Articles tagged with "croatia"
Posted on: Croatia World Cup Blog by Mario | Jun 5th, 2009
To clarify, Srna is a wanted man, while Pranjic was a wanted man. Makes no sense at all, I know. My failure to elaborate aside, ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Jun 4th, 2009
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Saturday's World Cup qualifier between Croatia and Ukraine. The teams are in direct competition for ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Jun 4th, 2009
Oleksandr Aliyev will not be able to help Ukraine in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. The Dynamo Kyiv playmaker suffered an ankle injury in ...
Posted on: Croatia World Cup Blog by Mario | May 21st, 2009
Yesterday afternoon a certain Niek van Dijk of Amsterdam performed a routine surgical procedure (oxymoron if you ask me) on our Eduardo, removing the leftover ...
Posted on: Croatia World Cup Blog by Mario | May 18th, 2009
Bilic announced his 24 today, so lets see who goes and who stays:
Goalkeepers: Pletikosa, Runje, Subasic
Defenders: Corluka, Kovac, Simunic, Drpic, Vejic, Cale, Pranjic
Midfielders: Juric, Vukojevic, ...
Posted on: Croatia World Cup Blog by Mario | May 9th, 2009
Funny thing happened. Apparently, Ivica Olic was browsing through the net and stumbled upon news that he had just tore his knee ligaments and was ...
Posted on: Croatia World Cup Blog by Mario | May 2nd, 2009
As if Martin Taylor wasn't mean enough to our Crozillian (that's Brazil + Croatia for those unworthy among you), lady luck seems to have turned ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Apr 3rd, 2009
If the England national team was hoping to tilt the Wembley pitch and roll over Ukraine in their World Cup 2010 qualifier, those dreams evaporated ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Mar 31st, 2009
In the last few days I have been diligently looking over English media outlets, trying to figure out what the Brits think of their Eastern ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Mar 26th, 2009
After gathering gathering outside of Kiev to hold a quick camp, the Ukraine national team has left for London to prepare for their World Cup ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Nov 19th, 2008
As John Arne Riise left the pitch with an incredulous look on his face, dismissed just minutes into the second half of his country's friendly ...
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: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Oct 28th, 2008
I remember waking up that Saturday morning with an evil hangover, a souvenir from the Dr. Dog concert I went to the previous night. ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Oct 10th, 2008
It's looking increasingly possible that Capello is going to - NOOOOOO!!! - give Gerrard and Lampard one more go together in central midfield.
Seriously.
The thinking ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Oct 4th, 2008
Oleksiy Mykhailychenko has named his squad for the World Cup Qualifying Group Six match against Croatia on October 11. Dynamo Kyiv goalkeeper Stanyslav Bohush ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Sep 13th, 2008
Two matches under their belt and six points in the bank, the Ukrainian national team is poised to make a run at qualifying for the ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 12th, 2008
Now that Theo-mania is dying down (actually it's not, but just just pretend it is) I think it's time we mentioned Wayne Rooney. The Shrek ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 11th, 2008
Here's Croatia boss Slaven Bilic's take on yesterday's game:
"In the first half, we were looking good and we thought we could get a positive result," ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 11th, 2008
Lively round of games in the European section of World Cup qualifying yesterday. England's away win over Croatia will grab the headlines, but there were ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 10th, 2008
A 4-1 win was beyond our wildest expectations, as was a Walcott hat trick. But that's what we got. So right now this is my ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 10th, 2008
Croatia 1-4 England
Walcott (ENG) 26' 59' 82'
Rooney (ENG) 62'
Mandzukic (CRO) 78'
Zagreb, Croatia
Kickoff: 9pm local, 8pm GMT, 3pm US Eastern
neutral preview - biased preview - betting ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 10th, 2008
We'll have three of today's World Cup 2010 qualifiers LiveBlogged (pictured) for you today. Here they are:
Russia vs Wales on Bet Offside (kickoff 9pm local, ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 10th, 2008
Greece U21 side ended their qualifying campaign for the U21 Championships in Sweden with a 1-0 win over the Faroe Islands in Greece. The win ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 10th, 2008
The showing against Andorra wasn't too pretty, but it was still a victory. And in a bizarre way it was good to see Fabio Capello ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Chris Heidrich | Sep 9th, 2008
We're still looking for a new blogger to take the reigns from Mario here on Croatia World Cup Blog. If you have a passion for ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2008
Latest news is that Rio Ferdinand is fit* to play against Croatia. That means a Terry-Ferdinand partnership in front of David James with Ashley Cole ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2008
Probably (easily?) the most interesting of tomorrow's World Cup 2010 qualifiers is England's visit to Croatia. For all kinds of reasons. For one thing it's ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2008
Here's a little reminder of what happened last time England visited Zagreb. Gary Neville and Paul Robinson, look away now...
This time around there's no Eduardo ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by yevy | Sep 8th, 2008
Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko did not sugarcoat his feelings about the team's performance in Saturday's match:
Belarus outplayed us in the midfield in the first half. Both ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Sep 7th, 2008
Bit of a debate in The Sun today about whether Walcott or Beckham should start on England's right wing vs Croatia. Theo Walcott had his ...
