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How the team is turned out during matches or at training says a lot about a football club. It is not all about image however, there is only one thing more likely to increase team morale than well designed and manufactured teamwear, and that is winning. Quite simply the players feel so much more proud if they are wearing football kits that are the standard of the entire club. Let us take a closer look in some of the ways your club will profit by procuring club wear.Better team play – It is statistically proven that a group of people wearing teamware is far more likely to act as a team than a similar group of people wearing miscellaneous clothing. Boost your team’s performance by supplying them with football team kits.Improved image – If you want your team to be taken seriously then it not only needs to play good, it needs to look good. Matching football kits across the team instantly makes the club look successful and prosperous, this can be a benefit when facing clubs without common football kits, and they will almost instantly perceive you to be the more professional club. This leads to a significant physiological advantage.Reduced cost – Whether you choose to entirely finance the of your clubs football kits or intend to work some kind of discount scheme for your players, then custom football kits offer great value. Instead of players purchasing their football kits and teamware individually, the will be able to exploit the buying power of the club, who will most likely bulk buy to receive a discounted price. This price can then be passed on the player. This strategy could also work for most forms of club apparel such as team shirts.Great for the young – For the youngsters playing youth football kits are an important part of the experience. By putting your young players into youth football kits you will be encouraging them to build a sense of the team, along with instilling a sense of camaraderie. Both of these are extremely beneficial to a young, growing personality. Your young players will get far more enjoyment and benefit from their match play when wearing youth football kits.So there we have it, several excellent reasons why purchasing teamware and club wear, including football kits and team shirts makes perfect sense. By purchasing your football kits and other teamware from a reputable on-line retailer you will have access to a far wider range of products at much lower prices. Most on-line retailers of club wear will offer significant bulk order discounts, perfect for a club wishing to leverage the best value from their football kits. Additionally, many on-line teamware stores are keen to offer advice when trying to choose the color, design or quality of the teamware you are considering purchasing for your club. So why wait? Take a step towards a better team and supply them with proper football kits.

We are pleased to announce our new partnership. Train and Play the Italian Way

Australian Football Players is pleased to announce a unique partnership with Italy’s Ascoli Soccer Academy. This partnership will not only forge relationships between Australian Football Players and Italian football clubs like Ascoli Calcio 1898 but we are now able to offer Australian players and teams the opportunity to travel to Italy and participate in Camps, Trials and Year Long Soccer Courses. Ascoli Soccer Academy and Ascoli Calcio 1898 technical staff conduct trials both in Italy and abroad. We hope to bring both Academy and Club to Australia in the near future to conduct trials. 

The Italian Football Academy (IFA)- Ascoli Soccer Academy has brought together the experience of its’ own technical staff and the experience acquired from the Perugia Football Club’s coaching staff to create a unique developmental institution. Australian Football Players has now joined Ascoli Soccer Academy in a consolidated effort to bring advanced player and coach education to local Australian clubs. Australian Football Players and Ascoli Soccer Academy have identical philosophies which clearly put an emphasis on structured and methodical football education. Australian Football Players, as the Australian based affiliate, will work closely on a yearly basis with the academy to identify quality players and possibly fill its’ ranks in the Italian professional league. Australian Football Players will also provide learning opportunities for youth coaches as the demand for “higher learning” continuous to increase. The Ascoli Soccer Academy technical organization chart consists of 80 observers and 20 supervisors distributed along the national territory, all of them coming from multi-year professional experiences.  

Every football season Ascoli Soccer Academy staff are required to attend affiliated team games and try-outs as part of a monitoring process impacting over 16000 young players per year. The goal is to identify and assess qualified players to possibly join other professional youth players in the Italian 1st Division (Serie “A”, “B” or C).  

