Articles tagged with "national team"
Adriano is Back to the National Team!
By Bruno Romani | May 15th, 2008Dunga announced the squad for the two friendlies in the US at the end of the month and beginning of June, and the two matches for the World Cup Qualifying. The biggest name of the day? Adriano. Him and Kleber from Santos will play only the World Cup ...
Weekly Dose 14.05.08
By Jan | May 14th, 2008I recently joined Angela over at the Germany World Cup Blog to do some Euro 2008 blogging. Daryl suggested we post more often now to build a readership ahead of the tournament. But I've already gone through the process with this blog, so why all t ...
Matt Damon stars in The Ballack Identity
By Jan | May 8th, 2008I realised that I still had to reveal the identity of the kid on this picture. And it was indeed Matt Damon. I might be the last to notice it, but until I scanned YouTube for a video I could use to wrap a post around it, I wasn't aware of this striki ...
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 ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: We See and Hear Everything
By Jan | May 3rd, 2008And then we blog about it. Borussia Dortmund's new jersey. (Borussia Dortmund) Borussia Dortmund's new money. (Borussia Dortmund) Miroslav Klose's new nose. (Bayern Offside) Hertha's old friends. (Hertha Offside) Willy Sagnol's new dance. ...
If Del Piero goes to Euro 2008, he'll equal a record
By Francesco | May 1st, 2008Interesting article today from goal.com. It says that if Alex Del Piero's name is on Donadoni's 23 man final roster this May, he will equal a record. What is this record? The number of final tournaments played by an Italian player. Of course, it' ...
Uncanny Resemblance: Jogi Löw and Tom Cruise
By Jan | April 28th, 2008Jogi Löw attended the match between Karlsruhe and Bremen disguising as Tom Cruise. What is even more worrying than that, is the current form of most of his designated Euro 2008 players. Per Mertesacker is probably playing his worst ever season. To ...
Chicago Fire v. NY Red Bulls - Your Call . . .
By Dave Martinez | April 11th, 2008Hey Guys. Never since the days of Oakley, Starks, Jordan and Pippen has there been so much hatred between the franchises of our beloved cities. New York v. Chicago is back. And I am here to exploit that! Here are a couple of polls, open t ...
Steks Is All Holland Needs
By Matt | April 8th, 2008Media coverage of the Eredivisie is sparse, and such coverage in English is even more rare (as some of you have duly noted in comments). However, every now and then a terrific article is produced whenever a reporter manages to look away from the int ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Hungry for more
By Jan | April 5th, 2008More team blogs: Check out Anna's VfB Stuttgart Offside. (Stuttgart Offside) More power: The Offside is the 35th most powerful blog in the world. Beware. More team blogs: Angela is looking for more bloggers. (Bayern Offside) More shit than y ...
The German National Team sets off on an Alpine Adventure
By Jan | April 1st, 2008They take on the Matterhorn and they do it in silent movie fashion. The intertitles read "A difficult path lies ahead of you" and "But you won't take it alone". Also, props to Jens Lehmann who can save more than just penalties. A big global bran ...
5 Things we learned during the International Break
By Jan | March 28th, 20081. Hamburg are missing out. Just look at that photo. Though, Croatia didn't really impress in their friendly against Scotland (1-1) and neither Dortmund's Mladen Petric nor Bremen's Ivan Klasnic could put their names on the score sheet. I'm still a ...
Reyna Takes Light Jabs at Arena on FSC
By Dave Martinez | March 28th, 2008Claudio Reyna was featured on the MLS 2008 Preview Show for the Fox Soccer Channel. And boy did he have some interesting things to say. Of course, you cant expect controversial comments to come from fluff piece shows like this one. But, any loya ...
Snapshot: Golski
By Jan | March 27th, 2008Lukas Podolski and Mario Gomez during Germany's 4-0 victory over Switzerland. Too bad there's only room for one of the two alongside Klose. Though, Podolski might have a chance to replace Schweinsteiger in Germany's midfield. Podolski's pass to Gomez ...
Beardwatch: Christoph Metzelder
By Jan | March 27th, 2008What is it about injuries and beards? Following Kevin Kuranyi's example, Metzelder used his injury-enforced time out to grow a proper beard and probably write a manifesto on the future of football. ...
Weekly Dose 27.3.08
By Jan | March 27th, 2008Good news for GolTV subscribers. (Yahoo! Biz) Bad news for people watching their football on German TV (i.e., please pity me). (Goal.com) A spectacular overhead goal by Jürgen Klinsmann. (Who Ate All The Pies) A spectacular rise and fall. ( ...
