Articles tagged with "injuries"
Posted on: Algeria World Cup Team Blog by Omar | Nov 7th, 2009
A cascade of injuries has hit the Greens, the Algerian football team.
Lazio of Rome’s Mourad Meghni sustained a thigh injury on 16/10/09 during a training ...
Posted on: Italy World Cup Blog by Julian | Jun 13th, 2009
Well this feels like deja vu all over again, doesn't it? Eve of a major tournament, and our captain ends up injured. Cannavaro has a ...
Posted on: Germany World Cup Blog Blog by Nick | Jun 12th, 2009
Patrick Helmes will be out for about six months after he tore ligaments in his knee while playing sports on vacation. He underwent surgery Friday ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Jun 3rd, 2009
All us Spanish fans were waiting eagerly in anticipation as to who Vicente del Bosque was going to name to the squad which would travel ...
Posted on: Germany World Cup Blog Blog by Nick | Mar 15th, 2009
Germany's top striker, Miroslav Klose, injured his right ankle this weekend playing for FC Bayern in the Bundesliga. He will almost certainly miss Germany's next ...
Posted on: Bosnia World Cup Team Blog by Harun | Jan 15th, 2009
This is a post I really hoped I wouldn't have to write. If you're reading this blog, you probably already know the gist of it: ...
Posted on: Germany World Cup Blog Blog by Nick | Oct 17th, 2008
Piotr Trochowski scored his first international goal to give Germany a deserved 1-0 win over Wales in this past week's important WC 2010 qualifier. The ...
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Sep 8th, 2008
The return of Marcello Lippi could hardly be going any worse. After the draw against Austria - and by draw I mean loss - where ...
Posted on: Nigeria World Cup Team Blog by Lola | Sep 4th, 2008
Coming off a respectable 2nd place finish in Beijing with the wind at our backs, we turn our attention to the next slate of qualifying ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 29th, 2008
The tabloids usually have their eyes and ears everywhere and when they don't they pretend and invent. Yet, BILD currently scream on their front page ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 28th, 2008
OK, just to give you a quick news update, as it's already spreading through the comments:
Germany captain Michael Ballack is doubtful for Sunday's Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 24th, 2008
You've heard by now that Turkey have got problems. Of the 23 players that Fatih Terim took to Swissaustria he'll potentially be down to just ...
Posted on: Turkey Euro 2008 Blog by musab | Jun 18th, 2008
With only two days left till our Quarter-final match against Croatia, the Turks are making their final preparations for the match. So what's going on? ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Jun 11th, 2008
A little update on Feilhaber after the post I made the other day.
Benny showed his mug, and his ugly new 'do, at USA training today. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 11th, 2008
In the second of our comics from Chris Toy (first one here) we're going to put the living fear into anyone watching their favourite club ...
Posted on: Romania Euro 2008 Blog by Ian Rose | Jun 2nd, 2008
Romanian president Traian Basescu saw the boys off from Bucharest today, getting himself a #10 Mutu jersey from Mutu himself. After they arrived, and ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | Jun 2nd, 2008
Will he or won't he play?
That's what Raymond Domenech and everyone else is wondering about the injured Patrick Vieira. Vieira will definitely ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 31st, 2008
Another day, and more heartbreak for players that earned their way into Euro 2008, then lost their place because of injury. This time, it's ...
Posted on: France Euro 2008 Blog by Laurie | May 26th, 2008
I think it's safe to say that most of us get a little frisson of concern when we think of Raymond relying on the ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by angela | May 25th, 2008
The 26 man Germany squad are currently training in Mallorca. On Tuesday, May 27, they will have a preliminary match against Belarus in Kaiserslautern. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 14th, 2008
Last summer's "will he or won't he" was nipped in the bud rather quickly this year, as Pavel Nedved today signed on for another year ...
Posted on: Germany Euro 2008 Blog by angela | Apr 2nd, 2008
Mario Gomez is out for at least two weeks with a torn muscle fiber in his thigh. He has scored 15 goals this season for ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 28th, 2008
Instead of letting Arsene Wenger do all the talking about the pointlessness of international friendlies, Sir Alex Ferguson, briefly a Scotland manager once himself, went ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 24th, 2008
Ahh ... international friendly dates. There's nothing like them to produce short-term injuries in players for top clubs. Just as Portugal has to ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 22nd, 2008
Lame. Scotland and Birmingham striker James McFadden is officially out of contention for Wednesday's match with Croatia at Hampden, because of having a keyhole ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 18th, 2008
Rangers and Scotland captain Barry Ferguson is off to the specialists today, after ankle problems have failed to improve, and it is now likely that ...
Posted on: Scotland World Cup Team Blog by Ian Rose | Mar 10th, 2008
(Thanks to the Manchester United Offside for catching this.)
Scotland and Man United midfielder Darren Fletcher has found himself the unfortunate victim of poor bathroom maintenance ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Oct 24th, 2006
If it seemed to you like a lot of players were faking injuries at the 2006 World Cup your intuition was correct. FIFA's chief ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jul 9th, 2006
In what can only be described as a shocking, earth shattering new study, it has been revealed that not all those players you see writhing ...
