Carli Lloyd’s World Cup: As profound an impact as Maradona’s to the 1986 World Cup
Carli Lloyd will be or should be eponymous with the 2015 Women’s World Cup. When we look back twenty...
Category: Soccer History
Boom! 25.4 million viewers!! Take that – NBA, MLB!
25.4 million viewers watched the US Women’s Soccer Team defeat Japan on Sunday. That makes it the most the...
Copa America 2015: Brazil’s depression deepens as Paraguay enter semi-finals on penalties
Brazil’s decline once again underlined. One more tournament, yet another failure, by their historically stratospheric standards. Their exit at...
WWC 2015: Carli Lloyd fires an improved USA to the semifinals over China
Jill Ellis responded to the criticism of the USA being a one dimensional side lacking pace and imagination by...
WWC 2015: Kyah Simon delivers as Matildas record a historic win over Brazil
Lydia Williams had a blinder in goal with possibly the save of the World Cup straining every sinew deflecting...
FC United of Manchester: Not for glory, not for money, for the love of the game
FC United of Manchester – Club with a Capital C by Copa90 “Its testament to what people power can...
Copa America 2015: Jeison Murillo’s goal sinks pathetic Brazil
Jeison Murillo’s 36th minute strike following a goalmouth scramble proved decisive. Brazil was second best and despite dominating possession...
WWC 2015: Hope Solo will not be suspended because goalies win World Cups
The parade of NFL players exiled from the league grows as officials takes a very dim view of those...
FIFA Joke Backfires – Gets Walter de Gregorio Fired?
“The Fifa president, secretary general and media director are sitting in a car. Who’s driving. Answer? The police.” That...
Jackie Charlton – Peacemaker
It was Jack Charlton who showed up at the England-Ireland match to calm things down and play “peacemaker.” The...
Blatter Resigns!
Bye, bye Sepp Blatter. In news that came from nowhere, embattled FIFA head Sepp Blatter resigned his post with...
Sepp Blatter Destroys Football: What We Can Do About it
Sick of FIFA? Sick of Sepp Blatter? I am. And here are two things I’m going to do...
FAIR PLAY!
FIFA – Sepp Blatter’s “fair play” doctrine…
Step Down, Sepp!
Wishful thinking? I think it’s time we decided that we will boycott FIFA and the World Cup – as...
BOOM! The FIFA sting begins. Blatter up next?
It’s not an accident that the second keyword phrase when you look up “FIFA” in Google is “FIFA corruption.”...
Juventus pysche themselves up for the big game
Juventus prepare for the mother of all semi finals against Real Madrid by releasing a video of their glorious...
Cape Verde beat Portugal 2-0
No April Fool story this. Cape Verde scored the most famous victory in their footballing history when they beat...
Gibraltar Policeman makes history
Meet Lee Casciaro – the first football player from Gibraltar to score a goal in a Euro qualifier.Casciaro is...
Bhutan team scales dizzying heights
The Bhutanese team is on the top of the world for now.They have a FIFA ranking of 209 –...
Soccerblog wishes you a Happy World Book day
Check out recommended reading here and here Also wishing everyone a very Happy Holi while we are at it.
Farewell, Steven Gerrard!
The Liverpool and former England Captain has announced he will leave the Reds at the end of the season....
Barca legend’s scribbled contract makes it the famous serviette in history
“In Barcelona, on the 14th of December of 2000 and in the presence of Josep Minguella and Horacio ,...
Serbia Albania match called off after drone invasion leads to havoc
This was probably bound to happen as Serbia refuses to recognize Kosovo’s independence and a match between these two...
Fifa Flick is a big time flop
FIFA’s $27 million film United Passions starring Tim Roth as Sepp Blatter is currently running at a loss of...
Juventus create history
When Juventus beat Cesena 3-0 on Wednesday they became the first team in Serie A history to win its...
Man Utd’s Ander Herrera part of Zaragoza side under investigation for match fixing
On May 21st 2011, Real Zaragoza played their final match away to Levante in need of three points to...
Solksjaer departs Cardiff: Tony Pulis is seen as favourite to replace him
Tony Pulis looks like a firm favourite to join Cardiff Ole Gunner Solksjaer, the source of so many get...
