Articles tagged with "colombia"
The Offside, tambien en nuestro idioma
By Lugo | September 17th, 2009Bienvenidos a The Offside en español. Como pueden ver, ya un espontaneo hincha verdolaga abrió su blog de Atlético Nacional y aqui en la sección ...
Daily Dose: September 9th, 2009.
By chris | September 9th, 2009Stuff to read while you say, "it's a friendly, yes, but three goals in four minutes in an int'l fixture is pretty piss poor"..... The ""HABs" ...
How's your spanish? Bueno? Then come join me in my new project
By Lugo | August 4th, 2009If you want to have a spanish blog in addition to your Offside english blog like i'm doing, I'm starting a new project which may ...
To Clear Up All the Confusion... (OR: 4 + 2 = 4, and Fredy's NOT Called Up. Probably. Maybe)
By Laurie | August 1st, 2009To clear up a bit of confusion on what I've written here, or what you may have read elsewhere: Apparently the fact that Fredy Montero was ...
Montero Gets Called Up for Colombia. Which Basically Sucks.
By Laurie | July 30th, 2009Boys and girls, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that Fredy Montero has been called up for Colombia and ...
Colombian Player Gets A Bit Sensitive, Kills A Heckling Fan.
By chris | July 6th, 2009Last week the major news out of Colombia was that Santa Fe coach Ruben Israel resigned due to death threats, despite never having coached a ...
Going From Bad To Worse In South America
By chris | June 30th, 2009Starting off with "Ooh...ahh...death threats in Colombia!" probably won't read any different than any other news story about South American football which hits the news ...
Matchday Preview Group A: Let football do the talking
By Lugo | May 23rd, 2009This is it, folks. The Colombian Apertura tournament heads for the finals. Teams in group A will meet today with the dire necessity of starting ...
Who is Ramon Cabrero?
By Lugo | May 22nd, 2009It's really cool to find out that Atletico Nacional's new coach is actually a spaniard. A spaniard who, nonetheless, has been living in Argentina since ...
Group B Preview: Sugar, Spice and Everything...Sharks!
By Lugo | May 21st, 2009Group B seems to be set for a showdown of epic proportions between the Sugar Greens of Deportivo Cali and the Sharks of Junior. Nevertheless, ...
No Country for These Men
By Andrea | May 2nd, 2009The H1N1 flu is causing so many problems, and not just to regular people. The CONMEBOL has decided to postpone Chivas' and San Luis' games ...
Swine Flu Hits Copa Libertadores
By Daryl | May 1st, 2009The swine flu epidemic/pandemic/panic [delete as appropriate] isn't just threatening the Confederations Cup, it's causing trouble for a real tournament too: Copa Libertadores. Two Mexican ...
Carmelo Valenica Learns Honesty is Not Always the Best Policy
By Daryl | April 30th, 2009Watching the replay (above) it's pretty obvious that Millonarios striker Carmelo Valenica took a deliberate tumble in the big Colombian derby vs Santa Fe last ...
Montero NOT Called Up for Colombia Qualifiers (OR: You Can Breathe Now)
By Laurie | March 23rd, 2009Was I the only person worried about this? (Maybe it's just a holdover from being a Galaxy fan and losing so many players every ...
Appreciating Juan Pablo Angel
By Lotte Cox | March 18th, 2009There are countless reasons to appreciate RBNY striker Juan Pablo Angel. The man's got ability that's made him a legend at every club that's ever ...
The Fine Colombians*
By Laurie | February 19th, 2009So I've been struggling in the preseason to find things to write about that don't involve giving names to chickens. (Meaning I don't want ...
BREAKING TRANSFER NEWS and Team News/Updates
By Anthony | January 15th, 2009So over the past few weeks there have been some transfer rumours floating around Nervión about a few players possibly leaving The Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán ...
International Roundup + Some Hellebuyck
By Martha | November 20th, 2008I watched most of the Colombia-Nigeria match which ended 1-0 to the home team, with Apam going the full 90 for Nigeria, and Ospina in ...
Brazil 0 - 0 Colombia: You're from here, Remember?
By Bruno Romani | October 16th, 2008The disconnection between Brazil and the Brazilian squad reached a limit tonight in Rio. Brazilian players forgot how to play in Brazil. Tonight’s result was ...
A Heavenly Call Up? Angel On Lara's Radar
By Dave Martinez | September 18th, 2008With the absolutely humiliating display of football Colombia has been exhibiting lately, it was a foregone conclusion that technical director Jose Luis Pinto would have ...
ALL THE BULL: Rojas Raves, International Duty, Trialists, More
By Dave Martinez | September 3rd, 2008Well, business is back to normal after the Kandji disaster last week. Weeks of good news and achievement took a backseat to the alleged ...
Real Are In Colombia
By Corey | August 7th, 200818 players traveled to Bogota yesterday for Real's match with Independiente Santa Fe, and they have been staying in Bogotá's Victoria Regia Hotel. The match ...
Osorio Ready to Chop Heads
By Dave Martinez | July 7th, 2008So many have had their chance to claim a starting spot with this years squad and have fallen well short. Injuries and mishaps have ...
Daily Dose, 07.03.08
By Laurie | July 3rd, 2008Some news to read as you have "Highway to Hell" played at your funeral: Fabio Capello lounges around in Speedos. With photographic proof. (And ...
Juan Pablo Angel Interview (and Update!)
By Dave Martinez | June 20th, 2008ESPN Deportes recently opened up the floor to questioning with our ailing forward Juan Pablo Angel. For the Spanish speaking audience, click here For the rest of ...
Slip (Argentina) and Slide (Brazil)
By Lugo | June 15th, 2008To the average North American and European fan, South American soccer is little more beyond what these two giants have to offer and the most ...
South American Euros
By Lugo | May 24th, 2008In this day of the official birth of the south american union I'll take the occasion to make the list of (confirmed or potential) representatives ...
10 Guys YOU could end up cheering for
By Lugo | May 9th, 2008Regardless of how slow or fast this process is, Colombia has become an exporting market in the world of football so here is a list ...
Angel Is Clearly Hurting
By Dave Martinez | May 3rd, 2008For those watching Juan Pablo Angels early season performances, it has become painfully obvious that something terrible is going on. He looks slower, he ...
Pinto slams gays in football
By Lugo | April 25th, 2008According to this article, the Colombian NT coach has echoed recent statements by Juventus former sporting director Lucciano Moggi in saying that "In football, there ...
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