Articles tagged with "group-d"
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 7th, 2006
I must admit that the wounds still hurt from the Palancas Negras early exit from the African Nations Cup in Egypt. All those expectations ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 7th, 2006
Hey you Iranian fans out there, check this out!
You know about Trinidad and Tobago right? It is a small Island in the Caribbean. With 1.1 ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 7th, 2006
It seems like Iran midfielder Javad Nekounam may be staying in UAE after all, although not with his current club Al Wahda.
The new coach at ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 7th, 2006
Sometimes it seems to me as if some of the Iranian football officials, in certain clubs and the federation, are actively trying to get Iran ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 6th, 2006
When the president speaks, people listen. Today, Angolan Head of State José Eduardo dos Santos issued an official decree calling for a National Plan ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 6th, 2006
Iranian Football Federation’s top officials met with Coach Branko Ivankovic last week to discuss their “plans for the national team”.
They do this every now ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 6th, 2006
Last year one of the top Iranian Pro League teams fired its German coach. The translator who happened to be the son-in-law of the Technical ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Feb 6th, 2006
With Mexico, Iran and Portugal lumped in the same group there are some familiar faces in Group D to go along with World Cup virgin ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 5th, 2006
We are looking for bloggers to help make this the place to come for insight, news and opinions about all 32 teams in the World ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 5th, 2006
Depending on which Tehran newspaper you would like to trust more, it looks like another foreign coach has packed up his stuff and left Iran ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
Ali Karimi did not get any playing time in today’s Bayern Munich 1:0 victory over Bayer Leverkusen. This is the second game in a row ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
Iran international Mehdi Mahdavikia who plays his club football for Hamburg SV of Bundesliga had an assist in today’s HSV victory against Armenia Bielefeld.
Mahdavikia, who ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 4th, 2006
It seems like every time the fans are ready to be count him out, he rises to fight another day. I am talking about Iran’s ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 3rd, 2006
As someone who reads Angola Press cover to cover each day, I have gotten fairly good at understanding its unique syntax and choice of words. ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 3rd, 2006
One of the Iranian sports papers, Iran Varzeshi, ran an article the other day reporting that Iran international midfielder Javad Nekounam who plays for UAE’s ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 2nd, 2006
The only thing more depressing than the thought of the Palancas Negras early exit in Egypt is reading the advice of the naysayers out there ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 2nd, 2006
It is hard for most of us Iranian football fans to focus on football when every day we hear some new discouraging news about the ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 2nd, 2006
Iranian Football Federation (IRIFF) announced that the Costa Rican national will be traveling to Tehran for a friendly match with the Iranian national team on ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 2nd, 2006
After flying home to Luanda from Cairo via Lisbon, Angola's players avoided the local press like the plague. Heads held low and ashamed of ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
Angola is scheduled to play a friendly in Seoul against Korea Republic in preparation for this summer’s World Cup where they are in Group D ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Feb 1st, 2006
Pedro Mantorras is not happy with the limited amount of playing time he received during the African Nations Cup and as a result he says ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
After 20 games the top three goal scorers in the Iranian Pro League have scored 33 goals between them. Reza Enayati of Esteghlal FC has ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Feb 1st, 2006
Okay I was wrong! It was not a rumor. Arie Haan did come to Tehran, and he did sign a coaching agreement with Perspolis FC. ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 31st, 2006
With its team heading home from the African Nations Cup tournament via the ever popular Cairo-Lisbon-Luanda flight, Angola's football federation announced that the Palancas Negras ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 31st, 2006
Ali Daei used to be the most prolific goal scorer in Iranian football. In his twenties and early thirties he scored goals with a dizzying ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
More than ten years ago the Dutch football legend Arie Haan came to Iran to discuss the national team job. After touring Tehran’s football facilities ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
A couple of Tehran sports dailies reported that the Iranian Football Federation has approached Czech Republic for a friendly. If true, this game will replaced ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 30th, 2006
Okay, once again back to my favorite subject, Iran’s friendly games, or rather lack there of, in preparation for the World Cup.
News out of ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 30th, 2006
In countries around the world, the media is quick to lay blame following a team's loss. In Angola, the press is no different.
Memo to ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 30th, 2006
After failing to advance from its group in the African Nations Cup, Angola is hoping that the experience of playing in pressure packed games will ...