Jeremy Menez’s goal was merely history repeating itself.
Jeremy Menez’s marvellous backheel against Parma the other day is amazingly...
World Cup 2018: The political and racial contours of a boycott
The giant This is Russia banner at Euro 2012 depicting Dmitry Pozharsky, a 17th century Russian military commander fighting...
Loic Remy to Chelsea, Song on loan to West Ham
One was seen very recently at The Emirates possibly auditioning for a role, the other was a Gunner till...
Fernando Torres finally leaves Chelsea on loan to AC Milan
“I scored a goal? Did I? I’m not sure.” Fernando Torres’s 46 goals for Chelsea cost them £1.1m per...
Bollywood and Indian cricketing legends behind new Indian Super League
In Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, a Bollywood fluff piece made circa 2006, Abhishek Bachchan plays Rikki, a Chelsea fan and...
Sepp Blatter will continue as FIFA emperor as Platini bows out
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.” In Sepp...
Manuel Almunia to retire from football due to heart condition
Almunia had to take over the giant hole left by Jens Lehmann, a tough act to follow Former Arsenal...
Champions League draw: Arsenal, Black and Yellows, Eboue, and Anderlecht
We have seen them before. One year we dumped them out. Last year they got the better of us....
Manchester United and Bayern Munich legends battle it out
Manchester United’s Legends played their Bayern Munich counterparts in a charity game on saturday. Andy Cole put United ahead...
Farewell Alfredo Di Stéfano
R.I.P. O saeta rubia…!
Why is FIFA banning Maradona?
FIFA banned Franz Beckenbauer. Now, according to Maradona, he’s banned as well. The Guardian reports that Maradona feels this...
Brazil 3, Croatia 1
The Samba boys played a bit better in the second half and score two more. All goals by Brazil:...
The Exoskeleton that Helped a Paraplegic Kick Off the World Cup
Built with funding for basic research from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Miguel Nicolelis and the Walk Again Project...
The Shallows: US News Coverage Scores an “F”
I have to say the shallowness of CNN’s coverage of the World Cup is truly shocking. What’s amazing is...
WATCH: Riots Kick Off the World Cup in Sao Paulo
Nice. The CNN anchorwoman actually asks: “What are these people protesting?” Unfortunately, this is going to be a difficult World Cup...
The Winner of the World Cup Brazil 2014: Odebrecht!??
Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht has already been named the winner of the World Cup by Bloomberg in this insightful article....
Can the Best Players Save the World from FIFA?
This is the best example of satirical advertising ever. Just in time for the World Cup, Samsung unintentionally unleashes...
The Tragedy of Garrincha
This first genius of Brazilian soccer…
Why Soccer is The World’s Religion
This advertisement taps into the mythic and religious significance of soccer that we don’t see everyday. It’s something that...
Jorge Ramos: “Yes, Brazil Is Ill-Prepared. No, It Will Not Matter.”
Jorge Ramos is, in our opinion, the best news anchor on US television today. He’s asking the tough questions...
Is 2014 the Year Soccer in America (Truly) Goes Mainstream?
A great article in New York Magazine. Will Leitch makes the case for what we’ve always wanted to believe:...
The SoccerBlog.com Nominee for Official World Cup Song 2014
Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) by Bob Marley & The Wailers Them belly full, but we hungry A...
Rolling Stone: The Great Divide in Brazilian Soccer
Rolling Stone magazine goes in deep to investigate the roots of violence in Brazilian soccer. So here’s the picture...
Amnesty International: Protest ≠ Crime, Brazil!
#Brazil: Stop using the #WorldCup as an excuse to crack down on protest http://t.co/eA9mdPZMBI #Copa2014 pic.twitter.com/nb72QBLEHr — Amnesty UK...
FIFA Price Gouging Continues
Why should this World Cup be any different? A regular bottle of water cost about R$2,00 retail on the streets....
Soccer Ads: The Nostalgia of Argentina 1978
Gotta hand it to Coca Cola’s emotional advertising strategy; they sure know how to pull at the heartstrings:
Eric Cantona: FIFA, Corruption & Brasil
Eric Cantona exposes the farce that is FIFA: