From: http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/la-liga-awards-20142015-winners.html

And the winners are:

Best Coach - Luis Enrique

Best Goal Keeper - Claudio Bravo

Best Defender - Sergio Ramos

Best Midfielder - James Rodriguez

Best Forward - Lionel Messi

Best African Player - Sofiane Feghouli

Best South American Player - Neymar Jr. Da Silva

Best Player - Lionel Messi

Five Star Player of the hobby - Cristiano Ronaldo


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Photo Credit: La Liga

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So sad. The basketball legend and Lakers star has announced that he would be retiring at the end of this season. Bryant has helped the lakers to win five NBA championships over his 20 years career, has an NBA MVP to his name and he remains the only player in the history of NBA to play for 20 seasons with the same franchise. Kobe distributed his retirement and thank-you letter to all lakers fans during their game. Below is the letter the fans received.

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from: http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/ballon-dor-shortlist-announced-for-2015.html

Fifa has finally announced the 2015 nominees for the 2015 Ballon d'or which includes Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar Jr. Lionel Messi and Neymar would be competing with the current holder of the title, Cristiano Ronaldo to win it this year. The Winner would be announced next year January 11th at Zurich. Currently, Messi has won the award four times, Ronaldo has won it three times while this is the first time Neymar Jr. is able to make the final three shortlist.

Photo Credit: FIFA

From: http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/diego-costa-throws-his-bib-on-jose.html

Chelsea's striker appeared to have been frustrated after he realized he wasn't going to be brought into the game against Tottenham Hotspurs which they later tied. Costa then took off his bib and threw out of anger but unfortunately for Costa the bib appeared to hit Mourinho. Although, Mourinho still insists there is no dispute between him and Diego Costa.

Overall 3rd draft pick in the first round of the 2015 NBA draft, Jahlil Okafor was spotted getting involved in a street fight with a fan. This season the Philadelphia 76ers have not been having a great start, having lost to celtics 84 - 80 in their last game. Fans have not been satisfied with the team's loosing streak. TMZ uploaded a partial video of the fight, and in the video, Jahlil could be heard screaming "We got money you broke ass n**ga".

Video can be found here: http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/nba-rookie-jahlil-okafor-involved-in.html

From: http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/mancity-offers-lionel-messi-800000-week.html

As the transfer windows draws nearer, Man city prepares to unite Pep Guardiola and Lionel Messi in the club by offering a remarkable £800,000 a week deal to Lionel Messi. Messi seems to be interested in this big move because his agents are in contact with Man City so it is very possible that the Argentine forward could agree to this move. Also, Next season, Pep Guardiola has agreed to leave Bayern Munich and would likely become the head coach of Man city. Bingo.

PSG is currently trying to negotiate a contract with Cristiano to leave madrid for a whooping weekly salary of about £2500,000 per week after tax. No one is certain if Cristiano would accept or decline this offer because his agent, Jorge Mendes, recently said it would be impossible for the superstar to leave Madrid and that he would likely end his career at Real Madrid. But again, this offer came after Ronaldo's agent made the claim, so it can't be ruled out yet that Ronaldo would turn down this offer.

From http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/psg-making-big-attempt-to-sign-madrids.html

After today's matches here are the final scores.

Group E

BATE Borisov 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen

Barcelona 6 -1 AS Roma


Group F

Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb

Bayern Munich 4-0 Olympiakos



Group G

Fc Porto 0-2 Dynamo Kyiv

Maccabi Tel aviv 4-0 Chelsea


Group H

Zenith St Petersburg 2-0 Valencia

Lyon 1-2 Gent

From: http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/champions-league-final-scores.html

from http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/barcelona-defeats-roma-6-1.html

Barcelona who are at the top of their group took Roma by surprise with a stunning score line of 6-1, with two goals from Lionel Messi and Luiz Suarez each and a goal for Adriano and Gerald Pique each. This became Gerald Pique's 10th Champions League goal. Both Neymar and Edin Dzeko had their penalties saved but later on, Edin Dzeko was able to hand in a very late consolation goal at the 90th minute.

