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Don’t blame it on Rio!
So we crashed out of the FIFA Beach World Cup in Rio! So what?! We were there, weren’t we?
So we lost to Portugal; so what?! It was in penalties, wasn’t it?!
So we lost to USA! So what?! We made them work very hard for it. Didn’t we?
So we get to leave Rio with empty hands; [...]
Beach Football 101 – Do not ignore the sidelines
Folks, I know this is Iran blog, but a true football fan would never ignore football excellence in any other part of the world. After all we are talking about the only true world sport here. The one that we have grown to love ourselves, and we know that as we read these lines are [...]
We are going to Rio! Yessss!
Dang! First Japan dethrones us and wins the AFC Futsal Championship, and then Bahrain keeps us out of the beach football final!
Not good! … But wait!
Iran won third place on the beach by defeating the Chinese, and …. listen to this ….. because of that qualified for the 2006 Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup to [...]
UAE Beach Football Tournament
Here is the skinny on the six nation Beach Football tournament in UAE. Iran is participating, hence my mentioning it.
Iran set to attend Asian beach football meet
Iran will attend a Beach Football tournament scheduled to take place in UAE at the end of May.
World Cup 2010, March Madness Style
Comments(7)American sports fans are about to go crazy with March Madness. For those unfamiliar, it's a 64 team NCAA college basketball knockout tournament (or 65 teams if you count tomorrow's play-in game). The teams are seeded and then organized into a bracket where the high seeds open by playing the low seeds and everything rolls from there. Obviously not everyone's happy with their seed, and there's always plenty of complaining once the bracket is released.
The World Cup isn't quite organized like this, but March Madness seems like a perfect excuse to pretend it was. So I've ranked all the qualified World Cup teams #1 to #32, based on the March 3rd, 2010 FIFA World Ranking. Below you'll find those seedings, followed by what the World Cup 2010 March Madness style bracket would look like. [read more]
David Beckham Out of World Cup 2010: Will You Miss Him?
Comments(9)As Dave posted on The Offside yesterday, David Beckham will almost certainly miss World Cup 2010 after tearing his achilles tendon playing for Milan. Doesn't matter how golden your balls are, you still need your achilles tendon to play football.
So now we face the prospect of a Beckham-less World Cup in South Africa. My question to you: Is this a positive or negative? Will you miss D-Becks this summer?
On one hand, the public love Beckham the über-celebrity. He shows up and people go crazy, and it seems a shame that the many many Beckham fans either living in or travelling to South Africa will be denied a chance of seeing the man in action. Certainly Sepp Blatter will miss him.
On the other hand you could argue that Beckham the player is an all but spent force and that his presence in South Africa would be more about celebrity than soccer. As with any celebrity, there are also people out there who just flat our don't like old Goldenballs and so don't enjoy the attention he receives. I can definitely see how serious football fans might have been annoyed during World Cup 2010 with the multiple camera angles of Beckham sitting on the England bench. [read more]
Credit Cards Can Turn Your Couch Potato Self Into a World Cup Goalscorer. Apparently.
Comments(3)Less than three months of advertising time left till World Cup! What this means is that we're going to be seeing a lot of ads like this one.
I think that the take home message here is that if you're a couch potato, the right credit card can [read more]
Podcast: World Cup 2010 Group A (Highly Scientific) Preview
Comments(8)Ah, World Cup previews. They can be a bit dull and not particularly helfpul when it comes to predicting who will qualify from each group. One reason for this is that they focus too much on things like players and not enough on the really good things. Like quality of [read more]
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Leo Messi: The Hat-Trick Scoring UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador
Seems Leo Messi can do no wrong. On Friday he became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, a role that will involve speaking out on behalf of impoverished children. That alone deserves a pat on the back. Then yesterday Messi scored a hat-trick for Barcelona as they beat third-place Valencia 3-0. An (almost?) ...
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Beckham Severely Injured; Will Miss World Cup
It was the hobble felt 'round the world. One second, David Beckham is squaring up on a ball, unopposed. The next, he is begging for a change, hopping on his right leg, in severe, tearful pain. And just like that, in the dying minutes of a ...
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VIDEO: "Ditewig's Blunder" and the 10 Second Goal
How is this for a laugher? The video is simply called "Blunder Ditewig." A better title would simply be unimaginable. Check out Ditewig's blunder, and keep this in mind; this same game opened up in the first ten seconds with a goal. Don't believe me? I have video evidence ...
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POLL: Fernando Torres - Will He Stay Or Will He Go?
The inevitable has happened; flirtations with failure this season have given the Reds brightest star pause about his future. Though Liverpool continue to cling to the hopes of a top four finish this season, Fernando Torres can read the tea leaves, and he doesn't seem to like what his ...
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5 Things to Keep You Occupied if MLS Strikes
A tiny bit of good news on the MLS front: apparently the vote on Thursday wasn't an actual vote to strike. It was more like...a vote to vote on a strike. More like being engaged to be engaged than actually being betrothed. In other ...
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Beckham Sends an Anti-Glazer Message, and Manchester United Are NOT Happy
In case you missed it earlier this week, David Beckham sent quite the message in his return to Old Trafford. And he didn't even have to open his mouth; all he had to do was put on a scarf in the yellow-and-green stripes that symbolize the anti-Glazer movement -- ...
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Offside Rewind: Fingers & Thumbs
Seven stories from the past week on The Offside and World Cup Blog. You can't do this in Japan anymore. Great week for Champions League goals. Bad week for beating the Champions League final hosting hoodoo. World Cup 2010 jersey reviews: Bafana Bafana and Les Bleus. Dennis Bergkamp. Good at football. Brazil 1982. Good at football. ...
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Daily Dose: March 12th, 2010 - Featuring Higuain's Non-Pass to Cristiano Ronaldo
The Gonzalo Higuain non-pass that made Cristiano Ronaldo mad... Why Lyon won but their sponsors lost in the above game (BNET) Ice hockey offers soccer solution to penalty shoot-outs (NY Times) Extra Kiwi defender uncovered in Denmark (New Zealand World Cup Blog) Imaginary advertising at World Cup 2010 venues (Sport 24M) Proof that Americans ...
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