	Purchase	Voetbalzone.nl
January 23, 2019	Anil Mercan	Midfielder	Vitesse	Selcukspor (Turkey)	Purchase	Voetbalzone.nl
January 24, 2019	Ilias Alhaft	Striker	Sparta	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	vi.nl
January 24, 2019	Andrija Balic (Croatia)	Midfielder	Udinese	Fortuna Sittard	Loan	vi.nl
January 24, 2019	Alex Gersbach	-	Rosenborg	NAC	Purchase	vi.nl
January 24, 2019	Alexander Isak	Striker	Dortmund	Willem II	Loan	Football-oranje
January 25, 2019	Ilias Alhaft	Striker	Free Agent (formerly Sparta)	Almere City	Purchase	vi.nl
January 25, 2019	Dave Bulthuis	-	Heerenveen	Ulsan Hyundai (South Korea)	Purchase	vi.nl
January 26, 2019	Bruno Varela	Goalkeeper	Benfica	Ajax	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 28, 2019	Nick Plomper	Goalkeeper	Groningen	Tesltar	Purcahse	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Mohamed Hamdaoui	Winger	De Graafschap	Twente	Loan	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Agim Zeka (Albania)	Winger	Lille	Fortuna Sittard	Purchase	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Brahim Darri	-	NEC	Den Bosch	Loan	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Mattijs Branderhorst	Goalkeeper	Willem II	NEC	Loan	vi.nl
January 28, 2019	Myenty Abena	-	De Graafschap	Spartak Trnava	Purchase	Voetbalzone.nl

KNVB Beker (January 22-January 24, 2018):

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

AZ 2-Vitesse 0 (Cavin Stengs 40, Guus Til 54)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Twente 2-Willem II 3 (Aitor Cantalapiedra 54, 63 / Cristian Gonzalez (own goal) 62, Vangelis Pavlidis 76, K.Ingi Kristinsson 87)

Feyenoord 4-Fortuna Sittard 1 (Robin Van Persie 34, 68 pen, Sven Van Beek 81, Steven Berghuis 90 pen / Andrija Novakovich 54)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

Ajax 3-Heerenveen 1 (Noussair Mazraoui 3, Donny Van de Beek 16, 38 / P.Van Amersfoort 84 )

Dutch Eredivisie Matchday (January 25-January 27, 2019):

Friday, January 25, 2019:

NAC 1-Den Haag 1 (Gervane Kastaneer 50 / Melvyn Lorenzen 21)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Heracles 0-PEC 2(Mike Van Duinen 16, Lennart Thy 55)

Excelsior 2-De Graafschap 0 (Luigi Bruins 76, Mounir El Hamdaoui 90)

PSV Eindhoven 2-Groningen 1  (Hirving Lozano 15, 19 / Ludovit Reis 34)

VVV 2-Emmen 3  (Jonathan Opoku 20, 67 / Alexander Bannink 25, Jafar Arias 63, Michael Chacon 90)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Fortuna Sittard 2-Vitesse 1 (Lars Hutten 74, Finn Stokkers 90 / Bryan Linssen 7)

Utrecht 0-Willem II 1 (Daniel Crowley 46)

Feyenoord 6-Ajax 2  (Jens Toornstar 16, Steven Berghuis 31, Robin van Persie 42, 56, Tonny Vilhena 75, Yassine Ayoub 84 / Lasse Schone 8, Hakim Ziyech 34)

Heerenveen 0-AZ 2  (Sherel Floranus (own goal) 64, Oussama Idrissi 78)

Top Goalscorer:

Luuk De Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 15 goals

Fran Sol (Willem II) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSV Eindhoven	19	17	1	1	64	11	53	52
2	Ajax	19	15	3	2	67	19	48	47
3	Feyenoord	19	12	3	4	42	25	17	39
4	AZ	19	9	4	6	35	26	9	31
5	Vitesse	19	8	5	6	31	25	6	29
6	Utrecht	19	8	4	7	30	27	3	28

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VII.  Scotland

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-Hearts Manager Craig Levein criticized his new signing goalkeeper David Vanacek by describing him as ‘rubbish’ after their loss vs. Dundee. (Source BBC Football online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-Hibernian Manager Neil Lennon has been suspended by the club. (Source BBC Football online)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

-

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 23, 2019	Andreas Hadenius (Sweden)	Midfielder	Halmstad	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 24, 2019	James Horsfield	Defender	Scunthorpe	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 24, 2019	Ciaron Brown	Defender	Cardiff	Livingston	Loan	The Guardian
January 26, 2019	Andrers Dreyer	Winger	Brighton	St Mirren	Loan	BBC Football
January 26, 2019	Andy Firth	Goalkeeper	Barrow	Rangers	Purchase	BBC Football
January 27, 2019	Mateo Muzek (Croatia)	Defender	Shakhtar Kargandy	St Mirren	Purchase	BBC Football
January 28, 2019	Conor McAleny	Striker	Fleetwood Town	Kilmarnock	Loan	BBC Football

Scottish Premier League Matchday (January 23, 2019):

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Celtic 4-St Mirren 0 (Oliver Burke 11, 55, Scott Sinclair 18 pen, Timothy Weah 88)

Hamilton 0-Aberdeen 3 (Sam Cosgrove 25, 52, Greg Stewart 56)

Hearts 1-Dundee 2(Oliver Lee 40 / Genseric Kusunga 24, Andrew Nelson 62)

Kilmarnock 2-Rangers 1(Eamonn Brophy 23, Jordan Jones 66 / Jermain Defoe 12)

Motherwell 1-Hibernian 0(David Turnbull 43)

St Johnstone 1-Livingston 0 (Murray Davidson 77)

Top Goalscorer:

Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) 12 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	21	14	3	4	50	14	36	45
2	Kilmarnock	22	13	5	4	34	21	13	44
3	Rangers	22	12	6	4	44	18	26	42
4	Aberdeen	22	13	3	6	37	24	13	42
5	St Johnstone	21	11	4	6	26	24	2	37
6	Hearts	22	11	3	8	27	28	-1	36

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Scottish Premier League Matchday (January 27-January 28, 2019):

Saturday, January 27, 2019:

Aberdeen 0-Kilmarnock 0 (-)

Celtic 3-Hamilton 0 (Callum McGregor 42, Ryan Christie 77, Scott Sinclair 87)

Dunde 0-Motherwell 1(David Turnbull 60 pen)

Hearts 2-St Johnstone 0 (Marcus Godinho 52, Callum Morrison 90)

Sunday, January 28, 2019:

St Mirren 1-Hibernian 3 (Simeon Jackson 24 / Oliver Shaw 61, Darren McGregor 70, Stephen Mallan 87)

Livingston 0-Rangers 3 (Ryan Jack 30, Ryan Kent 48, Alfredo Morelos 74)

Top Goalscorer:

Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	22	15	3	4	53	14	39	48
2	Rangers	23	13	6	4	47	18	29	45
3	Kilmarnock	23	13	6	4	34	21	13	45
4	Aberdeen	23	13	4	6	37	24	13	43
5	Hearts	23	12	3	8	29	28	1	39
6	St Johnstone	22	11	4	7	26	26	0	37

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VIII.  Portugal

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-Lito Vidigal has been replaced as Setubal Manager. Sandro Mendes will manage in the interim. (Source MaisFutebol online)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

-Jorge Simao has been dismissed as Boavista Manager. Lito Vidigal is set to replace him. (Source MaisFutebol online)

-Porto Manager Sergio Conceicao, disappointed after the penalty kick shoot-out loss vs. Sporting CP, threw his runners-up medal in the stands. (Source Footnews.be online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Gabriel Poveda (Brazil)	Striker	Guarani (Brazil)	Alverca	Purchase	A Bola
January 22, 2019	Roderick Miller	Striker	Feirense	Okzhepes (Kazakhstan)	Purchase	A Bola
January 22, 2019	Perdigao (Brazil)	-	Chaves	Boavista	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 22, 2019	Sebastian Rincon	-	Guimaraes	Godoy Cruz	Loan	A Bola
January 23, 2019	Benny Ashley-Seal (England)	Striker	Wolves	Famalicao	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 23, 2019	Andre Moreira	Goalkeeper	Atletico Madrid	Feirense	Loan	A Bola
January 23, 2019	Gustavo Sauer (Brazil)	Midfielder	Botev Plovdiv	Boavista	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 23, 2019	Guillermo Celis	-	Guimaraes	Colon Santa Fe	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 23, 2019	Victor Garcia (Venezuela)	-	Guimaraes	Famalicao	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 23, 2019	Damien Furtado	Striker	Rio Ave	Famalicao	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 24, 2019	Lumor Agbenyenu (Ghana)	Defende	Sporting CP	Goztepe (Turkey)	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 24, 2019	Vasco Paciencia	Striker	Boavista	Benfica	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 24, 2019	Wesly Decas (Honduras)	Defender	Nacional	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	A Bola
January 24, 2019	Rosic	Defender	Braga	Moreirense	Loan Return	A Bola
January 24, 2019	Pedro Henrique (Brazil)	Striker	Leixoes	Benfica	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 24, 2019	Bernardo	Midfielder	Leixoes	Benfica	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 24, 2019	Cristian Borja (Colombia)	Defender	Tioluca	Sporting CP	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 24, 2019	Junior Tallo (Ivory Coast)	Striekr	Guimaraes	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Maisfutebol
January 25, 2019	Elizio	Defender	Nacional	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Maisfutebol
January 25, 2019	Ibrahim Koneh (Cameroon)	-	Boavista	Estoril	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 25, 2019	Leo Kokubo (Japan)	Goalkeeper	Kashiwa Reysol	Benfica	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 25, 2019	Kaito Anzai (Japan)	Midfielder	Kashiwa Reysol	Braga	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 26, 2019	Alberto Bueno (Spain)	Striker	Porto	Boavista	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 26, 2019	Jorge Simao	Manager	Boavsita	Free Agent	Dismissed	Maisfutebol
January 26, 2019	Lito Vidigal	Manager	Free Agent	Boavista	Appointed	Maisfutebol
January 26, 2019	Gaisu Makouta (France)	Midfielder	Covilha	Braga	Purchase	A Bola
January 26, 2019	Elizio	-	Free Agent (formerly Nacional)	Varzim	Loan	A Bola
January 28, 2019	Felipe (Brazil)	Midfielder	Sporting CP	Leixoes	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 28, 2019	Andre Clovis (Brazil)	Striker	Portimonense	Leixoes	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 28, 2019	Oscar Estupinan (Colombia)	Striker	Guimaraes	Barcelona (Ecuador)	One year loan	Maisfutebol
January 28, 2019	Kleber (Brazil)	Striker	Estoril	JEF United (Japan)	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 28, 2019	Joao Pedro	Midfielder	LA Galaxy	Tondela	Loan	A Bola

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 25, 2019	Renan (Brazil)	Goalkeeper	Sporting CP	2023	Maisfutebol

Portugal League Cup-Playoff (January 22-January 23, January 26, 2018):

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

Benfica 1-Porto 3 (Rafa Silva 31 / Yacine Brhimi 24, Moussa Marega 35, Fernando Andrade 86)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Braga 1-Sporting CP 1 (Dyego Sousa 3 / Sebastian Coates 37) (Sporting won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Porto 1-Sporting CP 1 (Fernando Andrade 79 / Bas Dost 90 pen) (Sporting won 3-1 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Portugal Primeira Liga League Matchday (January 28, 2019):

Monday, January 28, 2019:

Maritino 0-Rio Ave 2(Diego Lopes 52, Joao Schmidt 90 pen)

Tondela 0-Aves 2(Carlos Ponck 58, Mama Balde 73)

Moreirense 2-Nacional 1(Chiquinho 15, 56 / Okacha Hamzaoui 87)

Feirense 1-Guimares 2(Philipe Sampaio 45 / Toze 5, 45)

IX.  Belgium

Diary:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-Ognjen Vranjes (Anderlecht) has been banished to the B side after many off-field incidents this season.  (Source RTBF.be online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-A Sports Tribunal has condemned Matias Suarez to pay Anderlecht 1.4 Million Euros for breaking his contract in 2016.  (Source RTBF.be online)

-The proposed transfer of Goncalo Cardoso from Boavista to Club Brugge has been called off.  (Source Maisfutebol online)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

-

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-Knowledge Musona (Lokeren) will be out injured for the rest of the season.  (Source Footnews.be online)

-The Belgian Justice is seeking access to documents of Portuguese hacker Rui Pinto as part of the ongoing Football Corruption case  (Source RTBF.be online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 22, 2019	Cristian Benavente (Peru)	Midfielder	Charleroi	Pyramids FC (Egypt)	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 22, 2019	Issa Marega (France)	Defender	Caen	Cercle Brugge	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 23, 2019	Franko Andrijasevic (Croatia)	-	Gent	Waaslnad-Beveren	Loan	RTBF.be
January 23, 2019	Nicolas Raskin	Midfielder	Gent	Standard Liege	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 23, 2019	Damien Dussaut (France)	Defender	St Truiden	Dinamo Bucharest	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 24, 2019	Zohran Bassong	Defender	Lille	Cercle Brugge	Purchse	L’Equipe
January 26, 2019	Omid Noorafkan (Iran)	Defender	Charleroi	Esteghlal	Loan	Footnews.be
January 26, 2019	Roman Bezus (Ukraine)	Midfielder	St Truiden	Gent	Purchase	Jupiler League App
January 26, 2019	Mamadou Sylla (Senegal)	Striker	Gent	St Truiden	Loan	Jupiler League App
January 28, 2019	Lamine Ndao (Senegal)	Striker	Waasland-Beveren	Ajaccio	Purchase	Footnews.be
January 28, 2019	Rafidine Abdullah (Franco-Comorian)	-	Waasland-Beveren	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Jupiler League App

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 28, 2019	Shawn Adewoye	Defender	Genk	2023	Jupiler League App

Belgium Beker Van Belgie (January 23-January 24, 2018):

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

Mechelen 0-Union St Gilloise 0 (-)

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

Gent 2-Ostend 2 (Roman Yarmechuk 23, Dylan Bronn 76 / Tom De Sutter 25, Laurens De Bock 78)

First Division A League Matchday (January 25-January 27, 2019):

Friday, January 25, 2019:

Antwerp 1-Standard Liege 1 (Dieumerci Mbokani 81 / Maxime Lestienne 74)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

Charleroi 2-Waasland-Beveren 2 (Massimo Bruno 24, Victor Osimhen 59 / N.Opoku Ampomah 15, Floriano Vanzo 21)

Cercle Brugge 1-St Truiden 2 (Johanna Omolo 31 / Jordan Botaka 38, Yohan Boli 64)

Lokeren 0-Zulte-Waregem 3  (Hamdi Harbaoui 35, 73, Nil De Pauw 37)

Genk 1-Mouscron 2  (Sebastien Dewaest 74 / Mbaye Leye 17 pen, Taiwo Awoniyi 90)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

Ostend 1-Club Brugge 2 (Jordi Vanlerberghe 2 / Hans vanaken 52 pen, Wesley 64 pen)

Anderlecht 2-Eupen 1 (Yari Vershaeren 51, Ivan Santini 65 / Mamadou Fall 31)

Kortrijk 1-Gent 2  (Idir Ouali 15 / Joanthan David 4, Thibault De Smet 76)

Top Goalscorer:

Ally Samatta (Genk) 15 goals

Nany Dimata (Anderlecht) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Genk	23	15	6	2	53	23	30	51
2	Club Brugge	23	13	5	5	50	24	26	44
3	Antwerp	23	12	6	5	33	26	7	42
4	Standard Liege	23	11	7	5	36	24	12	40
5	Anderlecht	23	11	4	8	39	29	10	37
6	Gent	23	11	4	8	42	38	4	37

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Diary (extra):

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

-USA Manager Gregg Berhalter’s squad for friendly matches vs. Panama and Costa Rica. (Source USSoccer online)

Squad:

GOALKEEPERS (2): Sean Johnson (New York City FC; 5/0), Zack Steffen (Columbus Crew SC; 6/0)

DEFENDERS (8): Reggie Cannon (FC Dallas; 2/0), Nick Lima (San Jose Earthquakes; 0/0), Aaron Long (New York Red Bulls; 2/0), Daniel Lovitz (Montreal Impact/CAN; 0/0), Mark McKenzie (Philadelphia Union; 0/0), Keegan Rosenberry (Colorado Rapids; 0/0), Auston Trusty (Philadelphia Union; 0/0), Walker Zimmerman (LAFC; 4/1)  

MIDFIELDERS (10): Paul Arriola (D.C. United; 17/2), Corey Baird (Real Salt Lake; 0/0), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC/CAN; 142/17), Russell Canouse (D.C. United; 0/0), Marky Delgado (Toronto FC/CAN; 6/0), Jonathan Lewis (New York City FC; 0/0), Sebastian Lletget (LA Galaxy; 5/1), Djordje Mihailovic (Chicago Fire; 0/0), Cristian Roldan (Seattle Sounders FC; 5/0), Wil Trapp (Columbus Crew SC; 11/0)

FORWARDS (3): Jeremy Ebobisse (Portland Timbers, 0/0), Christian Ramirez (LAFC; 0/0), Gyasi Zardes (Columbus Crew SC; 40/6)

-Former USA goalkeeper Tim Howard announced that he would retire at the end of the season. (Source Bleacher Report online)

-Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt has given up on his quest to play Football . (Source The Guardian online)

Wednesday, January 23, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

-Former USA International Landon Donovan has come out of retirement to join Major Arena Soccer League’s San Diego Sockers . (Source Fox Sports online)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

-Sven-Goran Eriksson has left his post as Phillipines Manager. (Source L’Equipe online)

Saturday, January 26, 2019:

-Former DR Congo striker from the 60s and 70s, Pierre Ndaye Mulamba has passed away aged 70. (Source L’Equipe Online)

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

-

Monday, January 28, 2019:

-Carlos Queiroz has resigned as Iran Manager following Iran’s loss vs. Japan in the Asian Nations Cup semifinal. (Source IranSportsPress (ISP) online)

-Former Russian striker from the 50s into the 70s and later a Manager, Ishtvan Yozhefovich Sekech passed away aged 79. (Source IranSportsPress (ISP) online)

International Friendlies:

Sunday, January 27, 2019:

USA 3-Panama 0 (Djordje Mihailovic 40, Walker Zimmerman 80, Christian Ramirez 89)

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club/Nation	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 27, 2019	Vital Borkelmans  (Belgium)	Manager	Jordan	2023	RTBF.be

Asian Nations Cup:

Asian Nations Cup-Round of 16:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019:

South Korea 2-Bahrain 1 (Hee-Chan Hwang 43, Jin-Su Kim 105 / Mohamed Marzooq 77)

Qatar 1-Iraq 0 (Bassam Hisham 62)

Asian Nations Cup-Quarterfinals:

Thursday, January 24, 2019:

Vietnam 0-Japan 1 (Ritsu Doan 57 pen)

China 0-Iran 3 (Mehadi Taremi 18, Sardar Azmoun 31, Karim Ansarifard 90)

Friday, January 25, 2019:

South Korea 0- Qatar 1 (Abdulaziz Hatem 78)

United Arab Emirates 1-Australia 0 (Ali Ahmed Mabkhout 68)

Asian Nations Cup-Semifinals:

Monday, January 28, 2019:

Iran 0-Japan 3 (Yuya Osako 56, 67 pen, Genki Haraguchi 90)

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Tributes:            Jim Iley (December 15, 1935 – November 17, 2018)

Uladzimir Ivanavich Zhuravel (June 9, 1971 – November 18, 2018)

Oscar Sein Munguia (July 6, 1991 – November 18, 2018)

Dietmar Schwager (August 15, 1940 – November 20, 2018)

Leonard B. ‘Len’ Campbell (December 23, 1946 – November 22, 2018)

Bujor Hălmăgeanu (February 14, 1941 — November 23, 2018)

Kevin Levi Austin (February 12, 1973 – November 23, 2018)

Viktor Izrailyovych Kanevskyi (October 3, 1936 – November 25, 2018)

Darren Pitcher (October 12, 1969– November 26, 2018)

John Paul Hart (June 8, 1928 – November 26, 2018)

Nicanor de Carvalho Junior (February 9, 1947– November 28, 2018)

Viktor Matviyenko (November 9, 1948 – November 29, 2018)

José Luis Núñez Clemente (September 7, 1931–December 3, 2018)

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Minayev (August 11, 1954–December 6, 2018)

Luigi ‘Gigi’ Radice (January 15, 1935–December 7, 2018)

Iraj Danaeifard (March 11, 1951–December 12, 2018)

José Carlos Cecconato (January 27, 1930–December 12, 2018)

Felipe Mose Pulici (December 22, 1945–December 16, 2018)

Karsten Johannessen (Novembe 30, 1925–December 16, 2018)

Andrey Antatolyevich Shcharbakow(January 31, 1991–December 17, 2018)         

William John Slater(April 29, 1927–December 18, 2018)         

Colin James Barlow(November 14, 1935–December 19, 2018)         

Guy Modeste(August 18, 1954–December 19, 2018)

Stanko Poklepovic(April 18, 1938–December 24, 2018)         

Jozef Adamec(February 26, 1942–December 24, 2018)         

Siegfried ‘Sigi’ Schmid(March 20, 1953–December 26, 2018)

Brian Athol Jordan(January 31, 1932–December 27, 2018)

Peter Denis-Hill Wood(February 25, 1936–December 28, 2018)

Juan Bautista Aguero Sanchez(June 24, 1935–December 28, 2018)

Yehoshua Glazer(December 29, 1927–December 29, 2018)

Dick Helling(September 22, 1950–December 30, 2018)

Peter Thompson(November 27, 1942–December 31, 2018)

Ivan Milanov Dimitrov(May 14, 1935–January 1, 2019)

Frederick Glidden(September 7, 1927–January 2, 2019)

Radamel Enrique Garcia King (April 16, 1957-January 3, 2019)

Dragoslav Sekulurac (November 8, 1937-January 5, 2019)

Jean Van Herck (July 6, 1934-January 10, 2019)

Philomen Masinga (June 28, 1969-January 13, 2019)

Avraham Bendori (June 21, 1928-January 15, 2019)

Antonin Kramerius (July 10, 1939-January 15, 2019)

Jose Souto (February 24, 1959-January 15, 2019)

Guy Senac (March 13, 1932-January 16, 2019)

Ivan Kolev Vutsov (December 14, 1939-January 18, 2019)

Pedro Waldemar Mafredini (September 7, 1935-January 21, 2019)

Emiliano Raul Sala Taffarel (October 31, 1990-January 21, 2019)

Hugh McIlvanney (February 2, 1934-January 24, 2019)

Antonio Iznata Dimas (July 7, 1943-January 25, 2019)

Alain Bernard (September 25, 1953-January 25, 2019)

Pierre Ndaye Mulamba (November 4, 1948-January 26, 2019)

Pierre Delaunay (October 9, 1919-January 27, 2019)

Jurgen Jacob ‘Jurrie’ Koolhof (January 10, 1960-January 28, 2019)

Ishtvan Yozhefovich Sekech(December 3, 1939-January 28, 2019)

Egisto Pandolfini (February 17, 1926-January 29, 2019)

Peter Mikkelsen (May 1, 1960-January 30, 2019)

Pablo Larios Iwasaki (July 31, 1960-January 31, 2019)

Kalman Ilhasz (March 6, 1941-January 31, 2019)

Jim Iley

Jim Iley was an English Player from the 60s.

He represented the likes of Newcastle, Nottingham Forest and Tottenham among others. He later took up management. 

He was capped once at U-23 level.

He passed away on November 17^th, 2018,  aged 82.

Uladzimir Ivanavich Zhuravel 

Uladzimir Ivanavich Zhuravel was a Belarusian midfielder from 90s and 2000s.

He had spells with Dinamo Minsk and Kristall Smolensk among others, and later took up Management.

He earned 11 caps between 1992 and 1997.

He passed away on November 18^th, 2018,  aged just 47.

Oscar Sein Munguia 

Oscar Sein Munguia was a currently active Honduran goalkeeper with CD Vida.

He was shot and killed after an argument in a Hotel at la Ceiba  on November 18^th, 2018, aged just 27.

Dietmar Schwager 

Dietmar Schwager was a West German defender from 60s and 70s.

He represented Kaiserslautern for over a decade.

He passed away on November 20^th, 2018,  aged 78.

Photo From: 1974-75-BERGMAN-028 (Dietmar Schwager)

Leonard B. ‘Len’ Campbell 

Leonard B. ‘Len’ Campbell was a Scottish winger from the 60s and 70s.

He had a spell at Dumbarton. 

He passed away on November 22^nd, 2018,  aged 71.

Bujor Hălmăgeanu 

Bujor Hălmăgeanu was a Romanian defender from 60s and 70s.

He had a long spell with Steaua Bucharest. He represented Romania in the 1964 Olympics.

He earned 22 caps between 1964 and 1972.

He passed away on November 23^rd, 2018, aged 77.

Photo From: FKS Mexico 70 World Cup (Bujor Halmageanu)

Kevin Levi Austin 

Kevin Levi Austin  was an English-born Trinidad and Tobago defender from 90s and 2000s.

He had spells with the likes of Lincoln City, Leyton Orient and Swansea among others.

He earned 7 caps for Trinidad and Tobago.

He passed away on November 23^rd, 2018, aged just 45 from Pancreatic cancer.

Viktor Izrailyovych Kanevskyi 

Viktor Izrailyovych Kanevskyi was a Soviet Striker from the 50s and 60s.

He had a long spell with Dynamo Kiev.

He earned 5 caps between 1958 and 1962.

He passed away on November 25^th, 2018, aged 82.

Darren Pitcher 

Darren Pitcher was an English defender from the 80s and 90s.

He had spells at Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace.

He passed away on November 26^th, 2018, aged just 49.

Photo From:  Merlin 1994/95 (Darren Pitcher)

John Paul Hart 

John Paul Hart was an English forward from the 40s and into the 60s.

He spent his career at Manchester City.

He passed away on November 26^th, 2018, aged 90.

Nicanor de Carvalho Junior

Nicanor de Carvalho Junior was a Brazilian Manager from the 80s into the 2000s.

He managed a number of clubs in Brazil and later managed in the Japanese League.

He passed away on November 28^th, 2018, aged 71.

Viktor Matviyenko

Viktor Matviyenko was a Soviet defender from the 60s and 70s.

He had a long spell with Dynamo Kiev.

He earned 21 caps between 1971 and 1972.

He passed away on November 29^th, 2018, aged 70.

José Luis Núñez Clemente 

José Luis Núñez Clemente was a former President of Barcelona (1978 to 2000).

Under his Presidency Barcelona signed the likes of Maradona, Schuster and Johann Cruyff (as Manager)

He passed away on December 3^rd, 2018, aged 87.

Photo From: World Soccer, December 1992 (Johann Cruyff and Nunez)

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Minayev 

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Minayev was a Soviet midfielder from the 70s and 80s.

He had spells at Spartak Moscow and Dinamo Moscow.

He earned 22 caps between 1976 and 1979.

He passed away on December 6th, 2018, aged 64.

Luigi ‘Gigi’ Radice 

Luigi ‘Gigi’ Radice was an Italian defender from the 50s and 60s.

He had a long spell with AC Milan. He is remembered as Torino’s Manager when they won the Scudetto in 1976.

He earned 5 caps in 1962.

He passed away on December 7^th, 2018, aged 83.

Photo From:  Calcio 2000, Issue 39, March 2001 (Luigi Radice)

Iraj Danaeifard 

Iraj Danaeifard was an Iranian midfielder from the 70s and 80s.

He had spells at PAS and Taj before leaving for USA and playing for Tulsa Roughnecks in the NASL.

He scored against Scotland in the 1978 World Cup.

He earned 17 caps between 1977 and 1980.

He passed away on December 12^th, 2018, aged 67 from a heart attack.

José Carlos Cecconato

José Carlos Cecconato was an Argentinean player from the 40s and 50s.

He had a spell at Independiente in the 1950s.

He earned 11 caps for his Nation.

He passed away on December 12^th, 2018, aged 88.

Felipe Mose Pulici

Felipe Mose Pulici was an Italian goalkeeper from the 60s into the 80s.

He had spells at Novara and Lazio among others. He won the Scudetto with Lazio in 1974.

He passed away on December 16^th, 2018, aged 72.

Photo From:  Rusconi Gente 73-74 (Felipe Pulici)

Karsten Johannessen

Karsten Johannessen, former Manager of Norwegian club IK Start in 50s and 60s.

He passed away on December 16^th, 2018, aged 93.

Andrey Antatolyevich Shcharbakow

Andrey Antatolyevich Shcharbakow was a former Belarussian goalkeeper from the 2010s.

He had short spells at many clubs such as BATE Borisov and Vitebsk among others.

He was killed in  atraffic collision on December 17^th, 2018, aged just 27.

William John Slater

William John Slater was an English player from the 40s into the 60s.

He had spells at Blackpool, Brenrford and Wolves.

He participated in the 1958 World Cup.

He earned 12 caps between 1964 and 1960.

He passed away on December 18th, 2018 aged 91.

Photo From:   58 - Importadores Peruanos (William Slater)

Colin James Barlow

Colin James Barlow was an English winger from the 50s and 60s. 

He had spells at Manchester City and Oldham among others.

He passed away on December 19th, 2018 aged 83.

Guy Modeste

Guy Modeste was a Martinique born defender from the 70s and 80s.

He had spells at Cannes and St Etienne.

He was father of Koln’s Anthony Modeste.

He passed away December 19th, aged 64.

Photo From:  Onze, Hors serie 11, 1981 (Guy Modeste)

Stanko Poklepovic

Stanko Poklepovic was a Croatian player from the 50s into the 70s with RNK Split.

He is mostly known for his long managerial career that included spells with the Croatian and Iranian National teams as well as leading Iran club Perspolis.

He also managed Hajduk Split many times.

He passed away December 24th, aged 80.

Jozef Adamec

Jozef Adamec was a Czechoslovakian forward from the 50s into the 70s.

He had notable spells at Spartak Trnava and Slovan Bratislava.

He later had a long Managerial career and managed the Slovakian National Team (1999/2002) as well.

He earned 44 caps between 1960 and 1974.

He passed away December 24th, aged 76.

Photo From:  FKS Mexico 70 World Cup (Jozef Adamec)

Siegfried ‘Sigi’ Schmid

Siegfried ‘Sigi’ Schmid was a German-born American Manager.

He played at UCLA before managing the university side for the 80s and 90s. He was one of the most successful college managers in USA.

He was later USA’s U-20 Manager in the late 90s and in another spell in 2000s.

He managed MLS sides Columbus Crew, Seattle Sounders and was in his second spell with LA Galaxy.

He passed away December 26th, aged 65.

Brian Athol Jordan

Brian Athol Jordan was a former English Professional player from the 50s and 60s.

He had spells at Rotherham United, Middlesbrough and York City.

He passed away December 27th, aged 86.

Peter Denis-Hill Wood

Peter Denis-Hill Wood was the chairman of Arsenal from 1982 to 2013.

He passed away on December 28th, 2018, aged 82.

Juan Bautista Aguero Sanchez

Juan Bautista Aguero Sanchez was a Paraguayan striker from the 50s and 60s.

He made his name at Olimpia before moving to Spain to Sevilla. He spent one season at Real Madrid (1965/66), before signing at Granada.

He was a member of Paraguay’s 1958 World Cup squad.

He earned 35 caps for his Nation.

He passed away on December 28th, 2018, aged 83.

Yehoshua Glazer

Yehoshua Glazer was an Israeli striker from the 40s into the 60s.

He had a long spell at Maccabi Tel Aviv.

He earned 35 caps between 1949 and 1961.

He passed away on December 29th, 2018, aged 91.

Dick Helling

Dick Helling was a Dutch midfielder from the 70s and 80s.

He had spells at Telstar, Ajax and Volendam.

He passed away on December 30^th, 2018, aged 68.

Photo From:   Panini Holand 197879 (Dick Helling)

Peter Thompson

Peter Thompson was an English winger from the 60s and 70s.

He had a notable spell at Liverpool for a decade. He also played for Preston North End and Bolton.

He earned 16 caps between 1964 and 1970.

He passed away on December 31^st, 2018, aged 76.

Photo From:  FKS 6768 (Peter Thompson)

Ivan Milanov Dimitrov

Ivan Milanov Dimitrov was a Bulgarian Defender from the 50s into the 70s.

He had a long spell at Lokomotiv Sofia.

He was a member of Bulgaria’s 1962 and 1970 World Cup squads.

He passed away on January 1st, 2019, aged 83.

Photo From:  FKS Mexico 70 World Cup (Ivan Dimitrov)

Frederick Glidden

Frederick Glidden was a Scottish Defender from the 40s into the 60s.

He had a long spell at Hearts.

He passed away on January 2nd, 2019, aged 91.

Radamel Enrique Garcia King
Radamel Enrique Garcia King was a former Colombian Professional player.

He was a member of Colombia’s 1980 Olympics squad, and father of Radamel Falcao.

He passed away on January 3rd, 2019, aged 61, after he collapsed while playing Tennis.

Dragoslav Sekulurac

Dragoslav Sekulurac was a former Yugoslavian International from the 50s and 60s.

He had a long spell at Red Star Belgrade before joining many teams in short spells and eventually playing in Colombia.

He later went into Management.

He earned 41 caps between 1956 and 1966.

He passed away on January 5^th, 2019, aged 81.

Photo From:  Football Magazine, Issue 28, May 1962 (Dragoslav Sekularac)

Jean Van Herck

Jean Van Herck was a Belgian player from the 50s and 60s.

He had a spell with Standard Liege with whom he won the title in the 50s.

He passed away on January 10^th, 2019, aged 84.

Philomen Masinga

Philomen Masinga was a South African striker from the 90s and 2000s.

He had spells at Leeds United and Bari.

He earned 58 caps between 1992 and 2001.

He passed away on January 13^th, 2019, aged just 49 due to cancer.

Photo From:  Calcio 2000, Issue 11 Supplement, August-September 1998 (Philomen Masinga)

Avraham Bendori

Avraham Bendori was an Israeli goalkeeper from the 40s and 50s.

He represented Maccabi tel Avic for over a decade.

He earned 4 caps between 1949 and 1959.

He passed away on January 15^th, 2019, aged 90.

Antonin Kramerius

Antonin Kramerius was a Czechoslovakia footballer from the 60s and 70s.

He had a long spell at Sparta Prague.

He earned 2 caps between 1967 and 1970.

He passed away on January 15^th, 2019, aged 79.

 

Jose Souto

Jose Souto was a French Midfielder from the 70s and 80s.

He had spells at Metz, Laval and Strasbourg among others.

He passed away on January 15^th, 2019, aged 59.

Photo From:   Panini France 198384 (Jose Souto)

Guy Senac

Guy Senac was a French defender from the 50s and 60s.

He spells at Racing Club Paris and RC Lens. His son Didier also became a professional footbller.

He earned 2 caps between 1960 and 1961.

He passed away on January 16^th, 2019, aged 85.

Photo From:  Mondial, new series, issue 78, September 1986 (Guy Senac)

Ivan Kolev Vutsov

Ivan Kolev Vutsov was a Bulgarian defender from the the 50s into the 70s,

He had a long spell at Levski Sofia. He later had a long career as a Manager and managed many clubs as well as the Bulgarian National team in two separate spells. In addition, he was also the Vice-President of the Bulgarian Federation.

He earned 24 caps between 1962 and 1966.

He passed away on January 18^th, 2019, aged 79.

Photo From:  66  - Album Alemao-Die Weltmeisterschaft 1966 in England (Ivan Vutsov)

Pedro Waldemar Mafredini

Pedro Waldemar Mafredini was an Argentinean striker from the 50s into then 70s.

He made his name at Racing Club before landing in Serie A and Roma. He later played for Brescia and Venezia as well.

