On Friday the first ball of the 2010 World Cup will be kicked off in Johannesburg when Mexico will face the host nation. A few hours later the other Group A match will get underway between Uruguay and France. 
Living in North America I have managed to watch plenty of Mexico matches and I can tell [...]

Fans, do you dare put your monopoly money where your mouth is? If you do, take a few minutes and tell me which two teams will go through from each group.

OK, so we are not in it, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get into World Cup spirit and enjoy the show now, does it? I did not think so!
Now let’s start with the first ever World Cup that I can remember as a kid. It was the 1974 World Cup and we lived [...]

A friend of mine who is a diehard Liverpool fan sent me this joke, and I thought I share:
The Liverpool manager flies to Baghdad to watch a young Iraqi play football, is suitably impressed and arranges for him to come over to Anfield. 
Two weeks later Liverpool are 4-0 down to Man United with only 20 [...]

Yesterday a friend of mine posted a link to a funny blog post titled “Top 10 Bizarre or Ridiculous Fatwas”.
Number five on the list was a reference to a football fatwa about which I had read in the New York Times and later posted on my soccer blog. So I dug the article out of [...]

Iran is not going to be in the World Cup and that is just as well because had we somehow made it, we would have been even worse off than we were in 2006. Let’s face it, our football has not improved any since 2006 and some might even argue that it has gotten [...]

Since there are various phases of struggling with initial difficulties, promoting yourself as a newbie is not often an easy-to-do job.
First of all, you should prove that your appearance or presence would not disturb the stable situation or dwindle the settled tranquility, then you should gain the trust of your audiences so as to make [...]

I have no idea what the folks at FIFA have been smoking, but man they must have been in some “Purple Haze” when they suggested that the EPL should take a lesson from the Iranian Football Federation!
Yes, you read me right! That is exactly what they suggested!
As a diehard Iranian football fan, I’d be the first [...]

Team Melli had its first game under full leadership of new coach Ali Daei and the result was not pretty. Iran lost its friendly encounter with Bahrain by a single goal.
This could not be exactly a confidence builder with the Kuwait game coming up in a few days. But to be fair to Daei he has not [...]

This wasn’t such a hot week for Iranian clubs in Asia. Last year’s AFC Champions League runner ups, Sepahan of Isfahan, lost their 2008-09 opener against al Ittihad of Syria. This is the same team mind you that they had defeated 5-0 in Damascus last year. What a difference one year makes!
The other Iran representative, [...]