Articles tagged with "south-america"
Now We Know Who Caused That Colombian Soccer Riot
By Daryl | March 11th, 2008If you're looking for someone to blame for the football riot in Cali, Colombia that left 80 people wounded, then we might have found your ...
Photo of the Day: The Calm After the Storm in Cali
By Daryl | March 10th, 2008Yesterday, Chris showed us a photo of the riot at the Pascual Guerrero Stadium in Colombia, where fans of America de Cali and Deportivo de ...
Two Yellow Cards Means You're... Free to Play On?
By Daryl | March 10th, 2008Brazilian referees don't just get naked, they also make huge mistakes. Like Jose Henrique de Carvalho did this past weekend in the Corinthians vs Guaratinguetá ...
Football's New Weapon: The Ball Boy
By chris | March 7th, 2008The Copa Libertadores are a big deal, and so aren't red cards in the Copa Libertadores. With 43 minutes played in the Libertadores matchup between ...
Offside Podcast Episode 13
By chris | March 5th, 2008The cast: Ian, Christian, Inara, and Anne. Your Podcast topics du jour: The Copa Libertadores and the happenings down in Argentina with the Clausura, the Ligue ...
The Copa Libertadores is Not the Place to Head Past Your Own Keeper
By Daryl | March 1st, 2008The Copa Libertadores is well and truly underway, with the majority of teams having played two games. Chilean champions Colo Colo lost their first Group ...
Brazilian Player Attacked by Fire Ants. Ouchy.
By Daryl | February 27th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOwQNdkeSA4[/youtube] The poor fella in this video is Marcos Paulo, who was unfortunate enough to disturb a colony of red ants during a game in the ...
Five Sent Off in Bogotá Derby
By Daryl | February 18th, 2008We all know it's not a proper derby until someone gets sent off. And if five get sent off then you know it's serious. That's ...
Photo of the Day: Boca's Best Friend
By chris | February 18th, 2008Even dogs in Argentina take sides. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Weekend Watch: Not What Was Intended
By chris | February 18th, 2008In short, it was a very, very good weekend to be the home team, and a very, very bad weekend to be Arsenal. ManYoo 4 - ...
Offside Rewind: Let's Dance
By Laurie | February 16th, 2008• Want to blog the Champions League? • Beckham: Footballer or celebrity? • How romance can lead to football. • Is it all over for Ronaldo? • ...
Little Lanús Show the Big Boys How It's Done in Copa Libertadores
By Daryl | February 15th, 2008[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=FLPox3wV2HQ[/youtube] The 2007 trend in Argentinean football was for little clubs to upstage the more famous names. And that continued this week in the opening round ...
Weekend Watch: Derbies Abound
By chris | February 15th, 2008If you were good enough on Valentine's Day, you may just be allowed to sit on the couch and watch footy all weekend. Well, it's ...
Photo of the Day: Launched
By chris | February 15th, 2008Cristian Bardafro of Danubio gets a swift side volley in the ass and gets launched by Emir Faccoli of Lanus. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Adriano Facing Lengthly Ban for Doing a Zidane
By Daryl | February 12th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K19eWPERbI[/youtube] This is how famously troubled São Paolo loan star Adriano got himself sent off against Santos on Sunday. He goes nose to nose with Santos ...
Would Somebody Poke A Hole In That Damn Trojan
By chris | February 11th, 2008As an AS Roma fan, I often – too often – dream of the day when science and technology will allow for someone to splice ...
Clausura 2008 Kicks Off in Argentina
By Daryl | February 9th, 2008With the Cope de Verano (now called Torneos de Verano) over and done with, Argentinean football got serious again this weekend with the Clausura 2008 ...
Romário Finally Calls It Quits
By Daryl | February 5th, 2008It seemed like the man would keep going forever, but today the legend that was, is and forever will be Romário finally set a date ...
Daily Dose: 1.31.08
By Martha | January 31st, 2008Stuff to read while you hit the most complicated, most bestest shot in the history of pool..... Senegal bounced from AFCON, no one wonders why. (World ...
Daily Dose: 1.30.08
By Martha | January 30th, 2008Things to read if you survive you effort to prove roach poison perfectly safe by eating it: The Swiss take pity on England. (The Beautiful Game) Keegan ...
Daily Dose: 1.28.08
By Martha | January 28th, 2008Things to read as you cheer on a meter maid ticketing a Bugatti: Boca beat River for the first time in seven matches. So what if ...
Photo of the Day: 1998 Flashback
By Laurie | January 27th, 2008This photo of the 1998 World Cup final always reminded me of an M.C. Escher painting. The airborne one is Fabien Barthez, and ...
Name to Remember: Fernando Forestieri
By Martha | January 24th, 2008Born (of Italian parents) in Rosario, Argentina, Fernando Forestieri's first club was Newell's Old Boys, a team he joined when he was very young. In ...
Daily Dose 1.20.2008
By Martha | January 20th, 2008Things to read as you wonder if you're safe from your laptop. Remembering Garrincha. (Run of Play) Ian Wright is not down with foreign keepers playing for ...
Neville 2.0: With More Samba
By Martha | January 20th, 2008Gary and Phil Neville made their debuts for Manchester United two years apart in the early 1990s, when both were still well within their teens. ...
Daily Dose 1.19.2008
By Martha | January 19th, 2008Things to read as you drink your presidential milkshake: "Let's have Harry Redknapp as a cockney Moses and Martin O'Neill as an Ulster Herod." (Guardian Unlimited) High ...
Weekend Watch: Give it some Thought
By Laurie | January 18th, 2008Some games you may want to consider for this weekend: Saturday US vs. Sweden. It's the US Men's National Team's 500th game. And they have ...
Pato, Before He Was the Messiah
By Martha | January 16th, 2008[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0hqeN8L0l8[/youtube] As hard as it is to believe, there was a once a time when no one knew anything about a kid called The Duck. When ...
Daily Dose 1.10.08
By Laurie | January 10th, 2008Some news to peruse as you fake illness so you can live in hospitals for three years. You know that supposedly gay player from Brazil? ...
Photo of the Day: Who You Callin' Fat?
By Martha | January 9th, 2008Adriano in training this week with (temporary) new club São Paulo, looking not at all fat. Apparently Brazilian beer does much better things for the ...
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