International Soccer: Colombia's Dream Team

Colombia Soccer Jersey has always had multiple players that have shined in the national and international spotlight. Their past and recent struggles to qualify for the FIFA World Cup does not justify the skillful players that Colombia has produced in the past 20 years.

They enjoyed their golden years during the 1990s when they qualified for all of three World Cups held during that decade. Soccer's greatest player, Pele, told the media before the 1994 World Cup held in the United States, that Colombia was going to come out on top and lift the trophy.

Since their disappointing performance in the '94 World Cup, Colombian soccer has gone through some tough years which have seen them unable to qualify for the World Cup since 1998. There have been many players that have shown the world what Colombian soccer has to offer and have taken their country to new heights.
Let's take a look at Colombia's dream team. The team is based on 4-3-3 formation.

Soccer in everyday life in England

Let's take a hop across the pond to England for some fun soccer stories.

Offside explanation on the money?

In honor of this summer's London Olympics, England's Royal Mint issued new designs for the 50-pence coin, each highlighting one of the 29 sports in the Games.
The soccer coin features a graphical explanation of the offside law, one of sport's most challenging rules to simply explain.
Production journalist Neil Wolfson came up with the design, which uses triangles to represent the attacking team and squares for the defending team.
Arrows show potential passes for the attacker with the ball; the teammate level with the second-to-last player from the defensive team is listed as "not offside," while the other between the two defensive players is shown as "offside."
As if to underscore the confusing nature of the law, some referees criticized Wolfson's design – which was selected over nearly 30,000 entries – as inaccurate as it doesn't point out the 1995 revision that it is "not an offense in itself to be in an offside position." Wolfson responded by noting that there is no mention of any offense on the coin.
"Neil Wolfson designed his coin in the hope that it would encapsulate football in a simple image," according to the Royal Mint website. "As the offside rule is a perennial talking point, the image is designed to provoke discussion, which was what he was aiming for."

Something borrowed and blue

Longtime Manchester City supporter Karen Bell didn't follow all of the wedding traditions when she got married to a fellow Blues fan last month, but she certainly met two of them.
The 38-year-old made her own wedding dress, using her husband's old City jerseys.
"We wanted to do something different because we have both been married before," Karen Bell told the Manchester Evening News. "It was a labour of love. I was at the sewing machine six nights a week."
After the ceremony on Dec. 21, the happy couple rushed off to Etihad Stadium, where they watched Manchester City thump Stoke City 3-0.

Fabulous FA Cup goals

Premier League teams enter the FA Cup in the third round, and this weekend's matches produced two stellar strikes by Frenchmen.
Midfielder Arnaud Mendy came up with an impressive volley as Macclesfield Town of League Two, three levels below the Premier League, tied Bolton 2-2 to earn a replay against the Premier League side.


Meanwhile, Hatem Ben Arfa showed off his considerable skills on a tremendous run and thunderous finish to help Newcastle United oust fellow Premier League side Blackburn Rovers 2-1.