Articles tagged with "world-soccer"
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 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
Alexandre Pato made his international debut for Brazil with the usual hype (guilty here) and pressure on him to perform. And as usual he delivered.
Just ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
Latest links from around World Cup Blog ahead of all today's games (some of which have already happened)...
Pharaohs vs Albiceleste preview (Egypt Blog
And live ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 26th, 2008
When it comes to international football, it's very hard to be neutral. But we're going to ask you to try anyway.
With a whole world of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 25th, 2008
Sweden vs Brazil tomorrow isn't just any old game. It was arranged to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1958 World Cup Final between the ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Mar 24th, 2008
Hard to know what to make of the CONCACAF U-23 Olympic Qualifying Final. The two finalists - USA and Honduras - had both qualified for ...
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
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: 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 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 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 ...
