World Cup Trivia – team nicknames
Nicknames of the 32 teams participating in World Cup 2018. Argentina – La Albiceleste (White and Sky Blues) Australia...
Category: Soccer Players
Barcelona have a player in every world cup team
Barcelona will have at least one player representing them in each group of World Cup 2018 GROUP A Luis...
Eintracht Frankfurt pull off stunning win over Bayern
The DFB Pokal final saw Eintracht Frankfurt beating Bayern Munich 3 -1 and claiming the title for the first...
Buffon bids farewell
“Six thousand, one hundred and eleven days. Semilacentoundici moments of pure passion. Of joy, of crying, of defeats and...
Atletico win the Europa League in style
Antoine Griezmann guided Atletico Madrid to a third Europa League title as the Spanish club overwhelmed Marseille on a...
Iniesta isn’t going to China
Iniesta,master of the feint that sent opposition players in the wrong direction has done it again.He led everyone to...
Messi and Ronaldo both score in a brilliant El Clasico
Messi and Suarez both scored in an -enthralling El Clasico in which no quarters were asked for and none...
Brighton avoid relegation by beating Manchester United
Talk about a difference in motivation.Brighton put everything they had into the game because winning would save them from...
Costa ends Wenger’s dream
Wenger’s hopes of going out with a bang went up in smoke when Diego Costa scored the only goal...
Salah misses a sitter and Fabregas scores fifty
Salah,contrary to all expectations,missed an absolute sitter against Stoke a couple of days or so ago. To make it...
Grow Up, Paul!
This is an open letter to Paul Pogba, one of our favourite players. Dear Paul, We don’t know each...
Conte’s wife calls him during a press conference
In a hilarious bit of bad timing Conte’s wife,Elisabetta Muscarello,managed to call her husband right in the middle of...
Bayern and Liverpool Legends roll back the years
Liverpool legends and Bayern Munich legends played out a thrilling 10 goal game in which each set of legends...
Dear Los Angeles,You’re Welcome
Zlatan made a quiet unobtrusive exit from Manchester United and has shifted allegiance to LA Galaxy. In classic Zlatan...
The official World Cup Watch
Hublot is the official timekeeping sponsor of the 2018 FIFA World Cup and they have created a watch called...
Leipzig thwart Bayern on home turf
Bayern would have won the title already if they had managed to beat Leipzig – had Schalke not beaten...
Twitter gives poor Courtois a hard time
He allowed Messi to nutmeg him for both goals that he scored against him – one at each goalpost....
Mourinho needs to watch his back.
The ides of March are upon us and Mourinho is surely in danger of getting bumped off by the...
Basel beat City in the second leg
Pep left out 6 of his main players in the second leg against Basel – Ederson, Kyle Walker, Sergio...
Sead Kolasinac almost gets away with murder
Arsenal’s Kolasinac’s shoulder clattered into Brighton’s Ezequiel Schelotto head with such force that Schelotto lost consciousness for awhile.The medical...
Loris Karius pulls off a totally brilliant save
The praise and plaudits will be hogged by Salah and Mane for scoring the goals in Liverpool’s 2 –...
Back to back hat tricks from Antoine Griezmann
Antoine Griezmann became the first Atletico player to score a hat trick in successive league games since the turn...
Another brilliant Messi free kick
Barcelona were held to a one all draw by Las Palmas thanks to a pretty dubious penalty call. But...
Nike may have let Neymar down
Neymar is out of action for three months with a fractured metatarsal or something like that.Not only will he...
Giroud scores his first goal in blue
Arsenal’s loss is Chelsea’s gain.Giroud scored his first goal for Chelsea against Hull City in the FA Cup.The first...
Kane gets the better of Buffon
Spurs found themselves 2-0 down after just nine minutes inside the Juventus Stadium. At that stage it looked like...
Firmino conjures up the assist of the season
Firmino backheels the ball to lay on the perfect assist for Salah to score Liverpool’s second goal against Southampton...
