Articles tagged with "world-cup"
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 29th, 2006
(written in the Albany, NY Airport while waiting for my flight to Atlanta after my travel itinerary the day before had been washed out by ...
Posted on: Portugal Euro 2008 Blog by Luis | Jun 29th, 2006
I don't mean to get all Dante-esque on you, but since we all seem to be talking about the ten levels of hell these ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 27th, 2006
Spanish referee Luis Medina-Cantelejo made two game-breaking decisions in yesterday's 1 - nil victory by Italy over Australia - one that went against the Azurri ...
Posted on: Spain Euro 2008 Blog by Nick O'Neill | Jun 27th, 2006
Spain coach Luis Aragones will start Arsenal's Cesc Fabregas and Real Madrid's Raul, against France. The round of 16 game, played at Hanover (June 27th ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 26th, 2006
Well, it's probably safe to say that Valentin Ivanov's World Cup is now over as he seems to have crashed out in the Round of ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 25th, 2006
It certainly wasn't the most entertaining of matches, but the English managed to make it through to the quarterfinals off a 60th minute free-kick strike ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 25th, 2006
I guess there's always gonna be some controversy in every match. But maybe that's how fans like it. Unless they're on the losing ...
Posted on: Argentina World Cup Team Blog by Noman Ansari | Jun 25th, 2006
We are in the quarterfinals! And boy have we earned it. Mexico played like possessed demons today, especially in the first half. Their intensity was ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Jun 24th, 2006
Togo played Togo in the final game of Group G. Togo were 0-2 for games and had no chance of qualifying for th knockout round. ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 24th, 2006
Well folks, maybe the reason people have so much animosity for referees in this country is because THE ANNOUNCERS WE LISTEN TO HAVE NO IDEA ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 23rd, 2006
It was one of the tournament's most highly-touted officials in charge of the match which would likely decide second-place in Group F. England's Graham ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 23rd, 2006
With the US eliminated from the World Cup, some in the American media are at the their cheekiest writing headlines about the games yesterday. Some ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 23rd, 2006
Chances are, sometime soon or maybe even today, your team will have played its last game of the 2006 World Cup. I hate to bring ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 22nd, 2006
A month or two before the tournament began, I suggested that German referee Marcus Merk would be the man to officiate the final in Berlin ...
Posted on: Ghana World Cup Team Blog by Robert | Jun 22nd, 2006
Though they SAID it couldn't be done and that all of Africa were back benchers, Ghana has defeated the U.S. (as all true Ghana supporters ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 22nd, 2006
So as usual I went out to work a game this evening...nothing too extraordinary - a poorly played U14 Girls game. It was fairly ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Sean Keener | Jun 22nd, 2006
As this ESPN article suggests, ticket scalping, or as I like to call it, the free market is working at this year's world cup. ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 21st, 2006
My notes were pretty sparse during the opening twenty minutes of Portugal's group stage finale with Mexico as Slovakia's experienced Lubos Michel took charge of ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 21st, 2006
It was Russia's well-seasoned Valentin Ivanov in the middle of Germany's battle with Ecuador to determine top spot in Group A. And while the ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 20th, 2006
Well, there's not really much to say about the Ukraine - Saudi Arabia match from Hamburg; a 4 - nil reversal of fortune for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 20th, 2006
First, let me revise my title, because not everyone dislikes the “other” Ronaldo. Just throw 40 or 50 unprovoked snide comments into a forum and ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 19th, 2006
First off, sorry I haven't been able to throw in my two-cents about every match lately. It's been a very busy time for me ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Jun 19th, 2006
Togo plays Switzerland today in what promises to the a boring game (watch them rack up 8 goals). The Swiss are about as exciting a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 19th, 2006
There may be no better place to meet people than the Berlin Fan Fest. But let me just tell you now that the muscular, cyborg ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 18th, 2006
...or so the story goes.
I wonder what the press will be reporting in countries other than the U.S.A. Will the Italian media ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 17th, 2006
It was Italian Roberto Rosetti in charge of Argentina's 6 - nil goalfest over Serbia & Montenegro in Gelsenkirchen. And only a minute after ...
Posted on: World Cup Referees by Aaron | Jun 16th, 2006
Well, I must admit, I fast-forwarded through as much of the games as possible when the ball was out of play, but I think I ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Jun 16th, 2006
FIFA officials expained that the playing of the Korean national anthem for Togo, was human error. Togo's ambassador to Germany wrote a letter to FIFA ...
Posted on: Togo World Cup Team Blog by Nick O'Neill | Jun 16th, 2006
Togo captain Jean-Paul Abalo is popular in Korea, after showing a sporting side during the 2 country's game. Togo lost the encounter 2-1, but gained ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Peter | Jun 16th, 2006
After months of dancing around frivolous issues, the German magazine Der Spiegel has finally managed to publish something I want to read. In fact, it ...
