Articles tagged with "world-cup"
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 26th, 2006
Talking about Brazil and the affection that the Iranian football fans have for the Brazilian national team reminded me of a tragedy that occurred in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 25th, 2006
Fifa has only issued 18,000 tickets with 180,000 supporters. Now tickets are selling for around $1,300 on the internet. The Dutch supporters are not happy, ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis Paulo | Mar 25th, 2006
According to a poll made by the Portuguese daily newspaper "Record" in their website, the Benfica's defender Ricardo Rocha was chosen by the fans to ...
Posted on: Poland Euro 2008 Blog by Os Davis | Mar 23rd, 2006
German football website www.dw-world.de recently ran an interview with Coach Pawel Janas. Though the interview took place in German and Polish while the version most ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 22nd, 2006
Kalou is not Dutch, according to the judge. Salomon Kalou has been denied accelerated citizenship in spite of Marco van Bastens requests. The Feyenoord striker ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Mar 21st, 2006
Togo has a nucleus of several European-based players who will form the backbone of the team for World Cup 2006. Having said that, the team ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Mar 17th, 2006
In a sad day for Ghanaians, the Black Stars have suffered two reversals from previously published reports-
Reversal Number 1:
The Iran friendly originally scheduled for March ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Mar 16th, 2006
Following a long period of negotiation, Ghana Football Association has announced that FIFA will allow Laryea Kingston to participate in the World Cup in Germany. ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Mar 16th, 2006
The Togo Football Federation and new coach, Otto Pfister, have started to implement a new structure to the national team.
Senior Togo players will ...
Posted on: Tunisia World Cup Team Blog by Jenny Jennifer | Mar 15th, 2006
In search of an unsung hero, I asked several Tunisians who their favorite player was. Time and time again, I got the same answer, ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 14th, 2006
Imagine playing football in a soft and irregular field like a big sand box. Like Master Bob said, it’s the beautiful game being played in ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 14th, 2006
Well, Sports Illustrasted have given us their expert analysis on Holland's World Cup hopes: "Netherlands could win it all -- or flop ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Emir Dedic | Mar 8th, 2006
Daniel Ruben Bilos, an Argentine with Croatian roots, player of Boca Juniors, has finally decided to make himself available for the Croatian National Team.
In ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 7th, 2006
Holland and England have arranged a friendly in November. Holland will host at Ajax arena. It will be interesting to see which ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Mar 7th, 2006
Apparently FIFA will now require extensive cardiovascular testing for all competitors in this summer's World Cup. The move, which has not gone unpredicted given ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Mar 7th, 2006
Apparently Argentina is so insecure that they will need a boost of confidence heading into the World Cup. I note as Argentina has announced ...
Posted on: Switzerland Euro 2008 Blog by Casey Smith | Mar 7th, 2006
Link.
One time Switzerland hosted the world cup. And the games were a lot more high scoring too!
Germany won the thing ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 6th, 2006
Wow. Still leading the Premier League in goals, still on the bench. Ferguson brought Ruud on as a sub in a lucky ...
Posted on: Brazil World Cup Team Blog by Euler Costa | Mar 6th, 2006
Reading some of our WCB comments (read El Pelado's) it became clear that some people do not understand why Brazil has some funny nicknames. Some ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 6th, 2006
The Dutch manager Marco van Basten has been very cagy about his striker situation. After Dirk Kuyt's goal against Equador he claims to be considering ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Mar 6th, 2006
Following what seemed to be a particularly action packed week, what with the Mexico Friendly, the stories raging about Doya's ouster, contacts with Dutch legend ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 5th, 2006
The officials for the World Cup have decided to get tough on foul play at the finals. Apparently time-wasting, elbows, and diving ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 5th, 2006
I'm not sure what is running through Marco van Basten's mind lately as he decides his World Cup eleven, but the speculation ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Mar 2nd, 2006
If yesterdays international friendlies showed me one thing conclusively (if anything can be conclusive at this early stage), it is that the rest of the ...
Posted on: Netherlands Euro 2008 Blog by Matt | Mar 2nd, 2006
Ruud van Niselrooy joins the list of Premier League strikers with transfer rumors. The Dutch striker has been linked with AC Milan ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Jennifer Brazil Holder | Mar 1st, 2006
Today, the federation unveiled Portugal's FIFA World Cup program. The friendly match won by Portugal 3-0 with Saudi Arabia is the squad's last friendly ...
Posted on: Croatia Euro 2008 Blog by Emir Dedic | Mar 1st, 2006
What do you think of us now???? Vatreni have started their preparation for the World Cup with a win against a tough Argentinean opponent.
The ...
Posted on: Iran World Cup Team Blog by Afshin Afshar | Mar 1st, 2006
Iran coach Branko Ivankovic told reporters that although Mexico and Portugal are favorites to move on from group D, Iran is well capable of beating ...
Posted on: South Korea World Cup Team Blog by Johnny | Mar 1st, 2006
Our boys face off against Angola today. I predict a 2-1 win again, with no idea who'll be doing the scoring.
I'm not that psychic.
Posted on: South Korea World Cup Team Blog by Johnny | Mar 1st, 2006
Since he's basically a Korean citizen, here's an article proclaiming the possibility that a move to Russia may be imminent.
Don't believe it; a move ...