He earned 3 caps in 1959.

He passed away on January 21^st, 2019, aged 83.

Photo From: Calcio Impéria 1963-64 (Pedro Manfredini)

Emiliano Raul Sala Taffarel

Emiliano Raul Sala Taffarel was a current Argentinean striker.

He had spells at Bordeaux and Nantes and had just signed for Cardiff City.

He was on an aircraft on route to Cardiff on January 21^st. On the following day, his plane was reported missing.

He was presumed to have died on January 21^st, aged just 28.

Photo From:  L’Equipe, January 23, 2019 (Emiliano Sala)

Hugh McIlvanney

Hugh McIlvanney was a Scottish Sports Journalist most notably with ‘The Obsever’ and ‘Sunday Times’.

He passed away on January 24^th, 2019, aged 84.

Antonio Iznata Dimas

Antonio Iznata Dimas was a Spanish Footballer from the 60s and 70s.

He had spells at Osasuna, Espanyol and Real Madrid among others.

He passed away on January 25^th, 2019, aged 75.

Alain Bernard

Alain Bernard was a French striker from the 70s and 80s.

He had spells at Rennes, Nancy and Guingamp among others.

He passed away on January 25^th, 2019, aged 65.

Pierre Ndaye Mulamba

Pierre Ndaye Mulamba was a DR Congo/Zaire forward from the 60s and 70s.

He was a member of Zaire’s 1974 World Cup squad.

He passed away on January 26^th, 2019, aged 70.

Photo From:  L’Equipe, January 27, 2019 (Pierre Ndaye Mulamba)

Pierre Delaunay

Frenchman Pierre Delaunay (son of Henri) succeeded his father General Secretary of UEFA in 1955 and remained in his post until 1960.

He passed away on January 27^th, 2019, aged 99.

Jurgen Jacob ‘Jurrie’ Koolhof

Jurgen Jacob ‘Jurrie’ Koolhof was a Dutch striker from the 70s into the 90s.

He had a notable spell at PSV Eindhoven in the 80s.

He earned 5 caps between 1982 and 1983.

He passed away on January 28^th, 2019, aged just 59.

Photo From:  Panini Holland, 1986/87 (Jurrie Koolhof)

Ishtvan Yozhefovich Sekech

Ishtvan Yozhefovich Sekech was a former Russian striker from the 50s into the 70s and later a Manager.

He had spells at Avanhard Ternopil, Avanhard Kharkiv and CSKA Moscow among others.

He passed away on January 28^th, 2019, aged 79.

Egisto Pandolfini

Egisto Pandolfini was an Italian Midfielder from the 40s into the 60s.

He had spells at Fiorentina, Roma and Inter among others.

He earned 21 caps between 1950 and 1957.

He passed away on January 29^th, 2019 aged 92.

Peter Mikkelsen

Peter Mikkelsen was a former Danish Referee (FIFA Listed) from the 80s and 90s.

He officiated during the 1990 and 1994 World Cups.

He passed away on January 30^h, 2019 aged just 59.

Pablo Larios Iwasaki

Pablo Larios Iwasaki was a Mexican goalkeeper from the 80s and 90s.

He had spells at Cruz Azul and Puebla among others.

He was a member of Mexico’s 1986 World Cup squad.

He earned 48 caps between 1983 and 1991.

He passed away on January 31^st, 2019 aged just 58.

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2044, June 11, 1985  (Pablo Larios)

Kalman Ilhasz

Kalman Ilhasz was a Hungarian defender from the 50s into the 70s.

He spent his career at Vasas.

He was a member of Hungary’s 1962 ans 1966 World Cup squads.

He earned 27 caps between 1962 and 1969.

He passed away on January 31^st, 2019 aged 77.

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On July 17, 1990, Sweden Officials announced that National Team Manager Olle Nordin’s contract would not be renewed.

Date: July 27, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup

Venue: Beijing, China- Workers Stadium

Referee: Samuel Chan Yam-Ming (Hong Kong)

Attendance: 45,000

South Korea 2-Japan 0 (Goo Sang-Beom 34, Kim Joo-Sung 66)

Date: July 27, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup

Venue: Beijing- Workers Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance: -

China 2-North Korea 0 (?, ?)

Date: July 28, 1990

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Milwaukee

Referee: Alfred Kleinaitis (USA)

Attendance: 12,572

USA 1-East Germany (Olympic) 2 (Ted Eck 89 / Jens Gerlach 34, Jürgen Rische 43)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 1, Issue 9, September 1990

(July 28, 1990, USA 1-East Germany (Olympic) 2)

Date: July 29, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup

Venue: Beijing, Workers Stadium

Referee: Ahmed Jassim Mohamed (Bahrain)

Attendance: -

China 1-Japan 0 (Qunli Wu 77)

Date: July 29, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup (Unofficial)

Venue: Beijing, China-Workers Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance: 30,000

South Korea 1-North Korea 0 (Hwangbo Gwan 89)

Date: July 31, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup

Venue: Beijing, China-Workers Stadium

Referee: Ahmed Jassim Mohamed (Bahrain)

Attendance: -

North Korea 1-Japan 0 (Ri Hyon-Chon 66)

Date: July 31, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup

Venue: Beijing, Workers Stadium

Referee: M Kunalan (Singapore)

Attendance: -

China 0-South Korea 1 (Lee Sang-Yoon 26)

August

19 year-old Emannue Petit made his International debut for France in a scoreless tie with Poland. Defending World Cup Champions West Germany with new Manager Berti Vogts played their first match since the title in a friendly vs. Portugal.

Austria’s Bruno Pezzey played in a farewell match in Austria’s loss vs. Switzerland. He played the first 42 minutes.

Nils Andersson managed in interim basis Sweden for their fisrt match since the World Cup.

Milan Macala made his national team debut as Czechoslovakia Manager in their tie vs. Finland.

USSR’s Dimtry Byshovets and Romania’s Gheorghe Constantin made their management debuts for their respective National Teams in their friendly in Moscow.

On August 26th, Holland's Franck Rijkaard announced his international retirement.

On August 26^th, former manager Rinus Michels appointed himself as manager of Holland as suitable replacements could not be found.

Date: August 3, 1990

Competition: Dynasty Cup Final

Venue: Beijing, Workers Stadium

Referee: Ahmed Ibrahim Hakeem (United Arab Emirates)

Attendance:60,000

China 1-South Korea 1 (Chao Mai 61 / Hong Myung-Bo 22 pen)

Note: South Korea won 5-4 on a penalty kick shoot-out.

Date: August 4, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Estrela Amadora (Portugal) 2-Angola 0 (??)

Date: August 8, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Torshavn-Gundadalur Stadium

Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

Attendance:4,700

Faoe Islands 2-Iceland 3 (Kurt Morkore 10, Jan Dam 63 pen / Anthony Karl Gregory 44,47, Arnor Gudjohnsen 80)

Date: August 9, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Tunis

Referee:

Attendance:20,000

Tunisia 0-Morocco 0(-)

Date: August 10, 1990

Competition: Marlboro Cup-New York

Venue: East Rutherford, New Jersey-Giants Stadium-Meadowlands Arena, USA

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Alianza Lima (Peru) 1-Sporting CP (Portugal) 0 (Pinto 29)

Date: August 10, 1990

Competition: Marlboro Cup-New York

Venue: East Rutherford, New Jersey-Giants Stadium-Meadowlands Arena

Referee: -

Attendance:-

USA 0-Flamengo (Brazil) 1 (Fernando 26)

Photo From: Star Ledger, August 11, 1990 (August 10, Marlboro Cup, USA 0-Flamengo 1)

Photo From: Star Ledger, August 11, 1990 (August 10, Marlboro Cup, USA 0-Flamengo 1)

Date: August 12, 1990

Competition: Marlboro Cup-New York-Third Place

Venue: East Rutherford, New Jersey-Giants Stadium-Meadowlands Arena

Referee: -

Attendance:-

USA 2-Sporting CP (Portugal) 1 (Eric Wynalda 13, John Harkes 85 / Jorge Cadete 29)

Photo From: Star Ledger, August 13, 1990 (August 12, Marlboro Cup, USA 2-Sporting CP 1)

Date: August 12, 1990

Competition: Marlboro Cup-New York-Final

Venue: East Rutherford, New Jersey-Giants Stadium-Meadowlands Arena, USA

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Flamengo (Brazil) 1-Alianza Lima (Peru) 0 (Renato Gaucho 1)

Date: August 14, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Modena (Italy) 0-USSR 2 (???)

Date: August 15, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Paris, Parc des Princes  

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Attendance:22,000

France 0-Poland 0(-)

Photo from: Bialo Czerwoni 1921-2001, Author Andrzej Gowarzewski (Poland squad, August 15, 1990, France 0-Poland 0)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 20, September 1990 (Emmanuel Petit, August 15, 1990, France 0-Poland 0)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 41, June 1992 (France squad, August 15, 1990, France 0-Poland 0)

Date: August 17, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Cairo

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Egypt 2-Ethiopia 0(H. Ramzy 61, Hossam Hassan 85)

Date: August 17, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Khartoum

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Sudan 1-Mozambique 0(Atif Al-Quoz 85)

Date: August 18, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 7

Venue: Zomba

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Malawi 0-Congo 1 (Makita 5)

Date: August 18, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Lusaka

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Zambia 5-Swaziland 0(Chansa 39, Chikalala 40, Moselepeti 54, Masala 70, Changwe 84)

Date: August 18, 1990

Competition: Centenary of the Scottish Football League

Venue: Glasgow-Hampden Park

Referee: -

Attendance:15,085

Scotland 0-Scotland League XI 1 (Hans Gillhaus 12 pen)

Date: August 18, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Genova -Stadio Luigi Ferraris

Referee: -

Attendance: -

Sampdoria (Italy) 1-USSR 1 (???)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Yaoundé

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Cameroon 0-Mali 0 (-)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Conakry

Referee: -

Attendance:18,000

Guinea 1-Sierra Leone 2 (Sylla 70 / Deen 2, K. Mohamed 13)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Tunis

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Tunisia 2-Chad 1 (Abid 27, Faouzi Rouissi 82 / Japhet N'Doram 17)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Abidjan

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Ivory Coast 2-Mauritania 0 (Obou Arsène pen 34, Sié Donald 57)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup -Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Morocco 2-Niger 0 (Hababi 18, Laghrissi 89)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup -Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Ouagadougou

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Burkina Faso 2-Benin 0(Ilboudo 20, Kadeba 70)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Lagos

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Nigeria 3-Togo 0 (Okechukwu 58, Daniel Amokachi 80, Lawal 87)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Luanda

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Angola 0-Madagascar 1(Randranaivo 60)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 8

Venue: Libreville

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Gabon 1-Uganda 0(Manon 65)

Date: August 19, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier, Group 8

Venue: Kinshasa

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Zaire 2-Tanzania 0(Eugene Kabongo 6, 75)

Date: August 20, 1990

Competition:Merlion Cup

Venue:Sanayan Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Australia 3-Malaysia (U-23) 0 (Ernie Tapai, Kimon Taliadors 2 goals)

Date: August 21, 1990

Competition:Merlion Cup

Venue:Sanayan Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Indonesia (U-23) 0 -Australia 7 (Andre Zinni 3 goals, Jason Van Blerk 2 goals, Kimon Taliadoris, Tom McCulloch)

Date: August 21, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Vienna (Wien)-Praterstadion

Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

Attendance:7,000

Austria 1-Switzerland 3 (Andreas Ogris 28 pen / Kubilay Turkyilmaz 57, 63, Adrian Knup 78)

Photo From: Österreichs Fußball Länderspiele Chronik 1902 – 1993, Author: Anton Egger (Austria squad, August 21, 1990, Austria 1-Switzerland 3)

Date: August 21, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Gdansk

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Poland 1-Eintracht Frankfurt (West Germnay) 3 (????)

Date: August 22, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Stavanger-Stavanger Stadion

Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Attendance: 10,065

Norway 1-Sweden 2(Per Egil Ahlsen 2 pen / Leif Engkvist 40, Jens Fjellström 74)

Date: August 23, 1990

Competition:Merlion Cup

Venue:Sanayan Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Thailand (U-23) 0-Australia 2 (Tom McCulloch 2 goals)

Date: August 24, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Aucklnad

Referee: -

Attendance:-

New Zealand 1-China 0 (Barclay 34)

Date: August 25, 1990

Competition:Merlion Cup

Venue:Sanayan Stadium, Jakarta, Indonesia

Referee: N Yasunori (Japan)

Attendance:20,000

Indonesia 0-Australia 3(Paul Wade 55, 76, Andrew Zinni 63)

Date: August 29, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Kuusankoski-Urheilupuisto

Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

Attendance: 1,800

Finland 1-Czechoslovakia 1 (Petri Jarvinen 39 / Pavel Kuka 63)

Date: August 29, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Lisbon - Estadio da Luz (Estadio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica)

Referee: Rosario Lo Bello (Italy)

Attendance:20,000

Portugal 1-West Germany 1 (Rui Aguas 58 / Lothar Matthaus 15)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 24, January 1991 (August 29, 1990, Portugal 1-West Germany 1)

Date: August 29, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Moskva (Moscow)-Tsentral'nyj Stadion imeni Vladimira Il'yicha Lenina (The Central V.I.Lenin's Stadium)

Referee: Michal Liskiewicz (Poland)

Attendance:35,000

USSR 1-Romania 2(Alexei Mikhailichenko 71 / Marius Lacatus 13pen, Ion Lupescu 64)

Photo From:  - Футбол-Хоккей, Issue 35 , September 2, 1990 (August 29, 1990, USSR 1-Romania 2)

Date: August 29, 1990

Competition:Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Czechoslovakia (U-21) 2-Australia 0 (???)

Date: August 29, 1990

Competition:Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Veszprem (Hungary) 2-Hungary 7 (???)

Date: August 31, 1990

Competition:Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Finland 0-Estonia 0(-)

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Brazil made its debut with new Manager paulo Roberto Falcao in a loss (0-3) at Spain.

Graham Taylor made his debut as England Manager in a friendly win over Hungary (1-0).

East Germany played for the last time ever in a friendly win over Belgium (2-0) with Mathias Sammer scoring twice.

Rinus Michels started his third spell as Holland Manager in a freindly loss in Palermo vs. Italy (0-1).

Dennis Bergkamp made his debut for Holland in that match coming on as a substitute.

The UEFA European qualifiers kicked off with Iceland-France on September 5th.

On September 16^th , Josef Hickersberger announced his resignation as Austria manager, just days after a shock loss to Faroe Islands.

The tiny island nation were making their debut in the European qualifiers.

For more detail, see :

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2018/03/compendium-to-paulo-roberto-falcao-era.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2018/03/national-team-managers-part-five-paulo.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/national-team-managers-part-four-luis_48.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/compendium-to-luis-suarez-article-part_45.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/02/national-team-managers-part-three.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/02/compendium-to-graham-taylor-article.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2011/11/september-12-1990-belgium-0-east.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/12/individual-international-appearances_10.html

Date: September 1, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Freetown

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Sierra Leone 1-Cameroon 1 (Brimah 25 / Belle-Belle 50)

Date: September 1, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 8

Venue: Daressalaam

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Tanzania 0-Gabon 0 (-)

Date: September 1, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 8

Venue: Kampala

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Uganda 2-Zaire 1 (Senoga 8,  Musisi 62 /  Kabongo 18)

Date: September 1, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Accra

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Ghana 1-Nigeria 0(Mensah 32)

Date: September 1, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Mbabane

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Swaziland 1-Angola 1(Terblanche 89 /  Chilo 10)

Date: September 1, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Tananarive

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Madagascar 0-Zambia 0(-)

Date: September 2, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Bamako

Referee: -

Attendance:11,000

Mali 1-Guinea 1(Cheick Diallo 40 /  Yansane 70)

Date: September 2, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Fort Lamy

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Chad 0-Egypt 0 (-)

Date: September 2, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Morocco 4-Mauritania 0(Hassan Nadir 8, Aziz Bouderbala 38,  Rahib 44,  Laghrissi 63)

Date: September 2, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Ouagadougou

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Burkina Faso 2-Togo 0(Olboudo 48,  Fofana 60)

Date: September 2, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Maputo

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Mozambique 2-Kenya 1 (Nico 55,  Nando 65 / Mutua 51)

Date: September 2, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 7

Venue: Brazzaville

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Congo 2-Zimbabwe 0(Ndomba 55,  Makita 86)

Date: September 5, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Patras- National ‘Ethniko’ Stadium

Referee: Meletios Voutsaras (Greece)

Attendance:5,500

Greece 1-Albania 0(Vassilis Dimitriadis 48)

Date: September 5, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Arosvallen, Västerås

Referee: Douglas Hope (Scotland)

Attendance: 9,034

Sweden 0-Denmark 1(Bent Christensen 84)

Date: September 5, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Reykjavik-Laugardalsvöllur

Referee: David Syme (Scotland)

Attendance: 8,388

Iceland 1-France 2(Atli Edvaldsson 85 / Jean-Pierre Papin 12, Eric Cantona 76)

 

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 35, December 1991

(September 5, 1990, EC Qualifier, Iceland 1-France 2)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 21, October 1990 (September 5, 1990, EC Qualifier, Iceland 1-France 2)

Photo From: L'Annee du Football, 1991, Author Jacques Thibert (France squad, September 5, 1990, EC Qualifier, Iceland 1-France 2)

Date: September 5, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Budapest-Megyeri Ut

Referee: Michal Listkiewicz (Poland)

Attendance: 1,500

Hungary 4-Turkey 1(Kalman Kovacs 3, Istvan Kozma 5, Jozef Kiprich 8, 75 / Tanju Colak 54)

Date: September 6, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Seoul - Dongdaemun Stadium

Referee: Ki-Cheol Kil (South Korea)

Attendance:18,000

South Korea 1-Australia 0 (Byun Byung-Joo 17)

Date: September 8, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Kuala Lumpur

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Malaysia 0-Yemen 1(-)

Date: September 9, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Busan - Goodeok Stadium

Referee: Kil-Soo Choi (South Korea)

Attendance:22,000

South Korea 1-Australia 0 (Jung-Won Seo 37)

Date: September 11, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Copenhagen -Idrætsparken

Referee: Esa Palsi (Finland)

Attendance: 8,700

Denmark 1-Wales 0 (Brian Laudrup 64)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Landskrona (Sweden), Idrottsplats

Referee: Egil Nervik (Norway)

Attendance: 1,265

Faroe Islands 1-Austria 0 (Torkil Nielsen 60)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 21, October 1990 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, Faroe Islands 1-Austria 0)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 21, October 1990 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, Faroe Islands 1-Austria 0)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 21, October 1990 (Faroe Islands squad, September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, Faroe Islands 1-Austria 0)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Bruxelles-Stade Constant Vanden Stock (Brussels - Constant Vanden Stock Stadion)      

Referee: John Blankenstein (Holland)

Attendance:5,194

Belgium 0-East Germany 2 (Matthias Sammer 74, 89)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 3101 bis, September 16, 2005 (September 12, 1990, Belgium 0-East Germany 2, The Final East German lineup ever, From left to right: Sammer, Schmidt, Wagenhaus, Rosler, Peschke, Schossler, Wosz, Bonan, Schwanke, Stubner, Scholz)

Photo From: Die Geschichte der Fussball Nationalmanschaft, Author: Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling (Hrsg) (September 12, 1990, Belgium 0-East Germany 2)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Gijon- Estádio El Molinón  

Referee: Pietro D'Ellia (Italy)

Attendance:21,500

Spain 3-Brazil 0(Carlos 9, Fernando 63 , Michel 89)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (September 12, 1990, Spain 3-Brazil 0)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (September 12, 1990, Spain 3-Brazil 0)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, September 12, 1990, Spain 3-Brazil 0)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Brazil squad, September 12, 1990, Spain 3-Brazil 0)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:London-Wembley

Referee: Erich Fredriksson (Sweden)

Attendance:51,459

England 1-Hungary 0 (Gary Lineker 44)

Photo From: World Soccer, October  1990 (Team captains, Gary Lineker and Imre Garaba, September 12, 1990, England 1-Hungary 0)

Photo From: World Soccer, January 1991 (September 12, 1990, England 1-Hungary 0)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue:Genève – Le Stade des Charmilles (Servette)

Referee: Guy Goethals (Belgium)

Attendance: 12,000

Switzerland 2-Bulgaria 0(Marc Hottiger 19, Thomas Bickel 74)

Photo From: L'Equipe de Suisse, Authors Guy Balibouse, Roger Felix, Pierre Tripod, 1993 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, Switzerland 2-Bulgaria 0)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Helsinki -Olympiastadion

Referee: Jozef Marko (Czechoslovakia)

Attendance: 17,240

Finland 0-Portugal 0(-)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Dublin -Lansdowne Road

Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

Attendance: 46,000

Republic of Ireland 1-Morocco 0 (David Kelly 74)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belfast, Windsor Park

Referee: Jaap Uilenberg (Holland)

Attendance: 9,008

Northern Ireland 0-Yugoslavia 2 (Darko Pancev 36, Robert Prosinecki 89)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Moskva (Moscow)-Tsentral'nyj Stadion imeni Vladimira Il'yicha Lenina (The Central V.I.Lenin's Stadium)

Referee: Hubert Forstinger (Austria)

Attendance:25,000

USSR 2-Norway 0(Andrei Kanchelskis 22, Oleg Kuznetsov 60)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №37, September 16, 1990 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, USSR 2-Norway 0)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №37, September 16, 1990 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, USSR 2-Norway 0)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №37, September 16, 1990 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, USSR 2-Norway 0)

Date: September 12, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Glasgow - Hampden Park

Referee: Ildefonso Urizar Azpitarte (Spain)

Attendance: 12,800

Scotland 2-Romania 1(John Robertson 37, Ally McCoist 75 / Rodion Camataru 13)

Photo From: World Soccer, October  1990  (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, Scotland 2-Romania 1)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №37, September 16, 1990 (September 12, 1990, EC Qualifier, Scotland 2-Romania 1)

Date: September 13, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Singapore

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Singapore 3-Malaysia 0(???)

Date: September 15, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: High Point, North Carolina

Referee: Cummings

Attendance: 11,361

USA 3-Trinidad and Tobao 0 (Peter Vermes 15, Bruce Murray 29, Eric Eichmann 46)

Date: September 23, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group A

Venue: eijing (China), Xian Nongtan Stadium

Referee: Omer Saleh Al-Mehanah (Saudi Arabia)

Attendance:-

South Korea 7-Singapore 0 (Hong Myung-Bo 10 pen, Kim Joo-Sung 48, 59,  Ko Jung-Woon 51, 61, Seo Jung-Won 58, 62)

   

Date: September 23, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group A

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

China 3-Pakistan 0(???)

Date: September 23, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group C

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Thailand 0-Yemen 0(-)

Date: September 23, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group C

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Kuwait 2-Hong Kong 1(???)

Date: September 24, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group B

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Iran 3-Malaysia 0(????)

Date: September 24, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group D

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Saudi Arabia 4-Bangladesh 0 (????)

Date: September 25, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group A

Venue: Beijing (China), Fengtai Sports Center

Referee: Stephen Ovinis (Malaysia)

Attendance:-

South Korea 7-Pakistan 0 (Hwang Seon-Hong 22, 41, 82, Kim Sang-Ho 47, 51, Chung Jong-Soo 58, Noh Jung-Yoon 77)

Date: September 25, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group A

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

China 5-Singapore 1(???)

Date: September 25, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group C

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Thailnd 2-Hong Kong 0(???)

Date: September 25, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group C

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Kuwait 0-Yemen 0(-)

Date: September 26, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group B

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

North Korea 0-Malaysia 0 (-)

Date: September 26, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group D

Venue: Beijing (China), Fengtai Sports Center

Referee: Kim In-soo (South Korea)

Attendance:-

Japan 3-Bangladesh 0(Tetsuji Hashiratani 4 pen, Kenta Hasegawa 26, 60)

Date: September 26, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Stockholm - Råsunda -Solna Stadion

Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

Attendance: 6,954

Sweden 2-Bulgaria 0(Dan Corneliusson 64-Kennet Andersson 73)

Date: September 26, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Kosice- Vsesportovny areal

Referee: Todor Kolev (Bulgaria)

Attendance: 30,142

Czechoslovakia 1-Iceland 0(Vaclav Danek 43)

France Football, Issue 2357, June 11, 1991 (September 26, 1990, EC Qualifier, Czechoslovakia 1-Iceland 0)

Photo From: se Lvickem na prsou-Authors O.Bartunek, J.Kalat (Czechoslovakia squad, September 26, 1990, EC Qualifier, Czechoslovakia 1-Iceland 0)

Date: September 26, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Palermo -Stadio La Favorita

Referee: Zoran Petrovic (Yugoslavia)

Attendance:40,000

Italy 1-Holland 0(Roberto Baggio 45)

Photo From:  World Soccer, January 1992 (September 26, 1990, Italy 1-Holland 0)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, September 26, 1990, Italy 1-Holland 0)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo - Ottobre 2017 (Italy squad, September 26, 1990, Italy 1-Holland 0)

Date: September 26, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Bucharest (Bucuresti), Ghencea Stadionul (Steaua)      

Referee: Robert Matusik (Czechoslovakia)

Attendance: 8,000

Romania 2-Poland 1(Traian Ovidiu Lazar 38, Iosif Rotariu 72 / Robert Warzycha 80)

Date: September 27, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group A

Venue: Beijing, China- Workers Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance:-

China 0-South Korea 2 (Seo Jung-Won 57, 75)

Date: September 27, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group A

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Singapore 6-Pakistan 1(???)

Date: September 27, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group C

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Thailand 2-Kuwait 1(???)

Date: September 27, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group C

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Hong Kong 2-Yemen 0(???)

Date: September 28, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group B

Venue: Beijing, China

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Iran 2-North Korea 1 (???)

Date: September 28, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Group D

Venue: Beijing (China), Fengtai Sports Center

Referee: Kim In-soo (South Korea)

Attendance:-

Saudi Arabia 2-Japan 0 (Fahad Al-Bishi 30, Khalid Al-Muwallid 48)

Date: September 30, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

USA 2-MISL Select XI 0 (???)

Date: September 30, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Niger 0-Ivory Coast 1 (A. Traoré)

Date: September 30, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Cotonou

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Benin 0-Nigeria 1(???)

Date: September 30, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Lomé

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Togo 0-Ghana 1 (Mensah 46)

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On October 13, 1990, Ingvar Stadheim announced his resignation as Norway manager.

Iran won the Asian Games on a penalty kick shoot-out vs. North Korea.

Croatia (not yet independent) played a friendly vs. USA.

Austria with new manager Alfred Riedl suffered a heavy loss (1-4) vs. Yugoslavia at the end of the month in a Euro qualifier.

Pele’s 50th Anniversary match was held at Milan with a World Selection facing Brazil with Pele playing in the first half.

Egil Olsen managed Norway for the first time in a (6-1) win over Cameroon at the end of month.

Date: October 1, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Quarterfinals

Venue: Beijing (China), Fengtai Sports Center

Referee: Wei Jihong (China)

Attendance: -

South Korea 1-Kuwait 0 (Goo Sang-Beom 59)

Date: October 1, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Quarterfinals

Venue: Beijing (China), Fengtai Sports Center

Referee: Shengcai Chen (China)

Attendance:-

Iran 1-Japan 0 (Samad Marfavi 6)

Date: October 1, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Quarterfinals

Venue: Beijing (China)

Referee:

Attendance:-

China 0-Thailand 1 (???)

Date: October 1, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Quarterfinals

Venue: Beijing (China)

Referee:

Attendance:-

Saudi Arabia 0-North Korea 0 (???) (North Korea won 4-3 on a penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: October 3, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Semifinals

Venue: Beijing (China), Workers Stadium

Referee: Kiichiro Tachi (Japan)

Attendance:50,000

Iran 1-South Korea 0 (Sirous Ghayeghran 107)

Date: October 3, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Semifinals

Venue: Beijing (China)

Referee:

Attendance:-

Thailand 0-North Korea 1 (???)

Date: October 5, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Third Place

Venue: Beijing (China), Workers Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance:-

South Korea 1-Thailand 0 (Hwangbo Gwan 51)

Date: October 6, 1990

Competition: Asian Games, Final

Venue: Beijing (China)

Referee:

Attendance:-

Iran 0-North Korea 0 (???) (Iran won 4-1 on a penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Copenhagen -Idrætsparken

Referee: Gudmundur Haraldsson (Iceland)

Attendance: 38,500

Denmark 4-Faroe Islands 1 (Michael Laudrup 9,49, Lars Elstup 39, Flemming Povlsen90 / Allan Mørkøre 22)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 1, Issue 11, December 1990 (October 10, 1990, EC Qualifier, Denmark 4-Faroe Islands 1)

Photo From: The Faroese national team-10 years in international football, Author Joannes Hansen & Finnur Helmsdal (Faroe Islands squad, October 10, 1990, EC Qualifier, Denmark 4-Faroe Islands 1)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Stockholm - Råsunda -Solna Stadion

Referee: Joseph Worrall (England)

Attendance: 20,400

Sweden 1-West Germany 3 (Stefan Rehn 73 pen / Jurgen Klinsmann 29, Rudi Voeller 38, Andreas Brehme 45)

Photo From: Chronik des deutschen fussballs, 2005 (October 10, 1990, Sweden 1-West Germany 3)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Athens-Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis' (OAKA)

Referee: Lubislav Spasov (Bulgaria)

Attendance:          1,985

Greece 6-Egypt 1 (Jiotis Tsalouchidis 64 or 45, Dimitris Saravakos 48, 78 pen, 80 pen, 88 pen, 89 / Abfel Ghani ’79)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Brann- Bergen

Referee: John Spillane (Republic of Ireland)

Attendance: 6,300

Norway 0-Hungary 0 (-)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue:Sevilla- Estadio Benito Villamarín

Referee: Victor Mintoff (Malta)

Attendance:46,000

Spain 2-Iceland 1 (Emilio Butragueňo 44, Carlos 64 / Siggi Jonsson 66)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (October 10, 1990, EC Qualifier, Spain 2-Iceland 1)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, October 10, 1990, EC Qualifier, Spain 2-Iceland 1)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Moskva (Moscow)-Tsentral'nyj Stadion imeni Vladimira Il'yicha Lenina (The Central V.I.Lenin's Stadium

Referee: Karl Josef Assenmacher (West Germany)

Attendance:1,000

USSR 3-Israel 0 (Sergei Yuran 3,80, Gennadi Litovchenko 21)

Date: October 10, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Warszawa, Stadion Wojska Polskiego im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego (Polish Army)(Legia Warszawa)

Referee: Werner Föckler (West Germany)

Attendance:5,000

Poland 2-USA 3 (Roman Kosecki 48, Jacek Ziober 61 / Bruce Murray 15, Peter Vermes 24, 44)

Date: October 11, 1990

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Pyongyang, May Day Stadium

Referee: Jang Sok-jin (North Korea)

Attendance:-

North Korea 2-South Korea 1 (Yoon Jung-Soo 49, Tak Young-Bon 90+ pen / Kim Joo-Sung 25)

Date: October 13, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue:Paris, Parc des Princes

Referee: George Courtney (England)

Attendance:38,249

France 2-Czechoslovakia 1 (Jean-Pierre Papin 60, 83 / Tomas Skuhravy 88)

Photo From: se Lvickem na prsou-Authors O.Bartunek, J.Kalat (Czechoslovakia squad, October 13, 1990, EC Qualifier, France 2-Czechoslovakia 1)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 35, December 1991 (October 13, 1990, EC Qualifier, France 2-Czechoslovakia 1)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 35, December 1991 (October 13, 1990, EC Qualifier, France 2-Czechoslovakia 1)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 22, November 1990 (France squad, October 13, 1990, EC Qualifier, France 2-Czechoslovakia 1)

Date: October 14, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 3

Venue: Niamey

Referee: -

Attendance:17,000

Niger 7-Mauritania 1 (Amadou Dwaye 7, 62, 78, 79, Andre Zakari 46, 48, Doulla 86 / Papa Seck 10)

Date: October 14, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Cotonou

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Benin 1-Togo 1 (????)

Date: October 14, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: SAccra

Referee: -

Attendance:21,000

Ghana 2-Burkina Faso 0 (Joe Addo 10, Prince Opoku 82)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Cardiff - Arms Park (The National Stadium)

Referee: Kurt Rothlisberger (Switzerland)

Attendance:12,000

Wales 3-Belgium 1 (Ian Rush 29, Dean Saunders 86, Mark Hughes 88 / Bruno Versavel 24)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 1, Issue 11, December 1990 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Wales 3-Belgium 1)

Photo From: World Soccer, December 1990 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Wales 3-Belgium 1)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Santiago -Estadio Nacional

Referee: Enrique Maria Marín (Chile)

Attendance:35,000

Chile 0-Brazil 0 (-)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Zagreb Maksimir Stadion

Referee: Sergio  Coppetelli (Italy)

Attendance:30,000

Croatia 2-USA 1 (Aljosa Asanovic 29, Ivan Cvjetkovic 33 / Troy Dayak 80)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belfast, Windsor Park

Referee: Roger Philippi (Luxembourg)

Attendance: 9,079

Northern Ireland 1-Denmark 1 (Colin Clarke 58 / Jan Bartram 11 pen)

Photo From: World Soccer, February 1991 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Northern Ireland 1-Denmark 1)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue:London - Wembley

Referee: Tulio Lanese (Italy)

Attendance:60,000

England 2-Poland 0 (Gary Lineker 41 pen, Peter Beardsley 90)

Photo From: World Soccer, November  1990 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, England 2-Poland 0)

Photo From: Official Match programme, England vs Cameroon - 1991 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, England 2-Poland 0)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Bucharest (Bucuresti), Ghencea Stadionul (Steaua)

Referee: Jose Rosa Dos Santos (Portugal)

Attendance:25,000

Romania 0-Bulgaria 3 (Nasko Sirakov 28, Nikolai Todorov 48, 75 )

Photo From: Official Match Programme,  Bulgaria v Scotland, 1990 (Bulgaria squad, October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Romania 0-Bulgaria 3)

Photo From: Official Match Programme,  Bulgaria v Scotland, 1990 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Romania 0-Bulgaria 3)

Photo From: Official Match Programme,  Bulgaria v Scotland, 1990 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Romania 0-Bulgaria 3)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue:Porto- Estadio das Antas

Referee: Pietro D'Ellia (Italy)

Attendance:35,000

Portugal 1-Holland 0 (Rui Aguas 53)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Portugal 1-Holland 0)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Budapest, Népstadion  

Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

Attendance:30,000

Hungary 1-Italy 1 (Laszlo Disztl 15 / Roberto Baggio 54 pen)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue: Dublin -Lansdowne Road

Referee: Erick Fredricksson (Sweden)

Attendance:46,000

Republic of Ireland 5-Turkey 0 (John Aldridge 15, 57, 72 pen, David O'Leary 40, Niall Quinn 64)

Date: October 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Glasgow - Hampden Park

Referee: Esa Palsi (Finland)

Attendance: 27,740

Scotland 2-Switzerland 1 (John Robertson 34 pen, Gary McAllister 52 / Adrian Knup 66 pen)

Photo From: L'Equipe de Suisse, Authors Guy Balibouse, Roger Felix, Pierre Tripod, 1993 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Scotland 2-Switzerland 1)

Photo From: World Soccer, December 1990 (October 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Scotland 2-Switzerland 1)

Date: October 23, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Seoul, Olympic Stadium

Referee: Kil Ki-Cheol (South Korea)

Attendance:70,000

South Korea 1-North Korea 0 (Hwang Seon-Hong 25)

Note: In another source, the date is listed as October 17^th.

