Dunga on the hot seat
How one match can turn things around? Yesterday, Hugo Sanchez’s job was endangered but today with the victory over...
Category: Soccer Teams – National
Video: Chile vs Ecuador: 3-2. Goalkeeping was a letdown
Ecuador 2-3 Chile (2-3 Villanueva)Uploaded by GolesTV Carlos Villaneuva scores the winner through this sweetly struck freekick. An inert...
Copa America: Ecuador takes on Chile
Key: Will the veteran Ecuadorian defense led by Ivan Hurtado, Giovanny Espinoza, Neicer Reasco, and Ulised De Cruz be...
Video: Cuauhtemoc Blanco’s goal: 1999 Confederations Cup final
The biggest win in Mexican soccer history as they beat Brazil, 4-3 with the Blanco goal.
Brazil starts its Copa America campaign
The battle of the managers with bad shirts. Dunga vs Hugo Sanchez. Brazil meets Mexico. This should be an...
The Onion Bag has the goods on the Copa
For your Copa America fix, go check out The Onion Bag. They have loads of stuff on the Copa...
Tevez linked to Arsenal: It might come down to minutes
David Trezeguet is back with Juventus after signing a new contract. He would have been the wrong choice for...
Video: Nicky Carle is the future of the Socceroos
Jesse Fink explains why Nicky Carle is the most impressive talent that the Socceroos have at present. However, manager...
The US wins and the loser is Max Bretos
It was a very entertaining but error prone match with great goalkeeping from Tim Howard and Oswaldo Sanchez who...
Gold Cup final: Will Mexico underachieve yet again?
In an hour or less the US meets Mexico to decide the CONCACAF Gold Cup title. The US has...
Juan Roman Riquelme recalled in Argentine squad
This is probably one of the best news for the Argentine squad and for lovers of beautiful soccer all...
Video: 1970 World Cup final: Brazil 4 Italy 1
The Guardian relives the 1970 World Cup final where arguably the best team of all time captured the Jules...
Victoria Beckham has her own reality show
That’s the one benefit of coming to the USA. Any thing and everything can become a reality show including...
Simon Kuper: Germans are feeling good about themselves
Its good having San Marino in your group. You can run up the scoreboard with wins of 13-0 and...
Video: Ryan Babel Gunner prospect
Ryan Babel the fleet footed Ajax striker that Marco Van Basten has called the heir apparent to Thierry Henry...
Becks for now remains with LA: He will go later
Soccerblog had made the prediction that Real would try and buyout Beckham back from the LA Galaxy at the...
Franco Foda thankfully did not play in Portugal or Brazil
The Guardian’s Knowledge has an entry on soccer players with unusual names like Norman Conquest and Bongo Christ but...
Angel’s MLS form should pique Jorge Luis Pinto’s interest
There is a lot of speculation in the English media about how David Beckham’s selection to the English squad...
Beckham revisited
There is no doubt that the uptick in English fortunes in the recent Brazil friendly and the Estonia win...
Eddie Johnson disappears again
Tentative. That is the word to describe the US, especially in the second half. I think Bob Bradley needs...
The Russians are hiddink their stride
Guus Hiddink is doing it again. Russia’s improvement with Hiddink at the helm is taking a gradual but familiar...
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...
England vs Estonia: Damocles sword hangs over McLaren
“I have seen the crystal ball. And it looks awful.” Steve McLaren is hoping that the English fans will...
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...
CONCACAF Gold Cup: Any spoilers in the expected Mexico vs USA finals?
Mexico is in a tougher group than the USA. The Tris have Panama and Honduras in group C as...
Berti Vogts in the hot seat in Nigeria
Scotland endured agony when Berti Vogts was made the coach of the Tartans. They suffered a series of humiliating...
Eddie Johnson creates MLS history
Eddie Johnson scored a hat trick against the New England Revs giving the Wizards a pulsating victory, 4-3 last...
The thing from Tring: Graham Poll hangs up his hat
Herbert Fandel was not the only referee making the news. Josip Simunic will be sorry to hear that Graham...
Video: Herbert Fandel attacked by a hoodlum
Pretty disturbing and Fandel was right in calling off the match.
Video: Mohamed Zidan is on a tear
Zidan scored 13 goals for his club, FSV Mainz in 15 appearances but it was not enough to save...
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...
Fulham’s US squad return to accolades
There was no bigger goal in Fulham’s season than Clint Dempsey’s match winner against Liverpool. The win gave Fulham...
Video: Cuauhtemoc Blanco goal celebrations
The Cuauhtemoc Blanco phenomenology. There is a wealth of doctoral dissertations which could attempt to deconstruct his goal celebrations....
Tottenham wins the Gareth Bale sweepstakes
Tottenham beat out Chelsea, Arsenal, and Man Utd for Gareth Bale, the coveted left back. £10m is the transfer...
Video: Apres Match
“There will be a final on July 12th, it will have no soul, it will be Snickers versus Nike.”...
Abel Xavier to join LA Galaxy
Abel Xavier, the journeyman midfielder from Middlesborough will join the LA Galaxy on a free transfer, the 15th of...
Beckham’s chance to throw a lifeline to the sinking Galaxy
You could not ask for a better stage entrance than the one David Beckham will get when he finally...
Clint Mathis shows signs of life and the NY Red Bulls are grateful
Clint Mathis puts his bad hair days behind Clint Mathis is producing the performances that he is capable of...
It is curtains for Mehmet Scholl
The best player in Germany never to play for the national team in the World Cup took his bow...
Can Colombia make its way back to the World Cup?
At one point in soccer history, this was unthinkable. The question was how far could Colombia go in the...
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...
Video: Florent Malouda compilation
He is a hustler and spunky. Got a full head of steam, uses both feet to shoot, and he...
Video: Zidane’s Zidane: Enzo Francescoli
Before there was a Zizou there was an Enzo. The genius of Enzo Francescoli.
Ged Houllier is not going anywhere
Definitely not to the Premiership. There are rumours that Houllier might be considering the Newcastle job. Houllier is reportedly...
World Cup 2010: Can Parriera turn SA into more than a first round casualty?
South Africa’s problem is not that it lacks the funds, the will, or the infrastructure to host the World...
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...
Joey Barton on the lam
Ousmane Dabo Wear a visor if you are anywhere near Joey Barton, friends and foes alike. The man likes...
Thierry Henry in Time’s Top 100
Thierry Henry makes the list of Time’s most influential people of the year. Tony Parker, San Antonio Spurs guard,...
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....
1966 World Cup: Jimmy Greaves never saw his big moment
Jimmy Greaves, Peter “Cat” Bonetti One of the remarkable features about England’s win in the 1966 World Cup was...
Brian Glanville remembers Alan Ball
” For all his long, successful career as player and manager with Arsenal, Everton, Blackpool and Southampton, as manager...
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...
In tribute: Alan Ball, 1945- 2007
1966 World Cup final. Alan Ball, Everton and Arsenal midfielder, was the scrappy, motoring midfielder with his socks down...
Jafar Panahi’s Offside: A poignant Iranian vignette
Jafar Panahi’s new movie, Offside captures the passion of the global game and the hold it has on the...