Black Managment Fifa 2001 Club Championship FINAL

Barcelona was a sure favorite before the last 8 and even the whole final tournament begin. They had their ups and downs in this tournament but in the final stage they got their groove on. Partrick Kluivert a fresh TOP SCORER of the International Cup, lead the way to the glory, with his great five goals in the final 8. Borussia Dortmund looked good and managed to advance to the final quite easy beating Molde and Strasborug but in the last game it was all about Barca. We can only think how the game whould look like if Dortmund had their Magic Duo in attack, but since Ikpeba gain indjury against Molde, Bobic had to struggle at his own. He did score a few goals, but Ikpeba was surely the missing spark in Dortmund attack. Barca did not take any prisoners in the final game and the score leaves no doubt who is the best team in this tournament. Check out the scores and highlights from the FINAL 8. Got your own memories connected with football games, any interesting managment carriers you want to share with others, comment or send Us your story with screen caps or YouTube links - michelblack.com@gmail.com

Black Managment Fifa 2001 International Cup FINAL

 From final 8 to just one team holding the cup! Holland did a great job but it was all about emotions! Austria suprised us one more time, England got things even with Argentina and France put on a great show on their road to the final. All in all Hollan in deed was the best team and they fully deserve that trophy. Patrick Kluivert is the name that will be remebred after this competition - he scored like hell and only the end of the game stoped him from scoring even more. The final game was a clash of great players. Kluivert vs. Anelka, Zidane vs. Bergkamp, Petit vs. Overmars and Van der Sar vs. Barthez!!! Check out the scores and highlights from the quaters, semis and the final it self!

BM Fifa 2001 Club Championship - GROUP STAGE

Here we are. 16 teams divided into 4 groups, to fight for the last 8. Check out the great games and goals. Who will be the star of the tournament? Rivaldo? Ljuboja? Masinga? Nikolaidis? Kluivert? Kanchelskis? Who will play in the last 8? Were there any suprises in the group stage? How about the goals? Any epic strikes? Don't wait, click on the post to read more and find out, who will play in the final 8 of the Black Managment Fifa 2001 Club Championship!!!

BM Fifa 2001 Club Championship Play-offs

Now we know everything. 16 teams are selected for the final club tournament. Last 2 of them are winners from the playoffs between Danmark, Sweden, Turkey and Israel. IFK Gothenbourg had a very close game against the danish Midtjylland. After two legs there was a 4:4 draw and since a golden goal extra time did not give any anwsers, game went to the penalties. IFK won 8:7 after an killer shootout and they will play in the finals. Galastasaray had also an close game with Netanya. First game they won at home 1:0. In the second Netanya took an early lead, but in the second half Galatasaray striker Jardel managed to equalise and things did not look good for Netanya. They won 2:1 but Galatasaray scored an away goal wich has given them a place in the final. Unfortunetly there is a little bug in the game. Galatasaray is the only one team in the category "other" in the game and you can't pick that category when creating a CUSTOM CUP, so I decided they will be disqualificated from the competition and Netanya took a place in the final. If you click on READ MORE, you will see the highlights from the playoff games and results of a group stage draw...

Fifa 2001 Italian Serie A Qualifications

Last qualifying tournament, took us to Italy. Only Serie A teams this time, but what more do you need, when you got AC Milan, Inter, Lazio, Roma, Juventus, Parma and Fiorentina i one competition. We had a few classics in this one and a lot of great goals scored by the superstars. But suprisingly no one from the favourites took that place in the final competition. Roma was close, Fiorentina even closer, but the true heroes turn out to be Bari. One of the underdogs of the Serie A, had a time of their lives beating the rest. In the final they won agains Fiorentina after a beautyful goal from the free kick scored by they star striker Masinga. If you still can't belive how that happened, chec out highlights and all the scores from Italy...

Fifa 2001 English Premier League Qualifications

We are almost there. England, Italy and play-off's to go and the finals will start. Football is coming home? Home of the most popular league in the world, that's for sure. Zola, Carbone, Yorke, Beckham, Fowler, Owen, Shearer, Henry, Bergkamp and many, many other football superstars in this one. We got United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea and Newcasle looking for the place in the final, but do not forget about others, as anything is possible in this one. Charlton and Derby looked good, taking easy wins in the pre qualify round, but in the first round they had to face some stronger sides. Derby took a confident win against Everton and belive it or not Charlton knock out Manchester United! So will the underdogs took a beating in the final 8 or maybe Arsenal and Liverpool should be worried? Looking for anwsers plus some fine Premier League classics, just click and check out all the highlights from English competition and find out who will represent England in the final tournament...

Fifa 2001 International Cup Last 16

Only 16 teams left and after that were straight in the last 8. Soon we will find out who is the best national team in Fifa 2001. Sensation of the competiton, that is Austria of course, just can't stop suprising. After a great game against Spain, the team now faced Yugoslavia. Again austrians did their job well, this time the game was really close and it was a single goal from Andreas Herzog that made the difference. In other games there were no sensations. I guess the big firms know what they play for and got their groove on crushing their rivals. Thanks to that we got some great classics to come in the final eight, but for now let's see the highlights from the last 16. So check out how Brazil, France and Germany are smashing their rivals. What about Holland, England and Argentina, did they also made it look easy? Read more...

