Fifa chooses ” The Best”
Messi, Frenkie de Jong and Caroline Graham Hansen are amongst the 10 finalists for the FIFA award for the...
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Liverpool have 4 losses with two weeks to go
About 2 weeks to go for the new EPL season to start and Liverpool have chalked up four defeats...
Iniesta’s Kobe lose to Barcelona
I wonder how Iniesta would have felt playing against Barcelona. Barcelona beat his Vissel Kobe side 2-0 in the...
Atletico Madrid humiliate Real
The picture that says it better than a thousand words.Atletico Madrid were 5 – 0 up at half time...
Rakuten Cup
Rakuten, Inc,a Japanese company, had announced sometime in April that they were going to hold a “Rakuten Cup” Tournament...
International Champion’s Cup
The International Champions Cup featuring 12 teams – Real Madrid, Manchester United, Tottenham, Arsenal, Juventus, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Bayern...
Real Madrid lose Historical Houston Match
When Real Madrid played against Bayern Munich in Houston they made history. The last time they played there was...
More Messi Ronaldo comparisions
Two questions that have vexed humankind for a long time now are whether the chicken came before the egg...
The Neymar Soap Opera
The soap opera regarding his much hyped transfer to PSG began in 2017. Details of those dramatic goings on...
Zlatan picks his greatest team of all time
There’s not a single player on that team that can play better than Zlatan – because they are all...
Greizmann reverses his decision
This was Griezmann’s decision in 2018 – to stay at Atletico Madrid and not move to Barcelona.The decision was...
Four
USA have a 50% win record in the Women’s World Cup having won now – four out of the...
South Africa dump Egypt out of the Cup of Nations
Heartbreak for Salah and Egypt. South Africa qualified for the last 16 as one of the four best third-placed...
England finish fourth in the Women’s World Cup
USA take on Holland in the final of the World Cup and England were beaten 2 – 1 to...
Messi red carded in Argentina’s third place win
Chile were outclassed by Argentina in the game for the third place of the Copa America.The ref lost control...
Brazil beat Argentina 2- 0
Argentina’s stuttering performance in the Copa America finally came to a full stop.Messi will have to wait for another...
USA are into the finals of the Women’s World Cup
USA beat England 2 – 1 and are into the finals for the third consecutive time.The win was also...
Suarez has to carry the weight of his nation’s disappointment again
Uruguay played better than Peru but just could not scored.The one goal that Suarez did score was deemed offside...
Argentina make it to the semis
Argentina beat Venezuela 2 – 0 to make it to the semis of the Copa America.So their dignity,shredded a...
Chile and Brazil go through on penalties
Two Copa America quarter finals went all the way down to the wire- needing penalties to decide the winner....
England beat Norway 3-0
The three lionesses made short work of Norway gobbling them up quite comprehensively by three goals to nothing. England...
Netherlands beat Japan with 90th minute penalty
Holland made it to the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time thanks to a pretty harsh VAR assisted...
USA get past Spain and into the quarter finals
USA beat Spain 2 – 1 , both goals coming off penalties and are through to the quarter finals....
France on course for another World Cup title
France are on the way. They eliminated Brazil in the quarter finals of the Women’s World Cup to move...
Little Onion comes good for Brazil
Everton is not just the name of a club in the EPL. Everton is also the name of a...
Argentina avoid the ignominy of elimination
A 2- 0 win over Qatar,in which Messi did not score,was enough to ensure that Argentina avoided the ignominy...
Egypt kick off AFCON 2019 with win
Salah and Co started their AFCON 2019 campaign with a 1-0 win over Zimbabwe.There was plenty of controversy leading...
USA sweep Sweden aside to top group
USA chalked up its third win on the trot by beating Sweden 2-0.They are into the knock outs where...
VAR comes to Uruguay’s rescue
Vistors Japan gave ” Tournament favourites” Uruguay a bit of a fright.They took the lead twice in the game...
Argentina Women’s team come back from being three goals down
While Messi and Co are huffing and puffing and putting up a pretty hopeless perfomance at the Copa America...
Argentina are hanging in there
Things are not going according to plan for Messi and Co in the Copa America.They clawed their way back...
USA beat Chile 3- 0
USA chalked up their second victory of the tournament beating Chile 3 – 0, Their goal tally currently stands...
Qatar fight back to draw with Paraguay
What is Qatar doing in the Copa America ? It’s because the South American football federation (Conmebol) only has...
Uruguay breeze past Ecuador
Ecuador is one of only two South American sides never to win the tournament.The other one is Venezuela. And...
Colombia beat Argentina in opening game
Messi’s national team jinx made its presence felt again.Colombia,who had not beaten Argentina in the last 12 years,did so...
Brazil get off to bright start in the Copa America
The Copa America is usually played the year after the World Cup and this time its being hosted by...
Australia pull off brilliant comeback win over Brazil
Australia surprised everyone and themselves by coming back from being two goals down to beat Brazil 3-2. This remarkeable...
Women’s World Cup update – kind of
The 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Paris about 7 days ago. Defending champs USA will be...
Ronaldo adds another feather to his cap
Ronaldo added another feather to his already many feathered cap when Portugal claimed the UEFA Nation’s League Cup. He...
England crash out of Nations League
The roar of the three lions won’t be heard in the finals of the Nations League against Portugal.England brexited...
Ronaldo scores hat trick for Portugal
One area where Ronaldo has been consistently better than Messi is in when it comes to playing for his...
Ronaldo beats Messi to best Champion’s League goal of the season
UEFA released their selection of top ten CL goals of the season.Messi’s free kick against Liverpool got second place....
Champion’s League video highlights
Klopp took Liverpool back to where they hadn’t been since 2005. Words of appreciation from Alex Ferguson and Pep...
Soccer ads we missed
While we wait for the Champion’s League finals to get underway,here,to while away the time,are some old Soccer Ads...
Zlatan is back
The mighty Z returned to action after a two game suspension and immediately made his presence felt – scoring...
Chelsea thrash Arsenal in Europa Cup final
The Europa Cup final was played in front of many empty seats in the stadium in Azerbaijan due to...
Beckham rolls back the years
It’s been a while since Beckham featured on Soccerblog.Manchester United Legends played Bayern Munich Legends at Old Trafford last...
Messi leaves Ronaldo behind in the golden boot race
Messi picked up his 6th “Pichichi” Award for ending the season as the top scoring player in the La...
Messi gets the boot – for the 6th time
Messi picked up Golden Shoe Number #6 for 36 goals for Barcelona this season. That makes it two more...
The effect of Trump’s trade war on the humble football boot
The humble football boot,despite its servile status,can cost a pretty packet when it happens to be made by Nike,Adidas...
Messi in the EPL
Messi is top of the charts in 15 categories in the La Liga this season However when that stat...
Bale benched in final fiasco
Real Madrid’s last game of the season came to a fittingly miserable end on Sunday. They chalked up their...
Dortmund – so near and yet so far
Nobody would have thought at the start of the season that just ended that Borussia Dortmund would give Bayern...
Rooney’s solution to Manchester United’s problems
Alistair Maclean wrote a book about it – which incidentally was made into a movie in 1973. Kipling wrote...