Articles tagged with "Spain"
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 29th, 2008
Germany and Spain haven't met in a major tournament for 20 years and only on three occasions overall. Here's a quick rundown of the games:
Euro ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 29th, 2008
After today's 90 (or 120) minutes of action, we'll have to start thinking about club football again. So I was wondering which team had the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 29th, 2008
We've been a reasonably accurate group of voters so far. We predicted Spain would beat Russia, just as we predicted victory for Germany over Turkey.
We ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 28th, 2008
If Spain doesn't win this one, they'll never win one. Michael Ballack is fresh off a calf injury and now in doubt for the final; ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 28th, 2008
With one game left to crown either Spain or Germany the new European champion, it's time to take a look at each one's strengths and ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 28th, 2008
It's Spain vs Germany in Vienna tomorrow, but unfortunately not everyone can be Spanish or German and have a team in the Euro 2008 final. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 28th, 2008
We've spent a fair bit of time ogling the womenfolk of Euro 2008. It's all part of what makes tournament football so very very ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 27th, 2008
Each round of the group stage, we presented a lineup of the players we felt had the best performances. But that was the group ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 27th, 2008
The nickname typically applies to the team, but I think in the case of this picture, The Red Fury applies just as well to the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 27th, 2008
Listen, I'm not saying Andrei Arshavin is a bad player. Clearly he's a very very good player. Russia with Arshavin were a much more dangerous ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 27th, 2008
You've got to feel for David Villa. The Spain striker injured a muscle in his right leg during last night's 3-0 semi-final win over Russia, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Player of the Day: Sergio "Hot As Balls" Ramos. All over the place, stuffing Russian attackers, hassling Russian defenders. Probably the first game he's played ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Everyone expected a vastly different game from the first encounter, but it was damn near the same thing right down to the scoreline and weather ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 26th, 2008
I couldn't get myself to write the daily "what have we learned" posts, because what we basically learned was how to play football, thanks to ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 26th, 2008
24 years ago, a Spanish team was headed to the European Championship final. But Luis Aragones' Spain side will not be looking to emulate ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Spain's Carles Puyol and Russia's Andrei Arshavin challenge for a ball during this evening's semi-final in Vienna. Puyol is remarkably good in the air for ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
SEMI-FINAL 2
June 26th, 2045 CET, Vienna (Austria)
Spain3
VS
Russia 0
Xavi 55', Guiza 73', Silva 82'
GAME Germany v Spain it is.
Silva gol:
Guiza gol:
UEFA is saying a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Neither of these teams were supposed to be here. Spain because of their history and Russia partly because of the history they don't have. But ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Grumpy old Luis Aragones is not too happy about Spain having to wear their away shirts against Russia tonight. Why? Because Spain have abandoned the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 26th, 2008
There are two games left in Euro 2008, the semifinal between Spain and Russia, and the final between the winner of that match and Germany. ...
Posted on: Russia Euro 2008 Blog by Nick | Jun 25th, 2008
Hello again to all. I just wanted to share my preview prior to the Russia Spain semi-final.
As you all know Spain and Russia met in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
In our latest Euro 2008 Podcast, we discuss the possibility of Euro 2008 expansion. Is 16 teams enough? Is co-hosting a good idea? I try ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
Are you amazed that Spain seem to have broken their curse? The team hadn't been to the semi-finals of any major tournament since 1984 (where ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 25th, 2008
We all know that Euro 2008 is about more than just the play on the pitch. No, this isn't another post about hot fans. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
The Unlikely Fan, obviously still reeling from his adopted Oranje's exit from the tournament and taking it about as well as Hillary Clinton, gives his ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
Before Euros started, I posted about some of the things people could bet on and the pre-tournament odds they could get. (Fernando Torres was ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 24th, 2008
These are the unheralded heroes for each team, two were pretty difficult to pick (I'll have you guess which ones), who will make the biggest ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
Your Euro 2008 semi-finalists are: Turkey, Germany, Russia, Spain. Of these four teams, only Spain are unbeaten. Turkey lost to Portugal, Germany lost to Croatia ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 23rd, 2008
The collective wisdom is that it's good for a national team to have players playing in the big leagues outside their own country. If ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 22nd, 2008
Some news to read as you use your bra to send a message to rescuers:
Spain and Italy's bore draw gives soccer a bad name (EPL ...
