Guus Hiddink: To Russia with love
The Guus Hiddink magic is well and alive in Russia. They are now in second place in Group E...
Monthly Archives: November 2006
Mohammed Abdul Salim: The first Indian to play in a British club
We all know Baichung Bhutia and his debut for Bury in 1999 but more than sixty years ago, Mohammed...
Malcolm Glazer to build a Man Utd franchise in the USA
Malcolm Glazer is extremely happy with the way his team, Man Utd is playing and he wants to share...
Blatters are Forever
That title should read Diamonds are forever.There is a reasonably good reason for the variation – this being that...
Soccer and Politics: As usual the NYT screws up
The NYT has an article on the PSG fan dying at the hands of a policeman, during a melee...
Dear Arsene: It’s not just Chelsea, Man Utd, and Liverpool that count
Michele’s post about Nicholas Burdisso scoring a hat trick of goals against Messina with Inter boasting an arsenal of...
Video :Fulham 2 Arsenal 1
Robin van Persie’s great free kick was not enough .Arsenal lost a man (defender Philippe Senderos ) and the...
Inter finds new leading man en route to goal
You’d think that with a forward line up featuring the raw power of Slatan Ibrahimovic, the geniality of Hernan...
FIFA player of the year to be declared soon
The FIFA player of the year has been shortlisted down to three names – Ronaldinho,Zidane or Cannavaro. U.S. captain...
Chelsea to launch chinese website
特別一個……that’s ” The special one” in chinese. Rumours are rife that Mourinho is brushing up on the language as...
TOTTI’S LEFT FOOT
Totti’s feet, it seems, should be treated as a national treasure. But born in Rome, bred in Rome, and trained by the AS Roma youth squad, Totti, just like defensive midfielder Daniele De Rossi, has never played – or wanted to play – anywhere else than in Rome, for his people. So when he says his mind is only on Roma, that’s exactly what he means.
Somalia and soccer
Sepp Blatter was in the news about the suspension of Iran from world Soccer recently .The ban has temporarily...
Konica Minolta duplicates Ronaldinho
Attack of the Clones: Every goalkeeper’s worst nightmare ! ….the making.
Cannavaro -its Official
The badly kept secret is out .Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro officially won the Golden Ball yesterday (video).He is the...
Video: Alex de Souza compilation
Alex De Souza of Fenerbache, Palmeiras, and Cruzeiro shows of his amazing skills. He is 29 years old and...
Video: Seu Jorge sings Tive Razão
Tive Razão is one of the songs in FIFA 2007. For Wes Anderson lovers, Seu Jorge arranged the music...
Blattertalk
The latest Blatterspeak includes a provisional lifting of the ban on Iran so that they can participate in the...
Ronaldinho – a dream come true.
Ronaldinho – seen here with his FIFPro Player of the year trophies and the smile that launched a thousand...
Totti double inpires Roma into second place in Serie A
Totti scores through a magnificent volley against Sampdoria yesterday. He connected sweetly with a deep cross, sending the ball...
Video : Manu U and Chelsea share the points
Louis Saha and Ricardo Carvalho help Man U and Chelsea to share points yesterday.
Third party ownership: Is the English League ready for it?
Pini Zahavi, agent extra-ordinaire Pini Zahavi is the super agent who has his hands in all the deals involving...
West Ham buyout: Magnusson’s hands are cleaner than MSI
Eggert Magnusson is the new chairman of West Ham and he celebrated with a winning start against Sheffield United,...
Man Utd vs Chelsea: A tale of two halves
Man Utd was ascendant the first half. But it was Chelsea all the way in the second. If there...
Video: Bolton 3 Arsenal 1
Nicolas Anelka puts a nail in Arsenal’s coffin. Actually, two of them.
Peter Kenyon: Chelsea will be World’s No 1 club
A theme is being played out. Man Utd represents the past and Chelsea the future of English league football....
Video :Ronaldinho Magic!!!!
An incredible spectacular overhead goal from a genius. Ronaldinho scored 2 out of the four goals in Barcelona’s 4...
Sam Allardyce fires back at Arsene Wenger
The Gunners have not won against Bolton at the Reebok Stadium in four years and they continued to struggle...