Brazil 1 - 0 Sweden: His Name is Pato.
By Bruno Romani | March 26th, 2008To start talking about this match, it is mandatory to forget that it celebrated the 50th anniversary of Brazil’s first World Cup. In the 58 final, Brazil had Zito, Vavá, Didi, Garrincha, Nilton Santos besides a youngster named Pelé. In 08, Brazil ...
Odds and Ends
By salvatore | March 25th, 2008Six Lazio players have been called up to their respective national teams this week, and potentially, all of them will miss out on Saturday's meeting with battered and bruised South American giants Inter Milan. What this means is that despite our ...
Weekly Dose 20.3.08
By Jan | March 20th, 2008Create your own fan choreo; via probek.net. (madin.jp) Michael Ballack promotes a good cause. (International Herald Tribune) Rafael van der Vaart will leave a trail of dirt soaked water behind, when he leaves Hamburg with a title. (Goal.com) Stan
22 Men to Face Sweden
By Bruno Romani | March 11th, 2008Dunga announced this morning the 22 players who will take on Sweden in a friendly on the 26th which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brazil's first World Cup. Again, he called many players eligeble for the Olympics. GOALKEEPERS Júlio César
Weekly Dose 28.2.08
By Jan | February 28th, 2008Once Jogi Löw has announced his Euro 2008 squad, it'll be all downhill for Germany. (Germany Worldcupblog) The new DFB.TV video service presents Germany's way to the Euro 2008. The video ends after the second match against San Marino though. I wonde
Weekly Dose 20.2.08
By Jan | February 20th, 2008Footage from a friendly between Germany and England played back in 1930 - a 3-3 draw. (blinkx.com) 1. FC Kaiserslautern aka the Red Devils are in trouble. (Goal.com) Michael Rensing makes his first step to become a famous goalkeeper by picking up a
Weekly Dose 13.2.08
By Jan | February 13th, 2008Lothar Matthäus starring in a Gatorade commercial. (YouTube) The Athos, Portos and Aramis of the Bundesliga. Who'll be D'Artagnan then? (Reuters Soccer Blog) Once upon a time a couple of people got together in an internet discussion to squash some
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: Familiar Faces in unfamiliar Places
By Jan | February 8th, 2008Tracked down and chronicled with love and care by our team of bloggers. Lothar Matthäus in a Knight Rider episode. (Bundesliga Offside) The German national team in the alps of the past. (Bundesliga Offside) Flair football in Berlin - even though
Brazil 1 x 0 Ireland: Not Bad
By Bruno Romani | February 7th, 2008It wasn’t a great game. But it wasn’t bad either. Nowadays, breath taking performances are reserved only to when the other team is Argentina and the match is a final one. In times of “there’s no innocent in the sport,” Brazil put out a goo
Weekly Dose 6.2.08
By Jan | February 6th, 2008They are making jokes about Bielefeld's (ex-)coach of the century (Power) Ernst Middendorp down in South Africa. (allAfrica.com) A puff-piece about Jogi Löw. (uefa.com) An article about Leverkusen's midfield whizz-kid Simon Rolfes. (The World Game
Jens Lehmann breaks German Goalkeeping Record
By Jan | February 6th, 2008A run of 531 minutes without conceding a goal means Jens Lehmann set up a new national team record, following Germany's 3-0 victory over Austria. A record he held anyway (530 minutes without conceding a goal between 2002 and 2005). Not bad, and to ho ...
Germany's National Team takes the hard Way to Austria and Switzerland
By Jan | February 6th, 2008If you were the first team to qualify for the Euros and are a favourite with the bookies to win the whole thing, you need to find yourself a new challenge. And should Michael Ballack ever have ambitions to drive an old DeLorean back to 1985, to get a ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: The Transfer Circus left Town
By Jan | February 2nd, 2008They stayed in Berlin until the very last minute, due to popular demand by Dieter and Lulu, but eventually had to follow the law laid down by Judge Sepp. Lulu will take some comfort from their promise to come back in the summer. Gilberto out, Domowtsc
Weekly Dose 30.1.08
By Jan | January 30th, 2008Now that the Bundesliga is back, it's time to revive the popular Weekly Dose feature; with "now that the Bundesliga is back" being a weak excuse and with "Weekly" in "Weekly Dose" being more of a guideline than a rule anyway.Why Germany will win Euro 2008
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