Archive for the 'FIFA World Cup' Category

2006 Champions… after 24 years!

Monday, July 24th, 2006

By Camilla Mancini 
On July 9th, the must exciting match of the World Cup 2006 took place at Berlin’s Olympiastadion, the remarkable Italian team played against the splendid France on a game to define the champion and the second place of the FIFA World Cup 2006.
The match started with a frightening moment for the French when their […]

Group D Finale Results

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

By Camilla Mancini
Portugal vs. Mexico: “A hard beginning maketh a good ending” - John Heywood
Portugal most agree with Heywood given that it advanced to the second round for the first time since 1966 and did it with style, having claimed the 3 points in all its matches. This result placed the Portuguese team at the top […]

Miroslav Klose, Germany’s Scorer

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

Miroslav was born in Poland and began his career with SG Blaubach Diedelkopf and Homburg before signing for Bundesliga side Kaiserslautern in 1999. He forced his way into the full team via their amateur side.
He made his international debut in March 2001 against Albania and scored a winning debut goal after coming on from the […]

SWEDEN 2-2 ENGLAND

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

By Camilla Mancini 
 
On Tuesday the 20, England faced Sweden in Cologne while, Trinidad and Tobago was in Stuttgart playing against Paraguay. Of the four teams two were certain about their next steps: England with 6 points was definitely going to the next round and Paraguay with no points was on the other side of the […]

Germany and Ecuador on next round

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

By Camilla Mancini
 
Ecuador vs. Germany
“After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box” – Italian Proverb.

One of the king teams of the tournament and one, which many people though was going to be just a pawn in the World Cup, made real the Italian proverb last Tuesday 20th at the Olympiastdium.

Germany […]

Who is still on it? Who is leaving?

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

By Camilla Mancini

Today started the last round of matches for the first part of the World Cup, some of the teams already know if they are going to be part of the final eights or if they are going back home. Such as:
Germany and Ecuador: which met today in the field, both already know they […]

FIFA announces no doping case by World Cup teams

Tuesday, June 20th, 2006

All the 32 teams for the 2006 World Cup finals are free of doping, an FIFA official said here on Sunday.
“There were no positive results among the 216 urine samples that have been analysed to date”, said FIFA Chief Medical Officer Jiri Dvorak at a local press conference.
The 53-year-old professor said FIFA’s doping control doctors […]

Group A has been defined

Monday, June 19th, 2006

by Camilla Mancini
First impressions and players looking for the Golden Shoe
Germany and Costa Rica offered an exciting opening for the World Cup 2006. In less than 30 minutes they gave us three great goals. The two promising players for the inaugurate match were Miroslav Klose for the host team and Paulo Wanchope for the Central […]