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The poll, in its 11th year, gives the users of UEFA.com the chance to pick a team of players who have lit up the European game over the last 12 months. Voting will run until 12.00CET on Thursday 5 January, before the final lineup is announced on Wednesday 18 January on UEFA.com and in the January edition of Champions, the official UEFA Champions League magazine. A total of 55 players and five coaches have been nominated to fill 11 positions on the pitch and one in the dugout. The nominees were selected by UEFA.com staff writers based on their daily coverage of football across the length and breadth of Europe. The players were chosen for their performances for a European club or national team, or in a UEFA club competition in 2011. The UEFA.com Team of the Year is not intended to rival more established awards and does not bear the official UEFA imprimatur. However, it has proved hugely popular with fans since its inception, with five million votes cast last year alone.  ...

By Tony Franco Cameron Douglas the troubled 33-year-old member of the famous Hollywood family was sentenced to four-and-a-half more years in prison on Wednesday for drug possession while in prison.   Born in Santa Barbara, California, the elder son of actor Michael Douglas and only child of Diandra Morrell Douglas (whom he divorced in 2000) and grandson of actor Kirk Douglas, got the sentence on top of the five years he is already serving.  Cameron, once an aspiring actor, whose public addiction with methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine sent him previously to jail in 1999 and 2007, received the additional jail time, after his father Michael, wife Catherine Zeta-Jones and grandfather Kirk Douglas had sent in letters, requesting leniency, during his original sentencing. Cameron sent in a letter himself to Judge Richard Berman in New York, in which he wrote were that he felt saturated in his own shame and penitence and that his drug addiction had "robbed him of a ...

By Tony Franco The Forty-Niners winners of 5 Super Bowls, played the Steelers who have 6 Championship Titles and this time,  The   49ers  top-ranked defense once again, did an excellent job to beat ailing quarterback  Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers  20-3 in Monday Night Football. Vernon Davis  caught a 1-yard touchdown pass for the 49ers (11-3) one play after setting himself up with a 21-yard reception from  Alex Smith ,  Frank Gore  scored on a 5-yard run, and  David Akers  kicked 2 field goals (22 and 38 yards) to overtake Hall of Famer  Jerry Rice  for  San Francisco' s single-season scoring record. The Steelers (10-4) missed an important opportunity to take possession of first place in the AFC North and gain the AFC's No. 1 playoff seed. A transformer outside the stadium blew out right before the game and the lights were out twice! The first time the game was de...

Sold-out tour in Mexico The artist premieres the highly anticipated video for the hit single “La Noche” Univision announced the nominees for Premio Lo Nuestro 2012 Latin music awards where Mexican superstar Gloria Trevi , received three nominations in the following categories :  Pop Album of The Year  “Gloria,”  Pop Song of The Yea r “Me Rio De Ti” and  Female Artist of The Year . Gloria’s latest album “Gloria” is one of the best selling albums of the year and her singles “Me Rio de Ti,” “Vestida de Azucar” and “La Noche” have been on Top of the charts in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Mexico and Latin America.  She’s been on tour for the past few months in Mexico selling out all the venues, including three nights at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City. Voting for the award show takes place from December 1 to December 19.    http://musica.univision.com/ premio-lo-nuestro/nominados/

UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Zinédine Zinedine in action during the 2010 Match Against Poverty©Getty Image UEFA- Some 30 international stars will join Brazilian and French greats Ronaldo and Zinédine Zidane at the ninth UEFA-supported Match Against Poverty in Hamburg on Tuesday, with most of the proceeds going towards addressing the ongoing food crisis in the Horn of Africa. Ronaldo and Zidane are Goodwill Ambassadors for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and are putting together a team of famous players for a friendly match at the Hamburg Arena against an all-star side from Hamburger SV (kick-off 19.05CET). These top names include Fabio Cannavaro, Luís Figo, Pavel Nedvěd and Didier Drogba, while the likes of Jörg Albertz, Sergej Barbarez and Richard Golz will turn out for the Bundesliga club. The annual Match Against Poverty seeks to mobilise the public to fight against poverty and promote action on the UN's Millennium Development Goals – eight internationall...