Date: October 31, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belgrade, Stadion Crvene Zvezde (Red Star)  

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Attendance: 11,422

Yugoslavia 4-Austria 1 (Darko Pancev 31, 52, 86, Srecko Katanec 43 / Andreas Ogris 14)

Date: October 31, 1990

Competition:Pele’s 50^th Anniversary (Unofficial)

Venue:Milano - Estádio Giuseppe Meazza, San Siro, Italy

Referee: Tulio Lanese (Italy)

Attendance:30,000

World XI 2-Brazil 1 (Michel 35, Gheorge Hagi 51 / Neto 60)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2326, November 6, 1990 (Pele, October 31, 1990,  Pele’s 50th Anniversary , World XI 2-Brazil 1)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2326, November 6, 1990 (Brazil squad, Top, left to right:   Adilson Dias Batista, Paulo César Batista Dos Santos ‘Paulão’, Ivanilton Sérgio Guedes,Leonardo Nascimento de Araujo, José Gildasio Pereira de Matos  ‘Gil Baiano’  ,  Carlos César Sampaio Campos,Bottom, left to right:  ’Charles’ Fabian Figueiredo Santos, Marcos Evangelista Moraes ‘Cafu’, Donizete Francisco deOliveira,  Edson Arantès do Nascimento ‘Pelé’,  Reinaldo  , October 31, 1990,  Pele’s 50th Anniversary , World XI 2-Brazil 1)

Date: October 31, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue:Budapest-Hungaria Korut

Referee: Plarent Kotherija (Albania)

Attendance:3,000

Hungary 4-Cyprus 2 (Emil Lorincz 1, George Christodoulou (own goal) 20, Jozef Kiprich 21 pen, 69 pen / Panicos Xiouroupas 13, Angelos Tsolakis 90)

Date: October 31, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Luxembourg -Stade Municipal de Luxembourg

Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark)

Attendance:9,200

Luxembourg 2-West Germany 3 (Jean-Paul Girres 56, Robert Langers 65 / Jurgen Klinsmann 16, Uwe Bein 30, Rudi Voeller 49)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 24, January 1991 (October 31, 1990, EC Qualifier, Luxembourg 2-West Germany 3)

Photo From: World Soccer, February 1991 (October 31, 1990, EC Qualifier, Luxembourg 2-West Germany 3)

Date: October 31, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Athens-Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis' (OAKA)

Referee: Ion Gracunescu (Romania)

Attendance:20,000

Greece 4-Malta 0 (Nikos Tsiantakis 37, Vassilis Karapialis 40, Dimitris Saravakos 59, Stefanos Borbokis 88)

Date: October 31, 1990

Competition:Friendly

Venue: Oslo- Bislett stadion

Referee: Kurt Sørensen (Denmark)

Attendance: 8,200

Norway 6-Cameroon 1 (Rune Bratseth 16, Lars Bohinen 40,  Tore Andre Dahlum 42, Jan-Aage Fjørtoft 69, 74, Goran Sørloth 80 / Belle 86)

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On November 1, 1990, Gheorge Constantinou announced his resignation as Romania manager.

On November 10, 1990, Mircea Radulescu was appointed as Romania manager.

Denmark lost a key Euro qualifier at home (0-2) to Yugoslavia.

On November 20, 1990, Brothers Michael and Brian Laudrup and Jan Bartram withdrew themselves from further selection while Richard Moller-Nielsen is in charge of the Danish National team.

Jan Bartram said he would like to make way for younger players.

Michael Laudrup said he no longer had any enthusiasm.

Brian Laudrup said he lacked respect for the manager.

Dennis Bergkamp scored his first goal for Holland in a Euro qualifier vs. Greece.

San Marino made its debut in competitive European competition in a home loss vs. Switzerland.
In Football terms, Germany was re-unified on November 22, 1990.

For more detail, see:

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2011/08/november-14-1990-denmark-0-yugoslavia-2.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2012/07/november-14-1990-czechoslovakia-3-spain.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2012/12/november-14-1990-republic-of-ireland-1.html

Date: November 3, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Roma –Lo Stadio Olimpico     

Referee: Marcel Van Langenhove (Belgium)

Attendance:55,000

Italy 0-USSR 0(-)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2357, June 11, 1991 (November 3, 1990, EC Qualifier, Italy 0-USSR 0)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №45, November 12, 1990 (November 3, 1990, EC Qualifier, Italy 0-USSR 0)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo - Ottobre 2017 (Italy squad, (November 3, 1990, EC Qualifier, Italy 0-USSR 0)

Photo From: Calcio 2000, Issue 19, May 1999 (USSR squad, (November 3, 1990, EC Qualifier, Italy 0-USSR 0)

Date: November 7, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Tunis, Municipal stadion (Bizerte)

Referee: Rachid Madjiba (Algeria)

Attendance:6,000

Tunisia 1-Norway 3(Msakni 63 pen / Tore Andre Dahlum 38 75, Kare Ingebrigtsen 57)

Date: November 8, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Belém - Estádio Edgar Proença (Mangueirão)

Referee: Luís Carlos Félix Ferreira (Brazil)

Attendance:58,676

Brazil 0-Chile 0(-)

Date: November 11, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Tunis

Referee: Mohamed Hansal (Algeria)

Attendance:12,000

Tunisia 1-Finland 2(Mdakmi 46 /Mika-Mati Paatelainen 45, Ari Tegelberg 75)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue:Vienna (Wien)-Praterstadion

Referee: Gerard Biguet (France)

Attendance:7,000

Austria 0-Northern Ireland 0 (-)

Photo From: Österreichs Fußball Länderspiele Chronik 1902 – 1993, Author: Anton Egger (Austria squad, November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Austria 0-Northern Ireland 0)

Photo From: France Football, January 8, 1991, Issue 2335 (November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Austria 0-Northern Ireland 0)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Sofia- Vassil Levski Stadion

Referee: Friedrich Kaupe (Austria)

Attendance:42,000

Bulgaria 1-Scotland 1(Nikolai Todorov 70 / Ally McCoist 9)

Photo From: World Soccer, January 1991 (November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Bulgaria 1-Scotland 1)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Levkosia (Nicosia)-Makarion Athlítiko Kentro (Bishop Makarios Stadium)     

Referee: Zoran Petrovic (Yugoslavia)

Attendance:2,500

Cyprus 0-Norway 3(Goran Sørloth 38, Lars Bohinen 49, Sverre Brandhaug 62)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue:Copenhagen, Idrætsparken        

Referee: Neil Midgley (England)

Attendance:39,700

Denmark 0-Yugoslavia 2(Mehmet Bazdarevic 78, Robert Jarni 85)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Isue 24, January 1991 (November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Denmark 0-Yugoslavia 2)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue:Prague, Stadion Evžena Rošického (Strahov)     

Referee: Karl Heinz Tritschler (West Germany)

Attendance:30,000

Czechoslovakia 3-Spain 2 (Vaclav Danek 17,69, Lubomir Moravcik 77 / Roberto 30, Carlos 55 )

Photo From: MARCA_1990-11-15 (Rafael Martin Vazquez, November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Czechsolovakia 3-Spain 2)

Photo From: se Lvickem na prsou-Authors O.Bartunek, J.Kalat (Czechsolovakia squad, November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Czechsolovakia 3-Spain 2)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Czechsolovakia 3-Spain 2)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue:Dublin -Lansdowne Road

Referee: Pietro D'Ellia (Italy)

Attendance:46,000

Republic of Ireland 1-England 1 (Tony Cascarino 77 / David Platt 67)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 1991 (David Platt about to score England’s goal with Lineker and Bonner looking on, November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Republic of Ireland 1-England 1)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 1991 (November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Republic of Ireland 1-England 1)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Luxembourg- Neie Stadion

Referee: Jiri Ulrich (Czechoslovakia)

Attendance:7,000

Luxembourg 0-Wales 1(Ian Rush 15)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue:İstanbul -İnönü Stadyumu

Referee: Aleksei Spirin (USSR)

Attendance:45,000

Turkey 0-Poland 1(Dariusz Dziekanowski 37)

Photo From: Bialo Czerwoni 1921-2001, Author Andrzej Gowarzewski (Poland squad, November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, Turkey 0-Poland 1)

Date: November 14, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Serravalle -Stadio Olimpico di Serravalle

Referee: Costas Kapsos (Cyprus)

Attendance:931

San Marino 0-Switzerland 4 (Alain Sutter 8, Stephane Chapuisat 26, Adrian Knup 43, Frederic Chassot 85)

Photo From: L'Equipe de Suisse, Authors Guy Balibouse, Roger Felix, Pierre Tripod, 1993 (November 14, 1990, EC Qualifier, San Marino 0-Switzerland 4)

Date: November 17, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Tiranë (Tirana)- Stadiumi Kombetar ‘Qemal Stafa’

Referee: Bruno Galler (Switzerland) 

Attendance:15,000

Albania 0-France 1(Basile Boli 22)

Photo From:  Onze-Mondial, Issue 23, December 1990 (France squad, November 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Albania 0-France 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 23, December 1990 (November 17, 1990, EC Qualifier, Albania 0-France 1)

Date: November 18, 1990

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 2

Venue: Addis Abeba

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Ethiopia 0-Tunisia 2(Mahjoubi 39, Faouzi Rouissi 41)

Date: November 18, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Port of Spain

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Trinidad and Tobago 0-USA 0 (-)

Date: November 21, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue:Rotterdam-De Kuip-Feyenoord Stadion  

Referee: Lajos Nemeth (Hungary)

Attendance:29,000

Holland 2-Greece 0(Dennis Bergkamp 8, Marco van Basten 19)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (November 21, 1990, EC Qualifier, Holland 2-Greece 0)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, November 21, 1990, EC Qualifier, Holland 2-Greece 0)

Date: November 21, 1990

Competition:Friendly

Venue: Port Of Spain, King Park Oval Stadium -Trinidad and Tobago

Referee: Willie Stewart (Trinidad and Tobago)

Attendance:3,500

USA 0-USSR 0(-)

Date: November 23, 1990

Competition:Friendly

Venue: Port Of Spain, King Park Oval Stadium

Referee: Lennox Sirjuesingh (Trinidad and Tobago)

Attendance:3,500

Trinidad and Tobago 0-USSR 2 (Igor Shalimov 29. Ahrik Tsveiba 51)

Date: November 25, 1990

Competition:UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Valettta ,Ta’Qali -National Stadium

Referee: Sadik Deda (Turkey) 

Attendance:5,000

Malta 1-Finland 1(Hubert Suda 74 / Pasi Tauriainen 87)

Date: November 30, 1990

Competition:Friendly

Venue: Ciudad de Guatemala (Guatemala City)-Estadio Mateo Floresa

Referee: Jorge Melendez Gonzalez (Guatemala)

Attendance:15,000

Guatemala 0-USSR 3(Alexander Mostovoi 17, Igor Dobrovolsky 20, Igor Kolivanov 45)

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Note:

The purpose of this section is to summarize the week in question, it is not meant to give a full statistical analysis of the matches.

We live in a viral age and all that information can be accessed.

I welcome all contributions from anyone, even for the Leagues that I did not cover.

I.  England

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-Following the end of 18 month ban for anti-doping violations, Sami Nasri claimed that he was unaware that he had broken any rules. (Source AS.com online)

-A Croatian court stated that all perjury charges (from the trial of Zdravko Mamic) against Dejan Lovren (Liverpool) have been dropped. (Source AS.com online)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-Chelsea suffered its worst defeat in 23 years in their (0-4) loss to Bournemouth. (Source Marca online)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

- Peterborough Football Director, Barry Fry, was given a ban of four montsh from Football related activities (3 montsh are suspended) and fined, after he was charged with misconduct for betting dueing the 2017/18 season. (Source BBC Football online)

-Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace) has been charged by the FA for misconduct following his sending off vs. Southampton. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Gary Cahill (Chelsea) has reportedly turned down offers from Juventus, Monaco and Fulham. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Mesut Ozil (Arsenal) has reportedly turned down a loan offer from PSG. (Source Corrire dello Sport online)

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-The wreckage of the plane carrying Emiliano Sala and the pilot has been found. (Source Sky Sports online)

- Former English Footballer from the 40s into the 60s, Daniel Williams passed away aged 94. He played and later managed Rotehrham United. He also managed Swindon during two separate spells as well in the 60s and 70s. (Source Wikipedia online)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

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Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Danny Batth	Defender	Middlesbrough	Wolves	Purchase	Sky Sports
January 29, 2019	Denis Suarez (Spain)	Midfielder	Barcelona	Arsenal	Loan with option to buy	AS.com
January 29, 2019	Ryan Seager	Striker	Southampton	Yeovil Town	Purchase	The Guardian
January 29, 2019	Uriel Antuna	Midfielder	Manchester City	LA Galaxy	Loan	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Karlan Grant	Striker	Charlton	Huddersfield	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Miguel Almiron	Midfielder	Atlanta United (USA)	Newcastle	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Ben Stevenson	Midfielder	Wolves	Colchester	Purchase	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Mesaque Dju (Portugal)	-	Benfica	West Ham	Purchase	A Bola
January 30, 2019	Conor Mitchell	Goalkeeper	Burnely	Linfield	Loan	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Ro-Shaun Williams	Defender	Manchester United	Shrewsbury	Purchase	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Rekeil Pyke	Striker	Huddersfield	Rochdale	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jonny Castro Otto (Spain)	Defender	Atletico Madrid	Wolves	Permannet signing	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Lewis Morgan	-	Celtic	Sunderlnd	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Pele	-	Monaco	Nottingham Forest	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Matty Willock	-	Manchester United	Crawley	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Marouane Fellaini (Belgium)	Midfielder	Manchester United	Shandong Luneng	Purchase	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Antonio Barreca	Defender	Monaco	Newcastle	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Ante Palaversa (Croatia)	Midfielder	Hajduk Split	Manchester City	Purchase	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Ante Palaversa (Croatia)	Midfielder	Manchester City	Hajduk Split	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Aboubakar Kamara	Striker	Fulham	Malatyaspor	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Cuco Martina (Holland)	-	Stoke	Everton	Loan Return to be transferred to feyenoord	Royal Blue Mersey
January 31, 2019	Leo Bonatini	Striker	Wolves	Nottingham Forest	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Leandro Bacuna	Defender	Reading	Cardiff	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jerome Sinclair	Striker	Watford	Oxford	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jake Hesketh	Midfielder	Southampton	MK Dons	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Donovan Wilson	Striker	Wolves	Exeter	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Callum Roberts	Winger	Newcastle	Colchester	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Elijah Adebayo	Striker	Fulham	Stevenage	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Tyrone Mings	Defender	Bournemouth	Aston Villa	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Peter Crouch	Striker	Stoke	Burnley	Purchase	Kicker.de
January 31, 2019	Sam Vokes	-	Burnley	Stoke	Purchase	Kicker.de
January 31, 2019	Youri Tielemans (Belgium)	Midfielder	Monaco	Leicester	Loan	Voetbalzone.nl
January 31, 2019	Aaron Connolly	Striker	Brighton	Luton	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Callum Connolly	Defender	Everton	Bolton	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Anthony Evans	Midfielder	Everton	Blackpool	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Michael Folivi	Striker	Watford	Wimbledon	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Josh Knight	Defender	Leicester	Peterborough	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Kazaiah Sterling	Striker	Tottenham	Sunderland	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Callum Whelan	Midfielder	Manchester United	Port Vale	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Tudor Baluta	Midfielder	Vitorul	Brighton	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Tudor Baluta	Midfielder	Brighton	Vitorul	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jan Mlakar	Striker	Maribor	Brighton	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jan Mlakar	Striker	Brighton	Maribor	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Oladapo Afolayan	Striker	West Ham	Oldham	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Zak Dearnley	Striker	Manchester United	Oldham	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Michy Batshuayi (Belgium)	Striker	Valencia	Chelsea	Loan Return	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Michy Batshuayi (Belgium)	Striker	Chelsea	Crystal Palace	Loan	Sky Sports
January 31, 2019	Havard Nordtveit (Norway)	Defender	Hoffenheim	Fulham	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Conor Ronan	Midfielder	Wolves	Dunajska Streda	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jack Ruddy	Goalkeeper	Wolves	UD San Sebastian	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Joe Mason	Striker	Wolves	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Phil Ofosu-Ayeh	Defender	Wolves	Wurzburg	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Lazar Markovic	Winger	Liverpool	Fulham	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Rolando Aarons	Winger	Newcastle	Sheffield Wednesday	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Achraf Lazar	Defender	Newcastle	Sheffield Wednesday	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jacob Murphy	Winger	Newcastle	WBA	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Stefan Johansen	Midfielder	Fulham	WBA	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Andy King	Striker	Leicester	Derby	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Beni Baningime	Midfielder	Everton	Wigan	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Dominic Iorfa	Defender	Wolves	Sheffield Wednesday	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Molla Wague (Mali)	Defender	Udinese	Nottingham Forest	Loan	BBC Fotball
January 31, 2019	Charlie Wakefield	Winger	Chelsea	Coventry	Purchase	The Guardian
February 1, 2019	Shayon Harrison	Striker	Tottenham	Melbourne City	Loan	L’Equipe

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 31, 2019	Anthony Martial (France)	Striker	Manchester United	2024	BBC Football

English Premier League Matchday (January 29-January 30, 2019):

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Arsenal 2-Cardiff 1(Pierre-Erick Aubameyang 66 pen, Alexandre Lacazette 83 / N.Mendez-Laing 90)

Fulham 4-Brighton 2(Calum Chambers 47, Aleksandar Mitrovic 58, 74, Luciano Vietto 79 / Glenn Murray 3, 17)

Huddersfield 0-Everton 1(Richarlison 3)

Wolves 3-West Ham 0  (Romain Saiss 66, Raul Jimenez 80, 86)

Manchester United 2-Burnley 2 (-Paul Pogba 88 pen, Victor Lindelof 90 / Ashley Barnes 51, Chris Wood 81)

Newcastle 2-Manchester City 1 (Salomon Rondon 66, Matt Ritchie 80 pen / Sergio Aguero 1)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Bournemouth 4-Chelsea 0(Joshua King 47, 74, David Brooks 63, Charlie Daniels 90)

Southampton 1-Crystal Palace 1 (James Ward Prowse 77 / Wilfried Zaha 41 )

Liverpool 1-Leicester 1(Sadio Mane 3 / Harry Maguire 45)

Tottenham 2-Watford 1(Son Heung-min 80, Fernando Llorente 87 / Craig Cathcart 38)

Top Goalscorer:

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 16 goals

Pierre-Erick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 15 goals

Harry Kane (Tottenham) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Liverpool	24	19	4	1	55	14	41	61
2	Manchester City	24	18	2	4	63	19	44	56
3	Tottenham	24	18	0	6	50	24	26	54
4	Arsenal	24	14	5	5	50	33	17	47
5	Chelsea	24	14	5	5	40	23	17	47
6	Manchester United	24	13	6	5	48	35	13	45

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

English Premier League Matchday (February 2-February 4, 2019):

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Tottenham 1-Newcastle 0(Son Heung-min 83)

Brighton 0-Watford 0(-)

Burnley 1-Southampton 1 (Ashley Barnes 90 pen / Nathan Redmond 56)

Chelsea 5-Huddersfield 0  (Gonzalo Higuain 16, 69, Eden Hazard 45 pen, 66, David Luiz 86)

Crystal Palace 2-Fulham 0 (Luka Milivojevic 25 pen, Jeffrey Schlupp 87)

Everton 1-Wolves 3(Andre Gomes 27 / Ruben Neves 7 pen, Raul Jimenez 45, Leander Dendoncker 66)

Cardiff 2-Bournemoth 0(Bobby Reid 5 pen, 46)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Leicester 0-Manchester United 1 (Marcus Rashford 9)

Manchester City 3-Arsenal 1 (Sergio Aguero 1, 44, 61 / Laurent Koscielny 11)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

West Ham 1-Liverpool 1 (Michail Antonio 28 / Sadio Mane 22)

Top Goalscorer:

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 16 goals

Pierre-Erick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 15 goals

Harry Kane (Tottenham) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Liverpool	25	19	5	1	56	15	41	62
2	Manchester City	25	189	2	4	66	20	47	59
3	Tottenham	25	19	0	6	51	24	27	57
4	Chelsea	25	15	5	5	45	23	22	50
5	Manchester United	25	14	6	5	49	35	14	48
6	Arsenal	25	14	5	6	51	36	15	47

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

II.  Italy

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-Serie C Manager Giancarlo Favarin (Lucchese) was banned for five months for headbutting Alessandroa’s assistant coach Gaetano Mancino. (Source The Guardian online)

-Former Italian Midfielder from 49s into the 60s, Egisto Pandolfini passed away aged 92. (Source Wikipedia online)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-Amin Younes (Napoli) has rejected an offer from Celta. (Source Football Italia online)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-Roma Manager Eusebio Di Francesco stated that he has no intention to resign following Roma’s (1-7) loss to Fiorentina in Coppa Italia. (Source AS.com online)

-Gianluca Vialli has been named as the Head of Delegation of the Italian National Team. (Source Corriere dello Sport online)

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-Italy Manager Roberto Mancini named his squad for a two-day training  camp ahead of next month;s Euro qualifiers. Veteran striker Fabio Quagliarealla is among the call –ups. (Source Football Italia online)

Squad:

Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Milan), Alex Meret (Napoli), Salvatore Sirigu (Torino)

Defenders: Alessandro Bastoni (Parma), Cristiano Biraghi (Fiorentina), Giorgio Chiellini (Juventus), Andrea Conti (Milan), Domenico Criscito (Genoa), Mattia De Sciglio (Juventus), Alessandro Florenzi (Roma), Armando Izzo (Torino), Manuel Lazzari (SPAL), Alessio Romagnoli (Milan), Leonardo Spinazzola (Juventus)

Midfielders: Nicolo Barella (Cagliari), Marco Benassi (Fiorentina), Bryan Cristante (Roma), Roberto Gagliardini (Inter), Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma), Stefano Sensi (Sassuolo), Sandro Tonali (Brescia), Nicolo Zaniolo (Roma)

-Former Italian striker from the 50s into the 70s, Antonio ‘Mimmo’ Renna passed away aged 81. He also had a long career as a manager of lower level teams. (Source La Gazzett dello Sport online)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

- Sime Vrsaljko (Inter) is not part of the club’s registered squad for Europa Leaghe and Serie A due to his injury. (Source Calciomercato online)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

- Napoli’s Marek Hamsik is set to leave the club and join China’s Dalian Yifang. (Source Marca online)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type		Online Source
January 29, 2019	Assane Diousse	Midfielder	St Etienne	Chievo	Purchase		Corriere dello Sport
January 29, 2019	Roberto Ibanez	Defender	Fluminense	Atalanta	Purchase		The Guardian
January 29, 2019	Alessandro Murgia	Midfielder	Lazio	SPAL	Loan		The Guardian
January 29, 2019	Joel Untersee	Defende	Empoli	FC Zurich	Loan		The Guardian
January 29, 2019	Lukas Lerager (Denmark)	Midfielder	Bordeaux	Genoa	Loan		L’Equipe
January 29, 2019	Toni Fruk (Croatia)	Midfielder	Mouscron	Fiorentina	Purchase		Walfoot.be
January 30, 2019	Kiril Despodov	Winger	CSKA Sofia	Cagliari	Purchase		The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Merih Demiral	-	Alanyaspor	Sassuolo	Loan		The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Samuel Mraz	Striker	Empoli	Crotone	Loan		The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Lucas Caldirola	Defender	Werder Bremen	Benevento		Purchase		Kicker.de
January 30, 2019	Lucas Piazon (Brazil)	Winger	Cheslea	Chievo		Loan		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Samuele Longo	-	Huesca	Inter		Loan Return		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Luca Pellegrini	Defender	Roma	Cagliari		Purchase		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Romulo (Brazil)	Winger	Genoa	Lazio		Loan with option to buy		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Marco Sau	Striker	Cagliari	Sampdoria		Purchase		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Maxime Leverbe	-	Sampdoria	Cagliari		Loan		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Simone Edera	Winger	Torino	Bologna		Loan		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Lyanco	Defender	Torino	Bologna		Loan		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Marcos	-	Barcelona	Torino		Purchase		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Kevin Diks (Holland)	Defender	Fiorentina	Empoli		18 month loan		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Marko Pajac	Defender	Cagliari	Empoli		Loan with option to buy		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Diego Farias	Winger	Cagliari	Empoli		Loan with option to buy		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Vasco Regini	Defender	Sampdoria	SPAL		Loan with option to buy		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Michal Marcjanik	Midfielder	Empoli	Carpi		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Luca Rizzo	Midfielder	Bologna	Carpi		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Malick Mbaye	Defender	Chievo	Cremonese		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Fabio Eguelfi	Defender	Atalanta	Livorno		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jacob Rasmussen	Defender	Empoli	Fiorentina		Purchase		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jacob Rasmussen	Defender	Fiorentina	Empoli		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Andrea Fulignati	Goalkeeper	Ascoli	SPAL		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Daniel Torres	Midfielder	Alaves	Albacete		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Tiago Djalo (Portugal)	Defender	Sporting CP	AC Milan		Purchase		Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Edoardo Soleri	-	Roma	Braga		Loan		Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Tiago Casaola	Defender	Salernitana	Lazio		Purchase		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Tiago Casaola	Defender	Lazio	Salernitana		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Ben Wilmot	Defender	Watford	Udinese		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Sandro (Brazil)	Midfielder	Genoa	Udinese		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Marko Jankovic	Striker	Partizan Belgrade	SPAL		Purchase		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Cyril Thereau	Striker	Fiorentina	Cagliari		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jose Machin	Midfielder	Pescara	Parma		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Nicolas Schiappacasse	Winger	Atletico Madrid	Parma		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Cristian Dell’Orco	Defender	Sassuolo	Enpoli		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Andrea Zaccagno	Gaolkeeper	Torino	Vibonese		Loan		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Dimitri Oberlin	Striker	Basel	Empoli		Loan with option to buy		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Miha Zajc (Slovenia)	Midfielder	Empoli	Fenerbahce		Permanent Purchase		Transfer market web
January 31, 2019	Ivan Radovanovic	Midfielder	Chievo	Genoa		Purchase		The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Mattia Sprocati	-	Lazio	Parma		Purchase		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Fabrizio Cacciatore	Defender	Chievo	Cagliari		Loan with obligation to buy		Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Marco Andreoli	Defender	Cagliari	Chievo		Purchase		Football Italia

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 1, 2019	Bruno Alves (Portugal)	Defender	Parma	2020	L’Equipe

Coppa Italia (January 29-January 31, 2019)-Quarterfinals, First Leg:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

AC Milan 2-Napoli 0 (Krzysztof Piatek 11, 27)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Fiorentina 7-Roma 1 (Federico Chiesa 7, 18, 74, Luis Muriel 33, Marco Benassi 66, Giovanni Simeone 79, 89 / Aleksandar Kolarov 28)

Atalanta 3-Juventus 0 (Timothy Castagne 37, Duvan Zapata 39, 86)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

Inter 1-Lazio 1 (Mauro Icardi 120 pen / Ciro Immobile 108) (Lazio won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Italian Serie A Matchday (February 2-February 4, 2019):

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Empoli 2-Chievo 2(Francesco Caputo 45, 52 / E.Giacherini 31, Mariusz Stepinski 45)

Napoli 3-Sampdoria 0(Arek Milik 25, Lorenzo Insigne 26, Simone Verdi 89 pen)

Juventus 3-Parma 3(Cristiano Ronaldo 36, 66, Daniele Rugani 62 / Antonio Barilla 64, Gervinho 74, 90)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

SPAL 0-Torino 0(-)

Genoa 1-Sassuolo 1(Antonio Sanabria 41 / Filip Djuricic 28)

Udinese 1-Fiorentina 1(Jens Stryger Larsen 56 / Edimilson Fernandes 65)

Inter 0-Bologna 1 (Federico Santander 32)

Roma 1-AC Milan 1(Nicolo Zaniolo 46 / Krzysztof Piatek 26)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

Frosinone 0-Lazio 1(Felipe Caicedo 36)

Cagliari 0-Atalanta 1(Hans Hateboer 50)

Top Goalscorer:

Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 17 goals

Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) 16 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Juventus	22	19	3	0	46	15	31	60
2	Napoli	22	16	3	3	42	18	24	51
3	Inter	22	12	4	6	31	16	15	40
4	AC Milan	22	9	9	4	29	21	8	36
5	Roma	22	9	8	5	41	30	11	35
6	Atalanta	22	10	5	7	48	30	18	35

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

III.  Spain

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-Appointed on December 10^th, Luis Garcia Plaza was dismissed as Villareal Manager. (Source L’Equipe online)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-Villareal have re-appinted Javi Calleja as manager 50 days after firing him. (Source Football Espana online)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-After scoring twice vs. Girona, Karim Benzema has now bypassed Hugo Sanchez and become Real Madrid’s 6^th all-time leading goalscorer with 209 goals. (Source L’Equipe online)

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-Barcelona and Real Madrid have been drawn against one another in the Semifinals of the Copa Del Rey. (Source AS.com online)

 Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-Barcelona goalkeeper Jesper Cilesen will be out injured for a minimum of six weeks. (Source Football Espana online)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-Isco (Real Madrid) appared to snub Chendo (former Real Madrid Captain 80s-90s and current Real Madrid match delegate) as he was coming off the field after their match vs. Alaves. (Source AS.com online)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois claims he has been misquoted in a series of disparaging remarks about Atletico Madrid fans. (Source Football Espana online)

-Former Spain and Atletico Madrid defender from the 50s into the 70s, Isacio Calleja Garcia passed away aged 82. (Source Wikipedia online)

Photo From: L'Equipe, February 3, 2019

(Karim Benzema and Lionel Messi)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Luis Garcia Plaza	Manager	Villareal	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	L’Equipe
January 29, 2019	Darwin Machis	Winger	Udinese	Cadiz	Loan	The Guardian
January 29, 2019	Robert Ibanez	Winger	Getafe	Osasuna	Loan	The Guardian
January 29, 2019	Jese	Striker	PSG	Betis	Loan	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Modibo Sagnan	Defender	Lens	Sociedad	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Ruben Vezo (Portugal)	Defender	Valencia	Levante	Loan	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Marco Borriello (Italy)	Striker	Ibiza	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Football Italia
January 30, 2019	Jonathan Toro (Honduras)	-	Varzim	Huesca	Purchase	A Bola
January 30, 2019	Miguel Layun	Defender	Villareal	Monterrey	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Kenn Kodro	Winger	FC Copenhagen	Bilbao	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Ryad Bouderbouz (Algeria)	Midfielder	Betis	Celta	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Ruben Sobrino	Striker	Alaves	Valencia	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Lucas Olaza	Defender	Boca Juniors	Celta	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Dennis Eckert	Striker	Celta	Excelsior	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Emerson (Brazil)	Defender	Atletico Mineiro	Barcelona	Purchase	AS.com
January 31, 2019	Emerson (Brazil)	Defender	Barcelona	Betis	Loan	AS.com
January 31, 2019	Pablo Ramon	Defender	Mallorca	Real Madrid	Next Season	AS.com
January 31, 2019	Xavi Sintes	Defender	Mallorca	Real Madrid	Next Season	AS.com
January 31, 2019	Jean-Clair Todibo (France)	Defender	Toulouse	Barcelona	Purchase	Marca.com
January 31, 2019	Leo Baptistao (Brazil)	Striker	Espanyol	Wuhan Zall (China)	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Alfa Semedo (Portugal)	Midfielder	Benfica	Espanyol	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Anthony Georgiou	Midfielder	Tottenham	Levante	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Facundo Roncaglia (Argentina)	Defender	Celta	Valencia	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Paulo Henrique Ganso (Brazil)	Midfielder	Sevilla	Fluminense	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Mario Suarez	Midfielder	GZ HengFeng (China)	Vallecano	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Facundo Ferreyra (Argentina)	Striker	Benfica	Espanyol	18 month Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Ivan Alejo	Winger	Getafe	Malaga	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Rajko Brezancic	Defender	Huesca	Malaga	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Juanpi Anor	Winger	Malaga	Huesca	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Axel Werner	Goalkeeper	Atletico Madrid	Malaga	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Alex Alegria	Striker	Betis	Gijon	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Stole Dimitrievski	Goalkeeper	Gimnastic	Vallecano	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Diego Reyes	Defender	Fenerbahce	Leganes	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Franco Di Santo	Striker	Schalke	Vallecano	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Pedro Chirivella	Midfielder	Liverpool	Extremadura	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Diego Rolan (Uruguay)	Striker	Deportivo La Coruna	Alaves	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Uche Agbo	Midfielder	Standard Liege	Vallecano	Loan	RTBF.be
January 31, 2019	Alejandro Catena	Defender	Reus	Vallecano	Purchase	Football Espana

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 30, 2019	Jordi Alba	Defender	Barcelona	2024	AS.com
February 1, 2019	Cristhian Stuani (Uruguay)	Striker	Girona	2022	L’Equipe
February 1, 2019	Dani Parejo	Midfielder	Valencia	2022	L’Equipe

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 2, 2019	David de La Vibora (186 years old)	-	Real Madrid	AS.com

Copa Del Rey (January 29-January 31, 2019)-Quarterfinals, Second Leg:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Valencia 3 -Getafe 1 (Rodrigo 61, 90, 90+ / Jorge Molina 1)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Betis 3- Espanyol 1 (Giovani Lo Celso 76, Sergio Leon  95, Aissa Mandi 99 / Leo Baptistao 33)

Barcelona 6 -Sevilla 1 (Philippe Coutinho 13 pen, 53, Ivan Rakitic 31, Sergi Roberto 54, Luis Suarez 89, Lionel Messi 90 / Guilherme Arana 67)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

Girona 1- Real Madrid 3 (Pedro Porro 71 / Karim Benzema 27, 43, Marcos Llorente 76)

Spanish La Liga Matchday (February 1-February 4, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Huesca 4-Valladolid 0 (Eric Gallego 19,  Jorge Pulido 50, Moi Gomez 53, Ezequiel Avila 77)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Levante 0-Getafe 0 (-)

Sociedad 2-Bilbao 1(Mikel Oyarzabal 16, William Jose 45 / Raul Garcia 82)

Barcelona 2-Valencia 2 (Lionel Messi 39 pen, 64 / Kevin Gameiro 24, Dani Parejo 32 pen)

Celta 1-Sevilla 0 (Okay Yokuslu 73)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Villareal 2-Espanyol 2(Vicente Iborra 37, Santi Cazorla 65 pen / Daniele Bonera (own goal) 75, Roberto Rosales 81)

Betis 1-Atletico Madrid 0 (Sergio Canales 65 pen)

Eibar 3-Girona 0 (Ruben Pena 37, Charles 46, 57 pen)

Real Madrid 3-Alaves 0 (Karim Benzema 30, Vinicius Junior 80, Mariano Diaz 90)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

Vallecano 1-Leagnes 2  (Alvaro Garcia 83 / Martin Braithwaite 36, Youssef En-Nesyri 85)

Top Goalscorer:

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 21 goals

Luis Suarez (Barcelona) 15 goals

Cristhian Stuani (Girona) 12 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	22	15	5	2	60	23	37	50
2	Atletico Madrid	22	12	8	2	32	14	18	44
3	Real Madrid	22	13	5	4	37	26	11	42
4	Sevilla	22	10	6	6	36	23	13	36
5	Getafe	22	8	8	6	25	18	7	32
6	Betis	22	9	5	8	26	26	0	32

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IV.  Germany

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-Augsburg have fined defender Martin Hinteregger and have restricted him to train individually due to his criticism of manager Manuel Baum. (Source Bulinews online)

- The proposed transfer of Omar mascarell from Schalke to Stuttgart has been called off. (Source Kicker.de online)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-

Friday, February 1, 2019:

- Hannover have been fined 25,500 Euros for unsportsmanlike behavior of its fans. (Source Sport Bild online)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-The season is effectively over for Alessandro Schopf (Schlake), expected to be out injured for four months. (Source Sport Bild online)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-UEFA have rejected Bayern Munich’s appeal againt Thomas Muller’s two-mmatch suspension in the UCL. He will therefore miss the matches against Liverpool. (Source Bulinews online)

-GuidoBuchwald has resigned as a supervisory board member and Ambassador of Stuttgart. (Source Sport Bild online)

- Dortmund have been fined 62,000 Euros for the use of fireworks of its fans. (Source Sport Bild online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Laszlo Benes (Slovakia)	Striker	Moenchengladbach	Kiel	Loan	L’Equipe
January 29, 2019	Noel Knothe	Defender	Frankfurt	Pipinsried	Loan	Kicker.de
January 30, 2019	Rabbi Matondo (Wales)	Striker	Manchester City	Schalke	Purchase	Sky Sports
January 30, 2019	Sandro Wagner	Striker	Bayern Munich	Tianjin Teda	Free Transfer	Sky Sports
January 30, 2019	Ivo Ilicevic	Winger	Free Agent	Nuremberg	Purchase	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Justin Hoogma	Defender	Hoffenheim	St Pauli	Loan	Kicker.de
January 30, 2019	Jeffrey Bruma	Defender	Wolfsburg	Schalke	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Lucas Silva Melo, Tuta (Brazil)	Defender	Sao Paulo	Frankfurt	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Dzenis Burnic	Midfielder	Dortmund	Dresden	Loan	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Taylor Booth (17 years old)(USA)	Midfielder	Real Salt Lake	Bayern Munich	Purchase	Bavarian Football Works
January 31, 2019	Dawid Kownacki	Striker	Sampdoria	Dusseldorf	Loan	Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Almamy Toure	Defender	Monaco	Frankfurt	Purchase	Football Italia
January 31, 2019	Reece Oxford	Defender	West Ham	Augsburg	Loan	Bulinews
January 31, 2019	Shinji Kagawa (Japan)	Midfielder	Dortmund	Besiktas	Purchase	Bulinews
January 31, 2019	Martin Hinteregger	Defender	Augsburg	Frankfurt	Loan	Bulinews
January 31, 2019	Emile Smith-Rowe	Midfielder	Arsenal	RB Leipzig	Loan	Sport Bild
January 31, 2019	Mete Kaan Demie	-	Hannover	Basaksehir	Purchase	Kicker.de
January 31, 2019	Caiuby	Striker	Augsburg	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Felix Beiesdorf	Midfielder	RB Leipzig	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	The Guardian

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
January 31, 2019	Ahmed Kutucu (18 years old)	-	Schalke	Kicker.de
January 31, 2019	Patrick Finger (18 years old)	Midfielder	Frankfurt	Kicker.de

German Bundesliga Matchday (February 1-February 3, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Hannover 0-RB Leipzig 3 (Marcel Halstenberg 45 pen, Willi Orban 64, 85)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Nuremberg 1-Werder Bremen 1 (Mikael Ishak 86 / Johannes Eggestein 64)

Leverkusen 3-Bayern Munich 1 (Leon Bailey 53, Kevin Volland 63, Lucas Alario 87 / Leon Goretzka 41)

Frankfurt 1-Dortmund 1 (Luka Jovic 36 / Marco Reus 22)

Hertha Berlin 0-Wolfsburg 1 (Wout Weghorst 65)

Hoffenheim 1-Dusseldorf 1 (Andrej Kramaric 16 pen / Rouwen Hennings 46)

Schalke 0-Moenchengladbach 2 (Christoph Kramer 85, Florian Neuhaus 90)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Augsburg 3-Mainz 0 (Alfred Finnbogasson 8 pen, 34 pen, 54)

Stuttgart 2-Freiburg 2 (Emiliano Inusa 75, Daniel Didavi 83 / Janik Haberer 4, F.Niederlechner 90)

Top Goalscorer:

Luka Jovic (Frankfurt) 14 goals

Marco Reus (Dortmund) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dortmund	20	15	4	1	51	20	31	49
2	M’Gladbach	20	13	3	4	41	18	23	42
3	Bayern Munich	20	13	3	4	44	23	21	42
4	RB Leipzig	20	11	4	5	38	18	20	37
5	Frankfurt	20	9	5	6	40	27	13	32
6	Wolfsburg	20	9	4	7	29	27	2	31

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

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Photo From: L'Equipe, February 2, 2019

(Qatar winners of the Asian Nations Cup)

V.  France

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-Neymar (PSG) will be out injured for about 10 weeks due to broken metatarsal. (Source BBC Football online)

-Papy Djilobodji (Guingamp) and Naldo (Monaco) were suspended for six and three matches respectively by the disciplinary commission. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Gauthier Ganaye is the new President of OGC Nice. (Source L’Equipe online)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-PSG lost for the fisrt time in the League this season.

