European Club Association Threatens FIFA
European Club Association chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had some harsh words for FIFA ahead of today’s Euro qualifying games.
“It is no longer acceptable that we have to give up our players, taking the risk that, in case of injury, we still have to play their salaries,” Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, president of the European Clubs’ Association (ECA),...
Euro 2012 Qualifiers, Matchday 2: Five Games to Watch
The Road to Euro 2012 continues on Tuesday…
Euro 2012 qualifying continues tomorrow (Tuesday, September 7) after the most countries kicked off their qualification campaign last Friday. And even though we are two years away from the final tournament and its only matchday 2- some countries are already under pressure to get results.
FIVE QUICK FACTS
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Bundesliga 2010/11 – Can Anyone Challenge Bayern Munich?
Bundesliga 2010/11 – Can Anyone Challenge Bayern Munich? is a post from: Just Football
Bundesliga 2010/11 – Can Anyone Challenge Bayern Munich? is a post from: Just Football With the Bundesliga 2010/2011 season upon us and Bayern Munich’s players now back from a pretty good World Cup all round, our German football meister Geoff Edwards...Former Blue in awe of Reds’ attack
Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben believes that his former club Chelsea has made a huge mistake in letting Joe Cole sign for Liverpool this summer. According to the Blues, negotiations with Cole during his free agency did not result in an agreement due to the player’s high wage demands of around £90,000 per week. As...
World Cup 2010: Spain Triumphs In A Match of Contrasting Styles
After Euro 2008, Vicente del Bosque took the reins of the Spanish national team from Luis Aragonés, the man that led Spain to their first international tournament conquest since 1964 when they hosted and won the second UEFA European Championships, known then as the European Nations' Cup. Aragonés' tactical style went completely away from former...
Vote: World Cup Final Key Matchups
In yesterday’s World Cup final preview, I picked out five key matchups for today’s World Cup final. Five obvious player vs player battles that could decide who goes home with the trophy. I know it’s cliché and I know it’s not an entirely accurate way to represent a football match. But it’s still...
World Cup Golden Ball Nominees
We posted the live stream of the Golden Ball nominees announcement earlier today, and you can go back to that post to see video of Jérôme Valcke list the 10 players in contention for the title of best player at World Cup 2010.
Or… you can just read below where I’ve typed them into a good...
Arjen Robben: Diving Into Our Photoshopped Hearts
Simply put: players can’t get away with anything today. First there’s the referee and his band of merry hooligans, then there are the televisions cameras which see more than the Mossad, only to be followed into the room by Photoshop.
Arjen Robben tumbled himself into a little ball against Brazil (yesterday too, but they’re not...
Trying To Find The Common Denominator; Or: The Curse of the Premier League Trophy.
Each day for the last two weeks or so I’ve woken up, done something mildly productive, sauntered to the general vicinity of a laptop and gone to the guardian’s World Cup page with one question: “which star went down today?”. Each day I go with the same hope of Chuckie Sullivan at Will Hunting’s door...
Soundoff: Which Injured Star Will You Miss Most at World Cup 2010?
I’ve almost (but only almost) lost track of all the big name players that have picked up pre-World Cup injuries. There was David Beckham’s tendon tear back in March, there’s Michael Essien’s messed up knee, Michael Ballack’s ankle, Rio Ferdinand’s knee ligaments, Lassana Diarra with complications from sickle-cell anemia, and many more. Portugal’s Nani joined...
Arjen Robben’s Hakbal Injury
The infamous World Cup curse/string of unrelated injuries struck again this weekend. Netherlands winger Arjen Robben came on as a halftime substitute in his team’s 6-1 World Cup warm up win over Hungary and scored twice, but then limped off towards the end after tearing his left hamstring while attempting a backheel.
Robben is not out...
Dutch Fear Robben May Miss Out On World Cup
Following his fantastic season with Bayern Munich many had hoped that Arjen Robben would help light up the World Cup finals in South Africa. He was injured as Holland cruised to victory against Hungary.
Robben scored twice during the game, he injured himself trying to pull off a trick on an attack. The ‘unnatural’ movement of...
