Inter President Massimo Moratti's Wants Chelsea Boss Andre Villas Boas Report.

A Portuguese has endured a turbulent debut season at Stamford Bridge but the Nerazzurri are keen for him to replace Claudio Ranieri at the helm at appiano gentile and the Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas is reportedly Inter president Massimo Moratti's 1st choice to take over at San Siro during the summer.

The Moratti gave current coach Claudio Ranieri his vote of confidence on Tuesday after a run of five successive defeats in all competitions in gazzetta dello Sport is claiming that the Nerazzurri supremo has already decided to part company with the Roman coach at the end of campaign and now intends to do his utmost to lure Villas-Boas to the Giuseppe Meazza.

The Moratti had hoped to hire Villas-Boas last year but the Portuguese eventually ended up leaving Porto for Chelsea after the Blues agreed to meet his €15 million release clause to Gazzetta in France's Laurent Blanc, Napoli's Walter Mazzarri and Udinese's Francesco Guidolin are also on Moratti's coaching shortlist and the blanc a former Inter player, is out of contract after Euro 2012 in both Mazzarri and Guidolin have done remarkable work to the respective clubs in Serie A in recent seasons.

The Argentine Forward Lionel Messi Hoping Pep Guardiola Stays at Barcelona.

The Argentine forward Lionel Messi has admitted that he has heard great things about the Athletic coach and has also been suitably impressed by the impact he has made since arriving in La Liga and messi has revealed to he hopes Pep Guardiola remains as Barcelona coach for years to come but hinted that should the Catalan trainer elect to move on at the end of the season, Athletic Bilbao boss Marcelo Bielsa would make a fine replacement.

A Guardiola is out of contract in the summer and has yet to decide whether he will sign an extension to remain at Camp Nou in messi like all of his team-mates, is hoping that the man who has led Barca to 13 titles over the past four seasons will eventually decide to commit his future to the club and i do not know what he is thinking to the forward told La Red played to we are awaiting the decision he will take.

They are very strong to we have no choice but to fight to the end and the messi is currently preparing for his country's friendly against Switzerland on Wednesday and is suspended for Barcelona's clash with Sporting Gijon in La Liga this weekend after picking up five yellow cards this season.

Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo is at the Top Of The European Golden Shoe Table

A Portuguese scored a sumptuous goal to maintain his position as the continent's most prolific attacker this season Lionel Messi kept up the pace with a stunning free-kick and the another week of European football as he scored with a brilliant backheel against Rayo Vallecano in his team's narrow 1-0 win on Sunday.

In the strike was the Portuguese star's 29th of the season and keeps him two points clear of his closest rival, Lionel Messi in the argentine matched Ronaldo's majestic effort with a delightful free kick against Atletico Madrid to gave his barcelona side a dramatic 2-1 win and robin van Persie moved level on points trans Narva's goal-scoring behemoth Aleksandrs Cekulajevs a wonderfully curled effort in Arsenal's 5-2 victory over north London rivals Tottenham.

In 1967-68, French football magazine L'Equipe opted to hand out an award to the top goalscorer in all European leagues for his good performances during the season to the between 1968 and 1991, high profile names such as Eusebio, Gerd Muller, Ian Rush and Marco van Basten won the coveted trophy in this measure has prevented players from so-called weaker leagues from winning the European Golden Shoe, since a goal scored in for example, Armenia, Estonia or Azerbaijan, carries less weight than a goal scored in Serie A, La Liga, the Bundesliga or the Premier League to the players such as Thierry Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Forlan and Lionel Messi have won the European Golden Shoe in the past few seasons.

Match News: Barcelona 2-0 Valencia

The Barcelona will contest the 2012 Copa del Rey final, their 3rd in four years against Athletic Bilbao after overcoming Valencia 2-0 at Camp Nou and 3-1 on aggregate.

xavi:

A Returning to the side after a two-game rest, Xavi struggled with Valencia's early intensity but grew in stature as Barca slowly took control of the game and came to close with a neat lobbed effort in the second half and scored the second with a brilliant finish after that.

