World Football

Ranking of under-21 players
Here are the results of the poll about players born in 1989 (or after) held in the following thread: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.soccer/browse_thread/thread/6307eb141a01d810# The RSS ranking of the shortlisted players is: 1. Pato (0.91) 2. Balotelli (0.40) 3. Jovetic (0.23) 4. Krkic (-0.07) 5. Sa... 2 Mar 2010 11:19

Mediocre sluts who sold a lot
On Jan 14, 8:11 pm, Steffi Ivan Graf Lendl <zepflo...(a)gmail.com> typed his usual uninformed bilge 1) Your mother ... 15 Jan 2010 07:13

The latest on Freddy Adu
He joins US striker Eddie Johnson at Aris FC who is there on loan from Fulham. I can't believe that Hull City would have been interested in a diminutive player who usually couldn't even find the BENCH for the bottom-dwellers of the Portuguese league. While Aris is probably a "better" choice for Adu, I'm skeptical t... 19 Feb 2010 11:03

10 Most Notable Events of the Decade
10 Arsenal going the entire 2003/2004 season undefeated 9 Jose Mourinho winning the title in three different leagues in five years 8 Barcelona winning every competition they entered in 2009 7 Spain finally winning a major championship 6 Real Madrid's surreal 2009 spending spree 5 Henry's handball agains... 12 Jan 2010 08:29

Best "next generation" players
....according to La Gazzetta dello Sport: http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/giovani_stelle.shtml "Next generation" = born in 1989 or after Ranking criterium: what impact could they have on the "next" (i.e. the present?) season, considering club team, national league and national team. Fantasy Scout legenda: * pi... 26 Dec 2009 08:58

Serie A 2009-2010 Round 15
6 December 2009 ROMA 1 (Cassetti 79) LAZIO 0 Attendance : 54,723 Assist : Vucinic BOLOGNA 2 (Adailton 27 fk, Di Vaio 65) UDINESE 1 (Di Natale 47) Adailton's fifth goal of the season was a superb free kick. Di Natale beat the Bologna offside trap to equalise. Domizzi tripped Di Vaio to concede a pen... 8 Dec 2009 20:55

Worst soccer confederations
http://home.netvigator.com/~andrewshe/wcstatistics.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population These countries have at least 5 million people and yet have never played in the World Cup. Asia and Africa are clearly the worst. Europe has only old country (Finland) with 5 million population whi... 5 Dec 2009 17:26

The Wunderteams of football history and why they never won a title in their prime
Wunderteam 1: Austria 1931-1933: The world cup 1934 came a little bit late for them. Two years before nobody could have stopped them, but in 1934 they were still the best, but lost the Semifinals against Italy because the refery was completely on Italy's side because of the the pressure of the Italian regime. W... 3 Dec 2009 20:34

UEFA playoffs [R]
This one we know already: FT: Russia - Slovenia 2-1 Battle of the Super-Eurocrotos: FT: Greece - Ukraine 0-0 Why oh why must one of these two sleep-inducing outfits make it to SA? Battle of the Most Loveable versus Most Despicable Coach HT Ireland - France 0-0 Battle of the different-metal genera... 19 Nov 2009 16:26

Russia - Slovenia [R]
On Nov 14, 11:41 am, "futbolmet...(a)yahoo.com" <futbolmet...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: 39'  0-0 Will the pesky Slovenes create a huge upset? D 44' Bilyaletdinov 1-0 Russia ... 14 Nov 2009 14:32