Articles tagged with "world-football"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 3rd, 2008
At least three countries - Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - are already planning a possible bid to host Euro 2016. Not as rival bids, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Dec 2nd, 2008
The Homeless World Cup commenced Monday in Melbourne, Australia, opening up a week's worth of street soccer festivities and good deeds. As is the case ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 30th, 2008
Welsh video gamers are pretty unhappy right now, because their national team has ceased to exist. Not in the real world - John Toshack's team ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 27th, 2008
It's official: Argentina will host Copa America 2011. Argentinian FA president Julio Grondona (who's been in the job since 1979!) confirmed it yesterday.
Two interesting tidbits ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Nov 25th, 2008
FIFA wants to keep its members pure.
Or at least that's the lesson they seem to hope people will pick up from the suspension ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 25th, 2008
If you're not familiar with the Confederations Cup, then here's the lowdown:
It's an eight team tournament, made up of the six winners of the regional ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Nov 22nd, 2008
Over the past few years, German striker Lukas Podolski has become known for two things: Scoring loads of goals for the German National Team ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Nov 20th, 2008
After turning down the chance to, a) coach a relatively sizable European club for big bucks or b) tour the Mediterranean with [insert name of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Nov 20th, 2008
So you want to promote the Confederations Cup 2009, the "soft opening" for World Cup 2010 in South Africa. A tournament which hasn't had much, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 20th, 2008
Brazil vs Portugal was billed as Kaka vs Ronaldo. If that was so, then someone raise Kaka's arm. Brazil won 6-2 with the Jesus-owned playmaker ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 19th, 2008
There are some proper World Cup qualifiers on today, in Asia and CONCACAF. And there are some big friendlies happening too. Germany vs England and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Nov 19th, 2008
Today's games: A dollop of Oceania, a dose of Asia, a lot of CONCACAF, and...San Marino vs. Czech Republic?
Yes, that's our token ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Nov 17th, 2008
If you're in Argentina and looking for news on the internet about Diego Maradona, you may soon be out of luck. Due to lawsuits, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Nov 14th, 2008
That man is checking for unexploded WWII bombs before construction begins on a stadium in Poland for Polkraine 2012.
"Theo Walcott gallops down the right ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 13th, 2008
Well, that didn't take long. Reports in the Argentine press yesterday already have Diego Maradona threatening to resign as albiceleste boss. One week before his ...
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: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 11th, 2008
Ghana captain Stephen Appiah's career is on hold. He's out of contract, and the likes of Juventus and Arsenal are rumoured to be keen, but ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 5th, 2008
Cricket fans will know all about the Stanford Super Series. It's basically high profile games of exhibition cricket, with billionaire Allen Stanford putting up $20 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 3rd, 2008
Marco Materazzi can now cross the Daily Mail off his revenge list. His libel case against the UK tabloid was headed to court, but the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 31st, 2008
No one wants to be known as the world's worst team. And to be fair East Timor were actually only the world's joint worst team, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 30th, 2008
The prospect of Diego Maradona coaching has not been met with universal applause. Cocaine, weight gain, stomach staples, short lived chat shows, a losing record ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 29th, 2008
It's definitely awards season. So far the FIFPro World Player of the Year has gone to Cristiano Ronaldo and the 30 man shortlist for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 28th, 2008
Brilliance or insanity? You tell us.
Former Argentinian superstar Diego Maradona has just been asked to be the new head coach for Argentina ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 28th, 2008
Rough week for Sepp Blatter. First we catch the old fella ogling a young Palestinian lady, and now Alex Ferguson has likened the FIFA boss ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 26th, 2008
Palestinian players pray before their first ever home game, a friendly against Jordan that ended in a 1-1 draw. (Ahmad Gharaaldi/AFP/Getty Images)
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 23rd, 2008
Italy were champions, but the talk of town heading out was the home team done good, with the promise to do better. A German outfit ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 21st, 2008
Before we get into the...um...meat of this story, which is the fact that Diego Maradona wants to be the new coach of Argentina... Well, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 19th, 2008
They were always the favorites, playing in front of their home crowd in Rio, but Spain, defending champions twice over, made them sweat as it ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Oct 17th, 2008
After their historic defeat at the hands of Chile, Alfio Basile has stepped down as head coach of the Argentina NT. In the process doing ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Oct 16th, 2008
This video was taken before Tuesday's France-Tunisia game at Stade de France in Paris. The Marseillaise, the French national anthem, was booed. ...
