Lifetime Bans for Racist Fans
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Category: World Cup 2014
Uruguay continue their impressive run
Uruguay extended their unbeaten run to four matches with a 2-1 win over Ecuador despite missing a few key...
Spotlight: Jerome Valcke, FIFA’s bribery facilitator and Night’s Watch to Sepp Blatter
Jerome Valcke, to use a GOT analogy is Night’s Watch to Sepp Blatter Jerome Valcke, the FIFA secretary general...
Luis Suarez- Paul McCartney interview before the World Cup
Suarez interviewed Paul McCartney just before a Paul concert in Uruguay way back in April 2014. One of the...
FIFA declare Goal of the Tournament 2014
Van Persie’s aerodynamic flying header came in second.The first place went to James Rodriguez...
Christoph Kramer suffered memory loss
Christoph Kramer admits that he cannot remember anything about his performance in the World Cup final after his head...
Nico Rosberg has run in with FIFA intellectuals.
German Formula One driver Nico Rosberg’s idea of celebrating Germany’s World cup win by putting an image of the...
Thanks for the memories World Cup 2014
Goodbye World Cup 2014 and thanks for the memories.
Catching up on some Adidas Ads we missed
This one stars Messi – hoping that Argentina will win the World Cup. Somehow – with the benefit of...
Blatter’s message to the world
“I have not been hiding,” Blatter told reporters at a reception Friday in Rio de Janeiro, hosted by Russian...
Shakira sets the stage on fire at the closing ceremony
Well not literally. She belted out the memorable lyrics of her world cup song at the closing ceremony. In...
Germany’s historic triumph
A moment of brillance that most were hoping Messi would bring eventually came from German substitute Mario Goetze.It came...
R.I.P. Brazil
Holland demolish Brazil 3-0, and there were no signs of jogo bonito anywhere:
Golden Ball Nominees
Last chance to predict the golden ball winner here
Without Thiago Silva – the Brazilian defence was invisible.
The Brazilian defence was invisible without Thiago. Seriously. Watch… Anyway Thiago has given a 100 year guarantee that the...
Three words for every World Cup Team
After England got knocked out of the tournament the folks over at Cambridge University Press were a bit short...
The Round of 16: The Illustrations of Alvan Sirlin
Alvar Sirlin is an illustrator based in New York. His illustrations capture the beautiful game in ways photography just...
Soccer Art: “The Day the Samba Died”
“The Day the Samba Died” (acrylic on canvas) 12″ X 24″ – “the painting commemorates the end of jogo...
Soccer Fever on Twitter
The beautiful game lights up the globe as fans of Argentina and the Netherlands tweet their hearts out …...
Argentina beat Holland on penalties
Dutch courage lasted through 90 minutes of regulation time and 30 minutes...
The Brazil Germany Semi Final from another perspective…
Sums it up pretty neatly.
Mexican Ref lookalike
Marco Rodriguez,the muscular mexican referee who officiated in the game between Brazil and Germany bears more than a passing...
Even Paul would not have seen this coming…!
Brazil’s apocalypse.
Echt Deutsch!
Yes, we’ve made fun of the Germans on this blog before, but they have done something no one thought...
Miroslav Klose: The World Cup’s Leading Goalscorer
Hats off to Germany’s Miroslav Klose. The 36-year-old Polish born striker became the all-time leading goalscorer in World Cup...
BRUTAL: Germany 7, Brazil 1
History was made as Germany destroyed Brazil on their home turf. WATCH:
Bye Bye Brazil
Without Thiago Silva, this is what Brazil’s defense looked like: Scolari’s team is finished. The question for Brazil is...
“Put me in coach,” says Pele. Total Chaos = Brazil
Wonder what Scolari can even say at this point… it’s gotta be the worst halftime talk in Brazil’s history....
#GER destroying #BRA: 5-0
And it’s not even halftime yet! Germany exposes Brazil’s weaknesses – all of them: – lack of midfield: no...
In the absence of Paul
In this World Cup there have been several charlatans who have claimed to be the inheritors of the psychic...
What’s This, BBC?
Is the BBC inciting violence? The cute graphic at the bottom of their World Cup 2014 page has a...
Germany favored to beat Brazil
With the loss of Neymar, the Germans are favored: Brazil has a 49.2 percent chance to advance to the...
Brazil’s missing Maestro
Without Neymar Brazil will be pretty short of options when they take on Germany on Tuesday. And the man...
Tim Krul’s cameo role sends Holland into the semis.
Tim Krul was sent in to play about 60 seconds before the end of extra time. He saved 2...
The fall of Alejandro Sabella
Two managers are making the headlines.Van Gaal’s tactical acumen is being hailed by all and sundry for the inspired...
Gonzalo’s Golazo takes Argentina through…
Gonzalo Higuain scored the only goal of the game in the 8th...
Ban this Man, FIFA
This was a far more vicious foul than that bite from Suarez. Colombian defender Juan Zuniga simply used his...
Neymar suffers verterbrae fracture in Brazil’s win over Colombia
Brazil ended Colombia’s dream run by beating them 2 -1 . Neymar has been at the receiving end of...
Germany make it 3 wins in 4
Mats Hummels scored for Germany in the 13th minute and that’s the way the scoreline stayed till the end....
Happy July 4th!
Take it easy y’all, and pick another team (or teams) to support. This is what you do when your...
Germany take on France for the fourth time in World Cup history
France and Germany will battle for a place in the...
World Cup Arm Crossing Technique video
The arm crossing technique of all the players who showed up for World Cup 2014 in one wonderful video...
Is it Pogba Time?
One thing the Germans are going to have to worry about (besides the flu) is Pogba. The Frenchman will...
Obama Calls Up Our Heroes
WATCH:
Brazil at the Rubicon
This is it for Brazil. Either they find their form or they get to watch the rest of the...
BREAKING: Another FIFA scandal… (yawn)
In news that shocked no one, it was revealed the Sepp Blatter’s FIFA has once again showed it’s corrupt...
Corruption Costs Lives: Bridge Collapse Kills Two in Belo Horizonte
One of the problems with infrastructure building projects is that they seem to always run over in cost and...
Do the Germans have the French Flu?
Soccerblog.com Health Tip: German coach Joachim Low should stop digging his nose and shaking hands after. While this strategy may...
USA clever free kick routine against Belgium.
The German team can study this neat free kick that USA pulled off –...
USA 1, Belgium 2
The US team fell short when it counted, missing crucial opportunities to close out the game. Here are the...
Angel di Maria unlocks Swiss Vault after 118 minutes of trying..
The swiss locked their goal area down as securely as any...
Germany’s Free Kick fail was actually part of an elaborate plan…?
Some examples of fiendishly clever freekick routines below…. Some of them actually distract the goalkeeper...
