Time to boo the refs
Monday, June 26th, 2006The group games saw pretty solid referees performances. A lot of good calls. That has has changed quite a bit with the heightened intensity of the knock out round.
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The group games saw pretty solid referees performances. A lot of good calls. That has has changed quite a bit with the heightened intensity of the knock out round.
Lakes of tears are coming up
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006The world cup is in a transitional phase right now. The first teams are returning home (and let go of their coaches). The remaining teams are hyping up a bit more.
Which World Cup games should I watch?
Monday, June 19th, 2006The answer is pretty simple: All of them. Here is the reason why: Related to Forrest Gump you could say that soccer is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get. Some of the most acclaimed teams have performed rather poorly and ...
Hats off to Spain
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006Here is a team that has been written off by their national press. The have the strongest league in the world but much of that is credited to the foreign superstars in their teams. It looked like the blend of the Spanish players sans their foreign stars was ...
Brasil demystified
Wednesday, June 14th, 2006The highly anticipated first appearance of the hyped up Brazilian all-super star team ended in a pretty big disaster even though the team won 1:0.
World Cup update: Reality check for some teams is already in place
Monday, June 12th, 2006We are into day four of the tournament. Twenty teams have played so far. time for a little update. The game continues to get faster. The effects of Adidas introducing a new "fastball" for the tournament are noticeable in my eyes. The atmosphere in and around the ...
Let the games begin
Friday, June 9th, 20064 years of cold turkey are cover. The biggest sport event of the world is about to take off. The LA Times titled last Sunday already: "Party on Klaus!". Usually they don't talk to me the directly;-) Our blog countdown of videos to warm up is over. All I need now ...
My favorite World Cup story so far - soccer fan unveiled
Friday, June 2nd, 2006Ever heard of Oliver Wittke? He is a government member in the State of North-Rhine Westphalia in Germany. German kids don't collect baseball cards but their equivalent are little "Panini" stickers of soccer players that they post into their collectors book. And that's exactly what Mr. Wittke was ...
Deja vu - Mr. Kevin alone at home is haunting me
Thursday, May 25th, 2006For soccer fans only: Here I am preparing for the World Cup. Today's schedule included a 5 mile run in Manhattan Beach. I am dressed to the occasion with my German national team jersey (even though it is the jinxed 98 loser-edition).
The dumbest sport stars ever?
Thursday, May 25th, 2006One of my mantras of the last 30 years is that soccer players are not very smart (I played myself for over 20 years - go figure ;-) ) Here is another brilliant example of what I am talking about: Nuno Gomes and Armando Petit of the Portuguese national team were getting ...
