Jul
28
One-of-a-kind penalty
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The World Cup may be over, but the summer international tournaments continue – and so do the world class displays. In the UEFA Under-19 Championship quarterfinal match between Spain and Italy, the new world champions showed they are extending their dominance to all age levels by beating the Italians 3-0 and progressing through to the [...]
Jul
19
Post-World Cup Transfers Boom
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The hottest time for transfers is always the window after the world cup, when clubs do their best to attract the stars that shined at the biggest competition on Earth. The problem with this World Cup is that it was more of a team-effort story for many teams, and there weren’t that many individual performances. [...]
Jul
7
Ballon d’Or and FIFA Best Player to merge
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The two biggest individual awards in football – the Ballon d’Or (Golden Ball) and FIFA Best Player are about to become one, though it will still keep the name of the former. It is a practical change that has been coming for some time, as the last time the awards were given to two [...]
May
24
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Well, it might not be a direct response to Adidas’s ad, but Nike have certainly brought the roof down with an absolutely epic World Cup commercial. They had film director Alejandro González Iñárritu make it, and he doesn’t spare any resources.
The ad shows international stars such as Drogba, Rooney, Ribery, Ronaldhino and Ronaldo living out [...]
May
19
Awesome video for F50 adiZero
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You’ve got to hand it to Adidas – they know how to make some seriously cool soccer commercials. Their latest one, which promotes the F50 adiZero boots, features Lionel Messi and David Villa in a blistering race around a football field. It is intercut with French legend Zinadine Zidane driving around town at top speed [...]
May
12
Referee books dying player for diving
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This story comes from the morbid side of life, and it is as strange as it is sad. During a match in the lower Croatian leagues between Mladost and Hryatski Sokola, a player fell down to the ground at the end of the 1st half. As there were no others around him, the referee, who [...]
May
10
12-Goal classic in Scotland
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It’s not often that you get 12 goals in a single top-flight game, let alone a tie with such a big result. But that is exactly what Motherwell and Hibernian delivered in a 6-6 thriller, which was the highest scoring game in the history of the Scottish Premier League.
What is even more amazing is that [...]
May
5
Rivals losing on purpose?
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It’s the type of accusation that flies around every now and then when the end-of-the-season games roll along, and this past week we’ve had a couple of big points of discussion in two separate leagues. Liverpool, already out of the Champions league places and with little to play for, lost at home 2-0 to Chelsea, [...]
May
4
Historic Triumph for FC Twente
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It was a week of firsts in Europe, with Roy Hodgson leading Fulham to their first ever Europa Cup final, but another English manager that achieved history was Steve McLaren with Dutch side FC Twente. After being sacked by England for failing to qualify the country for the Euro 2008 finals, few would have predicted [...]
Apr
27
Talk about a bombshell. Three days before Hamburg’s crucial Europa League semi-final against Fulham, with the aggregate score at 0-0, the club have sacked their coach Bruno Labbadia. This firing followed Hamburg’s heavy 5-1 defeat to Hoffenheim, and a string of very disappointing results in the Bundesliga, which left the club at 7th place, with [...]