Articles tagged with "zinedine-zidane"
Offside Odds and Ends: Cannavaro and Ballack and Facebook, Oh My
By Laurie | July 16th, 2008Finding stuff for a blog like this is a little like shopping at garage sales. Occasionally you strike gold, like a mint-condition "How the ...
Saturday morning MEGA update...
By Magnusson | July 11th, 2008I promised myself I wouldn't make this a habit but a lot happened this week IRL (In Real Life for all you World of Warcraft ...
Zidane: "Nasri should stay"...
By Magnusson | May 24th, 2008As the special guest of Luis Fernandez's show on RMC, Zinédine Zidane was of course asked about his opinion on a bunch of stuff on ...
Diego Staying at Bremen. Or Going to Madrid. We're Not Sure.
By Daryl | March 18th, 2008Two conflicting stories coming out today. The first has Werder Bremen's Braziliant playmaker Diego - who can do things like this in the acht und ...
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 ...
Zidane Parachutes for Charity (Video)
By Laurie | January 14th, 2008ZIZOU-PARACHUTISTE POUR ELAUploaded by flo_6 Watch fast! These kinds of videos tend to disappear within a few days. Here we have Zinedine Zidane jumping ...
Zinedine Zidane Wants to Return to Football
By Daryl | January 12th, 2008He just hasn't decided how exactly. We haven't seen Zizou in action since the 2006 World Cup final, where he was sent off for something ...
Zidane Considers Return to Real Madrid!
By Laurie | December 17th, 2007Breaking news: Zinedine Zidane says he'll consider returning to Real Madrid! Yes! It's true! He says it himself! Well, okay, sure, what ...
The Absolute Best Player in England
By Trent | September 26th, 2007Here's a hint: he's a Spaniard. Also, he is, I think, 12 years old. He is, of course, Cesc Fabregas. It may seem a ...
Any Excuse to Show the Best Own Goal Ever
By Daryl | September 14th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFbR4vItHaU[/youtube] Ever popular Portsmouth left back Djimi Traoré faces some of his old teammates tomorrow when Liverpool visit Fratton Park. Much like Titus Bramble, Traoré has ...
Zinedine Zidane vs Daniel Carter
By Daryl | September 8th, 2007[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyfrSd6e2Cg[/youtube] Zinedine Zidane met with New Zealand's World Cup bound rugby team this week, and challenged Daniel Carter to a kicking contest. Zizou didn't beat Carter, ...
A Few Galaxy Odds and Ends
By Laurie | August 23rd, 2007First off, is anybody seeing anything about a Ty Harden injury? Lane posted in the comments that he'd read it, but I'm ...
Marco Materazzi is Open for Business
By Daryl | July 14th, 2007David Beckham's not the only number 23 doing a bit of brand awareness work this weekend. Marco Materazzi (whose place in history is assured thanks ...
Footballers Who Smoked
By Daryl | July 1st, 2007England's smoking ban came into effect today, banning smoking in all enclosed public places. Good news I say, a filthy habit that never helped anyone's game ...
Danone Nations Cup + Zizou
By Inara | June 23rd, 2007Sun, football, and Zizou...what more do you need? Every year, FIFA and the French Football Federation hold an international football tournament for children aged 10-12. ...
Zidane Says Beckham Deserves to Win with Real
By Laurie | June 13th, 2007I am hip-deep in visiting relatives right now, but NOTHING can make me turn away from the opportunity to post another Zizou photo. So ...
Enzo Maresca Scores a Zinedine Zidane Goal
By Bob | May 10th, 2007You know what is missing in football today? Originality. First we see Lionel Messi scoring a Maradona goal and now we have Enzo ...
The Zidane Headbutt Enters French Politics
By Bob | May 4th, 2007What does it take to get us interested in French politics? Usually a couple bottles of wine, some excellent cheese and a whole lot ...
Zidane to Galaxy: The Rumor That Won't Die
By Laurie | April 30th, 2007Of course we all know how much I hate to fan the flames of unsubstantiated rumors. How much I detest the thought of passing ...
Figo: Suspended and Abroad, But Rocking the Charity
By Martha | April 25th, 2007I have it on good authority that Luis Figo's sad absence from Inter's Scudetto celebrations was due not to one-foot-out-the-door jadedness and a disinterested in ...
Zidane to Fire? Amazingly, this is not a completely unsubstantiated internet rumour!
By Tom | April 22nd, 2007Honestly, I hate the transfer rumour mill and I hate relating unsubstantiated nonsense found on internet messageboards. But when AEG's president and CEO Timothy Leiweke ...
Galaxy Weekend Wrap-up
By Laurie | April 20th, 2007I am leaving shortly for a long weekend (again not pleasure, alas), so this will be my last post till Sunday or Monday. Fortunately ...
Lalas: "There is nobody that is untouchable" OR: Landon, Watch Your Back!
By Laurie | April 19th, 2007The Zidane rumor isn't dead. (No, I'm not doing the happy dance. At this moment. That you can see.) Andrea Canales ...
Galaxy Updates: Vancouver, Zidane, and that Huge-Breasted Posh Hater
By Laurie | April 17th, 2007Okay, first things first. You know my experiemental post with the photo and the word "huge-breasted" in the title? Second-highest post for the ...
Now SI.com is Talking About Zidane to Galaxy!
By Laurie | April 16th, 2007Now the Zidane-to-Galaxy rumor is in SI.com! Credible, right? Okay, so fine, they're only quoting VitalFootball, which got its news from all of the sources ...
MORE Zidane to MLS Rumors
By Laurie | April 12th, 2007I don't know that this is really news, but the Zidane-to-Galaxy rumor has spread to Italy. Martha sent me this fantastic article Google-translated from ...
What's Blanco's salary?
By Tom | April 10th, 2007Well, if Trib Fire blogger Luis Arroyave doesn't know, the odds that I do are about as great as Alan Smith tearing apart Roma (see, ...
A Zidane-to-Galaxy Rumor!!
By Laurie | April 1st, 2007Three separate people have sent me links to Zidane-to-Galaxy articles. And all three seemed to know exactly what this rumor would do to me. ...
What does every single club in the world have in common? They all want Nasri sooo bad
By Sam | March 29th, 2007And it's not as if surreal performance against Austria did anything to calm the likes of Inter and Arsenal down. Furthermore, it has come to ...
A Name to Remember: Samir Nasri
By Bob | March 20th, 2007Now that Zizou has hit the retirement circuit the media's search for the "Next Zinedine Zidane" has begun in earnest. The current recipient of ...
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