Articles tagged with "world-football"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 23rd, 2008
Remember when Ronaldinho ruled the world? He was constantly showing us that toothy grin while making fools out of various defenders and goalkeepers. With his ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 23rd, 2008
It's Beach Soccer World Cup time. What does this mean?
It means beautiful women dancing around in bikinis, of course. (What, you thought it ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 22nd, 2008
The level of commercialization in football took another step towards total today, as UEFA are taking Euro 2009 Under-21 Championship matches away from the Swedish ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 22nd, 2008
"You sure Cantona said this would help us get chicks?"
"Yeah. 'Check out those flamingos if you don't believe me,' he ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 21st, 2008
Schalke 04 player Márcio Rafael Ferreira de Souza, or Rafinha to you and I, has gone AWOL for the Olympics. The right back been called ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 19th, 2008
You can't mix football and politics. Iran of all countries should know this, since they were suspended by FIFA in 2006 because the government ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 18th, 2008
Italy and Bayern Munich striker Luca Toni has finally decided to talk about Italy's miserable Euro performance, and he wants us all to know that ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 17th, 2008
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Ladies and gents in the US, behold, I bring your the schedule for all soccer coverage in the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 17th, 2008
Heartbreak for the US Women's National team. Abby Wambach won't be going to the 2008 Olympics.
In the final pre-Olympic friendly last night, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 16th, 2008
Carlos Queiroz (or Charlie Key Roche, if you prefer) sat before the microphones as Portugal boss for the first time today. His primary goal: World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 15th, 2008
Preparations are underway in Marseille, France, for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, which starts Thursday.
The 16 teams that qualified for Marseille are ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 15th, 2008
Rene Higuita rolled back the years recently, the 41 year old Colombian keeper dusting off his famous scorpion kick in a testimonial for Victor Aristizabal ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 11th, 2008
We're down to the final ten Asian teams, and we're left with the usual suspects, a few surprises, and...Australia? Yes, Australia, competing with the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 10th, 2008
Ronaldinho says he's going to the Olympics, Barcelona be damned.
All right, that's a paraphrase. What he actually said was this:
"I feel very positive and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 8th, 2008
One factor that's going to add an extra twist to soccer in the upcoming Olympics? Whether or not clubs will allow their players to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 7th, 2008
We're bored.
Nearly everybody's on summer hiatus, and the Olympics don't start for another month, and if I have to read about yet another ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 6th, 2008
Good news for US fans of Olympic soccer who are worrying about not being able to see the games. NBC feels our pain and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 4th, 2008
The voters have spoken. According to people who voted on the UEFA site, Wesley Sneijder's goal against France was unquestionably the most beautiful goal ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 3rd, 2008
If you ignore the bit where all the television pictures disappeared, Euro 2008 in Swissautria went nice and smooth. UEFA are obviously hoping for the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 3rd, 2008
Geez, Spain. I know you're excited about the your first big win in 44 years, but you could show a little sensitivity here.
Or not. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 3rd, 2008
When we finished our Euro coverage here at World Cup Blog, several things appeared clear.
1. Andrei Arshavin would get a lot of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 3rd, 2008
It happens every month. FIFA's new rankings come out, and everybody groans and says, "There is no possible way Team X is better than ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 2nd, 2008
Sad news coming out of Germany.
It seems that love of soccer has proven deadly. To a six-foot catfish. He apparently attacked ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 2nd, 2008
FIFA says... yes. The latest FIFA World rankings were released today, and a month of World Cup qualifying and a little tournament called Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jul 1st, 2008
The eleven giant statues of Euro 2008 players are broken down and removed from Zurich train station. Once they'd sawn off Michael Ballack's head, Euro ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jul 1st, 2008
If you have always dreamed of playing international football, but perhaps lack the skills to play for a real country, have we got the tournament ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jun 29th, 2008
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Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jun 24th, 2008
We're six rounds into World Cup qualifying for the South American CONMEBOL teams, and Brazil is in 5th place out of ten countries. If ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Jun 23rd, 2008
This week we're going to take a look at how things are shaping up when it comes to World Cup qualifying in the various confederations. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by football365 | May 8th, 2008
As a South African and a fan of football I was overjoyed when FIFA awarded my home country the rights to host the 2010 World ...
