Video: Italy 1 USA 0
Pirlo’s great free kick! Gilardino header.
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Video: De Rossi red card, USA vs Italy
De Rossi’s cheap and disgusting foul.
Video: Ghana 2 Czech Republic 0
Sulley Muntari’s beauty!
Video: Ghana 1 Czech Republic 0
Asamoah Gyan!
Video: Portugal 2 Iran 0
Cristian Ronaldo’s PK.
Video: Portugal 1 Iran 0
Deco’s blast!
Referee Jorge Larrionda was suspended for the 2002 World Cup
Wikipedia’s entry says that Larrionda was suspended for 6 months by the Uruguayan football federation after being selected for...
Larrionda 3: (US + Italy) 2: The worst game
Jorge Larrionda vs the Italy-USA team Who would have thought when the two teams trooped out to play that...
Halftime: USA 1 Italy 1 Mastroeni out: No way that was a red card
Pablo Mastroeni’s tackle deserved a yellow. Not a red. By no stretch of the imagination. Contrast that with de...
USA- Italy: Clint Dempsey to start
Italy meets the US in Group E encounter in Kaiserslautern at 9:00 PM German time (3:00 PM EST) The...
Ghana 2 Cech Republic 0 (Africa’s first win this World Cup!!)
The Game of the tournament! Ghana were the heroes! The whole team. From the goalscorers Asamoah Gyan and Muntari....
Halftime: Ghana 1 Czech Republic 0 (Go Black Stars!!!)
Asamoah Gyan puts Ghana in front!! Ghana is just playing amazing soccer. 2nd minute Stephen Appiah crosses from the...
Ghana- Czech Republic: Chelsea team-mates, Essien and Cech face each other
Michael Essien, Ghana midfielder (L) Petr Cech, Czech Republic’s goalie (R) Ghana meets the Czech Republic in a Group...
Portugal 2 Iran 0: A Deco-rous strike!
Deco – Portugal’s hero Deco blasted a beauty. Great goal! Cristiano Ronaldo converted a PK after Figo was brought...
Halftime: Portugal 0 Iran 0 (Fulltime: Portugal 2 Iran 0)
Can’t say much about this match other than that Portugal are getting quite a few opportunities but aren’t executing...
Good news! ESPN’s World Cup ratings are up
The World Cup is being seen by more and more Americans. The TV ratings on ESPN 2 have more...
Iran vs Portugal: Team Melli meets Deco
Iran meets Portugal in a Group D encounter today, June 17, in Frankfurt at 3:00 PM German time (3:00...
Ronaldo has put on some gerd. El Phenomeno or El Fatso?
Ronaldo, lay off the feijoada. Ronaldo’s considerable girth has really grabbed media attention. Even Lula, Brazil’s president has weighed...
Nacho Libre meet World Cup Soccer
Who would the Latinos like to watch? Nacho Libre (L) Omar Bravo (R) The producers want to know. According...
Video: Netherlands and Argentina: 1998 Quarterfinals
Keep the date, June 21st for a possible preview of the championship match. The Netherlands knocked the Argentinians out...
Netherlands vs Cote D’ Ivoire: An EPL reunion
Arjen Robben (Chelsea), Ruud Van Nistelrooy (Man U), Robin Van Persie (Arsenal), Edwin Van Der Saar (Man U), Jan...
Can anyone stop the Argentinians??? 6-0 over SMT
I think we just saw some of the best goals in the World Cup in this match. Each one...
Halftime: Argentina 3 SMT 0: And the goal of el Copa Mundial!
Argentina is putting on a clinic in one touch soccer! Exquisite. The second goal by Esteban Cambiasso was all...
The Group of Death: Argentina vs SMT, Netherlands vs Cote D’Ivoire
June 16th Argentina meets Serbia Montenegro in Gelsenkirchen at 3:00 PM German time (9:00 EST) Netherlands meets Cote D’Ivoire...
Video: Germany 1 Poland 0 (Oliver Neuville)
The incredible miss by Michael Ballack. That would have put the game way.
Will the US rebound? Bobby Convey, Eddie Johnson make it controversial
Bobby Convey, Eddie Johnson- just play soccer, will you? George Vecsey, a wise writer who usually gets it right...
The last thing you need: England to meet Germany in the second stage
Ecuador’s win against Costa Rica has put them up at the top of Group A on goal differential ahead...
Halftime: The Three Lions 0 Soca Warriors 0
The Lions are playing like kittens and Beenhakker has thoroughly outcoached Sven in the first half. Crouch got one...
England vs Soca Warriors: Beenhakker evokes Northern Ireland loss, bring on Rooney
England vs Trinidad and Tobago today, June 15th in Nuremburg at 6:00 PM German time (12 Noon EST) This...
