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Thursday, July 15, 2010




Chelsea Football Club (pronounced /ˈtʃɛlsiː/) are an English professional football club based in west London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four times. They have also been successful in Europe, winning the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup twice.[2]
The club had their first major success in 1955, when they won the league championship. Chelsea won several cup competitions during the 1960s and 1970s, but after that did not win another major title until 1997. The past decade has been the most successful period in Chelsea’s history, capped by winning Premier League titles in 2005, 2006 and 2010, and reaching their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008.
Despite their name, the club are not based in Chelsea, but in neighbouring Fulham. The club's home is the 41,841 capacity Stamford Bridge football stadium in Fulham,[1] where they have played since their establishment. In 2003, they were bought by Russian oil magnate Roman Abramovich.[3]
Chelsea's regular kit colours are royal blue shirts and shorts with white socks, the combination used since the 1960s. The club crest has been changed several times in attempts to modernise or re-brand; the current crest, featuring a ceremonial lion holding a staff, is a modified version of one first adopted in the 1950s.[4] The club has sustained the fifth highest average all-time attendance in English football.[5] Their average home gate for the 2009-10 season was 41,423, the fifth highest in the Premier League.[6]

Monday, July 12, 2010





Matches
Wed, Jun 16 (Group H) 10:00am EDT
Flag of
Spain 0 - 1
Flag of
Switzerland
Moses Mabhida Stadium
Durban
Mon, Jun 21 (Group H) 2:30pm EDT
Flag of
Spain 2 - 0
Flag of
Honduras
Ellis Park
Johannesburg
Fri, Jun 25 (Group H) 2:30pm EDT
Flag of
Chile 1 - 2
Flag of
Spain
Loftus Versfeld Stadium
Pretoria
Tue, Jun 29 (Round of 16) 2:30pm EDT
Flag of
Spain 1 - 0
Flag of
Portugal
Green Point Stadium
Cape Town
Sat, Jul 3 (Quarterfinal) 2:30pm EDT
Flag of
Paraguay 0 - 1
Flag of
Spain
Ellis Park
Johannesburg
Wed, Jul 7 (Semifinal) 2:30pm EDT
Flag of
Germany 0 - 1
Flag of
Spain
Moses Mabhida Stadium
Durban
Sun, Jul 11 (Final) 2:30pm EDT
Flag of
Netherlands 0 - 1
Flag of
Spain
Soccer City
Johannesburg
Flag of
Roster
Coach
Vicente del Bosque
Played
Goals
Red Cards
Yellow Cards
Goalkeeper
1 Iker Casillas 7 0 0 0
23 José Manuel Reina 0 0 0 0
12 Víctor Valdés 0 0 0 0
Defender
11 Joan Capdevila 7 0 0 1
5 Carles Puyol 7 1 0 1
15 Sergio Ramos 7 0 0 1
3 Gerard Piqué 7 0 0 1
4 Carlos Marchena 3 0 0 0
17 Álvaro Arbeloa 1 0 0 0
2 Raúl Albiol 0 0 0 0
Midfielder
8 Xavi 7 0 0 1
14 Xabi Alonso 7 0 0 1
16 Sergio Busquets 7 0 0 1
6 Andrés Iniesta 6 2 0 1
10 Cesc Fábregas 4 0 0 0
21 David Silva 2 0 0 0
20 Javi Martínez 1 0 0 0
Forward
9 Fernando Torres 7 0 0 0
7 David Villa 7 5 0 0
18 Pedro 5 0 0 0
22 Jesus Navas 3 0 0 0
19 Fernando Llorente 1 0 0 0
13 Juan Mata 1 0 0 0