Articles tagged with "futbol"
EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Conrad takes YOUR Questions
By Dave Martinez | May 16th, 2008Jimmy Conrad, US national team defender and member of the Kansas City Wizards, will be sitting down with me for a few minutes Saturday for an interview. As a thank you to our many readers and writers in this MLS Community, we are opening the floor ...
Daily Calcio News and Notes: 5/14/08
By Francesco | May 14th, 2008Here's what I found interesting today: -Livorno director Elio Signorelli assumed some responsibility for Livorno's relegation to Serie B. Why? Because he was the one that chose Livorno's strikeforce over the summer. He said that he was sure th ...
Exclusive: Hunter Freeman Interview Pt. III
By Dave Martinez | May 12th, 2008So here we are, the final part of this trilogy. What have I learned so far? Well, Hunter is a straight shooter who isnt shy about giving an opinion - a refreshing change from the cookie cutter responses athletes usually give to dance around questio ...
Serie A Week 37 Preview
By Francesco | May 10th, 2008Here we are at the penultimate day of the 2007/2008 Serie A season. It has been a long, interesting season with lots of battles in the table but this second to last day is really becoming more important than the last day, because lots of scenario ...
Video of the Week: Great Serie A Goals
By Francesco | May 9th, 2008I thought I'd start posting a video of the week. This week we travel back in time to the 1990s, when the Serie A was arguably the best league in the world. In this video we'll see some of the greatest goals in Serie A in the '90s. ...
All The Bull - Brunner, Stammler, Reyna, Galaxy and more
By Dave Martinez | May 9th, 2008Hey everyone. Its been a busy news day: + Eric Brunner, our 2nd round pick and first pick in the 2008 draft, has decided to forgo the meager amount of money that befits a developmental player and will begin exploring options in "USL and Europ ...
Episode 22: Superclásico, Ligue 1 and Premiership Roundup
By Ian Rose | May 8th, 2008It's that time of the week again, and after a week of technical glitches that made me very nearly give up on the computer altogether, we are back with Pod episode 22. Joining me for this one are Christian Reyes, who is still licking his wounds a bit ...
Nazionale News
By Francesco | May 7th, 2008Cassano and Del Piero can still hope for call-ups to Euro 2008. Why? Because players going to Euro 2008 need an anti-tick vaccine (haven't they ever heard of bug spray?), so the FIGC has contacted the clubs of 48 players that Donadoni has on his ...
The Hellas Verona Tragedy
By Francesco | May 5th, 2008Hey Italy Offside Readers, this nice post comes from Steven of the Palermo Offside. He writes about the decline of storied club Hellas Verona. The Hellas Verona Tragedy I don't know about you guys, but one of the things that sparked my i ...
Farewell Bobo Vieri?
By Francesco | May 5th, 2008There is no denying that Christian (Bobo) Vieri in the late 1990's and early 2000's was one of, if not the deadliest striker in the world. The Aussie-born striker was a goalscoring machine, and scored with such ease. He would just power past defe ...
The Valencia disease
By Mando | May 2nd, 2008Originally this started out as an answer to a comment on my previous post and I knew it was going to grow into a bigger deal so instead I tacked it here. Well, I mentioned earlier that Espanyol is suffering not from a lack of quality but from a ...
Episode 21: Paris is Burning
By Ian Rose | April 29th, 2008No, film buffs ... we will not be talking about the drag documentary, but Paris St. Germain is a main topic of discussion this week, as Ligue 1 faces the very real possibility of losing its only Parisian club, and its fans go a little insane. Inara ...
We're in Trouble
By Francesco | April 20th, 2008Today's loss to Napoli was a bad one. More after the jump. HIGHLIGHTS: This may be one of the games that decides a season. This was a bad loss. It was a sloppy game, and none of the players played well except for Luca Bucci. The whole ...
Episode 19: Blatant Abuse of the 4-3-3
By Ian Rose | April 16th, 2008The podcast family widens a little as we welcome a new member to the crew. Red Bull New York Offsider Dave Martinez joins us for his first run out, to discuss his Bulls, as well as the rest of the MLS action this week. Don't worry - there's still p ...
Curious Signings
By Dave Martinez | March 22nd, 2008The Red Bulls recently announced the addition of 4 developmental (minimum wage slave labor) signings, and have resigned Danny Cepero for another year. In full, here are the transactions; - South African Midfielder Danleigh Borman - Midfielder K
Parma takes on Catania and Di Carlo won't be kicked in the butt
By Francesco | January 27th, 2008After the undeserved loss to Inter , Parma keep their chins up and face another away tie, this time making the long trip down to Sicily to take on Catania. Last week was the end of the "girone d'andata", which means the fixtures revert themselves and
Parma falls to Fiorentina, 2 goals from ex-Gialloblu Mutu
By Francesco | January 14th, 2008Parma ended it's good run at home with a loss to 5th place Fiorentina, who got the win with two goals from Adrian Mutu, who was one of three people to be an ex-Parma player. Mutu, goalkeeper Sebastian Frey, and coach Cesare Prandelli were all with Par
Mexico Loses Friendly
By mirna | October 20th, 2007This week wasn't a good one for Hugo Sanchez. After losing to Guatemala on Wednesday, fans and the media in Mexico and elsewhere are questioning what Sanchez is really doing with El Tri. Is it a process that he has in his mind but that its not really wo
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