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-Hatem Ben Arfa is to sue PSG due to lost bonuses for not playing him during the last 15 months of his contract. (Source Fox Sports online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Christopher Rocchia	Defender	OM	Sochaux	Loan	L’Equipe
January 29, 2019	Yann Bodiger	Midfielder	Toulouse	Cordoba	Loan	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Edgar Le	Defender	Lille	Nantes	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Abdul Baba Rahman (Ghana)	Defender	Chelsea	Reims	Loan	RTBF.be
January 30, 2019	Carlos Vinicius (Brazil)	Striker	Napoli (had been loaned to Rio Ave)	Monaco	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Levi Opdam	-	Free Agent	PSG	Purchase	vi.nl
January 30, 2019	Sambou Sissoko	Midfielder	Tours	Reims	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Anatole Ngamukol	Striker	Reims	Fortuna Koln	Purchase	The Guardian
January 30, 2019	Moreto Cassama	Midfielder	Porto	Reims	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Georges-Kevin Nkoudou	-	Tottenham	Monaco	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Loic Badiashile	Goalkeeper	Monaco	Rennes	Loan with option to buy	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Valentin Eysseric	Midfielder	Fiorentina	Nantes	Loan with option to buy	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Youssef Ait-Bennasser	Midfielder	Moanco	St Etienne	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Yann Bodiger	Midfielder	Toulouse	Cordoue (Spain)	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Theo Pellenard	Defender	Bordeaux	Angers	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Isaac Solet	Midfielder	Laval	Reims	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Serhou Guirassy	Winger	Koln	Amiens	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Georges-Kevin Nkoudou	Winger	Tottenham	Monaco	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Kostas Mitroglu (Greece)	Striker	OM	Galatasaray	Loan	Sport Bild
January 31, 2019	Erik Pieters (Holland)	Defender	Stoke	Amiens	Loan	Voetbalzone.nl
January 31, 2019	Adrien Silva	Midfielder	Leicester	Monaco	Purchase	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Yacine Adli	Midfielder	PSG	Bordeaux	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Sory Kaba (Guinea)	Striker	Elche	Dijon	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Rafal Kurzawa (Poland)	Winger	Amiens	Midtjyland (Denmark)	Purchase	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Raoul Bellanova (Italy)	Defender	AC Milan	Bordeaux	Next Season	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Valentin Vada	Midfielder	Bordeaux	St Etienne	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Antonio Mance (Croatia)	Striker	Tremcin	Nantes	Loan wth option to buy	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Reinildo Mandava	Defender	Belenensses	Lille	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jack Lahne	Striker	Brommapojkarna	Amiens	Purchase pending FIFA validation due to his age (17 years)	L’Equipe
February 4, 2019	Harrison Manzala (Congo)	Midfielder	Angers	Maccabi Petah Tikva	Loan	L’Equipe

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 1, 2019	Ibrahim Sangare (Ivory Coast)	Midfielder	Toulouse	2022	L’Equipe
February 1, 2019	Edouard Mendy	Goalkeeper	Reims	2022	L’Equipe

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Bandiougou Fadiga (18 years old)	Midfielder	PSG	L’Equipe

French League Cup (January 29-January 30, February 2, 2018):

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Guingamp 2-Monaco 2 (Alexandre Mendy 46, Marcus Thuram 58 / Rony Lopes 18, Aleksandr Golovin 24) (Guingamp won 5-4 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Strasbourg 3-Bordeaux 2 (Ludovic Ajorque 49, Lebo Mothiba 55, 60 / Younousse Sankhare 14, Jimmy Briand 82)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Entente SSG 0-Nantes 1(Kalifa Coulibaly 73)

French Ligue 1 Matchday (Postponed matches) (January 30, 2018):

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Nantes 1-St Etienne 1 (Majeed Waris 70 / Remy Cabella 58)

French Ligue 1 Matchday (February 1-February 3, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Lille 4-Nice 0 (Rafael Leno 7, Nicolas Pepe 37, Jonathan Bamba 75, Loic remy 90)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Monaco 2-Toulouse 1(Aleksandr Golovin 15, Cesc Fabregas 62 / Christopher Jullien 20)

Angers 1-Dijon 0 (Stephane Bahoken 27)

Bordeaux -Guingamp  (postponed)

Rennes 1-Amiens 0(Medhi Zeffane 82)

Reims 2-OM 1  (Tristan Dingome 21, Suk Hyun Jun 68 / Clinton Njie 86)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Nimes 1-Montpellier 1 (Locik Landre 2 / Andy Delort 73)

St Etienne -Strasbourg  (postponed)

Lyon 2-PSG 1  (Moussa Dembele 33, Nabil Fekir 49 pen / Angel Di Maria 7)

Top Goalscorer:

Kylian Mbappe (PSG) 18 goals

Edinson Cavani (PSG) 16 goals

Nicolas Pepe (Lille) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSG	21	18	2	1	67	13	54	56
2	Lille	23	13	5	5	39	31	17	46
3	Lyon	23	12	7	4	38	26	12	43
4	St Etienne	23	10	8	5	34	27	7	38
5	Montpellier	22	9	9	4	29	17	12	36
6	Strasbourg	22	9	8	5	38	25	13	35

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VI.  Holland

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-PSV Manager Patrick van Bommel has denied given directives to ball-boys to waste time during matches. (Source voetbalzone.nl online)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Nigel Bertrams (Denmark)	Goalkeeper	FC Nordjaelland	De Graafschap	Purchase	vi.nl
January 29, 2019	Andreas Skovgaard (Denmark)	Defender	FC Nordjaelland	Heerenveen	Purchase	vi.nl
January 29, 2019	Jari Schuurman	Midfielder	Feyenoord	Dordrecht	Purchase	vi.nl
January 29, 2019	Dennis Johnsen	-	Ajax	Heerenveen	Loan	Football-Oranje.com
January 30, 2019	Wai-Tsun Dai	-	-	Utrecht	Purchase	vi.nl
January 30, 2019	Fred Friday (Nigeria)	Striker	AZ	Twente	Loan	vi.nl
January 30, 2019	Saku Ylatupa (Finland)	Midfielder	Ajax	AIK	Purchase	Football-Oranje
January 31, 2019	Agim Zeka (Albania)	Winger	Lille	Fortuna Sittard	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Dorian Dervite (France)	-	Charleroi	NAC	Loan	Footnews.be
January 31, 2019	Rasmus Wendt (Sweden)	Striker	BK Hacken	AZ	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Cuco Martina	Defender	Everton	Feyenoord	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Ruben Ligeon	Defender	PEC	De Graafschap	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Ibrahim Dresevic (Sweden)	Defender	Elfsborg	Heerenveen	Purchase	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Szabolcs Schon (Hungary)	Winger	Ajax	Free Agent	Contract Rescined	Voetbalzone.nl
January 31, 2019	Nick Kuipers	Defender	Den Haag	Emmen	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Joel Zwarts	Striker	Feyenoord	Dordrecht	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Mateo Cassierra (Colombia)	Striker	Ajax	Racing Club (Argentina)	18 month loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Jordy Bruijn	Midfielder	Heerenveen	NEC	Purchase	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Mahmadou Dembele	Defender	RB Salzburg	Fortuna Sittard	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Dorian Dervite	Defender	Charleroi	NAC	Purchase	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Loris Deiters	Defender	Twente	Preussen Munster	Purchase	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Andrej Lukic (Croatia)	Defender	Braga	Emmen	Loan	vi.nl
January 31, 2019	Mohammed Dauda (Ghana)	Striker	Anderlecht	Vitesse	Loan with option to buy	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Jordy Croux (Belgium)	Striker	Willem II	MVV	Loan	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	JordyAnthony Syhre	Defender	Wurzburger Kickers	Fortuna Sittard	Purchase	Kicker.de

Dutch Eredivisie Matchday (February 1-February 3, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

De Graafschap 3-NAC 0 (Delano Burgzorg 29, Youssef El Jebli 49, Leeroy Owusu 90)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Vitesse 2-Heerenveen 2(Mukhtar Ali 24, Bryan Linssen 58 / Michel Vlap 14, Sam Lammers 90 pen)

Ajax 6-VVV 0 (Hakim Ziyech 35, Kasper Dollberg 52, Dusan Tadic 60, David Neres 85, Klaas Jan Huntelaar 87, Donny Van de Beek 90)

Willem II 1-Groningen 2  (Marios Vrousai 55 / Django Warmerdam 35, Kaj Sierhuis 37)

AZ 5-Emmen 0  (Teun Koopmeiners 10 pen, 30, Michael De Leeuw (own goal) 35, Calvin Stengs 47, Bjorn Johnsen 86)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Excelsior 2-Feyenoord 1(Ali Messaoud 63, Robin Van der Meer 90 / Robin Van Persie 54)

PEC 4-Utrecht 3 (Vito Van Crooij 25, Thomas Lam 80, Mike Van Duinen 90 pen, 90+ / Simon Gustafson 7, Timo Leschert 59, J.C.Bahebeck 75)

PSV Eindhoven 5-Fortuna Sittard 0  (Gaston Pereiro 8, Luuk De Jong 54, 76, 87, Cody Gakpo 56)

Den Haag 2-Heracles 0  (Tomas Necid 79, 89)

Top Goalscorer:

Luuk De Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 17 goals

Fran Sol (Willem II) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSV Eindhoven	20	18	1	1	69	11	58	55
2	Ajax	20	16	3	2	73	19	54	50
3	Feyenoord	20	12	3	5	43	27	16	39
4	AZ	20	10	4	6	40	26	14	34
5	Vitesse	20	8	6	6	33	27	6	30
6	Utrecht	20	8	4	8	33	31	2	28

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VII.  Scotland

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

- Hamilton Manager Martin Canning has left his post by mutual agreement. (Source BBC Football online)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-Brian Rice has been named as new Hamilton Manager. (Source BBC Football online)

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-Tom Rogic (Celtic) will be out injured for six weeks. (Source Sky Sports online)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

- Andrew Gutman (Celtic)’s loan to Nashville has been rejected by the MLS. (Source BBC Football online)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Martin Canning	Manager	Hamilton	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	BBC Football
January 29, 2019	Steven Anderson	-	St Johnstone	Patrick Thistle	Loan	BBC Football
January 29, 2019	Niall Keown (England)	-	Patrick Thistle	St Johnstone	Loan	BBC Football
January 30, 2019	Aaron Taylor-Sinclair	-	Motherwell	Crewe	Loan	BBC Football
January 30, 2019	Matt Polster (USA)	Defender	Chicago Fire	Rangers	Purchase	BBC Football
January 30, 2019	Keelan O’Connell	Winger	Bournemouth	Morton	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Ethan Robson	Midfielder	Sunderland	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	David McMillan	Striker	St Johnstone	Hamilton	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	George Oakley	Striker	Inverness	Hamilton	Purchase	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Ryan McGowan	Defender	Bradford	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Cammy Bell	Goalkeeper	Patrick Thistle	St Johnstone	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Sean Goss	Mifielder	QPR	St Johnstone	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Liam Millar (Canada)	Striker	Liverpool	Kilmarnock	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Scott Wright	Striker	Aberdeen	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	John Osullivan	Midfielder	Blackpool	Dundee	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Glen Kamara (Finland)	Midfielder	Dundee	Rangers	Purchase	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Mac McNulty	Striker	Reading	Hibernian	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Dranell Johnson	Defender	Leicester	Hibernian	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Gael Bigirimana	Midfielder	Motherwell	Hibernian	Purchase until end of seaosn	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Duckens Nazon (Haiti)	Striker	St Truiden	St Mirren	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Youssouf Mulumbu	Midfielder	Celtic	Kilmarnock	Loan	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Maryan Shved (Ukraine)	Winger	Karpaty Lviv	Celtic	Purchase	Balls.ie
January 31, 2019	Maryan Shved (Ukraine)	Winger	Celtic	Karpaty Lviv	Loan	Balls.ie
January 31, 2019	Darnell Johnson	Defender	Leicester	Hibernian	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Jeremy Toljan	Defender	Dortmund	Celtic	Loan	The Guardian
January 31, 2019	Manny Perez (USA)	Defender	North Carolina State	Celtic	Purchase	Fox Sports
January 31, 2019	Andrew Gutman (USA)	Defender	Chicago Fire	Celtic	Purchase	Fox Sports
January 31, 2019	Andrew Gutman (USA)	Defender	Celtic	Nashville	Loan	Fox Sports

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Christophe Berra	Defender	Hearts	2021	BBC Football
January 29, 2019	David Turnbull	-	Motherwell	2021	BBC Football
January 29, 2019	Jason Kerr	Defender	St Johnstone	2022	BBC Football
January 31, 2019	Scott Brown	Midfielder	Celtic	2021	AFP
February 2, 2019	Jack Baird	Defender	St Mirren	2021	Sky Sports

Scottish FA Cup (January 29-January 30, 2019):

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Stenhousemuir 1-Aberdeen 4 (Andre Munro 53 / Niall McGinn 13, Sam Cosgrove 30 pen, Greg Stewart 38, Ruaridh Donaldson (own goal) 67)

Queen of South 3-Dundee 0 (Stephen Dobbie 12)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Cowdenbeath 1-Rangers 3 (David Cox 47 / Andrew Halliday 12, Lassana Coulibaly 26, Kyle Lafferty 45)

Scottish Premier League Matchday (January 30, 2019): (Postponed match)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Celtic 2-St Johnstone 0 (Callum McGregor 53, Ryan Christie 55)

Top Goalscorer:

Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) 12 goals

 

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	23	16	3	4	55	14	41	51
2	Rangers	23	13	6	4	47	18	29	45
3	Kilmarnock	23	13	6	4	34	21	13	45
4	Aberdeen	23	13	4	6	37	24	13	43
5	Hearts	23	12	3	8	29	28	1	39
6	St Johnstone	23	11	4	8	26	28	-2	37

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Scottish Premier League Matchday (February 3-February 4, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Kilmarnock 1-Hearts 2 (Jordan Jones 45 pen / Sean Clare 38, Steven Naismith 43)

Saturday, February 3, 2019:

Hamilton 1-Dundee 1 (Darian MacKinnon 90 / Scott Wright 66)

Hibernian 1-Aberden 2 (Oliver Shaw 9 / Andrew Considine 12, Gary Mackay-Steven 22)

Motherwell 3-Livingston 0(Jake Hastoe 6, 21, Curtis Main 12)

Rangers 4-St Mirren 0(James Tavernier 3 pen, 55 pen, Jermain Degoe 80 pen, Ryan Kent 81)

Sunday, February 4, 2019:

St Johsntone 0-Celtic 2 (James Forrest 78, Timothy Weah 89)

Top Goalscorer:

Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	24	17	3	4	57	14	43	54
2	Rangers	24	14	6	4	51	18	33	48
3	Aberdeen	24	14	4	6	39	25	14	46
4	Kilmarnock	24	13	6	5	35	23	12	45
5	Hearts	24	13	3	8	31	29	2	42
6	St Johnstone	24	11	4	9	26	30	-4	37

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VIII.  Portugal

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-

Monday, February 4, 2019:

- Filipe Martins has been named as Manager of Feirense. (Source Maisfutebol online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Mateus Anderson (Brazil)	-	Vila Nova (Brazil)	Feirense	Loan	Maisfuteol
January 29, 2019	Lisandro Lopez (Argentina)	Defender	Genoa	Benfica	Loan return	Football Italia
January 29, 2019	Lisandro Lopez (Argentina)	Defender	Benfica	Boca Juniors	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 29, 2019	Gonzalo Plata (Ecuador)	Striker	Independiente del Valle	Sporting CP	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 29, 2019	Cristian Borja (Colombia)	Defender	Toluca (Mexico)	Sporting CP	Purchase	A Bola
January 29, 2019	Tiago Ilori	Defender	Reading (England)	Sporting CP	Purchase	A Bola
January 29, 2019	Miguel Rodrigues	Defender	Rio Ave	Estoril	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 29, 2019	Iago Fabricio (Brazil)	Defender	-	Guimaraes	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 30, 2019	Luis Neto (Portugal)	Defender	Zenit St Petersburg	Sporting CP	Next Season	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Ruben Semedo	Defender	Villareal (had been on loan to Huesca)	Rio Ave	Loan	L’Equipe
January 30, 2019	Francisco Ramos	-	Guimaraes	Santa Clara	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 30, 2019	Tyler Boyd (New Zealand)	-	Guimaraes	Ankaragucu (Turkey)	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 30, 2019	Fredy (Angola)	-	Belenensses	Antalyaspor (Turkey)	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 30, 2019	Amilton	-	Chaves	Antalyaspor (Turkey)	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 30, 2019	Nadson (Brazil)	Midfielder	Metz	Feirense	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 30, 2019	Rochinha	-	Boavista	Guimaraes	Purchase	Footnews,be
January 31, 2019	Jubal (Brazil)	-	Arouca	Boavista	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Nelson Lenho	Defender	Aves	Viseu	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Robert Muric	-	Braga	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Malick Evouna	Striker	Tianjin Teda	Santa Clara	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Ruster (Brazil)	-	Varzim	Portimonense	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Christopher Olivares (Peru)	Striker	Sporting Cristal	Guimaraes	18 month loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Diogo Santos	Midfielder	Santa Clara	Viseu	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Jonathan Toro (Honduras)	-	Huesca	Academica	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Rui Pedro	-	Porto	Varzim	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Alphonse	-	Feirense	Ararat Erevan (Armenia)	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Ze Pedro	-	Feirense	Covilha	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Brian	-	Feirense	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Filipe Augusto (Brazil)	Midfielder	Benfica	Rio Ave	Purchase	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Sergio Oliveira	Midfielder	Porto	PAOK	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Marcelo Santos (Brazil)	Midfielder	Botafogo	Aves	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Nicolas Castillo (Chile)	-	Benfica	Club America	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Aylton Boa Morte	-	-	Portimonense	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Gilson Costa	Midfielder	Boavista	Estoril	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Iuri Medeiros	-	Genoa	Sporting CP	Loan Return	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Iuri Medeiros	-	Sporting CP	Legia Warsaw	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Carlos (Brazil)	Striker	Parana	Rio Ave	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Kiki Afonso	Defender	Feirense	Belenensses	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Dean Lico (Albania)	Midfielder	Leganes	Sporting CP	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Loum	-	Braga	Porto	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Bruno Fernades	Striker	Sporting CP	Madeira Union	Loan	Masifutebol
January 31, 2019	Lawrence Ofori	-	Leixoes	Feirense	Purchase	Masifutebol
January 31, 2019	Ibrahima Camara (Guinea)	Midfielder	Braga	Moreirense	Purchase	Masifutebol
January 31, 2019	Tiago Castro	Midfielder	Guimaraes	Setubal	Purchase	Masifutebol
January 31, 2019	Caique Lemes	Striker	Guarani	Aves	Purchase	Masifutebol
January 31, 2019	Kuca (Cape Verde)	-	Hermannstadt (Romania)	Feirense	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Avtandil Ebralidze (Georgia)	Winger	Chaves	Nacional	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Kenji Gorre	-	Nacional	Estoril	Loan	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Paulo Lubamba (Angola) (16 years old)	-	Real Madrid	Benfica	Purchase	A Bola
January 31, 2019	Matheus Nunes (Brazil)	-	Estoril	Sporting CP	Purchase	vi.nl
February 4, 2019	Shoya Nakajima (Japan)	-	Portimonense	Al Duhail Doha (Qatar)	Purchase	Kicker.de

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
January 31, 2019	Bruno Rafael	Defender	Guimaraes	Maisfutebol

Portugal Primeira Liga League Matchday (January 28-January 30, 2019):

Monday, January 28, 2019:

Maritino 0-Rio Ave 2(Diego Lopes 52, Joao Schmidt 90 pen)

Tondela 0-Aves 2(Carlos Ponck 58, Mama Balde 73)

Moreirense 2-Nacional 1(Chiquinho 15, 56 / Okacha Hamzaoui 87)

Feirense 1-Guimares 2(Philipe Sampaio 45 / Toze 5, 45)

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Portimonense 0-Chaves 1(Costinha 38)

Benfica 5-Boavista 1(Joao Felix 9, Pizzi 28, Haris Seferovic 54, 72, Alex Grimaldo 86 / Joao Talocha 42)

Braga 1-Santa Clara 0 (Dyego Sousa 56)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Setubal 1-Sporting CP 1 (Jhonder Cadiz 24 / Bas Dost 80)

Porto 3-Belenenses 0(Yacine Brahimi 5, Eder Militao 29, Soares 71)

Top Goalscorer:

Dyego Sousa (Braga) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto	19	16	1	2	41	11	30	49
2	Benfica	19	14	2	3	43	18	25	44
3	Braga	19	13	4	2	36	17	19	43
4	Sporting CP	19	12	3	4	36	20	16	39
5	Guimaraes	19	9	4	6	24	19	5	31
6	Moreirense	19	10	1	8	21	24	-3	31

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Portugal Primeira Liga League Matchday (February 1-February 3, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Rio Ave 2-Tondela 2 (Wenderson Galeno 9, Bruno Moreira 74 / Juan Delgado 24, Tomane 52)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Chaves 1-Maritimo 0(Renan Bressan 70)

Boavista 2-Feirense 0 (Mateus 56, Alberto Bueno 81)

Aves 0-Braga 2(Marcelo Goiano 60, Paulinho 66)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Nacional 0-Setubal 0(-)

Santa Clara 2-Portimonense 1 (Ze manuel 45, Fabio Cardoso 74 / Jackson Martinez 33)

Sporting CP 2-Benfica 4(Bruno Fernandes 43, Bas Dost 89 pen / Haris Seferovic 11, Joao Felix 36, Ruben Dias 47, Pizzi 73 pen)

Guimaraes 0-Porto 0(-)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

Belenensses 0-Moreirense 1(David Texeira 70)

Top Goalscorer:

Dyego Sousa (Braga) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto	20	16	2	2	41	11	30	50
2	Benfica	20	15	2	3	47	20	27	47
3	Braga	20	14	4	2	38	17	21	46
4	Sporting CP	20	12	3	5	38	24	14	39
5	Moreirense	20	11	1	8	22	24	-2	34
6	Guimaraes	20	9	5	6	24	19	5	32

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IX.  Belgium

Diary:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-The Belgian Federation stated that Eden Hazard was named as the Belgian National Team player of the year in a vote by fans.  (Source RTBF.be online)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

-

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 29, 2019	Zorhan Bassong	Defender	Lille	Cercle Brugge	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 30, 2019	Ryota Morioka (Japan)	Midfielder	Anderlecht	Chareleroi	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Younes Delfi (Iran)	Midfielder	Esteghlal Khuzestan (Iran)	Charleroi	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 31, 2019	Morteza Pouraliganji (Iran)	Defender	Eupen	Al Arabi (Qatar)	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Olivier Werner	Goalkeeper	Mouscron	Seraing	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Vaso Vasic	Goalkeeper	Appolon Smyrnis	Moscron	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Bojan Nastic	Defender	Genk	Ostend	Loan with option to buy	Jupiler League App
January 31, 2019	Joel Pereira (Portugal)	Goalkeeper	Manchester United	Kortrijk	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Adama Traore	Midfielder	Monaco	Cercle Brugge	Loan	Maisfutebol
January 31, 2019	Yannick Bolasie (DR Congo)	Striker	Everton	Anderlecht	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Alen Halilovic (Croatia)	Midfielder	AC Milan	Standard Liege	Loan	L’Equipe
January 31, 2019	Salah Zakaria Hassan (Qatar)	Goalkeeper	Al Wakrah (Qatar)	Eupen	Loan	RTBF.be
January 31, 2019	Sibiry Keita (Mali)	Midfielder	Aspire Academy Senegal	Eupen	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 31, 2019	Konan Ignace Jocelyn N’dri (Ivory Coast)	Midfeilder	Aspire Academy Senegal	Eupen	Purchase	RTBF.be
January 31, 2019	Christian Luyindama (Congo)	Defender	Standard Liege	Galatasaray	Loan	RTBF.be
January 31, 2019	Willy Semedo (France)	Striker	Chaleroi	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Footnews.be
January 31, 2019	Mohamed Turay Buya	-	St Truiden	Djuurgardens	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Jonathan Farias	-	Cercle Brugge	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Franck Irie	-	Cercle Brugge	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Abud Omar	Defender	Cercle Brugge	Sepsi (Romania)	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Willy Semedo	-	Charleroi	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Kiril Klimov (Russia)	Striker	Lokomotiv Moscow	Cercle Brugge	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Aldom Deuro (Mali)	Midfielder	-	Cercle Brugge	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Zotsara Randriambololona	Midfielder	Antwerp	Fleury 91	Purchase	Walfoot.be
January 31, 2019	Aboubakary Koita (Franc0-Senegal)	Winger	Gent	Kortrijk	Loan	Jupiler League App
January 31, 2019	Enes Saglik	-	Charleroi	Tubize	Loan	Jupiler League App
January 31, 2019	Djordje Jovanovic (Serbia)	-	Lokeren	Cadiz	Purchase	Walfoot.be
February 1, 2019	Junya Ito (Japan)	Striker	Kashiwa Reysol	Genk	18 month Loan	L’Equipe
February 3, 2019	Pele Mboyo	Striker	Kortrijk	Al-Raed (Saudi Arabia)	Loan	Footnews.be
February 4, 2019	Edon Zhegrova (Kosovo)	Winger	Genk	Basel	Loan	Footnews.be
February 4, 2019	Rai Vloet (Holland)	Midfielder	Free Agent (formerly Frosinone)	St Truiden	Purchase	Walfoot.be

Belgium Beker Van Belgie (January 29-January 30, 2018):

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Union St Gilloise 1 -Mechelen 2 (Laurent Lemoine (own goal) 90 / Igor De Camargo 30, Clement Taimomnt 64)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

Ostend 2-Gent 2 (Tom De Sutter 8, Fashion Sakala 31 / Alexander Sorloth 84, Roman Bezus 90) (Gent won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

First Division A League Matchday (February 1-February 3, 2019):

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Mouscron 3-Charleroi 0 (Mergim Vojvoda 38, Sidney Friede 60, Marko Bakic 73)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

Ostend 0-Antwerp 2(Ivo Rodrigues 4, Geoffry Hairemans 90)

Kortrijk 2-Lokeren 1 (Felipe Avenatti 44, Jovan Stojanovic 90 / Anton Saroka 49)

Zulte-Waregem 3-Cercle Brugge 2 (Hamdi Harbaoui 14, Nill De Pauw 40, Idrissa Sykka 83 / Gianni Bruno 25, Irvin Cardona 65)

Waasland-Beveren 1-Genk 2 (Aleksandar Boljevic 11 / Mbwana Samatta 60, Alejandro Pozuelao 85)

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

Club Brugge 1-Gent 1 (Lois Openda 71 / Jonathan David 18)

Standard Liege 2-Anderlecht 1 (Razvan Marin 22, Paul-Jose Mpoku 89 / Sven Kums 28)

St Truiden 4-Eupen 1  (Daichi Kamada 19, Yohan Boli 36, 80, Alexis De Sart 90 / Yula Toyokawa 9)

Top Goalscorer:

Ally Samatta (Genk) 16 goals

Nany Dimata (Anderlecht) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Genk	24	16	6	2	55	24	31	54
2	Club Brugge	24	13	6	5	51	25	26	45
3	Antwerp	24	13	6	5	35	26	9	45
4	Standard Liege	24	12	7	5	38	25	13	43
5	St Truiden	24	10	9	5	40	29	11	39
6	Gent	24	11	5	8	43	39	4	38

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Diary (extra):

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

-The Comoros Federation has lodged an appeal to CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) over the participation of Cameroon in the 2019 African Nations Cup. They believe after Cameroon should be withdrawn after having given up hosting rights for the Tournament. (Source BBC Football online)

-The ban on Zambian former player and now administrator, Kaluhs Bwalya, has been reduced and his fine has also been reduced on appeal. (Source BBC Football online)

Wednesday, January 30, 2019:

-Former Danish Referee Peter Mikkelsen has passed away aged 59. (Source Wikipeia Online)

Thursday, January 31, 2019:

-United Arab Emirates are caliming that their opponents Qatar used an inelligible player (Almoez Ali)in their Asian Nations Cup match . (Source AS.com online)

-Former Mexican goalkeeper from the 80s and 90s, Pablo Larios passed away aged 58. (Source Wikipedia Online)

-Former Hungarian defender from the 50s into the 70s, Kalman Ilhasz passed away aged 77. (Source Wikipedia Online)

Friday, February 1, 2019:

-Qatar were victors of the Asian Nations Cup. Their striker Almoez Ali was named as the player of the Tournament. (Source L’Equipe online)

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 3, 2019:

- Hakeem Ali Al-Arabi’s detention in Bangkok has been extended to 60 days so that he may present a defense. He is threatened with extradition to Bahrain. (Source L’Equipe online)

Monday, February 4, 2019:

-Former Guinean defender from the 90s and 2000s, Mohamed ‘Ofei’ Sylla passed away aged just 44. (Source BBC Football Online)

-Former Belarus Footballer and Manager Leu Mazurkevich passed away aged 79. (Source BBC Football Online)

International Friendlies:

Saturday, February 2, 2019:

USA 3-Costa Rica 0 (Sebastian Lletget 80, Paul Arriola 88)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
January 31, 2019	Sebastian Giovinco (Italy)	-	Toronto FC (Canada)	Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia)	Purchase	Football Italia

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club/Nation	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 3, 2019	Aliou Cisse	Manager	Senegal	2-21	L’Equipe

Asian Nations Cup-Semifinals:

Tuesday, January 29, 2019:

Qatar 4-United Arab Emirates 0 (Boualem Khoukhi 22, Almoez Ali 37, Hassan Al haidos 80, Hamid Ismail 90)

Asian Nations Cup-Final:

Friday, February 1, 2019:

Japan 1-Qatar 3 (Takumi Minamino 69 / Almoez Ali 12, Abdulaziz Hatem 27, Akram Afif 83 pen)

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Mircea Radulescu made his debut as Romania manager in a Euro Qualifier win over San Marino.

Germany played as a unified Nation for teh first time since 1942 in a friendly vs. Switzerland. The German squad included former East German players such as Mathias Sammer. Another former East German Andreas Thom scored one of Germany’s goals.

This was a hastily arranged match, initially East and West Germanies were to play one another in November, however due to security concerns the match was cancelled

Emilio Butragueno scored 4 goals in Spain’s (9-0) win over Albania in a Euro Qualifier.

Marco van Basten scored 5 goals in Holland’s (8-0) win over Malta in a Euro Qualifier.

Aldo Serena scored twice in what turned out to be his last match for Italy in a win (4-0) over Cyprus.

