Goal of the day

Today’s goal of the day comes from the Danish Suoperliga. It’s a wonderful swivel and volley from Soren Berg in AGF’s 4-2 win over Midtjylland.

Job insecurity

Former Mexico international Benjamin Galindo has been named as the third coach of the year at Santos Laguna. He replaces Diego Cocca, who was fired 10 days ago after only six months in charge.
Galindo is clearly a glutton for punishment, as he returns to the club after enduring a short, unhappy stint in 2006.
“Benjamin wants to make up for last time and now has more experience and a squad with more potential than the first time around,” said Santos the trigger-happy president Alejandro Irarrogorri.

Vote of confidence

Alarm bells are already ringing for Roma coach Luis Enrique. Having seen his side knocked out of the Europa League, the new Serie A season began badly for the club with a home defeat to Cagliari.
Nonetheless, Roma’s owner, Thomas Di Benedetto, in terms he may one day come to regret, has reiterated his support of Enrique.
La Repubblica reports that Di Benedetto confirmed that: “The Spanish coach is untouchable, even if we lose every game.
Further support for the fledgling coach came from midfielder Daniele De Rossi.
“He’s an honest person and an innovative Coach, a young one who likes possession and offensive football,” De Rossi told Sky Sport Italia.
De Rossi was even able to find a silver lining to Roma’s Europa league exit.
“Our exit from the Europa League will mean that we’ll avoid some long midweek trips and this could actually be an advantage to us,” he said.

World Cup cutbacks

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko has revealed that Russia intends to reduce the number of stadiums it plans to use to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Russia’s bid had originally proposed 16 stadiums in 13 cities, but a desire to cut costs will see that number shrink to 12 or 13.
However, Mutko told Reuters: “Twelve is a more practical number because the more cities you have, the bigger the cost is of staging the tournament. We haven’t made the final decision and in theory all 16 (original) venues still have a chance to be selected. But in the end we would have no more than 13 stadiums.”

Finally…

When they’ve stopped barracking Fernando Torres, don’t be too surprised to hear Chelsea fans haranguing Bayer Leverkusen midfielder, Sidney Sam, during tonight’s Champions League encounter.
Ahead of the game at Stamford Bridge, Sam decided to update his Facebook page with his thoughts about the match.
“Torres, John Terry, Frank Lampard, Petr Cech and Ashley Cole,” Sam wrote. “Who the f*** are Chelsea London?”
Remarks, which even allowing for the sub-standard translators employed by professional footballers, seem clear enough.
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