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Chile at a personal level means life and blood to me and when it particularly comes to football, it boils.

Despite being Australian-born, I’ve been raised and educated in the port city of Valparaiso and as that also means being nurtured in the streets and football fields, the world game is certainly a way of life. Having played for two seasons at both youth reserve and First division side Santiago Wanderers, I have a thorough knowledge of the local game as well which is predominantly contested between giants Colo-Colo, Universidad Catolica and Universidad de Chile.

I have had opportunities to also spend time with Chilean National Football squads when they have toured friendly matches both here in Australia and New Zealand, World Cup qualifying home matches in Santiago and the memorable Sydney 2000 Olympic Games bronze medal performance as well. Studying two years of journalism over there has also enabled me to get involved in the fiercely competitive sports journalism industry which of course is covered on a daily basis about the round-ball game.

Now that I have come across this World Cup Blog, it is essential I feel for Chile to have a space to communicate as the more than one million expats living overseas find especially over the internet, a close source of contact to locate fellow compatriots and football enthusiasts where national pride is poured all over with the illusion of qualifying on the world stage which this time around takes places in South Africa.

It has not been an easy ride with the South American round-robin system which locks every nation in the one group, the powerhouses are evident in Brazil and Argentina and the rest battle it out for the remaining two-and-half places, obviously all avoiding that dreaded fifth place for the Oceania repechage.

I read all football newspapers from Chile and keep myself up-to-date with all that is happening in the footballing country that has the highest average attendance record in the South American qualification process. In addition, now that former Argentine national coach Marcelo Bielsa has been signed to make way for a new era after yet another demise at the Copa America successfully held in Venezuela, it is time to leave disappointments behind and move forward, which I believe this Blog should be no different and join the footballing world where our beautiful game is arguably and undoubtedly best played in, South America.

My warm regards,
Daniel Campos

Posted from  Australia

my name Ivan from INDONESIA,i just wanna ask how to me member of WCB any kind term n condition ? thx

Posted from  Indonesia

I share your sentiments Daniel,and i think our players don’t know just how important the National team is to us.Probably why they put in below par performances some times and take us to breaking point.
My team Nigeria put our hearts in our mouths during football matches,and i just hope that they will play very well at the nations cup starting in Ghana in just days.

Posted from  United States

Watch Eglish premier league live here

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/2008/02/english-premier-league-tottenham.html

all football live streams here

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/

nice Soccer blog website. Keep it up.

Posted from  Germany

Africa Cup of Nations 2008 : Ghana vs Cameroon 1/2 Final Live P2P Links

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/2008/02/africa-cup-of-nations-2008-ghana-vs_07.html

Africa Cup of Nations 2008 :Cote D Ivoire vs Egypt 1/2 Final Live here

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/2008/02/africa-cup-of-nations-2008-cote-d_07.html

Scottish Premier League :Dundee United vs Hibernian live here

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/2008/02/scottish-premier-league-dundee-united.html

Africa Cup of Nations 2008 Finals Cameroon vs Egypt live here

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/2008/02/africa-cup-of-nations-2008-cameroon-vs.html

The UEFA Cup : Aberdeen vs Bayern Munich Live here

http://liveslinks-football.blogspot.com/2008/02/uefa-cup-aberdeen-vs-bayern-munich-live.html