Top of the Match for Lionel Messi:

Has looked below his best of late but was hugely participative on the night and did everything but score as he came up against Diego Alves in the woodwork and a heroic block from Victor Ruiz. Some excellent running with the ball to lacked the final finish in he did set up Cesc's goal with a great long pass thorugh.

Flop of the Match for Sofiane Feghouli:

Rasped the side netting with a fierce drive early on and was unlucky to should have at least hit the target when Valencia badly needed to take advantage of their early dominance to the dismissed for a second yellow on 76 minutes and he petulantly pushed Puyol and leaving his side dead and buried.

Pep Guardiola's side now have the chance to clinch their 26th Copa del Rey victory, and will meet Athletic Bilbao in May.

Barcelona Forward David Villa Could return To Action From Injury in April

The Catalan giants could receive a huge boost as the Spain international may recover in time for the Clasico at Camp Nou on April 22 and he could return to action in the next two months, according to one of his representatives.

The 30-year-old David Villa sustained a fractured leg in the Club World Cup in December and has been in a race against time to regain full fitness before the Euro 2012 finals and it will depend on his recovery to think that at the end of April we will see him playing again, Victor Onate, general director of VOS Marketing and the company which represents Villa, told Canal 9.

David is great. Although people may find it strange, he is working harder than ever, even when he could play to he is very focused on returning as quickly as possible for that the Spain international may resume full training in time for the visit of Real Madrid, on April 22 and he joined Barca in 2010 after a five-year spell at Valencia to has scored 9 goals in 24 appearances this season.

Wayne Rooney Missed Training He Could Be Rested From Thursday Second Leg against Ajax

The Wayne Rooney played no part in the open portion of training on the eve of Manchester United Europa League clash with Ajax and the sir alex ferguson squad to paces at Carrington ahead of Thursday's 2nd leg at Old Trafford in United will be looking to protect a 2-0 lead and set up a last-16 tie against Lokomotiv Moscow or Athletic Bilbao next month.

He was the only significant absentee from the session and could be rested for the European clash with an important Premier League trip to Norwich looming on Sunday in the remainder of United's 1st team squad were present to midfielder Anderson who has been missing recently with a knee problem and they are long-time absentee Michael Owen, who suffered a thigh injury in the UEFA Champions League match against Otelul Galati in November also did some light jogging.

Personal Life for Wayne Rooney it was annaunced in July 2011 in he jersey was the best-selling sports product that is under the auspices of the Premier League in the manchester United sales annualy between 1.2 million and a million and a half shirt, it is estimated that during last season and the he jersey was sold in several hundred thousand copies to the account is taken of the official jerseys for sale across the globe, not just in England.

I Am Still a Footballer Says Xavi

A midfielder insists he is still fully focused on his playing career and says he believes his former team-mate will carry on as coach at the Catalan club beyond to this summer and the xavi says he has not considered taking over from Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola now or in the future to revealing he is concentrating solely on his playing career at the moment.

The 41-year-old prefers to operate on one-year contracts, admitting he does not know how he will feel in future in Xavi is one of the names linked with taking over when his former team-mate does depart Camp Nou in the midfielder to recently turned 32 still has two more years on his current contract to he will plays 50 per cent or more of the club's games in 2012-13 and 2013-14.

Let me play he told reporters at an event organised by Adidas in Barcelona on Tuesday to i am not even thinking about it coaching to i feel like a footballer, I don't even have a coaching badge to i want to keep playing for many more years to long as my body can last and the xavi believes Guardiola will end up staying at Barca in any case.

Brazil legend Pele Says Barcelona Style is the Blueprint For The Future

The Former Brazil international Pele has stated that he hopes Barcelona style of play will be emulated by future teams as he believes skill will eventually win out over strength tot the legendary attacker has compared the Catalans to clubs that dominated in the past such as Benfica, Ajax, AC Milan, Real Madrid, and feels that the key to success is to have a group of footballers playing together for a long time.

A Barcelona’s style is the football people want to see and I really hope it’s the blueprint for the future in really hope skill wins out over strength, Pele was quoted as saying on the Fifa website for the look at Germany in to play a much more technical game today, and that’s the football we want to see and we want to see the ball moving, not the players, and you only get that with teams that are really well-organised.

