Argentinian dribbling machine Leo Messi has been awarded the brilliantly named Bravo Trophy by Italian sports magazine Guerin Sportivo. It’s basically an Under-21 version of the more famous Ballon d’Or (which will be handed to Kaka in the very near future) but not associated in anyway. It’s somewhat belatedly awarded for performances in the previous [...]

Think back to the 2006 World Cup when Jens Lehmann was named Germany’s number one keeper ahead of Oliver Kahn, who at first didn’t take the move too well but who later played the good guy by supporting Lehmann and the team. Well, it turns out that Lehmann has some thoughts about Mr. Kahn [...]

You’d think that more than a year after the final whistle of the 2006 World Cup all of the players who participated in the tournament would have already spent their bonuses on productive things like fancy cars, shopping trips for their WAGS, and bling to attract new WAGs. That is likely the case for [...]

Where will you be 23 years from now? You don’t know? Well, you better start thinking about it. The year 2030 will be here in no time and already we have a front runner for who will host the World Cup then. CONMEBOL’s executive committee has proposed that Argentina and Uruguay [...]

Let’s hope it was one heck of a party. A pair of players from Cameroon has been suspended for six months by their country’s football federation because they did a wee too bit much partying before last month’s meaningless African Cup of Nations qualifier against Equatorial Guinea.

When you are a fat cat you like nothing more than to be wined and dined as various entities try to sway your opinion. It puts you in a position of power, a power that can enrich your personal fortunes. So it goes without saying that when the bids for the 2014 World [...]

It was a few months back when we first heard the rumblings that Nike were prepared to supply the new Germany kits. At the time it seemed hard to believe even with the Swoosh offer gobs of money to replace the German company Adidas as the country’s official supplier. In the end the [...]

It is hard to take a man who has proven to be as corrupt as Jack Warner seriously, but since he has a firm stranglehold on his position as FIFA vice-president and because he is best friends forever with Sepp Blatter we must.
On Thursday the president of Concacaf made it clear in no uncertain terms [...]

Everyone knew that Brazil would be the only country bidding to host the 2014 World Cup and Tuesday they made it official. All it took was printing off 900 pages and presenting a dossier to FIFA. If it is that easy why didn’t anyone else bid?
Oh yeah, it is because FIFA has all [...]

Everyone is talking about Iraq’s victory in the 2007 Asian Cup, including US comedian John Stewart and the Daily Show’s “Senior Football Correspondent” John Oliver.