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World Cup Daily Ticker: May 18

by John Boschini on May 18, 2010 · 1 comment

Lau­rent Blanc To Be Next French Man­ager Bor­deaux Man­ager Lau­rent Blanc will accept the French Foot­ball Federation’s offer and take over the French national team after this summer’s World Cup. At Bor­deaux Blanc, 44, achieved the French League and Cup dou­ble but fin­ished a dis­ap­point­ing sixth in this year’s cam­paign. “Girondins Bor­deaux have been informed […]

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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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Teams Sadly Missing from South Africa 2010

by Rami Soufi on November 21, 2009 · 18 comments

Below is a list of teams with some qual­ity play­ers which will unfor­tu­nately miss the World Cup next sum­mer: Ire­land– The Irish team may not be the most tal­ented to miss out on qual­i­fi­ca­tion but cer­tainly was unjustly elim­i­nated by France. The Ire­land squad is not as deep as other but has tal­ented play­ers such […]

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European World Cup qualifier play-off round up

by Gareth Freeman on November 15, 2009 · 0 comments

The first legs of the Euro­pean World Cup play-offs took place yes­ter­day (Sat­ur­day) and Rus­sia, Por­tu­gal and France all take slen­der advan­tages into their second legs.

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We got another edi­tion of World Cup Buzz Top 5. This time we’re going to break­down the 5 best national team coaches right now. These 5 men have led their charges to sur­prise heights in qual­i­fy­ing for the 2010 World Cup or in some cases right on the door step of reserv­ing their place in […]

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II">Analysis of Bids for 2018 World Cup — Part II

by George Metellus on January 29, 2009 · 3 comments

Let’s begin Part II of our analy­sis of bid­ders for the 2018 and 2022 World Cup with a sur­prise entrant whose deep pock­ets could sneak in and win the right to host a World Cup. QATAR The oil-rich nation with plen­ti­ful nat­ural gas reserves would become the 1st Arab nation to host a World Cup. According […]

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Fox Soc­cer Chan­nel has announced its TV sched­ule for the 2010 World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing matches, sched­uled this Sep­tem­ber. The matches that will be shown in the United States are: Hun­gary v Den­mark, Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 1:30pm ET Ukraine v Belarus, Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 6, 4pm ET (tape delayed) Rus­sia v Wales, Wednes­day, Sep­tem­ber 10, 11am ET Macedonia […]

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