Video: Velez Sarsfield win controversial Argentinian Clausura
Angel Cappa’s exciting and attack minded Huracan squad which scored 35 goals in 18 matches lost against a dour...
Category: Soccer Players
CR 9: The most dramatic day in football history dawns
The most dramatic day in not just Real history but in the history of football as Cristiano Ronaldo is...
Adebayor out: Milan chases Luis Fabiano and Huntelaar
The reason why Adebayor has decided to recommit himself to Arsenal probably has less to do with a new...
Francesco Totti, Roma’s talisman commits to five more years
Francesco Totti has confirmed that he will stay on in the club for five more years until 2014 and...
The turning point: Perez visits Benzema’s home
The personal touch never fails. It says how much Florentino Perez wanted Karim Benzema. The Lyon striker reveals he...
Arsenal: Unhappy Eboue might be part of the Melo deal
The Felipe Melo transfer from Fiorentina seems to be crystallizing around the club’s condition that Emmanuel Eboue be part...
Video: Concacaf Gold Cup: USA 4 Grenada 0
The USA punished Grenada 4-0 with their second stringers. Freddy Adu was the beneficiary at the end of a...
Concacaf Gold Cup: The US start today against Grenada
Will Brad Evans get his debut in front of his home crowd? First, will the US be able to...
Michael Owen: A dud or Sir Alex’s shrewdest move?
Michael Owen becomes Sir Alex’s special project. I think the signing needs to viewed in the context of a...
Salary cap talk gathers momentum
Michel Platini again went on the record to air his disbelief at Real’s profligate spending after the club signed...
It might soon be Liga 4 EPL 0: Ribery to Real
Real is preparing an offer for Bayern that will pry away the twinkle toed French midfielder. The man himself...
Sir Alex’s shock weapon: Owen to join Man Utd
Michael Owen is getting ready to join Man Utd. Yes, did your jaw drop? The perennially crocked striker’s contract...
Ronaldo takes Corinthians to another title..
Ronaldo took some time off his busy Godzilla playing schedule to help Corinthians win the Copa do Brasil on...
In Florentino Perez’s era the days of Quinta del Buitre are but quaint memories
Emilio Butragueno and the legendary 80’s teams that relied on homegrown talent Sergio Ramos and Iker Casillas might be...
Liga 3 EPL 0: Benzema signs with Real
The tectonic plates that underpin global football moved and moved precipitously towards Real Madrid one again. Another 35 million...
Antonio Valencia to Man Utd: Very different from Ronaldo
Sir Alex has to rebuild his Man Utd team. When players like Ronaldo and Tevez leave, rebuilding is probably...
Starting young…
Some of us will remember that it was either Confucius or Lao Tzu who said ,”A journey of a...
Some pernicious themes that undermine the US team
An international conspiracy: John Harkes in the Brazil vs USA final said at one point that US defenders will...
Godzilla was actually Ronaldo..
Fat Ronaldo has a secret identity.Usually the superpowered version has an inconspicous human identity – like Superman is Clark...
Is Thierry Henry contemplating a MLS move?
2011 could be an important year for the MLS. Thierry Henry says he sees spending two more years at...
Arsenal: Gilberto makes a plug for Melo
Gilberto showed he still had some legs in the Brazil final against the US. The ex-Arsenal player is valued...
Video: Euro U21 Finals: Germany spank England 4-0
Stuart Pearce and England enter the Euro 21 final for the first time but it was an entirely forgettable...
A Japanese goalkeeper’s moment of madness
As we wait for the curtain to close and the dust to settle and get used to the fact...
Brazil compares this comeback to other historical ones
Any chance that this Confederations Cup victory was anything but business as usual for the Seleccao should be dispelled....
Kaka: “Yes, we can!”
Barack Obama’s motivational influence now extends to soccer matches. Kaka, the player of the Confederations Cup reveals that the...
Confederations Cup final: Brazil show true grit
I can only shake my head at what we can expect from Brazil in the 2010 World Cup. That...
Unbelievable: Half time USA 2 Brazil 0
Did you rub your eyes your eyes in disbelief?? It is true. Dempsey’s flick into the net in the...
