Articles tagged with "World Football"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by football365 | May 8th, 2008
As a South African and a fan of football I was overjoyed when FIFA awarded my home country the rights to host the 2010 World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 25th, 2008
While the briefly hyped idea of bringing back the British Home Championships seems to have died a death, the idea of England playing Scotland is ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 23rd, 2008
There's an almighty battle brewing that could well determine the future of European football, and it involves two of the world's biggest bureaucracies. FIFA and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 22nd, 2008
Interesting idea from Adidas... their new commercial will be sending big names to small places. For example, the likes of David Beckham and Steven Gerrard ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Apr 19th, 2008
Are you going to be enjoying the Olympics this summer?
You'll be doing it without France National Team coach Raymond Domenech, who won't be ...
Which Men's Football Teams Are Olympic-Bound? (Plus: Irrelevant Bonus! Sepp Blatter's Phone Number!)
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Apr 16th, 2008
While I was searching out info for this post, I stumbled on a 56-page document with all of the FIFA regulations for Olympic soccer. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Apr 15th, 2008
If you've ever caught any clip of French football commentary (in French), chances are that you're familiar with the rough, enthusiastic voice of Thierry Gilardi. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 15th, 2008
So Romário is finally, officially, retired at the age of 42. You can definitely argue that his career went on a few seasons - and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 14th, 2008
Ever wondered why the Olympic football tournament isn't as good as it should be? Look no further than FIFA. The general consensus is that FIFA ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Apr 8th, 2008
One more game and the US Women will be joining the men on the trip to China. All they have to do is beat ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 4th, 2008
Uh-oh. This can't be helpful. As Australia prepares its bid to host the 2018 World Cup, there's about to be some infighting over who has ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 4th, 2008
Football news form World Cup Blog, The Offside and elsewhere...
Lazy journalists make easy April Fools victims (Tunisia WCB)
The best team in Europe (Netherlands WCB)
Future phenoms ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
One of the greatest things about international tournaments is seeing young talent burst onto the international scene. Remember Wayne Rooney announcing himself to the world ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
It's not often that footballers take a political stance. Do you know how Wayne Rooney feels about the hybrid embryonic stem cell debate in the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
Lovely links from around WCB, The Offside and elsewhere...
Lippi never saying never (Italy WCB)
Polish goalies on the move? (Poland WCB)
Week 12 action in Mexico (Mexico ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 1st, 2008
Big news from last night is that Hugo Sanchez finally got himself fired. He might be arguably Mexico's greatest ever player, but his spell in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 1st, 2008
That's right, Berti Vogts is once again employed as an international football manager. I know it's April Fool's Day, but I'm pretty sure this is ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 31st, 2008
You've probably seen Cristiano Ronaldo's ridiculously good goal for Man Utd against Aston Villa by now. A flick with his back leg, through Martin Laursen's ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 28th, 2008
The last of the 16 qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Men's Football tournament was decided on Wednesday, with Nigeria U23 getting the necessary three points ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 28th, 2008
If Arsene Wenger thinks no one cares about international friendlies anymore, he needs to talk to some Estonia fans. Because those people definitely wanted their ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2008
Arsene Wenger was busy predicting the end of international friendlies today. After watching his native France beat England 1-0 at the Stade de France you'd ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2008
Recent international newcomers Montenegro claimed their biggest scalp yet last night with a 3-1 win over Norway. Igor Burzanovic, Branko Boskovic and Radomir Djalovic got ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
Alexandre Pato made his international debut for Brazil with the usual hype (guilty here) and pressure on him to perform. And as usual he delivered.
Just ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
Latest links from around World Cup Blog ahead of all today's games (some of which have already happened)...
Pharaohs vs Albiceleste preview (Egypt Blog
And live ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
When it comes to international football, it's very hard to be neutral. But we're going to ask you to try anyway.
With a whole world of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 25th, 2008
Sweden vs Brazil tomorrow isn't just any old game. It was arranged to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 World Cup Final between the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 24th, 2008
Hard to know what to make of the CONCACAF U-23 Olympic Qualifying Final. The two finalists - USA and Honduras - had both qualified for ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 24th, 2008
The squads were named over the weekend for Spain vs Italy - arguably the most mouthwatering of all Wedesday's international friendlies - and it was ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Mar 21st, 2008
I can't find any more appropriate words to sum up these World Cup compilations. It was apparently, at one point, an entire Tv show - ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 21st, 2008
The USA and Honduras are CONCACAF's Olympic 2008 qualifiers after both won their CONCACAF U-23 semi-finals last night. The US beat Canada 3-0 thanks to ...
