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How is it that the ESPN/ABC announcers can pronounce "Belo Horizonte" with a Portuguese accent, but Dani Alves is always pronounced "AL-vez" like...
Let it be said that earnings and stupidity are not mutually exclusive. I find it more than a little silly and immature that you chose that as your...
I'd like to believe that. But no gameplan in the world will compensate for a player who cannot make a proper pass or cross to a teammate. When it...
These are times to look for easy scapegoats in the hope they lead to quick fixes. But as much as Bento did not bring, nor start, the optimal team...
Yup. Portugal essentially knocked themselves out in the first match. But whether they couldn't get past Germany in the first match or the...
Personally, I am sick of the sport being catered more and more to fat slobs watching the match from 10,000km away on their sofas with a bowl of...
Not dead. Just broke.
My god... another match where Bento doesn't start William? He really does want to get fired.
Laurent Blanc's grandfather can mark better than Verratti. I'm not so sure you haven't dodged a bullet.
Hey, I loved Nuno's winning goal against Spain to eliminate them from Euro 2004. But that was also the first time we had beaten Spain since 1981....
I'm not sure it matters much at all, really. This was the big question for me during the WC group draw: as soon as Portugal were paired with...
Watching Iran lose to Argentina at the very end, my immediate thought was, "And that's why he's no longer our coach."
Take five data points and extrapolate for the rest of human history. Lather, rinse, repeat.
If they had Falcao, they could win that. Without, chances aren't so good. Things may improve now that Pekerman has seen that the James + Jackson...
Ouch, but true. Hopefully the future of the Sporting academy is in good caretaking hands with BdC.
As someone wisely said long ago: you don't pick your club to support, it picks you. Your job is to create opportunities for that to happen.
In the summer months there's what's colloquially (and sometimes formally) known as "The Azores Express" -- a weekly non-stop flight from Oakland...
Someone seriously needs to buy you a keyboard with punctuation keys. I have an easier time reading Portuguese than that.
Ask that of Italy at Euro 2004 when they were eliminated with a Denmark 2 - 2 Sweden draw in the final group match...
He's been taking lessons from Maradona
It doesn't help that the way that any sport is packaged for the legions of uninitiated that casually follow major, infrequent events like the WC,...
When there are bizarre ref calls and red cards, there's always a chance.
If you don't, then why bother showing up, right?
Team organization and commitment to a vision and philosophy (of Klinsmann's) seem like the bigger difference-makers for USA this WC. (And Portugal...