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Sports Central
July 4, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Germany vs. Italy Gary Lineker's famous quote that "football is a simple game where 22 men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win" usually is right on point, except for this year.   |
AskMen.com
October 28, 2013
Simon Kuper |
2014 World Cup Preview Possibly the four best teams on earth today -- Brazil, Germany, Argentina and Spain -- are intent on providing more attacking thrills than we've seen in many a tournament. |
Sports Illustrated
June 20, 2002
Grant Wahl |
German studies If the Americans are going to beat Germany -- and I think it's entirely possible as Germany was the least impressive of the eight second-round winners -- they'll have to prevent the Germans from running roughshod over them in the midfield. |
Sports Central
June 29, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Italy vs. Ukraine The second World Cup game on Friday features a depleted Italy squad against a goal-challenged Ukraine side in what is easily the least anticipated quarterfinal of the 2006 World Cup, unless you are an Italian or Ukranian fan. |
AskMen.com
June 12, 2002
Dennis O'Connell |
Top 10 Most Attended World Cup Games Pride is one thing, but facts and figures are another. This list looks at the most watched World Cup finals in terms of average attendance at each game. |
Sports Central
May 20, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group A One of the weakest groups in this summer's World Cup features the host nation Germany, along with Poland, Ecuador, and Costa Rica. |
AskMen.com
July 2, 2012
Simon Kuper |
Data Analysis And Soccer Just two years ago, data analysis was still not very widespread in international soccer. Penalties are the most obvious piece of data to analyze, yet big teams like England and Argentina entered their knockout games in 2010 with barely any statistics on their opponents' penalties. |
Sports Illustrated
June 21, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Good news, bad news U.S. World Cup team happy with effort, but laments missed chances. |
AskMen.com
July 14, 2014
Simon Kuper |
How Germany Created A Lean, Mean Unbeatable World Cup Machine It takes a country to create a team like this. And not many countries could manage that project. |
Sports Central
June 21, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Germany vs. Sweden Germany proved invulnerable to minimal resistance as they waltzed to the second round with an unblemished record, capturing the full nine points from their three games against inferior opposition. |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
Lionel Messi: Copa America Lionel Messi will continue to prove his skills at the Copa America against Colombia today. |
Sports Central
December 14, 2005
Jeff Pohlmeyer |
World Cup Group of Death? The greatest sporting event in the world is taking place just a few months from now. No, not the Super Bowl, not the Olympics. The World Cup of soccer. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Get your World Cup scorecard! Everything you need to know about the players and teams... |
Salon.com
June 12, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Sacre bleu! Dios mio! It's the Bizarro World Cup! France fades into Sartrean nothingness, Argentina dances the tango of despair and the United States and Japan, titans of world baseball -- sorry, I mean soccer -- rise up. |
Sports Central
May 9, 2014
Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups E and F Groups E and F include Switzerland, Ecuador, Argentina, and more. |
Sports Central
May 27, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group C Aside from tournament contenders Argentina and the Netherlands, both Serbia and Montenegro and the Ivory Coast have the talent to get out of this deep group. |
Salon.com
July 2, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
Ten things I learned about life and soccer from the 2002 World Cup There is a football God, and despite the wild twists and turns of this year's tournament, He's still Brazilian. |
AskMen.com
June 28, 2014
Dave Golokhov |
GIF Guide: Understanding The World's Soccer Strategies, One GIF At A Time For those of you new to soccer, we've highlighted some strategies from basic to advanced in terms of what you might see at the World Cup |
AskMen.com
December 1, 2013
Simon Kuper |
5 Big Questions To Prepare You For The World Cup Draw However, even that might not be enough to match Maradona in legend. What the older man did in 1986 is essentially unrepeatable: to win a World Cup with a minimum of help from his teammates, hardly any of whom is still remembered today. |
Fast Company
Miles Kohrman |
Argentina Parties Hard After World Cup Win, And These Drones Take You There Someone was thoughtful enough to record the festivities by drone, for those of us who couldn't be there. |
Sports Central
June 3, 2010
Kevin Beane |
Slant Pattern's 2010 World Cup Preview It's that time of the decade, where half of you (Americans) will take an interest in soccer for three weeks and then put it to bed for four years, and the other half will revel in your prideful ignorance. |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Viva Italia 32 teams will clash in Japan and South Korea for soccer's utlimate prize. Here's how we see the field -- and why the Italians will have reason to celebrate... |
AskMen.com
June 23, 2014
Simon Kuper |
World Cup Roundup: What's Eating Messi? We thought, in short, that this was a golden Argentine generation. But it has turned out to depend on Messi. |
Sports Central
