Articles tagged with "group-of-death"
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Chris | Jun 17th, 2008
Let's get one thing straight. This is not a "rematch". Rematches that matter only happen on equal planes. Euro games, and Euro qualifying games for ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 14th, 2008
I love YouTube, particularly for moments like this so that they can live on forever in infamy. The Dutch oven is, for those of you ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 13th, 2008
Player of the Day: Was going to give it to Wesley Sneijder when I went to the official Euro site to check who was MOTM. ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Chris | Jun 13th, 2008
One major tournament game into the soon to be finished Roberto Donadoni Era, we're already watching the team enter the land of no return: at ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 13th, 2008
Italy
vs
Romania
Friday, June 13th, 1800 CET
Zurich (Switzerland) - Travel to Zurich (Switzerland)
THE BIG PICTURE
For ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 9th, 2008
The Romanian faithful cheer on their boys on the way to their 0-0 draw with France. Notice mixed in with the Romanian flags and ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 9th, 2008
GROUP C
June 9th, 2045 CET, Berne (Switzerland)
Italy0
VS
Netherlands 3
van Nistelrooy 26', Sneijder 31', van Bronkhorst 80'
FULLTIME: And that's that. Well done to the clear ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 9th, 2008
Made this very nice find on 101 Great Goals recently, and I think it could be Euro 2008's answer to The Special One. It's called ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Chris | Jun 8th, 2008
XII
And so it begins. Greece may be the defending European Champions, but the Azzurri are The Champions, and thus have a reputation to uphold. They ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 2nd, 2008
This is an unfathomable day for Italians. This morning, in practice, Giorgio Chiellini and Fabio Cannavarao went in for a 50-50 challenge, with Chiellini walking ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 30th, 2008
This is Romanian captain Christian Chivu, at a press conference in Romania.
I believe that he is thinking:
"Italy, France and Netherlands. How ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 20th, 2008
I dare say, this UEFA clan is getting a bit more reasonable under Michele Platini.
The first item they tackled was the yellow card issue. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 2nd, 2007
The Euro 2008 draw was made this morning, and UEFA's quite literally potty system produced an odd result. Before the draw in Lucerne, hosts Austria ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Feb 15th, 2007
Although the good news is, La Tricolor is one of the reasons that it is the Group of Death. As you probably know by ...
Posted on: Sweden Euro 2008 Blog by Jon | Jun 11th, 2006
My Icelandic brother-in-law told me today "Sweden are basically out of the World Cup."
He was being deadly serious.
"If you don't beat Paraguay it's all ...
Posted on: Argentina World Cup Team Blog by Nick | May 5th, 2006
As the matches begin next month, a new generation of Argentine players are ready to take the stage and represent the national side in what ...
Posted on: Serbia World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | Mar 9th, 2006
Franz Beckenbauer continued on his global arse kissing tour, today stopping by Belgrade where he charmed his host with his quick wit and even quicker ...
Posted on: Sweden Euro 2008 Blog by Nicke | Feb 19th, 2006
The only thing that can compete with a World Cup in Sweden is an Olympic Hockey tournament. Since 1994 these two tournaments occur on the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jan 20th, 2006
The World Cup is a celebration of many things: national pride, competition, the world community, and on and on.
So why is there all this ...
