Brail World Cup Captains 1930 – 2014 BEING a captain of a football team is not only having a band on the arm and participating in the “ball or field” draw at the start of the match, the captain is chosen because the players of the cast respect the chosen athlete. Being the captain of […]
Which of the contenders are in the best shape and who, like England, still have plenty of unanswered questions? WORLD Cup talk is starting to dominate the conversation in football’s leading nations as the big kick-off on June 14 approaches. From favourites Brazil and Germany to hosts Russia and perennial under-achievers England, we shine the
WITH only five minutes of the 1990 World Cup final to play, Rudi Völler was fouled in the box by Roberto Sensini and the Mexican referee dramatically pointed to the spot. All eyes turned to Lothar Matthäus, West Germany captain and scorer of the winning penalty against Czechoslovakia in the quarter-finals, as he approached Andreas
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Is Sir Bobby Robson England’s greatest Manager? WHEN mulling over the question of England’s greatest ever manager, Sir Alf Ramsey is the most prominent name that springs to mind. A strong-minded man who still to this day holds the title of leading the Three Lions to their only World Cup success. Although things turned sour
IN THE long history of the game, if one were to crystallise all the finer aspects of the game into one shape, the vision of Jairzinho flashes before the eye, making him ‘Mr Football’ Football found its finest self-expression through players of high skills, tenacity, intelligence and tough physique which could sustain all these concomitants.
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THREE minutes. All West Germany had to do was hold out for another three minutes to book their place in the 1978 World Cup third-place play-off. Standing in their way were their significantly smaller European neighbours Austria, a side who hadn’t beaten them in 47 years. It couldn’t be simpler. If, however, the World Cup
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IN 1974, West Germany played hosts to the memorable World Cup of Johan Cruyff and Franz Beckenbauer. However, there were other heroes that year; men from a small Caribbean nation who briefly stole the hearts of a watching world. Haiti, a territory that shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic to its east, became only the
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BRAZIL, the team who play with the fluid rhythm of conga dancers and the daring of bullfighters, brought wild ecstasy to most of the 112 504 howling Latin Americans in Aztec Stadium in Mexico City last Sunday, when they destroyed a confused Italian team, 4-1, to win the world championship of soccer. The rout was
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How Colombia withdrew from hosting the 1986 World Cup In 1986, Mexico became the first nation to be given the honour of hosting two World Cups. 16 years prior, Mexico had hosted an incredibly successful and fondly remembered World Cup tournament where the world witnessed what is often regarded as one of the best championship
Neymar backed to lead Brazil’s World Cup bid by Selecao doctor, encouraged by recovery NEYMAR’S attempts to reach full fitness in time for the 2018 World Cup are on track, according to Brazil’s team doctor. The Paris Saint-Germain forward had his season curtailed when he fractured the fifth metatarsal in his right foot during the
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