Articles tagged with "spain"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 27th, 2008
You've got to feel for David Villa. The Spain striker injured a muscle in his right leg during last night's 3-0 semi-final win over Russia, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Player of the Day: Sergio "Hot As Balls" Ramos. All over the place, stuffing Russian attackers, hassling Russian defenders. Probably the first game he's played ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Everyone expected a vastly different game from the first encounter, but it was damn near the same thing right down to the scoreline and weather ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 26th, 2008
I couldn't get myself to write the daily "what have we learned" posts, because what we basically learned was how to play football, thanks to ...
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 Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Spain's Carles Puyol and Russia's Andrei Arshavin challenge for a ball during this evening's semi-final in Vienna. Puyol is remarkably good in the air for ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
SEMI-FINAL 2
June 26th, 2045 CET, Vienna (Austria)
Spain3
VS
Russia 0
Xavi 55', Guiza 73', Silva 82'
GAME Germany v Spain it is.
Silva gol:
Guiza gol:
UEFA is saying a ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 26th, 2008
Neither of these teams were supposed to be here. Spain because of their history and Russia partly because of the history they don't have. But ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 26th, 2008
Grumpy old Luis Aragones is not too happy about Spain having to wear their away shirts against Russia tonight. Why? Because Spain have abandoned the ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 26th, 2008
There are two games left in Euro 2008, the semifinal between Spain and Russia, and the final between the winner of that match and Germany. ...
Posted on: Russia Euro 2008 Blog by Nick | Jun 25th, 2008
Hello again to all. I just wanted to share my preview prior to the Russia Spain semi-final.
As you all know Spain and Russia met in ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
In our latest Euro 2008 Podcast, we discuss the possibility of Euro 2008 expansion. Is 16 teams enough? Is co-hosting a good idea? I try ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 25th, 2008
Are you amazed that Spain seem to have broken their curse? The team hadn't been to the semi-finals of any major tournament since 1984 (where ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 25th, 2008
We all know that Euro 2008 is about more than just the play on the pitch. No, this isn't another post about hot fans. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 25th, 2008
The Unlikely Fan, obviously still reeling from his adopted Oranje's exit from the tournament and taking it about as well as Hillary Clinton, gives his ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 25th, 2008
Before Euros started, I posted about some of the things people could bet on and the pre-tournament odds they could get. (Fernando Torres was ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 24th, 2008
These are the unheralded heroes for each team, two were pretty difficult to pick (I'll have you guess which ones), who will make the biggest ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 23rd, 2008
Your Euro 2008 semi-finalists are: Turkey, Germany, Russia, Spain. Of these four teams, only Spain are unbeaten. Turkey lost to Portugal, Germany lost to Croatia ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 23rd, 2008
The collective wisdom is that it's good for a national team to have players playing in the big leagues outside their own country. If ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 22nd, 2008
Some news to read as you use your bra to send a message to rescuers:
Spain and Italy's bore draw gives soccer a bad name (EPL ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
The last time Spain advanced from a match with Italy in a major tournament was the same year women in the United States were formally ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
We have two games to cover with this weekend's award ceremonies. So let's get cracking. First up ...
The Life of Brian Award : ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2008
Italy and Spain keepers Gigi Buffon and Iker Casillas pass as they change plcaes between penalties. Buffon saved one but Casillas had the better of ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
QUARTER-FINAL 4
June 22nd, 2045 CET, Vienna (Austria)
Spain0
VS
Italy 0
PENALTIES - SPAIN WINS.
Spain 4 (Villa, Cazorla, Senna, Fabregas HIT, Guiza Saved)
Italy 2 (Grosso, Camorenesi HIT, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2008
Seems Bayern Munich teammates Luca Toni and Miroslav Klose have had a private wager over who will bag the most goals at Euro 2008.
The pair ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Jun 22nd, 2008
We're down to the semi-finals of our Euro 2008 Jersey Poll Tournament, where we find the best shirt at Euro 2008 based on your votes.
Bit ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
Spain and Italy might not have the sort of rivalry that we have seen between the French and Italians in the past few years, meeting ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Laurie | Jun 22nd, 2008
Soccer fans, our prediction abilities are not getting any better. I said yesterday that 60% of us picked Portugal over Germany. (Final result? ...
Posted on: Italy Euro 2008 Blog by Chris | Jun 22nd, 2008
Espana v Italia - LiveBlog here
Well this is an unexpected treat. After the Dutch debacle the team was dead on their feet, with a coach ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 22nd, 2008
Three semifinalists are set down in stone now. One of them, Germany, was always expected to be there. The other two, Russia and ...
