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Archive for December 2007

December 31st, 2007

Best Soccer Goals of 2007

2007 was a great year, oh how time passes by. Well before I get all sentimental here are the Best Soccer Goals of 2007.

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December 30th, 2007

Soccer Captain O’Donnell Dies During Game

Tragedy struck the soccer world when 35 year old captain Phil O’Donnell died suddenly after collapsing in a match. O’Donnell played for Motherwell of Ireland. The tragic event happened during a match against Dundee United in the Scottish Premier League.
News is still sketchy around the circumstances but there was no contact during the [...]

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December 28th, 2007

‘Intelligent’ Soccer Ball Makes Refereeing a Little Easier

The new ‘intelligent’ soccer ball makes the refereeing a little easier by determining if the ball goes out of bounds. The Adidas company is producing these footballs for the upcoming World Cup in South Africa.
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December 27th, 2007

Team India Wins Nehru Cup

The Indian National Football team won the Nehru Cup today.
At a time when India was falling in the FIFA rankings, the Nehru Cup victory came as a tonic and the administrators began talking of improving the game in the country.

Even though team India was ranked somewhere in the 160s in the December FIFA rankings [...]

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December 26th, 2007

Iran Appoints New Head Coach

Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been in some trouble with the international football community for getting involved in Iran’s national football team, but now things might be cool as he appointed Portugal’s Artur Jorge to take on the role.
Jorge played for top Lisbon side Benfica as well as the Portuguese national team. Moving into [...]

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December 26th, 2007

Kuwait National Football Team Gets New Coach

Radion Gacanin is now the new coach of the Kuwait national football team. He was already coach of Al Kuwait, nine-times champions of the Kuwaiti League. The challenge now is to whip his new national team into shape for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Gacanin will begin by playing a friendly game against Lebanon’s [...]

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December 24th, 2007

Scotland Will Face Macedonia In 2010 World Cup Opening Game

It was announced Friday that Scotland will play Macedonia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup game opener in South Africa.
 
 
The Fixtures are;
Saturday, 6 September, 2008 - FYR Macedonia v Scotland Wednesday, 10 September, 2008 - Iceland v Scotland Saturday, 11 October, 2008 - Scotland v Norway [...]

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December 22nd, 2007

Four Men Sentenced Over Soccer Violence

They said they were going to curb soccer violence, but are they doing enough? Four Manchester United fans went looking for trouble when they went to a Manchester/Roma game in Italy. They clashed with Roma fans who were celebrating a win during the after game celebration. Kyle Dillon and Richard Wimmer, were arrested and [...]

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December 21st, 2007

Liverpool Club Playing In America

Not sure if this one is official but it seems that the Liverpool Football Club will be taking a friendly match tour of the United States and Canada football clubs.
The buzz is that they will be playing against he Major League Soccer All-Star Finalists. The match should be in Toronto sometime in July, [...]

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December 20th, 2007

Danish Fan Faces Charges For Attacking Referee

During the Euro 2008 qualifier game between Denmark and Sweden a fan jumped onto the pitch and assaulted the referee.
The man, a 29 year old Dane fan is still anonymous. The courts have charged him with attempted assault and trespassing. He’ll have to do 30 days in the slammer with another 40 hours worth [...]

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