The United Nations x Shipwrecked Footballers?
Let Didier Drogba, Luis Figo, Ronaldo, Zizou and even Michael Ballack teach you about the
Millennium Development Goals in a manner that I really hope, for everyone's sake, was intended to
be overflowing with sarcasm. It's a 32-page comic teaching about the United Nations' MDGs set for
2015 through the form of top footballers being shipwrecked and having to deal with real life
issues, like living a day without Sara Carbonero.
"Get ready to get closer. Closer to legends. Closer to history and closer to the unseen magic of
matchday. Get ready to take your seat in the players changing room. Get ready to run down the
players tunnel and to imagine the roar of 60,000 fans. " – Bob Wilson
Those are the words of Arsenal legend Wilson in the video that introduced me to the new
Arsenal ‘Self-guided' Stadium Tour.
It's Futbolita's 3-year birthday today and it has grown so much all thanks to
YOU! Looking back on the past year, we're extremely blessed to have support from fantastic people
all over the world who enjoyed our work in football. This year, we were especially thrilled to meet
Futbolitas & Futbolitos in Spain and from other parts of Europe, America, The Middle East
and Asia.
I've never been to Lille, but it seems like a really lovely place. And it seems like the type of
small city, small club, big ambitions where one could carve out a nice career in parallel with a
nice, quiet life. Likewise, Joe Cole seems to be enjoying his time there quite a bit, even if the
look of utter confusion plastered across his face when attempting to read the local print seems to
indicate otherwise.
I think it's safe to say that none of us would have expected AVB to appoint Roberto Di Matteo the
Chelsea legend as his assistant manager this summer. After all we had all known that Di Matteo had
made the step up to managing MK Dons first of all and then had done fantastically well to get West
Brom promoted back into the Premier League at his first attempt.
U.S. men's national team goalkeeper Tim Howard caused a stir following Saturday's Gold Cup final
loss to Mexico when he lashed out at CONCACAF for the format of the post-game ceremonies at the
Rose Bowl, which were held mostly in Spanish.
Howard's comments were a reaction to what Howard felt was a slight by CONCACAF of the host
nation, and he was clearly upset during his profanity-laced tirade.
As Thursday's Round of 16 match against Germany approaches, we're learning more and more about
the team that won all three of its group games and outscored its opponents 11-1. In fact, there are
a few players on the U.S. team with ties to Germany ...
Midfielder Matt Dunn plays for the FC Cologne Academy and will be squaring off against a pair of
his club teammates on Wednesday in defender Mitchell Weiser and midfielder Fabian Schnellhardt.
Asian tour promo bloopers Arsenal have attempted to drum-up interest in their forthcoming tour of
Asia by recording some messages in the languages of the places they will be visiting. A nice idea
in theory, but trickier to execute given the lack of Chinese and Malaysian speakers in the Gunners'
first-team squad.
Despite already pledging his future with Tottenham Hotspurs by extending his contract with the
London club not so long ago, Welsh international winger, Gareth Bale, once again stated that he is
still open for a move outside England.
Bale stated that the thought of learning new cultures, languages, another country fascinates him
and that's pretty much the reason why he wouldn't say no should a good offer arrives for him.
It may have mellowed in recent years but the rivalry between Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsène Wenger
looks set to be revived again this season with Manchester united and Arsenal in direct competition
for the FA Cup and Premier League.
November 1996
Sir Alex Ferguson bristles at the notion of Arsene Wenger, newly arrived at Arsenal, as a cerebral
‘professor' of football.
NEW YORK. NY — ESPN has acquired U.S. broadcast rights to soccer's European Championship in 2012
and 2016 and will televise every game of both tournaments. The Union of European Football
Associations planned to make the announcement Tuesday. ESPN purchased U.S. broadcast and Internet
rights in all languages.
With Roy close to the sack, I thought I would dig up a fact...(come on, it kind of
rhymes)
'Mr. Hodgson is a well travelled man. He has managed 16 different clubs in 8 different countries
(including three national sides: Finland, UAE and Switzerland) In addition, he also speaks 5
different languages, these include; English, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and Italian, as well
as some Danish, French and Finnish.
