The Socceroos finally have a new manager and it’s…. another Dutchman. Pim Verbeek is the man chosen to guide the Aussies through their first Asian World Cup qualification experience, with the obvious goal of being amongst the 32 teams taking up hotel space in South Africa come 2010. Fellow Dutchman Guus Hiddink is arguably Australia’s [...]

Apologies for the awful pun, but that’s the sort of thing happens when someone is about to break football’s number one rule: never go back. Word from De Telegraaf is that Frank Rijkaard is on the KNVB’s four man shortlist to replace the departing Marco van Basten as Netherlands coach post-Euro 2008. If your memory’s [...]

Netherlands boss Marco van Basten and his assistant John van’t Schip will be stepping down after Euro 2008. It’s been an interesting spell for the former AC Milan striker. He had no first team managerial experience when he took the Dutch job, but had spent a few years studying coaching and also some experience with [...]

Dick Advocaat has finally almost said sorry to Australia for the dramatic flip-flop that saw Tricky Dick sign up as the Socceroos new coach in August and then pull a u-turn to stay at Zenit St Petersburg in November. What he actually said was “I feel very sorry for them” because Australia still have no [...]

When you think of great names associated with the World Cup, Lothar Matthaus’ name has to come somewhere near the top. Matthaus represented Germany on the big stage five times, captaining the county’s 1990 World Cup winning team.
As has been the case with other former great players, Matthaus hasn’t had as much success as [...]

They are a country that does not train at home, play games at home and where the majority of the players do not live at home. Despite the obstacles Iraq miraculously captured the 2007 Asian Cup. Will this success carry over through 2010 World Cup qualifying? We will see in just a [...]

Figuring that now is as good a time as any to get around to naming their respective national team coaches, the United States and Canada are expecting to make the choices official this week.
Canadian U-20 coach Dale Mitchell is expected to take over the helm for a country currently ranked 94th in the world, between [...]

After guiding a young Germany team into the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup, Jurgen Klinsmann has been in demand. The coach has been linked to national team managing jobs in the United States, and Australia and, most recently he has been linked with Chelsea. Today it was announced that he will be [...]

That quick little search for the next United States national soccer coach seems to be taking a bit longer than some might have anticipated, but in the interim we can all sit back and be entertained by the speculation and rumors.
A few days back we learned that former Argentina Jose Pekerman would take [...]

Former Argentina head coach Jose Pekerman is now the apparent front runner to become the US national team coach. According to newspaper reports in Mexico (interesting place for this to leak out), U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said of Pekerman, “We did not sign the contract yet, but it just lacks some details.”
The reports [...]