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March 31st, 2009

Daily Dose: March 31st, 2009.

By: chris | Comments No Comments

Stuff to read while you teach a goalie never to come off his line again………

Talking Tottenham’s transfers. (Unprofessional Foul)
The Joys of Football Management. (SoccerLens)
Victor Valdes’ agent loses his mind. (ESPN)
Referee shows up packing heat in Romania. (Champions League Blog)
Officially official: Fox Soccer wins Champions League rights. (Run of Play)
Ukraine’s biggest threat is a man of [...]

Category Category: Daily Dose


March 31st, 2009

When Youth Soccer Loses The Plot

By: chris | Comments 17 Comments

Scituate youth soccer does not deserve Michael Kinahan.
The parents of girls U-7 squad Team 7, aka Green Death, received an email from new coach Michael K recently and some were seriously taken aback. It was refreshingly bold, unapologetically abrasive, and mildly bizarre. So much so, in fact, that it was clearly done in a [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 30th, 2009

Fair Play Award: Costin Lazar Refuses A Penalty.

By: chris | Comments 28 Comments

A rare and splendid moment of fair play has been brought to attention by debutant Rapid Bucharest Offside. Costin Lazar, a Romanian midfielder, was awarded a penalty in last week’s win over Otelul Galati in the 63rd minute.
But as the referee brought the ball to the spot, Costin walked over, shaking his head along the [...]

Category Category: Romania
March 30th, 2009

WPS Debuts, Marta Shines, AP Report Doesn’t

By: Daryl | Comments 2 Comments

Women’s Professional Soccer kicked off in the US yesterday. A better than expected crowd of 14,832 turned up at the Home Depot Center to see Los Angeles Sol beat the Washington Freedom (can’t decide if I like those team names yet) 2-0.
The big draw was Brazilian maestro Marta, pictured above signing autographs for the “Marta [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 29th, 2009

Weekend Dose: 03.29.09

By: Laurie | Comments 1 Comment

Some news to read as you marvel at Extreme Sheep Herding:

Detailed Analysis on the Performance of the United States National Team vs. El Salvador on March 28. Or: What list contains Miami FC, Heath Pearce, and Osama Bin Laden? (Dan Loney)
What’s going on with the new Philly stadium? (MLS Offside)
Wolves won’t [...]

Category Category: World Football


March 29th, 2009

Weekend Quiz Answers: Who Were Those World Cup Goal Scorers?

By: Laurie | Comments 1 Comment

Yes, this was a tough quiz, given that I didn’t give you any time parameters. The goals were scored over a forty-year period, from 1966 to 2006. And yet you still managed to guess 13 of the 14. Well done!
What’s fun about these quizzes is that when multiple countries are [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 28th, 2009

Weekend Junk Pile: She Said Yes! (Kind of. Maybe.)

By: Laurie | Comments 12 Comments

A few items that caught my attention this week but weren’t worthy of a whole post.
Remember last summer, when France crashed and burned out of Euros, and coach Raymond Domenech sought to displace fan hatred by asking his amour/baby momma Estelle Denis to marry him on national TV in the post-match presser? [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 28th, 2009

Wolverhampton Joins the Official Offside $%#! List

By: Laurie | Comments 17 Comments

Remember back a month or two ago, when the Premier League’s people came after The Offside for using club crests, and we had to remove them from our site? And then right after that, Hull City became the newest favo[u]rite club of all of us by giving us permission to use their logo? [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 28th, 2009

Weekend Quiz: World Cup Goal Scorers

By: Laurie | Comments 23 Comments

Today’s Weekend Quiz was put together in honor of all of the World Cup qualifiers going on ’round the world this week.
Each one of these players has scored at least one goal in a World Cup.
As always, leave your guesses in the comments. Answers tomorrow.

Player 1

Category Category: World Football
March 27th, 2009

Offside Rewind: Remember Me?

By: Daryl | Comments No Comments

Seven stories you may have missed on The Offside and World Cup Blog this week:

He comeback king scored again. Twice.
Could your team cope with a 25 man squad?
All aboard the yellow submarine. Especially at this price.
50+ footballers that will not go hungry
I didn’t even know refs carried that many red cards
The Real Petit Zidane is [...]

Category Category: World Football


March 27th, 2009

Daily Dose: March 27th, 2009

By: Daryl | Comments No Comments

Something to read while you learn that ghosts are real…

First ever WPS preview (WPS Offside)
Soccerlens Podcast talks World Cup 2010 (SoccerLens)
How to cope with international week (Studs Up)
The best bit of goalkeeping you’ve ever seen, seriously (The Spoiler)
Pro Vercelli* back in Serie A (Run of Play)
How football could compensate for baseball (South Korea WCB)
Watching England [...]

Category Category: Daily Dose
March 27th, 2009

Club v Country Consumes One Man

By: chris | Comments 1 Comment

Club v country typically involves two separate and distinct parties trying to find a common ground in regards to player usage – it never happens, but they try. But Guus Hiddink has managed to turn it into a one-man internal struggle every time he steps in front of the microphones. His love for all Russian [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 27th, 2009

The Secret To Underdog Success

By: chris | Comments 2 Comments

The city of Sivas is modest and the Sivasspor’s history even more so. They don’t have the allure of Istanbul and their Turkish Super Lig adventure only begun in 2005. They staked a claim to middle ground in their inaugural top flight season, finishing 8th, and have built on their performance each year, finishing seventh [...]

Category Category: World Football
March 27th, 2009

The Dreaded Sitter Miss/Nutmeg Combo

By: chris | Comments 6 Comments

Cruising the YouTubers you’ll find plenty of videos titled “The Worst Sitter Miss Everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”. Ditto for blogs. Some of them aren’t all that close to accurate, some of them are. And considering there isn’t a definitive “worst” miss ever, we can’t really complain.
This, however, might change all that. This might be the worst sitter [...]

Category Category: South America
March 27th, 2009

Sepp Blatter vs Richard Scudamore? I’m Backing Blatter.

By: Daryl | Comments 3 Comments

There’s a PR battle of the heavyweight underway between FIFA President Sepp Blatter and Premier League chief exec Richard Scudamore. It’s all based in Blatter’s infamous (but probably never going to happen) 6+5 proposal. Sepp wants it introduced, Scudamore definitely does not, basically because 6+5=the end of the Premier League as we know it.
The two [...]

Category Category: World Football



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