New France coach Laurent Blanc wasted no time laying down the law to France’s underachieving World Cup stars. He has dropped them ALL for France’s friendly against Norway in Oslo on August 11. A French FA statement read: “Laurent Blanc met this Friday with the federal council, to whom he presented his staff and his […]
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We have recently added some great new writers across our network of sports sites and each day we will be highlighting some of the great posts that were published on our other sites: Soccer Posts Does South Africa have a chance of progressing to the knockout stages? Is Inter Milan in trouble over the Milito […]
Jose Mourinho was introduced at the Bernabeu as the new coach of Real Madrid after signing a four-year deal with the Spanish side Mourinho becomes the ninth coach at Real Madrid in the last six years. In introducing Mourinho, Real sporting director Jorge Valdano said: “It’s an honour to have with us one of the […]
The English FA will hold emergency talks with Fabio Capello today in a bid to end Inter Milan’s pursuit of the England manager. Capello again refused to commit his future to England yesterday after the win over Japan saying: “I don’t speak with some people from Inter Milan. I know nothing about this. The situation […]
It took two own goals, but England beat Japan 2-1 Sunday in its final World Cup warm-up game. After Marcus Tanaka had given Japan a seventh-minute lead, England’s Frank Lampard had a penalty saved by Eiji Kawashima. But Tanaka headed a cross by Joe Cole into his own net in the 72nd minute and Yuji […]
Inter Milan President Massimo Moratti and Real Madrid President Florentino Perez met in Milan on Friday and agreed on the compensation that Real will pay Inter for Jose Mourinho. Mourinho’s contract had a 16million euros release clause in it, but it appears that Real will only have to pay Inter 8million euros for the best […]
U.S. coach Bob Bradley decided that even with Charlie Davies’s remarkable recovery from a near-fatal car crash seven months ago, that he was not ready to play in a World Cup game. So Bradley left Davies off his 30-man U.S. preliminary roster today. Also left off the list are Colorado forward Conor Casey and Freddy […]
Ten-men Inter Milan put on a textbook example of how to defend in Barcelona and knocked the defending champions out and sent Inter to their first Champions League Final since 1972. Once again Jose Mourinho showed why he is the “Special One. His tactics proved decisive as Inter not only overcame the loss of Goran […]