Articles tagged with "fifa"
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Feb 11th, 2009
Greece and Denmark played out an intriguing draw in Piraeus, as Theofanis Gekas cancelled out Thomas Borring's early second half breakthrough to assure friendly spoils ...
Posted on: Israel World Cup Team Blog by Ibracadabra | Feb 11th, 2009
Some major sporting and political news coming out of Israel this week with General Elections held yesterday, as well as Bar Rafaeli gracing Sports Illustrated's ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 11th, 2009
Do you know about the International Football Association Board (IFAB)? I was only vaguely aware of them until I read a link in yesterday's Daily ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Feb 11th, 2009
Valentine's Day might be just around the corner, but that doesn't mean Greece will show Denmark any love when the Scandinavian side pays a visit ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Feb 6th, 2009
One glance at Greece's roster for a midweek friendly with Denmark in Athens next week and it is clear that Otto Rehhagel is not yet ...
Posted on: Nigeria World Cup Team Blog by Lola | Jan 28th, 2009
Nigeria will no longer host this year's U-17 World Cup, citing the global economic downturn. Earlier this week, the NFF formally informed FIFA that ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Jan 27th, 2009
And while Italian fans may hate to admit it, it's clearly true. I dare you to find me proof to suggest otherwise.
Forget that, let ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Jan 26th, 2009
No surprise, it's a Portuguese attacker - but not that Portuguese attacker. And this guy, Belchior, doesn't even play real football, he plays the beach ...
Posted on: Russia World Cup Blog by j | Jan 20th, 2009
With Russia poised to submit an application for the 2018 World Cup, FIFA President Sepp Blatter is very confident of Football in Russia and their ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jan 18th, 2009
The new FIFA rankings were released for January 14, 2009. Belgium basically stood still in the table by maintaining its ranking of 54. Fellow World ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Jan 6th, 2009
Limited support for the Greek National Team from Athenians in recent matches has forced the Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) to abandon Athens for Greece's World ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Dec 18th, 2008
Despite drawing World Champions Italy last month, the latest edition of the FIFA Coca-Cola World Rankings, which were released on Wednesday, saw Greece slip two ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Dec 15th, 2008
The Rode Duivels finished 2008 with a draw in an international friendly against Luxembourg. It was a very disappointing, frustrating, and angering (understatement) result. Prior ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Nov 25th, 2008
FIFA wants to keep its members pure.
Or at least that's the lesson they seem to hope people will pick up from the suspension ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Nov 20th, 2008
So you want to promote the Confederations Cup 2009, the "soft opening" for World Cup 2010 in South Africa. A tournament which hasn't had much, ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Nov 20th, 2008
A defensive duel between two Mediterranean rivals played to a stalemate finale on Wednesday night, as Italy pegged back to hold Greece to a 1-1 ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Nov 19th, 2008
Club duties will be put aside this week, as the international stage returns to the main spotlight. Some of that spotlight will be shared by ...
Posted on: Uruguay World Cup Team Blog by Juan | Nov 12th, 2008
La Celeste fell to 23rd place in the latest release of the Coca Cola FIFA Rankings. The Uruguayans were leapfrogged by Africa powers Nigeria ...
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 11th, 2008
Ghana captain Stephen Appiah's career is on hold. He's out of contract, and the likes of Juventus and Arsenal are rumoured to be keen, but ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 26th, 2008
Remember World Cup 2006? There was some questionable refereeing. Not least of which was Graham Poll showing Croatia's Josip Simunic three yellow cards in one ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Oct 25th, 2008
Last Wednesday, Belgium faced Euro 2008 winners and world #1 Spain. It was a FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying match. The match was played at ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Oct 16th, 2008
Greece’s perfect opening to the World Cup Qualifiers came to an end on Wednesday, as Greece fell 2-1 to Switzerland at the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Oct 15th, 2008
The Hellenic Football Federation (EPO) confirmed yesterday that they had reached an agreement with their Danish equals over a friendly date. The two federations have ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Oct 14th, 2008
Greece was victorious on Saturday to continue its perfect start to World Cup Qualification, but the undefeated Greeks will look to extend that feat even ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Oct 10th, 2008
The Greek National Team will look to extend their perfect start to their World Cup Qualifying campaign, as Greece finally returns home to host Moldova ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Oct 8th, 2008
Greece’s recent victories over Luxembourg and Latvia were reflected on the monthly FIFA World Rankings by rising one spot to seventeenth. Greece, who sat eighth ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 6th, 2008
Because of corruption, the Polish government came in to take over matters in the Polish FA last week. FIFA doesn't like that so much, they'd ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 2nd, 2008
Not sure if this is shocking or sadly predictable. But former English FA chief executive David Davies has claimed that in the course of bidding ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 1st, 2008
All kinds of problems in Polish football this week, both in the stands and in the offices.
There was the above insanity where Wisla Plock ...
