Articles tagged with "history"
Posted on: Germany World Cup Blog Blog by Jan | Sep 14th, 2009
There are many legendary football players. There are many legendary hair styles. But only a select few managed to combine the two. Germany and Borussia ...
Posted on: Bosnia World Cup Team Blog by Harun | Nov 13th, 2008
I told myself I'd keep this short. I failed. Summarizing the early days was easy enough, but glossing over the details that I've lived through ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 16th, 2008
Chile 1 - Argentina 0
35 years is a long, long time not to beat a team in a qualifying group with only 10 teams. Even ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 26th, 2008
24 years ago, a Spanish team was headed to the European Championship final. But Luis Aragones' Spain side will not be looking to emulate ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 21st, 2008
As if the Dutch needed any extra confidence coming off of their 9-1 aggregate victory over the rest of the group of death, they can ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 19th, 2008
1980 was an interesting year in sports. The US beat the Soviet Union in the most famous hockey game ever. The Wenzels were ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 15th, 2008
The biggest party in Europe tonight is in Turkey, after the Turks fought back from a 2-0 second half deficit to eliminate the Czech Republic ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 9th, 2008
After two days of expected results, today we finally saw the real opening of Euro 2008. The Netherlands opened their tournament in the best ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 14th, 2008
Dear Laurie, I'm using the same template you used for the France team (hope you don't mind).
Group: A; Switzerland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Turkey. All games ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Apr 28th, 2008
Sorry about the long lapse between posts. It's been a quiet month for the Tartan Army, but things are ramping up, and May has ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | Apr 23rd, 2008
Well not much can be said about Croatia in France 98'. We sort of walked in there unannounced, caused havoc, and walked away with some ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Mario | Apr 7th, 2008
Well it's not the history of the world, but it's a nice little story. It all began 12 years ago in England, EURO 96', which ...
Posted on: Turkey Euro 2008 Blog by musab | Mar 28th, 2008
And at last, Turkey will be represented by none other then Musab himself. Some of you may remember me from the Galatasaray offside. So let ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 23rd, 2008
Three days now until George Burley leads his first Scotland team out onto the Hampden pitch to face Croatia. I just wanted to take ...
Posted on: Poland Euro 2008 Blog by Os Davis | Jun 27th, 2006
Messing around and generally contemplating all things World Cup, i thought back on this guy i once knew named Chris. Chris, like a proper citizen ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog by John | Jun 14th, 2006
For only the 2nd time in their long and tepid world cup history, the Mexican National team will play a squad from the Dark Continent ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | May 27th, 2006
There are a couple of interesting articles penned by Simon Kuper in this weekend's Financial Times. In the first, he tries to dispel some ...
Posted on: Trinidad and Tobago World Cup Team Blog by Stacy-Marie Ishmael | May 10th, 2006
I have a huge exam tomorrow, but I'm buzzing with excitement (and blogging instead of revising my French literature - disaster!).
Tonight, T&T will face ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Apr 29th, 2006
Despite appearances to the contrary, I am a bit of a romantic. I am also a total sucker for nostalgia. I could spend ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Harvey Morrell | Apr 20th, 2006
Moritz Rinke reports on the state of the German nation as it prepares to host the FIFA World Cup. The translation is a tad ...
Posted on: Paraguay World Cup Team Blog by Daniel | Apr 11th, 2006
Probably the most renown and important player of Paraguayan football history, at this moment, who football’s fan doesn’t know Jose Luis Chilavert? Born in July ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Harvey Morrell | Mar 2nd, 2006
Oliver Hinz, over at Fox Sports, provides a short history of national team disasters. It ain't pretty. Then again, neither was yesterday's game.
