New Rules for the World Cup 2026
Refs are going to get more VAR support. Time wasters and chaps rolling on the ground in Neymaresque agony...
Category: Soccer Teams – National
Brazil in blue fall short
The colours were all wrong. France wore white and Brazil wore blue. Brazil might have done better in their...
Senegal stripped of AFCON title
The fat lady has not yet sung for Afcon 2026 and so the opera continues. The latest twist in...
Gabon sack their national team
In news that made football fans blink twice and check if it was April 1st, Gabon’s national football team...
Salah at the AFCON
Is this going to be the time that Salah lifts the AFCON at last . There was heart break...
Meanwhile in Africa
The Africa Cup of Nations kicked off on the 21 December 2025 in Morocco, Where is Morocco ? The...
Kane overtakes Pele
Harry Kane scored his 77th and 78th goals for England when they beat Albania 2-0. And thus he broke...
Ronald gets a red card for Portugal
A record Ronaldo would rather not have achieved. He picked up his first red card ever while playing for...
Neymar has blue beads in his hair
Neymar is back on the job for Santos after being AWOL for a while due to injury. He has...
A lovely World Cup 2026 Song
As we countdown the days..
For the rules they are a changing
Bob Dylan warned us long ago. Change is inevitable. New rules for the 2025 -2026 season. Reduced Goalkeeper Holding...
Argentina are not missing Messi
The defending champions are looking really good. The 4-1 minus Messi win against Brazil means that they have booked...
2024 Globe Soccer Awards.
Real Madrid won best club of the year and the other winners were …
Messi’s World Record equalling assist
Messi chalked up another world record in Argentina’s colours as he provided a match-winning assist to Lautaro Martinez in...
Antonio Sanabria scissor kick
Even as Cristiano Ronaldo was amazing everyone by scoring off a scissor kick even in his declining years another...
Ronaldo’s age defying scissor kick
Just when you thought he was far too old to be doing that kind of thing Ronaldo pulled off...
Messi scores his 10th international hat trick.
While Ronaldo was huffing and puffing and throwing hissy fits against Scotland,Messi was calmly scoring his 10th international hat...
Ronaldo fails to fire against Scotland
Scotland held firm in the face of a lot of Ronaldo hype. For his part Ronaldo did this .....
Three Lions come a cropper at Wembley
Greece upset England by scoring a late late winner in the Nations League. Lee Carsley played with a game...
Salvatore Schillaci RIP
Italy legend Salvatore (TOTO)Schillaci, the top scorer at the 1990 World Cup, has died of colon cancer at the...
Suarez calls it a day
Suarez announced his retirement from International Football after 142 international matches and 69 goals for Uruguay.He was really sad when...
USA women win Gold as Tom Cruise cheers them on
Tom Cruise cheering them on at the end of the first half .. Tom Cruise watched as Mallory Swanson...
USA one game away from Gold
Germany was finally overcome by this goal scored in the 95th minute. A 5th Olympic gold beckons..
France beat Argentina,USA’s run ends
Argentina and France played out a grudge match in which one solitary headed goal made the difference. Elsewhere Morocco...
USA hold Brazil to a 1-1 draw
After that recent 5-1 drubbing by Colombia it did not seem likely that USA would do much better against...
England’s plans for European domination hit a bump
Weeping at Wembley.Iceland scored in the 12th minute and England were not able to do anything about it for...
Another Euro 2024 video
…to put us in the right frame of mind as we wait and watch .
Ronaldo’s fading flame…(and car collection)
Roberto Martinez led Portugal to 13 wins on the trot before the 2-0 loss to Slovenia recently.In all those...
Jude Bellingham saves the day
England were going to lose 2-1 to Belgium in their last Euro 2024 practice game. However Jude Bellingham saved...
USA win CONCACAF Nations League final
Mexico leads this ancient rivalry 37-24 with 17 draws, but the US men stretched their current unbeaten streak against...
England and France lose pre Euro 2024 friendlies
England took on Brazil and two streaks ended- England’s 11 game winning streak and Brazil’s 3 game losing streak....
Euro 2024 – kit update
Adidas unveiled the kits for Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Scotland, Spain, and Wales.This is what Adidas said about some of...
Euro 2024 is getting closer ( 93 days)
Then Skillzy came along in 2020 And Skillzy has given way to Albart .. 93 days to go, Here’s...
AFCON and the climate crisis
The effects of the climate crises -extreme weather,sea level rise,flooding and fires are affecting schedules of global sporting events.AFCON...
Drogba sees his beloved team getting hammered
Drogba gazes glumly from the stands at his country’s national team getting beaten 4-0 by lowly Equatorial Guinea. Ranked...
Egypt scrape through to the last 16
High drama in the Ivory Coast.Egypt only managed a 2-2 draw against Cape Verde but still ended up 2nd...
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.
Uruguay beat Brazil after 22 years
Great merriment and rejoicing in Montevideo as Uruguay defeated Brazil 2-0 in a fourth qualifier for World Cup 2026...
Neymar gets hit with popcorn
All is not entirely well as far as football in Brazil is concerned. They drew their last qualifier against...
Emiliano sets an Argentina goalkeeping record
Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez has kept 7 clean sheets in a row for Argentina and that puts him into...
Infantino explains how the centenary of the World Cup will be celebrated
100 years of the World Cup (1930 to 2030) will be played across 3 continents.The centenary event hopes to...
Next Goal Wins
A movie about the worst soccer team in world ( they once lost 31-0) is due for release sometime...
Argentina make Messi assistant coach
There’s a loophole in the laws that allows a player,when he is not in a position to play, to...
Germany win for a change after the sacking of Flick
Hansi Flick got the sack after presiding over a string of sub par performances and Germany duly recorded a...
Brazil and Germany win and lose friendlies.
Brazil beat Bolivia 5-1 in the battle of the B’s in which Neymar scored 2 – breaking a record...
Spain are World Champions
Spain,against all odds,are World Champion’s Olga Carmona scored the only and winning goal. Her goal celebration was a tribute...
Women’s World Cup in uncharted territory
The previous winners of the trophy are… Japan were the only country that had previously won to remain in...
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...
Colombia score a historic win over Germany
In the history of World Cups, Colombia have never beaten Germany in the men’s version of the tournament. So...
New Zealand and Australia make winning starts
Tazuni the blue haired penguin is the mascot for WWC 2023 .This is a penguin based on the Eudyptula...
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...
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...
Canada soccer on the verge on bankruptcy
Canada’s senior national teams may not play be able to play anymore as their finances are in a very...