Articles tagged with "euro-2008"
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 14th, 2007
You know why I love Managerial Musical Chairs at the club level? Because with every new rotation, Raymond gets a whole new set of ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 13th, 2007
Did you know that if you google the words "Trezeguet Domenech Snub" you get 1980 hits? And that's just in the English speaking press. ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 12th, 2007
I always hold my breath after the club games the weekend before internationals as I wait to see who's gotten injured. This week is ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 9th, 2007
So do you think it means something that all three Ukrainian strikers are named "Andriy"? (At least that's what the fff website says.) ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 8th, 2007
I have to dress up and go to a stupid charity dinner, so I don't even have time to format this properly, let alone write ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 6th, 2007
You know how much I look forward to list days? More than game days. That's how much. Games days are stressful. ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 5th, 2007
Good news, France fans! Thierry Henry and Eric Abidal both played in Barcelona's "convincing" win over Real Betis. It looks like Henry, especially ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Nov 1st, 2007
You didn't want to read that headline, did you? (Unless you're a Scotland or Italy fan. In which case... Well, you can ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by romi | Oct 30th, 2007
LETS HAVE SOME OPINIONS HOW FAR WILL CROATIA GO IN THE EURO IF THE PLAY GREAT FOOTBALL UNDER SLAVEN BILIC OPINIONS AND PLEASE NO ETHNIC ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by romi | Oct 30th, 2007
Eduardo Da silva is one of the great dinamo zagreb players to come out of the club! He was born in Brazil but is a ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by romi | Oct 29th, 2007
Croatia is finally playing the kind of football expected and since Slaven Bilic has taken over are the top 10 country in the world. What ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 25th, 2007
And finally some good news for France. Samir Nasri will be returning to play for Marseille this weekend vs. Sochaux. I was ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 24th, 2007
With about 3 1/2 weeks to go before that all-important game with Ukraine, I don't like seeing injuries reported for our players. Unfortunately it ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 23rd, 2007
How did it slip my notice that France was playing Morocco on November 16? Oops.
The fff recently announced some friendlies for 2008, ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 19th, 2007
Here's the video of both of Thierry Henry's goals from Wednesday's France-Lithuania game. Two things stand out for me:
First, the service from both Hatem ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 17th, 2007
Whew. Three points.
For most of the game I was thinking it would be Scotland all over again -- domination of possession, inability ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 16th, 2007
William Gallas apparently struggled a bit in training and left practice early yesterday. Not a good sign.
And l'Equipe seems to be questioning whether Karim ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 15th, 2007
A few injury and illness updates that affect our France players.
First, Samir Nasri has recovered from his meningitis-type illness enough to give interviews, ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by angela | Oct 14th, 2007
Though the match was held to a 0-0 draw, Germany have knocked out Ireland and will advance. After a good run in the substitution field, ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 14th, 2007
Here's a good video of the goals from yesterday's game. My favorite is the second Karim Benzema goal, which I think was the fifth ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 13th, 2007
I overslept this morning and tuned into the game in the fourteenth minute and discovered I'd missed the first two goals. (Nicolas Anelka and ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 13th, 2007
Latest news from l'Equipe is that the game is expected to be played as scheduled on Saturday at 5:00 p.m. France time. (Which, if ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 12th, 2007
It's kind of hard to play a football game when one of the teams is stuck in another country. That may be the case ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 12th, 2007
"Show of hands! Who thinks Trezeguet should just shut up?"
I could go back and get all the links to the latest Trezeguet "I deserve ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by angela | Oct 12th, 2007
In normal circumstances Loew would not hesitate to nominate his preferred strikers in tandem before addressing the other issues involved in selecting his team for ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 12th, 2007
This list of "possible" starters is all I'm finding in l'Equipe so far, but I think I like it:
L'équipe possible : Landreau - ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 6th, 2007
After seeing the difficulty the current favored ones are having with crosses, I'm wondering what everybody thinks of the idea of playing Jérôme Rothen. ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by angela | Oct 5th, 2007
Germany's coach couldn't be more pleased. Joachim Loew has recalled Werder Bremen's Tim Borowski, Clemens Fritz and Torsten Frings. All were missing due to injuries, ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Oct 4th, 2007
How do you like our new look? Kudos to Bob and the tech guys at The Offside and World Cup Blog for all their ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Sep 29th, 2007
This is a photo I took of a couple of Scottish fans at the France-Scotland game in Paris. You can't tell from the photo, ...
