Articles tagged with "national-team"
Women's Football: Glass Half Empty / Half Full Attitudes
By Jan | September 11th, 2007When it comes to women's football, I'm on the level of an eight year old child. To be more precise, like when I was eight ...
A Tale of Two Broadcasts: Wales 0-2 Germany
By Jan | September 10th, 2007Germany beat Wales quite easily and effortlessly in Saturday's Euro 2008 qualifier and moved 8 points clear of third placed Ireland. Mathematically there is still ...
Brazil 4 x 2 USA
By Bruno Romani | September 9th, 2007I'm officially away from this blog, but couldn't resist dropping a few words about the friendly between Brazil and US in Chicago. Ronaldinho, Kaka and ...
Weekly Dose 08.09.07
By Jan | September 8th, 2007Some pieces for the puzzle that is Michael Ballack's non-nomination for the Champions League group stage. (Guardian sportblog) Michael Ballack speaks English and gets dubbed over ...
Hair: Bastian Schweinsteiger
By Jan | September 5th, 2007Just because it didn't work for Beckham doesn't mean that Schweinsteiger should be denied his own bleach blonde experiment. He will captain the German national ...
Franz Beckenbauer's NASL Farewell Match
By Jan | September 1st, 2007Some users on YouTube have remarkable collections of vintage football videos, and I hope that their accounts aren't as much in danger of being shut ...
U-17: The Sound of Failure Strikes Again
By Bruno Romani | August 29th, 2007The lack of respect, commitment, focus and passion by Brazilian players when it comes to the national team has affected the young talents too. After ...
Work out with Jens Lehmann
By Jan | August 25th, 2007How Jens prepared himself for the match against England last Wednesday.And on a sad note: an achilles injury rules Jens out of Arsenal action for ...
Weekly Dose: Old Foes
By Jan | August 25th, 2007Lots of England - Germany related things to read this time. They don't make Germany teams like they used to (The Independent) 11 Germans the English invited ...
Brazil Announces the Squad to Take on US and Mexico
By Bruno Romani | August 24th, 2007Dunga announced on Thursday the squad that will be facing the US and Mexico in September. Yes, again we will have Doni, Maicon, Fernando, Vágner ...
Fan Made: Thank You for 2006
By Jan | August 24th, 2007Danke für 2006 - Thank you for 2006. England fans pay tribute to last years World Cup hosts prior to the friendly between England and ...
Snapshot: Matryoshka Doll
By Jan | August 23rd, 2007Michael Owen - Arne Friedrich - Per Mertesacker. England 1 - Germany 2.
Snapshot: This is England
By Jan | August 23rd, 2007Chancellorette Angela Merkel and ex-Monty Python Terry Jones. England 1 - Germany 2.
Fun with Names (Post Match Update)
By Jan | August 23rd, 2007Pre-Match Loew blow as Germany's Frings suffers serious injury Frings get better for injured German star Löw finds high point in Germany injury woes Low in high spirits despite ...
Snapshot: Invisible Horse
By Jan | August 23rd, 2007(ex) England goalkeeper Paul Robinson. England 1 - Germany 2.
Definition: Meaningful Friendly (England 1 - Germany 2)
By Jan | August 22nd, 2007mean·ing·ful (mē´nĭng-fðl) friend·ly (frĕnd´lē) Germany First team to beat England at the new Wembley stadium Despite fielding a B-squad England Losing for the first time at the new Wembley stadium Against ...
Definition: Meaningless Friendly
By Jan | August 21st, 2007mean·ing·less (mē´nĭng-lĭs) friend·ly (frĕnd´lē) Germany Defence: Marcell Jansen (injured), Clemens Fritz (injured) Midfield: Michael Ballack (injured), Torsten Frings (injured), Tim Borowski (injured), Bastian Schweinsteiger (injured
Mark von Bommel
By Jan | August 21st, 2007You may or may not know that Bayern Munich's Mark van Bommel isn't on friendly terms with Dutch national team coach Marco van Basten - ...
Brazilian Scores the Fastest Goal in a Fifa Tournament
By Bruno Romani | August 18th, 2007Fabinho Fast. Brazil destroyed New Zeland this Saturday in the U-17 World Cup with a 7-0. The main highlight was the goal by Fabinho, forward ...
Brazil Beats Argentina Even With Closed Eyes!
By Bruno Romani | August 18th, 2007Picture taken this Friday in the Parapan-American games in the match Brazil defeated Argentina by 2-0 for the "Football 5-a side," category played by blind ...
Dunga Announces the Players to Face Algeria
By Bruno Romani | August 7th, 2007DunGa announced today the squad that will be facing Algeria on August 22nd in Montpellier, France. Afonso is gone. Ronaldinho and Kaka are back. But ...
"They were Drunk..."
By Bruno Romani | August 1st, 2007Everybody knows that. But now Ricardo Teixeira, the president of CBF, confirmed the state of the Brazilian squad in the 06 World Cup. The newspaper ...
Transfers: Ballack to Real Madrid?
By Jan | July 27th, 2007Real Madrid's 8th coach in four years Bernd Schuster has publicly expressed his admiration for the German midfield ace Bernd Schneider Michael Ballack. "With his class, ...
The Ball is your Friend
By Jan | July 21st, 2007Alexander Nimo (USA) and Daniel Didavi (Germany) will have plenty of time to learn more about this concept as they are still playing for the ...
The Village People feat. the Mannschaft
By Jan | July 18th, 2007The blog Who Ate All The Pies recently celebrated ten footballers who rap, and I had planned to use this post to add a player ...
Don't Cry and Chupa, Argentina! (Again)
By Bruno Romani | July 15th, 2007More Details on the Crushing of los Hermanos Soon! Chupa Argentina! Update One more time Argentina had the top-stars. One more time Brazil had a B team. And ...
One Shot Away
By Bruno Romani | July 11th, 2007We were one shot away from elimination. We were one shot away after Afonso and Fernando, who are Dunga’s inventions, missed their penalties. But still, we ...
Chile, a friendly nation!
By Bruno Romani | July 7th, 2007Easy there. There’s no reason to be overly optimistic. The final score of 6-1 is to be respected, but Chile wasn’t a real adversary. After ...
Boring Report for a Boring Squad
By Bruno Romani | July 5th, 2007Dunga loves defense and last night, he paid tribute to the position that made his fame. Against the eliminated squad of Ecuador, the coach chose ...
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