Soccerblog 20 November @ 09:37 AM EST
17 arrests for a match fixing scandal which affects 200 matches in nine European countries.
The matches include the Bundesliga second division, and the leagues in Belgium, Switzerland,
Croatia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary, Bosnia and Austria. 12 Europa matches and 3 CL matches are said
to be manipulated this year, and it is unclear as to whether it is the group stage or qualifying
rounds.
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WVHooligan 19 November @ 09:27 AM EST
Yesterday ended the long and difficult road that is World Cup qualifying. The 32-team field is
set and while we won't know until next month what the groups are it does present a good time to
discuss each team and how they got there.
(Note: I hope this is a start of many more World Cup posts going into next year.
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Just-Football 17 November @ 12:27 PM EST
The praise was Nigeria's but the prize was Switzerland's. Hot on the heels of the Under-20 World
Cup in Egypt and sandwiched between that and the real thing next summer, the Under-17 World Cup
2009...
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Soccerblog 16 November @ 09:47 AM EST
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Haris Seferovic takes advantage of a slow reacting Nigerian defense to head the ball home in the
63' minute off a corner. There were some tense moments for the Swiss when Stanley Okoro's header
hit the upright but Siegrist saved the ball in the scramble.
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Soccerblog 15 November @ 02:54 PM EST
A 63' strike by Haris Seferovic gives Switzerland their first ever FIFA world title. They
withstood a furious onslaught by the Super Eaglets. Nigeria outscored the Swiss in every
statistical department except the one that counted most.
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Soccerblog 15 November @ 12:02 PM EST
Switzerland vs Nigeria, Sunday 15 November, Abuja, 19.00 (local time)
Can the Eaglets make it a weekend to remember for Nigeria with their senior counterparts pipping
the Tunisians with their 3-2 victory over Kenya for a 2010 World Cup spot?
The Golden Eaglets have a team full of homegrown talent in marked contrast to the number of
players on the Swiss team who have found homes in Europe's top leagues.
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The FIFA 2009 U-17 World Cup wraps up on Sunday, November 15, 2009 with the championship and
third place matches. Nigeria will play Switzerland in the championship match while Colombia plays
Spain in the third place match. The matches will be covered live on our other site, Free Live
Sports TV, at the following links below.
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The new Denmark football shirt, to be worn by the Danish football team at this summer's 2010 World
Cup in South Africa, has been unveiled by Adidas. The Denmark kit has red and white as its main
colours, and was first worn by the national team on November 14, 2009 in a friendly against South
[...] Related posts:
- New Spain World Cup 2010 Shirt Jersey The new Spain 2010 World Cup football shirt has
been.
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Under-17 World Cup final on ESPN2 and Galavision: Switzerland - Nigeria at 1pm. MFL: UNAM Pumas -
Indios on Telemundo at 1pm. Santos Laguna - Club America at 5pm on Univision. Colombian League on
GolTV: America - Millionarios at 3:30pm. All Times Eastern
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Soccerblog 12 November @ 07:46 AM EST
Nassim Ben Khalifa, the face of the U17 Swiss squad
In a few minutes the Swiss U-17 squad will take the field to face Colombia in the U17 World Cup
semi-final. It is worth commenting that one has to look once or twice to find a name of Swiss
extraction in the squad.
Nassim Ben Khalifa, their pre-eminent striker is a second generation Swiss with Tunisian
roots.
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The FIFA U-17 World Cup continues on Thursday, November 12, 2009 with the semifinals taking
place. The four teams in action are Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, and Nigeria. Both matches will be
streamed live on our other site, Free Live Sports TV, at the following links below.
Colombia v Switzerland LIVE FIFA 2009 U-17 World Cup Semifinals Thursday, November 12, 2009
15:00 GMT, 10:00 EST
Spain v Nigeria LIVE FIFA 2009 U-17 World Cup Semifinals Thursday, November 12, 2009 18:00 GMT,
13:00 EST
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Dirty Tackle 05 November @ 04:02 PM EST
Whenever a ball goes into the stands during a match, I always wonder what would happen if the
person who grabs it decides that he's keeping that sucker and that there's nothing anyone can do
about it.
Well, that's exactly what happened during the Switzerland v Germany match at the U17 World
Cup.
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goalpost.tv 05 November @ 07:53 AM EST
Image via Wikipedia Although many have called it unfair, the seeding system adopted for the play
off matches to decide the final four European teams that will make it to the 2010 World Cup Finals
in South Africa, has produced four potentially exciting match ups. The two leg matches will be
played on November 14th [.
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Our tifo video series rolls across from Belgium to Switzerland, and we find ourselves in
Lausanne, a small French-speaking city perhaps best known as the headquarters of the International
Olympic Committee.
Swiss club FC Lausanne-Sport, founded in 1896 and successful for their first half-century,
haven't won the league championship for other forty years.
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The U-17 World Cup kicked off in Nigeria yesterday, and while three of the four CONCACAF sides gave
creditable performances, only Costa Rica managed to win points. (USA play tomorrow against Spain.)
Honduras ceded most of the possession to Argentina, but they came close to scoring when Néstor
Martínez struck the bar and crossbar on a free kick.
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MLS on Fox Soccer Channel: Salt Lake - Colorado at 9pm. Under-17 World Cup on Galavision: Mexico -
Switzerland at 11am. EPL on ESPN2: Wolves - Aston Villa at 7:30am. on Setanta: Spurs - Stoke City
at 9:30am and Hull - Portsmouth at 5pm. On Fox Soccer: Birmingham City - Sunderland at 10am,
Chelsea - Blackburn at 12:30pm, and Burnley - Wigan Athletic at 5pm.
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A Gabriel Heinze goal gave Olympique Marseille a deserved win in Switzerland.
