Soccerblog opinion: FIFA’s decision imperils Bolivia’s fragile integration
Bolivia’s present political leadership and Brazil’s are ostensibly joined at the hip with their domestic government of the people...
Category: Soccer Politics
Where are the Soca Warriors? In Sunderland, of course
The CONCACAF Gold Cup won’t see the Soca Warriors who made history in the 2006 World Cup but that...
FIFA is working against SA’s preparation for the 2010 World Cup
Observer Sport’s Xan Rice examines South Africa’s preparation in hosting the 2010 World Cup. The naysayers bring out the...
FIFA politics: Bolivia gets punished for its altitude
Altitude. You heard right. In a bizarre ruling, FIFA has banned matches played in high altitude venues which they...
Le Monde sued for doping allegations against Spanish clubs
The trickle of cycling confessionals have recently became a deluge as the spigot is turned loose. Now it is...
Video: In tribute to the Heysel victims
Not all CL finals were happy occasions. The 1985 finals at Heysel Stadium resulted in one of soccer’s worst...
Champions league final preview: AC Milan vs Liverpool
Key: Can Milan play 90+ minutes without flagging because the CL final’s is their’s to lose. If you were...
Bob Bradley becomes the US MNT coach
There was little fanfare as Bob Bradley’s position became permanent after all the song and dance of high flying...
The most powerful man in Israel
Ehud Olmert’s reputation lies in tatters. Having been shredded by a commission that laid the blame on Olmert for...
Tim Howard and the ‘gentleman’s agreement’
Why is Wayne Rooney playing against Everton? Tim Howard’s non-appearance in the Man Utd vs Everton match raised many...
French elections: Sego vs Sarko. Will Thuram’s words carry weight?
Lilian Thuram’s recollection of a conversation with Nikolas Sarkozy could sway a number of voters who believe that France’s...
West Ham fallout: The ballad of Ms Purdon and Mr Duxbury
Dangerous times lie ahead of West Ham. West Ham’s stay and solvency in the Premiership might come down to...
BBC’s Inside Sports lets off Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter was interviewed on BBC’s new sports programme “Inside Sports’ and it turned out to be a fluffball....
Mourinho is orchestrating his own exit
The Special One is now in the midst of lobbing verbal Molotov cocktails at Sir Alex and his prodigal...
Liverpool storm through to the CL finals
Liverpool wins! They are through to the CL final over Chelsea. The match came down to PKs and Liverpool...
CL return leg: Liverpool vs Chelsea
Peter Crouch meets Michael Essien Liverpool should throw caution to the winds. They need to get adventurous. Chelsea is...
Sam Allardyce resigns to big questions
Big Sam Allardyce whose pugnacious style of coaching revitalized Bolton announced his resignation in a shocker. The resignation is...
Sir Alex and Jose Mourinho draw out their knives
‘ The circumstances are difficult for us with the new football rules that we have to face. It is...
Kroenke’s buyout of Arsenal perceived as hostile
Stan Kroenke moves to take over Arsenal. This is huge. David Dein has resigned and there is speculation that...
Chicago Fire awaits bad boy Cuauhtémoc Blanco
Is the MLS ready for the Cuauhtémoc? MLS is underway and the biggest news is Beckham’s debut for the...
Arsenal’s midfield needs to score
Arsenal is still the best team to watch in the Premiership. They outclassed West Ham and were unlucky not...
Sir Alex: Referee killed the Red Devils
What any impartial observer seeing the Roma vs Man Utd match would have seen was that the team playing...
Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits
The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
Good news: Kenya rejoins international soccer
The Kenyan national squad can now participate in the Africa Nations Cup qualifiers and other international games. Fifa’s Emergency...
Andrew Jennings: Sepp Blatter’s shell games continue
Sepp Blatter is upto his old tricks with his willing accomplice FIFA’s vice president Jack Warner. At stake are...
Goal differential: A tale of two Premierships
The big four Premiership clubs walk away with the lions share of the revenues filling their already swollen coffers...
Wenger’s martyr mentality is taking a toll
I am a great supporter of Arsene Wenger and I find his commitment to nurturing Arsenal’s young players a...
