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Giovani Dos Santos

Highly-rated forward completed his move to the Lane from Barcelona in June, 2008.

A star of the FIFA U17 World Championships in 2005 and FIFA U20 World Championships in 2007, Giovani, still just 19, already has full international honours with Mexico.

Giovani made 28 senior appearances for Barcelona in 2007-08, scoring three goals, after displaying his credentials in the B team, where he made 27 appearances and netted five times.

He said on joining: "It is a dream for me to come to a big club like Spurs. I've come here to further explore my qualities and give my all for my new team. As a young player I have come to a club where I feel there are many oportunities for me."

Karate's Appearance

Most Western students of Asian martial arts, if they have done any research on the subject at all, will surely have come across references to Bodhidharma. He is known as "Daruma" in Japan and as often as not, this Indian Buddhist monk is cited as the prime source for al
l martial arts styles or at the very least, for any style which traces its roots back to the fabled Shaolin Temple. However, the question of his contributions to the martial arts and to Zen Buddhism and even of his very existence has been a matter of controversy among historians and martial arts scholars for many years (Spiessbach,1992).

As legend has it, the evolution of karate began over a thousand years ago, possibly as early as the fifth century BC when Bodhidharma arrived in Shaolin-si (small forest temple), China from India and taught Zen Buddhism. He also introduced a systematized set of exercises designed to strengthen the mind and body, exercises which allegedly marked the beginning of the Shaolin style of temple boxing. Bodhidharma's teachings later became the basis for the majority of Chinese martial arts. In truth, the origins of karate appear to be somewhat obscure and little is known about the early development of karate until it appeared in Okinawa.

Arsenal's Club Profile

Arsenal may have been off the pace in the inaugural Premier League season in 1992/93, but they made up for it by winning both the FA and League Cups.

The Premier League crown eluded them until 1998 - two years into manager Arsene Wenger's tenure - when they did the league and FA Cup double. Under the Frenchman, the Gunners shook off their "boring" image and began to play some of the most attractive football in England.

In eight of his 12 seasons at the club, Arsenal have finished first or second. And together with star players such as Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira and Dennis Bergkamp, Wenger took Arsenal to another "double" in 2002.

The Gunners reached the Champions' League final in 2006, becoming the first London team to do so, but lost to Barcelona. Their Barclaycard Premiership title in 2003/04 saw them become only the second team to win the league without losing a match - earning them the title "The Invincibles." Overall they went 49 matches unbeaten, which is a national record.

Chelsea's long Club Profile

Chelsea will be desperate to regain the Premier League crown after finishing second to Manchester United in the last two seasons. Former manager Jose Mourinho, bankrolled by owner Roman Abromovich's millions, brought the first title to Stamford Bridge for 50 years when the Blues lifted the trophy in 2005. Chelsea became only the second team to win back-to-back Premier League titles when they clinched it a year later. Mourinho left the club by mutual consent in September 2007.

Although Chelsea reached the FA Cup final in 1994, they hardly set the world alight in their early Premier League days. Ruud Gullit became manager in 1996 and steered the Blues to an FA Cup triumph in 1997, while his successor Gianluca Vialli guided the team to victory in the League Cup and European Cup Winners' Cup in 1998.

Shortly after, he led the team to the UEFA Super Cup after a 1-0 win over Real Madrid. The FA Cup followed in 2000. Vialli was replaced by Claudio Ranieri in 2000 and he led Chelsea to another FA Cup final appearance in 2002.

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought the Blues for £140 million. After a trophyless season, he appointed Mourinho as new Chelsea manager and there was instant success. In 2005, Chelsea won the Barclays Premiership and League Cup, along with a Champions League semi-final appearance.

And Mourinho retained the Barclays Premiership crown the year after, equalling the club's own Premier League record of 29 wins set the previous season. They were league runners-up in 2006/07 and also claimed the FA Cup and League Cup double.

They were also runners-up in the 2007/08 campaign, but by this time Mourinho had left the club. He was replaced by Avram Grant who led the Blues to the final of the Champions League and Carling Cup.

