[ENGLAND] England looked the less polished but more efficient team Tuesday in beating Mexico, 3-1, at Wembley Stadium, with the word “patchy”cropping up in headlines and match reports. Mexico’s ability to stitch together passes and twice breach the English back line with through balls unnerved a sellout crowd of morethan 88,000 fans during a lively […]
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Tri defense is exposed
[MEXICO] After giving up just one goal in eight friendlies before heading off to Europe to begin final preparations for the World Cup, Mexico finally faced alegitimate contender and conceded three goals to England with remarkable ease. The bad news is Coach Javier Aguirre has only a day to repair things before theTri’s next game […]
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Beckham visits the troops in Afghanistan
David Beckham won’t be playing in the World Cup, but he brought a little bit of the taste of the World Cup to Afghanistan. That was the reactionWarrant Officer Steve Bowden after Beckham’s visit to troops at Camp Bastion, the main British military base situated northwest of Lashkar Gah, the capital ofHelmand Province. “David’s visit […]
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What to look for at Wembley?
[ENGLAND] A day before its first warmup against the Czech Republic in Connecticut, Bob Bradley and his U.S. coachingstaff will keeping an eye on what’s happening Monday at Wembley Stadium, where England, its first opponent at the World Cup, faces Mexico (TV: Fox Soccer Channel, Telemundo, noon ET). What should welook for from England? What […]
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World Cup Warmups
[DATEBOOK] Host South Africa, which will play two Latin American teams (Mexico and Uruguay) at the World Cup, plays a key warmup when it hosts Colombia inPretoria on Thursday. For all this week’s games and television viewing information … SCHEDULE:May 27 in Minsk,12:30 pm ET Belarus vs. Honduras May 27 in Aalborg, 2:15 pm ET […]
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Blackpool completes rapid climb to top
[ENGLAND] From the depths of English soccer nine years ago to promotion thanks to Saturday’s promotion playoff victory over Cardiff City at Wembley, it’s beenquite a ride for Premier League-bound Blackpool. Promotion will be a bonanza for the club from the former seaside tourist mecca. It will earn close to $130 million in television and […]
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Capello's approach: you are what you wear
While it remains to be seen whether Italian Fabio Capello become a World Cup champion coach, he’s surely a contender for World Cup micro-manager. The Englandhas implemented a strict dress code, deciding what his players will wear each day. “You are wearing this — you are a team,” is how goalkeeper RobertGreen described the philosophy. […]
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Absurdity of it all is the problem
[ENGLAND]The fallout from Lord Triesman‘s secretly taped conservations with a former mistress published on Sunday was swift. Within 24 hours of revelations that hebelieved 2018 World Cup bid rivals Spain and Russia were conspiring to fix the 2010 World Cup finals and 2018 World Cup bid, he resigned as chairman of The Football Association and […]
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Scandal rocks World Cups
[ENGLAND] If you’ve never heard of Lord Triesman before, you sure will now. He quit Sunday as the chairman of theEnglish Football Association — the head of English soccer — and England’s World Cup bid committee after he became embroiled in a sex scandal that threatens to bring down the English bid to host the2018 […]
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What They're Saying
“It’s probably the worst pitch we’ve played on all year.” — Chelsea’s John Terry on the Wembley Stadium field after the Blues beat Portsmouth,1-0, in Saturday’s FA Cup final. Portsmouth manager Avram Grant called the turf — the 11th laid down since the new stadium opened three years ago — “astable.” (FA chairman Lord Triesman […]