Articles tagged with "preview"
Previews: Sampdoria-Juventus and words on Tiago and Amauri
By alessio | May 16th, 2008Well, Juventini and anti-Juventini, (is there anything else?) it's come down to the last day of the season, sadly enough. Now starts the boring summer months of transfers and pointless friendlies. (Anyone know if a Serie A team is touring America ...
Rocky Mountain Cup Game 1
By Kyle | May 14th, 2008First of all, All-Star voting just started. I just put in my votes which featured a midfield consisting of the Rapids’ midfield and David Beckham. Let’s hope he can keep up with them. And now, on to the real fun: The Rocky Mountain Cup. Thi ...
Preview: Palermo - Sampdoria
By lorenzo | May 10th, 2008Sunday, May 11th, 2008 15.00 Renzo Barbera, Palermo Overview This is it. The last game of the season at home. The tifosi rosanero will look to salute players who are playing at the Renzo Barbera for the last time in a Palermo jersey. Amo ...
Barca vs Mallorca, or "Here's to happier times," Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, (5pm on GolTV)
By Kevin | May 10th, 2008Okay. Time to play out the string, to find out what kind of fans we have at the Camp Nou. We're bound for third place, and will have to play our way into the Champions League next season. Frank Rijkaard and Ronaldinho, two faces who came to epito ...
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 ...
Careful Rapids, They Used to be The Houston Dynamo
By Kyle | May 9th, 2008”We tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.” -Neil Armstrong The San Jose game comes to mind. Let’s just hope that this weekend isn’t a repeat of that gam ...
Preview: Lazio - Palermo
By lorenzo | May 3rd, 2008Sunday, May 4th, 2008 15.00 Stadio Olimpico, Roma Squad Status Palermo Palermo will be without Zaccardo due to suspension and "Bikerman" Caserta and "Cyranose" Biava who sustained some injuries during the week. Most likely, The Suit w ...
How’s That DP Slot Treating You, DC?
By Kyle | May 3rd, 2008Sometimes I think people talk about sports by saying really simple things in an overcomplicated way. For example: the Rapids game versus United on Sunday really comes down to which team shows up. In most of their games, the Rapids proved to be a fo ...
Serie A Week 37 Preview
By Francesco | May 2nd, 2008Sorry guys for the late post, but my internet has been down all day (Stupid Time Warner Cable!). So here's the weekend preview: As you can see by the picture, the main event of Week 37 is the Derby della Madonnina between Milan and Inter. This ...
Preview: Palermo - Atalanta
By Steven | April 26th, 2008Sunday April 27th, 2008 15.00 Stadio La Favorità, Palermo Squad Status Palermo Damn. Amauri and Rinaudo are banned for getting too much yellow cards, and so is Bresciano. Added to that is a shitload of injuries. Alberto Fontana, Edison ...
Wizards head to Canada
By travis | April 26th, 2008Match number two of the road trip brings the Wizards to BMO Field to face Toronto. Winners of their past two, they're no doubt going to be tough for the Wizards. Amado Guevara and Laurent Robert, two fairly recent acquisitions have been key cogs to t ...
Barca v Deportivo La Coruna, or "She's warming up...." Saturday, 1 p.m. CT, GolTV
By Kevin | April 25th, 2008Well, her song isn't done, but you have to wonder. We're in third place, one point behind Villarreal and eleven behind the Evil Empire, with five matches left to go. That's fifteen points. Barring a massive collapse, alien abductions and the like ...
Chicago Fire - Colorado Rapids: Preview
By Kyle | April 25th, 2008Win your home games, draw your away. If you’ve followed soccer for any time, you’ve probably heard this strategy expressed. I, personally, hate draws. To me they’re hardly better than a loss. In fact they’re 2/3 of a loss and 1/3 of a win ...
Rangers look for 47-year-old payback
By Ian Rose | April 23rd, 2008The day is upon us. To be honest, going into this season, I didn't expect to see an SPL side in a continental semifinal this year. Even with both of the Old Firm coming off of final-16 runs last season, I just didn't see either making a run this de ...
Barca v Man U, a.k.a. "The Big One" 1:30 p.m. CT, ESPN2
By Kevin | April 22nd, 2008You know why this man is smiling? Because he is thinking about getting in some Red Devil ass, that's why. Because this is it. The real deal, and he is the most pivotal player on the pitch for so many reasons, but most importantly, because they ca ...
This is it - Barcelona Vs Manchester United, First Leg Preview.
By Rob | April 22nd, 2008So here we are. This is the match we've been waiting for. Some of the world's best players get to show off here, in possibly the most exciting match of the tournament so far. English Champions Manchester United take on Spanish Runners Up (and only ju ...
