World Cup 2006 News

Tonight I was watching a documentary on Eurosport covering the World Cup of 1986 especially Argentina´s way to the trophy. Jorge Valdano was interviewed and he was commenting on the quarter-final against England. This match has seen 2 wonderful goals of young man named Maradona. The second one is in my opinion the best score the World Cup has ever seen. Take a glance at this my fellow soccer-addicts. Read more

ManU star Wayne Rooney is sure to be named in England’s squad on May 15, but Eriksson assistant Grip has admitted that they will have to think of a plan without Rooney.

It doesn’t look hopeful as far as Wayne is concerned,

Eriksson and Grip do also have to worry about Owen, who is not sure to get fit enough soon.

With Wayne, we will have to wait and see - but it doesn’t look good at the moment.

Poor Wayne.

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This is gonna be a short one. Bob over at WCB is telling us about a fan in England who has insured himself for £1 million against the trauma of seeing England knocked out of the early stages of World Cup. How crazy is this gonna get?

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The following post is a test if there is a good feedback I´ll make this a weekly event here on World Cup 2006 News Blog. I set up a few questions all related to the World Cup History. I´d love for you to join me. Here are the first 4 questions, please don´t try to cheat yourself by using search engines or whatever. Just sit down a moment and have some fun. Here we go. Read more

Yesterday I told you about probably the best goal the World Cup has ever seen. If you´re anything like myself you enjoy watching beautiful goals over and over again. So here we go. Join me watching 18 year-old Michael Owen scoring a wonderful goal against Argentina in France 1998. Read more

Eriksson will take injured striker Wayne Rooney to the World Cup, even if he is only fit for England’s ultimate target - the final on 9 July said the BBC earlier today.

I don’t know if it is going to be possible to have him in the World Cup or not. I hope so and I will believe so because I am optimistic by nature.

Rooney might stay in Manchester to heal out his injury even while the World Cup is already rolling. If confirmed by the doctors he will join the team over in Germany. I guess only time can tell.

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Yesterday Brazil Coach Parreira named the team for their opening match on June 13th against Croatia. Therefore he sticks to the team that finished the qualifying last year.

The team which starts the Cup will be the same one which finished the qualifiers, we have to be coherent.

That would mean Brazil will be playing with the so called Magic Quartet consisting of Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Adriano and Kaka. Here´s the whole team that played the last match during the World Cup Qualifying. Read more

Are you interested in knowing excactly what´s going on in the World Cup sphere? Are you interested in knowing those things as they occur? This map is for you. Check it out, amazing what Google Maps is able to do. [via]

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Would you wanna know how Wayne Rooney got injured? Yeah I know he got fouled and so on. I know, that´s the official version. If you´re interested in knowing what the two World Wars contributed to the strikers injury I suggest for you to read this Guardian article. Sorry Lions but this article is real fun.

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And we´re back my fellow football lovers. Today seems to pretty much of a video day I got the following one via email from Scott (thanks), showing our pal Ronaldinho performing what he´s known to be best at. Just watch it, stunning. If you´re anything like me you were very impressed by what Ronaldo was doing a few years back in his Barcelona days. Back then I thought it couldn´t get any better, but well I was wrong. Nowadays Ronaldinho is doing even crazier stuff even faster. Get a load of this. Read more