Steven Gerrard wins player of the year in the EPL
Steven Gerrard who helped beat Chelsea in the FA semifinals 2-1 and has taken Liverpool to an impressive third...
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Alan Shearer plays his swansong: Newcastle vs Sunderland
Alan Shearer played his last game against Sunderland and went out in style scoring a goal in Sunderland’s defeat...
Fabrice Akwa wins Angola’s player of the year
Fabrice Akwa who captained Angola’s football team to their first ever World Cup won the top honors as his...
Sam Allardyce, Steve McLaren, Alan Curbishley: Who will manage England next?
With Sven Goran Eriksson’s days as England manager coming to a close after the World Cup, the jockeying for...
Jonathan Spector’s hopes for the World Cup fade
Jonathan Spector’s chances of making it to the US squad for the World Cup is over. He suffered a...
Dunga and Howie Long: Football enforcers
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Tele Santana’s legacy will show up in this World Cup.
The 1994 World Cup final between Italy and Brazil, turned out to be in my mind the least interesting...
Tele Santana: The mentor of El Jogo Bonito passes on
We at Soccerblog, think that amongst other ways of honoring the man who best exemplified The Beautiful Game, soccer...
Metatarsal injuries: There is trouble underfoot in the English footie squad
Foot loose; fancy free? The English squad would strongly disagree. In World Cup 2002, the England squad became more...
South Asians can’t play football
White men can’t jump and South Asians can’t play football South Asians playing professional league football. Nah! You must...
Sven Goran Eriksson’s indiscretions
Sven Goran Eriksson makes as much noise off the field too. His big move after England’s World Cup appearance...
Real Madrid: Troubled times ahead
Real Madrid is going through some testing times. Apparently the new chairman, Fernando Martin has not even called a...
Soccer Models: Giorgio Armani started it all
Christiano Ronaldo models Pepe Jeans We all know that David Beckham and Victoria Adams have a big empire, with...
Ronaldinho! Ronaldinho! Ronaldinho!
Ronaldinho showboats!!
Thierry Henry tries to lay Barca transfer rumor to rest
Well, that is a dream having Ronaldinho and Samuel Eto’o as team mates. Just imagine the Ronaldinho– Eto’o– Henry...
Beckenbauer to Blatter: Stop your whining
A power play is going on between the Bayern Munich cabal and FIFA. Franz Beckenbauer effectively told Sepp Blatter,...
Portugal and Netherlands: How far will they go?
I love these two teams but they invariably disappoint. On a talent level they are 8 out of 10...
Ali Daei: Iran’s chances rest on him and a group of young talents
Ali Daei will captain the Iran squad to the World Cup. He is a legend in Iran and one...
Goleo VI and Pille: The Untold Story, Part II
Goleo wandered out into the cool April evening disconsolate but full. He was stared at by quite a few...
Trivia: India made it to the 1950 World Cup
No, don’t rub your eyes in disbelief. India did make it to the 1950 World Cup finals. Well sort...
Devil’s Advocate: Soccer in the US has an image problem
Christian and I have been going back and forth on the state of soccer affairs in the US. His...
Who is Charles Dempsey? A lookback at how FIFA awarded the World Cup to Germany
No World Cup is without controversy. But FIFA awarding this year’s World Cup to Germany became an ugly exercise...
Colombia figures in the World Cup finals!
There I knew I would get your attention. Actually, it is not the team but one Colombian who is...
Too Kewell for school: Meet some of the Socceroos
Ever wondered about that pony tailed soccer player for Liverpool flying in from the left midfield, unleashing a powerful...
Lampard ready to set a record!
Frank Lampard is a goal shy of setting a new record for the maximum number of goals scored by...
Rio believes that Sol Campbell’s absence improves his chances??
Sol Campbell’s bloody nose- Insult to Injury (Arsenal vs Portsmouth) I think Rio Ferdinand is being a bit tongue...
Goleo VI and Pille: The story untold, Part I
Goleo VI was born in Botswana, a country that has never qualified for the World Cup. He was an...
59 days to the big dance; 134 days to Cape Town 2006
That’s 5 months and 4 days remaining to the Homeless World Cup at Cape Town from Sep 24 to...
The Soccer Wars: Honduras and El Salvador, 1969
On July 14, 1969, Honduras and El Salvador went to war. The 100 hour war took 6000 lives, 12,000...
Rooney! Rooney! Rooney!
Rooney scores. Rooney passes. Park Ji Sung scores. It was Man U over Arsenal and Wayne Rooney showed why...
John Terry needs to be England captain
84 minutes into the Chelsea- West Ham game and I am looking at how John Terry marshalls his players....
Claudio Reyna back: He looked good too
US captain and midfielder Claudio Reyna was back from his injury timeout and gave a pretty good account of...
Meola makes his 100th appearance this Tuesday
Tony Meola, US goalkeeper in the ’90 and ’94 World Cup will make his 100th appearance in Tuesday’s friendly...
Man U- Arsenal showdown: Lehmann’s performance will be of interest
The Gunners head to Old Trafford for the showdown with Man U. Both teams are resurgent. Man U is...
Soccer videos: The pantheon of exciting African superstars in this WC- Part 2
Adebayor (Arsenal/ Togo) Selim Benachour (Vitoria SC/ Tunisia) Mantorras (Benfica/ Angola)
Soccer videos: The pantheon of exciting African stars in this WC – Part 1
Didier Drogba (Chelsea/ Ivory Coast) Michael Essien (Chelsea/ Ghana) Samuel Eto’o (FC Barcelona/ Cameroon)
Milla Time: The soccer player with Soul Makossa
Italia ’90 So it was that at the age of 38, Roger Milla enjoyed his finest hour as a...
Oliver Kahn sound byte
World Cup 2006 | 03.01.2006 Deutsche Welle Daniel Martinez interviewed Oliver Kahn DM: Who will be number one in...
What is up with Germany?
Have the Germans got the jitters? You bet. Its palpable. Angela Merkel is in the midst of separating the...
Klinsmann makes his decision: Kahn out, Lehmann in
This is really big news. Olli Kahn who was memorable in getting Germany to the finals of the 2002...
Beck’s book is doing OK in the UK: Robbie Fowler’s doing better
Hat tip to Beckhead for pointing out that David Beckham’s book is doing better in the UK. It has...
Watch out: Here come the Socceroos.
Growing up in India where being ‘good in sports’ was an euphemism for underachieving, we neverthless followed with passion...
Let’s get Real. Beckham is a bust at Madrid.
He cannot kick with his left foot, he cannot head a ball, he cannot tackle, and he doesn’t score...
So how is Beck’s book doing?
David Beckham and Tom Watts wrote Both Feet on the Ground: An autobiography with Tom Watts (Harper Paperbacks; November...
The ‘Bunny Hop’ man will be missing at this WC
Cuauhtemoc Blanco did not make the 26 man roster that coach Ricardo La Volpe announced today, from which Mexico...
Top five reasons why Freddy should be included
1) He is 17 years old this June, the same age at which Pele debuted at the World Cup....
Dutch coaching should be trademarked
With the Socceroos getting into the World Cup for the first time in 32 years under the tutelage of...
Bend it like Roberto Carlos!
Beckham does not even come close. Ever wondered about Roberto Carlos and his wicked free kicks? Where does he...
Much Adu about nothing!
Freddy Adu has been promised more playing time with DC United and this as a starter. Big deal. His...
The best team that never won the World Cup
Undoubtedly, the 1982 French side led by Michel Platini. I still remember that semi final match between France and...