Today I was watching a football game a European English premier feed and I believe it was a match between Liverpool and Inter (Madrid)!
where the Liverpool won 2-0. The reason behind this letter is to share a profound event that I witnessed not just once but twice. The event deal with how the Referee went and kept the honor and the spirit of the game by not calling the two unintentional handball. WOW was I overly elated! I thought the dignity of the referee was lost with the boo’s of the crowds. Thus when was the last time that you saw a Ref stay true to righteousness of the game instead of being lead by the cowardice act of compliance to the spectators whim. This is one of the most sacred and noble privilege the Referee have the power to vindicate and to nullify but with the lost of quality of goalkeeping the referee’s have lost the precept clause of the handball. Only thing worse than viewing a sorry call is to see a goalkeeper falling backward out of fear and using the legs to stop the ball rolling past him. The points I’m making are vital. There is still a chance of having the righteous Ref to call a game with the spirit of the game intact. However the quality goalkeepers are gone since the days of Gordon Banks where the power of hand reach in for the ball by the feet of the fowards and Shoemarcher who always went side to side on one on one with attackers showing his power and repealing the fear of the attacker. Both legions were never fearful to fall backward. They had the proper offensive defense stance posture ingrain into their soul to make it into normal reaction stance. Anyway God Bless this day to see something refreshing to my soul.
I pray there will be more Ref who will stand behind the intentional or unintentional clause to the handballs.

Posted from  United States

watch English carling cup final live here

http://soccor-livestreams.blogspot.com/2008/02/english-carling-cup-chelsea-vs.html

We’ve been using a new software program called SportTracker Football. It allows anyone to track stats using a graphical interface that’s really easy to use. It’s saves and loads graphical stat info that can be exported as a JPEG for use in other programs. It’s also been really useful in teaching strategies and laying out training courses. It’s available for mac and pc and it’s cheap to purchase.
http://www.ratesport.com

Posted from  Australia

hello,everybody,I am a football fans from Guangzhou, China.I am very happy to be friend with fans from all over the world.and welcome to come to china.if you come to china, pls contact me,and I will be the best guide for you in china.today I want to talk about
Chinese football club want to find good player all over the world.especially they are famous star all over the world before, but now they retired, like romario etc.
if somebody can contact them or they want to come to visit china and want to play in china club.pls contact me.thanks

Posted from  China

i have a script, the story of which deals with teenage football game. it’s a very fast & interesting script, i feel, it should be produced & released worldwide before the worldcup 2010 , i.e. by dec. 2009.
though the script is in english, it’s basic language is the game of football.
will any one be interested in the project?
it’s written by me, & will be directed by me.
i am sure it can raise tremendous sponsorship funds & if released worldwide before the worldcup, it will be popularly viewed repeatedly.

let me know of your interest.
nielu patekar

Posted from  India

Re. the friendly against England, the pathetic performance of our national team is solely the result of coach Bradley’s ineptitude. There was no strategy, no cohesiveness and above all, no middle field. Both forwards were lost in the middle of the English back line with no orchestrated mid-field support. Bob Bradley can coach against CONCACAF teams successfully but is way over his head against the top tier teams.
We need a coach that can take the US national team to the quarter finals of the world cup. Bob Bradley ain’t it..
Just a note, Bradley still thinks he’s coaching his son in a travel league where the parents of other kids don’t mind the coach keeping his son on the pitch for the entire game, no matter how poorly the son is playing. Well, Bradley jr. was absent against England and worse, gave a couple of balls that could have ended up in goals against us. And US fans that know the game, well we can see right through this nonsense.

Posted from  United States

Poster EURO2008 can be downoladed at { http://www.e-romania.co.uk/programul_mecilor_de_la_Euro2008.aspx }, it shows all the matches and also when they will be live on television (TV) also online.

| http://www.e-romania.co.uk |

Posted from  United Kingdom

I feel, the total number of teams in World Cup Football should be increased to 40.

The spots can be distributed like this:
NORTH & CENTRAL AMERICA - 4
SOUTH AMERICA - 5
EUROPE - 16
AFRICA - 6
ASIA - 5
OCEANIA - 1
Host - 1
Last Winner - 1
Last Runner - 1

- The 40 teams can arranged in 8 Groups of 5 teams each
- Top 2 teams in each Group will Qualify for Pre-Quarter (2nd Round)

Posted from  India

Thank you

Posted from  Turkey

Treso am your fun and i wish you all best in future.

Zambe a pabola yo bisou.