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Euro Cup 2008 Final Set for Sunday on ABC

9:50 PM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 |
Mat Lande
SPAIN VERSUS GERMANY
If you did not see the World Cup in 2006, you missed the world famous Zidane-Materazzi head butt incident. In my opinion, that was some of the best television I have ever witnessed. France and Italy put forth a world class effort in Berlin, Germany. Although the game certainly ended in controversy, there was no shortage of excitement all the way u...

Iraq disbands national soccer team

3:43 PM Thu, Jun 26, 2008 |
Aaron Chimbel

From the Associated Press:

BAGHDAD -- It was less than a year ago that Iraqis poured
into the streets in a rare show of unity and celebration after the
national soccer team won the prestigious Asian Cup.

Celebratory gunfire roared across Baghdad and other cities. A
beaming Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki later awarded each team
member a $10,000 bonus and held a homecoming celebration filled



Premier League English Football (soccer)

10:02 PM Wed, Mar 19, 2008 |
Mat Lande

Most Americans have no idea what Premier League is. We have enough sports to follow without adding new foreign sports into the mix, right?

Wrong. Even Nascar has its share of foreign drivers entering the sport every season. Believe it or not there are a surprising number of American footballers playing in England's highest levels of competition in Football. The only way Americans will follow a sport like "soccer" is if Americans ca...



UEFA Champions League

3:31 PM Thu, Mar 13, 2008 |
Mat Lande

The Champions League tournament will resume the quarter finals and semi finals following Friday's drawing in Switzerland to decide the pairings for the eight remaining teams. Four of the eight are of English side. Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Manchester United all hail from England, and two (Chelsea and Arsenal) are based in London, England. The other non-English teams are FC Barcelona(Spain), AS Roma(Italy), FC Schalke 04(Germany), and...