If we want high quality, 20 teams are plenty for a WC - 2 each from N.America, Africa and Asia, 4 from S.America, 10 Europeans. 8 teams for an EC....
Send out the talent scouts - if they're not out all the time anyway - and look for the barefoot kid who can volley to himself while outdribbling 3...
This is a little bit like comparing apples to oranges, and will also depend on which country or demographic we're talking about. In the US, I...
Nothing against Mr. Messi, but calling him the 'best footballer in the world' or the best player of the WC seems a little bit exaggerated. I am...
Security is likely to be a nightmare, especially for the fans, who won't have their very own protection like the athletes, and they better hope...
Put a Shakira concert video on, and something beautiful will be back on your screen. Anyway, the match wasn't pretty - finals seldom are - but the...
Agreed. It does appear as though the epic battle with Italy on July 5th, 1982 in Barcelona shook Brazil to the core, so much so that they...
Do we know why they didn't use their penalty specialist goalie? Were they saving him for....later.....??
I'm sure that somewhere on the streets of Brazil, there are several more Neymars, David Luiz's and Oscars, just waiting to be discovered. Or,...
Unfortunately, I think Galo Vingador is right, and in order to get Brazil back on the track they should have been on all along, Brazil needs to...
The final stat lines of this match are very deceiving, because Löw effectively called off the dogs - who hadn't even broken a sweat - after about...
If you're going to bring up doping, you might as well recall every medal ever won by a Warsaw Pact nation (some western ones also), pretty much...
What really was amazing about those performances was that in 1978, not only did Kempes & Co. get all the refs on their side, they also got the...
Totally. Jamaica, Turks & Caicos, Bermuda, El Salvador and Trinidad & Tobago all want to go. They'll feel right at home in Magnetigorsk.
You guys do realize, do you not, that the only really fair way to determine the 'best team in the world' is a round-robin tournament, in which...
The Brazilian people have every right to feel angry, maybe even insulted, by their very own soccer federation, who apparently couldn't manage to...
Argentina - Nigeria remains my favorite match of the tournament, and this isn't likely to change.... Wonder why the Dutch seemed so very timid....
Nigeria - Argentina. Great soccer from both sides for a full 90 minutes, no foul-faking, no swan-diving, no quasi-bogus penalties, they didn't...
Un-be-lievable! Granted, there's no shame in losing to Germany, but if you're Brazil, you really shouldn't get crushed, destroyed and humiliated...
For much the same reason Germany is also a powerhouse in science, technology, literature, arts....
In the United States, we like to pretend that our athletes are bona fide 'college students'. It seems that Latin America likes to pretend their...
Haven't been back to Europe in over a decade, so I'll have to guess, but yes, the Spanish ref may not have been quite as aware of the burning...
Tough call. If anyone can beat Brazil at home it's the Germans, but something tells me that we'll see yellow and blue-white jerseys in the final....
This has the potential of becoming a very depressing day for the Univision staff. Hard to imagine Oranje losing to Costa Rica, and even Messi &...
I saw that infamous Germany - Austria match in '82 and compared to it, today's game was a fast-paced thriller. I pretty much knew that Germany...