Articles tagged with "argentina"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2009
Very little club football this weekend, it's all about World Cup qualifying.
Below are my picks for three games, one from COMNEBOL, one from UEFA and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by chris | Mar 26th, 2009
What do you do with a known drug-addict, an admitted adulterer, a glutton, the provider of the sport's greatest moment of cheating, a man of ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Rob | Feb 28th, 2009
Its tough sometimes being English. Perhaps every country feels the same, but it seems to me that we have more than our fair share of ...
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by Pat | Feb 22nd, 2009
Not really sure how this slipped under my nose, but with the release of the latest FIFA rankings (almost two weeks ago...), the Socceroos have ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 18th, 2009
Spanish footballing legend and now Selección Sporting Director, Fernando Hierro wants Vicente del Bosque to give Raúl a tribute match. Apparently it would be ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 11th, 2009
This international break is rather special, sure these are just friendly matches but they are a bit more special than that this time around. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 29th, 2009
It's no big secret that we're all a bit worried about World Cup 2010 in South Africa right now.
And though those concerns are very much ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jan 20th, 2009
Is anybody else secretly glad that Diego Maradona is back in the public eye making public quotes? What in the world did we bloggers ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Jan 6th, 2009
Our tips hotline (1-800-HOT-TIPS) received a great email today from Scott J on the spilling over of the Argentina-Brazil war of South American football, giving ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 18th, 2008
The music/video above is a tribute to the man that is Diego Maradona, by Manu Chao who - according to his Wikipedia page - is ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Dec 9th, 2008
New book: Football in a dirty war
When the elegant playmaker Hansi Muller decided to approach his coach Ernst Happel when both at FC Tirol with ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 27th, 2008
It's official: Argentina will host Copa America 2011. Argentinian FA president Julio Grondona (who's been in the job since 1979!) confirmed it yesterday.
Two interesting tidbits ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Nov 25th, 2008
As an England fan, I'll always feel cheated by Diego Maradona. Mostly because he cheated us in 1986 by using his hand. But that was ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Nov 18th, 2008
The Squad:
Keepers: Allan McGregor (Rangers), David Marshall (Norwich City)
Defenders: Graham Alexander (Burnley), Darren Barr (Falkirk), Christophe Berra (Hearts), Kirk Broadfoot (Rangers), Gary Caldwell (Celtic), Alan ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Nov 17th, 2008
The upcoming game against Germany raises a straightforward but possibly difficult question: Who are England's biggest rivals?
The three obvious candidates are (in alphabetical order) Argentina, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Nov 17th, 2008
If you're in Argentina and looking for news on the internet about Diego Maradona, you may soon be out of luck. Due to lawsuits, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 13th, 2008
Well, that didn't take long. Reports in the Argentine press yesterday already have Diego Maradona threatening to resign as albiceleste boss. One week before his ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Nov 12th, 2008
FIFA released its annual FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings on Wednesday, and to no surprise the Greek National Team slipped one spot to fall to eighteenth place ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 30th, 2008
The prospect of Diego Maradona coaching has not been met with universal applause. Cocaine, weight gain, stomach staples, short lived chat shows, a losing record ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 28th, 2008
Brilliance or insanity? You tell us.
Former Argentinian superstar Diego Maradona has just been asked to be the new head coach for Argentina ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 21st, 2008
Before we get into the...um...meat of this story, which is the fact that Diego Maradona wants to be the new coach of Argentina... Well, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 17th, 2008
After their historic defeat at the hands of Chile, Alfio Basile has stepped down as head coach of the Argentina NT. In the process doing ...
Posted on: Uruguay World Cup Team Blog by Juan | Oct 16th, 2008
When has Uruguay ever done something easily? It is in their footballistic DNA to complicate things, to take the road not traveled, to have ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 16th, 2008
Chile 1 - Argentina 0
35 years is a long, long time not to beat a team in a qualifying group with only 10 teams. Even ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 10th, 2008
Pop quiz: Can you name the six European teams that are currently undefeated in World Cup qualifying? Answers at the bottom of the ...
Posted on: Uruguay World Cup Team Blog by Juan | Oct 9th, 2008
If you start looking at the way Alfio Basile is setting up his team on the pitch, Juan Román Riquelme is not in his plans ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 8th, 2008
The new FIFA rankings are out, and guess what? Spain's still #1 with a gain of 78 points, which allows them to extend their ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Oct 2nd, 2008
well, Egypt played its first match in the futsal world cup held in Brazil against Guatemala and lost 1-0 which is a very narrow margin ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Sep 30th, 2008
After months of negotiation, it's finally done and dusted: On November 19, Argentina will come to Hampden Park in Glasgow and face the Scots in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 11th, 2008
I really thought Dunga had turned a corner on Sunday, with that 3-0 away win over Chile. But last last night's 0-0 draw with bottom ...
