Lars Bender - Leverkusen

Bayer-Leverkusen (BL) came from behind to keep their great Bundesliga title hopes alive with a vital 2-1 win over struggling St Pauli. Charles Takyi gave the visitors the lead in the fifty seventh minute and some seconds, but Stefan Kiessling deservedly levelled nine minutes later. Lars Bender earned Leverkusen the win with thirteen minutes remaining to move them within five precious points of league leaders Borussia Dortmund with 5 (five) games of the season left to play.

Lars Bender Leverkusen - Scoring

Michael Ballack squandered the first chance of the game in the twelfth minute, powering his effort too close to St Pauli goal keeper Benedikt Pliquett.

Arturo Vidal has missed an even easier chance in the thirty eighth minute and some seconds when he was given time and room to shoot on the edge of the six yard box next being picked out by Tranquillo Barnetta, one of the team player but he did not find the target. St Pauli took the lead against the run of play when Florian Bruns' cross was met by Takyi at the near post and he managed to divert the ball beyond the reach of Fabian Giefer into the far corner.

The goal stung Leverkusen and they responded immediately. Sidney Sam was rightly adjudged to be offside from Barnetta's pass when he played his shot in off the underside of the crossbar in the sixty first minute and some seconds.

Kiessling levelled five minutes later, though, rounding off an excellent team move involving Gonzalo Castro and Eren Derdiyok, who ripped the St Pauli defence apart.

Ballack got closer to scoring with two successful kicks, the 1^st just missing the post and the 2^nd pushed away by Pliquett, before Bender put the home side in front in the seventy seventh minute and some seconds.

His kick wriggled just under Pliquett and trickled over the line to earn Leverkusen all three points.

Lars Bender - Leverkusen

Bosnian Football Federation Suspended (Exclusive Update)

The Bosnian (Bosnia-Herzegovina) Football Federation (FFBH and NSBIH) has been crushed and dismissed until any new notice by Fédération Internationale de Football Association Federation and Union of European Football Associations as-of today, This news belongs to 1 April 2011. The decision was necessary as the General Assembly of the FFBH did not adopt the statutes according to Fédération Internationale de Football Association and Union of European Football Associations requirements.


The governing and action Committees of Fédération Internationale de Football Association Federation (28th  Oct 10) and Union of European Football Associations (4th Oct 10) have requested the FFBH to adopt the hard statutes according to Fédération Internationale de Football Association Federation and Union of European Football Associations less requirements by no later than 31^st  March 11, other wise the FFBH would be automatically crushed or dismissed.

The FFBH GA (General Assembly), held in Sarajevo (an state) on 29^th  Mar 11, didn’t acheve the necessary quorum of suport to adopt the FFBH statutes, with only 22 out of the 54 delegates present voting in favor of amending the FFBH statutes. As a result, the FFBH has lost all of its member ship rights with immediate impact and until further action. The FFBH front desk and club groups are no longer entitled to take part in international tournaments as of 1^st Apr 11 and until the aforementioned issues are resolved. It also seems that, as of 1^st Apr 11, no FFBH executive or rep. may participate in any international tournament or get together.

Fédération Internationale de Football Association Federation and Union of European Football Associations deeply regret that this action had to be taken and will meet shortly to discuss the further steps required, to try to bring the FFBH support into the football leagues or families as-soon-as-possible.

Bosnian Football Federation Suspended (Exclusive Update)