Saburo Kawabuchi: The man behind Japan’s resurgent football
It seems as if Japan has been playing football all its life. The reality is that organized football is...
Reading vs Fulham: Hahnemann wins his duel with McBride
The Reading vs Fulham game was interesting because it had a reunion of Yanks playing in the Premiership. However,...
Arsenal: Schizophrenic performances perplex fans
Who can understand this year’s Arsenal? Are they sublime or utterly ridiculous? After tearing Liverpool’s heart out, 3-0, they...
El Hadji Diouf – Thriving on Diving
An example of his technique…… Some of his reasons for choosing to dive…… “Every player dives, not just me,”...
Bend it like Nakamura
Celtic’s rising Japanese star Shunsuke Nakamura – after his goal against Manchester United – is taking over from Beckham...
Football is not hate
“Even if the circumstances remain unclear, the fact is that … a man is dead. Football is not hate....
FIFA suspends Iran from International Soccer
… no,not because of their nuclear weapons program- but because of Governmental interference in the way the game is...
Sunderland versus Wolves – Environmental hazard
George Caulkin writing in Timesonline has this eco friendly angle on the longstanding feud between managers Mick McCarthy and...
What ails Indian football? Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, AIFF chief
Priya Ranjan Das Munshi, the present Union Information and Broadcasting Minister is also the president of the All India...
USA hits lowest FIFA rankings in seven years.
The United States has gone and got itself out of the top 30 in soccer rankings for the first...
What ails Indian football? Cricket provides an insight
Growing up in India, where cricket was such a huge game, when we formed teams in our neighborhood park,...
African Player of the year 2006
More awards to be given out – this time in the Nigerian capital Abuja on the 18th of January....
Champions league :Inter Milan and Liverpool record wins
Crespo’s crisp strike takes Inter Milan past Sporting Lisbon and into the last 16. Elsewhere Steven Gerrard and Peter...
Chelsea go down to Werder Bremen
Per Mertesacker heading in the winner for Werder Bremen last night .Chelsea and Bremen are even on 10 points...
Video : AEK Athens beat mighty Milan
For Athens -Great goalkeeping from Stefano Sorrentino and a great free kick from Julio Cesar.Match report.
Blatter – “FIFA to use Goal Line Technology”
Blatter announced yesteday that Goal-line technology will be used in next year’s World Club Championship.He also spoke about his...
Arsenal rallies to beat Hamburg
Rafael van der Vaarts stunning goal in the third minute gave Hamburg the lead yesterday.Arsenal equalised through Van Persie...
Video:Highlights of Real Madrid vs Lyon
John Carew and Florent Malouda score for Lyon.Ruud van Nistelrooy scored one and then missed a last gasp penalty....
Video: Celtic score historic win over Man U
See the sensational Free kick from Shunsuke Nakamura that helped Celtic defeat Manchester United 1 – 0. Celtic keeper...
Media stage walk out at SA World Cup meeting
When none of the members of the Board of Directors of the Local 2010 World Cup Organising Committee had...
Refs under fire
Referees other than Graham Poll are making the news for all the wrong reasons of late.Blackburn and Tottenham are...
Mario Gomez – Rising star
Stuttgart’s 21 year old striker Mario Gomez got high praise from Beckenbauer this week.He said that Gomez should be...
Comments from Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff on Barcelona’s striker problem …… “You can’t sign anybody decent until the first of January and soon...
Video: Gudjohnsen brace for Barcelona
Icelandic international Eidur Gudjohnsen scored 2 goals out of four .Barcelona went back to the top of the Spanish...
FIFPro wins Anti Racism Award
C.E.C.R.A, the Anti Racist Organisation in Spain, have awarded FIFPro an International Award for 2006 for their outstanding work...
Roma in seventh heaven.
Roma hammered Catania 7-0 producing the biggest Serie A win in 23 years.Enjoy the goals.You will also have to...
The legend that was Puskas: Eduardo Galeano remembers
Eduardo Galeano has a delightful entry on Ferenc Puskas in his immensely readable book Soccer in Sun and Shadow...