Date: December 5, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Bucharest (Bucuresti), Stadionul Lia Manoliu (National) 

Referee: Manfred Rossner (Germany)

Attendance: 24,500

Romania 6-San Marino 0(Ioan Sabau 2, Dorin Mateut 18, Florin Raducioiu 41, Ion Lupescu 57, Pavel Badea 78, Dan Petrescu 85)

Date: December 12, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Los Angeles, California  - Memorial Coliseum, USA  

Referee: Majid Jay (USA)

Attendance:25,000

Mexico 0-Brazil 0(-)

Photo From:  Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 1991 (December 12, 1990, Mexico 0-Brazil 0)

Date: December 12, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Casablanca

Referee: Hansal (Algeria)         

Attendance: 11,000

Morocco 0-Senegal  0 (-)

Date: December 18, 1990

Competition: Friendly (Charity Match)

Venue: Munich (Munchen)-Olympiastadion

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Bayern Munich (Germany) 1-USSR 1 (Radmilo Mihajlovic 76 / Igor Kolivanov 65)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: Peter Shilton Testimonial

Venue: London-White Hart lane (Tottenham Hostpur FC)

Referee: Pietro D'Ellia (Italy)

Attendance:12,181

England XI 4-Italia '90 XI 0 (Gary Lineker 8 pen, Matt Le Tissier 14,Paul Gascoigne 58, Kevin Keegan 82)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Constantine

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Algeria 1-Senegal 0(Haraoui 65)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue:Sevilla -Estadio Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán

Referee: Alphonse Constandin (Belgium)

Attendance:27,600

Spain 9-Albania 0(Guillermo Amor 19, Carlos 22,63, Emilio Butragueňo 30, 57,66, 75, Fernando Hierro 37, Jose Maria Bakero 86)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2333, December 25, 1990 (Emilio Butragueno, December 19, 1990, EC Qualifier, Spain 9-Albania 0)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, December 19, 1990, EC Qualifier, Spain 9-Albania 0)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Stuttgart - Neckarstadion

Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

Attendance:20,000

Germany 4-Switzerland 0 (Rudi Voeller 1, Karl-Heinz Riedle 67, Andreas Thom 74, Lothar Matthaus 85)

Photo From: World Soccer, February 1991 (Germany squad, December 19, 1990, Germany 4-Switzerland 0)

Photo From: Chronik des deutschen fussballs, 2005 (Germany squad, December 19, 1990, Germany 4-Switzerland 0)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2333, December 25, 1990 (December 19, 1990, Germany 4-Switzerland 0)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Volos, Ethniko Stadia

Referee: Theodores Kefalas (Greece)

Attendance:8,000

Greece 1-Poland 2(Jiotis Tsalouchidis 9  /  Piotr Soczyński 36 –Roman Kosecki 68)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Valletta - Ta'Qali –National Stadium

Referee: Rolf Blattmann (Switzerland)

Attendance:16,000

Malta 0-Holand 8(Marco van Basten 8,19,23, 64 pen, 81, Aron Winter 52, Dennis Bergkamp 59, 65)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (December 19, 1990, EC Qualifier, Malta 0-Holand 8)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, December 19, 1990, EC Qualifier, Malta 0-Holand 8)

Date: December 19, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: OPorto- Estadio Maia

Referee: Ramos (Spain)

Attendance:2,000

Portugal 1-USA 0(Domingos 8)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 3, March 1991 (December 19, 1990, Portugal 1-USA 0)

Date: December 22, 1990

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Rijeka, Kantrida Stadion

Referee: Gerhard Kapl (Austria)

Attendance:5,000

Croatia 2-Romania 0(Zlatko Kranjcar 24, Srecko Bogdan 49)

Date: December 22, 1990

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue:Lemesós (Limassol)-Tsíreio Stádio (Tsirion Stadium)

Referee: Ivan Gregr (Czechoslovakia)

Attendance:20,000

Cyprus 0-Italy 4(Pietro Vierchowod 14, Aldo Serena 22, 48, Attilio Lombardo 42)

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In the only Euro qualifier, Greece defeated Portugal (3-2).

The Nehru Cup took place with Hungary, Romania B and USSR participating with unoffocial squads. The Romanian side were the vitors.

Only Hungary’s match vs. India was considered an Official match for the European sides.

Note : Zambia vs India result is missing.

For more detail, see:

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/compendium-to-luis-suarez-article-part_68.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/national-team-managers-part-four-luis_87.html

 
 Date: January 11, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: Madhav Gangaya Suvarna (India)

Attendance:-

USSR XI 4-Zambia XI 0 (Oleg Matveyev 14, Sergey Kiryakov 16, 55, Valeriy Popovich 82)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 13, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

India 0-Romania B 3(-)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 13, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 3

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Morocco 3-Ivory Coast 1 (Laghrissi 9, 72, Lashaf 48 / Amadou 77)

Date: January 13, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Ouagadougou

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Burkina Faso 1-Nigeria 1 (Aboubacar 24 / Epko 87)

Date: January 13, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Accra

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Ghana 4-Benin 0 (Prince Opoku 8, 44, Armah 16, Naawu 60)

Date: January 14, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: Adrian Porumboiu (Romania)

Attendance:10,000

Hungary 1-USSR XI 1(Peter Galashek 16 / Sergey Kiryakov 21)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 15, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

China 0-Zambia XI 0(-)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 16, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: Antal Hutak (Hungary)

Attendance:-

Romania B 4-USSR 1(Gabriel Reduce 19, Christian Sava 28, 46, 75 / Alexandr Zakharov 48)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January ??? 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Hungary 2-China 1(-)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 16, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Castellón de la Plana, Estadio Nuevo Castalia

Referee: Arcangelo Pezzela (Italy)

Attendance:12,300

Spain 1-Portugal 1(Gabriel Moya 71 / Oceano Cruz 37)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 25, February 1991 (Roberto, January 16, 1991, Spain 1-Portugal 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 25, February 1991 (Spain squad, January 16, 1991, Spain 1-Portugal 1)

Date: January 16, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Napoli-Stadio San Paolo

Referee: Claude Bouillet (France)

Attendance:18,900

Italian League XI 3-English League XI 0 (Marco Van Basten 26, Careca 28, Diego Simeone 70)

Photo From:  World Soccer, March 1991 (January 16, 1991, Italian League XI 3-English League XI 0)

Date: January 17, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:20,000

India 1-Hungary 2(Pappachan 43 / Tibor Balog 50, Robert Jovan 75)

Note: Official Match

Date: January 18, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Romania B 3-Zambia 1(??)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 19, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: A.K.Mamukkoya (India)

Attendance:-

China 0-USSR XI 2(Mirzhalol Kasymov 62, Sergey Kiryakov 75)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 21, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Romania B 2-Hungary 1(???)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 22, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

India 0-China 1(???)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 23, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Hungary 4-Zambia 1(????)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 23, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Athens-Olympiako Stadio Athinas 'Spyros Louis' (OAKA)   

Referee: Carlo Logni (Italy)

Attendance:30,000

Greece 3-Portugal 2(Stefanos Borbokis 7, Stelios Manolas 68, Jiotis Tsalouchidis 84 / Rui Aguas 18, Paulo Futre 62)

Photo From: World Soccer, March 1991 (January 23, 1991, Euro Qualifier, Greece 3-Portugal 2)

Date: January 24, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: Adrian Porumboiu (Romania)

Attendance:-

India 1-USSR XI 3(Bikash Pandzhi 44 / Sergey Kiryakov 18, 63 pen, , Oleg Matveyev 38)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 25, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Romania B 2-China 0(???)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 27, 1991

Competition: Nehru Cup-Final

Venue: Trivandrum -Shri N. Chandrashekhran Nayar Stadium, India

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Romania B 3-Hungary 1(G.Raduta 24, I.Stan 53, Ion Vladoiu 88 / Váczi 77 pen)

Note: Unofficial Match

Date: January 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 3

Venue: Nouakchott

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Mauritania –Ivory Coast(Mauritania withdrew, 0-2 awarded to Ivory Coast)

Date: January 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 3

Venue: Niamey

Referee: -

Attendance:25,000

Niger 1-Morocco 0(Douka 19)

Date: January 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Cotonou

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Benin 1-Burkina Faso 2 (Bossougbete 43 / Bakadou 9, 22)

Date: January 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Lomé

Referee: -

Attendance:8,000

Togo 0-Nigeria 0(-)

Date: January 29, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: León, Estadio Nou Camp

Referee: Robert Claudent (Canada)

Attendance: 5,261

Mexico 0-Colombia 0(-)

Date: January 31, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Melbourne- Olympic Park

Referee: Christopher Bambridge (Australia)

Attendance:6,854

Australia 0-Czechoslovakia 1 (Ondrej Kristofík 44)

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Bob Gansler was sacked as USA Manager after a loss vs. Bermuda.

Switzerland won the Miami Cup Tournamnet involving hosts USA, Colombia and Bayern Munich as well.

France won a key Euro qualifier vs. Spain (3-1) that virtually eliminated Spain from the Euros.

In a rematch of the previous World Cup Quarterfinal, England defeated Cameroon (2-0).

Alfio Basile made his debut as Argentina Manager in a win over Hungary (2-0).

For More Detail, see:

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2011/07/february-20-1991-france-3-spain-1.html

Date: February 1, 1991

Competition: Miami Cup

Venue: Miami, Florida-Orange Bowl, USA

Referee: -

Attendance:2-

Colombia 0-Bayern Munich (Germany) 0 (-)

Date: February 1, 1991

Competition: Miami Cup

Venue: Miami, Florida-Orange Bowl, USA

Referee: Errol Forbes (Trinidad and Tobago)

Attendance: 10,323

USA 0-Switzerland 1 (Adrian Knup 89)

Photo From:  Soccer International, Issue 5, May 1991 (February 1, 1991, Miami Cup, USA 0-Switzerland 1)

Date: February 3, 1991

Competition: Miami Cup

Venue: Miami, Florida-Orange Bowl, USA

Referee: Errol Forbes (Trinidad and Tobago)

Attendance:5,107

USA 0-Bayern Munich (Germany) 4 (Roland Wohlfarth 25, 38, Manfred Schwabl 39, Roland Grahammer 76)

Photo From:  Photo From:  Soccer International, Issue 5, May 1991 (February 3, 1991, Miami Cup, USA 0-Bayern Munich 4)

Photo From:  Photo From:  Soccer International, Issue 5, May 1991 (February 3, 1991, Miami Cup, USA 0-Bayern Munich 4)

Date: February 3, 1991

Competition: Miami Cup

Venue: Miami, Florida-Orange Bowl, USA

Referee: Raúl Domínguez (USA)

Attendance:5,107

Colombia 2-Switzerland 3 (Anthony De Avila 27, Freddy Rincon 38 / Marcel Koller 43, Beat Sutter 57, 78)

Photo From:  Soccer International, Issue 5, May 1991 (February 3, 1991, Miami Cup, Colombia 2-Switzerland 3)

Photo From:  Soccer International, Issue 5, May 1991 (February 3, 1991, Miami Cup, Colombia 2-Switzerland 3)

Date: February 5, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Swansea, Vetch Field

Referee: Leslie Mottram (Scotland)

Attendance: 4,618

Wales B 0-England B 1 (Paul Davis)

Date: February 6, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Sydney- Parramatta Stadium

Referee: John McConnell (Australia)

Attendance:8,221

Australia 0-Czechoslovakia 2 (Karel Kula60, Alois Grussmann 86)

Date: February 6, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:London-Wembley

Referee: John Blankenstein (Holland)

Attendance:61,075

England 2-Cameroon 0(Gary Lineker 27 pen, 61)

Photo From: World Soccer, March 1991 (Gary Lineker scoring England’s second goal, February 6, 1991, England 2-Cameroon 0)

Date: February 6, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Wrexham -Racecourse Ground       

Referee: Frederick McKnight (Northern Ireland)

Attendance: 9,168

Wales 0-Republic of Ireland 3 (Niall Quinn 24, 67, John Byrne 87)

Photo From: World Soccer, March 1991 (February 6, 1991, Wales 0-Republic of Ireland 3)

Date: February 6, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Belfast, Windsor Park

Referee: Walter Burge (Wales)

Attendance:8,000

Northern Ireland 3-Poland 1 (Gerry Taggart 44, 62, Jim Magilton 51 pen / Robert Warzycha 17)

Date: February 6, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Glasgow - Ibrox Park Stadium (Rangers)

Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

Attendance: 20,763

Scotland 0-USSR 1(Dmitri Kuznetsov 89)

Photo From: Official Match programme, Scotland V. Bulgaria, 1991 (February 6, 1991, Scotland 0-USSR 1)

Photo From: World Soccer, March 1991 (February 6, 1991, Scotland 0-USSR 1)

Date: February 9, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Valettta, Ta’Qali -National Stadium 

Referee: Manfred Neuner (Germany)

Attendance:6,000

Malta 0-Portugal 1(Paulo Futre 26)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2340, February 12, 1991 (February 9, 1991, EC Qualifier, Malta 0-Portugal 1)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2340, February 12, 1991 (February 9, 1991, EC Qualifier, Malta 0-Portugal 1)

Date: February 13, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Terni -Stadio Libero Liberati

Referee: Stavros Zakestidis (Greece)

Attendance:22,000

Italy 0-Belgium 0(-)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo (February 13, 1991, Italy 0-Belgium 0)

Date: February 19, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Rosario-Estadio de Rosario Central. El Gigante de Arroyito

Referee: Juan Carlos Loustau (Argentina)

Attendance:40,000

Argentina 2-Hungary 0(Dario Franco 37, Antonio Mohamed 47)

Photo From: Triunfo Nº264 01-07-1991 (February 19, 1991, Argentina 2-Hunagry 0)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3725, 1991 (February 19, 1991, Argentina 2-Hunagry 0)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3725, 1991 (Argentina squad, February 19, 1991, Argentina 2-Hunagry 0)

Date: February 19, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Cannes (France) 2-Luxembourg 1 (???)

Date: February 20, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue:Paris -Parc des Princes

Referee: Tulio Lanese (Italy)

Attendance:41,174

France 3-Spain 1 (Franck Sauzee 14, Jean-Pierre Papin 58, Laurent Blanc 77 / Jose Maria Bakero 10)

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2342, February 26, 1991 (Jean-Pierre Papin scoring, February 20, 1991, EC Qualifier, France 3-Spain 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 26, March 1991 (France squad, February 20, 1991, EC Qualifier, France 3-Spain 1)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, February 20, 1991, EC Qualifier, France 3-Spain 1)

Date: February 20, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Porto- Estadio das Antas

Referee: John Spillane (Northern Ireland)

Attendance:15,000

Portugal 5-Malta 0(Rui Aguas 5, Leal 33, Vitor Paneira 40 pen, Charles Scerri (Own Goal) 48, Jorge Cadete 81)

Photo From: 100 Melhores do Futebol Portugues, Vol II, Author Rui Dias, 2002 (Portugal squad, February 20, 1991, EC Qualifier, Portugal 5-Malta 0)

Date: February 21, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Avellino (Italy) 1-USSR 2 (????)

Date: February 21, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Hamilton, National Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Bermuda 1-USA 0(???)

Date: February 21, 1991

Competition: Dakar Tournament

Venue: Dakar, Senagal

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Cameroon 0-Algeria 0(-) (Cameroon won 6-5 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: February 21, 1991

Competition: Dakar Tournament

Venue: Dakar, Senagal

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Senagal 0-Ivory Coast 0 (-) (Ivory Coast won 3-1 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: February 22, 1991

Competition: Dakar Tournament-Third Place

Venue: Dakar, Senagal

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Senegal 2-Algeria 2(Diagne 15, Diallo 65 pen / Djanit 66, Rahim 70) (Algeria won 3-1 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: February 23, 1991

Competition: Dakar Tournament-Final

Venue: Dakar, Senagal

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Ivory Coast 1-Cameroon 1 (Onana (own goal) 89 / Belle Belle 65) (Ivory Coast won 3-2 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: February 27, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Bruxelles-Stade Constant Vanden Stock (Brussels - Constant Vanden Stock Stadion)  

Referee: Loizos Loizou (Cyprus)

Attendance: 24,500

Belgium 3-Luxembourg 0(Erwin Vandenbergh 7, Jan Ceulemans 17, Enzo Scifo 36)

Date: February 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Campo Grande - Estádio Pedro Pedrossian

Referee: Wilson Carlos dos Santos (Brazil)

Attendance:32,500 (50,000 in other sources)

Brazil 1-Paraguay 1(José Ferreira Neto 42 pen / Adriano Samaniego 44)

Date: February 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Lemesós (Limassol)-Tsíreio Stádio (Tsirion Stadium)

Referee: Andreas Georgiou (Cyprus)

Attendance:5,000

Cyprus 1-Greece 1(Floros Nicolaou 48 / Dimitris Saravakos 9)

Date: February 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Troia, Portugal

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Finland (Olympic) 2-Faroe Islands 2 (???? / Magni Jarnskor 2 goals)

Date: February 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Smirna , Kemal Atatürk Stadyumu

Referee: Atanas Uzunov (Bulgaria)

Attendance:20,000

Turkey 1-Yugoslavia 1 (Uğur Tütüneker 4 / Dejan Savicevic 51)

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John Kowalski managed USA in interim basis in a number of matches.

England tied Republic of Ireland (1-1) in a qualifier at Wembley.

Spain lost (2-4) in a friendly to Hungary to further weaken Luis Suarez’s position as Manager.

Brazil and Argentina tied (3-3) in a friendly.

France won its fifth straight qualifier in a (5-0) win over Albania.

Date: March 1, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Troia, Portugal

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Faroe island 1-Norway (Olympic) 3 (Kurt Mørkøre / ???)

Date: March 9, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

USA 2-Olimpia Asuncion (Paraguay) 0 (???)

Date: March 12, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Balzers -Sportplatz Rheinau

Referee: Karl-Heinz Tritschler (Germany)

Attendance:2,400

Liechtenstein 0-Switzerland 6 (Heinz Hermann 26, Adrian Knup 27, 33, 69, Kubilay Turkyilmaz 47, Jean-Michel Aebi 89)

Date: March 12, 1991

Competition: North American Championship

Venue:Los Angeles, California  - Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Mario Lopez (Guatemala)

Attendance:5,261

USA 2-Mexico 2(Dante Washington 44, Bruce Murray 89 / Luis Antonio Valdéz 53. Missael Espinoza 75)

Note:

In protest to USA’s sending of a B-team to the last year’s Tournament, Mexico likewise sent a B-team.

Date: March 13, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Buenos Aires-Estadio de Vélez Sarsfield - José Amalfitani

Referee: Ricardo Calabria (Argentina)

Attendance:50,000

Argentina 0-Mexico 0(-)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3728, 1991 (March 13, 1991, Argentina 0-Mexico 0)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3728, 1991 (March 13, 1991, Argentina 0-Mexico 0)

Date: March 13, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Warszawa, Stadion Wojska Polskiego im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego (Polish Army)(Legia Warszawa)

Referee: Antal Huták (Hungary)

Attendance:4,000

Poland 1-Finland 1(Andrzej Lesiak 12 / Mika-Mati Paatelainen 20)

Date: March 13, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue:Rotterdam-De Kuip-Feyenoord Stadion

Referee: Dusan Krchnak (Czechoslovakia)

Attendance: 36,383

Holland 1-Malta 0 (Marco van Basten 32pen)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (March 13, 1991, EC Qualifier, Holland 1-Malta 0)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, March 13, 1991, EC Qualifier, Holland 1-Malta 0)

Date: March 14, 1991

Competition: North American Championship

Venue:Los Angeles, California  - Memorial Coliseum, USA   

Referee: Rodolfo Martínez (El Salvador)

Attendance:6,000

Mexico 3-Canada 0(Luis Roberto Alves 'Zague' 5, 48, Pedro Duana 53          )

Note:

In protest to USA’s sending of a B-team to the last year’s Tournament, Mexico likewise sent a B-team.

Date: March 16, 1991

Competition: North American Championship

Venue: Torrance, California

Referee: Ortiz (El Salvador)

Attendance:4,000

USA 2-Canada 0(Dante Washington 13, Bruce Murray 60)

Photo From:  Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 6, June 1991 (March 16, 1991, North American Championship, USA 2-Canada 0)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Buenos Aires-Estadio de Vélez Sarsfield - José Amalfitani

Referee: Juan Bava (Argentina)

Attendance:40,087

Argentina 3-Brazil 3(Victor Hugo Ferreyra 33, Dario Franco 42, David Bisconti or Own goal (Renato Gaúcho) 45 / Renato Gaúcho 7, Luís Henrique 35, Careca III 86)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3730, 1991 (March 27, 1991, Argentina 3-Brazil 3)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Bruxelles-Stade Constant Vanden Stock (Brussels - Constant Vanden Stock Stadion)

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain)

Attendance:25,000

Belgium 1-Wales 1 (Marc DeGrijse 47 / Dean Saunders 58)

Photo From: World Soccer, May 1991 (March 27, 1991, EC Qualifier, Belgium 1-Wales 1)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Glasgow - Hampden Park

Referee: Erik Fredriksson (Sweden)

Attendance: 33,119

Scotland 1-Bulgaria 1(John Collins 83 / Emil Kostadinov 89)

Photo From: World Soccer, May 1991 (March 27, 1991, EC Qualifier, Scotland 1-Bulgaria 1)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Olomouc, Andrúv stadion

Referee: Alfred Wieser (Austria)

Attendance:12,000

Czechoslovakia 4-Poland  (Pavel Kuka 28, Lubomir Moravcik 41,  Vladislav Pecko 79, Vaclav Danek 82)

Photo From: se Lvickem na prsou-Authors O.Bartunek, J.Kalat (Czechoslovakia squad, March 27, 1991, Czechoslovakia 4-Poland 0)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue:London-Wembley

Referee: Kurt Roghlisberger (Switzerland)

Attendance:77,753

England 1-Republic of Ireland 1 (Lee Dixon 9 / Niall Quinn 27)

Photo From: Football Association of Ireland, 75 Years, Author Peter Byrne, 1996 (Team Captains Bryan Robson and Kevin Moran, March 27, 1991, EC Qualifier, England 1-Republic of Ireland 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 36, January 1992 (Lee Sharpe and Steve Staunton, March 27, 1991, EC Qualifier, England 1-Republic of Ireland 1)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Frankfurt am Main  - Waldstadion

Referee: Michal Listkiewicz (Poland)

Attendance:24,000

Germany 2-USSR 1(Stefan Reuter 65, Lothar Matthaus 81 / Igor Dobrovolsky 83 pen)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №13, March 31, 1991 (March 27, 1991, Germany 2-USSR 1)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №13, March 31, 1991 (March 27, 1991, Germany 2-USSR 1)

Photo From: DNM EM-1992 Duplo (March 27, 1991, Germany 2-USSR 1)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Rabat- Abdellah Stadium

Referee: El Boulalhi (Morocco)

Attendance:10,000

Morocco 0-Greece 0(-)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Santander-Esadio El Sardinero

Referee: Arturo Martino (Switzerland)

Attendance:21,000

Spain 2-Hungary 4 (Manolo 43 pen, Carlos 83 / Jozef Kiprich 42, 75, Emil Lorincz 54,88)

Photo From: http://www.tempofradi.hu/1991-iii-27-spanyolorszag-magyarorszag-24 (March 27, 1991, Spain 2-Hungary 4)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, March 27, 1991, Spain 2-Hungary 4)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belgrade, Stadion Crvene Zvezde (Red Star)  

Referee: Yusuf Namoglu (Turkey)

Attendance: 5,086

Yugoslavia 4-Northern Ireland 1 (Dragisa Binic 36, Darko Pancev 48, 61, 63 / Colin Hill 45)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Serravalle -Stadio Olimpico di Serravalle

Referee: Roger Phillipi (Luxembourg)

Attendance:1,500

San Marino 1-Romania 3 (Waldes Pasolini 26 pen / Gheorge Hagi 16 pen, Florin Raducioiu 44, Daniel Timofte 84)

Photo From: European Football Yearbook, 91-92, Editor Mike Hammond (Romania squad, March 27, 1991, EC Qualifier, San Marino 1-Romania 3)

Date: March 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Tunis-Stade Olympique d´El Menzah

Referee: Maccidi Reşit

Attendance:3,000

Tunisia 0-Turkey 0(-)

Date: March 30, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue:Paris -Parc des Princes

Referee: Einar Halle (Norway)

Attendance: 24,181

France 5-Albania 0(Franck Sauzee 1, 19, Jean-Pierre Papin 34 pen, 42, Blendi Nallbani (Own Goal) 81)

Photo From: Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 27, April 1991 (March 30, 1991, EC Qualifier, France 5-Albania 0)

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Bora Milutinovic made his debut as USA National Team Manager.

USSR won a key qualifier away at Hungary (1-0).

Luis Suarez managed Spain for the last time in a friendly loss (0-2) vs. Romania. Current Spain Manager Luis Enrique made his debut for Spain in that match.

Date: April 3, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue:Lemesós (Limassol)-Tsíreio Stádio (Tsirion Stadium)

Referee: Gerhard Kapl (Austria)

Attendance:3,000

Cyprus 0-Hungary 2(Jozef Szalma 15, Jozef Kiprich 40)

Date: April 3, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Neuchâtel –Stade de la Maladiere

Referee: Gerard Biguet (France)

Attendance: 15,700

Switzerland 0-Romania 0 (-)

Date: April 4, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Annaba

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Algeria 2-Morocco 2 (Lounici 50, Sewrra 84 / Leghrissi 9, 44)

Date: April 5, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Busan, Gooduk Stadium

Referee: Ki-Chul Gil (South Korea)

Attendance:-

South Korea 2-USA 1(Geoun-Jae Lim 30 69 / Peter Vermes 68)

Date: April 7, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Pohang, POSCO Football Stadium

Referee: In-Soo Kim (South Korea)

Attendance:4,000

South Korea 2-USA 0 (Jung-Yoon Noh 44, Jeff Agoos (own goal) 60)

Date: April 7, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Tunis

Referee: -

Attendance:13,000

Tunisia 0-Algeria 0(-)

Date: April 9, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Bratislava

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Czechoslovakia 3-FK Austria Vienna (Austria) 2 (????)

Date: April 9, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Odense -Odense Stadion       

Referee: Frans van den Wijngaert (Belgium)

Attendance: 4,400

Denmark 1-Bulgaria 1(Jes Hoegh 32 / Petar Alexandrov 82)

Date: April 9, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Veracruz, Estadio Luis “Pirata” Fuentes

Referee: Larry Brumis (Canada) or Dave Bruner (Canada)

Attendance:30,000

Mexico 1-Chile 0(Missael Espinoza 34)

Date: April 12, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 3

Venue: Nouakchott

Referee: -

Attendance:8,000

Mauritania 0-Morocco 2(Laghrissi 46, Aziz Bouderbala 66)

Date: April 13, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Lagos

Referee: -

Attendance:23,000

Nigeria 0-Ghana 0(-)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 1

Venue: Conakry

Referee: -

Attendance:41,000

Guinea 0-Cameroon 0(-)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 1

Venue: Bamako

Referee: -

Attendance:4,000

Mali 0-Sierra Leoen 0 (-)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 2

Venue: Tunis

Referee: -

Attendance:35,000

Tunisia 2-Egypt 2(Mahjoubi 44, 87 / A. Ramzi 5, I. Hassan 47)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 2

Venue: Addis Abeba

Referee: -

Attendance:21,000

Ethiopia-Chad (awarded 2-0 to Chad as Ethiopia withdrew)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 5

Venue: Luanda

Referee: -

Attendance:15,000

Angola 1-Zambia 2(Saavedra 62 / Kalusha Bwalya 55, Mbasela 87)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 5

Venue: Mbabane

Referee: -

Attendance:3,500

Swaziland 0-Madagascar 1(Raveloson 16)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 6

Venue: Khartoum

Referee: -

Attendance:7,000

Sudan 1-Kenya 0(Mansour 8)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 7

Venue: Harare

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Zimbabwe 4-Malawi 0(Mc Kop 2 goals, Peter Ndlovu, Chunga)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 8

Venue: Kampala

Referee: -

Attendance:9,000

Uganda 3-Tanzania 2(Musisi 22, 26, 65 / Haule 43, 45)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 8

Venue: Kinshasa

Referee: -

Attendance:18,000

Zaire 2-Gabon 1(Bwana 70, Mukanya 85 / Nzamba 74)

Date: April 14, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Tórshavn, Gundadalur

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Faroe Islands 2-Iceland (U-21) 2 (Kurt Mørkøre 2 goals / ????))

Date: April 16, 1991

Competition: Alessandro Altobelli Testimonial

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Internazionale Milano (Italy) 1-Brazil XI 8  (????)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Vienna (Wien)-Praterstadion

Referee: Zdravko Jokic (Yugoslavia)

Attendance:36,000

Austria 0-Norway 0(-)

Photo From: Österreichs Fußball Länderspiele Chronik 1902 – 1993, Author: Anton Egger (Austria squad, April 17, 1991, Austria 0-Norway 0)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue:Londrina- Estádio Jacy Scaff (Do Café)

Referee: Renato Marsiglia (Brazil)

Attendance:-

Brazil 1-Romania ‘B’ 0 (Moacir 52)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Athens-Nikos Goumas-Nea Filadelfia (AEK)

Referee: Pierluigi Magni (Italy)

Attendance: 3,900

Greece 2-Sweden 2 (Vonderburg (Own Goal) 11, Stefanos Borbokis 83 / Magnus Erlingmark 21, Hakan Mild 61)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Budapest, Népstadion

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Attendance:40,000

Hungary 0-USSR 1(Alexei Mikhailichenko 30)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, №16, April 21, 1991 (April 17, 1991, EC Qualifier, Hungary 0-USSR 1)

Photo From: http://www.tempofradi.hu/1991-iv-17-eb-selejtezo-magyarorszag-szovjetunio-01 (April 17, 1991, EC Qualifier, Hungary 0-USSR 1)

Photo From: http://www.tempofradi.hu/1991-iv-17-eb-selejtezo-magyarorszag-szovjetunio-01 (April 17, 1991, EC Qualifier, Hungary 0-USSR 1)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:San José, Estadio La Sabana

Referee: José Ortíz (Costa Rica)

Attendance:5,000

Costa Rica 0-Mexico 0 (-)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Caceres- Estadio Principe Felipe

Referee: Joao Martins Pinto Correira (Portugal)

Attendance:15,600

Spain 0-Romania 2 (Ion Timofte 46, Gavril Balint 56)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (special thanks to Jose Luis Carbonell) (Spain squad, April 17, 1991, Spain 0-Romania 2)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue:Rotterdam-De Kuip-Feyenoord Stadion

Referee: Jan Damgaard (Denmark)

Attendance:27,000

Holland 2-Finland 0 (Marco van Basten 10, Ruud Gullit 77)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, April 17, 1991, EC Qualifier, Holland 2-Finland 0)

Date: April 17, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue: Warszawa, Stadion Wojska Polskiego im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego (Polish Army)( Legia Warszawa)

Referee: Mircea Salomir (Romania)

Attendance:3,000

Poland 3-Turkey 0(Ryszard Tarasiewicz 74, Jan Urban 81, Roman Kosecki 88)

Photo from: Bialo Czerwoni 1921-2001, Author Andrzej Gowarzewski (April 17, 1991, EC Qualifier, Poland 3-Turkey 0)

Photo from: Bialo Czerwoni 1921-2001, Author Andrzej Gowarzewski (Poland squad, April 17, 1991, EC Qualifier, EC Qualifier, Poland 3-Turkey 0)

Date: April 18, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Qualifiers for Gold Cup)-Preliminary Round

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Nicaragua 2-El Salvador 3 (????)

Date: April 21, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Lomé

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Togo 1-Burkina Faso 0 (???)

Date: April 25, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Qualifiers for Gold Cup)-Preliminary Round

Venue: -

Referee: Melendez (Guatemala)

Attendance:2,000

El Salvador 2-Nicaragua 0 (J.Rodriguez, Diaz Arce)

Date: April 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Lagos

Referee: -

Attendance:20,000

Nigeria 3-Benin 0(Samson Siasia 5, Ekpo 17, Daniel Amokachi 28)

Date: April 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 8

Venue: Daressalaam

Referee: -

Attendance:15,000

Tanzania 1-Zaire 0(Haule 63)

Date: April 27, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 8

Venue: Kampala

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Uganda 0-Gabon 0(-)

Date: April 27, 1991

Competition:Friendly

Venue: Watford, Vicarage Road 

Referee: Keith Burge (Wales)

Attendance: 3,814

England B 1-Iceland 0(Nigel Clough)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 1

Venue: Bamako

Referee: -

Attendance:40,000

Mali 0-Cameroon 2(Ewane 68, Oman-Biyik 86) (abandoned 86^th minute)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 1

Venue: Freetown

Referee: -

Attendance:20,000

Sierra Leone 0-Guinea 1 (S. Touré 33)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 2

Venue: Addis Abeba

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Ethiopia-Egypt (awarded 2-0 to Egypt as Ethiopia withdrew)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 2

Venue: Fort Lamy

Referee: -

Attendance:5,000

Chad 0-Tunisia 0(-)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 5

Venue: Mbabane

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Swaziland 2-Zambia 1(Mambuza 44,  Nkambule 50 /  Makinka 60)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 6

Venue: Maputo

Referee: -

Attendance:38,000

Mozambique 1-Sudan 0(Zainadine 30)

Date: April 28, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 7

Venue: Brazzaville

Referee: -

Attendance:23,000

Congo 2-Malawi 1(Capy 35 pen, 85 / Gelard Phiri 41)

Date: April 29, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Accra

Referee: -

Attendance:40,000

Ghana 2-Togo 0(Nii Lamptey 43, Anthony Baffoe 76)

Date: April 30, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 3

Venue: Abidjan

Referee: -

Attendance:40,000

Ivory Coast 1-Niger 0 (A. Traoré 27 pen)

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Guy Thys managed Belgium for the last time in a Euro qualifier vs. Germnay.

On May 12, 1991, Paul van Himst was officially appointed as Belgium’s national team manager.

On May 8, 1991, Ivan Vutzov resigned as Bulgaria’s National Team Manager.

England hosted the Challenge Cup with Argentina and USSR.

