Articles tagged with "australia"
Aussies 1 v 0 Ghana in Scrappy Friendly
By Daniel | May 23rd, 2008Australia 1 Ghana 0 Just came back from the pub after watching a game that probably symbolises the fact that it was a friendly match, featuring what ...
Adelaide, first Aussies throught to Knock-out ACL!
By Daniel | May 22nd, 2008Adelaide United are officially the first Australian team to make it out of the group stages of the Asian Champions League! Congrats!! Changchun Yatai v Adelaide ...
Archie sends message to Verbeek with Victory Win!
By Daniel | May 22nd, 2008The Asian champions League journey ended tonight for Adelaide United and Melbourne Victory, and what contrasting performances!! For now i can only post this but ...
The borefest that will be Melbourne Victory vs Chonburi FC
By Daniel | May 21st, 2008Here we go! The start of the most hectic few months in the history of Australian Football and what worse way to kick off the ...
Olyroos take down Croatia
By Daniel | May 17th, 2008Last night the Olyroos gave a performance to remember, taking out Croatia 3-0 in the first game of the Under 23's Intercontinental Cup tournament in ...
Olyroos prepare with Malaysian tournament
By Daniel | May 15th, 2008Australia's Olyroo (under 23) team are gearing up for the first match of the Intercontinental Cup in Malaysia tonight (Aussie time) against Croatia and then ...
Milligan's Island
By Daniel | May 14th, 2008Theres been massive amounts of controversy recently surrounding former Sydney FC defender Mark Milligan.Basically what happened was that the 22 year old was suposed to ...
Where to now for The Wizard of Oz??
By Daniel | May 13th, 2008First off i'd like to give a shout out to all those who showed their support for this blog, it’s very much appreciated. For those ...
Welcome to the A-League Offside!
By Daniel | May 12th, 2008G'DAY! and welcome to the very first Official A-league blog on The Offside covering all things Aussie football! The names Daniel and ill be your ...
Photo of the Day: Slipping and Sliding to Victory
By Laurie | May 4th, 2008The Offside is now covering Women's Soccer! We now have a WPS blog and are just waiting for info about the teams. In ...
How to watch the game
By Melissa | May 3rd, 2008The US Women's national team will take on Australia today in Birmingham, Alabama, 4pm Central Time. This is the second leg of their two-game ...
Don't Have Guus To Kick Around The Rumor Mill Anymore
By chris | March 25th, 2008(Go here to check out that ingenious pic full size.) Not too long ago you couldn't hear the name "Guus Hiddink" without hearing "Chelsea FC" somewhere ...
Weekend Watch Recap: Jump for Joy
By Daryl | February 25th, 2008Catching up with the weekend action. Saturday Japan 1-1 South Korea A win for either side guaranteed the East Asian Cup. South Korea took a 15th minute lead ...
Aussie Keeper Charged With Violent Conduct On Ref
By chris | February 25th, 2008It was a weekend marked by "violent" - even if unintentional - conduct on the pitch, as the Eduardo injury pushed absolutely everything to the ...
Pan-Pacific Wrap-Up
By Laurie | February 25th, 2008As an LA Galaxy fan, I was horrified by the team's miserable performace in its 0-1 loss to Gamba Osaka on Thursday, especially when compared ...
J-League vs K-League, The Future of the All-Star Game
By Daryl | February 22nd, 2008All-Star games are going international. The traditional J-League exhibition game between fan-selected East and West teams is being replaced by a J-League All-Stars XI ...
The Pan-Pacific Tournament, and What it Tells Us About MLS
By Laurie | February 21st, 2008If you watched the opening games of the Pan-Pacific Championship last night, you saw some free-flowing, attacking football that proves MLS can compete in the ...
"And then bang she goes!" - the A-League Preliminary Final
By Daryl | February 19th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-w8hc_Xvw[/youtube] The A-League Finals series continues to entertain, wacky playoff system or not. Basically the Preliminary Final is like a semifinal, except there's only one of ...
Premier League's 39th Game Gets the Middle Finger
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008Not sure what reaction the Premier League expected from potential venues for its cashgrab "international round", but I'm guessing a collective middle finger wasn't part ...
A-League Finals > MLS Playoffs
By Daryl | February 13th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh6CcqV4wi4[/youtube] The A-League finals (or playoffs, if you prefer) continue to produce some great football. There was Reinaldo's excellent winning goal for Queensland Roar in the ...
The A-League: Great Goals, Wacky Playoff System
By Daryl | February 9th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWB_1NeSKps[/youtube] Australians are lovely people, and their A-League is getting better all the time. But their playoff system is batshit crazy. First enjoy the action from Queensland ...
Australia's 39-Man Squad
By Martha | January 30th, 2008When he announced his first call-ups a week ago, few expected new Australia coach Pim Verbeek to be quite so welcoming: He named 39 players ...
Daily Dose: 1.25.08
By Martha | January 25th, 2008Things to read as your grandma gets arrested for not pulling up in the McDonald's drivethru: "All soccer, all the time" for Jozy Altidore. (NYX Goal ...
Daily Dose: 1.24.08
By Martha | January 24th, 2008Things to read as you prepare to throw yourself at men for the sake of art: The rise of football in Africa. (Times Online) It's Burley for ...
Booze is Bad, Kids. Remember That.
By Martha | January 22nd, 2008Last week, five members of Fiji's Olympic football team enjoyed a crazy night night out -- did a little drinking, blew off some steam, you ...
A Wild Final Day in Australia
By Martha | January 20th, 2008[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVRERdAuK7I[/youtube] When the final day of the A-League season started, four teams were level on points at the top of the table, and the title was ...
Central Coast Mariners 4-5 Sydney FC, an Instant A-League Classic
By Daryl | December 23rd, 2007"It was the greatest advertisement for football in the A-League's three-year history," said said The Sunday Morning Herald in Australia. And they're not wrong. Fledgling ...
Bad Luck For Sydney FC, Or: Yoga Isn't Always Good
By Martha | December 21st, 2007Fifth place Sydney FC are facing top of the table Central Coast Mariners in an important A-League match Saturday, but Syndey's task is getting progressively ...
FIFA to Punish Oceania for Being Rubbish
By Daryl | December 13th, 2007I've said this before and I'll say it again: FIFA have got in for Oceania. Sepp Blatter and buddies treat the confederation like the fat ...
What's Doing Down Under: Verbeek, Cahill and Viduka
By Martha | December 10th, 2007As Daryl told us last week, after being rejected by Dutch Choice #1 (AKA Dick Advocaat), and Football Federation Australia settled for Dutch Choice #2, ...
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