Articles tagged with "fifa"
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 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Sep 29th, 2008
Before we get started, let's take a look at FIFA's Article 55 of its disciplinary code, shall we?
"if a player takes part in an official ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 9th, 2008
After a solid start to their Qualifying campaign on Saturday, Greece will look for more of the same tomorrow night when they meet Latvia in ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 8th, 2008
Greece’s National Team kicked off their World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign with an away win over lowly Luxembourg on Saturday. Goals from Vassilis Torosidis, and ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Sep 7th, 2008
Belgium played their first World Cup 2010 qualifying match yesterday. They played against Estonia in Liege at Sclessin Stadium. The Rode Duivels were without Tchité ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 5th, 2008
World Cup qualifying returns this weekend, on every continent. It's the big qualifying kickoff in Europe, the start of the final group stage in Asia, ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 5th, 2008
Greece returns to action on Saturday, as the 'Galanoleuki' open up their World Cup Qualifying schedule with a trip to tiny Luxembourg. Last month's 'prova ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 5th, 2008
Much as we complain about FIFA, they do have the occasional good idea. Like the World Cup for example. Think we can all agree that's ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 4th, 2008
The September FIFA World Rankings were announced yesterday, without too many changes from August. Euro 2008 champs Spain are still numero uno and Italy have ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Sep 3rd, 2008
The new FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking show that Belgium dropped 9 spots from the 0-2 loss to Germany. Yesterday, FIFA updated the rankings:
Rank Country Points ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 29th, 2008
Good news for UEFA. Even after all expenses (including those fake disasters, the extra security AND that Henri Delaunay trophy hot air balloon) they ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 22nd, 2008
"You sure Cantona said this would help us get chicks?"
"Yeah. 'Check out those flamingos if you don't believe me,' he ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 14th, 2008
The country vs. club battle continues in football. Hamburger SV won't let Belgium's Vincent Kompany play in the Olympics. Their sporting director said:
"We have discussed ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 3rd, 2008
It happens every month. FIFA's new rankings come out, and everybody groans and says, "There is no possible way Team X is better than ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jul 2nd, 2008
Belgium moved up in the new FIFA rankings to 46th. We moved up 3 spots from the last release. The rankings were just updated today. ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jun 27th, 2008
According to Goal.com and numerous other sources, former FIFA President João Havelange claims that the 1966 and 1974 FIFA World Cups were fixed so that ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jun 23rd, 2008
Belgium referee Frank De Bleeckere was picked today to referee the second Euro 2008 Semi-final match Russia vs. Spain. The match will be played this ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jun 9th, 2008
Last Wednesday FIFA released the updated FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Belgium dropped 3 spots in the rankings from 46 to 49. Their recent friendly loss to ...
Posted on: Democratic Republic of Congo World Cup Team Blog by patrick k | Jun 5th, 2008
At the age of 54, the Frenchman Patrice Neveu is, in coaching terms, a battle-hardened warrior. Motivated by challenges, he has always followed his instinct, ...
