Articles tagged with "switzerland"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 18th, 2008
Sometimes, you have to take the good with the bad. The following players (so far) have been both called up to their national squads ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | May 17th, 2008
A new threat to fans at Euro 2008 has emerged, and it might be too small to be detected by even the crack team of ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 15th, 2008
Moving from FC Sion to Manchester City where he's gained Eriksson's trust, Gelson Fernandes, together with Gokhan Inler has become one of the stars of ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 15th, 2008
The El Hadary saga is far from being over.
The Egyptian goalkeeper, African Champion with his national team, is once more at the centre of ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 14th, 2008
Someone has a reason to celebrate: "AUFSTIEGSFEIER"
A whole nation has a reason to celebrate.
Have you ever heard of a team of a different country ...
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: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 12th, 2008
Enjoy the following video with some seriously worrying flops by Swiss goalkeepers.
Although the situation has certainly improved with Benaglio the situation of some goalkeepers ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | May 11th, 2008
FC Basel triumphed.
2-0 over close rivals Young Boys. 38,015 spectators showed up for the thrilling ending to a very spectacular championship.
Yet the final ...
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: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Apr 28th, 2008
For those whose thoughts are football-centred 24h a day this piece of news might be no surprise.
Yet for us proud Swiss folks (ok, I'm ...
Posted on: Egypt World Cup Team Blog by Tamim | Apr 21st, 2008
yesterday, el hadary played his first match with fc sion in their match against neochatle in the swiss league, the match ended 1-1. this was ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Mar 28th, 2008
Switzerland-Germany0-4 (0-1)
Parc St-Jacques - 38 500 spectators
Referee: Bramhaar (NED)
Goals: 23rd Klose 0-1. 61st Gomez 0-2. 67th Gomez 0-3. 89th Podolski 0-4.
Switzerland: Benaglio; Lichtsteiner, ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
Alexander Frei has been out of international football for roughly a year, with hip and calf injuries. But after logging more than his fair share ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 21st, 2008
With all the Euro 2008 teams in friendly action next Wednesday, here's a quick rundown of all the squad news from the teams involved:
Austria v ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 20th, 2008
I've always thought of Switzerland as a nice healthy country full of nice healthy people, but the Swiss government disagrees. According to them, 64% of ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Feb 7th, 2008
England-Switzerland 2-1
... big deal.
We were wont to make an appearance, we were wont to bow before the might of the "Capellian" England, the "Inghilterra ...
Posted on: Czech Republic Euro 2008 Blog by Os Davis | Jan 25th, 2008
Over at the day job, this writer/editor-depending-on-which-week-you-catch-me was tasked with doing up a piece on the economics of Euro 2008. Lotsa stats for numbers junkies ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 4th, 2007
Selected stories from around World Cup Blog and The Offside...
So sick of playing the French (Italy Blog)
Who are similarly sick of seeing Buffon's face (France ...
Posted on: Argentina World Cup Team Blog by WC Bob | May 18th, 2007
Here is the list for the June 2 friendly against Switzerland. They will also play an unnamed opponent on June 6. Your thoughts ...
Posted on: Ecuador World Cup Team Blog by Trent | Nov 17th, 2006
I myself had scored plenty of goals by the time I was eighteen. Although now that I think of it, very few of those were ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Oct 14th, 2006
Dunga is testing a striking number of players during these last friendly matches. Luis Paulo wrote in his ‘Bread and Circus’ text something that I ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Adrian Wagner | Jun 27th, 2006
So here I am, 1 hour of sleep later! You know, it's always hard to loose in a penalty shoot-out - but that's the World ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Adrian Wagner | Jun 26th, 2006
It's 5.39 am here in Perth, Australia...and I'm not going to comment on the game yet. I need to grab some sleep before going to ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by Andriy Korol | Jun 26th, 2006
I am way too full of emotional to write anything in depth. WE MADE IT. Shovkovskiy is amazing, he is our #1 player of this ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Adrian Wagner | Jun 26th, 2006
The Swiss population is very optimistic ahead of the Ukraine game. According to a boulevard newspaper Blick poll, 89% of the Swiss believe that we ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Adrian Wagner | Jun 26th, 2006
So, here we are - tonight is the biggest match for Swiss footall in more than a decade. And as it is Ukraine's first ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by Andriy Korol | Jun 26th, 2006
That is the message everyone on the team understands. Blokhin was simply not impressed with that victory over Tunisia. Rebrov recently said "Our performance ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Adrian Wagner | Jun 24th, 2006
Yes!!! We are through to the Round of 16 - the goal of the campaign is reached and now we can play without pressure.
First ...
Posted on: Ukraine World Cup Team Blog by Andriy Korol | Jun 23rd, 2006
It's official. We are facing Switzerland next on our journey to the trophy. A country that tied France 0-0, beat Togo 2-0 and beat ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Jun 23rd, 2006
We have one more day with four games and what a day it could turn out to be. Only one of the four spots ...
