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Category: World Cup 2022

FIFA does a bit of greenwashing

Greenwashing has been added to the list of dubious activities,mastered under the reign of Sepp Blatter,that FIFA stands accused...
World Cup 2022

The countdown counts down

The Official Countdown clock was unveiled one year ago on the 21st of November 2021 The current countdown status...
World Cup 2022

While we wait ..

Red or Blue ? Liverpool or City ? As we Man City and Liverpool fans gnaw our fingernails down...
English Premier League, World Cup 2022

The journey of the World Cup Ball

The 2022 World cup ball is called Al Rihla – which is translated as “the journey” from Arabic. Here’s...
World Cup 2022, World Cup History

FIFA 2022 Official World Cup Song

The official FIFA World Cup 2022 song Hayya Hayya (Better Together) by artists Trinidad Cardona, Davido, and Aisha has...
World Cup 2022

Qatar 2022 draw

Brazil look like they have landed up in the Group of Death.
World Cup 2022

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....
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Lasers cannot be part of the beautiful game

What Salah had to endure is absolutely disgraceful. FIFA has to update it’s rule book. Egypt is asking for...
FIFA, World Cup 2022

1974 Holland Germany World Cup Final

A trip down memory lane to a time before Messi and Ronaldo.The great Germany Holland World Cup final of...
Soccer Hall of Fame, World Cup 2022, World Cup History

Road to Qatar 2022

27 of the 32 spots for the FIFA World Cup 2022 have been confirmed. The biggest upsets. Italy– They...
World Cup 2022

Peru denied equaliser by a ref who did not look at VAR

Whats the rule for a ref who is too busy to check VAR ? Peru were denied a perfectly...
World Cup 2022

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,...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Peru improve chances of getting to Qatar

296 days to go for FIFA 2022 in Qatar. Peru dislodged Uruguay from 4th place after beating Colombia 1-0...
FIFA, World Cup 2022

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...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Uruguay’s Bolivian nightmare

Uruguay got beaten 3-0 by Bolivia and that shock defeat leaves their World Cup hopes in tatters,teetering on the...
World Cup 2022

Those who have made it to Qatar so far

Well Germany of course. 13 teams have made it to World Cup 2022 so far. Brazil,who have never ever...
World Cup 2022

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...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Fedor Kudryashov’s own goal sends Russia to the playoffs

Putin is not going to be pleased with Fedor. Russia needed only a draw to qualify for Qatar 2022....
World Cup 2022

Ronaldo stares into the abyss

Serbia scored a late late goal to qualify for Qatar 2022 leaving Portugal with having to take their chances...
World Cup 2022

USA get ahead of Mexico on the road to Qatar 2022

The options for USA to be able to make it to Qatar 2022 brighten considerably with this 2-0 win...
World Cup 2022

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...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

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...
FIFA, Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

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...
English Premier League, Soccer Teams - Club, Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Road to Qatar 2022

The contenders in their groups.. Group A: Portugal, Serbia, Republic of Ireland, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan Group B: Spain, Sweden, Greece,...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Ronaldo v/s the luck of the Irish

The luck of the Irish came off second best unfortunately. The goalpost on the right side of the irish...
World Cup 2022

Covid cancels Brazil Argentina World Cup qualifier

For the first time in recorded history a World Cup qualifying match was suspended about 7 minutes into the...
World Cup 2022

Messi and the not so perfect start

Argentina,like Brazil,have not lost a single game of their World Cup 2022 qualifiers so far.However they have not won...
World Cup 2022

Neymar and the perfect start

Brazil’s World Cup 2022 campaign has gotten off to a perfect start and is chugging along smoothly.They have won...
World Cup 2022

North Macedonia beat Germany 2-1

Not an April Fool joke. Really happened. North Macedonia,I have just discovered,is a country that lies north of Greece....
World Cup 2022

Why no goal line tech in the World Cup qualifiers ?

Its bad enough that the World Cup had to witness in the past,horrendous referee blunders like this one between...
World Cup 2022

Iceland find Germany too hot to handle

The Iceland defence had a bit of meltdown at the start of the game.They conceded 2 goals in the...
World Cup 2022

Turkey make a flying start

Turkey made a flying start to their World Cup 2022 campaign by sending the dutchmen flying. Holland got beaten...
World Cup 2022

Comnebol qualifiers

Peru were no match at all for Chile -who beat them 2-0 through a brace of goals scored by...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Neymar overtakes Ronaldo

Neymar scored a hat trick against Peru and that took his goal tally for Brazil to 64 goals –...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Argentina have to beat altitude sickness to beat Bolivia

La Paz lies at At 11,942 feet (3,640 meters) above sea level and is the highest capital city in...
World Cup 2022

Neymar’s back

Neymar,inspite of having a bad back,produced some pretty brilliant stuff in Brazil’s WC qualifier against Bolivia. Neymar é muito...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

Messi and Suarez start World Cup Campaign with penalties

For country not for club. And now they are in different clubs as well Alas Messi got a break...
Soccer Teams - National, World Cup 2022

CONMEBOL qualifiers kick off in the shadow of Covid 19

Common sense dictates that the players should not be put to risk – travelling across the world to get...
World Cup 2022

North and South Korea play out the wierdest World Cup game ever

No fans,no media,no live telecast – and no goals. The game was played out in the presence of FIFA...
World Cup 2022

Qatar 2022 and Global Warming

Dr Saud Abdul Ghani, a Sudan-born mechanical engineer nicknamed ” Dr Cool” has created a groundbreaking air cooling technology...
World Cup 2022

Lifetime Bans for Racist Fans

It’s simple.  If you’re a bigot and you want to express your racist views, do it at home with...
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4 years to go for World Cup 2022

Four years to go World Cup 2022 in Qatar. They are busy getting things organised hoping that everything goes...
World Cup 2022

Qatar World Cup 2022 in jeopardy

Blatter’s brave and bold dream that World Cup 2022 would be held in Qatar is now in even greater...
World Cup 2022

Zaha Hadid designer of Qatar’s controversial World Cup stadium passes away

Angina over a vagina. The centerpiece of the 2022 World Cup is the Al Wakrah Stadium which looks like...
Soccer Business, Soccer Culture, World Cup 2022

Cristiano Ronaldo doesn’t care an eff about FIFA and ends CNN interview

Cristiano Ronaldo was promoting a range of headphones in Las Vegas when he was interviewed by Andres Oppenheimer of...
FIFA Corruption, Soccer Culture, Soccer Players, World Cup 2022

European clubs could demand payoff if 2022 Qatar World Cup is held in winter

The 2022 Qatar World Cup vanity project everyone except Sepp Blatter, FIFA, and the Qatari royal family want to...
World Cup 2022

World Cup 2022: FIFA exec Theo Zwanziger says Qatar heat unacceptable

July- August temperatures at 8:14 AM in Doha, Qatar At this point the reasons why Qatar should not host...
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