Articles tagged with "world-soccer"
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 18th, 2009
In honour of today's Algeria vs Egypt showdown in Sudan, had planned on putting together a Top 10 Biggest International Rivalries post. But halfway through ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 18th, 2009
In honour of today's Algeria vs Egypt showdown in Sudan, I had planned on putting together a Top 10 Biggest International Rivalries post. But halfway ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 11th, 2009
This seems almost impossibly unimportant following the sad news of Robert Enke's passing, but Cristiano Ronaldo will now definitely miss both legs of Portugal's World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 6th, 2009
Some advance warning: This post is going to be mildly critical of Zinedine Zidane. Nothing too harsh, because - as for many people - he ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Nov 2nd, 2009
For a long while there, Stephen Appiah was an international footballer only. The midfielder has not played a kick of club soccer since late 2007, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 30th, 2009
FIFA has announced its shortlist of 23 players for the Men's World Player of the Year award, and 10 players for the Women's World Player ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 30th, 2009
FIFA has announced its shortlist of 23 players for the Men's World Player of the Year award, and 10 players for the Women's World Player ...
Posted on: England World Cup Team Blog by Daryl | Oct 22nd, 2009
I'm not quitting, and neither is Rob. But we both have other blogging commitments and so could definitely use some help here on England WCB. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 22nd, 2009
Do you know who the unofficial world football champions are? It's not Italy, they're the official world champions by virtue of being World Cup holders. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 19th, 2009
When you look at the list of nations bidding to host World Cups 2018 and 2022, it's very very easy to dismiss Indonesia. The ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 16th, 2009
Norwegian former professional footballer Bjorn Heidenstrom is on a mission. A mission to make the world's biggest football shirt.
He's cycling from Oslo, Norway all the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 15th, 2009
Bit of controversy in European World Cup qualifying, with the powers that be pulling what looks like a commercially motivated bait and switch with the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 12th, 2009
Late late 2-1 win over Peru for Diego Maradona's Argentina on Saturday night, with Martin Palermo scoring the all-important goal in the 93rd minute (and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 9th, 2009
This was originally published on Wednesday, with a couple of errors in it. Now it's back and (hopefully) error free, just in time for this ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 9th, 2009
The World Cup 2018/2022 bidding war just got serious. First we had the Australia 2018/22 team engaging in some guerrilla marketing by handing out goody ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 7th, 2009
Are you and England or USA fan? Planning to watch this weekend's World Cup qualifiers on television? You better start making new plans then.
Team USA ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 6th, 2009
I first heard about this on The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast, and it's since appeared in The Times, ONTD, Unprofessional Foul, and probably plenty of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Oct 5th, 2009
I have several good reasons for asking. First is the absence of certain eligible big name players. Bojan Krkic, Jack Wilshere, Mario Balotelli etcetera. But ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 28th, 2009
We all know that FIFA is world football's governing body. But Sepp Blatter and co. don't preside over all of international football. There's a whole ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 25th, 2009
I can remember a time (a time before Leo Messi) when every little Argentinean #10 who could dribble a bit got labelled "the new Maradona". ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 23rd, 2009
The 2009 U-20 World Cup kicks off in Egypt tomorrow. As the tournament title suggests, it's just like the real thing, except all the players ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 22nd, 2009
We have bloggers and readers on WCB and The Offside who've forgotten more about Argentinean football than I'll ever know. So I may be venturing ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 11th, 2009
Diego Maradona's spell in charge of Argentina is not going well. The albiceleste are fifth in CONMEBOL qualifying right now, and could very well wind ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by chris | Sep 10th, 2009
The spaces are filling, the available slots are dropping and the fight is coming to an end. Thirty-one of thirty-two spots (South Africa get the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2009
That's the question being asked on France WCB right now.
Ten minutes into today's big big Serbia vs France World Cup qualifier in Belgrade, alliterative referee ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2009
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 is a big big day for World Cup qualifying. Some teams will actually qualify. Some teams will be eliminated. And some ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Aug 28th, 2009
The World Cup is a global event. Every nation on earth watches, and talks about. Even if your nation isn't one of the lucky 32 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Aug 26th, 2009
The question of Pelé vs Diego Maradona and who is the greatest footballer of all time, is largely pointless. Both were brilliant, but in different ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Aug 18th, 2009
Bidding to host the World Cup is all about infrastructure. You need quality stadia, reliable public transport and an absolute boatload of available hotel rooms.
But ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Aug 5th, 2009
The new FIFA World Rankings are out. Well, I say new, they're actually very very similar to the July 2009 rankings, with just Germany and ...
