Articles tagged with "south-america"
Rene Higuita is a Role Model for South Africa's youth
By Bob | January 18th, 2007You are the Colombian ambassador to South Africa. Your job is to help build bridges between the two countries. You want to help ...
Gremio Fans attack Internacional Director but don't set him on Fire
By Bob | January 18th, 2007On the outside, fans of the Brazil club Gremio might appear to be as warm and as sweet as the one pictured here, but don't ...
Transfer Talk: Is Italy Big Enough for Two Ronaldos?
By Bob | January 17th, 2007It is that time of year again when the rumors are hot and heavy and fiction becomes reality. We’ll do our best to help you ...
Transfer Talk: Macherano's Minutes, Kaka Charms, Ronaldo Roams
By Bob | January 16th, 2007It is that time of year again when the rumors are hot and heavy and fiction becomes reality. We’ll do our best to help you ...
Transfer Talk: Invasion of the Davids
By Bob | January 12th, 2007By my unofficial count, there have been 7,000,000,000 words written about David Beckham today so the transfer rumors and speculations that normally fill the papers ...
The Next Ronaldo Ex-Girlfriend Sex Tape will involve a lot of Drilling
By Bob | January 5th, 2007Nothing says romance more than fluorescent lighting, a paper bib, a spit straw and novocaine. Just ask Real Madrid and Brazil striker Ronaldo who ...
Deportivo Moron Fans Live Up to their Name, Face-One Year Ban
By Bob | January 4th, 2007It is tough going through life having everyone call you a moron. Not that I am speaking from experience or anything. I’m more ...
Matias Fernandez Latin American Football of Year; African Shortlist Announced
By Bob | January 2nd, 2007We feel like proud parents around here today following the news this weekend that The Offside’s great discovery Matias Fernandez was voted Latin American footballer ...
Player Sales Drive South American Football Profits
By Bob | December 22nd, 2006With their signings of Boca Juniors sensation Fernando Gago, River Plate striker Gonzalo Higuain, and Fluminense fullback Marcelo, Real Madrid has spent 40 million Euros ...
Ronaldinho gets a Wax Job
By Bob | December 22nd, 2006One person in this photo is real and the other is made of wax. Kind of hard to tell which is which, but that ...
The World's Best Team and a Heck of a Plane Ride
By Bob | December 19th, 2006Who says the FIFA Club World Cup isn't exciting? In addition to laying stake to somewhat dubious claim of being the best club team ...
Barcelona and LDU Brawl in Ecuador
By Bob | December 18th, 2006That is Barcelona's Leonardo Soledispa lying in the ground looking like he is in a world of hurt. Soledispa was on the losing end ...
Real Madrid wins the Gonzalo Higuain Lottery
By Bob | December 14th, 2006Given the mercurial ways of the French-Argentine teen sensation Gonzalo Higuain, I wanted to wait until it became truly official that he would be joining ...
The Perfect Award for the Player who can never Find his Keys
By Bob | December 14th, 2006As a reward for being named the most valuable player of the Copa Sudamericana final, Damian Alvares of the Mexican club Pachuca is given the ...
Boca Juniors to Face Rat Stabbers in Apertura Championship
By Bob | December 13th, 2006It is the rare Wednesday when we are treated to a championship football game and today is blissfully one of those rare Wednesdays. We ...
Kerlon's Amazing Seal Dribble
By Bob | December 11th, 2006Kerlon Moura Souza is a young player who has captured the attention of some of the world's largest clubs. The 18-year-old forward has been ...
They've Succeeded in Destroying their own Stadium
By Bob | November 30th, 2006It has been a couple of years since a notorious brawl took place following a Copa Libertadores match between the Mexico's Club America and Brazil's ...
The Original Ronaldinho Overhead Bicycle Kick
By Bob | November 29th, 2006It is obvious that Ronaldinho must spend his non-training hours surfing the Web on his fancy computer and checking out video highlights on YouTube. ...
The Newest Argentina Hooligans
By Bob | November 27th, 2006It has been a rough year in Argentina with the league invoking a temporary travel ban on supporters and the players threatening to strike if ...
Copa Sudamericana: The Magic of Matias Fernandez
By Bob | November 22nd, 2006Even for someone like me with his ass permanently planted on the sofa watching football, it is nearly impossible to get excited about all of ...
His Leg Amputated, Former Footballer Dario Silva is Aiming for the Olympics
By Bob | November 22nd, 2006A couple of months ago the Uruguayan striker Dario Silva's football career came to an end following a horrific car crash that led to the ...
Forced into goal, Millonarios midfielder Ricardo Ciciliano saves a penalty
By Bob | November 20th, 2006Those of you who are lucky enough to live without short-term memory loss will recall that a few weeks ago Chelsea defender John Terry was ...
Imagine Playing Football using Just your Head
By Bob | November 17th, 2006This photo comes from Brazil where an Indian from the Paresi tribe takes part in a game of football where players were allowed to only ...
Gonzalo Higuain: The Player that Everyone Wants
By Bob | November 16th, 2006A few weeks back when I wrote about the Gonzalo Higuain, I could hardly have predicted the number of headlines he would end up creating. ...
Keep your Resume Nearby when you take this Job
By Bob | November 15th, 2006With three games remaining in their season, the Brazilian club Fortaleza has already been relegated to the second division, but that doesn't mean they won't ...
That West Ham Argentine Marriage may not Last Long
By Bob | November 14th, 2006A few months ago there was all kinds of excitement and speculation following the announcement that West Ham had landed Argentine stars Carlos Tevez and ...
Threatening your Team with Death if they don't Lose is one way to Show Support
By Bob | November 9th, 2006I honestly want to like the football league in Argentina. It has some of the best young players in the world, there are teams ...
Fan Spends $25,000 on Newspaper Ads to Give Fluminense Coach Advice
By Bob | November 9th, 2006With the growing popularity of fantasy football it seems that everyone these days is an armchair manager with thoughts on which players should start and ...
A Man among Boys
By Bob | November 8th, 2006Each year, people around the world spend billions of dollars on products to fight the inevitable aging process. All of this seems like a ...
A Showboat Move in Showbol
By Bob | October 30th, 2006The video below comes from the world of Showbol in Brazil, which appears to be some form of indoor soccer. I love how the ...
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