Non-Preview: Fiorentina - Palermo
By Steven | April 19th, 2008I'm sorry for the lack of updates, but I've been way too busy lately. Here's Ted's Preview. See you guys for the game tonight! ...
Rapids vs. Two Time League Champs and Expansion Team: Preview
By Kyle | April 18th, 2008Last year at Dick’s, there were two guys with season tickets next to mine. They were from San Jose, so I wasn’t surprised when one of them showed up to the All-Star Game wearing his old Earthquakes jersey (the ‘Quakes expansion was announced t ...
Barcelona - Espanyol: Saturday 2pmEST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 18th, 2008So it's another derby, another day, right? Weeellll, it's more like we haven't gotten the full measure of revenge for Tamudo scoring that title-destroying goal against us last year, so not only do we need to continue their losing streak (4 straight a ...
Red Bulls v. Revolution - The Curse
By Dave Martinez | April 18th, 200810 games 7 losses 3 ties. Since 2005, this is what they have been able to achieve against the Revolution. Zilch. They were able to hold Jozy and Angel to one goal apiece in 5 appearances by either man, respectively. They were able ...
Red Bulls v. Revolution - The Curse
By Dave Martinez | April 18th, 200810 games 7 losses 3 ties. Since 2005, this is what they have been able to achieve against the Revolution. Zilch. They were able to hold Jozy and Angel to one goal apiece in 5 appearances by either man, respectively. They were able ...
Rapids Feeling Chuffed...and Why Not?
By Jeff | April 17th, 2008The Official Organ larded their weekly update with happy statistics: there's Bouna Coundoul's goals-against average; Terry Cooke tied for the league lead on assists; seven goals scored by seven different players, etc. By the way, those seven goals n ...
Recreativo Huelva - Barcelona: Saturday 4pm EST (GolTV)
By Isaiah | April 11th, 2008While El Mundo Deportivo reports that a Ronnie-to-Milan deal has been reached for €30million, the focus for the team must be on Recreativo Huelva and regaining some sort of foothold on the league title -- or at least not slipping further behind Rea ...
Preview: Derby della Sicilia
By Steven | April 11th, 2008Saturday April 12th, 2008 18.00 Stadio Renzo Barbera, Palermo Squad Status Palermo Colantuono is most likely to field his 4-2-3-1 again. Zacc, Balzaretti, Leandro and Barzagli in the back. Headbutt and Migliaccio in front of them, Janko ...
UEFA Cup Thursday Preview
By Ian Rose | April 9th, 2008Now that, once again, we've gotten the Champions League out of our systems, with one great game in England, and then that other one, it's time to decide who will be the Final Four in the UEFA Cup. Here are the matches, and who needs what to progress ...
Champions League preview: Barcelona v Schalke 04 (12:45 p.m. CT Wed., ESPNDeportes, 2 p.m. CT Thursday, ESPN Classic)
By Kevin | April 8th, 2008It's GO TIME, baby! Some are saying that Schalke is going to roll over and die at the mere sight of the blaugrana, and the roaring multitudes singing away at our stirring Himno. I don't think so. They were encouraged by their second half performance, ...
Barcelona - Getafe: Sunday 3pmEST
By Isaiah | April 4th, 2008[Updated Version] Just an FYI for all the readers: The Offside is listed as the 35th most powerful blog in the entire universe by The Guardian. Check it out. How cool is this!? We've also received just over 9,500 visitors last month (half of them ar ...
KC v. Rapids: Thinking Out Loud a Little...
By Jeff | April 4th, 2008A) The Colorado Rapids beat the Los Angeles Galaxy like red-headed step-children last weekend. B) The Los Angeles Galaxy are a bad soccer team. Therefore, the Colorado Rapids can beat a bad soccer team like red-headed step-children. C) The Los ...
Champions League preview: Schalke vs Barcelona, Tuesday 4 p.m. CT, ESPN Classic
By Kevin | March 31st, 2008I know, we don't get the high-def ESPN2 feed. Ripoff! It's April Fool's Day on this matchday, everyone, but since we've already played our cruel trick on Saturday against Betis, t'would be my vast, vast preference if we just rolled into Schalke's ...
Real Betis - Barcelona: Saturday 3pm EST
By Isaiah | March 28th, 2008In a world obsessed with little orange globes being thrown at metal circles 10 feet in the air by amateurs (that would be my world), there comes a ray of shining hope: Real Betis hosts FC Barcelona. I just had to rewrite my entire opening to this pos ...
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