Portugal

David Villa’s goal for Spain against Por­tu­gal Tues­day was top class. Every­thing from Iniesta’s pass to Xavi’s back heel to David Villa’s killer strike that rebounded off the goal­keeper and back to him, and then into the top of the net. But it should have been dis­al­lowed for off­side. Watch the above video to see the […]

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It’s a Knockout

by Stuart Webb on June 25, 2010 · 0 comments

The group stages have con­cluded and now we can all look for­ward to good old fash­ioned knock­out Foot­ball. What this World Cup has pro­vided us so far has been, well, a bit baf­fling really, it has pro­vided lit­tle in the way of gen­uine thrills and excite­ment but a huge amount of intrigue. It has been […]

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You often hear peo­ple talk­ing about how soc­cer play­ers should use their head when play­ing the sport. But you sel­dom hear or see them talk­ing about using their neck. How­ever, that’s exactly what Por­tu­gal mae­stro Cris­tiano Ronaldo did Mon­day dur­ing his team’s 7–0 maul­ing of North Korea when he rolled the ball off the back of […]

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Since 1990, when Cameroon became the first African nation to reach the Quar­ter Finals of the World Cup, only one other African coun­try has made it to the same point, Sene­gal in 2002. Despite the con­sis­tent leaps in qual­ity, abil­ity and tac­ti­cal atti­tude, Africa has con­sis­tently failed to make the next break­through on the world […]

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Andy Brassell Interview: World Cup Buzz Podcast

by Richard Farley on May 16, 2010 · 1 comment

Kick­ing off the World Cup Buzz podcast’s two months of cov­er­age, the Talk net­work wel­comes back Andy Bras­sell, one of the media’s lead­ing experts on pro­fes­sional foot­ball in West­ern Europe. Andy joined me late last week to talk about the nations from his cov­er­age area who will be com­pet­ing in South Africa as well as […]

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The Foot­ball Asso­ci­a­tion was once again rocked by scan­dal when Lord Treis­man, chair­man of both the FA and England’s 2018 World Cup bid, was forced to resign after the Mail On Sun­day pub­lished excerpts from a con­ver­sa­tion in which Treis­man accused Spain and Rus­sia of con­spir­ing to bribe offi­cials in South Africa. The com­ments came […]

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Poll: Who Will Advance From World Cup Group G?

by The Gaffer on December 20, 2009 · 0 comments

Who Will Advance From World Cup Group G?(poll) Which two teams do you think will advance from Group G in the 2010 World Cup? Cast your vote above and click the com­ments sec­tion below to share your opin­ions. The group fea­tures what is undoubt­edly the Group Of Death. Brazil will be the favorites to win […]

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