Articles tagged with "uefa"
Posted on: Greece World Cup Blog by Peter Katsiris | Oct 8th, 2008
Greece’s recent victories over Luxembourg and Latvia were reflected on the monthly FIFA World Rankings by rising one spot to seventeenth. Greece, who sat eighth ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Oct 6th, 2008
UEFA recently opened an investigation into 26 international matches that may have been fixed. One of the matches on that list was the Belgium/Poland World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 6th, 2008
Because of corruption, the Polish government came in to take over matters in the Polish FA last week. FIFA doesn't like that so much, they'd ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 24th, 2008
UEFA's executive committee gathers in a conference room (not pictured) tomorrow and some big decisions will get made. Advance word is that the following will ...
Posted on: Netherlands World Cup Blog by Jan | Sep 18th, 2008
NEC coach Mario Been
Well, I'd almost say: the interesting European Cup for us Dutchies is starting soon... As if I accept the fact that we ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 11th, 2008
Greece continued its perfect start to their World Cup Qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win over group two rivals Latvia in Riga. The Greeks, who ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 10th, 2008
Greece U21 side ended their qualifying campaign for the U21 Championships in Sweden with a 1-0 win over the Faroe Islands in Greece. The win ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 9th, 2008
After a solid start to their Qualifying campaign on Saturday, Greece will look for more of the same tomorrow night when they meet Latvia in ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 8th, 2008
Greece’s National Team kicked off their World Cup 2010 qualifying campaign with an away win over lowly Luxembourg on Saturday. Goals from Vassilis Torosidis, and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 5th, 2008
World Cup qualifying returns this weekend, on every continent. It's the big qualifying kickoff in Europe, the start of the final group stage in Asia, ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Sep 5th, 2008
Greece returns to action on Saturday, as the 'Galanoleuki' open up their World Cup Qualifying schedule with a trip to tiny Luxembourg. Last month's 'prova ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Aug 23rd, 2008
Bert van Marwijk led Feyenoord to the UEFA Cup victory in 2002. Or did he?
This is probably one of the best free kicks ever! Eat ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Aug 21st, 2008
A heated match in Albania ended with Greece's and Albania's U-21 sides sharing the spoils at the Ruzhdi Bizhuta Stadium in Elbasan. A twenty-fifth minute ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Aug 21st, 2008
Returning to action for the first time since their early exit from the European Championships in Austria and Switzerland, Greece managed to secure a 2-0 ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Aug 19th, 2008
Greece’s U-21 squad continues its quest for a spot in the playoffs with a match against Albania on Wednesday. A match that was originally postponed ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Peter Katsiris | Aug 15th, 2008
Otto Rehhagel has made his final call-ups ahead of his side's international friendly against Slovakia on August 20th. Visiting the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, the friendly ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Takis | Jul 31st, 2008
Officials from Olympiacos and Panathinaikos will be present in Nyon tomorrow (13:00 GR; 6:00am Eastern), for the 3rd Round Qualifying draw for the 2008/2009 edition ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 22nd, 2008
The level of commercialization in football took another step towards total today, as UEFA are taking Euro 2009 Under-21 Championship matches away from the Swedish ...
Posted on: Belgium World Cup Team Blog by julien | Jun 30th, 2008
"I am not worried about the quality by increasing the number of teams. Countries like England, Denmark, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, Serbia, Ukraine and Bulgaria all ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Jan | Jun 25th, 2008
As many of you know from a previous post of mine the Ref who will be at the final in Vienna on the 29th of ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Ian Rose | Jun 20th, 2008
Reuters has reported that UEFA will decide sometime this year whether to expand the European Championships to either 20 or 24 teams. Since this ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | Jun 15th, 2008
Player of the Day: Nihat. Is there any other choice?
Goat of the Day: Petr Cech. I'm convinced he was replaced by an impostor during halftime. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Chris | May 20th, 2008
I dare say, this UEFA clan is getting a bit more reasonable under Michele Platini.
The first item they tackled was the yellow card issue. ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 23rd, 2008
Remember the whole "will Spain be booted out of Euro 2008?" business? The Spanish government were trying to force all sporting organizations to hold elections ...
Posted on: Greece Euro 2008 Blog by Takis | Apr 11th, 2008
Greece made history once again, when FIFA published its latest edition of the World Rankings this past Wednesday. Previously Greece's highest ranking was 10th, a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 13th, 2007
It's not too often I feel sorry for FIFA, mostly because they treat the beautiful game like the world's fattest cash cow and spend their ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 13th, 2007
Ever since 2001, UEFA have embraced the magic of the internet and asked readers of their website to vote on a Team of the Year. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 1st, 2007
After too many tragic deaths in recent years UEFA are taking extra precautions to make sure every player at Euro 2008 has been thoroughly checked ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Nov 30th, 2007
The qualifiers have been over for less than a week (technically), and the qualifying draw isn't even until this weekend, but that hasn't stopped the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by WC Bob | Sep 24th, 2007
Ahh, the life of a disgruntled football fan. You spend hours suffering through your team's miseries with only the promise of more misery to ...
