Articles tagged with "angola"
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 23rd, 2006
As I first reported on this blog earlier this week (after reading it in Angola Press, mad props to Angola Press!), Angola coach Luis Oliveira ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 22nd, 2006
I came across this interesting story on Pedro Mantorras and believe it or not it wasn't in Angola Press, but in a paper in New ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 21st, 2006
After all the excitement of learning that Pedro Mantorras would be playing for Benefica in today's Champions League match against Liverpool there was a tremendous ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 21st, 2006
It is hard to believe that Angola midfielder Gilberto is still only 24 years old. Born and raised with a football on his foot, ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 20th, 2006
Angola Press reports that Angola coach Oliveira Gonçalves is in Potugal today to try to convince FC Porto defender Pedro Emanuel to sign up for ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 19th, 2006
Well shiver me timbers. Angola's Football Federation is showing a lot of cojones by leaving disgruntled forward Mantorras off the squad for its upcoming ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 18th, 2006
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 17th, 2006
I am a little bit biased here, but I think the Palancas Negras have the best uniforms in the world. I absolutely love the ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 17th, 2006
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 16th, 2006
Akwa is so good he only needs one name. Akwa is the captain of Angola and arguably the heart and soul of the Palancas ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
Angola Press reports that Angola will be playing more matches leading up to the World Cup "in order to endow the footballers with the adequate ...
Posted on: South Korea World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
South Korea will square off tonight against Mexico tonight in a friendly that is being played in California. The game will be shown live ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
Add our friend's at the FIFA website to the list of naysayers who have jumped off the Angola bandwagon after the African Nations Cup. ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
Angola has inked an agreement to face South Korea in a friendly scheduled for March 1. While Angola fans are disappointed that the game ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 15th, 2006
Come on, American Samoa. Get your act together! You are still ranked dead last in the latest FIFA rankings. Surely you can ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 14th, 2006
There can be no other excuse for an entirely lackluster opening leg of the Angolan Football Super Cup. In what should have been an ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 13th, 2006
Nigeria might be a lovely country, but boy are its football journalists arrogant. Still smarting over their team's failure to qualify for the World ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 11th, 2006
Look out Kigali, here come the Angolans! More than 35 supporters of Atletico Sport Aviacao will be joining the team in Rwanda when ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 11th, 2006
From Angola to Trinidad, there are a number of football players practising their countries' national anthems in time for the World Cup. They are ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 10th, 2006
Terrific news for the legions of Palancas Negras fans who read this blog daily. Defender Pedro Emanuel has said that he will probably accept ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 10th, 2006
Every World Cup there seems to be a player who rises to the occasion and carries a team that has low expectations further than anyone ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 9th, 2006
Midfielder Gilberto's leg is not the only thing that is hurt these days. So are his feelings.
Injured during Angola's African Nations Cup ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 9th, 2006
Let's face it. You probably don't know much about Angolan football and its players. With a squad largely made up of players toiling ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 8th, 2006
Yamba Asha was hit up with a nine-month suspension following a failed doping test in October. Now his club team, Atlético Sport Aviacao, is ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 7th, 2006
I must admit that the wounds still hurt from the Palancas Negras early exit from the African Nations Cup in Egypt. All those expectations ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 6th, 2006
When the president speaks, people listen. Today, Angolan Head of State José Eduardo dos Santos issued an official decree calling for a National Plan ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 5th, 2006
We are looking for bloggers to help make this the place to come for insight, news and opinions about all 32 teams in the World ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 3rd, 2006
As someone who reads Angola Press cover to cover each day, I have gotten fairly good at understanding its unique syntax and choice of words. ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 2nd, 2006
The only thing more depressing than the thought of the Palancas Negras early exit in Egypt is reading the advice of the naysayers out there ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 2nd, 2006
After flying home to Luanda from Cairo via Lisbon, Angola's players avoided the local press like the plague. Heads held low and ashamed of ...