Grant left Stamford Bridge at the end of the season and was replaced by Luiz Felipe Scolari who will be charged with bringing the title back to the club.

Liverpool Club Profile

Liverpool have maintained their status as a domestic and European force since the Premier League began in 1992, rarely finishing outside the top positions. The club have won seven major trophies since then, including the Champions League, Uefa Cup, two FA Cups and three League Cups.

Indeed, 2001 saw the Reds claim an unprecedented League Cup, FA Cup and Uefa Cup treble. Having won more domestic and European trophies than any other English club, Liverpool's status as giants of the domestic game is undisputed.

Under Rafa Benitez, Liverpool have secured Champions League football in each of the last four seasons. The Spaniard guided them to third place in the 2006/07 season and an appearance in the Champions League final where they were beaten 2-1 by AC Milan. They lost to Chelsea in the semi-finals of the competition last season and secured a fourth place finish in the league.

Liverpool's first-ever competitive match was in the Lancashire League, where a predominantly Scottish team defeated Higher Walton 8-0 on 23rd September 1892.

Man Utd Club Profile

Manchester United are the most successful Premier League club having won the title 10 times. It all began in 1993 when manager Sir Alex Ferguson ended a 26-year wait to lift the Premier League crown.

The signing of Eric Cantona for £1.2million from Leeds United proved a masterstroke as the Frenchman was instrumental in the title victory, along with the likes of Gary Pallis.

United retained the trophy in the following campaign and romped to further titles in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003. More silverware was added to the Red Devils' burgeoning trophy cabinet with FA Cup success in 1994, 1996, 1999 and 2004, plus League Cup victories in 1992 and 2006.

Perhaps the most memorable time in the club's history was the treble-winning season of 1999 when they added the European Champions League trophy to the league title and FA Cup.

Chelsea briefly broke their league dominance with title wins in 2005 and 2006. But in the 2006/07 season, the Red Devils roared back to regain the Barclays Premiership.

They went one better last season, enjoying their most successful campaign since winning the treble. They saw off the challenge of Chelsea and Arsenal to win an exciting Barclays Premier League title race and defeated the Blues on penalties in the Champions League final after a 1-1 draw between the two sides in Moscow.

Eduardo Back

Arsenal striker Eduardo could be involved in pre-season training after making good progress in his recovery from a career-threatening injury.

The 25-year-old suffered a fractured left fibula and an open dislocation after a tackle by Birmingham's Martin Taylor in February.

Arsenal physiotherapist Gary Lewin said: "Hopefully, he will be back doing training during pre-season.

"We're setting no timescales. We don't want to put him under any pressure."

Lewin, who is to leave the Gunners to take up a role as head of physiotherapy with the England senior team next month, added: "We are confident Eduardo will make a full recovery."

Messi in Olympics

Fifa Tells Clubs to release young players for Olympics

Barcelona will not be happy, but Lionel Messi will miss the start of La Liga season as he will be at the Olympics playing for Argentina after Fifa yesterday told clubs they must release any players aged under 23 selected for next month's Beijing Games.

Kancho Robert Sullivan

Kancho Robert Sullivan is the Founder and Chief Instructor of Go-Kan-Ryu Karate (GKR). Robert, a 7th Dan Black Belt, has been training in and teaching karate since 1964.

It was in 1984, with 20 years experience, that he founded Go-Kan-Ryu Karate in Adelaide, South Australia.

Born in 1947, Robert spent most of his early life growing up in Gosford, New South Wales. At the age of 17, his fascination for Karate led him to begin training in the Japanese style of Goju-Kai. Over the next decade he spent most of his time studying 2 of the most prominent Japanese styles of Karate, Goju and Shotokan. He spent time in Malaysia, Japan and the USA learning and teaching karate.

