Commentary
Soccerphile's team of writers bring
you football stories from around the world with a football and
travel focus on the World Cup and European Championships.
Weekly Football news:
all the top stories from around the football world.
Champions League news:
match reports and previews of the UEFA Champions League.
Keep up-to-date with the latest FIFA World
Rankings online or on your mobile phone.
Soccerphile interviews:
football interviews with Gary
Lineker, Gareth Southgate, Ramon
Vega, Warren Barton, Humberto
Coelho, Ian
Porterfield, Steve
Perryman, Di Law, Gert
Engels, Les Mottram, Jan
Roelfs, Gurinder Chadha......
Japanese soccer and the J.League
- match reports, stories and interviews.
Monthly reports on Japan's J.League & Japanese national
team. Plus J.League 2005 Season
Preview.
Monthly reports on Korea's
K.League & South Korean national team.
Soccerphile's Ozren Podnar brings you the latest football stories
from Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro,
Slovenia and Bosnia & Hercegovina.
UEFA Cup news: match reports
and previews of the UEFA Cup.
Asian Cup news: match reports
and previews of the Asian Cup.
Manchester United news,
interviews, players and match reports from the English Premier
League & Europe.
Premier League Preview -
English Premiership preview - all the teams and their prospects
for the 2005-6 season.
Scottish Premier League News -
SPL news and updates, from the Old Firm to Shunsuke Nakamura.
US Soccer news, interviews
and match reports from MLS & the US national team.
A-League Australia's new A-League
kicks off August 2005 - news, interviews and analysis - plus
Australian national team.
Interviews and comment on the game's
top managers and coaches - Clough, Coelho, Rehhagel, Rijkaard,
Redknapp...
Player profiles and interviews with some of the world's
leading players and ex-players - Robinho, Adriano, Prso,
Charisteas, Tevez, Ahn, Ballack...
World Cup Germany
2006 news: match
schedule, tickets, stadiums,
venue cities, qualifying
results and tables, TV rights, weather
- all the build up to the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
Gary Lineker on Japan, Gareth Southgate on Bali, Warren Barton
on Euro 2004, Frank Rijkaard on Barcelona, football's quitting
culture - read The Purist on
Soccerphile.com.
Joel Rookwood saw every Liverpool match home and away in the 2002-2003
season and he's on his travels again in Liverpool
Euro Red Diary 2003-2004 and Liverpool
Euro Red Diary 2004-2005.
Soccerphile's team of writers bring you football
stories from Spain's Primera Liga, Real Madrid, Barcelona,
Spanish players overseas and the Spanish national team.
Confederations Cup -
FIFA's biannual tournament for the champions of its regional
confederations.
Europe's top goalscorers to win
the Golden Boot award are chosen using a quotient.
Manchester United and Milan won the European Cup, were later relegated
but came back to win in Europe again. Nottingham Forest,
Naples and Mechelen also won European titles but are struggling
to regain former glories. Ozren Podnar looks at how
the mighty have fallen (and not always got back).
A policeman dies in fan violence
in Italy in February 2007, this incident will be brushed under
the carget just like the Moggi scandal, argues Ozren Podnar, as
Italy hopes to claim the hosting of the 2012 European Championships.
Soccerphile's Ozren Podnar brings you a list of football
nicknames from around the world, Argentina, Brazil, England,
Italy, Mexico, Spain, and more.
Soccerphile's Ozren Podnar brings you a list of football
players nicknames from around the world, Pele, van Basten,
Zico, Zidane, Platini, Beckham, and more.
The twenty most amazing football
matches of all time featuring World Cup, European Championships,
international and club football.
The twenty most amazing football comebacks of
all time featuring Real Madrid, Barcelona, West Germany and many
more great escapes from European and World Cup football.
The greatest football love
stories - David & Victoria, Wayne and Coleen, Andriy & Kristen,
Luis & Helen, Ronaldo & Raica, Carlos and Natalia.
The top most nearly comebacks in
European competition. Inspired by Glasgow Celtic's 5-4 aggregate
loss to Artmedia of Slovakia in 2005.
The top twenty greatest goals of
all time featuring Maradona, van Basten, Pele......
The top twenty greatest penalty
shoot-outs featuring the Czech Republic, Germany and England
of course.
The Oulmers Case threatens to
change the face of international football for the worse - for
ever.
Michel Plantini and FIFA President
Sepp Blatter back more local player representation in European
club sides.
RoboCup Osaka 2005 is all
here. The robots, the matches, the nerds. Soccerphile covers
all the angles.
Ich Liebe Deutschland - Will
Marquand in praise of Germany at World Cup 2006.
The teams,
the tickets, the news,
the venues,
the stadiums,
the accommodation,
the culture, the
things to buy.
England fans were banned from traveling to the Euro 2004 qualifying
match against Turkey in Istanbul. Some people just won't take
'No' for an answer and were determined to see the game in Istanbul. Here's
how they did it.
Full World Cup 2006 statistics including teams, scorers, attendances
and officials from the Group stage, Second
Round, Quarterfinals and Semifinals
and Final.
World Cup Korea/Japan
2002: interviews, match reports, ticket news, all the build-up
and reaction to a great tournament.
The Club World Championship supercedes
the Toyota Cup (see below) and brings together the club champions
from Europe, South America, Oceania, Asia, Africa and Central
and North America.
The World Club Cup held annually
in Japan - also known as the Intercontinental Cup and Toyota
Cup (after the Japanese car company who now sponsor the event)
- is the annual championship game between the club champions
of Europe and South America. The last World Club Cup will held
in 2004 before it is replaced by a revamped World Club Championship
from 2005. |