For more detail, see :

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2012/03/may-23-1991-argentina-1-ussr-1.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2016/06/tournaments-part-5-england-challenge.html

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Tiranë (Tirana)- Stadiumi Kombetar ‘Qemal Stafa’

Referee: Carlo Longhi (Italy)

Attendance:10,000

Albania 0-Czechoslovakia 2 (Lubos Kubik 47, Pavel Kuka 67)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Stockholm - Råsunda -Solna Stadion

Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

Attendance: 3,689

Sweden 6-Austria 0(Kennet Andersson 12,34, 87, Stefan Rehn 38, Martin Dahlin 41,59)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Issue 848 (Number 23), June 5-11, 1991 (May 1, 1991, Sweden 6-Austria 0)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Hannover - Niedersachsenstadion

Referee: Zoran Petrovic (Yugoslavia)

Attendance:56,000

Germany 1-Belgium 0(Lothar Matthaus 3)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 35, December 1991 (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Germany 1-Belgium 0)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 35, December 1991 (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Germany 1-Belgium 0)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Sofia- Vassil Levski Stadion

Referee: Karl-Josef Assenmacher (Germany)

Attendance:40,000

Bulgaria 2-Switzerland 3 (Emil Kostadinov 11, Nasko Sirakov 25 / Adrian Knup 58, 85, Kubilay Turkyilmaz 90)

Photo From: L'Equipe de Suisse, Authors Guy Balibouse, Roger Felix, Pierre Tripod, 1993 (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Bulgaria 2-Switzerland 3)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Oslo- Ullevaal Stadion

Referee: Kaj Natri (Finland)

Attendance:7,800

Norway 3-Cyprus 0(Pal Lydersen 49 pen, Tore Andre Dahlum 65, Goran Sørloth 90)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belgrade, Stadion Crvene Zvezde(Red Star)         

Referee: Joël Quinniou (France)

Attendance: 16,477

Yugoslavia 1-Denmark 2(Darko Pancev 50 / Bent Christensen 31, 64)

Photo From: 92 - Europeu 92 – Manil (Yugoslavia squad, May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Yugoslavia 1-Denmark 2)

Photo From: 92 - Europeu 92 – Manil (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Yugoslavia 1-Denmark 2)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue:İzmır -Kemal Atatürk Stadyumu

Referee: Wolf Gunter Wiesel (Germany)

Attendance:20,000

Turkey 0-England 1 (Dennis Wise 32)

Photo From: World Soccer, August 1991 (John Barnes, May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Turkey 0-England 1)

Photo From: Football in Europe, 1990-91, David Clayton and Jan Buitenga (Gary Lineker, May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Turkey 0-England 1)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belfast-Windsor Park

Referee: Michel Piraux (Belgium)

Attendance:10,000

Northern Ireland 1-Faroe Islands 1 (Colin Clarke 44 / Kari Reynheim 65)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Salerno-Stadio Arechi

Referee: Joseph Worrall (England)

Attendance:35,000

Italy 3-Hungary 1(Roberto Donadoni 4, 16, Gianluca Vialli 56 / György Bognar 66 pen)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo - Ottobre 2017 (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Italy 3-Hungary 1)

Photo From: http://www.tempofradi.hu/1991-v-1-eb-selejtezo-olaszorszag-magyarorszag-31 (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Italy 3-Hungary 1)

Photo From: http://www.tempofradi.hu/1991-v-1-eb-selejtezo-olaszorszag-magyarorszag-31 (May 1, 1991, EC Qualifier, Italy 3-Hungary 1)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Cardiff-Ninian Park

Referee: Andrew Ritchie (Northern Ireland)

Attendance:3,656

Wales 1-Iceland 0(Paul Bodin 35 pen)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 7

Venue: Dublin, Landsdowne Road

Referee: John Blankenstein (Holland)

Attendance:45,000

Republic of Ireland 0-Poland 0 (-)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 31, August 1991 (May 1, 1991, Republic of Ireland 0-Poland 0)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 31, August 1991 (May 1, 1991, Republic of Ireland 0-Poland 0)

Date: May 1, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Serravalle -Stadio Olimpico di Serravalle

Referee: Besnik Kaimi (Albania)

Attendance: 3,512

San Marino 0-Scotland 2 (Gordon Strachan 63 pen, Gordon Durie 66)

Date: May 4, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup-Qualifier-Group 5

Venue: Tananarive

Referee: -

Attendance:12,000

Madagascar 0-Angola 0(-)

Date: May 5, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Denver- Mile High Stadium, Colorado

Referee: Antonio Evangelista (USA)

Attendance:35,772

USA 1-Uruguay 0(Peter Vermes 26)

Date: May 7, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Valettta, Ta’Qali -National Stadium

Referee: Edgar Azzopardi (Malta)

Attendance:579

Malta 1-Iceland 4(Hubert Suda 70 pen / Olafur H. Kristjansson 13, 56, Sigurður Grétarsson 17, Andri Marteinsson 85)

Date: May 7, 1991

Competition: Camel Cup

Venue:Los Angeles, California  -Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Arturo Angeles (USA)

Attendance:25,000

Mexico 0-Uruguay 2(Victor Lopez 60, Gustavo Ferreyra 88)

Date: May 8, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 5

Venue: Georgetown, Guyana

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Surinam 1-Aruba 0(????)

Date: May 9, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: León, Nou Camp de León

Referee: Alfredo Gallo

Attendance:-

Club Deportiva Esmeralda León (Mexico) 2-Uruguay 1 (Fabián, Zinzinho / Héctor Rodríguez)

Date: May 10, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 1

Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Puerto Rico 2-Haiti 3(????)

Date: May 10, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 4

Venue: St. Kitts and Nevis

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Cayman Islands 2-British Virgina Islands 1 (????)

Date: May 10, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 5

Venue: Georgetown, Guyana

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Guyana 4-Aruba 1(????)

Date: May 12, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 1

Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Dominican Republic 1-Haiti 1 (????)

Date: May 12, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 4

Venue: St. Kitts and Nevis

Referee: -

Attendance:-

St. Kitts and Nevis 1-Cayman Islands 1 (????)

Date: May 12, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 5

Venue: Georgetown, Guyana

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Guyana 1-Surinam 1(????)

Date: May 12, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 6

Venue: Castries, St. Lucia

Referee: -

Attendance:-

St Lucia 3-Montserrat 0 (????)

Date: May 12, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Preliminary Round

Venue: Panama City

Referee: Ulloa (Costa Rica)

Attendance:10,000

Panama 2-Honduras 0(Dely Valdes 14, Piggot 53)

Date: May 12, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Christchurch -QEII Stadium

Referee: Gary Fleet (New Zealand)

Attendance:8,000

New Zealand 0-Australia 1 (Branko Milosevic 44)

Date: May 14, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 1

Venue: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Puerto Rico 1-Domnican Republic 3 (????)

Date: May 14, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 4

Venue: St. Kitts and Nevis

Referee: -

Attendance:-

St. Kitts and Nevis 0-British Virgin Islands 0 (-)

Date: May 14, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 6

Venue: Castries, St. Lucia

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Montserrat 1-Anguilla 1(????)

Date: May 14, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:San José- Estadio Nacional

Referee: Ronald Gutiérrez (Costa Rica)

Attendance:5,000

Costa Rica 0-Uruguay 1 (Gabriel Cedres 89)

Date: May 15, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Adelaide -Hindmarsh Stadium

Referee: B Monteverde (Australia)

Attendance:6,500

Australia 2-New Zealand 1 (Mike Petersen 46, Aurelio Vidmar 50 / Roberts 75)

Date: May 15, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 2

Venue: Martinique

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Martinique 1-French Guyana 2 (????)

Date: May 16, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 6

Venue: Castries, St. Lucia

Referee: -

Attendance:-

St Lucia 6-Anguilla 0 (????)

Date: May 16, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Belgrade, Stadion Crvene Zvezde (Red Star)        

Referee: Vassilios Nikakis (Greece)

Attendance: 7,745

Yugoslavia 7-Faroe Islands 0 (Ilia Najdoski 21, Robert Prosinecki 24, Darko Pancev 50, 73, Zvonimir Boban 68, Zoran Vulic 74, Davor Suker 83)

Photo From: 92 - Europeu 92 – Manil (May 16, 1991, EC Qualifier, Yugoslavia 7-Faroe Islands 0)

Date: May 16, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue: Helsinki -Olympiastadion

Referee: Rune Pedersen (Norway)

Attendance: 5,150

Finland 2-Malta 0(Petri Jarvinen 51. Jari Litmanen 88)

Date: May 19, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Palo Alto, Stanford Stadium, California

Referee: Robert Sawtel (Canada)

Attendance: 31,761

USA 0-Argentina 1(Dario Franco 33)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3737, 1991 (May 19, 1991, USA 0-Argentina 1)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 1991 (May 19, 1991, USA 0-Argentina 1)

Date: May ??, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 2

Venue: Martinique

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Guadeloupe 1-French Guyana 0 (????)

Date: May ??, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Group 2

Venue: Martinique

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Martinique 3-Guadeloupe 1(????)

Date: May 19, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Preliminary Round

Venue: San Pedro Sula

Referee: Patricio Guevara (El Salvador)

Attendance:21,000

Honduras 3-Panama 0(Vallejo 64, 70, 82)

Date: May 20, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Walsall, Bescott Stadium

Referee: James McCluskey (Scotland)

Attendance: 10,628

England B 2-Switzerland B 1 (David Hirst 2 goals / Frederic Chassot)

Date: May 21, 1991

Competition:England Challenge Cup

Venue:London-Wembley

Referee: Emilio Soriano Aladren (Spain)

Attendance:23,789

England 3-USSR 1 (Alan Smith 16, David Platt 43 pen, 88 / Victor Tatarchuk 9)

Photo From: Футбол - Футбол-Хоккей, No 21---26.05.91 (May 21, 1991, England Challenge Cup, England 3-USSR 1)

Date: May 22, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Salzburg, Lehner Stadion

Referee: Loizos Loizou (Cyprus)

Attendance:13,000

Austria 3-Faroe Island 0 (Heimo Pfeifenberger 13, Michael Streiter 48, Arnold Wetl 63)

Photo From: Österreichs Fußball Länderspiele Chronik 1902 – 1993, Author: Anton Egger (Austria squad, May 22, 1991, EC Qualifier, Austria 3-Faroe Island 0)

Date: May 22, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Serravalle -Stadio Olimpico di Serravalle

Referee: Victor Mintoff (Malta)

Attendance:612

San Marino 0-Bulgaria 3 (Trifon Ivanov12, Nasko Sirakov 19, Liuboslav Penev 59 pen)

Date: May 22, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Dublin -Lansdowne Road      

Referee: Daniel Roduit (Switzerland)

Attendance:4,000

Republic of Ireland 1-Chile 1 (David Thomas Kelly 82 / Fabian Estay 64)

Date: May 23, 1991

Competition:England Challenge Cup 

Venue:Manchester, England- Old Trafford  

Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

Attendance:23,743

Argentina 1-USSR 1(Oscar Ruggeri 44 / Igor Kolivanov 49)

Photo From: EL Grafico, 1991, Issue Number 3738 (Oscar Ruggeri scoring for Argentina, May 23, 1991, England Challenge Cup, Argentina 1-USSR 1)

Photo From: EL Grafico, Issue Number 3738, 1991 (Goycoechea saving Dobovolsky’s penalty kick, May 23, 1991, England Challenge Cup, Argentina 1-USSR 1)

Date: May 23, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Oslo- Ullevaal Stadion

Referee: Brian Hill (England)

Attendance: 4,400

Norway 1-Romania 0(Jan Aage Fjørtoft 27)

Date: May 23, 1991

Competition: Bruno Conti Testimonial

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

AS Roma '82 (Italy) 4-South America XI 3 (?????)

Date: May 23, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group B

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Trinidad and Tobago 7-Dominican Republic 0 (????)

Date: May 23, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group B

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

St Lucia 0-Martinique 0 (-)

Date: May 24, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group A

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Jamiaca 6-Guyana 0(????)

Date: May 25, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group B

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Trinidad and Tobago 1-Martinique 0 (????)

Date: May 25, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group B

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

St Lucia 0-Dominican Republic 0 (-)

Date: May 25, 1991

Competition:England Challenge Cup

Venue:London-Wembley

Referee: Zoran Petrovic (Yugoslavia)

Attendance:44,497

England 2-Argentina 2 (Gary Lineker 15, David Platt 50 / Claudio Garcia 65, Dario Franco 70)

Photo From: World Soccer, June 1992 (Diego Simeone and David Platt, May 25, 1991, England Challenge Cup, England 2-Argentina 2)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 12, December 1991 (Argentina squad, May 25, 1991, England Challenge Cup, England 2-Argentina 2)

Date: May 26, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Tiranë (Tirana)- Stadiumi Kombetar ‘Qemal Stafa’       

Referee: Pietro D'Ellia (Italy)

Attendance:8,000

Albania 1-Iceland 0(Eduard Abazi 55)

Date: May 26, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group A

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Jamiaca 3-Cayman Islands 2 (????)

Date: May 26, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Final Round

Venue: San José, Costa Rica

Referee: Castellanos (Mexico)

Attendance:15,000

Costa Rica 2-Honduras 0 (Gomez 11, Jara 52)

Date: May 26, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Final Round

Venue: San José, Costa Rica

Referee: Vincent Mauro (USA)

Attendance:11,000

Guatemala 0-El Salvador 0 (-)

Date: May 27, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group B

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Martinique 4- Dominican Republic 1 (????)

Date: May 27, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group B

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Trinidad and Tobago 1-St Lucia 2 (-)

Date: May 28, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Final Stage-Group A

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Guyana 2- Cayman Islands 1 (????)

Date: May 29, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Final Round

Venue: San José, Costa Rica

Referee: -

Attendance:10,000

Costa Rica 7-El Salvador 1 (Jara (3 goals), L.Flores (2 goals), R.Gomez (2 goals) / Diaz)

Date: May 29, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Final Round

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:10,000

Honduras 0-Guatemala 0(-)

Date: May 29, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Uberlandia- Estádio Municipal João Havelange (Parque do Sabiá)

Referee: José Roberto Wright (Brazil)

Attendance:25,000

Brazil 3-Bulgaria 0 (José Ferreira Neto  17, 69, João Paulo 25)

Date: May 29, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue: Moskva (Moscow)-Tsentral'nyj Stadion imeni Vladimira Il'yicha Lenina (The Central V.I.Lenin's Stadium)

Referee: Stefan Petrescu (Romania)

Attendance:20,000

USSR 4-Cyprus 0(Alexander Mostovoi 20, Alexei Mikhailichenko 51, Igor Korneyev 84, Sergei Aleinikov 88)

Photo From: Euro-92 (May 29, 1991, EC Qualifier, USSR 4-Cyprus 0)

Photo From: Euro-92 (May 29, 1991, EC Qualifier, USSR 4-Cyprus 0)

Date: May 29, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Radom- stadion Radomiaka

Referee: Heinz Holzmann (Austria)

Attendance: 12,000

Poland 0-Wales 0(-)

Date: May 30, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Semifinals

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Jamaica 2-St Lucia 0(????)

Date: May 30, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)- Semifinals

Venue: Kingston, Jamaica

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Trinidad and Tobago 3-Guyana 1 (????)

Date: May 30, 1991

Competition:Friendly

Venue:Santiago -Estadio Santa Laura

Referee: Iván Guerrero (Chile)

Attendance:4,500

Chile 2-Uruguay 1(Marcelo Vega 63, Aníbal González 80 / Luis Abarca (Own Goal) 89)

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Sweden hosted the Scania 100 Tournament as a dress rehearsal for next year’s Euros. Italy were victorious in thsi Tournamnet involving the Swedish hosts and USSR and Denmark.

Italy’s loss in a Euro qualifier in Norway (1-2) signalled the birth of the Egil Olsen era at Norway while signalling the end of the Azeglio Vicini era in Italy.

Wales won a memorable Euro qaulifier over Germany with an Ian Rush strike.

England went on a tour of Asia and Oceania.

Brazil and Argentina played in a tie (1-1).

Other South American Nations started playig friendlies to prepare for the Copa America in Chile in July.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup kicked off at the end of the month.

For more detail, see :

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2016/09/tournaments-part-6-scania-100-1991.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2012/08/june-5-1991-norway-2-italy-1.html

Date: June 1, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Sydney - Sydney Football Stadium

Referee: Barry Tasker (New Zealand)

Attendance:35,742

Australia 0-England 1 (Ian Gray (Own Goal) 40)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 30, July 1991 (Team captains Gary Lineker and Paul Wade, June 1, 1991, Australia 0-England 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 37, February 1992 (England squad, June 1, 1991, Australia 0-England 1)

Date: June 1, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Boston, Massachusetts-Foxboro Stadium

Referee: Arrowsmith (Canada)

Attendance:4,000

USA 1-Republic of Ireland 1 (Eric Wynalda 68 / Tony Cascarino 57)

Photo From: World Soccer, July 1991 (June 1, 1991, USA 1-Republic of Ireland 1)

Date: June 2, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Third Place

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:27,000

St Lucia 4-Guayna 1 (????)

Date: June 2, 1991

Competition: Shell Caribbean Cup 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Final

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:27,000

Jamaica 2-Trinidad and Tobago 0 (Paul Davis 6, Winston Anglin 49)

Date: June 2, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Preliminary Round

Venue: San Jose, Costa Rica

Referee: -

Attendance:15,000

Honduras 2-El Salvador 1 (Espinoza 2, Machado 58 / Rivera 77)

Date: June 2, 1991

Competition: UNCAF Tournament 1991 (Gold Cup Qualifier)-Preliminary Round

Venue: San Jose

Referee: -

Attendance:16,500

Costa Rica 1-Guatemala 0 (Jara 32)

Date: June 2, 1991

Competition: Kirin Cup (Unofficial)

Venue: Tendo, Yamagata Park Stadium

Referee: Samuel Chan Yam-Ming (Hong Kong)

Attendance:21,000

Japan 1-Thailand 0(Tetsuji Hashiratani 89 pen)

Date: June 2, 1991

Competition: Kirin Cup

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Vasco da Gama (Brazil) 0-Tottenham Hotspur (England) 0 (-)

Date: June 3, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Auckland -Mount Smart Stadium

Referee: Dennis Voutsinas (Australia)

Attendance:17,500

New Zealand 0-England 1 (Gary Lineker 90)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 37, February 1992 (Earl Barrett, June 3, 1991, New Zealand 0-England 1)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: Kirin Cup

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Japan 2-Vasco da Gama (Brazil) 1 (Kazuyoshi Miura, Kazuyoshi Miura / ??)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: Kirin Cup

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Thailand 0-Tottenham Hotspur (England) 2 (??)

Note: Another source shows a date of June 6^th and a score 1-2.

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 4

Venue: Odense- Odense Stadion       

Referee: Mikhail Listkievicz (Poland)

Attendance: 12,521

Denmark 2-Austria 1(Bent Christensen 2,77 / Ernst Ogris 83)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Stockholm - Råsunda -Solna Stadion

Referee: Simo Rukonen (Finland)

Attendance: 12,261

Sweden 2-Colombia 2(Tomas Brolin 33, Kennet Andersson 73 / Freddy Rincon 62, Arnoldo Iguaran 72)

Photo From: 92 - Europeu 92 – Manil (June 5, 1991, Sweden 2-Colombia 2)

Photo From: 92 - Europeu 92 – Manil (Sweden squad, June 5, 1991, Sweden 2-Colombia 2)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 1

Venue: Reykjavik-Laugardalsvöllur

Referee: John Spillane (Republic of Ireland)

Attendance: 5,642

Iceland 0-Czechoslovakia 1 (Ivan Hasek 16)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 31, August 1991 (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Iceland 0-Czechoslovakia 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 31, August 1991 (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Iceland 0-Czechoslovakia 1)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 6

Venue:Helsinki - Olympiastadion

Referee: Brian McGinlay (Scotland)

Attendance: 21,207

Finland 1-Holland 1 (Erik Holmgren 77  / Frank de Boer 60)

         

Photo From: World Soccer, July 1991 (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Finland 1-Holland 1)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees  (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Finland 1-Holland 1)

Photo From: Het Nederlands Elftal, de histoire van oranje, 1989-1995, Authors: Matty Verkamman and Henk Mees (Holland squad, June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Finland 1-Holland 1)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 5

Venue: Cardiff - Arms Park (The National Stadium)

Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

Attendance:37,000

Wales 1-Germany 0(Ian Rush 66)

Photo From: World Soccer, October 1991 (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Wales 1-Germany 0)

Photo From: Chronik des deutschen fussballs, 2005 (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Wales 1-Germany 0)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 3

Venue:Oslo- Ullevaal Stadion

Referee: Mario van der Ende (Holland)

Attendance:27,500

Norway 2-Italy 1 (Tore Andre Dahlum 4, Lars Bohinen 25 / Salvatore Schillaci 79)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Issue 849 (Number 24), June 12-18, 1991 (Norway and Italy squad, June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Norway 2-Italy 1)

Photo From: Guerin Sportivo, Issue 849 (Number 24), June 12-18, 1991 (June 5, 1991, EC Qualifier, Norway 2-Italy 1)

Date: June 5, 1991

Competition: UEFA European Championship Qualifier, Group 2

Venue: Sankt Gallen-Espenmoos Stadion

Referee: Erman Toroğlu (Turkey)

Attendance:12,000

Switzerland 7-San Marino 0(Adrian Knup 3, 82, Marc Hottiger 13, Alain Sutter 29, Heinz Hermann 55, Christophe Ohrel 78, Kubilay Turkyilmaz 90)

Date: June 6, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Lima

Referee: Fernando Chapell (Peru)

Attendance:10,000

Peru 0-Ecuador 1(Ivo Norman Ron 50)

Date: June 7, 1991

Competition: XX President's Cup 1991

Venue: Seoul, Olympic, South Korea

Referee: Gil-Soo Choi (South Korea)

Attendance:1,000

Indonesia 0-Malta 3(Michael Degiorgio 44, 79, Charles Scerri II 76 )

Date: June 8, 1991

Competition: XX President's Cup 1991

Venue: Sowan

Referee: -

Attendance:-

USSR B 1-Australia 2 (??? / Ian Gray, Ned Zelic)

Date: June 8, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Wellington -Athletic Park  

Referee: Lorenc (Australia)

Attendance:8,500

New Zealand 0-England 2 (Stuart Pearce 12, David Hirst 51)

 

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 36, January 1992

(Gary Charles, June 8, 1991, New Zealand 0-England 1)

Date: June 9, 1991

Competition: Kirin Cup

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Vasco da Gama (Brazil) 3-Thailand 0 (??)

Date: June 9, 1991

Competition: Kirin Cup

Venue: Tokyo, National Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance:45,000

Japan 4-Tottenham Hotspur (England) 0 (Tsuyoshi Kitazawa 2, Kazuyoshi Miura 8, 41, Yugi Sakakura 66)

Date: June 9, 1991

Competition: Presidents Cup (Unofficial)

Venue: Daejun, Hanbat Public Stadium

Referee: Tanaka (Japan)

Attendance:3,000

South Korea 3-Indonesia 0 (Ko Jung-Woon 52, Kim Joo-Sung 55, Ha Seok-Joo 82 pen)

Date: June 9, 1991

Competition: XX President's Cup 1991-1st Round Group A   

Venue: Taejon-Taejon Stadium

Referee: Taejon-Taejon Stadium

Attendance:500

Egypt 5-Malta 2(El Sagir 6, Ramzy 21, Yalcin 54, Abdelghami 60, Hassan 84 / Joseph  Brincat 38, Hubert Suda 64)

Date: June 9, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: New Haven, Connecticut-Yale Bowl

Referee: Vincent Mauro (USA)

Attendance:-

USA 0-Juventus (Italy) 0 (Friendly) (-)

Date: June 10, 1991

Competition:XX President's Cup 1991

Venue:Taegu

Referee: -

Attendance:-

USA B 2-Australia 4 (???? / Aurelio Vidmar, Graham Arnold, Ian Gray, Mehmet Durakovic)

Date: June 11, 1991

Competition: Presidents Cup (Unofficial)

Venue: Seoul, South KOrea

Referee: -

Attendance:18,000

Egypt 6-Indonesia 0(Magdy Tolba 9, Ayman Mansour 16, Hossam Hassan 18, Kassed Farouk 46, 60, Mohammed Abdelazim 73)

Date: June 11, 1991

Competition: XX President's Cup 1991-1st Round Group A

Venue: Gwangju - Moodeoung Stadium

Referee: Withaya Wongsmarn (Thailand)

Attendance:18,000

South Korea 1-Malta 1 (Seok-Joo 73 / Hubert Suda 89)

Date: June 11, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Tórshavn, Gundadalur,

Referee: -

Attendance:1,600

Faroe Islands 1-Sweden (Olympic) 2 (Jan Allan Müller / Thomas Andersson 2 goals)

Date: June 12, 1991

Competition:XX President's Cup 1991    

Venue:Pohang

Referee: -

Attendance:-

South Korea B 0-Australia 2 (Graham Arnold, Greg Brown)

Date: June 12, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Kuala Lumpur-Merdeka Stadium  

Referee: Letchumanasamy (Malaysia)

Attendance:45,000

Malaysia 2-England 4 (Matlan Marjan 52,76 / Gary Lineker 1,23, 30,70)

Photo From: World Soccer, July 1991 (Gary Lineker, June 12, 1991, Malaysia 2-England 4)

Date: June 12, 1991

Competition: Scania 100-Semifinals

Venue:Malmö -Malmö Stadion, Sweden

Referee: Bo Karlsson (Sweden)

Attendance:10,000

Italy 2-Denmark 0(Ruggiero Rizzitelli 106, Gianluca Vialli 108)

Photo From : Onze-Mondial, Issue 36, January 1992 (Gianluigi Lentini and John Jensen, June 12, 1991, Scania 100, Italy 2-Denmark 0)

Date: June 12, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Lima- Estadio Nacional José Diaz

Referee: Juan Ramirez (Peru)

Attendance:20,000

Peru 1-Uruguay 0(Jorge Hirano 52 pen)

Date: June 13, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: -

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Faroe Islands 0-Sweden (Olympic) 3 (????)

Date: June 13, 1991

Competition: Scania 100-Semifinals

Venue:Göteborg- Nya Ullevi Stadion

Referee: Peter Mikkelsen (Denmark)

Attendance:25,000

Sweden 2-USSR 3 (Tomas Brolin 4,114 / Sergei Yuran 69, Dimitri  Kuznetsov 94, Igor Korneyev 117)

Photo From : World Soccer, November 1991 (Tomas Brolin, June 13, 1991, Scania 100, Sweden 2-USSR 3)

Photo From : Onze-Mondial, Issue 41, June 1992 (Sweden squad, June 13, 1991, Scania 100, Sweden 2-USSR 3)

Photo From : 92 - Europeu 92 – Manil (USSR squad, June 13, 1991, Scania 100, Sweden 2-USSR 3)

Date: June 13, 1991

Competition: ABC Tournament Cup 1991 (Canada)

Venue: Toronto- Varsity Stadium

Referee: -

Attendance:-

Canada All-Stars 2-AC Milan (Italy) 2 (????)

Date: June 14, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:XX President's Cup 1991, Semi Final

Referee: Witaya Wongsmarn (Thailand)

Attendance: 16,000

South Korea 0-Australia 0 (-) (South Korea won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Date: June 14, 1991

Competition: Copa Paz del Chaco

Venue:Santa Cruz

Referee: Antequera (Brazil)

Attendance:8,000

Bolivia 0-Paraguay 1(Gabriel González 70)

Date: June 1, 1991

Competition: Scania 100-Third Place

Venue:Norrköping-Idrottsparken

Referee: Aron Schmidhuber (Germany)

Attendance:7,849

Sweden 4-Denmark 0 (Martin Dahlin 42, 53, Kennet Andersson 60 pen, Tomas Brolin 68)

Photo From : Onze-Mondial, Issue 31, August 1991 (Jonas Thern and John Jensen, June 15, 1991, Scania 100, Sweden 4-Denmark 0)

Photo From : World Soccer, June 1992 (Sweden squad, June 15, 1991, Scania 100, Sweden 4-Denmark 0)

Date: June 16, 1991

Competition: Presidents Cup

Venue: Seoul

Referee: -

Attendance:22,000

South Korea 32-Egypt 0 (Ha Suk-joo 41, 89)

Date: June 16, 1991

Competition: Copa Paz del Chaco

Venue:Asuncion

Referee: Efiginio Verdun

Attendance:5,000

Paraguay 0-Bolivia 0(-)

Date: June 16, 1991

Competition: Scania 100-Final

Venue:Stockholm - Råsunda -Solna Stadion, Sweden

Referee: George Courtney (England)

Attendance:10,000

Italy 1-USSR 1 (Giuseppe Giannini 43 / Igor Korneyev 2) (Penalty kick shootout : 4-3)

Photo From : World Soccer, July 1991 (Rizzitelli, June 16, 1991, Scania 100, Italy 1-USSR 1)

Photo From : Onze-Mondial, Issue 41, June 1992 (USSR squad, June 16, 1991, Scania 100, Italy 1-USSR 1)

Date: June 16, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Chicao, Illinois-Soldier Field

Referee: Cummings (USA) 

Attendance:41,572

USA 1-AC Milan (Italy) 1 (Hugo Perez 51 / Marco van Basten 62)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 1991 (June 16, 1991,  USA 1-AC Milan (Italy) 1)

Photo From: World Soccer, December 1991 (June 16, 1991,  USA 1-AC Milan (Italy) 1)

Date: June 19, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Guayaquil, Estadio Modelo

Referee: Luis Navarro (Ecuador)

Attendance:35,000

Ecuador 2-Chile 1 (Juan Carlos Garay 7, José Guerrero 70 / Jaime Vera 10 pen)

Note: Venue also reported as Quito

Date: June 19, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Morska Sabota-Gradski Stadion

Referee: Igor Bucar (Slovenia)

Attendance:4,000

Slovenia 0-Croatia 1(Fabijan Komljenovic 65)

Date: June 20, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Montevideo- Estadio Centenario

Referee: Roberto Otello (Uruguay)

Attendance:12,000

Uruguay 0-Peru 0(-)

Date: June 24, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue: Roberto Otello (Uruguay)

Referee: -

Attendance:234

Faroe Islands 3-Shetland Islands 0 (Jens Erik Rasmussen, Magni Jarnskor, Kurt Mørkøre)

Date: June 25, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: San Jose

Referee: -

Attendance:5,000

Costa Rica 0-Colombia 1 (Anthony De Avila 28)

Date: June 25, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Guayaquil or Quito

Referee: -

Attendance:10,000

Ecuador 2-Peru 2(Nixon Carcelén, Carlos Muñoz / Jorge Hirano, Martín Rodríguez)

Note: In another source, Quito is listed as the venue

Date: June 25, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue:Åland, Hammarvallen

Referee: -

Attendance:395

Faroe Islands 3-Greenland 2 (Jens Erik Rasmussen 2, Magni Jarnskor / G. Jørgensen, K. Kreutzmann)

Date: June 26, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Montevideo- Estadio Centenario

Referee: Jorge Nieves (Uruguay)

Attendance:6,000

Uruguay 2-Chile 1(Henry Lopez Baez 11, Peter Mendez 64  pen / Hugo Rubio 15)

Photo From: Triunfo Nº264 01-07-1991 (June 26, 1991, Uruguay 2-Chile 1)

Date: June 26, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue:Åland, Mariehamn

Referee: -

Attendance:650

Faroe Islands 5-Jersey 3 (Kári Reynheim, Albert Ari Thomassen, Jens Erik Rasmussen 2 goals, Jan Dam pen / A. Grieg 3 goals))

Date: June 27, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Curitiba- Estádio Centro Poliesportivo Pinheirão     

Referee: Wilson Carlos dos Santos (Brazil)

Attendance:44,429

Brazil 1-Argentina 1 (José Ferreira Neto  57 pen / Claudio Caniggia 50)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3743, 1991 (June 27, 1991, Brazil 1-Argentina 1)

Date: June 28, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group A

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Arturo Angeles (USA)

Attendance: 13, 374

Canada 2-Honduras 4(Dale Mitchell 66, 80 / Eduardo Bennett 28 pen, Juan Carlos Espinoza 34, Luis Enrique Calix 41, Eugenio Dolmo Flores 51)

Date: June 28, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group A

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Arlington Success (Antigua/Barbuda)

Attendance:35,000

Mexico 4-Jamaica 1(Benjamín Galindo 28 pen, 55 pen, Luis Roberto Alves 'Zague' 39, Carlos Hermosillo 59 / Roderick Reid 39)

Date: June 29, 1991

Competition: Friendly (Unofficial)

Venue:Åland, Mariehamn

Referee: -

Attendance:3,500

Faroe Islands 2-Ynys Mon 0 (Jens Erik Rasmussen, Eyðfinn Davidsen)

Date: June 29, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group B

Venue: Pasadena, Califronia-Rose Bowl, USA

Referee: Mike Siefert (Canada)

Attendance: 18, 435

Costa Rica 2-Guatemala 0 (Róger Gomez 14, Leonidas Flores 17)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 1991 (June 29, 1991, Gold Cup, Costa Rica 2-Guatemala 0)

Date: June 29, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group B

Venue: Pasadena, Califronia-Rose Bowl, USA

Referee: Ortiz (El Salvador)

Attendance: 18,435

USA 2-Trinidad and Tobago 1 (Bruce Murray 85, Marcelo Balboa 87 / Leonson Lewis 67)

Date: June 29, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group A

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Errol Forbes (Trinidad and Tobago)

Attendance: 4, 797

Honduras 5-Jamaica 0 (Luis Enrique Calix 27, 51, Marco Anariba 31, Eduardo Bennett 69, Gilberto Yearwood 89)

Date: June 29, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group A

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Ronald Gutiérrez (Costa Rica)

Attendance: 4, 797

Mexico 3-Canada 1 (Carlos Hermosillo 4, José Manuel de la Torre 40, Benjamín Galindo 89 pen / Jamie Lowery 83)

Date: June 30, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue:Santiago -Estadio Nacional

Referee: Carlos Robles (Chile)

Attendance:40,000

Chile 3-Ecuador 1 (Hugo Rubio 7, 26, Ivan Zamorano 44 / Alex Aguinaga 49)

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Argentina with its new star Gabriel Batistuta were victorious in Copa America.

USA won the Gold Cup on home soil with its new Manager Bora Milutinovic.

