What do the Fire, France, and Italy Have in Common?

By Amanda Beemer Since June 11 a wave of depression crashes over me every afternoon when the last World Cup match ends, and panic sets in as I begin to wonder what I’ll do until the next morning’s match. Every conversation I have had as of late is football-related, and the fact that I get [...]

Paraguay sends Japan home

By Milos Kosic Japan’s World Cup dreams are over after a defeat again Paraguay on Tuesday. In an uninteresting game, where both sides were unable to score for 120 minutes, the winner was decided after a penalty shootout. Not many things will be remembered about the game. There were some good moves (especially Matsui’s long-distance [...]

England Played the Wrong Way

By James Cox It’s the mentality. It’s not the Jabulani, the lack of goal line technology, the foreign imports in the Premier League, and it certainly wasn’t that the players were tired after another gruelling season. England’s problem is the very way they play football, they are impatient in possession and do not keep the [...]

Portugal Sent Home by Neighbor’s Spain

By: Jason Le Miere A typically well-worked David Villa goal saw Spain progress to the quarterfinals of the World Cup after a narrow, but ultimately comfortable, 1-0 victory over Portugal in Cape Town, Tuesday. While Portugal were successful in frustrating the Spanish for a large part of the match, Spain finally turned up the heat [...]

Chivas USA Struggles Continue With Loss to FC Dallas

By: Mario M. Melara Carson CA — Chivas USA are now losers of six straight games, after a disappointing 2-1 loss to FC Dallas at the Home Depot Center. This is not the result that head coach Martin Vasquez was hoping for, especially after working so hard with the club in training during the much [...]

Netherlands v. Slovakia

By: Jacob Singer FT: 2-1 The Dutch outclassed Slovakia in the round of sixteen.  Despite a couple of opportunities in the second half, Slovakia’s strikers couldn’t find the back of the net.  Their only goal came from a last minute penalty kick.  Meanwhile, Arjen Robben and Wesley Sneijder scored the two goals which will see [...]

Slovakia can have regrets

By Shai Mamou, Slovakia can have regrets. Beaten by a solid but terribly individualistic team of the Netherlands ((2-1), the partners of Marek Hamsik probably paid the efforts made against Italy. Several players I had found quite interesting in the previous game seemed exhausted to me. Starting with Juraj Kucka, the defensive midfielder; his strength [...]

War dog Brazilians add some artistry

By Suben Ravindran Brazil beat Chile 3-0. It was not a typical Brazilian performance, but it was another face to this Brazil team which shows that they can win a battling style if they want to. It was a war dog performance by the Brazilians and even though the first 15 minutes was a nervy [...]

Paraguay vs Japan preview

By Milos Kosic Many months ago, when Japanese head-coach Takeshi Okada said that his team’s goal was to reach the semi-finals, not many people took him seriously. His words seemed like an unrealistic hope of a man living in illusion. Before South Africa, Japan had never won a World Cup game on foreign soil, and [...]

Let’s make it Different

By Mariano De Micheli Diego Maradona’s team advanced to the quarterfinals after defeating Mexico 3-1. In the next round, Argentina will face Germany, the very same country that eliminated them from the 2006 World Cup. The South Americans demonstrated once more that they are a tough team and they will never give up. Mexico started [...]

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