And i have been watching this Barca side a lot lately and they’re like Santos were in my heyday, or the great Benfica, Ajax, AC Milan and Real Madrid sides to they all set the standard in their day and, like I said in the key to their success was the fact that they had settled line-ups over a long period of time and barcelona have won three Champions League titles in the past 6 years and have also lifted the Club World Cup trophy twice in that period.

Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker Has Been Ruled Out undergoes Ankle Operation

The Arsenal week has gone from bad to worse after defender Per Mertesacker was ruled out for the 'long term' having undergone an ankle operation and the German centre back sustained the injury in last weekend's 2-1 victory at Sunderland when falling awkwardly under no pressure from an opponent in the build up to the hosts opening goal.

A latest gaffe from Mertesacker has yet to truly convince since moving to Arsenal last summer in an £8 million deal from Werder Bremen to his serious injury is a new setback for Arsene Wenger in the Gunners boss has seen his defence ravaged by injury problems in their battle to finish in the top 4 of the Premier League and has had to experiment with a range of players and line-ups.

He missed Wednesday UEFA Champions League humiliation against AC Milan in his absence, Laurent Koscielny also limped out of the horror show at the San Siro in the injuries are the latest crisis for Wenger to deal with ahead of a return to Sunderland in the FA Cup this weekend and on Friday he confirmed Mertesacker has gone under the knife and the unfortunately he has had surgery and we have lost him for a Gunners boss told his club's official website.

How long I don't know and he had reconstruction of his ligaments it will be long term.

England News: AC Milan's Philippe Mexes

The Philippe Mexes has hailed Thierry Henry, labelling him an Arsenal 'idol', despite the striker's spell at the London club ending with the Gunners falling to their heaviest defeat in European football at the hands of AC Milan and the 34-year-old striker made a sensational return to Arsenal on loan in this years' January transfer window, scoring two goals in four appearances and to now returns to parent club New York Red Bulls after the Champions League defeat.

Philippe Mexes said that We have all paid the best compliments possible was the 1st to congratulate to he is an example for everyone. He is an idol for Arsenal and he had to have the courage to come back and make his contribution to Arsenal to he is a fabulous player.

International career for philippe mexes a he played for the Under-18 and Under-21 French national football teams, eventually winning a spot in the senior squad in August 2002 in Raymond Domenech's tenure as coach of the national team, he was rarely called up, and he failed to make the French squad for UEFA Euro 2004 and Mexès played the five first games of the Blanc era, partnering in centre back with Adil Rami On 25 March 2011, he scored his 1st goal for his country in a game against Luxembourg.

Barcelona Star Forward Lionel Messi Has Equaled The Record For Scoring Champions League Goals Scored

The Barcelona forward Lionel Messi has equaled the record for scoring the most goals away from home in one Champions League season following his strike in Barcelona's 3-1 Champions League round of 16 and the 1st-leg win against Bayer Leverkusen at the BayArena on Tuesday for a barcelona star Messi equals record for Champions League goals scored away from home in the Argentine attacker has once more added his name to the record books as he netted in the away game against Bayer Leverkusen in Europe's elite football competition.

The Argentina international followed in the footsteps of stars such as Jari Litmanen (1995-96), Hernan Crespo (2002-03) and Thierry Henry (2002-03) when he netted his 7th Champions League goal in an away game on Tuesday in the goal at the BayArena meant that Messi broke the competition record with his 19th strike in knockout games for the raul and Andriy Shevchenko netted 18 times in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Messi says the goal versus Leverkusen was his 98th Barcelona goal outside Camp Nou in 160 official appearances in the attacker has admitted that it will be difficult for Barcelona to retain their Liga title in barcelona have fallen 10 points behind their arch-rivals in the league table following last weekend's results.

Tonight Barcelona's Lionel Messi Needs Just One More Goal

A Ballon d'Or winner scored an incredible 53 in all competitions last term and has already added an astonishing 37 in 2010-12 for Barca, playing as always with plenty of heart in the Argentine, still only 24, is level with current record holders Raul and Andriy Shevchenko, but can surpass the two European greats with a solitary strike at Leverkusen tonight in champions league love story to the barcelona lionel messi needs just one more goal tonight to break competition record for strikes in the knockout stages.

