Articles tagged with "group-e"
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 27th, 2006
Brian McBride has retired from international football. You can hear audio of his announcement by clicking here.
For the record, 34 year old McBride finishes as ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 26th, 2006
4 richly-deserved stars.
Malouda won the dive-of-the-tournament award within 6 minutes, and we overcame that HUGE obstacle.
We've never trailed in the tournament, and most teams would ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 24th, 2006
It probably will be Jürgen Klinsmann. But just in case, here's a "long-list" of other potential head coaches:
Bob Bradley
Glenn Myernick
Steve Nicol
Peter Nowak
Sigi Schmid
Frank Yallop
Sven-Goran Eriksson ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 23rd, 2006
Claudio Gentile is out as the U-21 coach. I'm not happy with the decision, but what is completely bizarre is that Gentile claims he wasn't ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 21st, 2006
Bruce Arena could be back for World Cup 2010, as a commentator. Sports Illustrated spoke to Tim Scanlan (the man in charge of ESPN's soccer ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 18th, 2006
It's official. Bruce Arena was named New York Red Bulls boss this morning.
He starts work August 12th, against Barcelona. Good luck with that Bruce!
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 18th, 2006
Donadoni makes an interesting point here, or at least this is how I'm interpreting it: He's not going to get to see many of his ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 18th, 2006
According to Wikipedia's Copa America 2007 entry (as spotted by Nicko) "should the U.S. decide to participate, Costa Rica would likely be forced to withdraw."
Assuming ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 18th, 2006
There seems to be unanimous agreement that playing in the 2007 Copa America would be beneficial. But with Costa Rica already accepting an invitation to ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 17th, 2006
Kudos to Roberto Donadoni for having the 'steel' to take over the coaching position on the heels of the WC victory. Short of winning Euro ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 15th, 2006
So, Bruce Arena's contract expires on December 31st 2006, Jurgen Klinsmann is planning a six month vacation, and Sunil Gulati has all but confirmed the ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 15th, 2006
This quote from Sunil Gulati escaped my attention first time round, but it seems Arena had wanted to stay on as head coach.
"Bruce expressed a ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 14th, 2006
I took the advice of the French lawyer, and replayed the final. I advise all of you to do the same. It will ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 14th, 2006
US Soccer President Sunil Gulati announced today that Bruce Arena's contract will not be renewed. Seems Arena will see out his contract, which runs to ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 14th, 2006
If you don't know what I'm referring to, its a reference to the character who said "the first thing we do, let's kill all the ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 13th, 2006
Jürgen Klinsmann has stepped down as Germany coach, to be replaced by his assistant Joachim Löw.
"I feel burned out," said a tearful Klinsmann, adding that ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 13th, 2006
The new FIFA World Rankings are out, and USA have dropped 11 places to 16th. Given our World Cup performance there's really no room to ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Jul 12th, 2006
You may have noticed that World Cup Blog will keep going for the foreseeable future.
Since USA WCB has (for the most part) been home to ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 12th, 2006
That was the record under Marcello Lippi, whose inevitable resignation became official today. 18 wins, nine draws and two losses, the first of which came ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 9th, 2006
4 richly-deserved stars.
Malouda won the dive-of-the-tournament award within 6 minutes, and we overcame that HUGE obstacle.
We've never trailed in the tournament, and most teams would ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 9th, 2006
It takes seven solid matches -four knock-out round victories- and some luck to win a World Cup. People can whinge and moan all they want, ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 9th, 2006
Whatever happens in Berlin a few hours from now, it's been a great run. That said, we know that "just making it to the final" ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 8th, 2006
Let's join in unison tomorrow,
From all over the world
And sing the National Anthem,
Along with our brave warriors, just before battle,
So that we ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 7th, 2006
...I wasn't joking about my fondness for the Master. Anyway, there I was, buying some swordfish at the market when this Michele Platini-looking dude ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 7th, 2006
We all know there are guys who "spit the bit" when it comes to playing on their national squad, and there are players (and teams) ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 7th, 2006
... unsurprisingly come from one person:
#1:
Vive Le France | July 6th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Does not matter who Italy puts out there for France ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 6th, 2006
Memo to those would be groin-stompers... you might want to reconsider:
Story here.
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 6th, 2006
Don't shoot the messenger: Nesta's out.
Moving on, De Rossi's available.... Remember a few weeks back when we were discussing who we'd start against ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Josh | Jul 6th, 2006
Hot plate, cold plate, whatever! We want it. France 98 & Euro 2000 still burn in our stomachs.
France were lucky to beat a ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Jay | Jul 6th, 2006
OK, before you jump to any conclusions, I can't dislike the French. They have elan. And they don't like Texans either. ha ha. My beer ...
