Daily Dose 07.30

July 30th, 2006 | by: Daryl |

Your one-stop-shop for transfer rumours, international friendship, death threats, injuries and depressed referees…

Marcos Senna could be joining Michael Carrick in the new-look Manchester United midfield. (Sports Illustrated)

Chelsea and Arsenal are discussing the price of Cole. (Independent Online)

The Germans were right! The World Cup really was a time to make friends. (Soccer America)

Iraq’s head coach has resigned after receiving death threats. Not cool people. (MSNBC)

Ledley King is injured again, and will be out for two months. (Sky Sports)

Could be worse though … Juan Carlos Valeron, is out for four. (Reuters)

Markus Merk was so disappointed with his World Cup refereeing he’s taking a month off to recover. (The Guardian)

Dave Hamilton

I don’t want to dwell on the political here, but the death threat against the Iraqi coach is but one of myriad examples of why so many people in that country are not fit to join the ranks of civilized people. I do hope the Iraqis get a true democracy buoyed by a governement that is ROBUST in its capabilities and efforts to provide security because an IRON FIST, as sadly Saddam proved, is the only language so many there understand.
Adam Rupolo

Im not sure why it isnt mentioned here but on the same website that had the thing bout the Iraq coach, it said that Parreira (Brazil’s coach this world cup) will be coaching South Africa in their 2010 world cup. This must be good news for them. He did badly this year but he obviously did well in 1994.
http://www.worldcupblog.org daryl

Link to the Parreira story was in yesterday’s Daily Dose.

Full story here.
Ventura County

Thank you for a great article about Germany. I am a German living in California and I am soooo proud of Germany and the Mannschaft… and now, we have Michael Ballack here in Los Angeles. Of course, we took pictures of him.