Articles tagged with "world-soccer"
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 Daryl | Feb 22nd, 2008
Here's an interesting concept, what if a best eleven wasn't picked on reputation but entirely on statistics? That's the the idea behind the Castrol Performance ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 20th, 2008
It's all happening at the East Asian Cup, and not all of it nice.
During China's 1-0 defeat at the hands of Japan, Chinese goalkeeper ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 19th, 2008
There won't be any teams from the UK at Euro 2008 this summer after England's abject failure to do anything but lose to Croatia, Scotland's ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 18th, 2008
Legendary Real Madrid striker Alfredo Di Stéfano was honoured with a statue this weekend, unveiled by a who's who of footballing dignitaries, including - of ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 15th, 2008
When Ronaldo severed the tendon in his left knee on Wednesday, the general consensus was that his career was almost definitely finished. But not everyone ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 15th, 2008
Things are looking worse and worse for the Premier League's plans for a moneyspinning international round. The plan already got the middle finger from Asia, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 15th, 2008
Australia are about to step up and get serious with their bid to host World Cup 2018. There are apparently big talks going on to ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 14th, 2008
The sad sad news today is that Ronaldo may be finished. Just when it looked as if the Brazilian legend was getting it together at ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 13th, 2008
Javier Clemente has signed a contract to manage Iran through World Cup 2010 qualification, but has fallen out with his new bosses before even getting ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Feb 6th, 2008
Before we get back to the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals tomorrow, there's a big day of international football friendlies today. No points at stake, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 22nd, 2008
This is a LiveBlog of the earlier January 22nd Group C match between Egypt and Cameroon. Click here for the Egypt vs Cameroon Africa Cup ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 18th, 2008
The final 23-man squads for the African Cup of Nations were handed in to the Confederation of African Football last Thursday, January 10th and are ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 18th, 2008
A few days ago I published a little post here on World Cup Blog about Abedi Pelé, where I referred to him as Africa's greatest ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 11th, 2008
... Dunga? According to German number-lovers IFFHS he is, topping their national team coach rankings with 148 points. Not bad going for his first ever ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 7th, 2008
Ben Bamfuchile was laid to rest in Zambia today, attracting a crowd of around 5,000. The Zambian soccer coach had been scheduled to lead Namibia ...
Posted on: USA World Cup Team Blog by Carter Daly | Jan 4th, 2008
Our friend Steven Goff is hearing things.
Not in a sixth sense sort of way, more in the way of sources he hears from on a ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 3rd, 2008
As posted by my sister-in-blog Laurie over at The Offside, here's a nice little collection of the evil of modern football known as diving. ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
Bad news for Brand Beckham, as it seems Golden Balls' globe trotting lifestyle is slowly but surely destroying planet earth. According to climate watchdog Carbon ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
The World Cup 2010 qualifying draw was not kind to China. In the first round of Asian qualifying China were drawn in Group Five alongside ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 2nd, 2008
It must be January, because the Cristiano Ronaldo to Real Madrid rumours are back. Much like the Kaka to Real Madrid rumours, this one appears ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Jan 1st, 2008
Happy New Year everyone. Here's looking forward to a great year, with the African Cup of Nations just around the corner and Euro 2008 ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 31st, 2007
The year is almost done, so here's the final part of the World Cup Blog A-Z of 2007. Part one (A-M) can be found here, ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 31st, 2007
It's the last day of 2007, so here's an alphabetical look back at the last twelve months in world football. There's so much happened that ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 27th, 2007
The year of 2008 will be upon us any day now, which means Euro 2008 is getting closer and closer. If you have a passion ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 27th, 2007
Strange things are afoot in Iranian football. Sepp Blatter recently threatened to tear up Iran's FIFA membership for failing to properly separate the football federation ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 17th, 2007
The new England manager locked horns with his mortal enemies this afternoon, and lived to tell the tale.. Signor Capello (or Mr. Hair to give ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 17th, 2007
While we're all excited about seeing big name players like Didier Drogba and Michael Essien at the African Cup of Nations 2008, here's a little ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 17th, 2007
Football links from around World Cup Blog, The Offside, and other fine on-line locations.
A welcome package for Signor Capello (England Blog)
The FC United revolution will ...
Posted on: World Cup Soccer - South Africa 2010 by Daryl | Dec 14th, 2007
Brazilian coach Professor Neto gave a speech in South Africa recently, arguing that for football to develop in the 2010 World Cup host nation, the ...
