Hiddink heads Nigeria wishlist
Shaibu Amodu will now coach Nigeria’s homegrown players Shaibu Amodu has been sacked as expected. The Super Eagles were...
Category: Soccer Politics
Has Tiger Woods’ peccadiloes helped John Terry?
One can’t help but wonder if Tiger Woods has helped out John Terry. One has not seen the sort...
Togo seeks redress against Angolan separatist movement
The Togo government has filed a complaint in a French court against the organizers of the Africa Cup of...
Mohamed Zidan shows a thoughtful side
It is gratifying to see Mohamed Zidan who I have always thought highly of as a player mature before...
Will Juventus get Rafa?
From the Independent (via Goal.com): The broadsheet claims that the Turin side’s president Jean-Claude Blanc is keen to reach...
Stand with Haiti
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SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Inspiration of the Year
The members of the Iranian team who wore green in support of the green revolution.Some of them were booted...
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Idiot of the Year
And the award goes to: FIFA. What’s that you say about fair play?
SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Player of the Year
The winner: Lionel Messi. The video doesn’t do him justice. The tragedy here is that with Maradona as coach,...
[UPDATED] SoccerBlog Awards 2009: Coach of the Year
Hold on. We have a new Coach of the Year. After reading NSider’s comment, and deliberating for 2 minutes,...
The SoccerBlog Awards 2009
Since we’re in a giving mood here at Soccer Blog, we’ve decided to end the year by handing out...
In Italy, Balotelli struggles for acceptance
The Independent has an article about Jose Mourinho not being particularly effusive about Mario Balotelli’s scintillating performance against Rubin...
Video: A live version of K’naan’s “Waving Flag”
Canada may not be in the World Cup but one of their own will prove ubiquitous. Somalia-born Toronto raised,...
The “fit and proper person” test failed in Pompey’s case
What ‘fit and proper person’ test? Pompey’s revolving door ownership continues. The theme is the same, they are all...
Video: Bayern butt out Juve in Turin, 4-1
Watch More Football Highlights at MySoccerPlace.net Juve crashed out of the CL as they were beaten soundly at home...
Switzerland: Football immigration good, minarets bad
Earlier, I had written about how immigration is changing the face of Swiss football for the better. The country...
Video: More Than Just A Game
I sometimes wonder whether SA’s contribution (with due apologies to all the Bafana Bafana) is not so much there...
World Cup draw: The USA should be ecstatic
Group C: England, USA, Algeria, and Slovenia If the USA does not get out of this group, we can...
World Cup 2010: SA expects a quid pro quo
SAFA officials are expecting a lot of hand holding when it comes to the draw to ensure that Bafana...
Arseversy
Two different gestures, two similar outcomes. Last week, it was Thierry Henry showing his hand to send Ireland plunging...
FIFA’s extra-ordinary executive meeting achieved nothing
Sepp Blatter convened an extra-ordinary meeting in Cape Town as if the future of the game was on the...
The FAI appeal to FIFA borders on the ridiculous
What is the FAI chief, John Delaney smoking? Thirty three teams for the World Cup? The Republic of Ireland...
Gallas may not be ready for the Chelsea encounter
Apparently William Gallas has problems putting his contact lens on because the left eye is still so swollen from...
2018 World Cup: Jack Warner’s many sided mouth
Jack Warner must be basking in all the love and affection he is getting from the USA, Australia, and...
Ante Sapina: A familiar name resurfaces in the match fixing scandal
On November 19th, 2009 Ante Sapina and his brother, Milan were arrested with three others in Berlin on charges...
Philadelphia Union picks its roster
Alejandro Moreno is an original Union Exciting times for the Union. Their first squad has Alejandro Moreno, the Venezuelan...
World Cup 2010: Egypt’s contempt for “Africa”
One of the most stark features of the Algeria vs Egypt imbroglio is the undercurrent of contempt that most...
