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Daily Dose: March 31st, 2009.
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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 [...]
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Tags: Anatoliy Tymoshchuk, Barcelona, Daily Dose, gun, Romania, Tottenham, Ukraine, Valencia, Victor ValdesWhen Youth Soccer Loses The Plot
By: chris | 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: World FootballFair Play Award: Costin Lazar Refuses A Penalty.
By: chris | 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: RomaniaWPS Debuts, Marta Shines, AP Report Doesn’t
By: Daryl | 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: World FootballWeekend Dose: 03.29.09
By: Laurie | 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: World FootballWeekend Quiz Answers: Who Were Those World Cup Goal Scorers?
By: Laurie | 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: World FootballWeekend Junk Pile: She Said Yes! (Kind of. Maybe.)
By: Laurie | 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: World FootballWolverhampton Joins the Official Offside $%#! List
By: Laurie | 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: World FootballWeekend Quiz: World Cup Goal Scorers
By: Laurie | 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: World FootballOffside Rewind: Remember Me?
By: Daryl | 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: World FootballDaily Dose: March 27th, 2009
By: Daryl | 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: Daily DoseClub v Country Consumes One Man
By: chris | 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: World FootballThe Secret To Underdog Success
By: chris | 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: World FootballThe Dreaded Sitter Miss/Nutmeg Combo
By: chris | 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: South AmericaSepp Blatter vs Richard Scudamore? I’m Backing Blatter.
By: Daryl | 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 [...]
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