Articles tagged with "africa"
Daily Dose 12.18.07
By Laurie | December 18th, 2007Some news to read as you smuggle a tank out of the country: Ronaldo out the door at Milan? (Football Corner) And now the Africa ...
Philippe Troussier's Globe-Trotting Continues
By Martha | December 18th, 2007During the 2002 World Cup, Philippe Troussier was a hero in Japan. He'd coached the national team for four years, leading them to victory in ...
Amine Chermiti Scores the Most Determined Goal of 2007
By Daryl | December 17th, 2007Third-place playoffs are normally lackadaisical affairs where no one really cares who wins. But when you're Urawa Red Diamonds and Étoile du Sahel, and never ...
Oi, You! Your Tournament is Inconvenient. Change It.
By Martha | December 14th, 2007Giving new meaning to the word "hubris," Pompey assistant manager Joe Jordan would like the Confederation of African Football to know that the timing of ...
Terrible News for Bangura
By Martha | December 13th, 2007The British Asylum and Immigration Authorities have returned their decision on Alhassan Bangura's asylum appeal, and the news isn't good for the Watford youngster: If ...
Boca Into Club World Cup Final
By Martha | December 12th, 2007No matter how Etoile Sportive du Sahal perform in the third place game later this week, the tiny Tunisian club will leave the World Club ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Brazilian Boys Lose Poorly
By Laurie | December 10th, 2007A few quick recaps of some of the games you may have been watching this weekend: US U-17 2-0 Brazil U-17 in the Nike friendlies. The ...
Something is Broken with Didier Drogba
By Daryl | December 7th, 2007Well this is eerie. Just yesterday we proposed a hypothetical situation where Didier Drogba picked up a long term injury while playing for the Ivory ...
Waiting on a Waitakere United Miracle
By Daryl | December 6th, 2007AC Milan flew into Japan today for the FIFA World Club Cup, apparently dressed for success in very nice club blazers. It's the fourth edition ...
Namibian Coach Resigns. Or Doesn't. Or...Something
By Laurie | December 4th, 2007Last week, the media were reporting that the Namibian Coach, Ben Bamfuchile, had resigned to go back to his mining business. ...
PR, Football Coaching, and African Dead Cows: Is This a Job or What?
By Laurie | December 3rd, 2007Oh, the exciting life of Hayley Roach, the PR and Marketing Officer for the Sheffield & Hallamshire County FA. One day she's doing PR ...
Egyptian Ultras, From the Inside
By Martha | November 28th, 2007Pitch Invasion, a football blog with a focus on international "supporter culture," is running an occasional series examining the lives of ultras in unusual places. ...
All is Not Rosy for South Africa Coach Parreira
By Laurie | November 27th, 2007You would think things would be cheery-happy in South African football these days. The World Cup is heading their way, and the national team ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Just Excellent
By chris | November 26th, 2007Some of the games were so fantastic this weekend that they needed to be recapped. So we're doing just that from here on out. Saturday Bayern Munich ...
South Africa 2010 Off To Ominous Start
By chris | November 26th, 2007Sepp Blatter has shown a great amount of faith in stubbornly bringing his quad-annual traveling circus to the country with, according to the UN, the ...
World Cup Draw for 2010
By Laurie | November 25th, 2007My husband thinks I'm insane. Just because, on a lazy Sunday where we have no plans, I drag myself out of bed and head ...
Just When You Thought There Were No New Goal Celebrations...
By Daryl | November 20th, 2007...you find this one on the internet. Not the goalscorer (who goes with your basic shirt over head celebration) but the goalkeeper who favours something ...
If you're happy and you know it...
By Bob | November 16th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuWBHx1llQ[/youtube] Every once in a while we are reminded that soccer is but a game and it is one that can bring about unbridled joy. ...
Binoculars and Soccer don't mix
By Bob | November 12th, 2007[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=SmnjV5juzw4[/youtube] What would the world be without Japanese game shows? A sad and lonely place with no evidence that playing soccer with binoculars for eyes ...
El-Hadji Diouf Admits to being Deliberately Sent Off
By Bob | October 16th, 2007Club versus country. Country versus club. Country club versus public golf course. Gah. It is so divisive. How is a ...
Belts and International Breaks are a Bad Combination
By Bob | October 15th, 2007When your allegiances are with a particular football club, you often spend international breaks praying that none of your players is injured while they represent ...
La Liga Opens Doors to African Players
By Daryl | October 6th, 2007While the ever popular Sepp Blatter is looking to ignore EU regulations and impose limits on the number of foreign players in every European team, ...
When in doubt, bribe your opponent on the pitch
By Bob | September 24th, 2007The sporting world has its share of backroom deals that call into question the integrity of games. It is about time that someone steps ...
Genitalia Inspection now part of Referees' job description
By Bob | September 21st, 2007As easy as it is to criticize referees it also is easy to recognize that they have a difficulty job. They have the pressure ...
This Just Seems Cruel
By Trent | September 11th, 2007If you've played football at all during your life, you've probably been cut from a team. In fact, I'm still getting rejection letters from ...
A Name to Remember: Ransford Osei
By Bob | September 6th, 2007There are two teams left in the U-17 World Cup with Spain and Nigeria set to meet in the final on Sunday. It has ...
My African Brothers & Sisters Agree: Obigol Should Be a Gunner
By Trent | August 1st, 2007That much is true. And there a lot of international Gooners who follow the club here. Nevertheless, it looks as if Obafemi Martins will be ...
United's Money Gathering Fitness Building Tour Stretches into China
By Nick | July 22nd, 2007
So United's much publicized tour plops itself into China, more specifically the quite sunny Macao. The next victims opponents will be the tongue twisting Shenzhen ...
Heroes Derailed by Diarrhea
By Bob | June 28th, 2007Nothing was going to stop the Mbale Heroes in their relegation battle with the mighty Uganda Super League champions URA earlier this week. They ...
Another Year, Another Real Madrid Manager Sacked
By Bob | June 28th, 2007Job security. It is a wonderful thing. You punch in at work, go through the motions all day, and go home knowing that ...
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