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. […]
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 […]
FIFA has decided to launch an disciplinary hearing against Diego Armando Maradona for his abusive outbursts filled with expletives on live television. FIFA will hold the meeting on the 15th of November to decide his fate. FIFA will base its investigation under Article 58 of its disciplinary code which could suspend Maradona for «at least five matches, […]
I have been a supporter of soccer since the age of 11 after my return from Europe. Since soccer was not popular in North America, I started to listen to the shortwave radio stations such as the BBC in order to listen to many games. When I lived in Venezuela during the late 1970’s and […]
El Monstruo de la Cancion Raphael interpeto la cancion “Escandalo” con sus versos pegajosos como “Escandalo Es Un Escandalo…..”. Lo mismo se puede hablar de dos eventos en el futbol cuyo tema es el conflicto de interes en Inglaterra y las actividades anti –sociales en un partido de la UEFA en Bucarest Rumania. Conflicto de […]
Sven-Goren Eriksson is not the only football [soccer] manager who rejected an offer to coach the Swedish National Team. Roy Hodgson who is the Fulham FC Manager revealed that he received offers from Norway and Sweden to manage their national teams and that he turned down the offer. Mr. Hodgson revealed that he rejected the […]
The President of FIFA Joseph S. Blatter unveiled a new award from the organization during a ceremony in the Ferenc Puskas Academy in Budapest, Hungary, The award is called the FIFA Puskas Award and its purpose is to honor the «finest goal» of the year. The award [according to Blatter] is to honor Ferenc Puskas and his […]
Entere de los insultos de Maradona hacia la prensa y el castigo de la FIFA. La FIFA tuvo la razon en estudiar las posibilidades de sancionar a Maradona por su falta de respeto hacia la prensa. Parece que Maradona es sensible a las criticas y por eso insulto a la prensa. Las drogas y la […]
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