http://www.theoffside.com League Football, Soccer News and Views from Around the World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-youll-remember-because-its-being-beaten-into-your-head-juan-manuel-iturbe.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-youll-remember-because-its-being-beaten-into-your-head-juan-manuel-iturbe.html#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:00:14 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-youll-remember-because-its-being-beaten-into-your-head-juan-manuel-iturbe.html I first heard of 17 year old Juan Manuel Iturbe back in the spring, though I believe it to be much earlier, just that at that point, he was merely ‘that Paraguayan-Argentinean kid’. The point being his stature was hardly demanding the type of hype he’s now enjoying in some sort of super breakout season. [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-youll-remember-because-its-being-beaten-into-your-head-juan-manuel-iturbe.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-ibrahim-afellay.html http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-ibrahim-afellay.html#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:00:13 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-ibrahim-afellay.html Of course you probably already ‘remember the name’, because he’s quite good. Exceptionally good, even, and a full-fledged Dutch international, a team which is normally difficult to break into, but also helps that glass looks at Arjen Robben and says “what a pussy”. No, this is more a reminder to remember him in two months [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-ibrahim-afellay.html/feed 2 http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-matty-burrows.html http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-matty-burrows.html#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:00:42 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-matty-burrows.html You may recognize Matty Burrows, even if the name doesn’t sound familiar. He became famous on the internets a couple of weeks back for his stunning, staggering, nigh unbelievable backheel playing in the Irish League*. A reminder is above. The obvious thought is that’s a one-off, that a 25 year old playing domestically in Northern Ireland [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-matty-burrows.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/names-to-remember-where-are-they-now-2006-edition.html http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/names-to-remember-where-are-they-now-2006-edition.html#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:30:20 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/names-to-remember-where-are-they-now-2006-edition.html I’m a sucker for lists or vague collections of words which don’t form sentences, so occasionally, I’ll get hung up and lose three-quarters of a day on some largely irrelevant loose gathering of information. The Names To Remember list Ian posted a few weeks back did me in. Names to remember I now remember, and [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/names-to-remember-where-are-they-now-2006-edition.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/five-players-to-watch-in-ligue-1-this-season.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/five-players-to-watch-in-ligue-1-this-season.html#comments Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:02:18 +0000 Sarah http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/five-players-to-watch-in-ligue-1-this-season.html Is the next Gourcuff lurking in here?  Some Ligue 1 bloggers think so… Ligue 1 is often thought of as a hunting ground for the EPL, La Liga and Serie A to find young talent to recruit (poach!).  And Ligue 1 fans often get a kick out of EPL, La Liga and Serie A teams and [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/five-players-to-watch-in-ligue-1-this-season.html/feed 4 http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/is-lyons-refusal-to-sell-lloris-and-toulalan-the-end-of-the-open-hunting-season-on-ligue-1-talent.html http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/is-lyons-refusal-to-sell-lloris-and-toulalan-the-end-of-the-open-hunting-season-on-ligue-1-talent.html#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 23:18:24 +0000 Sarah http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/is-lyons-refusal-to-sell-lloris-and-toulalan-the-end-of-the-open-hunting-season-on-ligue-1-talent.html Lyon President & Owner Jean-Michel Aulas Though fans of Ligue 1 and Les Bleus have known about these two talents – Hugo Lloris and Jeremy Toulalan- for a while, they’ve only recently gained recognition on the larger international stage thanks to Lyon’s appearance in the Champions League semi-finals.  With all the attention these two garnered over [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/leagues/is-lyons-refusal-to-sell-lloris-and-toulalan-the-end-of-the-open-hunting-season-on-ligue-1-talent.html/feed 6 http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-danijel-aleksic.html http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-danijel-aleksic.html#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 18:00:43 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-danijel-aleksic.html If you’re been paying attention to various broadsheets carefully this year, Danijel Aleksic isn’t a new name. And if you believe those papers, everyone in Europe wants Aleksic. Really – if you cared to do enough research/have no life, I’m sure you’d find he’s been linked to every single big(ish) team on the continent in [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-danijel-aleksic.html/feed 0 http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-seven-year-old-soufiane-the-new-madin.html http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-seven-year-old-soufiane-the-new-madin.html#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:00:25 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-seven-year-old-soufiane-the-new-madin.html Remember Madin Mohammed? So yesterday. To the extent that there’s already a new version. Meet Soufiane. He’s seven years old – only just seven at that – and he’s better at football than you. Like Madin and that Zidane character (along with Nasri, Benzema, etc), Soufiane was born in France of Algerian parentage, which begs the [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/name-to-remember/name-to-remember-seven-year-old-soufiane-the-new-madin.html/feed 8 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marko-arnautovic.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marko-arnautovic.html#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:00:49 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marko-arnautovic.html This is borderline name to remember/name you soon won’t forget. It seems we can’t go a day without being bombarded by the hype machine of the “new so and so”. From the new Kaka – all one hundred thousand of them – to the new Franz Beckenbauer to the new Patrick Vieira (anyone of African origin [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marko-arnautovic.html/feed 8 http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marc-janko.html http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marc-janko.html#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:55 +0000 chris http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marc-janko.html There was a link to the story on Marc Janko with FIFA in the Daily Dose yesterday, so I decided to check out the Red Bull Salzburg match this evening to catch a glimpse of this goalscoring monster and all I can muster is…wow. The Austrian Bundesliga isn’t exactly a top drawer league, but it’s [...]]]> http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/name-to-remember-marc-janko.html/feed 3