Articles tagged with "news"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 12th, 2008
...otherwise the Turkey coach would have seen our player profile of Hakan Şükür and realized what a great player he had at his disposal. Instead, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 9th, 2008
It's time for our weekly "Who Will Win Euros" Poll.
Last week's vote was close, but in the end it was Germany who won out with ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 9th, 2008
Euro 2008 will have one less creative midfielder. Tomáš Rosický - the Little Mozart - will definitely miss the tournament, as the dodgy hamstring that's ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 9th, 2008
It is now a part of French football lore.
In summer of 2005, the France team was sitting in fourth place in their World Cup qualifying ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 9th, 2008
Remember we told you Croatia coach Slaven Bilić was penning a Euro 2008 fan anthem with his band Rawbau? Well, we weren't making it up. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 9th, 2008
An occasional round up of Swissaustria news from WCB and beyond. Like the Daily Dose, just not as daily.
The tenth most expensive team in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 8th, 2008
Less than a month till Euros! What does this mean?
It means that it's time to begin again with the ever-enthralling pastime of WAG-watching. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 8th, 2008
Marco van Basten has named his 30 man provisional squad for Euro 2008 and Jonathan de Guzmán is nowhere to be seen. Maybe not a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 8th, 2008
Thirty years after perhaps their crowning achievement as a national football team, Austria will get the chance to meet Germany once again in a major ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 7th, 2008
There was almost a crisis at Euro 2008. But don't worry, it's been sorted now. Seems Switzerland were running low on potatoes, and there were ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 6th, 2008
While other Euro 2008 managers are waiting on decisions for new contracts, are putting absolutely no effort into fronting a rock band, and are healthy ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 6th, 2008
During the African Cup of Nations back in February, one of the big stories was the lack of accommodations for the teams. The Black ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 6th, 2008
There's a report from a Thai site today which stated the country is looking towards a boom in the LCD market in the lead up ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 5th, 2008
Are you a British fan of EastEnders?
Too bad for you. On June 12, your show will be jettisoned for Austria v Poland.
Despite ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 5th, 2008
Great news for Poland: they just gained a whole new nation of fans. The Tartan Army - the famous Scotland supporters club - will officially ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 5th, 2008
If it weren't for this goal, Italy would have gone through in Portugal in 2004 - though they certainly had many other opportunities to get ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 2nd, 2008
Euro 2008 is a little over five weeks from kick off and we have most of our 16 team blogs filled by excellent writers. But ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 2nd, 2008
You read that right. UEFA are doing away with the current European Championship trophy. The trophy (left) lifted by the USSR in 1960 and by ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 2nd, 2008
Austrian football fans may not have much hopes of being the best team at the tournament (if they care), but nobody can argue that they ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | May 1st, 2008
Fabio Capello has it pretty good right now.
The coach of the England National Team isn't coaching at the Euros this summer, but it's not his ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | May 1st, 2008
Over at UEFA's Euro 2008 website, fans of all 16 teams have voted on which slogans to emblazon on the team buses. The results are ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 1st, 2008
Not that he was ever technically "on" the market. But the news that Sven is being canned at the end of the year got the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 30th, 2008
UEFA President Michel Platini is talking about racism. Again. It's the same old problem: Fans racially abusing the players.
And so ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 30th, 2008
That silvery sphere to the left it the official ball for the Euro 2008 final, as unveiled by UEFA today. If you're feeling cynical, you ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 30th, 2008
Name: Luka Modric
Team: Croatia
Group: B; Germany, Poland, Austria.
Caps: 24 (3)
Age: 22
Position: Midfielder (L/C) - Playmaker
Club Team: Dinamo Zagreb/Tottenham
Already one of the most anticipated participants of ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 29th, 2008
Last week we got the news that 84-times-capped Germany veteran Bernd Schneider had just had surgery on a herniated disk and would not be playing ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 29th, 2008
From the "you can prove anything with statistics department" comes this recent Reuters story suggesting Austrians are in no mood for Euro 2008.
Apparently a survey ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Apr 29th, 2008
Along with the status of Roberto Donadoni's contract, it's the hot topic these days when discussing the Azzurri. You've got Alessandro Del Piero enjoying a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Apr 28th, 2008
One of my favorite lines from one of the reviews of the Euro 2008 video game:
"The Bad [about the game]: No club ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 28th, 2008
That's right, word from UEFA is that tickets for Euro 2008 are being printed today. There are apparently 1.05 million tickets to run off, which ...
