Articles tagged with "world-football"
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 24th, 2008
The squads were named over the weekend for Spain vs Italy - arguably the most mouthwatering of all Wedesday's international friendlies - and it was ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Chris | Mar 21st, 2008
I can't find any more appropriate words to sum up these World Cup compilations. It was apparently, at one point, an entire Tv show - ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 21st, 2008
The USA and Honduras are CONCACAF's Olympic 2008 qualifiers after both won their CONCACAF U-23 semi-finals last night. The US beat Canada 3-0 thanks to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 20th, 2008
We're looking for bloggers to join our team for Euro 2008. If you want to blog about any of the following teams:
Austria, Croatia, Greece, Romania, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 20th, 2008
...here's what we're looking for:
Basics: You must be able to write in English. You don't have to be perfect, but we want accurate spelling and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 20th, 2008
It's Guatemala vs Honduras and USA vs Canada tonight in the excellently titled 2008 CONCACAF U-23 Men's Pre-Olympic Tournament, possibly the only tournament on earth ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 20th, 2008
As half-expected, David Beckham was named in Fabio Capello's England 30-man England squad for the game against France next Wednesday. And if Becks plays (and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 19th, 2008
Aside from the Algarve Cup and the CONCACAF Under-23 Pre-Olympic Tournament, it's been a quiet month for international football. But all that will change next ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 18th, 2008
If you like World Cup Blog and want to get your message on here, then you're in luck. Cast an eye down the right hand ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Mar 17th, 2008
Mexico-Haiti highlights, final Group stage qualifier
Before the CONCACAF Olympic qualifiers, if you'd asked most people which teams would end up in the finals, I think ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Mar 17th, 2008
It's St. Patrick's Day and we're building towards the European Championship, so what better time to share this goal? It's from Euro '88, the first ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 17th, 2008
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone. To celebrate, here are a few select Republic of Ireland highlights.
...Ray Houghton scoring against England at Euro '88, Ireland won ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Laurie | Mar 16th, 2008
It wasn't so long ago that the US women were making headlines for their sorority-esque exclusion of outspoken goalkeeper Hope Solo after the team flamed ...
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. ...