He returned home to Australia from America in December 1971 to marry and begin his family. Over the next 13 years Robert gained experience working and starting a number of businesses, but he eventually found himself turning his focus back to his passion for teaching karate. In 1984 he started Go-Kan-Ryu karate. His original aim was to build a small karate club, but he soon realised that teaching Karate was something that would become his life long vocation.

Today Robert Lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife Donna and two Children, Lee and Toni. He also has 2 older children, Matt and Laura.

Go-Kan-Ryu Karate

style was founded by Robert Sullivan in 1984 in Adelaide, South Australia – Australia.

GKR is a non-contact karate, with a heavy emphasis on strong basics, kata (patterns) and kumite (sparring). Robert Sullivan has developed a strong sense of etiquette, loyalty and mutual respect that carries through to each instructor and student.

Since its inception, GKR has grown to become one of the most popular karate organisations in the world, with well over 40,000 students taking part in classes on a weekly basis in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA.

With over 1500 instructors and 400 full time personnel, GKR has established strong foundations to sustain continued growth without compromising on its main focus - teaching quality karate.

Students as young as 5 years of age right through to people well into their seventies can all enjoy the many benefits that training with GKR Karate can offer, from learning a self defence, to improving fitness, to gaining confidence and inner security.

Liverpool

Liverpool i think is the second best team in the premier league. The team play spectacular they're even more dangerous especially with Torres and Gerrard working together with great passes and goals. they're player maker is Gerrard and they're scorer is Torres WHAT A TEAM!!!!

Fernando Torres

Fernando Torres is a great player. He is a wonderful scoring player and is my favourite footballer, i think he is the best striker so far. Even though he is a speedy who takes big steps when he runs.

Fernando has started to play for Liverpool and nearly reached C.ronaldo on the top scorers leader board and he will take over the future.

Man Utd vs Barcelona

Today was an exciting day, because Man utd and Barca where playing sick both teams, played great and it was an excellent match scholes scored the only goal which also was the winning goal.They later progressed to the final which they also won. Man utd been in the final champions league since 1999. Today Messi and Scholes have been playing very well. they were the two best player's in the match but scholes finished off Barca by shooting outside the box, what a match.

Man Utd Celebration

Man utd won the premier league, the second time in a row. Man utd was playing against wigan and the score was 2-0. And Chelsea was playing against Bolton and the score was 1-1.
Man utd has been one of the best teams in the world for winning the premier league, and the champions league.

My thoughts on Euro 2008

Lately in the past days, i was busy finding out something in the euro 08.

I thought that the best teams were Holland, Turkey, Spain, Germany and Russia these teams played great and nearly all these teams went to the semi finals. And these teams have great stability

The players i thought were the best are Torres, Sneijder, Villa, Ibrahimovic, Ballack and Ronaldo. these players were not normal and they have a really good talent.

C.Ronaldo next Real playa ?

Cristiano Ronaldo's future at Manchester United has taken a new twist after the winger was reported as saying he would like to play for Real Madrid.

Real have been tracking Ronaldo, 23, despite being warned off by United manager Sir Alex Ferguson.

"I'd like to play for Real Madrid but only if it's true they are ready to pay what Manchester United ask of them," he told respected Brazilian website Terra.

"However, it does not depend on me," said the Portuguese midfielder.

"I'll only talk about this again after the European Championship," added Ronaldo. "Don't ask me any questions because I won't answer."

Deco signs for Chelsea - Nice one!

Chelsea have completed the signing of Barcelona midfielder Deco, a move that has raised fresh doubts over the future of England international Frank Lampard.

The playermaker, who has won 56 caps for his adopted country Portugal, was photographed leaving Stamford Bridge earlier this evening having completing his medical and agreed personal terms with the west London club.

Although neither Chelsea nor Barca have commented publicly on the transfer, it is understood that Josep Guardiola, the new coach at the Nou Camp, had deemed Deco surplus to requirements in Catalonia, along with the likes of Samuel Eto'o and Ronaldinho, and that the player has signed a two-year contract that will cost Chelsea €10 million.

The deal will be new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari's first signing since he replaced Avram Grant at the Bridge .