Franz Beckenbauer RIP
The Kaiser has gone to his well deserved heavenly reward. ( 11th Sept 1945 – 7th Jan 2024) “It...
Category: Soccer Players
Alison Becker’s best saves
Liverpool have released a video of Alison Becker’s best saves to mark his 250th game for the club. Click...
Salah says goodbye with a brace
Salah is leaving Liverpool.He will be heading off to the Ivory Coast to captain the Egyptian National Team in...
The 100 best football players of 2023
The Guardian has compiled this list of the top 100 football players of the year.Here they are – minus...
Messi wins his 7th GOAL 50 award
GOAL 50 is an annual award presented by GOAL which ranks the 50 best footballers in the world over...
FIFA’s award shortlist is out
The three nominees in each category of the FIFA awards 2023 is here The three contenders for the Ferenc...
Messi is Athlete of the Year 2023 on Time
8 Ballon d’Ors and now this. He’s on a roll.
Giggs hits 50 as Barcelona turn 124
Double celebrations today as Ryan Giggs celebrates his 50th birthday even as Barcelona celebrate their 124th anniversary
Francesco Camarda – youngest Serie A player ever
Francesco Camarda,at 15 years and 260 days since he arrived on the planet,is now the youngest player to play...
Uruguay beat Argentina 2-0
For the first time in history, Uruguay beat Argentina 2- 0 and Argentina lost a game after being undefeated...
Adidas organise a Messi Zidane chat
Zidane and Messi sit down to have a chat about old times – courtesy Adidas
Leo Messi shares his favourite goal
He has scored over 800 goals for club and country and looking back at he chooses one that stands...
Messi makes it 8 Ballon d’Ors
Soccerblog has been following the trail of Messi’s Ballon d’Or wins with a tremendously high degree of accuracy.Here are...
Andre Onana makes up a bit
His goalkeeping for Man Utd hasn’t been famous. Safe hands and clean sheets have eluded him.Blunders galore – evidence...
Messi a mountain too high to climb for Peru
Peru went down 2-0 to Argentina in their World Cup 2026 qualifying game- both goals were scored by Messi.
Ronaldinho in India
Ronaldinho has been spotted in Kolkata, where he apparently stopped to take a selfie with a passing tiger and...
Neymar gets hit with popcorn
All is not entirely well as far as football in Brazil is concerned. They drew their last qualifier against...
The Number 7 Manchester United Shirt
Mason Mount ,Memphis Depay,Angel Di Maria,Michael Owen,Alexis Sanchez,Edinson Cavani,Antonio Valencia,Keith Gillespie,Bryan Robson,David Beckham,George Best,Eric Cantona,( Ella Toone) and Cristiano...
Turns out that goalkeepers are not crazy after all
Goalkeepers are not,as commonly believed,crazy. The pundits had it wrong all along. It turns out that their brains are...
Welcome to Wrexham
Welcome to Wrexham is a web series that premiered on August 24, 2022, on FX It tells the life and times...
Zlatan gives his take on Ten Hag’s troubles
Z gives his candid opinion on the challenges facing Erik ten Hag.
Harry Kane on his new start
Harry Kane enjoys a bit of banter with Henry on his new start at Bayern and life in general.He...
Neymar packs his bags already
Neymar,having barely got to Al Hilal – is already all set to depart. His favourite Beatles song is “Hello...
Beckham is coming to Netflix
Stranger things have happened. A documentary on Beckham is being released on Netflix in early october.
El Clasico Flashback
Time travel to 2005 and see a bunch a fabulous players in their prime – Beckham,Zidane,Xavi, Eto’o, Iniesta,Puyol,Messi,Casillas,Roberto Carlos,Sergio...
The tragedy of Paul Pogba
He has the talent and he has the skill . However he also has a hamartia. (Hamartia,wikipedia will tell...
Ballon d’Or frontrunners
Messi in the lead..
Salah’s not for sale
Or is he ? Al-Ittihad have raised the price they are offering to over £80 million ($100m) . They...
Neymar heads to India
Neymar is adding elephant riding to his set of skills as he prepares to head off to India. This...
Leo takes his tally to 5 goals
Messi scores two in Inter Miami’s 3-1 win over Orlando City
Marta bids adeiu to the World Cup at last
Marta Vieira da Silva’s career spanning 6 Women World Cup’s came to end at last when Brazil failed to...
Newcastle comes on Amazon Prime Video
Newcastle,after being taken over Saudi Public Investment Fund in 2021,have done the improvement in leaps and bounds thing. They...
Messi’s Thor goal celebration
Messi’s goal celebration after scoring against Atlanta was not “hold my beer” to David Beckham- as originally surmised. Subsequent...
The lure of lucre
Miami may have got Messi but the Saudi League has much more moolah and many big names have followed...
Harry Kane in a heated interview
Harry Kane plays russian roulette with a bunch of bottles of hot and hotter sauces. Kane mentions his favourite...
Messi’s debut goal in slow mo
If this debut goal is anything to go by it looks like Messi is going to enjoy himself playing...
Al-Nassr get hammered in pre season friendly
Celta Vigo ended in 13th place in the La Liga table last season – 7th from the bottom. Al-Nassr...
Sergio Busquets also moves to Miami
The Inter Miami squad suddenly looks a whole lot more menacing than it ever did before.Messi in the forward...
Messi goes shopping in Miami
Messi mingled with ordinary mortals in Miami and did a bit of shopping before hitting the training ground. With...
Who will take the place of Sergio Busquets?
Sergio learned his bag of tricks from the best – Pep Guardiola himself,who in turn was mentored by the...
Football is all about passing.
The chap who scores the goal couldn’t usually have done so unless someone passed the ball to him in...
After De Gea – who?
David De Gea to his fans on twitter….“My farewell message to all Manchester United supporters is extremely difficult to...
Trafford saves the day for England U21
England beat Spain 1-0 to win the UEFA under 21 Championship thanks to some injury time heroics from goalkeeper...
Wenger’s new offside rule
Wenger has been taking broadsides at the offside rule for a long time and his perseverance is finally paying...
Turkish Messi goes to Real Madrid
While the real Messi,approaching the twilight of his career,heads off to America,a new turkish Messi moves to Barcelona Real...
Cesc Fabregas calls it a day
Cesc Fabregas,after 110 caps for spain,2 European Championships,a World Cup and 12 major trophies has now decided that enough...
USA hammer St Kitts and Nevis
St Kitts and Nevis,discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493 has a FIFA ranking of 134. America,which was discovered by...
Messi plays in Riquelme farewell game
Juan Roman Riquelme finally got his farewell – which was pending since the year 2015. The farewell match,which was...
Messi turns 36
Messi hit 36 on the 24th of June 36 things about him as he turns 36. “1. Messi has scored...
Brazil wear black against racism
Brazil wore black in a friendly against Guinea in protest against racism and in support of Vinicius Junior who...
Mo Salah hits 31
Not 31 goals but 31 years on his 31st birthday today,FIFA are releasing a documentary video to mark the...
Messi’s reaction on hearing that Inter Miami were in last place
According to Aguero,Messi had a good laugh. They surely won’t end up in last place again with him on...
Messi to MLS ?
Even as Real still reel from Benzema’s abrupt move from Madrid to Saudi Arabia here’s news of another tectonic...