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Beauty Football 05
Originally uploaded by mymike Después de la foto anterior me tenia que reivindicar, por eso aquí
esta la mejor combinación de la noche, mujeres y fútbol.
Belleza asiática,lodo y balones ¿que mas se puede pedir?
Resulta ser que cada año se realiza una copa llamada del Rey allá en Asia y como hace poco puse
una foto de el fútbol en Iraq parece pertinente ponerles el vídeo del resultado entre estas dos
naciones Thailandia e Iraq, lastimosamente el segundo gol tailandes fue de hecho un autogol
iraquie, pobre esperemos y regrese vivo a su país.
Korean's second-tier league, the N-League, was founded less than 10 years ago, and the possibility
of promotion to the K-League for the winner of a playoff was introduced only last year, creating an
urgency that the professional set-up in Korea hadn't previously had. Well, sort of. You see, it
costs several million dollars to make [.
Things to read as you love and cherish your Blackwater Christmas card: Good god, Carles Puyol is
bald! (Goal.com) That high altitude ruling of FIFA's? Still full of holes. (Reuters Soccer Blog)
The 20 best clubs at the close of 2007. (SI.com) The most hilarious transfer rumor of the first
half: Messi to Napoli.
Things to read as you hang that gun-toting fetus ornament on your Christmas tree. Fabio Capello for
Liverpool! No, wait Newcastle! (Record, TWM) Freddy Adu loves him some Slingbox. (NYX) What's
happened to Korean football? (Guardian Unlimited) From St. John's to the PDL to A.S. Varese 1910.
(Big Apple Soccer) Ode On A Peter Crouch.
A few things you may not have known about the AFC (Asian Football Conference) Champions League:
•For Group Stage purposes, the draw is divided into East Asia (Australia, China, Indonesia,
Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam) and West Asia (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, UAE, and Uzbekistan.
12/29/2007
John Duerden, goal.com
2007 was quite a year for Asian football and Goal.com has selected ten of the best moments from
the last 12 months.
1: Iraq's Asian Cup win
There is little doubt of the story of the year and not just in Asia.
•Oh, Sheva. •Sucks to be Oceania. •Rafael van der Vaart is a whore. •Denilson is taking
"DP" off his business cards. •Key English phrases for Fabio Capello. •NO TOUCHING! •Football
dreams. The Offside Blogging Team can also be found at these Offside blogs: Roma | World Cup | LA
Galaxy | Serie A | Les Bleus | Gli Azzurri | Serbia
During the 2002 World Cup, Philippe Troussier was a hero in Japan. He'd coached the national team
for four years, leading them to victory in the 2000 Asian Cup and second-place finish in the 2001
Confederation Cups, and hopes were high that the Frenchman would bring the hosts some sort of World
Cup miracle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oq_UdMbAY The most dangerous lead in soccer is 3-0. Everybody and
Eric Wynalda says so. Oh. Wait. No they don't. But that was the lead our U-23s pre-Olympic team
enjoyed in China at the half in the second pre-Olympic-qualifying friendly this weekend. And that
was the lead they let slip [.
You may have noticed a steady decline in respect for referees in recent years. Remember Roy Keane
leading his Man Utd teammates on an Andy D'Urso hunt in 2000? How about John Terry trying to snatch
a red card from Mike Dean's hand this season as the ref was showing it to John Obi Mikel? [...]
Ivica Osim, the Bosnian coach of the Japanese national team, suffered a stroke on November 16 and
fell into a coma. While he was indisposed, the Japanese Football Association unanimously agreed to
replace him with Takeshi Okada, the man who coached the team during the 1998 World Cup. The
official announcement is schedule for today.
AC Milan flew into Japan today for the FIFA World Club Cup, apparently dressed for success in very
nice club blazers. It's the fourth edition of the FIFA tournament (featuring champions from the
world's football confederations) and so far South America owns the trophy. Specifically Brazil owns
the trophy with Corinthians winning the inaugural 2000 [.
Things to read as you try to wrap your mind around the pottymouths who ran baseball in the late
1800s. Barcelona's Player X. (Barelona Offside) The teams in the World Club Cup not named "Boca" or
"Milan." (Center Holds It) Mmm ... Croatia. (Reuters Soccer Blog) "Anarchy for the Arsenal!"
(Caught Offside) Power struggles at Hertha Berlin.
You may recall the news from earlier this week that Ivica Osim, one of football's most magnificent
characters, is recovering with near-miraculous speed from a stroke he suffered a few weeks ago.
Despite his swift recovery, however, Osim who is in his upper 60s and has serious heart problems
was relieved of his [.
At their press conference on Saturday, everyone from Boca Juniors talked as if Pachuca were already
their semifinal opponents, so sure were they that the Mexican club would see off African champion
Etoile Sahel in Sunday's match. Oops. In the first upset of the Club World Cup, Tunisia's Etoile
beat Pachuca 1-0 on a late [.
As Daryl told us last week, after being rejected by Dutch Choice #1 (AKA Dick Advocaat), and
Football Federation Australia settled for Dutch Choice #2, former Korean Republic coach Pim
Verbeek. When he accepted the job, Verbeek was criticized for not being a big enough name (hardly
his fault), but he's now being embraced by [.
It took more than an hour, but Milan eventually took advantage of their domination of Urawa Reds in
Yokohama this morning, going ahead through Clarence Seedorf in the 68th minute and making the goal
stand up to move into Sunday's final against Boca Juniors.
In the final of the Singapore Cup last month, the always high-strung Noh Alam Shah absolutely lost
his mind. (Be patient with the clip, there are a lot of pauses so you can see it in detail, but I
swear it's not broken.) His team, Tampines Rovers, were trailing 4-3 late in the match, and [...]
12/25/2007
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian referee took out his gun and fired warning shots in the air
after a local soccer match turned unruly following the suspension of a player, a newspaper said on
Tuesday.
The referee, who was also a policeman, ran to his patrol car to get his gun after players mobbed
him for showing the red-card to one of them, the New Straits Times said.
Before they manfully battled The Might AC Milan to a respectable 0-1 result in the semifinals of
the Club World Cup, Japan's Urawa Reds had turned in what has been called the worst collapse in
J-League history. With four matches remaining in the season, they had a seven point lead and needed
just one win [.
Things to read as you wonder at the pretension of the guy who played the dad on The Brady Bunch: We
don't have Vikash Dhorasoo to kick around any more. (France World Cup Blog) Sepp Blatter: Still
talking. (FIFA.com) Thailand upsets Iraq to take King's Cup trophy. (The World Game) Alex Ferguson
has well and truly had enough.
Things to read as you do your best to avoid inhaling airborne pig brain. Big Phil wants to stay. (O
Jogo) Does Raul belong in Spain's squad for the Euros? (Reuters Soccer Blog) El Tel for the
Republic of Ireland? (Soccacritics) Not so fast, Mr. Inzaghi! (Bundesliga Offside) Alan Shearer,
human duct tape.
As Laurie reported a few weeks ago, Saudi Arabia striker Yasser Al Qahtani was recently named the
2007 Asian Player of the Year. (And there was much rejoicing.) Since 2006, the Asian POY is
selected not by journalist or player votes, but rather by a point system: Players are awarded
points based on being named MVP [.
