Freddy Adu: Is He Waking Up?
Looks like Adu’s move to Benfica is paying off. Here he sneaks in on the blind side to score...
Category: World Cup 2010
Video: World Cup 2010 qualifiers: Colombia 2 Argentina 1
Colombia vs Argentina 2-1 World Cup 2010 QualfiersUploaded by -Rush Leo Messi scores first for Argentina as he takes...
Video: World Cup 2010 qualifiers: Brazil 2 Uruguay 1
Brasil vs Uruguay 2-1 – Eliminatorias Sudafrica 2010.Uploaded by -Rush Sebastian Abreu opens for Uruguay before Brazil storms back...
Video:Brazil draw World Cup qualifier against Peru
Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite scored an amazing goal for Brazil – a 30-metre shot which dipped and swerved...
Iraq give Pakistan a lesson in soccer
Asian champions Iraq gave Pakistan a 7-0 soccer lesson in their opening 2010 World Cup qualifier in Lahore on...
Remembering Lucky Dube
How long shall they kill our prophets? I have to say that this makes the World Cup in SA...
Brazil rout Ecuador in a less boring match
Brazil made up for that last long boring goalless draw they played out against Colombia with a thumping win...
Penalty kicks really have to go..
Manuel Rey of Venezuela giving us more evidence of why penalty kicks are not required if you can beat...
Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela!
I remember how much I loved this song. If there is a living saint on Earth, it’s Nelson Mandela....
Simon Kuper: Germans are feeling good about themselves
Its good having San Marino in your group. You can run up the scoreboard with wins of 13-0 and...
FIFA is working against SA’s preparation for the 2010 World Cup
Observer Sport’s Xan Rice examines South Africa’s preparation in hosting the 2010 World Cup. The naysayers bring out the...
FIFA politics: Bolivia gets punished for its altitude
Altitude. You heard right. In a bizarre ruling, FIFA has banned matches played in high altitude venues which they...
Can Colombia make its way back to the World Cup?
At one point in soccer history, this was unthinkable. The question was how far could Colombia go in the...
Bob Bradley becomes the US MNT coach
There was little fanfare as Bob Bradley’s position became permanent after all the song and dance of high flying...
Ged Houllier is not going anywhere
Definitely not to the Premiership. There are rumours that Houllier might be considering the Newcastle job. Houllier is reportedly...
World Cup 2010: Can Parriera turn SA into more than a first round casualty?
South Africa’s problem is not that it lacks the funds, the will, or the infrastructure to host the World...
BBC’s Inside Sports lets off Sepp Blatter
Sepp Blatter was interviewed on BBC’s new sports programme “Inside Sports’ and it turned out to be a fluffball....
Blatter’s unopposed election calls for term limits
The UN has 192 member states and since its inception in 1945 has had 8 Secretary Generals, the effective...
Soccer stands to gain following India’s disgraceful exit
Right now effigies of Indian cricketers are being burned and their families threatened with dire consequences. And for those...
South Africa’s World Cup costs escalate
The national treasury is being called on to make more money available for the building of 2010 stadiums for...
Hiddink is not coming to Chelsea: Lets bury this
The same tired rumours are trotted out time and time again. Jose Mourinho’s fate lies in the hands of...
Video: Tribute to Mohammad Aboutreika
CAF might have dropped him from their nominees for African player of the year but Aboutreika shows why he...
World Cup 2006: The nightmare year that was US soccer
2002 is a distant dream for US soccer enthusiasts. This year showed where the US soccer team actually lies...
Guus Hiddink: Dit is Mijn Wereld
Guus Hiddink says it like it is in his new book “Dit is Mijn Wereld” (This is my world)...
The future of Indian football: Tapping the diaspora?
The Doha Asian games, saw an Indian football drawing Hong Kong, barely beating the Maldives, and then crashing out...
Argentine soccer: The new kids on the block
For every Juan Roman Riquelme that announces his retirement from soccer, there is some one to take over his...
Leave South Africa alone: Time for Blatter to step up
Sepp Blatter should step up and show his credentials as FIFA president. It is becoming increasingly distasteful to see...
FIFA needs to get greener
This post in may from Christian outlined the efforts made in Germany to make World Cup 2006 more environment...
Guus Hiddink: To Russia with love
The Guus Hiddink magic is well and alive in Russia. They are now in second place in Group E...
Soccer and Politics: As usual the NYT screws up
The NYT has an article on the PSG fan dying at the hands of a policeman, during a melee...
Media stage walk out at SA World Cup meeting
When none of the members of the Board of Directors of the Local 2010 World Cup Organising Committee had...
Klinsmann: A step closer to becoming the US MNT coach
Der Speigel reports that Sunil Gulati, president of US Soccer met with Jurgen Klinsmann, hoping that after taking a...
Kazakhstan to Ali G: We play footbal!
As humans we like to define everything in singularities. Personalities, concepts, countries. Some are flattering, others less so. Mahatma...
Andrew Jenning’s FOUL! exposes Sepp Blatter, Jack Warner, and FIFA
Andrew Jennings is in the forefront of exposing corruption in the sporting world. His most famous book translated into...
SA World Cup: The danger is not the crime rate but neo-liberalism
We have heard horror stories of the high crime rate in South Africa where more than 50 people are...
South Africa World Cup 2010 costs escalate
The South African government will spend 15.1 billion rands on the World Cup. About 40% of it is on...