Articles tagged with "brazil"
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: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Duvel | Feb 21st, 2009
The Defense
At first glance you may say our defense is okay. We have not allowed too many goals in frendlies and qualifiers. However, every game ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Duvel | Feb 17th, 2009
I mentioned in the Brazil-Italy post that Luis Felipe Scolari is looking for work these days. Scolari is now the second high profile Brazilian manager ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Duvel | Feb 13th, 2009
Impressive, that’s all you can say have after a performance like this. The Under 20 team won South American Sub 20 title in convincing fashion, ...
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: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 10th, 2009
Looking at the starting lineup for the Brazil-Italy game, I could tell that we were going to have trouble from the get-go:
Buffon, Zambrotta, Legrottaglie, Cannavaro, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 10th, 2009
The big World Cup qualifier this week might be tomorrow's CONCACAF Clasico between USA and Mexico. But the big friendly is today.
It's Brazil vs Italy ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Feb 7th, 2009
Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus), Marco Amelia (Palermo), Morgan De Sanctis (Galatasaray)
Defenders: Daniele Bonera (Milan), Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid), Andrea Dossena (Liverpool), Alessandro Gamberini (Fiorentina), Fabio ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Feb 7th, 2009
We're looking for a dependable and talented Brazil fan to write about all things Seleção here on Brazil World Cup Blog.
It's not a paid position, ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Feb 2nd, 2009
It's one of the most popular elements of football. The distance strike. Most spectacular. In the Dutch Eredivisie, Feyenoord player Diego Biseswar built quite a ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jan 31st, 2009
After what feels like years of wondering if Italy or Brazil will call him up, Dunga made the announcement today: Amauri is getting a call ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jan 28th, 2009
Goal.com are launching a bid to have Maldini called up for the friendly against Brazil. Now, the chances of this actually happening are smaller than ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Jan 26th, 2009
Normally this isn't news but merely a reminder that international football is on its way again. However, this one is fairly big because of Brazil's ...
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 | Jan 2nd, 2009
It's official, Juventus striker Amauri is sick of being asked about international football. The 28 year old is Brazilian by birth but will soon be ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Nov 22nd, 2008
The draws for both the Hexagonal of World Cup Qualifying and the 2009 edition of the Confederations Cup in South Africa have been released. ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Nov 22nd, 2008
Today in Johannesburg the draw for confederations cup 2009 held in South Africa took place with the help of beauty misses from each of the ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Nov 20th, 2008
In a game that was played in the shadows, Egypt entertained Benin's squirrels with five goals in style with an average performance suited for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 20th, 2008
Brazil vs Portugal was billed as Kaka vs Ronaldo. If that was so, then someone raise Kaka's arm. Brazil won 6-2 with the Jesus-owned playmaker ...
Posted on: Portugal World Cup Blog by Greg | Nov 18th, 2008
It feels good to be back in business. I had a hell of a few weeks, so you don't need to be reminded that ...
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 | Nov 12th, 2008
Not everybody agrees with the FIFA World Rankings. According to our poll, 64% of World Cup Blog readers prefer the World Football Elo Ratings System. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 19th, 2008
They were always the favorites, playing in front of their home crowd in Rio, but Spain, defending champions twice over, made them sweat as it ...
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 16th, 2008
That costume just screams "I'm a college kid with no money and I've gotta go to a frat party tonight". Except he's not a college ...
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: Colombia World Cup Team Blog by Nando | Oct 15th, 2008
6 games in a row without winning and 5 without scoring goals... at least we didn't lose tonight against Brazil. I couldn't be happier with ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 15th, 2008
If you were to make a list of the best players currently without a senior international cap to their name, Mikel Arteta would be up ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 14th, 2008
Spotted this video on our very own Paraguay WCB. It's Salvador Cabanas scoring the only goal to give Paraguay an important 1-0 win over Colombia, ...
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 ...