Eurocentric bias: Blatter and FIFA overstep in Kenya ban
Sepp Blatter is a political animal. His FIFA career has been an orchestration of lining up votes, doling out...
Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation
A great account of the history of Indian soccer. From the moment in 1877 that an Indian boy kicked...
In today’s India, soccer finds no place
India’s overheating economy along with China’s is the topic du jour nowadays in the global economy. Overnight, the IT...
Vikash Dhorasoo’s film at the Berlinale
Remember the controversial film that French midfielder Vikash Dhorasoo made that landed him in hot water with Raymond Domenech...
Dunga defends his sartorial choice: Without jacket
Did Dunga come out for a day at the Carnival or for an international played at Arsenal’s chilly Emirates...
Ryzsard Kapuściński, author of The Soccer War passes away
Little noticed in the US mainstream media but Ryzsard Kapuściński, who wrote The Soccer War passed away on January...
Tom Hicks: Liverpool’s co-owner and his dubious history
Tom Hicks, Liverpool’s new owner George Gillett and Tom Hicks £470m takeover of Liverpool saved the Merseyside club from...
Tiger Woods weighs in on the Beckham factor
Tiger Woods regularly kids Roger Federer that he will break Jack Nicklaus record of 18 PGA titles before Federer...
Udinese is a future powerhouse in Serie A
Udinese??? A club that has been in existence for 110 years and has never won a single Scudetto and...
South Africa’s World Cup costs escalate
The national treasury is being called on to make more money available for the building of 2010 stadiums for...
So when will the Premiership break up?
The Premiership is the richest league in the world and the earnings from TV rights during the 2007-2010 seasons...
Shevchenko denies favouritism
Sheva must have read the Soccerblog entry which talks about his friendship with Abramovich causing a rift between Mourinho...
How big is Beckham? The NYT goes ga ga
You normally turn to the NYT for the inside scoop on the world and the US. Front page articles...
Mourinho and Chelsea to part ways ?
Kenyon denies rumours that Mourinho is set to quit Chelsea at the end of the season. Martin Samuel (...
AC Milan will soon be a spent force
Someone please wake up Carlo Ancelotti. AC Milan obviously believes that the elixir of youth is round the corner....
Soccer: Metrosexuals yes, gays no
It has been 8 years since Justin Fashanu’s tragic death. Fashanu was a talented striker for Norwich City. He...
When grown men fight: Sir Alex and Jose Mourinho
Just like two old ladies swinging their handbags at each other. Very Monty Pythonesque! Jose Mourinho was chortling to...
Will Allardyce be uncovered by the Stevens inquiry?
Lord Stevens and his Quest team just finished his exhaustive scrutiny of 362 transfers in the English league from...
Ten soccer events that shaped 2006
1) The headbutt that was heard around the world: It cost France the World Cup Zinedine Zidane in his...
Bayern plan to sit on Hargreaves
Uli Hoeness has dashed Owen Hargreaves’s hopes of joining Manchester United in the January transfer window — again! “Nothing’s...
Meet Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum: Liverpool FC’s new owner
Sheikh Rashid Al Maktoum faces a lawsuit from families that have accused him of enslaving about 30,000 children and...
Alan Pardew sacked as West Ham’s coach
The 4-0 pasting by Bolton was the straw that broke Eggert Magnusson’s back. He looked like he had swallowed...
The future of Indian football: Tapping the diaspora?
The Doha Asian games, saw an Indian football drawing Hong Kong, barely beating the Maldives, and then crashing out...
Does the Premiership understand its foreign players?
Carlos Tevez’s well documented grouse with his playing minutes at West Ham, Thierry Henry becoming ornery at Arsenal, Sheva...
FIFA loses to Mastercard
FIFA officials have ended up with the eggs in their faces as MasterCard were awarded an injunction against the...
Argentine soccer: The new kids on the block
For every Juan Roman Riquelme that announces his retirement from soccer, there is some one to take over his...
BBC Panorama, Dec 10: Andrew Jennings buttonholes Jack Warner
Those who enjoyed Andrew Jennings expose the corruption in FIFA starting with Sepp Blatter’s secret payout of £1m worth...