If you are stuck at your computer or forgot to pay the cable bill this month, you can catch a number of today’s friendlies online thanks to the kindness and generosity of the pirates in China (as noted in the comments use Internet Explorer to get it to work). If you plan it right, [...]

If you support one of the teams in the World Cup, the odds are with you this week that your team is playing at least one friendly. By my count, 29 of the 32 teams are taking part in the exhibition fun with only the United States, Serbia and Montenegro, and Ecuador choosing to [...]

Cheer up, Luxembourg. Your team might have been trounced by Germany 7-0 on Saturday, but at least you didn’t let in 13 goals. That honor goes to the under-20 team of Brazilian club Fluminense, which lost to Brazil 13-1 on Sunday in an exhibition match in Switzerland. The man of the match [...]

There’s no rest for the weary with six World Cup teams taking part in some good, healthy, friendly competition on Sunday as they continue to sprint forward towards that month-long madness in Germany. Latvia and FYR Macedonia also decided not to rest on the seventh day even though you and I are more likely [...]

It was a busy Saturday with almost a third of the World Cup teams taking part in friendlies. Countries like Luxembourg and Cape Verde Islands had their moments in the sun and learned the importance of wearing sunscreen. They got burned. Wales also got to lace them up, Denmark did some dancing [...]

Brian Ching and Clint Dempsey scored to lead the United States to a 2-0 victory over Venezuela Friday night in Cleveland, Ohio. Following a poor performance in a loss to Morocco earlier in the week, the United States faired better against Venezuela. You can read the blow-by-blow account on Daryl’s USA Blog. [...]

Milan Baros scored in the 15th minute and Marek Jankulovski converted a penalty kick in the 90th minute to lift the Czech Republic to a 2-0 win over fellow World Cup qualifier Saudi Arabia in a friendly played in Austria on Friday. Neither team looked like world beaters, but the Czech side did control [...]

Following a disappointing draw against Senegal earlier in the week, South Korea defeated Bosnia 2-0 in a World Cup warm-up match on Friday in Seoul. Seol Ki-hyeon headed in a goal in the 50th minute and Cho Jae-jin finished off the scoring with a last minute goal for the hosts. South Korea coach [...]

Sweden and Finland battled to a 0-0 draw in an exhibition played in the enchanting city of Gothenburg. Sweden coach Lars Lagerback chose to rest some of his key players including Henrik Larsson, Freddie Ljungberg, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Andreas Isaksson. Our Sweden blog reports that the team was booed off the field after [...]

The Socceroos had a successful send off match in Melbourne, beating Greece 1-0 in front of 95,000 or so fans. Josip Skoko’s goal in the 16th minute proved to be the game winner for Guus Hiddink’s boys. If you are like me and you missed the game, you can read the blow-by-blow account [...]