I am looking at the news about Henry, France, and Ireland. According to Radio Nederlands, Sarkozy has already apologized to the Irish Prime Minister but there was no news about a replay. FIFA has already decided against a replay since other countries would be requesting the same thing. I am in agreement with Sir Alex […]
Nikolas Sarkozy [President of France] has just apologized to Brian Cowan [Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland] for what transpired in the Qualifications for the 2010 World Cup between the two countries. It is great that sports, and decency has prevailed although there is a need to investigate what happened. http://my.nowpublic.com/sports/french-president-sarkozy-apologizes-ireland
Egypt responded to the loss of the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers to Algeria and the denunciations by Algeria before FIFA. Egypt has been the scene of riots in front of the Algerian Embassy in Cairo as its government recalls its ambassador to Algeria. The reason has been the accusations against Algeria by Egypt of «physical […]
FIFA [and this was going to happen] rejected the request of the Republic of Ireland for a rematch. The reason was that a result and the ruling of a referee cannot be reversed. FIFA added that if a replay was allowed, every nation would be asking for one. FIFA left the door open to an […]
En la semana entre el 13 de Noviembre 2009 hasta el 20 de Noviembre 2009, el mundo de futbol fue testigo de muchas sorpresas. Francia logro clasificarse en la Copa Mundial del 2010 con la mano del jugador Thierry Henry, el equipo de futbol de los EEUU lograron perder sus juegos amistosos a Eslovenia y […]
The US Football [Soccer] Team played their friendlies against Slovenia and Denmark. What happened was that they lost to both teams and there was no reason for that to occur. The US Soccer Team had managed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup and win the CONCACAF Championship in 2009 only to sputter at the […]
Algeria 1-0 Egypt The nation of Sudan played host to the bitter rivalry in World Cup history between Algeria and Egypt. It appeared that both teams were competing for domination but Antar Yahia scored a goal for Algeria within 39 minutes of the game with a free kick in the air and past the goalkeeper. […]
For Tim Vickery: Your article about Maradona dealt with many interesting points. Regardless, I believe that he should have received punishment under Article 57 and 58 of the FIFA Code of Conduct. Roberto
Lionel Messi is one the foremost football [soccer] players from Argentina and has been known to have been considered as a new generation of his country’s players after Maradona. He was born in Rosario, Argentina on the 24th of June 1987 and started early in football [soccer]. He has been associated with Newell’s Old Boys […]
It appears that the latest battle in Iraq is being fought between the Iraqi National Football [Soccer] Team and FIFA. The latest saga started when the Iraqi Olympic Committee [which is part of the Iraqi Government] took control and dissolved the Iraqi National Football [Soccer] Team. The dispute between the Iraqi National Football [Soccer] Team […]
