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Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England which plays in the Premier League and is one of the most successful in the history of English football, winning more trophies than any other English club. Liverpool has won a joint-record eighteen league titles, seven FA Cups, seven League Cups, three UEFA Cups and five European Cups, an English record.
The club was founded in 1892 and won five league championships between 1900 and 1947. However, Liverpool spent several years in the Second Division during the late 1950s, and did not win promotion again until the appointment of Bill Shankly as manager in 1959. The club traditionally played in red and white, but this was changed to all red in the 1960s.
Under Shankly’s management, Liverpool won three League Championship titles, two FA Cups and a UEFA Cup, the club’s first European trophy. In the past 30 years, they have been one of the most successful clubs in English and European football; they won four European Cups between 1977 and 1984 and a fifth in 2005.
The Heysel Stadium disaster made the club infamous in Europe; 39 Juventus fans died after a wall collapsed as they fled from charging Liverpool fans. The club was involved in a worse disaster four years later—the Hillsborough Disaster— which saw the death of 96 Liverpool fans in a crush against perimeter fencing. Both disasters have had wide-ranging impacts on English and European football, and the club, to this day.
Liverpool F.C. has played at Anfield since its formation, but plans to move to a new stadium in Stanley Park, which was due to be completed by 2011 but has been put on hold until economic conditions improve. Liverpool has a large fan base which holds long-standing rivalries with several clubs. The most notable of these are their rivalry with Manchester United and Everton, with whom they regularly contest the Merseyside derby.
 Associazione Sportiva Roma, commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated in the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence bar one season in the early 50s (1951-52). For their 58th season in a row (77th overall), Roma are competing in Serie A for 2009–10.
Roma have won Serie A three times, first in 1941–42 then in 1982–83 and again in 2000–01, as well as winning nine Coppa Italia titles and two Italian Super Cups. On the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960–61, coming close to European Cup/UEFA Champions League glory in 1983–84 (lost the one-legged final played at home against Liverpool after a penalty shootout), and finishing as runners-up in the UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League for 1990–91 (two-legged aggregate defeat against Internazionale).
Home games are currently played at the Stadio Olimpico, a venue they share with city rivals Lazio. With a capacity of over 72,000, it is the second largest of its kind in Italy, with only San Siro able to seat more. In September 2009 the club unveiled plans to build a new 55,000-capacity stadium in the western suburbs of Rome. Its design will be modeled after English football stadiums with the objective being to give fans a closer view of the pitch.
 Juventus Football Club, commonly referred to as Juventus and familiarly as Juve, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. The club was founded in 1897 and has spent its entire history, with the exception of the 2006–07 season, in the top flight First Division (called Serie A since 1929).
Juventus is historically the most successful team of Italian football and one of the most successful and recognized in the world. According to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, an international organization recognized by FIFA, Juventus were Italy’s best club of the 20th century and the second most successful European club in the same period.
Overall, the club has won 51 official competitions, more than any other team in the country; 40 in the national First Division, which is also a record, and 11 in UEFA and world competitions. It is the third most successful club in Europe and the sixth in the world, with the most international titles officially recognized by one of the six continental football confederations and FIFA.
The club was the first Italian and Southern European side to win the UEFA Cup. In 1985, Juventus, the only team in the world to have won all official international cups and championships, became the first club in the history of European football to have won all three major UEFA club competitions.
Juventus has the largest fan base of any Italian club, and at 170 million also has one of the highest numbers of supporters world-wide (it. the tifosi). The club is a founding member of the European Club Association, which was formed after the dissolution of the G-14, a collection of Europe’s most elite clubs. The Torinese side is also recognized for its contribution to the Italian national team.
 Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly known as Real Madrid (and in Spain, in football circles, simply as el Madrid), is a professional association football club based in Madrid, Spain. It is the most successful team in Spanish football and was voted by FIFA as the most successful club of the 20th century, having won a record thirty-one La Liga titles, seventeen Spanish Cups, a record nine European Cups and two UEFA Cups. Real Madrid was a founding member of FIFA and the now-defunct G–14 group of Europe’s leading football clubs as well as its replacement, the European Club Association. The word “Real” in the club’s name is the Spanish term for “Royal”, and was added in 1920 together with the royal crown in the emblem.
Founded in 1902, Real Madrid has spent its entire history in the top flight of Spanish football. In the 1940s, the club, the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium and the Ciudad Deportiva had to be rebuilt following the Spanish Civil War. The club established itself as a major force in both Spanish and European football during the 1950s. In the 1980s, the club had one of the best teams in Spain and Europe (known as La Quinta del Buitre), winning two UEFA Cups, five consecutive Spanish championships, one Spanish cup and three Spanish Super Cups.
The team’s traditional home colours are all white, although it initially adopted a blue oblique stripe on the shirt. Its crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand it. The current crest is a modified version of the one first adopted in the 1920s. Real Madrid’s home ground is the 80,354-seater Santiago Bernabéu football stadium in downtown Madrid, where it has played since 1947.
Real Madrid holds long-standing rivalries with other football clubs, most notably FC Barcelona, with matches between the two teams referred to as “el Clásico”. Unlike most European football clubs, Real Madrid’s members (socios) have owned and operated the club since its inception. The club is the world’s richest football club (€351m) in terms of revenue and the second most valuable and was worth over €950m in 2008.
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Pep Guardiola is confident that FC Barcelona will win something again this season as he looked ahead to the encounter with Málaga at the weekend only three days after being held in the Champions League by VfB Stuttgart.
Just like last term the Blaugrana boss is again convinced that the quality of his players and their ability will guide the club to success once more. “I think that we will something, but we may not of course,” he said. “I just hope that the team is involved in both competitions until the end. Then we will see if we win something or not.”
“We know that we can do better”
“I cannot tell the players or the media that we are doing things well because we all know that we are not playing at the level that we want,” the Barça coach continued. “We know that we can play better because everyone has seen very recently just how good we can be. We can improve and we need to do so in order to be champions. I am convinced that we will do that and I am not angry. The responsibility is mine alone. The players want to improve and I am looking for that thing that I may have missed to lift them up to the level required.”
Good attitude
“My job means that if things do not go well then it is because I am not doing something well,” Guardiola stated. “I have the feeling that the squad want it and that they are striving for it. We will not hide even though we know things should be better. The players are keen and they suffer too when things do not go as they should. There is a reason why when things do not go well and I need to find that reason. I believe in what we do and in the players and I believe that we will turn the corner.”
No shouting
Guardiola was keen to deny that there were any harsh words said in the dressing room in Stuttgart in midweek. “I saw no nothing like that,” he said. “I wanted to tell the players how great they were and that they should have no doubts. I want to make it clear that when things go badly I never shout. I only do that when we win 4-0.”
Job commitment
“Coaches are committed to their roles all the time and there is always something to be concerned about,” he commented. “When things are going well I worry about maintaining the tension and when they go badly I try to work out why and to change things.”
Praising Málaga
Looking ahead to the visit of Málaga at the weekend Guardiola recognised how well the Andalucian outfit have been doing in recent weeks under coach Juan Ramón López Muñiz. “Málaga are on a great run of form,” he explained. “They have a very good team and a coach with great experience. They are a strong outfit and are full of confidence at the moment. They work hard and know what they are doing. We will need to be in very good form to beat them.”
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