The Italian Football Academy (IFA) has consolidated the experience developed by its own technical staff and the experience acquired from the Perugia Football Club’s technical staff in the nearly 10 year long co-operation.In IFA we like to stress the idea of making football scouting, education and player’s improvement as a unique and whole concept of the company mission. Further to this we have created a wide network of affiliated teams, both national and international, plus many observers coordinated by local areas and all coming from direct past experiences in the world of soccer.The results of this complex and organized activity takes us to identifying the best players who can then be selected to join professional youth players of Italian Serie A, B or C championships. Moreover, at the end of each sport season, players chosen by IFA are primarily selected to join IFA’s junior national teams main partner such as Ascoli Calcio 1898.The IFA project was born on the wake of Perugia soccer Club which, even if excluded last 2005 from the professional chanpionship, have left talented sport managers heritage to increase new teams fortunes. And this is what our staff does right today.IFA and Ascoli Calcio 1898 co-share the mentality and carried out the idea of Ascoli Soccer Academy. Ascoli Soccer Academy unique target is to enrich Ascoli’s youth teams and, possibly after a while, the main professional team.Inside Ascoli Soccer Academy project a great importance is given to international aspects. In fact our management is continuously “on the road” monitoring and analyzing the practise of the game even in those countries where football is still not very popular. Activities such as Camps or Year Long Soccer Course normally host multi-cultural applicants, but we invite you to take a look to the proper web section for these.IFA has its main headquarter in Perugia, where we benefit of qualified and experienced structures such as the Convitto Nazionale “Principe di Napoli” in Assisi, the prestigious “University for Foreigners of Perugia” and all the sport partners we work with since many years so far. Since last year we have settled also into Ascoli Calcio’s main headquarter in Ascoli. This new branch and the IFA’s staff operating by there work in order to facilitate co-operation and fulfil any technical and organizational requirement. By creating this new branch we will also be able to maximize the co-operation with all national and international affiliated clubs.  

For further information for Australian players, clubs and teams, please contact Australian Football Players through our website www.australianfootballplayers.com.au or call Sergio Garcia direct on +61 2 414 997 205.

There’s a saying: ‘Money can’t buy you happiness’. If you’re a football club owner with the biggest budget on the market you can buy best players, that can make you happy. Now, if those players do not make you good profit, would that not make you happy? Not if you are a billionaire, what are millions in compare to billions.

With a net worth of $10, $20, $30 billion, are you to invest money and much of your time in something that may bring you profit over the years of no more than several hundreds of millions or losses in the same value? How could you spend a billion anyway?

You buy the most expensive cars, houses, yachts, airplanes, all that luxury still may not top $1 billion. Pleasure among machines, butlers, personnel, can make you feel like a saddened King from fairy-tales. There must be a more humanly joy.

You buy a media exposure, be in the spotlight where everybody are watching, you move masses of tens of thousands of people in the stadium as if they are marionettes and you are a wire-puller, you build your own fantasy world.

You make news headlines by being a super spender in the most watched sporting league in the world. Yes, you buy yourself a top football club and it wouldn’t cost you more than a billion or so! You become a real-time Fantasy Football Manager.

Fantasy Football Manager is a football management simulation computer game first released in 1980s where you are the General Manager of your very own fantasy football team. Nowadays, most popular sports web-sites offer a chance for visitors to play the Fantasy Football League Management game.

In the real-time world, Chelsea FC was purchased by a billionaire in June 2003. Since then, the club is witnessing record losses, the billionaire’s involvement with Chelsea is described by Wikipedia as ‘to have distorted the football transfer market throughout Europe, as his wealth often allows the club to purchase players virtually at will (frequently at inflated prices), without regard for the effects on the club’s financial outturn’.

How does this effect the reality of football? Football becomes a sub-real simulation of its own reality. With one club owner having limitless budget, his/her football knowledge, work and skills of managing a club do not effect his/her success in the business, billionaire can continue to bring in the expensive players, sack head-coaches upon his/her desire.

Even if the club suffers the biggest financial losses in football world, the club will not go to bankruptcy as the billionaire will add additional hundreds of millions since the football club’s budget does not depend on its football performance.

How does this effect the game of football? There doesn’t seem to be much sportsmanship for one club to buy world top players (so many that a half of them will be reserves) while many other clubs can’t afford to pay one or two such players for their first team.

The beauty of the game suffers as well. In two and a half years with Portugal’s FC Porto coach Jose Mourinho won 2 domestic titles, including the European Champions League title in May 2004 by eliminating clubs with far greater budgets. Several months later Mourinho, named the world’s best coach in 2004, was brought to Chelsea.

In just 3 years he managed to win 2 league titles, including club’s first championship in 50 years, 1 FA cup, 2 Carling Cups, along setting several Premier League records. Mourinho at Chelsea did more than simple buying world football super-stars like Real Madrid C.F. did at that time, he offered contracts to players who were to develop to some of the world’s best team-players playing for Chelsea.

