Articles tagged with "world-soccer"
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Sep 25th, 2008
Today, the always reputable Tribal Football ran a story stating that Italian giants Juventus have an interest in signing "American" center back Neven Subotic, even ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 9th, 2008
How about this for some excellent man management from Ireland's Italian boss Giovanni Trapattoni:
Ahead of Ireland's World Cup qualifier against Georgia, Trap was quizzed on ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 7th, 2008
What a difference a win makes, eh? This morning Brazil were fifth in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying group, which only gets you a World ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Sep 4th, 2008
The September FIFA World Rankings were announced yesterday, without too many changes from August. Euro 2008 champs Spain are still numero uno and Italy have ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Aug 19th, 2008
Argentina 3-0 Brazil
Argentina avenged the 3-0 Copa America 2007 and Confederations Cup 2005 defeats in the Men's Olympic Football semi-final today, beating Brazil 3-0.
Bit of ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Aug 15th, 2008
A couple real big transfers of note today.
Let's start with the bigger.
MLS has accepted a bid of $5 million for Toronto FC and USMNT midfielder ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Aug 13th, 2008
This was obviously the way it was going to go down.
Regardless of the fact that they had somehow managed to be group leaders heading into ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Aug 12th, 2008
Yes, I am back. I have returned from my six day scouting trip of Wyoming only to come home empty handed, with no gallivanting ...
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: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | May 28th, 2008
USA vs. England
It is a clash of titan nations that goes much deeper than simply soccer.
Conjuring up imagery of George Washington and his men crossing ...
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 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 25th, 2008
While the briefly hyped idea of bringing back the British Home Championships seems to have died a death, the idea of England playing Scotland is ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 22nd, 2008
Interesting idea from Adidas... their new commercial will be sending big names to small places. For example, the likes of David Beckham and Steven Gerrard ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Apr 15th, 2008
Giuseppe Rossi.
A duel-citizenship that did not work out in the USA's favor.
Francisco Torres
A duel-citizenship that may work out in the USA's favor.
Good.
The 20 year old ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 15th, 2008
So Romário is finally, officially, retired at the age of 42. You can definitely argue that his career went on a few seasons - and ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 14th, 2008
Ever wondered why the Olympic football tournament isn't as good as it should be? Look no further than FIFA. The general consensus is that FIFA ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 4th, 2008
Uh-oh. This can't be helpful. As Australia prepares its bid to host the 2018 World Cup, there's about to be some infighting over who has ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 4th, 2008
Football news form World Cup Blog, The Offside and elsewhere...
Lazy journalists make easy April Fools victims (Tunisia WCB)
The best team in Europe (Netherlands WCB)
Future phenoms ...
Posted on: UEFA Euro 2008 Championships by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
One of the greatest things about international tournaments is seeing young talent burst onto the international scene. Remember Wayne Rooney announcing himself to the world ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
It's not often that footballers take a political stance. Do you know how Wayne Rooney feels about the hybrid embryonic stem cell debate in the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 2nd, 2008
Lovely links from around WCB, The Offside and elsewhere...
Lippi never saying never (Italy WCB)
Polish goalies on the move? (Poland WCB)
Week 12 action in Mexico (Mexico ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 1st, 2008
Big news from last night is that Hugo Sanchez finally got himself fired. He might be arguably Mexico's greatest ever player, but his spell in ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Apr 1st, 2008
That's right, Berti Vogts is once again employed as an international football manager. I know it's April Fool's Day, but I'm pretty sure this is ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 31st, 2008
You've probably seen Cristiano Ronaldo's ridiculously good goal for Man Utd against Aston Villa by now. A flick with his back leg, through Martin Laursen's ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Mar 31st, 2008
Around the time it was announced that the United States would be participating in the Copa America in Venezuela, I thought Brian McBride would be ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 28th, 2008
The last of the 16 qualifiers for the 2008 Olympic Men's Football tournament was decided on Wednesday, with Nigeria U23 getting the necessary three points ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 28th, 2008
If Arsene Wenger thinks no one cares about international friendlies anymore, he needs to talk to some Estonia fans. Because those people definitely wanted their ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Mar 27th, 2008
The long anticipated announcement of the USA vs. Argentina friendly slated for June 8 at Giants stadium was finally announced today.
This friendly will cap off ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2008
Arsene Wenger was busy predicting the end of international friendlies today. After watching his native France beat England 1-0 at the Stade de France you'd ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 27th, 2008
Recent international newcomers Montenegro claimed their biggest scalp yet last night with a 3-1 win over Norway. Igor Burzanovic, Branko Boskovic and Radomir Djalovic got ...
