Rafael Marquez: “I have the keys to shut down Messi.”
Mexican international, Rafael Marquez, is a teammate of Lionel Messi at FC Barcelona. During an interview with Univision.com, who are broadcasting the World Cup in Spanish in North America, Marquez…
Transfer Rumors: Chelsea to beat Manchester United to Dutch star Van der Vaart?
It’s anything but a quiet Sunday on the transfers front. Today’s rundown of the top transfer rumors from around Europe include several players who had starring roles for their country…
Maradona: “My dream is to manage Napoli.”
On the eve of Argentina’s key elimination round match with Mexico, Diego Maradona provided his thoughts to the Milan sports daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport. He discussed the shock exit…
World Cup News: FIFA Introduce Synchronised Refereeing?
Guten morgen and willkommen to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Three words: England…Germany…versus. Rearrange! Here’s this morning’s World Cup news round-up… (If you would like to subscribe to…
Ghana 2 USA 1 – An African success for an African World Cup
Read the Ghana v Uruguay preview. In a sentence After a tense ending to the 90 minutes, Black Stars strike early in extra-time to progress. Just like I wanted to…
Paraguay vs Japan Preview
Paraguay vs Japan Round of 16, 2010 World Cup Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria Tuesday, 29 June 2010 1500 (BST) / 1600 (Local Time) Watch Paraguay vs Japan live online. Match…
Transfer Rumors: Manchester United eye World Cup stars to beef up midfield
The 2010 World Cup is heading into the knockout stages, and just as the action in South Africa is getting ready to really heat up, so are things on the…
Netherlands v Slovakia Preview
Netherlands have actually never played Slovakia before, although they did play Czechoslovakia 9 times before the country’s dissolution in 1993, winning twice, losing 6 times and drawing once.
With past performances a moot point, it falls to the recent performances of both teams to give us an indicator of who will win this second-round tie.
Brazil v Chile Preview
That Brazil have historically dominated encounters against their fellow South Americans will be of little surprise. What’s more interesting is how well Chile have done in this tournament as a strong attacking unit and how frustrated Brazil were against a Portuguese side that played almost exclusively on the counter.
World Cup News: ‘Der Kaiser’ Takes It All Beck(enbauer)!
Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Today sees the start of the World Cup proper, with the first (and second) of the last 16…
French Government (Yes, Government!) Launch World Cup Probe
In ‘slightly over-dramatic reaction’ news, the French government (yes, you heard that right!) are to launch an enquiry into their national football team’s disastrous showing at the 2010 World Cup….
Franz Beckenbauer Apologises For ‘Stupid England’ Outburst
Doddery old Franz Beckenbauer has apologised to England for comments he made in German daily Bild recently, in which he labelled Fabio Capello‘s side as both ‘stupid’ and ‘burnt-out’. A…
England v Germany – A Tactical Preview
Football experts Adrian Clarke and Iain Spragg analyse the England v Germany game, the battle in midfield, Capello’s potential selections, why England can win the battle, Germany’s biggest threats and lots more.
World Cup 2010……What A Load Of Balls!
So here we are….2 weeks and 48 games into South Africa 2010 and if I had to sum up the World Cup so far I’d say it has been nothing…
Spain 2 Chile 1 – Del Bosque’s men avoid Brazil
In a sentence Off-colour Spain are helped to victory by a mad dash from Chile’s keeper and an early sending-off. Not looking like favourites Spain are another European team…