For more detail, see :

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2018/03/compendium-to-paulo-roberto-falcao-era_19.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/copa-america-part-4-1991.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/copa-america-1991-compendium-part-2.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/copa-america-1991-compendium-part-3.html

http://soccernostalgia.blogspot.com/2017/07/copa-america-1991-compendium-part-4.html

Date: July 1, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group B

Venue: Pasadena, California-Rose Bowl, USA

Referee: Arlington Success (Antigua)

Attendance: 6,344

USA 3-Guatemala 0(Bruce Murray 11, Brian Quinn 46, Eric Wynalda 52)

Photo From: World Soccer, August 1991 (July 1, 1991, Gold Cup, USA 3-Guatemala 0)

Date: July 1, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group B

Venue: Pasadena, California-Rose Bowl, USA

Referee: Arlington Success (Antigua)

Attendance: 6,344

Trinidad and Tobago 2-Costa Rica 1 (Leonson Lewis 38, Alvin Thomas 89 / Hernan Medford 6)

Date: July 2, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Chişinău -Stadionul Republican (Stadionul National)

Referee: A.Gorin (Moldova)

Attendance:7,000

Moldova 2-Georgia 4(Alexandru Spiridon 27, Gheorghe Harea 50 /  Temur Ketsbaia 5, Giorgi Daraselia 13, Mikheil Jishkariani 79; Mikheil Kavelashvili 88)

Date: July 3, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group B

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Jose Fuentes (Honduras)

Attendance: 36,703

Trinidad and Tobago 0-Guatemala 1 (Luis Espel 89)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 1991 (July 3, 1991, Gold Cup, Trinidad and Tobago 0-Guatemala 1)

Date: July 3, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group A

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: José Carlos Ortiz (El Salvador)

Attendance: 36,703

Jamaica 2-Canada 3(Hector Wright 42, Roderick Reid 63 / Dale Mitchell 34, Colin Miller 54, John Limniatis 60)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 1991 (July 3, 1991, Gold Cup, Jamaica 2-Canada 3)

Date: July 3, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group A

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Jay Majid (USA)

Attendance: 36,703

Mexico 1-Honduras 1 (Carlos Hermosillo 67 / Marco Anariba 10)

Date: July 3, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Group B

Venue: Pasadena, California-Rose Bowl, USA

Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)

Attendance: 36,703

USA 3-Costa Rica 2 (Peter Vermes 6, Hugo Pérez 49 pen, Hector Marchena (Own Goal) 59 / Juan Carlos Arguedas 30, Claudio Jara 33)

Date: July 5, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Semifinals

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Arturo Angeles (USA)

Attendance: 41,103

Honduras 2-Costa Rica 0(Eduardo Bennett 37, Eugenio Dolmo Flores 79)

Date: July 5, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Semifinals

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: José Carlos Ortiz (El Salvador)

Attendance: 41,103

USA 2-Mexico 0(John Doyle 48, Peter Vermes 64)

Photo From: World Soccer, August 1991 (July 5, 1991, Gold Cup, USA 2-Mexico 0)

Date: July 6, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile 

Attendance: 45,000 (42, 779 in other sources)

Referee: Armando Pérez Hoyos (Colombia)

Chile 2-Venezuela 0(Eduardo Vilches 22, Ivan Zamorano 34)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3745, 1991 (July 6, 1991, Copa America, Chile 2-Venezuela 0)

Date: July 6, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile 

Attendance: 45,000 (42, 779 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Oscar Ortubé Vargas (Bolivia)

Paraguay 1-Peru 0 (Luis Monzón 21)

(Peru): None

Photo From: France Football, Issue 2362, July 16, 1991 (July 6, 1991, Copa America, Paraguay 1-Peru 0)

Date: July 7, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Third Place

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Errol Forbes (Trinidad and Tobago)

Attendance:39,873

Mexico 2-Costa Rica 0(Gonzalo Farfán 9, Benjamín Galindo 89)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 1991 (July 7, 1991, Gold Cup, Mexico 2-Costa Rica 0)

Date: July 7, 1991

Competition: Gold Cup-Final

Venue: Los Angeles, Memorial Coliseum, USA

Referee: Arturo Brizio Carter (Mexico)

Attendance: 39,873

USA 0-Honduras 0(USA won 4-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 9, September 1991 (July 7, 1991, Gold Cup, USA 0- Honduras 0)

Photo From: Soccer International, Volume 2, Issue 9, September 1991 (July 7, 1991, Gold Cup, USA 0- Honduras 0)

Date: July 7, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Valparaíso, Estadio Playa Ancha, Chile 

Attendance: 15,000 (10,662 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Francisco Escobar Valdez (Paraguay)

Colombia 1-Ecuador 0 (Anthony De Avila 25)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 36, January 1992 (July 7, 1991, Copa America, Colombia 1-Ecuador 0)

Photo From: (Magazine Source unknown) / Contribution From a blog viewer (Colombia squad, July 7, 1991, Copa America, Colombia 1-Ecuador 0)

Date: July 7, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Valparaíso, Estadio Playa Ancha, Chile 

Attendance: 15,000 (10,662 in other sources)

Referee: Carlos A. Maciel (Paraguay)

Uruguay 1-Bolivia 1 (Ramon Castro 73 / Juan Berthy Suárez 16)

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 17, 1991 (July 7, 1991, Copa America, Uruguay 1-Bolivia 1)

Date: July 8, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Concepción, Estadio Regional, Chile 

Attendance: 50,000 (18, 798 in other sources)

Referee: Ernesto Filippi Cavani (Uruguay)

Chile 4-Peru 2 (Hugo Rubio 16,  Jorge Contreras 51 pen, Ivan Zamorano 61, 74 / Flavio Maestri 59, Jose Del Solar 71)

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 24, 1991 (July 8, 1991, Copa America, Chile 4-Peru 2)

Date: July 8, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 50,000 (13, 965 in other sources)

Referee: Milton Villavicencio (Ecuador)

Argentina 3-Venezuela 0 (Gabriel Batistuta 28, 50th pen, Claudio Caniggia 43)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3744, 1991 (July 8, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 3-Venezuela 0)

Photo From: Don Balon (Copa America 1991) (Argentina squad, July 8, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 3-Venezuela 0)

Date: July 9, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 18,000 (5,547 in other sources)

Referee: Gastón E. Makus Castro (Chile)

Uruguay 1-Ecuador 1 (Peter Méndez 49 pen / Alex Aguinaga 44)

Photo From: Photo From: World Soccer, August 1991 (July 9, 1991, Copa America, Uruguay 1-Ecuador 1)

Date: July 9, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 17,500 (5,547 in other sources)

Referee: José Francisco Ramirez Calle (Peru)

Brazil 2-Bolivia 1 (Neto 5 pen, Claudio Branco 47 / Erwin Sanchez 90 pen)

Photo From: World Soccer, August 1991 (July 9, 1991, Copa America, Brazil 2-Bolivia 1)

Date: July 10, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile 

Attendance: 30,000 (68, 215 in other sources)

Referee: José Joquin Torres (Colombia)

Paraguay 5-Venezuela 0 (Gutavo Neffa 34, Carlos Guirland 38, Luis Monzón 75th, 87th pen, Vidal Sanabria 81st)

Photo From: World Soccer, August 1991 (July 10, 1991, Copa America, Paraguay 5-Venezuela 0)

Date: July 10, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile 

Attendance: 75,000 (68, 215 in other sources)

Referee: José Roberto Ramiz Wright (Brazil)

Chile 0-Argentina 1 (Gabriel Batistuta 81)

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 24, 1991 (July 10, 1991, Copa America, Chile 0-Argentina 1)

Date: July 11, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 15,000 (15,448 in other sources)

Referee: Francisco Abreu Faría (Venezuela)

Colombia 0-Bolivia 0 (-)

Date: July 11, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 15,000 (15,448 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Carlos Loustau (Argentina)

Brazil 1-Uruguay 1 (João Paulo 39 / Peter Mendez 66)

Photo From: Don Balon (Copa America 1991) (Mauro Silva, July 11, 1991, Copa America, Brazil 1-Uruguay 1)

Photo From: Don Balon (Copa America 1991) (Brazil squad, July 11, 1991, Copa America, Brazil 1-Uruguay 1)

Date: July 12, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile 

Attendance: 5,000 (13, 876 in other sources)

Referee: Armando Pérez Hoyos (Colombia)

Peru 5-Venezuela 1 (Eugenio La Rosa 9th, 55th, Cesar Eduardo Rodríguez21st, Jose Del Solar 58th , Jorge Hirano 62nd / Miguel Echenausi 14^th)

Date: July 12, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Concepción, Estadio Regional, Chile           

Attendance: 40,000 (10,070 in other sources)

Referee: Ernesto Fillipi Cavani (Uruguay)

Argentina 4-Paraguay 1 (Gabriel Batistuta 40^th, Diego Simeone 61^st, Leonardo Astrada 70^th, Claudio Caniggia 81^st / Jose Cardozo 79)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3745, 1991 (July 12, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 4-Paraguay 1)

Photo From: Historia de la Copa America (Argentina squad, July 12, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 4-Paraguay 1)

Date: July 12, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 2

Venue: Cairo

Referee: -

Attendance:50,000

Egypt 5-Chad 1(H. Hassan 35, 58, Ramzy 57, 60, 80 / Touré 18)

Date: July 13, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Ouagadougou

Referee: -

Attendance:18,000

Burkina Faso 2-Ghana 1(Ilboudo 21,  Gnimassou 87 /  Teteh 17)

Date: July 13, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 19,000 (15,583 in other sources)

Referee: Gastón E. Makus Castro (Chile)

Ecuador 4-Bolivia 0 (Alex Aguinaga 32^nd,  Ney Raúl Avilés 42^nd, 73^rd, Erwin Ramírez 80^th pen (goalkeeper scored from the spot))

Date: July 13, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 19,000 (15,583 in other sources)

Referee: Carlos A. Maciel (Paraguay)

Colombia 2-Brazil 0 (Anthony De Avilla 35th, Arnoldo Iguaran 66th)

Photo From: Triunfo No 268 29-07-1991 (July 13, 1991, Copa America, Colombia 2-Brazil 0)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 1

Venue: Yaoundé

Referee: -

Attendance:60,000

Cameroon 1-Sierra Leone 0 (Ekeke 80)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 1

Venue: Conakry

Referee: -

Attendance:38,000

Guinea 2-Mali 1(Fodo Camara 17, Abubucar Tit Camara 70 / Kubilay 75)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Lomé

Referee: -

Attendance:20,000

Togo 2-Benin 0(Amegnizin 57, Flawoo pen 70)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 5

Venue: Lusaka

Referee: -

Attendance:50,000

Zambia 2-Madagascar 1(Musonda 20, Bwalya 38 / Henry 49)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 6

Venue: Nairobi

Referee: -

Attendance:20,000

Kenya 1-Mozambique 0(Mwololo 32)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 7

Venue: Harare

Referee: -

Attendance:60,000

Zimbabwe 2-Congo 2(McKop 9, Ndlovu 78 / Makita 40, Ndombe 89)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 8

Venue: Libreville

Referee: -

Attendance:30,000

Gabon 1-Tanzania 0(Anotho 37)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 8

Venue: Kinshasa

Referee: -

Attendance:70,000

Zaire 1-Uganda 0(Balenga pen 75)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 80,000 (67, 902 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Oscar Ortubé Vargas (Bolivia)

Argentina 3-Peru 2 (Diego Latorre 3^rd, Nestor Craviotto 51^st, Claudio García 57^th/ Alfonso Orlando Yáñez 35^th pen, Jorge Hirano 65)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 36, January 1992 (Antonio Mohamed, July 14, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 3-Peru 2)

Date: July 14, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group A

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 80,000 (67, 902 in other sources)

Referee: José Roberto Ramiz Wright (Brazil)

Chile 4-Paraguay 0 (Hugo Rubio 12^th, Ivan Zamorano 15^th, Fabian Estay 63^rd, Jaime Vera 68^th)

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 24, 1991 (July 14, 1991, Copa America, Chile 4-Paraguay 0)

Date: July 15, 1991

Competition: African Nations Cup 1992-Qualifier-Group 4

Venue: Luanda

Referee: -

Attendance:20,000

Angola 1-Swaziland 1 (Felito pen 40 Dance Matse 48)

Date: July 15, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 30,000 (15, 721 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Carlos Loustau (Argentina)

Uruguay 1-Colombia 0 (Peter Mendez 19)

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 24, 1991 (July 15, 1991, Copa America, Uruguay 1-Colombia 0)

Photo From: Libero, issue 9, 1993 (IFFHS) (Colombia squad, July 15, 1991, Copa America, Uruguay 1-Colombia 0)

Date: July 15, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Group B

Venue: Viña del Mar, Estádio Sausalito, Chile 

Attendance: 19,000 (15, 721 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Francisco Escobar Valdez (Paraguay)

Brazil 3-Ecuador 1 (Mazinho II 8^th, Márcio Santos 54^th, Luís Henrique 89^th/ Carlos Muñoz 12)

 

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 24, 1991

(July 15, 1991, Copa America, Brazil 3-Ecuador 1)

Date: July 15, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Torshavn-Gundadalur

Referee: Bo Karlson (Sweden)

Attendance: 4,500

Faroe Islands 1-Turkey 1 (Toddi Johnsson 50 / Hami Mandıralı 75)

Date: July 17, 1991

Competition: Friendly

Venue: Reykjavík, Laugardalsvöllur

Referee: Anders Frisk (Sweden)

Attendance:5,000

Iceland 5-Turkey 1(Arnar Gretarsson 2, Arnor Gudjohnsen 24, 34, 44 64 / Ünal Karaman 14)

Date: July 17, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Final Round

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 65,000 (44,005 in other sources)

Referee: Carlos A. Maciel (Paraguay)

Argentina 3-Brazil 2 (Dario Franco 1st, 40th, Gabriel Batistuta 46th / Claudio Branco 6th, João Paulo 53rd)

Photo From: World Soccer, July 1993  (July 17, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 3-Brazil 2)

Photo From: Libero, issue 9, 1993 (IFFHS) (Brazil and Argentina squads, July 17, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 3-Brazil 2)

 Date: July 17, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Final Round

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 65,000 (44,005 in other sources)

Referee: Ernesto Cavani Filippi (Uruguay)

Chile 1-Colombia 1 (Ivan Zamorano 74  / Arnoldo Iguarán 37)

Photo From: Don Balon (Copa America 1991) (Carlos Valderrama and Jaime Pizarro, July 17, 1991, Copa America, Chile 1-Colombia 1)

Photo From: Libero, issue 9, 1993 (IFFHS) (Chile squad, July 17, 1991, Copa America, Chile 1-Colombia 1)

Date: July 19, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Final Round

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 65,000 (37, 612 in other sources)

Referee: Ernesto Fillipi Cavani (Uruguay)

Chile 0-Argentina 0 (-)

Photo From: Historia de la Copa America (July 19, 1991, Copa America, Chile 0-Argentina 0)

Date: July 19, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Final Round

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 65,000 (37, 612 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Francisco Ramirez (Peru)

Brazil 2-Colombia 0 (Renato Gaúcho 29^th , Branco 61^st pen) 

Photo From: World Soccer, October 1991 (Ricardo Rocha, July 19, 1991, Copa America, Brazil 2-Colombia 0)

Date: July 21, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Final Round

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 50,000 (45,104 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Oscar Ortube Vargas (Bolivia)

Chile 0-Brazil 2 (Mazinho II 8, Luís Henrique 56)

Photo From: Deporte Total, July 31, 1991 (July 21, 1991, Copa America, Chile 0-Brazil 2)

Date: July 21, 1991

Competition: Copa America-Final Round

Venue: Santiago -Estadio Nacional, Chile

Attendance: 50,000 (45,104 in other sources)

Referee: Juan Francisco Escobar Valdez (Paraguay)

Argentina 2-Colombia 1 (Diego Simeone 11th, Gabriel Batistuta 19th / Anthony De Avila 70th)

Photo From: El Grafico Number 3746, 1991 (July 21, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 2-Colombia 1)

Photo From: Onze-Mondial, Issue 31, August 1991 (Argentina squad, July 21, 1991, Copa America, Argentina 2-Colombia 1)

The Week that was (in Football (Soccer)): Review of the top Leagues in Europe-part 44 (Week of February 5-February 11, 2019)

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I.  England

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-Chelsea have denied Thibaut Courtois’ allegations that he had been promised to leave the club and join Real Madrid in March last year. The club insisted no guarantees had been given to the player. (Source vi.nl online)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-Former West Ham Captain Billy Bonds will have his name on the East Stand at West Ham’s Stadium. (Source BBC Football online)

-French club Nantes have reportedly demanded the transfer fee payment of the missing Emiliano Sala from Cardiff. (Source BBC Football online)

- Sir Alex Ferguspn revealed that he had once tried to sign Paolo Maldini but was refused by his father Cesare Maldini. (Source Daily Mail online)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-Marcus Rashford was named as Manchester United’s player of the month of January. (Source Daily Mail online)

-Florin Andone (Brighton) has been charged with misconduct for apparently elbowing WBA’s Sam Field in their FA Cup match the day before. (Source Sky Sports online)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-Manchester United Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was named as the Premier League Manager of the month for January. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Andre Schurrle (Fulham) was awarded with January goal of the month for his goal vs. Burnely. (Source Daily Mail online)

-Former Wales and Manchester United star Mickey Thomas has been diagnosed with cancer. (Source Walesonline online)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-A statue of David Beckham is set to be unveiled next month outside the stadium of LA Galaxy. (Source BBC Football online)

-Marc Albrighton (Leicester) is set to miss the rest of the season due to injury. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Paul Scholes has been cleared to manage Oldham despite his part ownership of Salford City. (Source Daily Mail online)

-Former English striker from the 60s and 70s, Frederick Pieckering passed away aged 78. (Source Wikipedia online)

-Former Scottish defender from the 60s into the 80s, Ian Ross passed away aged 72. He had spells at Liverpool and Aston Villa among others. (Source Wikipedia online)

-Former Irish midfielder from the 70s into the 90s, Mick Kennedy passed away aged 57. He had spells at Middlesrough and Portsmouth among others. (Source Wikipedia online)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-Paul Scholes was officially named as Oldham Athletic Manager. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) tied Alan Shearer’s Premier League record by scoring his 11^th hat trick in the Premier League. (Source BBC Football online)

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Photo From: L'Equipe, February 9, 2019

(Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Paul Pogba)

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 8, 2019	Phil Jones	Defender	Manchester United	2023	Sky Sports
February 11, 2019	Ashley Young	-	Manchester United	2020	Sky Sports

English FA Cup (February 5-February 6, 2019):

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

Brentford 3-Barnet 1(Sergi Canos 7, Julian Jeanvier 32, Neal Maupay 71 / David Tutonda 74)

Newport 2-Middlesbrough 0 (Robbie Willmott 47, Padraig Amond 67)

QPR 2-Portsmouth 0(Nakhi Wells 70, Matt Smith 77)

Wolves 3-Shrewsbury 2(Matt Doherty 2, 45, Ivan Cavaleiro 62 / James Bolton 11, Josh Laurent 39)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

WBA 1-Brighton 3(Kyle Bartley 77 / Florin Andone 82, Glenn Murray 104, 117)

English Premier League Matchday (February 6, 2019):

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

Everton 0-Manchester City 2 (Aymeric laporte 45, Gabriel Jesus 90)

Top Goalscorer:

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 16 goals

Pierre-Erick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 15 goals

Harry Kane (Tottenham) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester City	26	20	2	4	68	20	49	62
2	Liverpool	25	19	5	1	56	15	41	62
3	Tottenham	25	19	0	6	51	24	27	57
4	Chelsea	25	15	5	5	45	23	22	50
5	Manchester United	25	14	6	5	49	35	14	48
6	Arsenal	25	14	5	6	51	36	15	47

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

English Premier League Matchday (February 9-February 11, 2019):

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Fulham 0-Manchester United 3 (Paul Pogba 14, 65 pen, Anthony Martial 23)

Crystal Palace 1-West Ham 1 (Wilfried Zaha 76 / Mark Noble 27 pen)

Huddersfield 1-Arsenal 2(Sead Kolasinac (own goal) 90 / Alex Iwobi 16, Alexandre Lacazette 44)

Liverpool 3-Bournemouth 0  (Sadio mane 24, Georgino Wijnaldum 34, Mohamed Salah 48)

Southampton 1-Cardiff 2(Jack Stephens 90 / Sol Bamba 69, Kenneth Zohire 90+)

Watford 1-Everton 0(Andre Gray 65)

Brighton 1-Burnley 3(Shane Duffy 76 / Chris Wood 26, 61, Ashley Barnes 74 pen)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Tottenham 3-Leicester 1(Davinson Sanchez 33, Christian Eriksen 63, Son Heung-min 90 / Jamie Vardy 76)

Manchester City 6-Chelsea 0 (Raheem Sterling 4, 80, Sergio Aguero 13, 19, 56 pen, Ilkay Gundogan 25)

Monday, February 11, 2019:

Wolves 1-Newcastle 1(Willy Boly 90 / Isaac Hayden 56)

Top Goalscorer:

Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) 17 goals

Sergio Aguero (Manchester City) 17 goals

Pierre-Erick Aubameyang (Arsenal) 15 goals

Harry Kane (Tottenham) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester City	27	21	2	4	74	20	55	65
2	Liverpool	26	20	5	1	59	15	44	65
3	Tottenham	26	20	0	6	54	25	29	60
4	Manchester United	26	15	6	5	52	35	17	51
5	Arsenal	26	15	5	6	53	37	16	50
6	Chelsea	26	15	5	6	45	29	16	50

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

II.  Italy

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-Croatian striker Mario Mandzukic (Juventus) reportedly turned down an offer to join Chinese side Dalian Yifang. (Source A Bola online)

-Napoli have blocked Marek Hamsik’s transfer to Chinese side Dalian because the payment of the fee did not match the agreed upon fee. (Source Calciomercato online)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 6, 2019	Stefano Sturaro	Defender	Juventus	Genoa	Permanent signing	L’Equipe
February 11, 2019	Aaron Ramsey (Wales)	Midfielder	Arsenal	Juventus	Next Season	Sky Sports

Italian Serie A Matchday (February 7-February 10, 2019):

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

Lazio 1-Empoli 0(Felipe Caicedo 42 pen)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

Chievo 0-Roma 3 (Stephan El Shaarawy 9, Edin Dzeko 18, Aleksandar Kolarov 51)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Fiorentina 0-Napoli 0(-)

Parma 0-Inter 1(Lautaro Martinez 79)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Bologna 1-Genoa 1(Mattia Destro 17 / Lukas Lerager 33)

Atalanta 2-SPAL 1 (Josip Ilicic 57, Duvan Zapata 79 / Andrea Petagna 8 )

Torino 1-Udinese 0(Ola Aina 31)

Sampdoria 0-Frosinone 1(Daniel Ciofani 25)

Sassuolo 0-Juventus 3(Sami Khedira 23, Cristiano Ronaldo 70, Emre Can 86)

AC Milan 3-Cagliari 0 (Luca Ceppitelli (own goal) 13, Lucas Paqueta 22, Krzysztof Piatek 62)

Top Goalscorer:

Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 18 goals

Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) 16 goals

Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa and AC Milan) 16 goals

Duvan Zapata (Atalanta) 16 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Juventus	23	20	3	0	49	15	34	63
2	Napoli	23	16	4	3	42	18	24	52
3	Inter	23	13	4	6	32	16	16	43
4	AC Milan	23	10	9	4	32	21	11	39
5	Roma	23	10	8	5	44	30	14	38
6	Atalanta	23	11	5	7	50	31	19	38

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

III.  Spain

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-Jose Mourinho has agreed a prison term in Spain for tax fraud that is to be exchanged with a fine. (Source BBC Football online)

-Isco (Real Madrid) denied the reports that he had snubbed Chendo at the end of the match vs. Alaves on Sunday. (Source Daily Mail online)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-Valencia are demanding an apology for Getafe President Angel Torres after he made an alleged racist comment about teir player Mouctar Diakhaby in a radio interview. (Source Reuters UK online)

-Barcelona rejected a proposed kit design by Nike that was a white jersey resembling Real Madrid’s. (Source AS.com online)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-Isco (Real Madrid) sent out a tweet suggesting he dies not receive the same opportunities as his teammates at the club. (Source Marca online)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-Real Madrid Manager Santiago Solari responded to isco’s tweet from the day before by saying that a professioanl’s job is to train at 100 percent. (Source Marca online)

-Levante defender Tono has been arrested with seven others accused of extortion. (Source Marca online)

 Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-Luka Jovic (Frankfurt) is being linked with a transfer to Barcelona. (Source Marca online)

-Pablo Insua (Huesca, on loan from Schalke) will be out injured for the rest of the season. (Source L’Equipe online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 6, 2019	Jason	Winger	Levante	Valencia	Pre-contratc, next season	Football Espana
February 7, 2019	Chams Limouri (Morocco) (17 years old)	Midfielder	PSG	Levante	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 11, 2019	Emmanuel Boateng (Ghana)	Striker	Levante	Dalian Yifang	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 11, 2019	Chadi Riad (15 years old)	Defender	Mallorca	Barcelona	Purchase	Football Espana

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 6, 2019	Tono	Defender	Levante	2023	L’Equipe

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 7, 2019	Chams Limouri (Morocco) (17 years old)	Midfielder	Levante	L’Equipe

Copa Del Rey (February 6-February 7, 2019)-Semifinals, First Leg:

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

Barcelona 1 –Real Madrid 1 (Malcolm 57 / Lucas Vazquez 6)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

Betis 2-Valencia 2 (Loren Moron 45, Joaquin 54 / Denis Cheryshev 70, Kevin Gameiro 90)

Spanish La Liga Matchday (February 8-February 11, 2019):

Friday, February 8, 2019:

Valladolid 0-Villareal 0 (-)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Getafe 3-Celta 1 (Jaime Mata 39 pen, 81, Jorge Molina 62 / Nestor Araujo 2)

Atletico Madrid 1-Real Madrid 3 (Antoine Griezmann 25 / Casemiro 16, Sergio Ramos 43 pen, Gareth Bale 74)

Espanyol 2-Vallecano 1 (Borja Iglesias 72 pen, Sergi Darder 90 / Abdoulaye Ba 33)

Girona 0-Huesca 2 (Ezequiel Avila 35, 40)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Leganes 3-Betis 0(Youssef En-Nesyri 22, 36,66)

Valencia 0-Sociedad 0 (-)

Sevilla 2-Eibar 2 (Wissam Ben Yedder 88, Pablo Sarabia 90 / Fabian Orellana 22, Charles 63)

Bilbao 0-Barcelona 0 (-)

Monday, February 11, 2019:

Alaves 2-Levante 0 (Victor Laguardia 23, Jony 90)

Top Goalscorer:

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 21 goals

Luis Suarez (Barcelona) 15 goals

Cristhian Stuani (Girona) 12 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	23	15	6	2	60	23	37	51
2	Real Madrid	23	14	5	4	40	27	13	45
3	Atletico Madrid	23	12	8	3	33	17	16	44
4	Sevilla	23	10	7	6	38	25	13	37
5	Getafe	23	9	8	6	28	19	9	35
6	Betis	23	9	5	9	26	29	-3	32

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IV.  Germany

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

- Former German defender and Manager Rudi Assauer passed away aged 74. (Source Wikipedia online)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski has hit back at former Germany player Dietmar Hamann who had criticized him. Lewadowski called his comments as ‘flat-out stupid’. (Source AS.com online)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

- Kevin Akpoguma (Hannover) will be out injured for months. (Source Sport Bild online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 6, 2019	Muhammed Kiprit	Striker	Hertha Berlin	Wacker Innsbruck	Loan	Sport Bild
February 7, 2019	Jann-Fiete Arp	Striker	Hamburg	Bayern Munich	Next season	L’Equipe
February 8, 2019	Marco Fabian (Mexico)	Midfielder	Frankfurt	Philadelphis Union	Purchase	Sport Bild

German DfB Pokal (February 5-February 6, 2019):

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

Heidenheim 2-Leverkusen 1(Nikola Dovedan 47, Maurice Multhaup 72 / Julian Brandt 44)

Hamburg 1-Nuremberg 0(Berkay Ozcan 54)

Dortmund 3-Werder Bremen 3 (Marco Reus 45, Christian Pulisic 105, Achraf Hakimi 113 / Milot Rashica 5, Claudio Pizarro 108, Martin Harnik 119) (Werder Bremen won 4-2 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Duisburg 1-Paderborn 3(Cauly 47 / Bernard Tekpetey 52, Kai Proger 61, C.Antwi-Adjej 76)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

Holstein Kiel 0-Augsburg 1 (Michael Gregoritsch 85)

RB Leipzig 1-Wolfsburg 0 (Matheus Cunha 9)

Schalke 4-Dusseldorf 1(Ahmed Kutucu 29, Salif Sane 48, 87, Mark Uth 53 / Rouwen Hennings 71)

Hertha Berlin 2-Bayern Munich 3 (M.Mittelstadt 3, Davie Selek 67 / Serge Gnabry 7, 49, Kingsley Coman 98)

German Bundesliga Matchday (February 8-February 10, 2019):

Friday, February 8, 2019:

Mainz 1-Leverkusen 5 (Robin Quaison 9 / Wendell 5, Kai Havertz 19, Julian Brandt 30, 64, Karim Bellarabi 43)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Dortmund 3-Hoffenheim 3 (Jadon Sancho 32, Mario Goetze 43, Raphale Guerreiro 66 / Ishak Belfodil 75, 87, Pavel Kaderabek 83)

Moenchengladbach 0- Hertha Berlin 3 (Salomon Kalou 30, Ondrej Duda 56, Davie Selke 76)

Hannover 2-Nuremberg 0 (Nicolai Muller 45, 77)

RB Leipzig 0-Frankfurt 0 (-)

Freiburg 3-Wolfsburg 3 (Vincenzo Grifo 37, Nils Petersen 70, Luca Waldschmidt 87 / Jerome Roussillon 11, Wout Weghorst 63 pen, Renato Steffen 74)

Bayern Munich 3-Schalke 1 (Jeffrey Bruma (own goal) 11, Robert Lewandowski 27, Serge Gnabry 57 / Ahmed Kutucu 25)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Werder Bremen 4-Augsburg 0 (Milot Rashica 5, 28, Johannes Eggestein 27, Kevin Mohwald 83)

Dusseldorf 3-Stuttgart 0 (Kenan Karaman 34, Oliver Fink 49, Benito Raman 85)

Top Goalscorer:

Luka Jovic (Frankfurt) 14 goals

Marco Reus (Dortmund) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dortmund	21	15	5	1	54	23	31	50
2	Bayern Munich	21	14	3	4	47	24	23	45
3	M’Gladbach	21	13	3	5	41	21	20	42
4	RB Leipzig	21	11	5	5	38	18	20	38
5	Frankfurt	21	9	6	6	40	27	13	33
6	Leverkusen	21	10	3	8	37	32	5	33

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

V.  France

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-Bordeaux have suspended Yann Karamoh for inappropriate behavior after he fought the club’s Assistant Manager. (Source Goal.com online)

-Former French journalist Jacques Ferran passed away aged 98. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Emiliano Sala’s body has been identified in the wreckage of the found plane. (Source BBC Football online)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-Nantes are set to retire Emiliano Sala’s number nine jersey. (Source RTBF.be online)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-PSG’s Edinson Cavani and Thomas Meunier are set to miss the upcoming UCL match vs. Manchester United due to injury. (Source L’Equipe online)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 5, 2019	Milan Gajic (Serbia)	Defender	Bordeaux	Red Star Belgrade	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 6, 2019	Ole Selnaes (Norway)	Midfielder	St Etienne	Shenzhen FC (China)	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 6, 2019	Antoine Bernede	Midfielder	PSG	Red Bull Salzburg	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 7, 2019	Timo Stavitski (Finland)	-	Caen	RoPS Rovaniemi	Loan	L’Equipe
February 8, 2019	Ferebory Dore (Congo)	-	Free Agent (formerly Angers)	Botev Plovdiv	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 10, 2019	Cheikh M’Bengue (Senegal)	-	St Etienne	Shenzhen FC (China)	Purchase	L’Equipe
February 10, 2019	Alexander Kacaniklic (Sweden)	Midfielder	Free Agent (formerly Nantes)	Hammarby	Purchase	L’Equipe

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 5, 2019	Sofiane Diop	-	Monaco	2023	L’Equipe
February 5, 2019	Wilson Isidor	-	Monaco	2023	L’Equipe

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 6, 2019	Amilcar Silva (19 years old)	Defender	Monaco	L’Equipe

French League Cup (February 5-February 6, February 7, 2018):

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

Croix 0-Dijon 3 (Julio Tavares 5 pen, Florent Balmont 27, Wesley Said 90)

Metz 0-Orleans 1 (Quentin Lecoeuche 20)

Nantes 2-Toulouse 0 (Kalifa Coulibaly 9, Anthony Limbombe 41)

Bastia 2-Caen 2  (Louis Poggi 70, Benjamin Santelli 117 / Malik Tchoukounte 4, R. Casimir Ninga 94) (Caen won 5-3 on penalty kick shoot-out)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

Villefranche Beaujolias 0-PSG 3 (Julian Draxler102, Moussa Diaby 113, Edinson Cavani 119)

Vitre 3-Lyon la Duchere 2 (William Gross 32, Maxime Le Borgne 42, Remi Laurent 90 pen / Jonathan Rivas 8, 22)

Rennes 2-Lille 1 (T.J.Siebatcheu 74, 90 / Nicolas Pepe 65)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

Guingamp 1-Lyon 2 (Alexandre Mendy 88 / Moussa Dembele 7, Maxwell Cornet 49)

French Ligue 1 Matchday (Postponed matches) (February 5, 2018):

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

OM 1-Bordeaux 0 (Boubacar Kamara 42)

French Ligue 1 Matchday (February 8-February 10, 2019):

Friday, February 8, 2019:

Dijon 1-OM 2 (Jordan Marie 18 / Mario Balotelli 56, Lucas Ocampos 74)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

PSG 1-Bordeaux 0(Edinson Cavani 43 pen)

Strasbourg 1-Angers 2 (Snajin Prcic 87 / Wilfried Kanga 35, 55)

Amiens 1-Caen 0  (Moussa Konate 64)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Nantes 2-Nimes 4(Kalifa Coulibaly 15, Majeed Waris 38 pen / Baptiste Guillaume 47, Antonin Bobichon 69, Jordan Ferri 85, Sada Thioub 89)

Toulouse 1-Reims 1 (Max Gradel 81 / Remi Oudin 54)

Montpellier 2-Monaco 2(Gaetan Laborde 66, Andy Delort 90 pen / Gelson Martins 14, Radamel Falcao 82)

Guingamp 0-Lille 2  (Rafael Leao 47, Loic Remy 90 pen)

Rennes 3-St Etienne 0  (Mbaye Ninag 21, Hatem Ben Arfa 87 pen, Adrien Hunou 90)

Nice 1-Lyon 0  (Remi Walter 69 pen)

Top Goalscorer:

Kylian Mbappe (PSG) 18 goals

Edinson Cavani (PSG) 17 goals

Nicolas Pepe (Lille) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSG	22	19	2	1	68	13	55	59
2	Lille	24	14	5	5	41	31	19	49
3	Lyon	24	12	7	5	38	27	11	43
4	Montpellier	23	9	10	4	31	19	12	37
6	OM	24	11	4	9	39	34	4	37
6	St Etienne	23	10	8	6	34	30	4	38

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VI.  Holland

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 6, 2019	Christian Rasmussen (Denmark)(16 year old)	Striker	FC Nordjaelland	Ajax	Next season	vi.nl
February 10, 2019	Mimoun Mahi	Striker	Groningen	FC Zurich	Purcgase	vi.nl

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 5, 2019	Joey Koorevaar	Goalkeeper	Feyenoord	vi.nl
February 6, 2019	Denzel Hall (17 year old)	Defender	Feyenoord	vi.nl

Dutch Eredivisie Matchday (February 8-February 10, 2019):

Friday, February 8, 2019:

NAC 0-AZ 3 (Guus Til 33, 54, A.Gudmundsson 90)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Heracles 1-Ajax 0(Mohammed Osman 17)

Heerenveen 1-PEC 1 (Michel Vlap 30 / Thomas Lam 45)

Feyenoord 4-De Graafschap 0  (Tonny Vilhena 28, Calvin Verdonk 52, Jeremiah St Juste 54, Jens Toornstra 63)

VVV 2-Willem II 1  (Peniel Mlapa 43, 77 / Daniel Crowley 60 pen)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Fortuna Sittard 4-Excelsior 1 (Lazaros Lamprou 13, 34, Mark Diemers 64, Andrija Novakovich 90 / Ali Messaoud 55)

Emmen 3-Den Haag 2 (Alexander Bannink 6, Sven Braken 24, Anco Jansen 88 / John Goossens 72, Tomas Necid 78)

Groningen 2-Vitesse 1 (Kaj Sierhuis 13, Mo El Hankouri 90 / Oussama Darfalou 34)

Utrecht 2-PSV 2  (S.Van de Streek 7, Gyrano Kerk 38 / Luuk De Jong 58,86)

Top Goalscorer:

Luuk De Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 19 goals

Fran Sol (Willem II) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSV Eindhoven	21	18	2	1	71	13	58	56
2	Ajax	21	16	3	3	73	20	53	50
3	Feyenoord	21	13	3	5	47	27	20	42
4	AZ	21	11	4	6	43	26	17	37
5	Vitesse	21	8	6	7	34	29	5	30
6	Utrecht	21	8	5	8	35	33	2	29

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VII.  Scotland

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

- Former Scottish winger from 60s and 70s, Joseph Victor Fascione has passed away aged 74. (Source Wikipedia online)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-

Friday, February 8, 2019:

- Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) was given a three match ban as his appeal failed. He had been sent off in their match vs. Aberdeen. (Source BBC Football online)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 5, 2019	Carlos Pena (Mexico)	Midfielder	Rangers	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	BBC Football

Scottish Premier League Matchday (February 6, 2019):

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

Aberdeen 2-Rangers 4 (Sam Cosgrove 31, 48 pen / Alfredo Morelos 20, 38, James Tavernier 43, Jermain Defoe 90)

Celtic 2-Hibernian 0 (Ryan Christie 24, Oliver Burke 63)

Dundee 2-Kilmarnock 2 (Andrew Nelson 8, 20 / Conor McAleny 18, Chris Burke 54)

Hamilton 2-St Johnstone 1 (George Oakley 68, 79 / Liam Craig 76)

Hearts 0-Livingston 0 (-)

St Mirren 1-Motherwell 2 (Paul McGinn 73 / Jake Hastie 10, Allan Campbell 77)

Top Goalscorer:

Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	25	18	3	4	59	14	45	57
2	Rangers	25	15	6	4	55	20	35	51
3	Aberdeen	25	14	4	7	41	29	12	46
4	Kilmarnock	25	13	7	5	37	25	12	46
5	Hearts	25	13	4	8	31	29	2	43
6	St Johnstone	25	11	4	10	27	32	-5	37

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Scottish FA Cup (February 9-February 11, 2019):

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

East Fife 0-Patrick Thistle 1 (Steven Anderson 61)

Hibernian 3-Raith 1 (Daryl Horgan 22, Vykintas Slivka 38, Mark McNulty 58 / Euan Murray 75)

St Mirren 1-Dundee United 2 (Duckens Nazon 77 / Pavol Safranko 15, Nicky Clark 45)

Kilmarnock 0-Rangers 0(-)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Celtic 5-St Johsntone 0 (Scott Sinclair 3, 54, 89, Scott Brown 9, James Forrest 52)

Hearts 4-Auchinleck Talbot 0 (Christophe Berra 10, Demetri Mitchell 31, Steven MacLean 38, Aidan Keena 86)

Aberdeen 4-Queen of South 1 (Niall McGinn 47, Andrew Considine 63, Sam Cosgrove 67, 73 pen / Stephen Dobbie 50)

Monday, February 11, 2019:

Ross County 2-Inverness 2 (Ross Stewart 55, Joshua Mullin 90 / Aaron Doran 13, Brad McKay 65)

VIII.  Portugal

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes has requested not to be called up by the Portuguese National Team to concentrate on his club and family. (Source A Bola online)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-Portuguese Manager Carlos Queiroz was named as the new Colombia Manager. (Source L’Equipe online)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-It was revealed that a terrorist attack planned during the 2004 Euros was stopped was discovered and stopped. (Source Agonasport online)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-Former Portuguese International from the 60s and 70s, Fernando Peres passed away aged 76. (Source A Bola online)

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 6, 2019	John Schmidt (Brazil)	Midfielder	Rio Ave	Nagoya Grampus (Japan)	Purchase	Maisfuteol
February 9, 2019	Cristian Lema (Argentina)	-	Benfica	Penarol	Permanent signing	Maisfutebol
February 10, 2019	Bruno Paulista (Brazil)	Midfielder	Sporting CP	Londrina (Brazil)	Loan	Maisfutebol
February 11, 2019	Erdal Rakip (Sweden)	Midfielder	Benfica	Malmo	Purchase	Maisfutebol

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 8, 2019	Tiago Sa	Goalkeeper	Braga	2023	Masifutebol

Portugal Cup (February 6, 2019):

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

Benfica 2-Sporting CP 1 (Gabriel Appelt 16, Tiago Ilori (own goal) 64 / Bruno Fernandes 82)

Portugal Primeira Liga League Matchday (February 8-February 10, 2019):

Friday, February 8, 2019:

Moreirense 1-Porto 1(David Texeira 79 / Hector Herrera 90)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Maritino 0-Aves 1 (Mama Balde 20)

Portimonense 0-Rio Ave 1 (Bruno Moreira 31)

Tondela 1-Guimaraes 0(Juan Delgado 56)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Boavista 1-Santa Clara 0 (Rafael Costa 59 pen)

Braga 2-Chaves 1(Dyego Sousa 64, Claudemir 81 / Luis Martins 51)

Benfica 10-Nacional 0(Alex Grimaldo 1, Haris Seferovic 21, 27, Joao Felix 50, Pizzi 54 pen, Ferro 56, Ruben Dias 64, Jonas 85, 90, Rafa Silva 88)

Feirense 1-Sporting CP 3 (Stivan petkov 76 / Antonio Briseno (own goal) 44, Bruno Fernandes 58, 68)

Monday, February 11, 2019:

Setubal 0-Belenensses 0 (-)

Top Goalscorer:

Dyego Sousa (Braga) 14 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto	21	16	3	2	42	12	30	51
2	Benfica	21	16	2	3	57	20	37	50
3	Braga	21	15	4	2	40	18	22	49
4	Sporting CP	21	13	3	5	41	25	16	42
5	Moreirense	21	11	2	8	23	25	-2	35
6	Guimaraes	21	9	5	7	24	20	4	32

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IX.  Belgium

Diary:

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 5, 2019	Geoffrey Mujangi Bia	-	Lokeren	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	RTBF.be
February 5, 2019	Ivan Tomecak (Croatia)	Defender	Club Brugge	Rijeka	Purchase	RTBF.be
February 5, 2019	Nemanja Antonov (Serbia)	Defender	Free Agent	Mouscron	Purchase	RTBF.be
February 8, 2019	Siebren Lathouwers	-	Genk	St Truiden	Purchase	Footnews.be
February 9, 2019	Johan Bjordal (Norway)	Defender	Zulte-Waregem	Valerenga	Purchase	RTBF.be

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 7, 2019	Renaud Emond	Striker	Standard Liege	Undisclosed	RTBF.be

First Division A League Matchday (February 8-February 10, 2019):

Friday, February 8, 2019:

Genk 2-Standard Liege 0 (Mbwana Samatta 68, 87)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

Charleroi 1-Ostend 1(Jeremy Perbet 78 pen / Zarko Tomasevic 90)

Eupen 0-Kortrijk 1 (Felipe Avenatti 43)

St Truiden 2-Waasland-Beveren 1 (Jordan Botaka 18 pen, Kosuke Kinoshita 89 / Francesco Forte 23 pen)

Lokeren 2-Antwerp 1 (Knowledge Musona 33, Marko Miric 67 / Lior Refaelov 90 pen)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

Cercle Brugge 2-Club Brugge 2 (Sofyan Amrabat (own goal) 27, Irvin Cardonna 65 / Wesley 12, Siebe Schrijvers 41)

Anderlecht 0-Zulte-Waregem 0 (-)

Gent 1-Mouscron 2  (Dylan Bronn 60 pen / Taiwo Awoniyi 43, Sidney friede 51)

Top Goalscorer:

Ally Samatta (Genk) 18 goals

Hamdi Harbaoui (Zulte-Waregem) 14 goals

Nany Dimata (Anderlecht) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Genk	25	17	6	2	57	24	33	57
2	Club Brugge	25	13	7	5	53	27	26	46
3	Antwerp	25	13	6	6	36	28	8	45
4	Standard Liege	25	12	7	6	38	27	11	43
5	St Truiden	25	11	9	5	42	30	12	42
6	Anderlecht	25	11	5	9	40	31	9	38

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Diary (extra):

Tuesday, February 5, 2019:

-Arrested since October, Aleksandr Kokorin (Zenit) has apologozied for his actions in a letter. (Source Maisfutebol online)

Wednesday, February 6, 2019:

-Gibraltar’s Federation stopped their online ticket sales system to prevent the Republic of Ireland fans snapping up tickets for next month’s Euro qualifier. (Source Reuters UK Online)

-Australia cancelled a proposed U-23 training camp get together in Thailand in support of jailed refugee Footballer Hakeem Al-Arabi. (Source CNN Online)

-Gianni Infantino is to remain as FIFA President as he is unopposed. (Source Daily Mail Online)

-The pre-trial date of Russian players Pavel Mamaev and Aleksandr Kokorin has been pushed back to February 8^th, 2019. (Source voetbalzone.nl online)

-Former Brazilian goalkeeper from the 60s into the 80s, Jairo do Nascimento passed away aged 72. (Source veja.abril.com.br Online)

-Pim Verbeek has resigned as Oman Manager and retired from the game. (Source FTBL online)

Thursday, February 7, 2019:

-The Slovenian Aleksander Ceferin was re-elected as UEFA President . (Source BBC Footall online)

-Former Northern Ireland International Chris Baird announced his retirement from the game. (Source Sky Sports Online)

-Former Czech Republic defender Tomas Repka has been sentenced to a prison sentence of 15 months after being convicted of fraud (selling a luxury car that he did not own). (Source Sky Sports Online)

Friday, February 8, 2019:

-Ten people were killed during a fire incident at Flamengo’s training center at Rio de Janeiro. (Source Reuters UK Online)

Saturday, February 9, 2019:

-Former USA defender Fernando Clavijo, a member of the 1994 World Cu squad, passed away aged 63. (Source Wikipedia online)

Sunday, February 10, 2019:

-

Monday, February 11, 2019:

-Hakeem Al-Araibi is set to be freed by the Thai Government an dbe on his way to Australia. (Source FTBL online)

-Former Nigeria defender and Federation Secretary-General Taiwo Ogunjobi passed away aged 66. (Source BBC Football online)

-Romanian Manager Mircea Lucescu was dismissed as the Manager of the Turkish National Team. (Source Maisfutebol online)

The Week that was (in Football (Soccer)): Review of the top Leagues in Europe-part 45 (Week of February 12-February 18, 2019)

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I.  England

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-Former England goalkeeper Gordon Banks passed away aged 81. (Source BBC Football online)

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-Declan Rice (West Ham) has plaedged his international future to England. (Sourc extra.ie online)

-Former Manchester United Youth Team Coach Eric Harrison passed away aged 81. He was in charge of the generation of ’92 squad that produced the likes of Giggs, Beckham and Scholes to name a few. (Source Sky Sports online)

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace) is set to contest FA’s charge for making a Nazi salute in a photograph. (Source BBC Football online)

-Wilfred Zaha (Crystal Palace) will miss a match as his appeal against an additional one-match ban failed. (Source BBC Football online)

-Barry Fry has resigned as Peterborough Director after he was fined and banned by the FA for breaking rules against betting. (Source Sky Sports online)

-Jan Vertonghen (Tottenham) was namd as UCL Player of the week. (Source RTBF.be online)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-Sir Alex Ferguson is to manage a Manchester United XI side in a repeat of the 1999 Champions League vs. Bayern Munich. (Source BBC Football online)

-Ashley Cole scored for the very first time in the FA Cup in Derby’s loss to Brighton. (Source Daily Mail online)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-Zinedine Zidane has reportedly set a number of conditions to manage Chelsea, among them the retention of Eden Hazard and a transfer budget of £200 Million. (Source Daily Mail online)

-Leeds were fined £200,000 and given a reprimand for the ‘spygate’ imcident vs. Derby County. (Source Sky Sports online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 16, 2019	Allan Souza (Brazil)	Midfielder	Frankfurt	Liverpool	Loan Return	Sport Bild
February 16, 2019	Allan Souza (Brazil)	Midfielder	Liverpool	Fluminense	Loan	Sport Bild

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 15, 2019	Connor Coady	-	Wolves	2023	Sky Sports
February 15, 2019	Matt Doherty	-	Wolves	2023	Sky Sports

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 13, 2019	Folarin Balogun (17 years old)	Striker	Arsenal	Arsenal.com

English FA Cup (February 15-February 18, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

QPR 0-Watford 1(Etienne Capoue 45)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Brighton 2-Derby 1(Anthony Knockaert 33, Jurgen Locadia 45 / Ashley Cole 81)

Wimbldon 0-Milwall 1(Murray Wallace 5)

Newport 1-Manchester City 4 (Padraig Amond 88 / Leroy Sane 51, Phil Foden 75, 89, Riyad Mahrez 90)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Bristol City 0-Wolves 1 (Ivan Cavaleiro 28)

Doncaster 0-Crystal Palace 2 (Jeffrey Schlupp 8, Max Meyer 45)

Swansea 4-Brentford 1(Luke Daniels (own goal) 49, Daniel James 53, Bersant Celina 66, George Byers 90 / Ollie Watkins 28)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

Chelsea 0-Manchester United 2 (Ander Herrera 31, Paul Pogba 45)

II.  Italy

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-Inter have stripped Mauro Icardi of the captaincy due to his unwillingness to sign a new contract and have handed it to Samir Hadanovic. He has also been left off of Inter’s squad for the upcoming Europa League match. (Source L’Equipe online)

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-Napoli announced agreement for Marek Hamsik’s transfer to Chinese side Dalian Yifang after the payment issue was resolved. (Source Calciomercato online)

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-Adriano Galliani revealed that he tried to sign Kaka upon the takeover of Monza. (Source Football Italia online)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-In SPAL vs. Fiorentina match, VAR was used to disallow a goal since a penalty kick foul had come first at the opposite end (Source Football Italia online)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-Croatian defender Sime Vrsaljko (Inter, on laon from Atletico Madrid) will be out injured for 8-10 months. (Source Calciomercato online)

Photo From: L'Equipe, February 17, 2019

(Mauro Icardi)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Orji Okwonkwo	Striker	Bologna	Montreal Impact	Loan	Football Italia

Italian Serie A Matchday (February 15-February 18, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Juventus 3-Frosinone 0(Paulo Dybala 6, Sami Khedira 17, Cristiano Ronaldo 63)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Cagliari 2-Parma 1(Leonardo Pavoletti 66, 85 / Juraj Kucka 40)

Atalanta 1-AC Milan 3 (Remo Freuler 33 /  Krzysztof Piatek 45, 61, Hakan Calhanoglu 55)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

SPAL 1-Fiorentina 4(Andrea Petagna 36 / Edimilson Fernandes 44, Jordan Veretout 79 pen, Giovanni Simeone 80, Gerson 88)

Empoli 3-Sassuolo 0(Rade Krunic 34, Afriyie Acquah 37, Diego Farias 60)

Genoa 2-Lazio 1(Antonio Sanabria 75, Domenico Criscito 90 / Milan Badelj 44)

Udinese 1-Chievo 0(Lukasz Teodorczyk 85)

Inter 2-Sampdoria 1(Danilo D’Ambrosio 73, Radja Nainggolan 78 / Manolo Gabbiadini 75)

Napoli 0-Torino 0(-)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

Roma 2-Bologna 1(Aleksandar Kolarov 55 pen, Federico Fazio 73 / Nicola Sansone 84)

Top Goalscorer:

Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) 19 goals

Krzysztof Piatek (Genoa and AC Milan) 18 goals

Fabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria) 16 goals

Duvan Zapata (Atalanta) 16 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Juventus	24	21	3	0	52	15	37	66
2	Napoli	24	16	5	3	42	18	24	53
3	Inter	24	14	4	6	34	17	17	46
4	AC Milan	24	11	9	4	35	22	13	42
5	Roma	24	11	8	5	46	31	15	41
6	Atalanta	24	11	5	8	51	34	17	38

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

III.  Spain

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-Barcelona President Josep Maria Bartomeu suggested that Three Spanish Legue matches should be played overseas per season. (Source Reuters UK online)

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-Sergio Ramos played his 600^th match for Real Madrid in their UC L match vs. Ajax. (Source AS.com online)

-VAR was used for the first time in the UCL in a controversial, decision that denied Ajax of a goal vs. Real Madrid. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) appeared to admit that he had earned a yellow card on purpose vs. Ajax, to miss the second leg but be ready for the later rounds. He later denied it. (Source Daily Mail online)

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-UEFA are to investigate whether Sergio Ramos got book on purpose. (Source Reuters UK online)

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-John Toshack stated that Gareth Bale should learn Spanish out of respect for the fans. (Source AS.com online)

-Geoffrey Kondogbia (Valencia) has been charged by UEFA for intentional booking in their Europa League match vs. Celtic. (Source BBC Football online)

 Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-Real Madrid Manager Santiago Solari has weighed in on Sergio Ramos’ intentional booking controversy by saying that the player meant he fotced the foul and not the yellow card. (Source AS.com online)

-Kevin-Prince Boateng was a victim of home robbery while he was playuing for Barcelona vs. Valladolid.. (Source Mirror Football online)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) was sent off for the 25^th time in his career in Real’s loss vs. Girona. This is 20^th dismissal in La Liga, which is a new record in major Euroepan Leagues, breaking Frenchman Cyril Rool’s record of 19 dismissals. (Source AS.com online)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

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Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Joaquin Blazquez (Argentina)	Goalkeeper	Talleres	Valencia	Loan with option to buy	Football Espana

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Robin Le Normand (France)	Defender	Sociedad	2022	Transfer Market web
February 12, 2019	Kevin Rodrigues (Portugal)	-	Sociedad	2022	Maisfutebol
February 14, 2019	Diego Simeone (Argentina)	Manager	Atletico Madrid	2022	AS.com
February 15, 2019	Ernesto Valverde	Manager	Barcelona	2021	BBC Football

Spanish La Liga Matchday (February 15-February 18, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Eibar 2-Getafe 2 (Charles 67 pen, 80 / Jaime Mata 37, Dimitri Foulquier 52)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Celta 1-Levante 4 (Brais Mendez 88 pen / Jose Luis Morales 20, 62, Coke 40, Borja Mayoral 89)

Vallecano 0-Atletico Madrid 1 (Antoine Griezmann 74)

Sociedad 3-Leganes 0 (Mikel Oyarzabal 50, 59, William Jose 75)

Barcelona 1-Valladolid 0 (Lionel Messi 43 pen)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Real Madrid 1-Girona 2 (Casemiro 25 / Cristhian Stuani 65 pen, Portu 75)

Valencia 0-Espanyol 0 (-)

Villareal 3-Sevilla 0 (Alvaro Gonzalez 20, Karl Toko Ekambi 45, Alfonso Pedraza 86)

Betis 1-Alaves 1 (Giovani Lo Celso 15 / Guillermo Maripan 28)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

Huesca 0-Bilbao 1 (Raul Garcia 19 pen)

Top Goalscorer:

Lionel Messi (Barcelona) 22 goals

Luis Suarez (Barcelona) 15 goals

Cristhian Stuani (Girona) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Barcelona	24	16	6	2	61	23	38	54
2	Atletico Madrid	24	13	8	3	34	17	17	47
3	Real Madrid	24	14	5	5	41	29	12	45
4	Sevilla	24	10	7	7	38	28	10	37
5	Getafe	24	9	9	6	30	21	9	36
6	Alaves	24	10	6	8	25	28	-3	36

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IV.  Germany

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

- Nuremberg have dismissed Manager Michael Kollner and Sporting Director Andreas Bornemnann. Boris Schimmers is caretaker Manager. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Thomas Hitzlsperger was named as Technical Director of Stuttgart replacing Michael Reschke. (Source L’Equipe online)

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

- Simon Rhein (Nuremberg) has been banned for three matches for dangerous play against an opponent. (Source Sport Bild online)

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-Bayern Munich have declared themselves out of the running to sign PSG’s Adrien Rabiot. (Source Football Espana online)

-Uli Hoeness revealed that Bayern Munich were thinking of appointing Jurgen Klopp as Manager in 2008 before settling in Jurgen Klinsmann. (Source Daily Mail online)

Friday, February 15, 2019:

- Dusseldorf Manager Friedhelm Funkel cricized Dortmund for their preparations in their match vs. Tottenham. Some had foegotten their passports, while five players were involved in the ‘Hairdresser scandal’ (the night before the match a famous hairdresser had visited their hotel to give the players a haircut). Dortmund Director Michael Zorc asked Funkel to not speak publily about their players. (Source Sport Bild online)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-It was revelaed that Schalke had wanted to appoint Louis Van Gaal as Manager last year, but the Dutchman had turned down the offer. (Source Bulinews online)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-Nuremberg-Dortmund match was stopped twice as fans threw black tennis balls on the pitch in protest against Monday night matches (which is set to be abolished by 2021/22 season). (Source BBC Football online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 13, 2019	Ware Pakia (17 years old)	-	Dortmund	SV Hamburg	Purchase	Sport Bild
February 14, 2019	Caiuby (Brazil)	-	Augsburg	Grasshoppers (Switzerland)	Loan	Sport Bild

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 15, 2019	Tobias Sippel	Goakeeper	Moenchengladbach	2021	Kicker.de

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Jan Boller	-	Leverkusen	Kicker.de

German Bundesliga Matchday (February 15-February 18, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Augsburg 2-Bayern Munich 3 (Leon Goretzka (own goal) 1, Ji Dong Won 24 / Kingsley Coman 17, 45, David Alaba 53)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Schalke 0-Freiburg 0 (-)

Hoffenheim 3-Hannover 0 (Joelinton 4, Ishak Belfodil 14, Kerem Demirbay 80)

Stuttgart 1-RB Leipzig 3 (Steven Zuber 16 pen / Yussuf Poulsen 6, 74, Marcel Sabitzer 68)

Wolfsburg 3-Mainz 0(Maximilian Arnold 4, Wout Weghorst 70 pen, Robin Knoche 76)

Hertha Berlin 1-Werder Bremen 1 (Davie Selke 25 / Claudio Pizarro 90)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Frankfurt 1-Moenchengladbach 1 (Danny Da Costa 45 / Denis Zakaria 82)

Leverkusen 2-Dusseldorf 0 (Kai Havertz 18, Leon Bailey 66)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

Nuremberg 0-Dortmund 0 (-)

Top Goalscorer:

Luka Jovic (Frankfurt) 14 goals

Marco Reus (Dortmund) 13 goals

Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Dortmund	22	15	6	1	54	23	31	51
2	Bayern Munich	22	15	3	4	50	26	24	48
3	M’Gladbach	22	13	4	5	42	22	20	43
4	RB Leipzig	22	12	5	5	41	19	22	41
5	Leverkusen	22	11	3	8	39	32	7	36
6	Wolfsburg	22	10	5	7	35	30	5	35

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

V.  France

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

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Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

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Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-Former Bordeaux defender Benoit Tremoulinas announced his retirement from the game. He had not played in three years due to injuries. (Source Walfoot.be online)

-Vadim Vasilyev has been dismissed as Monaco Vice-President. (Source Maisfutebol online)

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-Colin Dagba (PSG) has turned down an approach from the Benin Federation. (Source L’Équipe online)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-By scoring against Hertha Berlin, Claudio Pizarro (Werder Bremen) became at the age of 40, the oldest goalscorer in the Bundesliga. (Source RTBF.be L’Equipe online)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-Former Senegal and Caen striker Kor Sarr passed away aged just 43. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Kevin Monnet-Paquet (St Etienne) will be out injured for the rest of the season. (Source L’Equipe online)

-Nicolas Pepe (Lille) was named as the player of the month of January. (Source L’Equipe online)

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 13, 2019	Gregory Seric (Franco-Croatian)	Midfielder	OM	FC Zurich	Loan	L’Equipe

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 15, 2019	Mauro Goicoetchea (Uruguay)	Goakeeper	Toulouse	2021	Transfer Market Web

French Ligue 1 Matchday (Postponed matches) (February 13, 2018):

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

St Etienne 2-Strasbourg 1 (Robert Beric 4, Loic Perrin 27 / Nuno Da Costa 73)

Caen 0-Nantes 1 (Valentin Rongier 80 pen)

Top Goalscorer:

Kylian Mbappe (PSG) 18 goals

Edinson Cavani (PSG) 17 goals

Nicolas Pepe (Lille) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSG	22	19	2	1	68	13	55	59
2	Lille	24	14	5	5	41	31	19	49
3	Lyon	24	12	7	5	38	27	11	43
4	St Etienne	24	11	8	6	36	31	5	41
5	Montpellier	23	9	10	4	31	19	12	37
6	OM	24	11	4	9	39	34	4	37

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

French Ligue 1 Matchday (February 15-February 17, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Nimes 2-Dijon 0 (Teji Savanier 28, Antonin Bobichon 83)

Lyon 2-Guingamp 1 (Martin Terrier 15, Nabil Fekir 35 / Felix Eboa Eboa 21)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

OM 2-Amiens 0(Florian Thuavin 19, Mario Balotelli 25)

Monaco 1-Nantes 0 (Gelson Martins 13)

Angers 3-Nice 0  (Stephane Bahoken 44 pen, Angelo Fulgini 47, Cristian Lopez 90)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Bordeaux 2-Toulouse 1(Toma Basic 2, Jimmy Briand 82 / Yannick Cahuzac 70)

Lille 0-Montpellier 0 (-)

Caen 0-Strasbourg 0(-)

Reims 2-Rennes 0  (Boulaye Dia , Remi Oudin 68)

St Etienne 0-PSG 1  (Kylian Mbappe 73)

Top Goalscorer:

Kylian Mbappe (PSG) 19 goals

Edinson Cavani (PSG) 17 goals

Nicolas Pepe (Lille) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSG	23	20	2	1	69	13	56	62
2	Lille	25	14	6	5	41	31	19	50
3	Lyon	25	13	7	5	40	28	12	46
4	OM	25	12	4	9	41	34	6	40
5	St Etienne	25	11	8	7	36	32	4	41
5	Montpellier	24	9	11	4	31	19	12	38

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VI.  Holland

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 13, 2019	Lazar Kojic (Serbia)	-	Fortuna Sittard	FK Radnik	Loan	vi.nl
February 13, 2019	Davy van den Bergh	Midfielder	PSV Eindhoven	Utrecht	Purchase	vi.nl

Dutch Eredivisie Matchday (February 15-February 17, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Den Haag 1-PEC 0 (Giovanni Troupee 45)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

AZ 3-VVV 0(Guus Til 7, Nils Roseler (own goal) 22, Mats Seuntjens 61)

Heracles 6-Fortuna Sittard 0 (Adrian Dalmau 1, 51, 60, 78,  Jesper Drost 55, Kristoffer Peterson 70)

Heerenveen 2-PSV 2(Mitchell Van Bergen 3, Michel Vlap 25 / Gaston Pereiro 59, Donyell Malen 90)

Vitesse 3-Willem II 2  (Bryan Linssen 5, Martin Odegaard 59, Max Clark 79 / Alexander Isak 61, Vangelis Pavlidis 83)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Ajax 5-NAC 0(Dusan Tadic 38 pen, 67, Kasper Dollberg 53, Gervane Kasteneer (own goal) 59, Hakim Ziyech 71)

Excelsior 2-Emmen 1 (Marcus Edwards 62, Dennis Eckert 65 / Michael De Leeuw 59)

Groningen 1-Feyenoord 0(Sven Van Beek (own goal) 26)

De Graafschap 0-Utrecht 1  (Simon Gustafson 76 pen)

Top Goalscorer:

Luuk De Jong (PSV Eindhoven) 19 goals

Dusan Tadic (Ajax) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	PSV Eindhoven	22	18	3	1	73	15	58	57
2	Ajax	22	17	3	3	78	20	58	53
3	Feyenoord	22	13	3	6	47	28	19	42
4	AZ	22	12	4	6	46	26	20	40
5	Vitesse	22	9	6	7	37	31	6	33
6	Utrecht	22	9	5	8	36	33	3	32

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VII.  Scotland

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-Paul Heckingottom was named as Hibernian Manager. (Source BBC Football online)

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Richard Foster	Defender	St Johnstone	2020	BBC Football
February 18, 2019	David Wotherspoon	Midfielder	St Johnstone	2021	BBC Football

Scottish Premier League Matchday (February 16-February 17, 2019):

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Aberdeen 2-St Mirren 2 (Lewis Ferguson 32, Sam Cosgrove 77 / Duckens Nazon 20 pen, Kyle McAllister 61)

Hibernian 2-Hamilton 0 (Florian Kamberi 17, Mark McNulty 39 pen)

Livingston 1-Dundee 2 (Craig Halkett 18 / Andrew Nelson 54, Scott Wright 83)

Rangers 0-St Johnstone 0 (-)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Motherwell 2-Hearts 1 (Jake Hastie 13, David Turnbull 90 / Steven Naismith 37)

Kilmarnock 0-Celtic 1 (Scott Brown 90)

Top Goalscorer:

Alfredo Morelos (Rangers) 15 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Celtic	26	19	3	4	60	14	46	60
2	Rangers	26	15	7	4	55	20	35	52
3	Aberdeen	26	14	5	7	43	31	12	47
4	Kilmarnock	26	13	7	6	37	26	11	46
5	Hearts	26	13	4	9	32	31	1	43
6	St Johnstone	26	11	5	10	27	32	-5	36

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

VIII.  Portugal

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-Former Portuguese International from the 80s, Federico Nobre Rosa passed away aged 61. (Source A Bola online)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 15, 2019	Dankler	-	Setubal	Vissel Kobe (Japan)	Purchase	Maisfuteol
February 15, 2019	Fredy Montero (Colombia)	Striker	Sporting CP	Free Agent	Contract Rescinded	Maisfutebol
February 18, 2019	Nani	-	Sporting CP	Orlando City Soccer Club	Purchase	Maisfutebol

Contract Extensions
Date	Player	Position	Club	Expiration Year	Online Source
February 18, 2019	Bruno Paz	Midfielder	Sporting CP	2023	A Bola

Portugal Primeira Liga League Matchday (February 15-February 17, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Rio Ave 1-Santa Clara 2 (Ruben Semedo 45 / Fabio Vardoso 27, Guilherme Schtettine 64)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Nacional 4-Feirense 0(Sardor Rashidov 12, 54, 67, Bryan Rochez 80)

Guimaraes 2-Portimonense 0 (Mattheus 40, Alexandre Guedes 73)

Porto 2-Setubal 0(Hector Herrera 15, Soares 65)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Belenensses 0-Maritimo 1(Leandro Barrera 71)

Moreirense 2-Tondela 0(David Texeira 44, Bilel Aouacheria 84)

Chaves 1-Boavista 1(Bruno Gallo 44 pen / Fabio Espinho 60)

Sporting CP 3-Braga 0(Bruno Fernandes 34, Bas Dost 50 pen, 68)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

Aves 0-Benfica 3(Haris Seferovic 3, Rafa Silva 37, Ferro 59)

Top Goalscorer:

Dyego Sousa (Braga) 14 goals

Bas Dost (Sporting CP) 14 goals

Haris Seferovic (Benfica) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Porto	22	17	3	2	44	12	32	54
2	Benfica	22	17	2	3	60	20	40	53
3	Braga	22	15	4	3	40	21	18	49
4	Sporting CP	22	14	3	5	44	25	19	45
5	Moreirense	22	12	2	8	25	25	0	38
6	Guimaraes	22	10	5	7	26	20	6	35

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

IX.  Belgium

Diary:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

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Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-Olivier Deschacht’s fine was confirmed by a tribunal in relation to illegal betting case from 2017. (Source RTBF.be Online)

-Stanrad Liege was fined 5,500 Euros for the behavior of its former player Christian Luyindama at the end of the match vs. Anderlecht. He was a fan at the match but at the end he came on the field and with the microphone  shouted “puta Anderlecht”. (Source RTBF.be Online)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-

Transfers
Date	Player	Position	From	To	Type	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Kristal Abazaj (Albania)	Winger	Anderlecht	NK Osijek (Croatia)	Loan with option to buy	RTBF.be
February 18, 2019	Richairo Zivkovic (Holland)	Striker	Ostend	Changchun Yatai (China)	Purchase	Walfoot.be

Profesional Contract
Date	Player	Position	Club	Online Source
February 12, 2019	Ismael Salibari (18 years old)	-	Genk	RTBF.be

First Division A League Matchday (February 15-February 17, 2019):

Friday, February 15, 2019:

Standard Liege 3-Lokeren 1 (Razvan Marin 16, Maxime Lestienne 31, Renaud Emond 69 / Olivier Deschacht 75)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

Kortrijk 1-Charleroi 2(Imoh Ezekiel 48 / Ryota Morioka 66 pen, Jeremy Perbet 90)

Ostend 1-Eupen 1 (Robbie D’Haese 34 / Yuta Toyokawa 77)

Zulte-Waregem 1-St Truiden 1 (Stef Peeters 75 / Yohan Boli 82)

Waasland-Beveren 2-Gent 1 (Maximiliano Caufriez 37, Francesco Forte 84 pen / Giorgi Kvilitaia 90)

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

Club Brugge 3-Genk 1 (Clinton Mata 21, Siebe Schrijvers 37, Ruud Vormer 78 / Mbwana Samatta 77)

Antwerp 0-Anderlecht 1 (Yannick Bolasie 90)

Mouscron 3-Cercle Brugge 0  (Taiwo Awoniyi 46, Selim Amallah 50, Frantzdy Pierrot 90)

Top Goalscorer:

Mbwana Samatta (Genk) 19 goals

Hamdi Harbaoui (Zulte-Waregem) 14 goals

Nany Dimata (Anderlecht) 13 goals

Table	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Genk	26	17	6	3	58	27	31	57
2	Club Brugge	26	14	7	5	56	28	28	49
3	Standard Liege	26	13	7	6	41	28	13	46
4	Antwerp	26	13	6	7	36	29	7	45
5	St Truiden	26	11	10	5	43	31	12	43
6	Anderlecht	26	12	5	9	41	31	10	41

P-Played, W-Win, D-Draw, L-Loss, GF-Goals For, GA-Goals Against, GD-Goal Difference, Pts-Point

Diary (extra):

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

-

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

-

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

-Juan Carlos Osorio has resigned as Paraguay Manager . (Source L’Equipe online)

-Former USSR striker Vitaly Khmelnytskyi passed away aged 75. (Source Wikipedia online)

Friday, February 15, 2019:

-Chile is to join Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay to make a joint bid for thr 2030 World Cup. (Source BBC Football Online)

-Argentinean Manager Eduardo Berizzo is set to be appointed as the new National Team Manager of Paraguay. (Source BBC Football Online)

-Former Russian footballer from 80s into the 2000s, Shamil Isayev passed away aged 54. (Source Wikipedia online)

Saturday, February 16, 2019:

-

Sunday, February 17, 2019:

-Former Peruvian midfielder from 90s and 2000s, Carlos Antonio Flores Murillo passed away aged 54. (Source Wikipedia online)

Monday, February 18, 2019:

-Argentinean manager Eduardo Berizzo was officially named as the new National Team Manager of Paraguay. (Source L’Equipe online)

I. UEFA Champions League:

UEFA Champions League-Round of 16, First Leg:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

Manchester United 0-PSG 2 (Presnel Kimpembe 53, Kylian Mbappe 60)

Roma 2-Porto 1 (Nicolo Zaniolo 70, 76 / Adrian Lopez 79)

Wednesday, February 13, 2019:

Ajax 1-Real Madrid 2 (Hakim Ziyech 75 / Karim Benzema 60, Marco Asencio 87)

Tottenham 3-Dortmund 0 (Heung0min Son 47, Jan Vertonghen 83, Fernando Llorente 86)

II. Europa League:

Europa League-Round of 32:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019:

Fenerbahce 1-Zenit St Petersburg 0 (Islam Slimani 21)

Thursday, February 14, 2019:

BATE Borisov 1-Arsenal 0 (Stanislav Dragun 45)

Krasnodar 0-Leverkusen 0 (-)

Galatasaray 1-Benfica 2 (Christian Luyindama 54 / Eduardo Salvio 27 pen, Haris Seferovic 64)

Lazio 0-Sevilla 1 (Wissam Ben Yedder 22)

Olympiakos 2-Dinamo Kiev 2 (Ahmed Hassan Koka 9, Gil Dias 40 / Vitaly Buyalsky 28, Benjamin Verbic 89)

Rapid Vienna 0-Inter 1 (Lautari Martinez 39 pen)

Rennes 3-Betis 3 (Adrien Hunou 2, Javi Garcia (own goal) 10, Hatem Ben Arfa 45 pen / Giovani Lo Celso 32, Sidnei 62, Diego Lainez 90)

Slavia Prague 0-Genk 0 (-)

Celtic 0-Valencia 2 (Denis Cheryshev 42, Ruben Sobrino 49)

Club Brugge 2-Salzburg 1 (Stefano Denswil 64, Wesly 81 / Zlatko Junuzovic 17)

FC Zurich 1-Napoli 3 (Benjamin Kololli 83 pen / Lorenzo Insigne 11, Jose Maria Callejon 21, Piotr Zielinski 77)

Malmo 1-Chelsea 2 (Anders Christiansen 80 / Ross Barkley 30, Olivier Giroud 58)

Shakhtar Donetsk 2-Frankfurt 2 (Marlos 10 pen, Taison 67 / Martin Hinteregger 7, Filip Kostic 50)

Sporting CP 0-Villareal 1 (Alfonso Pedraza 3)

Viktoria Plzen 2-Dinamo Zagreb 1 (Ludek Pernica 54, 83 / Daniel Olmo 41)