Articles tagged with "world-football"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 14th, 2008
The sad sad news today is that Ronaldo may be finished. Just when it looked as if the Brazilian legend was getting it together at ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 13th, 2008
Javier Clemente has signed a contract to manage Iran through World Cup 2010 qualification, but has fallen out with his new bosses before even getting ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 13th, 2008
Anybody else watch the World Cup qualifying draw late last year? When you saw North Korea and South Korea get drawn into the same ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 13th, 2008
It's that time again kids. The time when FIFA feeds all the football matches from the past four years into a giant super-computer, and waits ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 12th, 2008
After France's recent loss to Spain, France striker Thierry Henry, coach Raymond Domenech and captain Patrick Vieira all talked about the “reassuring defeat,” because they ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 12th, 2008
The Mexican National Team has not won in the US in this decade. Most people I talk to agree that Mexico plays better. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 11th, 2008
Laurie may write about the likes of David Beckham, but her international heart belongs to Les Bleus. Her biggest thrills in the past couple ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 6th, 2008
Before we get back to the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals tomorrow, there's a big day of international football friendlies today. No points at stake, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Feb 4th, 2008
This picture came from Home Page Ghana after Ghana's come-from-behind, ten-man win over Nigeria's Super Eagles.
Home Page Ghana says:
Anger and disappointment ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jan 24th, 2008
I feel sorry for anybody who had to take a potty break in the 59th minute of this game. If they were gone for ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jan 24th, 2008
Guinea 3-2 Morocco FINAL
11', 62' (pen) Feindounou, 59' Bangoura -- 60' Aboucherouane, 89' Ouaddou
Group A
Date: Thursday, 24 January
Time: 1700 GMT
Location: ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jan 23rd, 2008
If I had a dime for ever time South Africa's Bafana Bafana had the ball inside the six-yard box but couldn't score, I'd be off ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 22nd, 2008
This is a LiveBlog of the earlier January 22nd Group C match between Egypt and Cameroon. Click here for the Egypt vs Cameroon Africa Cup ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jan 21st, 2008
Mali won this game on a clinical Fredi Kanoute penalty kick, but it wasn't the decisive game they'd hoped for. They needed a strong ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 18th, 2008
The final 23-man squads for the African Cup of Nations were handed in to the Confederation of African Football last Thursday, January 10th and are ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 18th, 2008
A few days ago I published a little post here on World Cup Blog about Abedi Pelé, where I referred to him as Africa's greatest ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 17th, 2008
The first FIFA World Rankings of 2008 have been released and the big news is... well, nothing. It's all the same at the top with ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 11th, 2008
... Dunga? According to German number-lovers IFFHS he is, topping their national team coach rankings with 148 points. Not bad going for his first ever ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
Can you remember your first day at school or your first day at work? Pretty nerve racking, yes? Well now imagine you're Fabio Capello. You've ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
Ben Bamfuchile was laid to rest in Zambia today, attracting a crowd of around 5,000. The Zambian soccer coach had been scheduled to lead Namibia ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 3rd, 2008
As posted by my sister-in-blog Laurie over at The Offside, here's a nice little collection of the evil of modern football known as diving. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
Bad news for Brand Beckham, as it seems Golden Balls' globe trotting lifestyle is slowly but surely destroying planet earth. According to climate watchdog Carbon ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
The World Cup 2010 qualifying draw was not kind to China. In the first round of Asian qualifying China were drawn in Group Five alongside ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
It must be January, because the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid rumours are back. Much like the Kaka to Real Madrid rumours, this one appears ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 1st, 2008
Happy New Year everyone. Here's looking forward to a great year, with the African Cup of Nations just around the corner and Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 31st, 2007
The year is almost done, so here's the final part of the World Cup Blog A-Z of 2007. Part one (A-M) can be found here, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 31st, 2007
It's the last day of 2007, so here's an alphabetical look back at the last twelve months in world football. There's so much happened that ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
Like most English tabloids, The Sun is mostly full of gossip, nonsense and hastily assembled headlines. But every once in a while they do something ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
There's been a clamour in Nigeria for Berti Vogts to recall playmaker Jay-Jay Okocha for the 2008 African Cup of Nations. But the German boss ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 28th, 2007
Croatian playmaker Luka Modrić is about to be auctioned off by Dinamo Zagreb to the highest English Premier League bidder, with Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and ...
