The Fifa president- Sepp Blatter has revealed that the Republic of Ireland have requested for an extra spot for next year’s World Cup to be held in South Africa! Earlier during their return leg play-off match versus France, Ireland had lost to an extra-time goal which was assisted by France captain Thierry Henry after he had handled it. More about that match can be read here. Blatter said: “I will [...]
Indianfootball.com: McDowell’s Unveils the First Ever Nationwide Hunt for India’s Best Freestyle Footballer. It is a competition with a difference. A competition to find India’s best freestyle footballer. McDowell’s Celebration which has been known for its patronage of Indian football has upped-the-ante this time by bringing to India, one of the most exciting and popular forms of extreme football in the world today. Under the McDowell’s Freestyle Friendzy platform, a [...]
Position Footballer Squad Netted 1 Jermain Defoe Tottenham 11 2 Fernando Torres Liverpool 10 3 Darren Bent Sunderland 9 4 Didier Drogba Chelsea 9 5 Louis Saha Everton 8 6 Wayne Rooney Man Utd 7 7 Robin van Persie Arsenal 7 8 Gabriel Agbonlahor Aston Villa 6 9 Carlton Cole West Ham Utd 6 10 Francesc Fabregas Arsenal 6 11 Robbie Keane Tottenham 6 12 Emmanuel Adebayor Manchester City 5 [...]
Fifa.com: The glare of the global football world will be on the Cape Town International Convention Centre at 7pm next Friday 4 December 2009, when the 32 teams who made it through to Africa’s first FIFA World Cup™ and their legions of fans find out exactly where they will be playing – and who they will be playing against. And when the Final Draw is beamed to millions of homes [...]
Catch all the goal highlights here Barcelona 2-0 Inter Milan Pique puts Barca ahead in the 10th minute and Pedro added another in the 26th minute. Debrecen 0-1 Liverpool David N’gog nudges in the ball from Fabio Aurelio’s corner, in the 4th minute. Liverpool won’t be too thrilled even after leading at half-time, since Fiorentina have taken the lead against Lyon. This squanders “The Reds” chances of going to the [...]
Liverpool 2-2 Manchester City The match started off well for Liverpool with Skrtel’s header being saved by Given, from a Lucas free-kick. There were more injuries for Rafa Benitez with Daniel Agger going down during the free-kick and was later taken off with a concussion. Another injury for Ryan Babel when he was challenged just outside the box, this meant The Reds had to make two substitutions within the first [...]
The African Cup of Nations draw has been finalized as follows: Group A: Angola, Mali, Algeria, Malawi. Group B: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso. Group C: Egypt, Nigeria, Benin, Mozambique. Group D: Cameroon, Tunisia, Zambia, Gabon. The tournament is to be held from Jan 01 st to 31st , 2010.
According to reports European football has been hit by a massive match-fixing scandal with approximately 200 matches are under investigation. There were simultaneous police raids in Germany, Britain, Austria and Switzerland, around 50 raids and the police have arrested 17 people as part of the investigation, which encompasses nine European leagues, the police officials said at a news conference in the German city of Bochum. Matches under investigation were played [...]
The Irish FA has renewed its bid for a rematch following Henry’s statement that a replay would be the “fairest solution”. The Irish FA also asked the French Football Federation and both nations’ captain’s to join in the bid. Earlier, FIFA, the world governing body ruled out any hopes of a rematch. FIFA said in a statement: “FIFA has replied to the request made by the Football Association of Ireland [...]