Halftime: Ecuador 1 Costa Rica 0 (Fulltime: Ecuador 3 Costa Rica 0)
Good game. And a great header from Carlos Tenorio through a perfectly placed cross from Luis Antonio Valencia, to...
England vs the Soca Warriors: The Roonster will play today.
Wayne Rooney has been deemed fit to play by independent medical experts and Sven Goran Erickson said that he...
Costa Rica vs Ecuador: Wanchope vs Tin Delgado
Costa Rica meet Ecuador in a Group A encounter today, June 15 in Hamburg at 3:00 PM German time...
Is Raymond Domenech in control? Arena appears to be.
The US got blown out by the Czech Republic 3-0. A result that prompted much soul searching. And Bruce...
The World Cup referees: Who are these guys?
David Beckham being sent off by Luis Cantalejo The quality of refeering can influence any sport, and soccer is...
The Germany Poland WC match: The most entertaining by far
Today’s heroes: Artur Boruc, Poland’s goalkeeper (L), the crossbar, and Oliver Neuville, German goalscorer (R) This had to be...
Halftime: Germany 0 Poland 0 (Fulltime: Germany 1 Poland 0)
Highly entertaining game. Podolksi just missed getting a goal minutes before halftime, following a beautiful 1-2 with Schweinsteiger. Poland’s...
Germany vs Poland: Will they Klose the deal?
Germany meets Poland in a Group A encounter today, June 14 in Dortmund at 9:00 PM German time (3:00...
Halftime: Tunisia 1 Saudi Arabia 0 (Fulltime: Tunisia 2 S.Arabia 2)
Brilliant side volley by Ried Jaziri to put Tunisia through. The one opportunity, and Jaziri scored. The Saudi Arabians...
Tunisia vs Saudi Arabia: Our first look at Francileudo Silva Dos Santos
Tunisia plays Saudi Arabia in a Group H encounter today, June 14 in Munich at 6:00 PM German time...
How have the new kids on the block done so far in the WC?
The 2006 World Cup has 8 new qualifiers amongst the 32 teams. A quarter of the total. The largest...
Halftime: Spain 2 Ukraine 0 (Fulltime: Spain 4 Ukraine 0)
Spain minus Raul who is on the bench and they still score 2 goals in the first 15 minutes....
Spain vs Ukraine: Raul and the Andriy’s showdown today
Spain meets the Ukraine today (June 14) in a Group H encounter in Leipzig at 3:00 PM German time...
Two beleaguered coaches: Two different responses from their teams
A tale of two coaches: Raymond Domenech (L), Jurgen Klinsmann (R) Both Jurgen Klinsmann and Raymond Domenech have gone...
Halftime: France 0 Switzerland 0 (Fulltime: France 0 Swiss 0)
Where is the French midfield? Raymond Domenech seems to be tinkering around too much. Franck Ribeiry missed a given...
The Dutch 4, the Rest of the World 0
The Dutch rule! Starting with Marco Van Basten’s Oranje defeating Serbia and Montenegro, 1-0 Leo Beenhakker’s Soca Warrior’s draw...
Les Bleus vs Oath Comrades: Arsenal team mates Phillipe Senderos against Thierry Henry
The Arsenal connection: Phillipe Senderos, Thierry Henry Johan Djourou, Patrick Viera Look out for these two, Arsenal team mates...
Chun Soo Lee, Ahn Jung Hwan come through for South Korea
Chun Soo Lee- South Korea’s bad boy and hero Ahn Jung Hwan was South Korea’s hero once again. Putting...
Halftime: Togo 1 South Korea 0 (Fulltime: S.Korea 2, Togo 1)
Great goal by Abdel Kader! Otto Pfister is back on the coaching sidelines, so the visit by the Togo...
Togo and South Korea: The new kids meet the 2002 semi-finalists.
Togo meet South Africa today (June 13) in Frankfurt at 3:00 PM German time (9:00 AM EST). Togo has...
Brazil vs Croatia: The Jogo Bonito boys start their campaign
Brazil meets Croatia today (June 13) in a Group F encounter in Berlin at 9:00 PM German time (3:00...
Let’s focus on improving soccer standards: In the MLS and National teams
I think as Steve points out, enough with the doom and gloom of soccer ever supplanting the big three...
The World Cup: The Economist is gloomy on the future of soccer in the US
The Economist is a reliably right wing rag but sometimes they do get pretty close to the truth. And...
Tomas Rosicky: Arsenal’s drooling
Christian, it is not Chelsea but Arsenal that Rosicky is moving to. Wenger is doing the lambada and Mourinho...