90:00 Soccer in Paris: Eto’o discusses Henry and the MLS

By Alex Labidou During PUMA’s Cameroon media availability, team captain and Inter star forward Samuel Eto’o shied away from discussing reports of his former Barcelona teammate, Thierry Henry, playing in the MLS. However, the 29-year old did mention that the MLS might be in his own future, after of course several more accolades in Europe. [...]

90:00 Soccer in Paris: Day One Intro

From Left to Right: UNEP Representative Luc Reuter, Djimon Hounsou, Samuel Eto’o, PUMA CEO Jochen Zeitz, Stephen Appiah, Didier Drogba Hello readers, Over the past two days, 90:00 Soccer’s Alex Labidou has been covering PUMA African Unity Experience in Paris. There are some great insights from Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba, Carlos Kameni and John Mensah. [...]

Barcelona are talking of respect again? WhatEVER!

By Ben Thomas As an Arsenal fan, I am sure you can understand that I don’t have much time for Barcelona. Back in 2000, Barcelona poached Marc Overmars and Manu Petit from us after overtly courting them in the press throughout the season. In the case of these particular players, it turned out to be [...]

Clint Dempsey, Stuart Holden And Tim Howard Compete Off The Soccer Field To Improve America’s Communitites

Players Campaign for Pepsi Refresh Project Ideas Prior to Hitting the World Stage Purchase, N.Y., May 21, 2010 — In advance of their departure for South Africa next month, three U.S. Men’s National Team stars, Clint Dempsey, Stuart Holden and Tim Howard, are asking soccer fans everywhere to join them in making a difference in [...]

SCIC – Who Gives a Flip?

By Amanda Beemer Rather than the originally scheduled home match between Chicago and the Colorado Rapids, this weekend Fire fans were treated to a seemingly last minute two-night friendly tournament featuring clubs from three of Chicago’s 28 sister cities. This past Wednesday the Fire played Paris Saint-Germain (0-1), and immediately following Red Star Belgrade took [...]

A Good Week

By Casey Ward When Bob Bradley announced his provisional roster for the 2010 World Cup, few followers of the Men’s National Team (Possible nicknames: Stars and Bars, Golden Eagles, White Stars?) could have expected both Robbie Rogers and Chad Marshall to be included. Plagued by injuries and inconsistent form over the past eight months, Marshall [...]

England Victory leaves Capello a lot to Ponder

By James Cox England beat Mexico 3-1 in their last game at Wembley before the World Cup to give Fabio Capello a lot to think about before his final squad is announced on June 1st. Ledley King opened the scoring, guiding a header in to the far corner after Peter Crouch had headed back Steven [...]

Caricatures for the FIFA World Cup 2010

By Ricardo Galvão Portuguese cartoonist Ricardo Galvão created the ultimate collection for the FIFA World Cup 2010: a set of caricatures (11 players and coach) of each of the 32 national teams. That’s almost 400 caricatures! From Cristiano Ronaldo to Messi, Kaká, Rooney, Drogba… all the stars are here. Go to http://www.rgalvao.blogspot.com/ and see them all. If you [...]

In Leo we trust

By Mariano Tomás De Micheli When it comes to World Cup, top National teams have different qualities to be confident about: the Brazilians have their five World Cups, the Spanish squad has its awesome team chemistry, the Germans have their known tendency to never give up, and the Italians are famous for their toughness… But [...]

USA Should Play to Win!

Words by: Mark Vincent Lincir and Elliott “Not Vincent” Spruell With the US’ first match of the 2010 World Cup “Send Off Series” bearing down upon us, the question being kicked around the 90:00 Soccer Office is, “Will Bob Bradley use this match against the Czech Republic as a measuring stick for the fringe players [...]

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