Japan send shock waves beating Spain and topping their group
Ao Tanaka’s goal proved to be the winner The Blue Samurai have done it! They beat Germany, 2-1 in...
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Casemiro’s brilliant goal sink obdurate Swiss
Casemiro finally found a hole in the Swiss defence as he lasered a half volley into the far corner...
USA proves to be England’s bogey team again
England has never beaten the USA. And on the strength of their showing today, this will likely be the...
Halftime: The USA have come out swinging and England look rattled
It’s not coming home. Not if England play like this. Christian Pulisic just rocked the crossbar and Haji Wright...
A tenner on Enner to score: Netherlands lucky to escape with draw
Enner The Dragon: Valencia now leads 2022 World Cup goalscorers After Cody Gakpo gave Netherlands an early lead with...
Canada has the raw talent: An impressive display against the Belgians
Move over Wayne Gretsky, you have competition. Just getting ahead of myself. Never mind. I watched Canada with my...
Richarlison’s goal of the 2022 World Cup
Brazil beat Serbia last evening. With the effervescence of those magically gifted Seleccao sides of the 70s and 80s....
Hennessey sent off: Wales on the brink as Iran score two late goals
Wayne Hennessey gets sent off for a martial arts level challenge, the first red card in the 2022 World...
More thoughts on: Save Soccer, Quit FIFA
Class acts: MBS, Infantino, and Vlad Putin go out on a limb The great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said...
Cristiano Ronaldo’s soft penalty difference maker: Portugal scrape win against Ghana
Cristiano Penaldo ahem Ronaldo makes history This was a testy match. And it took a really soft penalty decision...
The Mannschaft stand up for human rights “armband or no armband”
The German starting XI stage stage their we will not be silenced protest before the Japan match Germany might...
Takuma Asano, ex-Arsenal and Arsene Wenger signing scores winning goal
Arsene Wenger, very much one with an eye for talent described Takuma Asano as “a talented young striker and...
Japan lift Asian hearts shocking Germany!
Brave. Tenacious. Canny. And when needed to be, absolutely devastating on the counter. They also won the physical part....
Japan beat Germany 2-1
Wow. Another upset. The Germans showed their commitment to human rights in the photo below, but found a way to...
France missing key players show their potency against game Socceroos
No Karim Benzema. No N’Golo Kante. No Paul Pogba. No problem. The Socceroos took a shock early lead through...
Curtains for Cristiano: His Manchester United career is over
By Caravaggio – Self-scanned, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25450745 The inevitable happened. The disgruntled Cristiano Ronaldo will depart Man Utd by...
What a save! Memo Ochoa the hero for Mexico
The talisman for Mexico, Guillermo Ochoa, now in his 5th World Cup and saves Robert Lewandowski’s penalty. Ochoa actually...
Abdulrahman Al-Jassim: Welcome to the most officious official
Abdulrahman Al-Jassim brandishes a yellow, one of 6. The list includes (USA): Weston McKennie, Sergino Dest, Tim Ream, Kellyn...
USA fail to impress as second half stalls into disorganization and stagnation against Wales
Gareth Bale wheels around after his successful penalty against the USA earning them a draw One coherent, incisive move...
USA 1, Wales 1
Gareth Bale saves Wales at the end. The USA played well, and the through ball from Pulisic to Weah...
No surprise: FIFA shows lip service for LGBT rights as it goes after One Love armbands
Harry Kane will not be wearing the One Love armband. Neither will the players from the 7 other countries...
Iran’s national players show solidarity with protestors remaining silent during national anthem
Kudos to the national team as they show their support for the protests sweeping Iran against the brutal crackdown...
World Cup 2022 theme emerges: Repressive autocratic regimes 0 Democracies 2
Gianni Infantino enjoys a moment with a repressive autocrat Ecuador destroys Qatar, 2-0 in the opener and this time...
O Captain my Captain
The fearful trip is just beginning. Fifa has released this video featuring 6 out of the 32 captains who...
