Articles tagged with "world-football"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 18th, 2008
A few days ago I published a little post here on World Cup Blog about Abedi Pelé, where I referred to him as Africa's greatest ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 17th, 2008
The first FIFA World Rankings of 2008 have been released and the big news is... well, nothing. It's all the same at the top with ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 11th, 2008
... Dunga? According to German number-lovers IFFHS he is, topping their national team coach rankings with 148 points. Not bad going for his first ever ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
Can you remember your first day at school or your first day at work? Pretty nerve racking, yes? Well now imagine you're Fabio Capello. You've ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
Ben Bamfuchile was laid to rest in Zambia today, attracting a crowd of around 5,000. The Zambian soccer coach had been scheduled to lead Namibia ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 3rd, 2008
As posted by my sister-in-blog Laurie over at The Offside, here's a nice little collection of the evil of modern football known as diving. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
Bad news for Brand Beckham, as it seems Golden Balls' globe trotting lifestyle is slowly but surely destroying planet earth. According to climate watchdog Carbon ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
The World Cup 2010 qualifying draw was not kind to China. In the first round of Asian qualifying China were drawn in Group Five alongside ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
It must be January, because the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid rumours are back. Much like the Kaka to Real Madrid rumours, this one appears ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 1st, 2008
Happy New Year everyone. Here's looking forward to a great year, with the African Cup of Nations just around the corner and Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 31st, 2007
The year is almost done, so here's the final part of the World Cup Blog A-Z of 2007. Part one (A-M) can be found here, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 31st, 2007
It's the last day of 2007, so here's an alphabetical look back at the last twelve months in world football. There's so much happened that ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
Like most English tabloids, The Sun is mostly full of gossip, nonsense and hastily assembled headlines. But every once in a while they do something ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
There's been a clamour in Nigeria for Berti Vogts to recall playmaker Jay-Jay Okocha for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. But the German boss ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
Croatian playmaker Luka Modrić is about to be auctioned off by Dinamo Zagreb to the highest English Premier League bidder, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 27th, 2007
The year of 2008 will be upon us any day now, which means Euro 2008 is getting closer and closer. If you have a passion ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 27th, 2007
Strange things are afoot in Iranian football. Sepp Blatter recently threatened to tear up Iran's FIFA membership for failing to properly separate the football federation ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 27th, 2007
Literally. There was always something very rock n roll about Slaven Bilić. He was one of the last professional footballers who unashamedly smoked, puffing his ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 26th, 2007
Ronaldo's career-rejuvenating move to AC Milan isn't quite going as planned is it? Despite an encouraging end to last season the now afro-sporting striker has ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 26th, 2007
Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is pushing for his Spanish goalkeeper Manuel Almunia to get a call up to the England squad. You read that right. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 26th, 2007
I've been slowly but surely getting very very excited for the 2008 African Cup of Nations in Ghana this coming January. But excitement turned to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 25th, 2007
Just wanted to wish a Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays to everyone who reads World Cup Blog. Regular service will be restored tomorrow, but in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 24th, 2007
One of my favourite stories from this time of year is the famous Christmas Truce. Legend has it that in 1914, on the first Christmas ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 21st, 2007
As the African Cup of Nations gets closer, the complaining from Premier League clubs gets louder. Chelsea are bracing themselves for the loss of Didier ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 20th, 2007
The 2008 African Cup of Nations begins exactly one month from today people. To get you in the mood, here are the top 10 goals ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 19th, 2007
Seems Fabio Capello's appointment as England boss has caused a huge sigh of relief in Roberto Donadoni's house. It was an odd situation to have ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 19th, 2007
As promised, David Beckham appeared on Snoop Doggy Dogg's reality show "Father Hood" (ho ho) to teach the Dee Oh Double Gee's youngsters some real ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 19th, 2007
A graduate student using seismometers to trace earthquake activity in Cameroon was apparently mystified by eight unexplained squiggles on his chart in late January and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 18th, 2007
Ah, David Beckham. His celebrity may outrank his actual football skills by a factor of ten, but it's still impossible not to like him. For ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 18th, 2007
Brazil may have cleaned up at the FIFA World Player of the Year awards, but arch-rivals Argentina at least finished 2007 on top of the ...
