It’s official: the 2018 FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia and the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be held in Qatar. What do you think? Did Qatar buy their way in? It will be hot there, that’s for sure. Qatar will make the Sahara Desert seem like a shady oasis. Here’s a look [...]
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Mere moments after Spain won the 2010 FIFA World Cup, CBS News Mobile accidentally ran the wrong pre-written story, saying that the Netherlands had won the tournament. What an exciting game. It was a well-deserved SCORE to SCORE victory. [Via]
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What a touching moment we got to witness during this afternoon’s victory by Spain in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. After Spanish player Andres Iniesta scored the winning goal in extra time, he removed his jersey, revealing a vest with the words “Dani Jarque seimpre con nosotros” scrawled on it. Translation: “Dani Jarque is always [...]
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Spain has done it! After an exhausting 1-0 win in extra time over the Netherlands on Sunday, Spain has won the World Cup. Just two years after winning the European title, the Spanish soccer team topped even themselves. It certainly wasn’t the cleanest final ever played, as a finals-record 13 yellow cards were doled out. [...]
It was fun while it lasted, but America has been eliminated from the World Cup as Bob Bradley‘s team exited the tournament with a 2-1 extra-time defeat to Ghana. They fell to the same African team who also eliminated them four years ago. Once again, Team USA fell behind early and yet again they came [...]
There have been other exciting soccer matches for Team USA, but there may have been none quite as exciting as Tuesday’s game in which Landon Donovan scored in the 91st minute of play to win and advance in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Check out this great reaction clip shot at Captan Jack’s Bar in [...]
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The dramatic 1-0 victory for Team USA in their World Cup match today against Algeria may very well set a new record for internet traffic, according to Mashable. In the moments following Landon Donovan‘s game-winning goal in the 91st minute of play (which sent the U.S. to round 16), the Akamai’s Net Usage Index, which [...]
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The referee who cost the U.S. a victory over Slovenia in the 2010 FIFA World Cup is facing a performance review and could get cut from the rest of the tournament. Koman Coulibaly negated Maurice Edu‘s goal in the 86th-minute of that match that would have led to a 3-2 win for team USA. The [...]
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UPDATE: Koman Coulibaly could get benched by FIFA. Team USA has managed another tie in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. A goal by Michael Bradley with just eight minutes left helped the U.S. to rally back from a two-goal deficit to finish with a 2-2 draw against Slovenia at Ellis Park Stadium in Group C [...]
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Caution: wearing an orange dress to the World Cup can get you arrested. Two Dutch women have been busted on charges linked to an “ambush marketing” campaign by brewer Bavaria at the World Cup. It seems FIFA questioned a group of about 30 Dutch women who were watching the match between the Netherlands and Denmark [...]
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Nope. You’re TV isn’t broken. That incredibly annoying humming sound you hear during televised World Cup soccer matches is just the sound of the vuvuzela. A vuvuzela is a long, plastic horn that is popular with soccer fans in South Africa. It seems they blow on them constantly during soccer matches. You play the “instrument” [...]
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The 2010 FIFA World Cup took a dramatic turn this afternoon when the United States took on England. An epic blunder by Robert Green, England’s goalkeeper, wound up being the deciding factor as the two teams played to a 1-1 draw in their Group C opener. England was ahead 1-0 near the end of the [...]
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