Posted by Steven Cohen

Well the club season has finally come to an end after another amazing 10-month journey that we have all had the privilege to be a part of and it is our honor at World Football Daily to guide you on the journey.

It all ended, as we knew it would with either Inter Milan or Bayern Munich winning a treble, and as it turned out it was Jose Mourinho's treble. He led Inter to a Serie A title, a Coppa Italia championship, and closed their season with a 2-0 victory in the Champions League Final in Madrid and did so convincingly.

Lots to mention about what happened and some milestones reached.

Inter won their third European Cup/Champions League having won it previously in 1964 and 1965. They are also the first team in Italy to ever win The Treble.

Jose Mourinho becomes the youngest manager to win the European Cup/Champions League with two different clubs (Porto in 2004 was the other and Omar Hitzfeld with Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich and Ernst Happel did it with Feyernord and Hamburger SV.) Mourinho is making no bones or secrets that he wants to do it with three different clubs and he has without doubt coached Inter Milan for the last time. He will sign a 4 year deal worth £40 million with Real Madrid this week and it truly boggles the mind what he will be able to do with players like Ronaldo, Kaka, Higuain, Karim Benzema et al. Will he raid Inter Milan and bring back Wesley Sneijder, Maicon has already making noises that eh wants to go with Mourinho to Real Madrid. Or might he go and pick up someone like Steven Gerrard or Frank Lampard, which is also being rumored.

The thing about Jose Mourinho and why he is the best coach in the world is really simple. Yes he is a great tactician and man manager but it is the belief that he instills in his teams. Porto come from nowhere and won everything, he fell just short in Europe with Chelsea but led them to two Premier League titles (their first in 50 years) as well as FA Cups and Carling Cups. And now with Inter he has taken them to the next level. He inspires, he makes players believe and he will quite easily become the greatest manager of all time by the time he is done.

People say that he is only good with a checkbook and that he does not build sides and teams. I would say differently and I think that what he does stays with a team and those players long after he is gone. Frank Lampard is the greatest example of that in my opinion.

One last thing on Mourinho and what he has done in Italy while at Inter Milan. By winning the Champions League he and Inter saved Italy from losing there forth Champions League spot. So while the media apparently will be happy to see the back of him, he really has left his mark and as he put it "his work is done in Italy."

Add to that the signing by Barcelona of David Villa from Valencia this week and proposed signing of Cesc Fabregas from Arsenal and I think it is becoming pretty clear that Spain is fast becoming the go to league in world football. Spain is going to be the league to be watching next season, of that there is no question.

Samuel Eto'o has won the treble two years in a row. Obviously last year with Barcelona and this year with Inter Milan...pretty certain that has never been done.

Javier Zanetti played his 700th game for Inter Milan in Madrid on Saturday. Not a bad way to ring up number 700 by picking up the Champions League trophy.

I do not see how the Balon D'Or and World Footballer of the Year go to anyone but Diego Milito. He scored all the big goals. The goal to win Coppa Italia vs. Roma! He scored the goal last weekend at Siena that secured the title, and his brace in Madrid to win the cup with the big ears. Not sure what else he could do. He is a striker and he scores really big goals and it is only amazing to think that Maradona was going to leave him out of the Argentina squad preferring Boca Juniors Martin Palermo. In the end he is taking both and rightfully so.

The broadcast on Fox was pretty good as well. Curt Menefee looked pretty good and even sounded as if he had a passing knowledge for the game. Not sure about Bruce Arena or Eric Wynalda. Not sure what they really brought to the proceedings except to verify that they truly do not care for each other and of course Martin Tyler and Andy Grey were terrific. Nobody gets hurt when they do a game together.

All told it was a good day and especially for the US Soccer fan who got to see a game of such magnitude in HD and on network television...a serious first for America. Well-done Fox!

In the other huge game that was played on Saturday but this time at Wembley in front of 83,000 fans was the right to play off for the chance to land in the Premier League.

After a 39 year absence from the top flight of English football little old Blackpool will be visiting Old Trafford, The Emirates, Anfield and Stamford Bridge and even more wonderful all the Premier League teams will be visiting Bloomfield Road which only holds about 16,000 seats. The Seasiders are coming to the big time.

They beat Cardiff City at Wembley 3-2. All goals came in the first half and some of the goals were terrific although it should be mentioned that some of defending was pretty unbelievable. The second half was not nearly as good but Blackpool although dead tired hung on and won and in addition to a spot in the Premier League they are now guaranteed £90 million over the next 5 years. They have literally hit the lottery.

Great credit to Ian Holloway the Blackpool manager who is a quote machine and will be great value for money in the Premier League. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11689_6167787,00.html

He has bounced around in the lower leagues managing at Bristol Rovers, QPR, Plymouth Argyle and Leicester City before landing at Blackpool in May 2009. His only mission from the Chairman was to keep them in the Championship. A full year later he has got them to the Premier League. He is one of the footballs good guys and a real personality.

He is a very high profile campaigner for deaf issues and concerns as 3 or his 4 children are severely deaf. You are going to like Ian Holloway next season and you are going to like Blackpool Football Club and their see of tangerine.

Nice to see David Beckham visiting the British soldiers in Afghanistan. If I did not know better I would have thought that he has retired from football. Surely he should be in LA rehabbing under the watchful eye of the club that own his rights and are paying his salary.

MLS had a more spread out schedule than in previous weeks and some of the stories are becoming quite big and taking on a life of their own. With some teams having played 10 games we are at the one-third mark of the season.
DC United is a disaster having won just once in 9 games and all the others are losses not even a couple of draws. You do wonder for Curt Onalfo as they are already 14 points behind Columbus in the east and 10 points behind Toronto who would be the 3rd playoff team from east if at all ended today. Of course it doesn't all end today and DC United have 21 games to get something going.

The Red Bulls have just lost their second in a row at home to Seattle and Columbus respectively.

LA leads the league by some margin but with Buddle and Donovan gone on World Cup duty will be very interesting to see where their scoring is going to come from.

Seattle lost at home to San Jose, which was a shock any way you look at it as the Sounders have only won 3 times in 10 game. New England is really struggling as well. They won 2 or their first 3 (the loss was to the Galaxy on opening day) but since then have drawn 2 and lost 5.

Now our attention turns to the World Cup. The festivities kick off in 18 days in South Africa. This week will see a bunch of international friendlies as coaches start to look to reduce their squads by June 1st to 23 players.

Of course some managers like Dunga with Brazil did not even bother with a squad of 30. He knows his team, he knows who got him there and could Dunga be about to join that very rare group of men who have won the world cup as a player and a manager. There are only two: Franz Beckenbauer and Mario Zagallo. Of course Beckenbauer was the only one to captain a winning side and manage a winning side. Dunga who was Brazil's captain in 1994 would join The Kaiser in a very elite group.

Congratulations to Toluca in Mexico for wining the Mexican title on penalties against Santos Laguna...or so Kenny tells me.

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18 days until the festivities in South Africa begin.
Until then...
Steven