Hey kids, it has been three months since the World Cup ended. Doesn’t time fly? Only 43 more months to go before we are back at it again in South Africa. In the meantime, there is plenty of action to keep us all amused like the Euro 2008 qualifying matches and international [...]

Far be it from me to advocate that anyone ever get fired, but I find it almost incredible that Luis Aragones is still running the show for Spain. After leading his team to an early crap out in the World Cup, Aragones received the backing of his football federation. He is still being [...]

I’ve taken my shots at Cristiano Ronaldo on this very ole’ blog before so it is only honorable and noble to point out that he had an absolutely monster of a game this past weekend against Azerbaijan. Luis over on the Portugal blog has a breakdown of the match and the video highlights of [...]

I’ll admit that I did not predict Scotland’s win over France on Saturday in Euro 2008 qualifying, but little did I know ahead of time that Scotland had a twelfth man: its ball boys.
The kids roaming the sidelines are the subject of France coach Raymond Domenech’s scorn. He was less than happy with the [...]

So, Croatia boss Slaven Bilic, how do you really feel about England’s World Cup team?
“They were no good. They were nothing. I have never seen in my life such a great collection of players play as defensively as they did. They were so boring. They just didn’t play as a group, they played [...]

There seems to be a little bit of buzz out there ahead of Saturday’s Euro 2008 qualifying match between France and Scotland with both sides undefeated after two games. We happen to think that France will take care of business in this one, their simply the more talented and better team.
It is not often [...]

Euro 2008 qualifiers and international matches heat up again this weekend so that means national teams both far and near are in the headlines. Here are a few stories for you to feast on about the teams you love and the teams you love to hate….

Italy recalls 19 players from World Cup for Ukraine [...]

Hopefully it was one hell of a nightclub because otherwise Croatian strikers Bosko Balaban, Ivica Olic and midfielder Darijo Srna are probably kick themselves right about now for deciding to sneak out of their team hotel for a night on the town before Croatia’s Euro 2008 qualifier against Russia earlier this month. The three [...]

When you inherit a team that won the World Cup and end up with a draw and a loss in your first two competitive games, you are going to start feeling the heat a bit, especially if you coach in a country like Italy where success is expected. Such is the case for Azzurri [...]

We’ve heard of some interesting motivational tactics used by managers over the year, but betting that your team is going to lose is not one of them.
That is what Bulgaria coach Hristo Stoichkov did before his team’s Euro 2008 qualifying win against Slovenia earlier this week.