Articles tagged with "national-team"
Women's Squad in the Olympics: Brazil 3 -1 Nigeria
By Bruno Romani | August 12th, 2008We did not play the first-half as a team. Despite the fact that we had a few reserves, Brazil has not shown very promising football ...
Brazil 5 - 0 N. Zeeland: Ronaldinho Day!
By Bruno Romani | August 10th, 2008Bear in mind that New Zeeland is a very innocent squad. Innocent to the point that Brazil kept humiliating them for the final half-hour, and ...
Brazil Dropping the 5 Stars in the Jersey
By Bruno Romani | August 9th, 2008Due to a rule of the IOC, national squads are not allowed to display the badges of any confederations of a specific sport. Only the ...
Women's Squad in the Olympics: Brazil 2 - 1 N. Korea
By Bruno Romani | August 9th, 2008N. Korea had a more disciplined and collective game. We had Marta. If you're looking for a great Brazilian wearing the number 10 in the ...
That Goalie Question Thingy Something
By Ines | August 8th, 2008Well, well, well. Who would have thought. Jens Lehmann retired. Which was to be expected after spending his holiday with René Adler. I would retire, ...
Olympics: Brazil 1 - 0 Belgium
By Bruno Romani | August 7th, 2008The first-half of our jorney towards the gold was mediocre. Belgium advanced its positioning and blocked any creative plays. Pato, Diego and Anderson were not ...
Brazil 2 - 0 Vietnan
By Bruno Romani | August 1st, 2008Again, I did not wake up. And the Brazilian press says that the team wasn't that great. At least, Thiago Neves got a nice long ...
Weekly Dose 30.07.08
By Jan | July 30th, 2008BILD launched an English version of its' webpage, which also includes a Bundesliga section. What can English-speaking Bundesliga fans expect? Well, nudity, nudity and even ...
Brazil 3 - 0 Singapore
By Bruno Romani | July 28th, 2008I didn't bother to wake up. But, the Brazilian press says that the team played well the first-half. I liked most of the line-up. And ...
Robinho Says No to The Olympics
By Bruno Romani | July 21st, 2008The forward from Madrid just announced he is not going to the Olympics. The club said "no" and one more time the national team loses ...
Brazil Announces the Olympic Squad
By Bruno Romani | July 7th, 2008Dunga has just annonced the 18 players who will fight for the only title we don't have. Counting very little with the collaboration of European ...
The World is Ours!
By Bruno Romani | June 29th, 2008Today, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of our first World Cup. The only national squad to have Pele and Garrincha playing together. A team that ...
Brazil 0 - 0 Argentina: Good-Bye Dunga?
By Bruno Romani | June 19th, 2008It’s about time, Dunga. A draw against Argentina usually is not bad. A draw against Argentina playing as if Brazil was Poland is terrible. The ...
Fear: U-20 Squad of Atletico-MG Beats the Reserves of Brazil
By Bruno Romani | June 16th, 2008I know, it was only practice. But the reserves of Brazil managed to lose for the U-20 squad of Atletico-MG 1-0. Brazil played with: Doni, ...
Paraguay 2 - 0 Brazil: The Face of Mediocrity
By Bruno Romani | June 15th, 2008I started writing this piece even before the match was over with a big thought behind it. That’s when I heard the commentator of a ...
Brazil 3 - 2 Canada: Fire the Grill
By Bruno Romani | June 1st, 2008Goals Here Watching friendly games of the Brazilian national team is like having non-alcoholic beer. It is beer, but without the buzz. When you put on ...
Weekly Dose 31.05.08
By Jan | May 31st, 2008Rafael van der Vaart covered in mud / turned into a lust object. (Kickette) In terms of foreigners the Bundesliga is second only to the Premier ...
Bundesliga Offside Rewind: On closer Inspection...
By Jan | May 26th, 2008...you will notice that the league is over and parts of this blog went into collective off-season hibernation. The parts that were still active had ...
A Name to Remember: Marko Marin
By Jan | May 22nd, 2008This feature is long over due. Marko Marin is a 19 year old youngster playing for Borussia Mönchengladbach. He debuted in the Bundesliga late in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...
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