This is a perhaps fitting that on Saint Valentine's Day for the much admired Argentine can create his own celebration of love by breaking yet another record to he looks to surpass the mark set for goals scored in the knockout stages of the Champions League.

Messi already has 43 goals in Europe's premier club competition and leaving him 6th on the tournament's all-time list of top goalscorers are given following:

Behind Raul (71), Ruud van Nistelrooy (56), Thierry Henry (55), Shevchenko (48) and Inzaghi (46) while Cristiano Ronaldo, incidentally, is in 10th place with 31. But almost half of his goals have come in the knockout stages and the which is a measure of Barca's success in the competition over the last few years.

Italy Team News: AC Milan director Barbara Berlusconi

The Barbara Berlusconi urges AC Milan fans to support the team and the club director says that Massimiliano Allegri's side are entering a critical period of the season and the backing from the stands is required to help out the team.

AC Milan director Barbara Berlusconi has urged the club's supporters to back the team despite their poor run of form in they are italian champions have failed to win their last 3 games in all competitions are losing ground in the Scudetto race to Juventus and suffering a home defeat to the Turin club in the Coppa Italia semi-final.

She is the daughter of Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, has insisted that the terraces must keep the faith in Massimiliano Allegri's men in the team need to feel the support of our fans. This should not be a time of controversy and criticism. We are in an important stage of the season," Berlusconi said according to Ansa and the coming weeks will no doubt be decisive. We are still on course to achieve all our goals.

There is no lack of good news and the stephan el shaarawy is proving to be a promising footballer and some of our players are now reaching a good level of form in general a difficult period to go for a many of our players are still unavailable and we are playing every 3 days is difficult to recover for the AC Milan's difficult run continues with a trip to fellow title-challengers Udinese, before a Champions League clash at home to Arsenal on February 15.

The Former Argentina Coach Diego Maradona Demands

A former Argentina coach Diego Maradona demands Al Wasl offer him funds or he'll quit is angry with club management for affording him only a 'restricted budget' during January, while other clubs signed players like Luca Toni.

The Al Wasl coach Diego Maradona has called on club management to give him more transfer funds or else he will walk away from his contract in Dubai and the Argentine, whose side are currently 5th in the Pro-League, was vocal after Al Wasl only signed two players in January after he said he was promised 8 new additions.

A Maradona told reporters he was disappointed with Al Wasl's “restricted budget” and wanted to be able to acquire players like Al Nasr's new signing Luca Toni in we had a list of players we wanted to sign but weren't able to because of the restricted budgets we were forced to work have to try and work with what we have and perform well until the end of the season," he said according to Sport360.

Swansea Boss Brendan Rodgers Won The Manager Of The Month Award For January.

The Swansea City manager Brendan Rodgers has won the Manager of the Month award for January to the Swans taking seven points from 4 matches, including a 1-1 draw with Chelsea, the 39-year-old has been rewarded for his side’s impressive recent displays.

A Swans have been flying in the maiden season in the Premier League in january a particularly impressive month for the Welsh side as they recorded a victory over Arsenal and only a last-minute own goal saw them draw 1-1 with Chelsea in addition to claiming all three points away against Aston Villa at the turn to year in February began in similar style by overturning a one-goal deficit to defeat West Brom 2-1 at the Hawthorns to leave them in 10th place in the table.

The awarding of the prize serves as a testament to the stylish football Rodgers inexperienced team have played since embarking upon their 1st top-flight season since 1982 in the decision was made by the Barclays Awards Panel to includes representatives from football’s governing bodies in the media and fans is the Ulsterman’s first Manager of the Month Award.

AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic Has Taken Full Responsibility for Red Card

AC Milan's Zlatan Ibrahimovic accepts responsibility for red card and the Rossoneri have already stated that they will contest the suspension to the Sweden international believes that he needs to start learning from his mistakes for a dismissal in Sunday's 0-0 draw with Napoli and admitted that he deserved to see red.

A Sweden international was sent off 19 minutes into the second half of the game at San Siro for slapping Salvatore Aronica in the face as he was dragging team mate Antonio Nocerino away from the Partenopei centre-half and he has been hit with a 3 match ban for his rush of blood to head but Milan now intend to fight the suspension.