Teenage football player dies of heart arrest
Barcelona and Valencia maintained a minutes silence before the kickoff of their Copa del Rey second leg game in...
Chelsea suffer their second successive 3 goal defeat
Chelsea suffer successive 3 goal PL defeats for the 1st time in over 22 years, since v Man Utd...
City drop points United catch up
Manchester City dropped a couple of points in the title race when they allowed Burnley to draw 1 –...
Neymar’s 26 goals for PSG
All 26 goals that Neymar has scored for PSG so far on one video. And despite rumours to the...
Liverpool out of FA Cup – again
The euphoria of being the first team to beat Manchester City in a long time is now dead and...
Wenger is one step closer to the a title that has always eluded him
Arsène Wenger has,in his time,won three Premier League titles, seven FA Cups and seven Community Shields since his appointment...
Bristol City give Manchester City a run for their money
When Man City were two goals up it seemed liked a foregone conclusion that Bristol City were going to...
Ronaldinho says goodbye
The Brazilian legend Tostão claimed: “Ronaldinho has the dribbling skills of Rivelino, the vision of Gerson, the spirit and...
Managerial Malcontent
Arsene Wenger started off things on new year’s ever by barging into referee Mike Dean’s dressing room after Arsenal...
No goal celebration for Sanchez brace
Sánchez scored twice against Crystal Palace but five of his outfield team-mates did not do much celebrating.Koscielny, Héctor Bellerín,...
Congratulations, President Weah
Soccerblog congratulates President George Weah on his victory in the Liberian elections. We believe that he has a real...
Yes he Kane
Another day,another hat trick.Harry Kane became the highest goal scorer of 2017 – beating both Messi and Ronaldo to...
Mourinho mourns lack of money
Burnley gave Manchester United the fright of their lives by taking a 2 goal lead in the first half...
Kane might become the highest goalscorer of 2017
Harry Kane’s hat trick against Burnley brought him level with Alan Shearer for the number of goals scored in...
Ronaldo misfires in 3 -0 El Clasico beating
EL Clasico turned out to be a bit of a damp squibico for Real Madrid.Lionel Messi and Co beat...
The philanthropy of Christiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo has the image of being a pretty self centred superstar,but it turns out that he has another side...
Bale saves Real Madrid in the Club World Cup
The 14th edition of the FIFA Club World Cup is underway at UAE.It’s a FIFA-organised international club football tournament...
Maradona gets his own wierd statue
Ronaldo has got a bit of company.Maradona was in Kolkata recently where he was attending a charity event for...
City beat United and go 11 points clear
City chalked up their 14th win in a row – equalling Arsenal’s “invincibles” of 2003- 2004. It also brought...
Ronaldo wins it again
He drew level with Messi by winning his 5th Ballon d’Or.With characteristic humility he has labelled himself as the...
City stay 8 points ahead of United
Silva’s winning goal came only in the 83rd minute.West Ham took the lead in the first half off a...
Ronaldo gets ‘busted’ again
Remember this ? The last bust of Ronaldo was pretty hideous.This one is a definite improvement.It was made by...
Eriksen hat trick’s Ireland out of the world cup
Christian scored a manager Martin O’Neill, hat trick and Denmark trounced Ireland 5 – 1 to book their place...
Mile Jedinak hat trick takes the Aussies to Russia
Wodehouse would have called Jedinak a “bearded cove” Not many football players playing at the international level can boast...
Lukaku equals Belgium scoring record
Romelu Lukaku has equalled the all-time Belgium goalscoring record after scoring twice against Mexico in a Friday night friendly...
Evra gets kicked out
Poor old Patrice Evra got kicked out of Marseille after his infamous Cantona-esque karate kick at the head of...
Ronaldo crowned FIFA player of the year for the second year running
Ronaldo has been going through a goal scoring slump of late.His lack of goals this season led to him...