The past few months haven’t been very good for Salomon Kalou. The Ivory Coast-born player was denied Dutch citizenship and a chance to play for Holland in the World Cup by a judge in the Netherlands. Now he is the subject of a commercial showing him playing for Germany in the World Cup [...]

We have to admit that a few weeks back we were puzzled by the amount of people coming to our site looking for information about 17-year-old Argentine midfielder Sergio Aguero. We’d heard the name and we knew he played for Independente, but we still wouldn’t have been able to pick him out of a [...]

Some good thoughts from JP on our Argentina blog about the rather ugly clash between Juan Sebastian Veron and Argentine captain Juan Pablo Sorin during Tuesday’s Champions League match. Veron, who hasn’t seen time with Argentina in a couple of years, laid a nasty tackle on Sorin and the two had a few choice [...]

Over the course of the past few months, World Cup Blog has offered its infallible predictions for each of the World Cup groups. We are so confident of the infallibility of our selections that we are willing to match wits with the smartest kids on the block: Google. Google Fight is a [...]

There is some interesting banter today going on over on the always lively Argentina blog about comparisons being made between Argentina’s Lionel Messi and England’s Wayne Rooney. The expectations for each of these young forwards seem to be increasing each day we move closer to the World Cup. It is only natural that [...]

One of the great football powers to never win the World Cup, the Netherlands harbors dreams that it will hoist the World Cup trophy in July. Thrown into the Group of Death, the Dutch won’t have an easy path to the finals, but as always the talent is there for the Oranje to make [...]

We’ve taken a look at the teams that impressed and distressed during this week’s friendlies, now let’s take a gander at which World Cup groups are alive and kicking, and which ones are on life support.

What more can be said about Group C? Everyone and their mother have labeled this the Group of Death from the moment the names Argentina and Netherlands were drawn together.
I won’t dispute this label (sorry US friends, your group isn’t as tough), but I will go boldly where no man has gone before.

Much has been made about the Group of Death, which included Argentina, the Netherlands, Cote d’Ivore and Serbia and Montenegro. One of the interesting subplots in this killer group is the Chelsea connection.
Argentina’s Hernan Crespo, Cote d’Ivore’s Didier Drogba, Holland’s Arjen Robben and all are teammates for the league-leader in England but come this [...]

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Writing for World Cup Blog about your country is an opportunity to share your passion and cover your team’s progress through [...]