Dissecting the disappointment: 4 key reasons for Barcelona’s failure this season is a post from: Just Football
Dissecting the disappointment: 4 key reasons for Barcelona’s failure this season is a post from: Just Football The first thing to point out here is that this is no obituary piece. Barcelona are not in crisis, this is not...FIFA’s World Cup All-Star Team
There are plenty of World Cup best XIs floating around. Mr. David Beckham did one just before the final, and we did two ourselves, split between semi-finalists and non-semi-finalists.
There’s only one XI that goes in the history books though, and that’s the FIFA one. The FIFA World Cup All-Star Team was decided by the votes...
David Beckham’s World Cup XI
We saw David Beckham looking very coach-like on the England bench at World Cup 2010. There was even a (made up) rumour that Beckham would be replacing Fabio Capello as England manager after the team’s World Cup exit. That rumour seemed to mysteriously disappear the second Argentina exited the tournament and proved that inexperienced coaches...
Match Review & Highlights: Spain 1 – Germany 0
It's like deja vu all over again: Spain 1 – Germany 0.
Paul the Octopus got it right once again, picking Spain and sending the German romantics crashing out of the World Cup…at least until Saturday, when they’ll play Uruguay in their second straight consolation game. (Must be cruel by now.)
And if Paul nailed it by...
Spain World Cup 2010 Profile
After years of pre-tournament hype followed by in-tournament disappointment, Spain finally got it together two summers ago and shrugged off the “under-performer” tag to win Euro 2008. In style too, with some excellent passing football played along the way. That Euro 2008 victory means Spain has two Euro titles in the glass cabinet. But still...
UEFA Euro 2012 Draw: A Spanish Perspective
The Congress Hall of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland held the draw for UEFA Euro 2012 on Sunday afternoon, and while there is no clear consensus about a “group of death” among the nine groups, Spain’s group would not be considered in contention for that infamous moniker.
Spain was chosen in one...