Fifa 2001 French Ligue 1 Qualifications

French league is very equal since a last two decades. We got the famous PSG, Monaco and Marsille, but almost every season some new team pops up. Nantes, Lyon, Lens, Auxerre, Bordeaux all those teams are also considered to be strong and probably aim for the final. So as you can supose the competition was very equal and tight. Guingamp looked good in their first two games winning both with four goals (against Lille and Lens), but in the Quater finals Lyon stopped them. PSG faced Monaco in their first game... and lost with a single goal from Giuly. Strasbourg, St. Etienne, Lyon and Nantes that was the final four. Strasbourg show a great potential lead by their star striker Daniel Ljuboja and a great form from Zitelli. Ljuboja scored hattrick in the semis against St. Etienne and in the final game Strasbourg had to face Lyon. Olympique was a sure favourite but this time Zitelli made the difference. Two heroes of this competition Zitelli and Ljuboja given Strasbourg a suprise but deserved place in the finals.

Fifa 2001 Spanish Primera Division Qualifications

With 4 leagues left, some big names start to show up. You don't need a lot of time to find them in Primera Division. We got Barcelona and Real Madrid the famous arch rivals, who will it be this time? Well, Barca looked good right from the begining, but Real seemed to struggle. Meanwhile there were other teams that also wanted that place in the finals. I'm talking Atletic Bilbao, Real Zaragoza, Sociedad and Espanyol. Real won in the first game but in the quater finals Urzaiz scored them two goals and it was Bilbao who put the famous firm out of the competition. So it was Barcelona vs. rest of the league since then. Catalonians also struggled against Sociedad, but when it came to the final four they shown real power putting seven goals in the rivals net. It was a derby game against Espanyol so you can double the pain it took to carry that kind a score difference. In the final Barcelona had an easy win with Real Zaragoza and you can't call it a suprise, that this team will represent Spain in the finals. Chcec out all the scores and highlights of the games...

Fifa 2001 Interntional Cup 3rd Round

The big firms join the competition. We got Argentina, Brazil, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England etc. This stage will separete man from the boys and let us know who of the so called underdogs can really pretend to the title. Russia, Switzerland and Austria defenetly looked good in their first games. When it came to play with Brazil and France though, first two had to admit rivals skills to score. Austria did not had an easy start against Spain, but in the second half they looked like a totaly different team. Thanks to Weissenberger's fenomenal hattrick they not only came back from the grave but also won in the last minutes of the game, putting Spain out of the competition. Fighting to the end pays off as always in football, chceck out the highlights to these and other games and a lot of great goals in this one.

Fifa 2001 Germany Qualifications

Four best teams (Bayern, Bayer, Borussia D. and Schalke) joined the turnament in the late stage, but that did not mean that nothing happened till then, as those "so called" underdogs put on a nice show. So many suprises so far in Fifa 2001 regional club qualifications, that it whould not be another if someone from outside the top 4 managed to win this. At the begining Kaiserslautern looked strong along with FC Cologne, who's brilliant striker Donov put on a one man show everytime he step on the field. Scoring nine (!) goals in five games he grabbed the golden boot without even trying but did he put his team in the finals? Almost! Cologne was the black horse of this cup and it took Borussia Dortmund to stop them. Before they met Dortmund in the semi final they beat Frankfurt, Bochum, Werder and Schalke - how about that! But in the big final there was place for only two teams and those were Bayern and Borussia - a modern time Bundesliga classic. This time Dortmund was in a better shape so we will se them again in the finals...

Fifa 2001 MLS Qualifications

One of a few non-european leagues in the game so this is an important place in the final. Chicago Fire and DC United were I guess the major pretendents to that golden ticket and they did not dissapoint the fans. Only team that actually could bring a suprise was Miami Fusion, mainly thanks to their striker Lessiter who give the team a lot of confidence in their attacks and produce a key goals. But in the semi final Miami clashed with D.C. United and lost after a close game 1:2. In the final Fire was already waiting for their biggest rival but D.C. was stronger than they could possibly imagine. Chicago will remember this day for long, as D.C. provided them a lesson of counting, when goals kept coming one after another. It ended with four and that was far enough for D.C. to play in the finals.

Fifa 2001 Netherlands Qualifications

Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord. These three teams are always the strong favourites when it comes to Dutch football. In this tournamnet fans were also looking at Arnhem and Alkmaar wich are looking good lately. The tournament seemed to be interesting but who whould ever know that so many suprises will took place. Ajax and PSV lost in their first games! Utrecht took a confident 2:0 win against Amsterdam and Breda managed to pull of a stoppage time goal that give them a suprise win in Eindhoven. Arnhem lost with Heerenveen and Alkmaar had to admint Feyenoord was the better team after 1:2 lost. So basicly in the semi finals Feyenoord was the last man standing when it comes to the favourites and they did not stand long. Heerenveen took their chances and met in the grande finale, check out the highlights and see how it all went...