Messi celebrates 100 wins with a great free kick
Argentina’s preparation for Qatar 2022 included a friendly against Jamaica which they won 3-0. It was also Messi’s 100th...
Germany equal a historic score over Italy.
The last time Germany beat Italy 5-2 was during World War 2 which started on the 1st of September...
Erling wants to be number 9
Erling Haaland scored both goals for Norway in a recent 2-1 win UEFA Nations cup win over Sweden. And...
Harry Kane goes ahead of Messi and Ronaldo
England were lucky to get away with a draw and Germany were unlucky to end up with a draw...
5 goals from Messi to brighten up your day
Estonia won’t remember this as a particularly bright day.They got beaten 5-0 by Argentina in a friendly in which...
Holland remembers total football
Holland gave a reminder of their glorious days of the past by beating Belgium 4-1 in their UEFA Nations...
FIFA is looking for 20000 volunteers
FIFA needs 20000 willing volunteers to do various odd jobs to help make World Cup 2022 a roaring success....
Celebrations in Senegal
Senegal’s first ever long awaited AFCON victory send the country into paroxyms of joy.The country had a national holiday...
Its going to be an all Liverpool AFCON final after all
Salah and Sadio the most famous faces from the Egyptian and Senegalese teams will face off in the finals...
Cavani and Suarez may get to Qatar yet
New coach -new hope. Diego Alonso has brought about a significant improvement in Uruguay’s fortunes. Goals from Rodrigo Betancur,...
Uruguay get a win at last
Surarez looks happy enough to bite someone.He is happy because he scored the winning (and only) goal for Uruguay...
China bans football tattoos
Football players in China who want to play for the national team no longer have the option of getting...
Messi picks up another Ballon d’Or
2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,2015,2019 and now 2021. Ronaldo reaction
Zlatan gets himself suspended from the playoffs
Zlatan was supposed to be the Sweden secret weapon to power them over the finish line. However he failed...
Messi questions ref’s impartiality
Brazilian match official Wilton Sampaio is not Messi’s favourite referree. Argentina managed to beat Peru 1-0 but not before...
Uruguay aren’t doing too great
Argentina,led by their talisman Messi cruised 3-0 past Uruguay a few days ago, Brazil led by their talisman Neymar,also...
Maradona and Messi – two iconic images
This is an iconic image of Maradona – Maradona facing down 6 Belgian defenders in the 1982 World Cup....
FIFA figure out how to make twice the money in half the time
Blatter must be trying to kick himself for not thinking of this earlier. Fifa,in a noble effort to make...
Messi breaks Pele’s goal record
Messi took 153 games to do what Pele did in 92 games – score 77 goals for South America....
EPl players have to choose club over country
Those players were called up for World Cup duty but didn’t travel after Premier League teams objected to them...
Road to Qatar 2022
The contenders in their groups.. Group A: Portugal, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan Group B: Spain, Sweden, Greece,...
Afghan football player falls to his death
US born Zaki Anwari,19,was a member of the Afghan national youth team.He is one of those who died in...
Brazil beat Germany again
In the last Olympics,when no one had ever dreamed that such a thing as a Covid pandemic was possible,...
Unai Simon produces best howler of 2021
Unai Simon allows a simple back pass to get converted to a horror own goal. Best Howler award of...
Missing Stars
As Euro 21 heads towards the finish line a look at some of the stars who were conspicuous by...
Hungary almost dump Germany out of the competition
Joachim Löw looks a bit worn out and that’s because his team came very extremely close to getting dumped...
Messi overhauls Ronaldo’s free kick tally
While Ronaldo’s freekick skills seem to have gone on the blink,Messi keeps churning them out. His latest one against...
Ronaldo records new record
Michel Platini has more reasons to be depressed. Ronaldo broke his record of highest number of goals in the...
Christian Eriksen collapses on the field
Euro 2021 almost had a tragedy on the second day when Denmark’s Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch and...
Ronaldo aims for the sky
Ronaldo,known for his fearsome prowress to (almost) (like Superman) leap over tall buildings in a single bound has always...