Jul
31
Olympique Lyonnais make fourth deal this off season with Piquionne
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Olympique has had one of the busier off-seasons this summer and they have just made there fourth signing with Frederic Piquionne. Piquionne was playing for AC Monaco FC last season, until Olympique Lyonnais bought him out for a whopping 4.7M Euros. This isn’t the biggest off season move that Olympique Lyonnais has made, but it [...]
Jul
29
A look back on the UEFA Euro2008
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Well it’s been roughly a month now since we we’re all hyped up in the UEFA Euro2008 action and now that it’s all done and gone with we can look back on this year’s action. The organization crew from this year’s Euros have recently sent out their final report of how they felt everything was [...]
Jul
1
Well the Euros is now over
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The Euros has now been over for a couple days now and the game itself was amazing. I haven’t been able to get online and post until today about it but I really enjoyed the game and very glad about Spain coming out on top. The match was very wide open in the first half [...]
Jun
29
Spain double their trophy count with win over Germany in Euro final
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The speed, skills, and sharp passing displayed by the Spanish squad throughout the 2008 European Championships was the right recipe of success for the team that rose to glory tonight capturing the 2008 Euro trophy in Vienna. Spain deserved more than any other team to win the tournament. They were consistent throughout the last 3 [...]
Jun
29
After 3 weeks of a fantastic soccer tournament, the 2008 Austria-Switzerland European Championships is coming to an end with a game worthy of the tournament’s long history. Spain and Germany will meet in Vienna for the final game to claim the trophy for themselves. This is going to be a soccer fan’s dream final game. [...]
Jun
28
Adidas will be supplying 30 soccer balls specially made for the 2008 European Championships final to be played tomorrow night in Vienna between Germany (3-time winners) and Spain (1-time winner in 1964.) The new balls that are going to be collector items considering that only 30 of them were made will have silver color; in [...]
Jun
27
Finals to Generate 300 Million Euros
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Sometimes as sports fans we forget that there is a whole other side to it all: the money. In reality sports leagues and teams are all just businesses trying to make money. Tournaments like Euro 2008 can be a very big payday for these groups and for us; well it’s just more excitement and thrilling [...]
Jun
27
In case you missed it because UEFA now makes extra effort to not broadcast the antics of Jimmy Jump, he did strike again during the Germany versus Turkey semi-final game. We have photographic evidence to prove that Jimmy jumped on the pitch interrupting the game while security chased and eventually caught him. Jimmy performed his [...]
Jun
26
Villa Hurt in Spain victory
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The advancement to the finals is surely an exciting and happy moment for Spain, but everything about today wasn’t joyous for them. Some may call the victory bittersweet as David Villa suffered a muscular injury during the game, which is likely to keep him out of the finals game against Germany.
Spain manager Luis Aragones is [...]
Jun
26
The second semi-final game of this year’s edition of the European Championships saw Spain dominating a very unfortunate Russia who made a decent effort early in the game but totally collapsed in the second half under the pressure of the very skilled Spanish squad.
Spain dominated the second half with total procession and control in [...]