Articles tagged with "group-d"
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
What a roller coaster of a day for Angola fans. Their team defeated Togo 3-2 in African Nations Cup action but it was not ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
Maurito is the hero, scoring with five minutes left in the game to make it 3-2.
Come on Palancas Negras!
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
Horrible news for Angola as Cherif Toure Mamam gets the equalizer for Togo 2-2. Angola needs to find a way to score in the ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
Flavio does it again, netting his second goal of the game to give Angola a 2-1 advantage at the midway point. With Cameroon leading ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
Kader Coubadja scores in the 24th minute for Togo to even the game 1-1. I think this has to be a very tense day ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
Flavio scores for Angola with an angled strike from eight yards after Togo's attempt to play offside fails in the 9th minute. Big early ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
The must-win game for Angola against Togo is underway in Egypt. Here are the starters:
Angola: 1-Joao Ricardo, 21-Delgado, 3-Jamba, 5-Kali, 20-Loco, 8-Andre, 13-Edson, 17-Figueiredo, ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 29th, 2006
Joao Ricardo is seeing plenty of action as Angola's number one keeper during the African Nations Cup, but once the tournament is over he will ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 29th, 2006
My first memories of World Cup finals go back to 1974. That year Iran failed to make it to the finals, so the football crazed ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
Hamburg SV opened their second half of the season with a loss against Nuremberg in the German Bundesliga.
As some of you may know, Iran and ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
There are only a few weeks left to the start of the AFC Champions League. Iran is represented by Saba Battery, a team based in ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 28th, 2006
Sunday is a big night for Angola as it takes on Togo in a must win match in African Nations Cup action in Egypt.
As is ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 28th, 2006
Yesterday Iran defeated Germany in an international tournament with the final score of 1:0. One minor detail though, it was an Under-19 youth tournament.
Okay, ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 26th, 2006
Iranian Football Federation (IRIFF) and the Iranian press have been at each other’s throats for years. At times stories coming out of this feud have ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 26th, 2006
Angola Press, required reading each day here at World Cup Blog, is reporting that the Angolan Federation of Soccer will pay for the medical expenses ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 25th, 2006
1 GK MIRZAPOUR Ebrahim - (Foolad Ahvaz, IRN)
2 MF MAHDAVIKIA Mehdi - (Hamburger SV, GER)
3 DF BAKHTIARIZADEH Sohrab - (Saba Battery Tehran, IRN)
4 DF GOLMOHAMMADI ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 25th, 2006
The news out of Italy this week was that Rahman Rezaei, Iran international defender, who plays his football for Messina of Serie A has obtained ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 25th, 2006
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Angola was unable to take advantage of playing a man up for more than 70 minutes drawing with Congo 0-0 in African Nations Cup action.
Congo's ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 25th, 2006
The closest most players in Portugal's lower divisions will ever get to World Cup is watching it on their televisions.
But that is not the case ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 24th, 2006
Despite already playing a game and despite appearing last in its group’s standings Angola is trying to convince itself that the African Nations Cup really ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 24th, 2006
Before you read on I must warn you that this is written by a very frustrated and angry football fan! I am so angry that ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 23rd, 2006
Bad new for fans of the Black Antelopes as it was made official today that stalwart defender Yamba Asha will not be allowed to play ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 22nd, 2006
Angola striker Mantorras has lived in Portugal for the last seven years and currently plays for Benfica. The irony isn’t lost on Mantorras that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 22nd, 2006
Apparently Dinamo Zagreb has shown interest in Iran and Pas FC defender Mohammad Nosrati. According to Pas president Zagreb officials have not directly contacted them ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 21st, 2006
Heading into his team’s match against Cameroon, Angola coach Luis Oliveira Goncalves said his team fears no one. Maybe they should have been more ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 21st, 2006
Angola had high expectations coming into its opening match of the African Nations Cup against Cameroon, but Samuel Eto'o quickly doused the Palancas Negras' optimism. ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 20th, 2006
With football fever gripping the war-torn nations, Angolans are eager to see how their much beloved Palancas Negras will fare against the always dangerous Les ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Jan 20th, 2006
Reading about the latest brouhaha involving England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and the fake Sheik makes me feel somewhat, but not much, better about the insanity ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 20th, 2006
Positive words coming from Angola coach Luis Oliveira Goncalves ahead of his team’s opening match against Cameroon in the African Nations Cup on Saturday.
“It is ...
Posted on: Angola World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Jan 20th, 2006
Angola midfielder Gilberto has been ruled out of the African Cup of Nations in Egypt with an Achilles injury, which he sustained during a friendly ...
