Beautiful football might be what people demand, but results are what Del Bosque deals in first.

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Martinez continued his beautiful football philosophy in Swansea's first year back in English football's second tier for 24 years as the Welsh club narrowly missed out on a play-off place.

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He's a premiership player of the month and I've been watching him now for a little while and he's got beautiful football awareness and we wanted to have a look at him with 24 players not available for selection.

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But beautiful football demands fine players.

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It may be the beautiful game, but football's finances are looking ugly.

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There are moments that seem transcendent in their lives - a beautiful sunset, a football crowd filling a stadium with noise, or a moving piece of music.

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Or I wasted beautiful fall weekends watching dumb football games on television.

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The National Football League also announced that singer Jennifer Hudson would be performing America the Beautiful with the chorus from Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were killed in a mass shooting in December.

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"We have faith that the football family is resilient and will continue promoting the values of peace and coexistence through our beautiful game, " the Jordanian prince said.

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The stated aim of the league is to promote the beautiful game in India, a country of 1.2 billion people that has long languished in football's global rankings --158th in the world on FIFA's latest list.

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