Chelsea as a sovereign ruler of England’s football fields and a perfect football team was as if not offering enough excitement for the club’s billionaire owner. After winning consecutive titles, Chelsea signed two major football super-stars, Shevchenko (for a British record transfer fee) and Ballack, both of which did not match Mourinho’s concept of team play.

It was the beginning of one great football mind’s end with Chelsea, Mourinho was fired as the most successful head-coach in club’s history in the years of his success. Welcome to the real-time Fantasy Football Manager as a spectator, player or head-coach!

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Being a football fan is all about showing moral support, shouting at the telly, showing pride and wearing your teams colour.  Now fans are offered the chance to go on to the next level and not just support their club with pride but also help their much-loved football club financiall (without costing a penny) and build loyalty between you the fan and the football club.

This new incentive is the official football club credit card.  Many professional footballers, along with thousands of fans around the UK already own their own super cool football credit card and you can too – absolutely free!!  When you first apply for your football credit card, the credit card issuer, (most cards issued by MBNA Europe Bank Limited), makes an initial contribution to the football club for each account opened and used for the first time.  After that, every time you use your football club credit card to make a card purchase the football club recieves more valuable contribution based on the amount you spend.  Your club will continue to recieve financial contributions from the card issuer based on how often you use your football club credit card.  As you can imagine, this means a lot to the football clubs, and it won’t cost you a penny extra. These valuable contributions will go towards the football clubs Youth Development Academies, Schemes and Programmes.  This will help bring in young talented home grown players through the clubs youth teams into professional level.  You are in effect, helping to build the long term future of your favourite football club.

You can apply online and there is a wide range of football credit card from top UK football clubs. The Official Football Credit Cards are themed with each team’s colours and logo, there is now a football credit card available for almost every single Premiership Team, with more being introduced all the time.

All of these football credit cards feature introductory interest FREE offers on balance transfers and purchases and have APRs that rival those available on standard credit cards, making supporting your team in this way even more beneficial.  One of the major bonuses associated with football credit cards is the fantastic reward schemes that many football clubs offer their credit card holders as a means of thanking their fans for their support. The reward schemes available vary greatly between teams with some offering the opportunity to earn reward points each time you spend, while others offer discounts or cashback on season ticket purchases, interest bonuses based on your teams performance or run special ‘money can’t buy’ prize drawers for their card holders.

Take your support to the next level with the your football clubs credit card.  Apply now, don’t miss out.

Alan Hutton who is absent from screen for a long time stay behind on the sidelines due to foot pain. According to Keane, he has no complaint against Rafael Benitez who is Liverpool manager but he said that he could have been a victory at the football club. The partnership between Keane and the reds cost twenty million.In Torres nonappearance, it was completely clear that Keane was not playing at his best when playing the solitary striker’s position. He was favored by Benitez. His opportunities and goals were limited. The republic of Ireland captain’s vision shift to Merseyside in the blink of an eye and turned to distress and culminated in back to white hart lane. However, Keane’s self-belief has not been damaged by Liverpool dissatisfaction and regret.No doubt, Keane is focusing on skills to make more and more goals during game and he claimed that he can score well being in charge of the reds. He said that he is getting into dispute with everyone and he respects for people and what they do. He respects Rafa for his picks in his team but he doesn’t know how to fit in his team to play football. Rafa, the team leader had his own opinion for set up system in football and he is a different boss.According to Arsene winger, Arsenal team is strong enough to meet the challenges. However, at the end of Russian premier league season at late November 2008, Arshavin had not played a competitive match. On the other hand, the Gunner’s manager claimed that their team has become unbeaten in 10 football league games. It is at the top fourth position and can hold secure and positive results. Winger confirmed that their team is maturing enough with younger. They got victory against Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester united. Now, their team can defeat and compete with any other team.The Arsenal manager said that his team is challenging, motivated and talented and there is hundred percent chances to make an impact. Abou Diaby is a midfielder and he is out of team due to injury of thigh. Yet, defender Mikael Silvestre is not available and Winger Emmanuel Eboue has recovered from a similar dilemma. Striker Eduardo and Theo Walcott continue their treatment for shoulder. Tomas Rosicky and Captain Cesc Fabregas are out of screen for long.Arsenal manager said that they are not in hurry to decide who should be in the squad and who should not. He has reservations to play game because players are not ready to participate in game because of their injuries.Premier league livescore and football results are available at ScoresPro.com