Fifa 2001 Scotland Qualifications

In Scotland the game plan is simple. It's always a fight against Celtic and Rangers and it whould be a huge suprise if any other team managed to secure a place in the finals. So who will it be this time? Celtic or Rangers? Defenetly not Celtic as they got an shocking result in their first game against Kilmarnock and were out of the tournament before it even started for them. But Kilmarnock were really on form and if you look from a wider perspective they deserved that win. Meanwhile Rangers were on the highway to the final and only team that could stopped them form playing in the finals was Kilmarnock. They didn't. It was all about Rangers, they played like they were from another dimension and took that tournament without even trying. Chceck out the highlights...

Fifa 2001 International Cup 2 Round Qualifications

Four new teams began to fight for glory in this round. We got Colombia, Japan, Norway and Russia joining the race for the final. All of them won their games eaisly. Norway had a tough battle against their neighbours from Finland who did well in the first round. This time Norway was better and after 2:0 win stayed in the competition. Russia considered themselfs lucky as they drawn Lebanon in this round but you never know, specialy since Japan won only 1:0 against the brave Mauritius. Well russians took no prisoners and Lebanon regreted joinin the cup in the first place as they lost 0:6 and were heavily knockedout from the tournament. Slovenia and Switzerland again shown a lot potential winnig cofidently against South Africa and Ireland. But the real test will came in the next round were Slovenia will play England and Switzerland will clash with France. Check out the rest of the scores and all the goals from this stage...

Fifa 2001 Brazil Qualifications

It's easy to find some great teams and big names in brazilian league, so fans were on their feet when the battle for a place in final tournament started here. Brazilian style always focused on attacking and scoring goals, this time it was no different so the goals kept coming. Fluminense won in the qualifications against Internacional but in the next game they were victims of Corinthians shootout, 7:0 and it looked like we have a favourites. But in this crazy goalfest nothing was sure. Botafago and Santos also looked sharp thanks to their super strikers Aranda and Almeida. Ofcourse we can't forget about the favourites Atletico Paranaense and Vasco da Gama. So who won in Brazil? Read more, watch the highlights and found out for yourself...

Fifa 2001 Korea Qualifications

They say that Korean league is not equal. Well we had some high flying teams in this one. For example Pusan Icons. These guys were demolishing every one and looked pretty sharp. But when it came to the decicive games Icons just could not bring it on. On the other side we got Suwan Bluewing, who struggle a bit, but consecvently were building they way into the final stage. They were the ones who beat Pusan in the semi final. But all in all when Anyang Cheetahs join the tournament in the semi finals, it was clear that they want the place in the final and they won't let it go. They looked like they were not even on their best form, but still managed to won the tournement easy. Chceck out the highlights from Korea...

Fifa 2001 Austria Qualifications

Austria Memphis was pretty angry it was them who had to start the turnament from day one while Sturm and Rapid were already in the Semi Finals. They decided to prove everyone was wrong and did pretty good in fact. Austrian international Mayrleb was scoring like crazy and Austria Memphis was in the final before they even know. In the "Clash of Titans" Sturm had a vary close battle with Rapid. The game went to penalties and Rapid had more cold blood. The final itself was not a big show. Austria must have put all they had in the past round as they were looking pretty shady out there. Rapid managed to score the only goal of the game and ironcly that one goal was all they needed to get the place in the finals. Check out the highlights from the tournament...

Fifa 2001 International Cup Round 1

32 teams started they road to the final in first round of qualifications. We already had some suprises, for example Australia, who were knocked out on their home ground by Slovenia. Cyprus lost against Mauritius and Lebanon beat Estonia. But most disapointing performances came from Greece and Poland. These two were named among the favourites for at least last 16, meanwhile both of them lost against Qatar and Kuwait.  So who did their homework? Defenetly Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Finland. All these teams won their games eaisly and although the rivals were not the strongest sides out there, a solid performance is always welcomed. Teams from Great Britain are also looking good. Wales took an away win against Egypt and Ireland won with South Korea. Make sure to check out the highlights with all the goals from the 1st Round...

Fifa 2001 Danmark Qualifications

In Danmark we have quite the situation from Israel as 12 teams arrived in the game. Again we divide those in  8 and 4 team mini-cups and winners meet in the final. Fifa 2001 seems to be harsh for the favourites, as again the main team goes out in the first game. Brondby was not easy to beat but Silkeborg made that one goal difference. In Norway Molde gain a lot confidence after defiting Rosenborg and in Danmark the same happened to Silkeborg when they won with Brondby. Another team to watch out for was Lyngby who won 2 first round with easy 3:0 scores. At the point no one seemed to notice another winner wannabe - FC Midtjylland, but that was the team that sneeked to the final beating Herfolge and Haderslev on the way and meeting with Silkeborg who managed to stop Lyngby in the semi final. In the last game the monster was finally unleashed and Midtjylland eaisly beat Silkeborg who many was already seeing as a winner. But that is not the end as Danmark champion will play in play-off games with winner from Sweden.