Video: CL: Rodrigo Tello sinks Man Utd
Ben Foster won’t be the one to say, “I tello so.” Besiktas continued the theme of the underdog shocking...
Another FIFA meeting
Sepp Blatter removing his iPod and looking around at the boardroom. ” We had a flare up in the...
Egypt escalates its rhetoric
Egypt’s hissy fit continues. Hosni Mubarak: “I want to say in clear words that the dignity of Egyptians is...
Roy Keane: Another sorry figure
Roy Keane has not exactly covered himself with glory either, injecting his bile against the FAI’s demand of a...
More bad behaviour by Egypt
The Egyptians summon the Algerian envoy twice, recall their envoy from Algiers. Sudan summons the Egyptian envoy in Khartoum....
Thierry Henry’s actions reveal a strange dichotomy
Sports pundits and fans are going full tilt at Thierry Henry calling him a “cheat”, “morally reprehensible”, “unsportsmanlike”, “a...
Egypt recalls its ambassador to Algeria
The Egyptian ambassador to Algeria was recalled by Cairo as the soccer feud between the two countries has now...
Video: One more time
Thierry Henry’s left forearm makes first contact with the ball but then as the ball bounces off ever so...
Orascom vandalized by Algerian fans
Naguib Sawiris feels that the match should be postponed Want an Orascom cell phone? Egypt’s giant telecom company, Orascom...
Iraqi soccer: Sacred and non-sectarian
Doesn’t the Iraqi Olympic Committee realize that soccer trumps everything? It brings every Shia, Sunni, Chaldean, and Kurd together....
What did Lass say that got every Irish knicker in a bunch?
Its all pretty confusing but it seems that Raymond Domenech was complaining that they were really playing the English...
Fabio Capello’s comments: “Spain less strong than Brazil”
It is hard to see England overcome Brazil even if they were at full strength with Steven Gerrard, Frank...
A stadium is a reminder of a darker era
Sani Abacha stadium in Kano, Nigeria was one of the venues of the U-17 World Cup. Why would you...
A pointless ban: Maradona gets off lightly
For his potty mouthed outburst following Argentina’s win over Uruguay. (translation) Here is an even more graphic video. Till...
Van Persie feared out for at least “two months”
As an Arsenal fan, this is disastrous news. RVP is feared to have torn his ankle ligaments as he...
Coca Cola gets into the act
From the NYT’s “The Lede” Coca Cola invokes the infamous 1989 match between Algeria and Egypt as part of...
The Notts County experiment over?
The oldest professional football club believe it or not faces the possibility of court proceedings for non-payment of taxes....
Video: Arsenal take Wolves to the woodshed, 4-1
Arsenal dance with Wolves. An own goal by Ronald Zubar gets things rolling. A fine steal by Song puts...
CAS suspends Chelsea transfer ban
A temporary reprieve for Chelsea and they will be allowed to sign new players. CAS has yet to render...
Poppycock! Or Poppygate!
The British Empire fought for this! The Daily Mail goes patriotic after Jan Moir’s homophobic innuendo and their divers...
End of the exodus to the Liga?
The Zapatero government is proposing a tax rate hike from 24% to 43% for overseas players who earn more...
Kroenke cranks up the Arsenal stakes
Stan Koenke just bought up 427 more shares. His holding increases to 29.6%, less than a percentage point from...
Fernando Torres faces possible surgery
The bad news just keeps getting worse for Liverpool with Torres to join Steven Gerrard as a possible candidate...
Endgame Rafa?
HAMM: This is not much fun. (Pause.) But that’s always the way at the end of the day, isn’t...
World Cup could generate about $5 Billion for the USA
Nice bit of stimulus. 65,000 and 100,000 total new jobs would be created in the various host cities during...
Speaking your mind about the MLS can cost you
The Seattle Sounders vs Houston Dynamo playoffs got the MLS playoffs to a raucous start with their edge of...
The media makes up its mind: Pellegrini out
The Spanish media really want Manuel Pellegrini gone. They are playing up a war of words that Guti appears...