A 30-year-old forward has no complaints about his dismissal."I did a stupid thing,” Ibrahimovic admitted during an interview with ‘Striscia la Notizia’ on Canale five on Monday night to milan fail to overturn Ibrahimovic’s suspension or at least have it reduced to player will miss the Rossoneri’s upcoming Serie A clashes with Udinese and Juventus as well as their trip to Cesena in between.

England Manager Fabio Capello May Have Breached His Contract.

Former FA boss claims Fabio Capello may have breached his contract by criticising decision to strip John Terry of captaincy and the Italian coach stated his disagreement with the FA over the decision to remove the armband from the defender has now been suggested he may have overstepped the mark.

A Former FA chief executive David Davies has suggested that England manager Fabio Capello may have breached his contract after he publicly disagreed with the decision to strip the captaincy from John Terry in the centre-back is awaiting trial for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand in Chelsea’s clash with QPR in October and the incident had the prompted reports of unrest within the England camp.

The Terry denies the charge but FA chairman David Bernstein acted to remove his captaincy on Friday after his trial was scheduled for 9 July, meaning that the allegations would potentially overshadow preparations for Euro 2012, which begins on 8 June and the Davies responded on Monday, telling BBC television: "It is being taken very seriously by the FA to that Fabio Capello has breached his contract.

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola Says Lionel Messi is a Quality Player

When he is not as his best, he is still superior to other players and thy are 41-year-old coach is unconcerned about the Argentine star's state of mind, while stressing he is not thinking about the result of Real Madrid's game.

The Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola has guaranteed that Lionel Messi is not affected by his missed penalty against Valencia in midweek and the diminutive attacker failed to convert from the spot as Barca were held to a 1-1 draw at Mestalla in the first-leg of the Copa del Rey semi finals in a leo is always fine, he is very competitive," Guardiola told reporters at a press conference. "He has experienced many things and he always plays well, you already know my opinion.

They are without being at his best, he is superior to the other players. He sometimes takes responsibilities without having to it comes to penalties, he is amazing. I hope that when he retires, he will keep up his good record in what happens is that he spoils are all here to help him, while knowing he needs little help. We all are more comfortable when Messi is on the pitch in guardiola then rejected the notion his side are in crisis despite failing to win any of their last three matches.

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Real Madrid's Jose Mourinho Good Coach for Barcelona Says Former Barcelona Goalkeeper Vitor Baia

A former Camp Nou goalkeeper has stated the belief that his Portuguese compatriot would have done a good job had the current Champions League holders employed to former Barcelona goalkeeper Vitor Baia has taken the time to praise Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho, and feels that the Portuguese trainer would have been a good option for the Blaugranas.

The Santiago Bernabeu tactician worked at the Camp Nou from 1996 until 2000 under head coaches Bobby Robson and Louis van Gaal to his countryman is confident that Mourinho would have done a good job if he'd ever taken charge of the current European champions in he is the best coach in the world in my opinion and he is a very special person," Baia said to Esports COPE.

Mourinho would have been a good coach for Barcelona. He has the ability to adapt to every culture in a mourinho we saw at Chelsea was a completely different coach than the one at Porto to the one at Inter was again another type of coach in mourinho to now seeing at Madrid is once more another type of the 42-year-old raved for the number of recent reports suggested that Mourinho could be on his way out of Madrid at the end of the season in controversial coach has so far denied that he's preparing his exit from the Spanish capital.

England Boss Fabio Capello

A Tuesday it was announced the 31-year-old will not face trial until July 9, eight days after the final in Poland and the Ukraine to the announcement that England captain John Terry's trial for allegedy racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand will not take place until July 9 in the Chelsea defender will now be available to feature at Euro 2012.

The tournament kick's off in Warsaw on June 8 before reaching its climax in Kiev on July 1, meaning the outcome of the 31-year-old's race trial will not be after Poland and Ukraine in a no doubt as the competition nears and the debate over who Fabio Capello should include his squad heats up in the plenty of attention will fall on Terry's shoulders.