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So after finishing second behind Switzerland in Group 2 of UEFA's qualifying for South Africa 2010,
all that stands in Greece's way now is Ukraine. I realize saying "all that" could sound a bit
derogatory, but I use that phrase to emphasize how close Greece is to a return to
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There are 4 more nations who qualified for the 2010 World Cup after the games played on October
14th: Switzerland, Argentina, Honduras, and Slovakia. The final 9 berths are still up for grabs.The
4 European berths will be decided by playoff matches between Russia, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine,
France, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Republic of Ireland.
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There are 4 more nations who qualified for the 2010 World Cup after the games played on October
14th: Switzerland, Argentina, Honduras, and Slovakia. The final 9 berths are still up for grabs.The
4 European berths will be decided by playoff matches between Russia, Greece, Portugal, Ukraine,
France, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Republic of Ireland.
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Soccer Pie 16 October @ 08:50 AM EST
Argentina, Slovakia, Switzerland and Honduras are the latest national teams to
book their ticket to South Africa and there are just nine more places left. Six
more participants will be decided through play-offs, while we are still waiting for Cameroon,
Tunisia and Algeria to ensure their place at the World Cup.
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Introducing a new series of features on national teams travelling to the FIFA World Cup in South
Africa. We start with Switzerland.Stealth technologists would do well to examine the characteristics of the Swiss national team. It
seems that despite their successful qualification for the
World Cup, no-one seems to be
paying any attention to them.
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Brazil stay at the top of this month's Fifa world rankings. Brazil are followed by Spain, the
Netherlands, Italy and Germany. England stay in 7th place. Argentina are 6th.
France are in 9th. Cameroon are the highest African team in 14th. Russia are 12th, with the USA in
11th.
1 Brazil
2 Spain
3 Netherlands
4 Italy
5 Germany
6 Argentina
7 England
8 Croatia
9 France
10 Portugal
11 USA
12 Russia
13 Switzerland
14 Cameroon
15 Czech Republic
16 Greece Denmark
17 Chile
18 Mexico
19 Côte d'Ivoire
20 Serbia
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Switzerland have qualified for South Africa, but the team's WorldCupBlog is currently bloggerless.
If you think you've got what it takes to write about the Schweizer Nati, have a read of our
blogger's guidelines here and then send an email to daryl[at]worldcupblog[dot]org.
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Switzerland and Slovakia clinched Europe's last two automatic spots at next year's World Cup on
Wednesday, while Portugal got the win it needed to keep alive its hopes of reaching the competition
in South Africa.
The playoffs start Nov. 14, with the return matches four days later.
He's not going to South Africa.
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See The Cup 14 October @ 07:09 PM EST
Argentina is playing in South Africa. Maradona can breathe. The hermanos beat Uruguay 1
0 with a goal on the 84th minute by Bolatti. This ends Argentina's war to qualify, as they take the
4th and last spot for a South American country. Uruguay will now go to play-offs (against Honduras
or El Salvador), standing in the 5th spot.
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Debutant-elect Slovakia and Switzerland have become the latest countries to clinch a berth at next
summer's World Cup in South Africa.The first-timers did the historic deed with a 1-0 win at Poland,
while the Swiss nudged in thanks to a scoreless draw at Israel.The new pair of qualifiers from
Europe brings our invite total to 21, with one more each from CONCACAF and CONMEBOL set to be
determined
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Here are the results and final scores from the final round of UEFA ( European) qualifiers for the
FIFA World Cup 2010 played on October 14, 2009. 24 Qualifiers in all ( Three from each group- eight
groups in all) Group 1 :- Denmark vs Hungary Sweden vs Albania Portugal vs Malta Group 2 :- Greece
vs Luxembourg Latvia vs Moldova Switzerland vs [.
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The Footie 13 October @ 01:03 AM EST
It was decided in today's game that Germany and Italy will be joining the ranks of other
countries who have made it into the World Cup qualifying matches. Denmark as well as Serbia can be
proud to also have the chance to play in the World Cup after beating out France. So far, the
countries that still remain undecided are Switzerland and Slovakia, whose fate will be decided this
Wednesday.
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Switzerland swept to a comfortable win over minnows Luxembourg and edged that bit nearer to
sealing top spot in Group 2.
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The 1954 World Cup in Switzerland is still the one where most goals have been scored per match.
This was not only an expression of poor defenses, but also for the fact that there were some
extraordinarily offensive teams participating in the tournament.Two of these strong attacking teams
were to face one another in the semifinal: Hungary and the defending world champions of Uruguay.
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Europe was in the shadow of war as the World Cup went underway: Austria had been annexed by Germany
(and players from the excellent Austrian football team lined up for Germany, who were nevertheless
eliminated by Switzerland in the first round), and Spain did not participate, immersed in a bloody
civil war.
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Dirty Tackle 17 September @ 03:05 PM EST
Alessandro Del Piero met up with Roger Federer as he trains with Switzerland's Davis Cup team in
Genova, Italy today, and he came bearing gifts. Not one, but two Juve shirts one of which
inexplicably bears Federer's first name instead of his last and a pair of boots, which came with
the assurance that "they don't stink".
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I understand Arema Malang are close to signing three new foreigners. They are former Persita
striker Ernest Siangkam, former Persija and Cameroonian international Pierre Njanka and Gabonese
central midfielder Landry Poulangoye.
According to this link Landry is 33 years old and has played for Gabon 50 times.
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So the first round of matches in this years Champions League games are under our belt. And what
did new learn?
- Well 11 out of the 16 games (69%) ended up in either a draw or a one goal victory. I think that
this years Champions League is the deepest contest in years and that is reflected in the closeness
of the games.
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