Who Are the Favourites For the 2010 World Cup and Who Has an Outside Chance?
Now that the draw for the World Cup 2010 has now been made we have a chance to look at each team in detail and their chances of progressing through the group stages and into the knockout round of the competition. As usual, most of the big teams (except for France and Portugal) qualified with easy, and have therefore been seeded and ended up with fairly easy groups.
Footballer Profile – Frank LampardFew people who have won 76 caps for England, scoring 20 goals in the process, have divided the nation’s football fans as much as Frank Lampard. Lamps, if you’re a fan; Fat Frank, if you’re not.
The Top Ten Reasons Why Every Soccer Player Should Learn to JuggleA players touch and feel for the ball is vital in the game soccer. One of the best ways to improve this skill is by learning to juggle. Why you may ask? Well keep reading. Below I list why juggling is important for every player to learn.
Andrei Arshavin – The Little Russian MasterIt’s not often that Arsene Wenger pays out big money on transfer fees. It’s even less frequent that the shrewd Frenchman pays it out on a player nearing his 28th birthday. The Arsenal manager is well-known for preferring to sign younger players that he can mould into world superstars and then, when the time is right, sell again for enormous profits – think of Henri, Anelka, Adebayor and many others.
The Best Selling Soccer JerseysEvery year what jerseys are the most popular tends to change depending on not only the design of the shirts and how the team is performing but also who signs for the club. The success of teams on the park tends to be the biggest indicator as to what soccer shirts will be the biggest sellers but this year we have seen the players who sign for clubs influencing the shirt sales more and more, before it is known whether they will be successful for the club.
Taking a Header? Wondering Why Your Neck Hurts?Bonney Lake, WA is a great place to live if you love playing sports, especially soccer. Children of all ages play soccer on the plateau. Soccer may be one of the most popular sports around the globe, but it is also has one of the highest incidence of trauma. Severe spinal cord injuries, disc herniation and fractures, and dislocations are among the acute injuries to the cervical spine in soccer.
Flourishment of Soccer on EarthSoccer, the most widely played team game in the world and also the most popular spectator sport has been played on the planet for over 3000 years. The origin of soccer is found in every corner of geography and history.
What Are Your Secrets to Bet This Season?The advent of internet has made things easier and safer you can just place you bets online and keep yourself updated. However, it impossible to predict the results of the soccer, but one can really work upon their chances of improving.
Soccer Jerseys – The Top Selling SportswearThere is little doubt that soccer is the top sport in the world. Soccer is the most supported and the most watched sport, it seems to have universal appeal that even seems to be making it’s way across to the US. Sports in the US is still mostly dominated by baseball, basketball and American football, however over recent years soccer has gained an increasing level of support. Soccer jerseys and kits are now the biggest selling sportswear items in the world.
What’s Next For Football Tactics?Football is one of the most popular (if not the most popular) sports in the world. Since its conception over 100 years ago in the schools of England it has been exported to nearly every country imaginable and its strength and popularity has grown exponentially.
Has the Sweeper Gone Forever?In football (or soccer for all your Americans) there are many different positions on the pitch where a player can play. Every position has a different role, and certain players are better at certain roles. Over time, as the game changes new roles are invented and old roles disappear. There is a role that has disappeared in the last 5 years called the ‘sweeper’ position.
Footballer Profile – Robin Van PersieFollowing in the footsteps of Dennis Bergkamp as Arsenal’s Dutch striker is an unenviable task. But, at the moment, Robin van Persie is making a good job of it.