Articles tagged with "euro-2008"
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Mar 31st, 2009
Mavuba in for injured Diaby.
If Mavuba is like Luyindula, his late inclusion means he'll start on Wednesday.
Now, a central midfield duo of Mavuba ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Mar 30th, 2009
23-year-old Toulouse forward Andre-Pierre Gignac is Ligue 1's top scorer this season with 18 goals, and he's fit (right thigh) to play for France against ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Mar 29th, 2009
Highlights with English commentary. That's British English, of course. A bit understated. Better than American commentary on soccer, most of which tends ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Mar 28th, 2009
It wasn't a match that will linger in the memory, but France certainly controlled the game in Lithuania, and a sweet strike from Ribery was ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Mar 28th, 2009
Sorry this is very last minute but I've been sick in bed for the past couple days and haven't really been online other than to ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Mar 27th, 2009
If you're looking for the really gruesome photos of Jimmy Briand's knee after his collision with Cedric Carrasso in training this week, you're going to ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Mar 25th, 2009
A couple days ago whilst training in Las Rozas for our upcoming World Cup qualifier against Turkey the RFEF took time to release the new ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Mar 24th, 2009
Chris from the Catania blog gives his opinion on who deserves a spot on the Azzurri:
The potential for national side call-ups from Sicily's "other team" ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Mar 24th, 2009
Check out this performance from Gignac against Nancy.
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Mar 23rd, 2009
Hoarau is in the squad. Anelka's out injured.
Les 28 but de hoarau 2007-2008by 123pedro
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Mar 19th, 2009
The list is out. Two newcomers (three if you count the still uncapped goalkeeper Cédric Carrasso.) André-Pierre Gignac has gotten a well-deserved call-up, ...
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: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Feb 15th, 2009
Thank goodness that was just a friendly.
Short Highlights:
First Half Highlights:
Second Half Highlights:
This lineup is fairly promising:
Anelka
Henry Gourcuff Ribery
Toulalan Diarra
Abidal Gallas Mexes Sagna
Mandanda
Domenech could ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 11th, 2009
What can I say? We did the business and we did it in style. Two perfectly placed goals, one from the golden boot ...
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: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Feb 11th, 2009
UPDATE: If you're watching the game near your computer, leave comments here.
As Steve pointed out in the comments yesterday, good news for folks in ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 9th, 2009
This Wednesday is the big day for La Furia Roja as we take on England in El Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán located in the historic ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Feb 9th, 2009
There's a cute slideshow over at the FFF site of the guys engaging in "le footing." Basically jogging on a trail together, and everybody ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Feb 8th, 2009
From Jean Michel in the comments:
The absence of Boumsong is comforting but I’ll bet he’s on the short list of defensive alternates should someone suffer ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 6th, 2009
As everyone knows, the highly anticipated friendly against England is coming up in less than a week, on February 11th. This will be the ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Feb 5th, 2009
There are two items of news regarding the list for the Argentina friendly.
1) The FFF has redesigned their site so that the formatting carries ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 1st, 2009
Okay so it's a bit of an understatement to say that my last post comparing Spain to Italy sparked quite a bit of controversy especially ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Feb 1st, 2009
This was one of those achy-breaky moments that we all knew was coming, right?
Willy Sagnol, who was stellar in les Bleus' ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Jan 30th, 2009
I can't figure out how to embed videos from the FFF site, but you have to check out this adorable one with a few words ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Jan 28th, 2009
On Wednesday, February 11th at the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, France will host an international friendly against Diego Maradona's Argentina.
A friendly against Argentina ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by jeff | Jan 26th, 2009
According to FIFA, there are 500 days until the 2010 World Cup begins in South Africa. Will our beloved L'Equipe de France be ready ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Jan 20th, 2009
Yup, that's right, as of yesterday Spain and Portugal have put in a joint bid for the 2018 World Cup.
There has been speculation of this ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by anthonyrondeau | Jan 13th, 2009
Spain is my life. España es mi vida. Which ever way you want to put a spin on it, or whatever language you ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Dec 27th, 2008
2008 is drawing to a close, and it was a hell of the year for the Azzurri. 12 months ago we were looking forward to ...
Posted on: France World Cup Blog by Laurie | Dec 11th, 2008
Here's the thing about Sidney Govou: He is maddeningly inconsistent. He alternates between absolute invisibility and moments of sheer brilliance. He's like ...
