Articles tagged with "spain"
Posted on: Australia World Cup Team Blog by Pat | Feb 22nd, 2009
Not really sure how this slipped under my nose, but with the release of the latest FIFA rankings (almost two weeks ago...), the Socceroos have ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 11th, 2009
What can I say? We did the business and we did it in style. Two perfectly placed goals, one from the golden boot ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Rob | Feb 11th, 2009
So Spain beat England two-nil tonight, and I don't really know how much we really learned. We were, certainly the second best team, promising opening ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Feb 11th, 2009
No LiveBlog I'm afraid, but here are the starting lineups:
England
1 David James, 2 Glen Johnson, 3 Ashley Cole, 4 Michael Carrick, 5 Phil Jagielka, 6 ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 11th, 2009
This international break is rather special, sure these are just friendly matches but they are a bit more special than that this time around. ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Feb 10th, 2009
I know it's only a friendly, but tomorrow game against Spain is a great test. They're European Champions and - arguably - the best team ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 9th, 2009
This Wednesday is the big day for La Furia Roja as we take on England in El Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán located in the historic ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Feb 6th, 2009
As everyone knows, the highly anticipated friendly against England is coming up in less than a week, on February 11th. This will be the ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Feb 5th, 2009
It had become fashionable to think David Beckham didn't belong in an England shirt while he was trudging through MLS games. And there was a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 3rd, 2009
Yesterday (Feb 2nd) was the deadline for World Cup 2018 & 2022 hosting bids. So now we know who wants to have the big party ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by Anthony | Jan 20th, 2009
Yup, that's right, as of yesterday Spain and Portugal have put in a joint bid for the 2018 World Cup.
There has been speculation of this ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by anthonyrondeau | Jan 13th, 2009
Spain is my life. España es mi vida. Which ever way you want to put a spin on it, or whatever language you ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 24th, 2008
The bidding war to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups is almost underway, with the official procedure beginning in January 2009.
Big news is that ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Dec 23rd, 2008
Team Melli will be heading to Spain for their training camp tomorrow. The boys will have a four hour layover in Frankfurt before heading for ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 17th, 2008
For the final time in 2008, FIFA did their homework and ranked every national team in the federation from 1st to 201st. Not too much ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Dec 15th, 2008
The Rode Duivels finished 2008 with a draw in an international friendly against Luxembourg. It was a very disappointing, frustrating, and angering (understatement) result. Prior ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Dec 3rd, 2008
With the likes of David Villa and Fernando Torres occupying the striker roles with the Spanish national team, Sergio Koke has shifted his international sights ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Nov 20th, 2008
In a game that was played in the shadows, Egypt entertained Benin's squirrels with five goals in style with an average performance suited for the ...
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Nov 12th, 2008
FIFA released its annual FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings on Wednesday, and to no surprise the Greek National Team slipped one spot to fall to eighteenth place ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 12th, 2008
Not everybody agrees with the FIFA World Rankings. According to our poll, 64% of World Cup Blog readers prefer the World Football Elo Ratings System. ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Oct 25th, 2008
Last Wednesday, Belgium faced Euro 2008 winners and world #1 Spain. It was a FIFA World Cup 2010 qualifying match. The match was played at ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by elisa | Oct 16th, 2008
What can I say, but our boys never lost hope against Belgium. They never gave up and showed their class with a valiant comeback ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 15th, 2008
If you were to make a list of the best players currently without a senior international cap to their name, Mikel Arteta would be up ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Oct 12th, 2008
Belgium played their third World Cup 2010 qualifying match yesterday. The UEFA Group 5 match was played at Stade Roi Baudouin in Brussels, Belgium. Our ...
Posted on: Switzerland World Cup Blog by Jan | Oct 12th, 2008
An extraordinary result that in many ways compensates for the disappointments Swiss football has had to experience these past two months: in the first leg ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin | Oct 9th, 2008
Something special just happened in the small world of Iranian Futsal. For the first time since the 1992 FIFA Futsal World Cup Iran’s team made ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 9th, 2008
Spain finally removed that crippling monkey from their back this summer and we now know their motivation: beer. Brewer Cruzcampo awarded each player their weight ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 8th, 2008
The new FIFA rankings are out, and guess what? Spain's still #1 with a gain of 78 points, which allows them to extend their ...
Posted on: Spain World Cup Blog by elisa | Oct 4th, 2008
The European Champions play Estonia away on Oct 11th and Belgium away on Oct 15th. For those of you live in the States, it ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 30th, 2008
The 2008 FIFA (yep, them again) Futsal World Cup kicks off in Brazil today, running from September 30th to October 19th.
If you're not familiar with ...
