Articles tagged with "world-football"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 13th, 2008
The magic numbers are out. Every month, FIFA do complicated mathematical things on a big supercomputer and then carefully rank every national team. Either that ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 13th, 2008
The ball's bouncing around in the box. Italian defenders are desperately trying to knock it away, Swedish attackers are trying to bundle it over the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Mar 12th, 2008
Pop quiz: The five young men currently missing from the Cuban U-23 team have
A) found a really rockin' party and lost track of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 12th, 2008
Paul Gascoigne's England career was a lot like the rest of his career. A load of injuries mixed in with moments of genius. Gazza came ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Mar 5th, 2008
Is Essam El-Hadary going to be our test case for the Webster ruling, or isn't he? The battle is on.
Just last week Daryl was ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 4th, 2008
The now long-running saga of Spain possibly being booted out of Euro 2008 got even more complicated yesterday. FIFA are still upset with the Spanish ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 3rd, 2008
This is Austrian defender Martin Hiden. OK, so it's not a very flattering picture, but the Austrian defender deserves some credit. Hiden is apparently the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 3rd, 2008
The Dutch players will now go into Euro 2008 knowing exactly who their next boss will be. Marco van Basten is stepping down after the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 29th, 2008
I'm not sure exactly when video games started having trailers, but apparently they do. The above is a preview of EA Sports' Euro 2008 game. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 28th, 2008
Over on The Offside, we recently posted a list of the 50 highest paid footballers in the world as published by a Portuguese financial site. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 28th, 2008
Hard to believe, but there are only 100 days till the start of Euro '08. Or technicallly, as I am writing this, 99 days ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 27th, 2008
The clumsily titled 2008 CONCACAF Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament gets underway in less that two weeks time, with the USA hosting and two things getting decided. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 26th, 2008
Over at The Offside recently, Chris filled us in on the Andy Webster ruling and how it was going to turn football upside down. The ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 25th, 2008
South Korea and Japan faced off in the final round of game at the East Asian Cup, with both teams level on four points, knowing ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 25th, 2008
"If I don't become a bitter old jealous man by then I might continue."
--Russia coach Guus Hiddink, on whether he might continue coaching after the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 22nd, 2008
It's the final round of the East Asian Cup on Saturday, with top two Japan and South Korea going head to head for the title. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 22nd, 2008
We all know that soccer has the power to do a lot of things. It can exhilarate us. Aggravate us. Makeus euphoric. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 22nd, 2008
Here's an interesting concept, what if a best eleven wasn't picked on reputation but entirely on statistics? That's the the idea behind the Castrol Performance ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 21st, 2008
I was almost done researching and writing a post on the challenges facing new Iran coach Javier Clemente, and then he goes and gets himself ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 20th, 2008
It's all happening at the East Asian Cup, and not all of it nice.
During China's 1-0 defeat at the hands of Japan, Chinese goalkeeper ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 19th, 2008
There won't be any teams from the UK at Euro 2008 this summer after England's abject failure to do anything but lose to Croatia, Scotland's ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 19th, 2008
I'd never heard of the East Asian Cup until this week, but now I'm fascinated. It's a four team tournament featuring, duh, East Asian teams. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 18th, 2008
Yesterday's dramatic declaration of Kosovan independence means a new country on the map, and probably a new football team in the world. Or a new ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Feb 18th, 2008
I've got to admit, when I first heard the rumors that Giovanni Trapattoni was heading to Dublin to take over the Irish National Team I ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 18th, 2008
Legendary Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano was honoured with a statue this weekend, unveiled by a who's who of footballing dignitaries, including - of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 16th, 2008
Ninety-nine goals. Some of them pretty spectacular. Watch them here and look forward to 2010.
(First spotted on 101 Great Goals)
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 15th, 2008
When Ronaldo severed the tendon in his left knee on Wednesday, the general consensus was that his career was almost definitely finished. But not everyone ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 15th, 2008
Things are looking worse and worse for the Premier League's plans for a moneyspinning international round. The plan already got the middle finger from Asia, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 15th, 2008
Australia are about to step up and get serious with their bid to host World Cup 2018. There are apparently big talks going on to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 14th, 2008
Euro 2008 is on the way people. It's less than four months away. We've already met and then named mascots Trix and Flix, and now ...