http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/nominees-for-bbc-african-footballer-of.html

BBC has announced the five nominees for the African footballer of the year award. Th nominees are:

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Gabon Forward

Andrew Ayew Ghana Forward

Yacine Brahimi Algeria Midfielder

Sadio Mane Senegal Midfielder

Yaya Toure Ivory Coast Midfielder


Source: BBC

Unfortunately for Arsenal, these players won't be playing in Arsenal's Upcoming Champions league clash with Dinamo Zagreb:

Mikel Arteta Winger Muscular Injury

Aaron Ramsey Midfielder Hamstring

Theo Walcott Forward Calf Strain

Francis Coquelin Defender Knee Injury

Danny Welbeck Forward Knee Injury

Thomas Rosicky Midfielder Knee Injury

Jack Wilshere Central Midfielder Fractured Leg

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Winger Hamstring Injury.



Goodluck with the rest of the team, gunners.

From http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/arsenal-players-who-will-be-missing.html

The Uefa Champions league match day 5 continues this week and here are the scheduled fixtures for this week:

http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/uefa-champions-league-fixtures-this-week.html

Tuesday 24-11-2015

Group E

BATE Borisov vs Bayer Leverkusen

Barcelona vs AS Roma


Group F

Arsenal vs Dinamo Zagreb

Bayern Munich vs Olympiakos


Group G

Fc Porto vs Dynamo Kyiv

Maccabi Tel aviv vs Chelsea


Group H

Zenith St Petersburg vs Valencia

Lyon vs Gent



Wednesday 25-11-2015

Group A

Malmoe FF vs Paris St Germain

Shaktar Donetsk vs Real Madrid


Group B
CSKA Moscow vs Vfl Wolfsburg

Manchester United vs PSV Eindhoven


Group C

Fc Astana vs Benfica

Atletico vs Galatasaray


Group D

Borussia Moenchengladbach vs Sevilla

Juventus vs Manchester City

If the warriors are able to defeat the Denver Nuggets in tonight's match then they will tie the record which is currently held by the Houston Rockets and Washington Capitols. The Warriors fought for a tough win against the Chicago Bulls with Steph curry's 27 points 5 rebounds and 4 assists. This was a fair game for Curry when compared to his other games because the Bulls did a great job on their defensive end from preventing those Unimaginable 3-points plays from Curry.

Photo Credit: Forbes


http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/high-expectations-as-steph-curry-and.html

Real Madrid stars bagged a stunning 4-0 defeat from their biggest rivals with goals from Luis Suarez, Neymar and Andres Iniesta. Barcelona fans were filled with joy as their forward Lionel Messi returns from a two-month injury. Good efforts could be seen from Real madrid Players during the second half of the match but the wall, Claudio Bravo, was simply magnificent from the start to the end of the match. Unfortunately for Real Madrid, Isco picked up a red card from a dangerous kick on Neymar.

Photo credit: Reuters.


http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/stunning-as-barcelona-defeats-real.html

After loosing their previous match against Stoke City, yesterday, Jose's side were able to defeat
Norwich by Diego costa's goal to put them in front. Chelsea is currently the 15th position on the table standings as Jose hopes to help Chelsea finish top four at the end of the season and he also admits that winning the title this season is a task only Tom Cruise would be able to do because it would be a "mission impossible" task. I love how realistic he can be.

http://www.thesoccerhooping.com/2015/11/haha-mourinho-finally-gets-win.html

The 28 year old has become an overnight sensation. From playing in non-league clubs, released by Sheffield Wednesday for being too small and working part-time jobs to leading his team to the top of the Barclays Premier League currently with 28 points. He is also the the highest goal scorer with 13 goals he recently equalized the record for the most consecutive goals in games that is being held by Ruud Van Nistelrooy. This lad is a young inspiration to many football players out there. How can one just burst out and achieve such in a short period of time?? JAMIE VARDY big ups to you man.

Photo Credit: Getty Images

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