Confederations Cup: USA vs Brazil: Key match ups
Kaka vs Landon Donovan On the face of it. No comparison. Real’s $90 million for the Brazilian to $1...
Spain wins third place: Another free kick sinks Bafana Bafana
Joel Santana’s squad needs to work on stopping those back breaking free kicks which seem to doom them at...
Silly season is on us
Did you hear about Chelsea’s “monster” bid for Pato a few days ago? Well, Milan said, no can do....
Confederations Cup: What can the US expect from Brazil?
Jonathan Wilson’s excellent article talks about the intricate system of midfielders that the Brazilians have recently used with their...
Video:Jozy Altidore gets his message across
…..and as we wait for the big game to kick off here’s a collection of the best of the...
Fabregas commits to Arsenal for the hundreth time
Arseblog calls it: Much ado about nothing. But it says much how every word uttered by Arsenal’s talisman comes...
Eto’o and Tevez to Man City: Who is going to get hurt?
NOTW brings to us news that Man City has all but signed Carlos Tevez and Samuel Eto’o to the...
Video:Following in Beckham’s footsteps…
How to really make a hash of missing a penalty in a few steps…James Milner does a David Beckham...
Video: Euro U 21 Semifinals: England 5 Sweden 4 (PKs)
Joe Hart dived three times to his left in succession. They were the wrong choices. He then dived to...
Video: Euro U 21 Semifinals: England 3 Sweden 3 (AET)
The Swedes inability to deal with England’s corner kicks proved their undoing. Martin Crainie, Nedum Onuoha, and a Mattias...
Iranian players: FIFA wants answers
FIFA writes to the Iranian football association seeking answers following a Guardian report that four Iranian players were banned...
Video: A game Bafana Bafana go down to Brazil
Hats off to SA. They fought hard through Steven Pienaar and Tiko Modise controlling the midfield for large parts...
Grondona wants a Riquelme return
The faultlines between Julio Grondona and Diego Maradona could deepen if these two cult of personalities square off on...
Bafana Bafana’s Secret Weapon against Brazil
We’ve all heard about the effect the 12th man has on the field, but this is ridiculous: The man...
Spain were done in by the vuvuzelas….
Xabi Alonso on the vuvuzela- shortly before Spain crashed out “I think they should be banned,” he said. “We’re...
Reaction from Spain: “The party is over”
El Pais adopts a philosophical tone. “Nothing is eternal, so the United States defeat, even if unexpected, should not...
Video: The US record their greatest win
Spain came crashing down. Their unbeaten streak ended cruelly and unbelievably by the US win. This match has to...
Tactical Analysis: How Did USA Stun Spain?
Spain were predicted to beat the USA comfortably, but if you took a look at the whole match, anything...
Arsenal target Maroaune Chamakh
Looks like Arsene Wenger’s summer transfer wish list have a theme: Strong aerial ability and excellent work rate. Also...
Iranian players forced into retirement….
Four players – Ali Karimi,Mehdi Mahdavikia,Hosein Ka’abi and Vahid Hashemian – have been “retired” from the sport after they...
Jozy Altidore: “An eight million euro Bull”
Spain meets the US in the first semi-final and Altidore as the first American transplant in the Liga is...
The vuvuzelas claim their first victim
Tiko Modise believes that Bafana Bafana will go to the World Cup semi-finals.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s buyout clause equals Eritrea’s GDP
Ronaldo is worth more than the salaries of 5,291,370 Eritreans If Eritrea is brazen enough to bid for Ronaldo,...
Requeim for a midfielder…
Confederations Cup organizers will stage a pre-match ceremony before the final to commemorate the death of Cameroon midfielder Marc-Vivien...
Everything you ever wanted to know about Michael Owen..
A 32 page dossier on Michael Owen the ‘ahem’ ‘athlete;ambassador and icon’ here.. gives you all the possible information...
Berlusconi: “Pirlo? Transferable.”
The firesale continues at AC. And Silvio Berlusconi has effectively taken over the coaching reins. There is no sign...
Will Roque deliver for Man City?
We built this city on roque and roll. A sample of some of the dreadful headlines we could be...