June 14, 2007
Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden There is plenty of meaningful, enjoyable soccer played in-between World Cups at the international level |
Sports Illustrated
June 18, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Arena football U.S. soccer coach rides instinct into round of eight. |
AskMen.com
Al Saunders |
Top 10: 2006 World Cup Stadiums In Germany Organizers have announced that approximately 2.6 million World Cup tickets are being sold for the 2006 FIFA World Cup. |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
Euro 2012 Preview Despite the wide-open nature of this tournament, there's no doubt about the three best teams going into the tournament: Spain, Holland and Germany. |
Sports Illustrated
September 23, 2000
Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
Salon.com
May 30, 2002
Andrew O'Hehir |
The greatest show on earth It's World Cup time again -- when more than a billion people will be enthralled not just by the joy of victory and agony of defeat, but also by the mystery and despair that is championship soccer... |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2010
Bas van den Beld |
Search Marketing in Germany A look at trends in search and social marketing in Germany during Search Engine Strategies Berlin. |
Sports Central
April 10, 2014
Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups A and B With the World Cup scarcely over two months away, it's time to roll out the previews. In this first of a four-part series, I will be looking at groups A and B. |
Sports Central
June 1, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup Preview: Group D Group D is about as straight-forward as you get: Two soccer teams (Portugal and Mexico) flooded with distinguished players, and two teams (Iran and Angola) who are clearly not. |
AskMen.com
June 16, 2014
Simon Kuper |
Why We're Seeing The Return Of Attack Soccer (And Why It's Better For The Fans) We know what viewers want: stars playing attacking soccer. |
Sports Central
May 13, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
The Idiot's Guide to the World Cup In less than one month, the grandest tournament on the planet kicks off -- the World Cup of football, or what Americans call soccer. |
AskMen.com
David Stoll |
Top 20: Soccer Players Of All Time Basically, a footballer who is a national hero or a club legend must obviously be considered one of the greatest. Read these players' biographies and decide for yourself whether they would be included in your top 20. |
Sports Illustrated
September 19, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Unfamiliar refrain The Yanks are coming! The Yanks are coming! The U.S. is a decent side on the international stage now, one that has to be taken seriously by any team in the world. And that's a huge advance from what any European would have said before the World Cup. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Tom Keene |
Tom Keene Talks with Niall Ferguson The Harvard history professor holds forth on European stress tests, Germany and the financial crisis, and British austerity. |
Sports Central
May 22, 2014
Kevin Beane |
World Cup Preview, Groups G and H The author predicts the likelihood of success for teams from the USA, Germany, Portugal, and more. |
BusinessWeek
December 6, 2004
William Boston |
Germany's Very Public Battle Over Public TV Private rivals complain that tax-financed networks are competing unfairly |
AskMen.com
Simon Kuper |
Soccer In 2012 The year's highlight should be the European Championship, team for team a considerably stronger competition than the World Cup. Spain hopes to become the first side to complete the treble of Euro, World Cup and then Euro, and judging strictly by personnel, it should do it. |
Sports Central
June 28, 2007
Kevin Beane |
The Gold Cup is Golden (Pt. 2) A recap of the Gold Cup playoffs. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Joshua Goodman |
The Asset Sale of a Lifetime? Argentina's devalued peso has Latin American investment pouring in. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2005
Kevin Beane |
World Cup Fever, Anyone? Sports fans who find themselves lost between seasons, or in the midst of boring ones, may find that soccer fills the void quite nicely -- particularly, the high-stakes, world cup level. |
Sports Central
June 2, 2011
Kevin Beane |
2011 Gold Cup Preview Nearly a year has passed since the World Cup has passed, which is usually the beginning and the end of United States interest in soccer. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2003
Joshua Goodman |
Argentina: Playing Hardball With Creditors Bondholders meet with Argentine officials in New York and six other cities in the U.S., Europe, and Japan this week. The talks will revolve around Argentina's call for a draconian 75% reduction in the principal of $87 billion in defaulted bonds. Nobody expects a breakthrough. |
BusinessWeek
September 4, 2006
Jack Ewing |
Dell And Deutschland: Perfect Together In Germany, troubled computer maker Dell is doing better than ever. |
AskMen.com
Andrew Jordan |
The World Cup From A to Z Comments on the games, country by country. |
Sports Central
June 29, 2010
Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football? |
Sports Illustrated
May 21, 2002
Grant Wahl |
Soccer coverage SI's coverage of soccer is expanding -- just not as fast as, say, boating... |
BusinessWeek
November 1, 2004
Jack Ewing |
A Glimpse Of Hope For Germany... Small signs of improvement are making optimists of some economists -- including the prestigious German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin. |
