2006 FIFA World Cup

[Brent Burns]

Nicknames for the 2008 World Cup teams, so read on...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5473205

For example, Trinidad and Tobago call themselves The Soca Warriors, France is known as Les Bleus (today, they are having the blues), Japan as Boys in Blues.

[cjwilhelmi]

Each side only gets 3 subs per match. If you use all of your subs and then have an injured player, then you must play down a man.

That could suck.

[Lax_Stats]

Wow... All i have to say is that the US are doing an absolutely terrible job of quelling all the doubt about their new team! They better pick it up if they hope to at least tie with the Czech's...

Yep, we are now at the 76th minute, and we better miraculously score 3 goals. After the game, I would not be surprised that Bruce Arena will not mince words in the locker room.

Too bad the US team didnt have the Australian team playing for them!! LOL

[Zeuslax]

Unfortunately for the Americans, the Italians have looked the best so far.

[KnoxVegas]

Too bad the US team didnt have the Australian team playing for them!! LOL

What are you insinuating? The Socceroos were just playing possum. At least Australia has won a WC game in Europe. Go the Green & Gold!

[JosueSays]

Wow is all I can I say. Spain played a SUPERB game against a solid Ukraine (the first european team to qualify in a tough, tough group). As of yet, Spain looks better than any other team that has played. I think this is the year were Spain proves all those nay sayers wrong (unless something like what happened against South Korea, happens again which probably won't as the refs look a lot better this world cup)... What a great game!


And what about that Puyol? Best play of the game out of many good plays.

[Boilerlax17]

knox dude....take it easy...hes saying too bad we didnt have australia playing because they scored 3 goals in the last 6 minutes to win their game.....and we coulda used that against the czechs....

[FLAK]

Just finished watching the Saudi Arabia v Tunisia game and I have to say that the last 15 minutes were superb. Possibly because they both arent good teams, but there were some good passes and good goals that ended with a deserved 2-2 tie for both teams.

[Adam G]

I liked the Saudi's plan for substitution of strikers, and was amazed that the 2nd sub, the "best soccer player Saudi Arabia has put out", scored on his 2nd touch of the ball. The lookaway shot was awesome.

[Boilerlax17]

score of the Germany Poland game? any guesses? i got 3-1 germany

[UofMLaxGoalie11]

Im watching germany vs. poland on the only channel I get that has the world cup on, univision. Obviously Im not getting much from the commentary.

[UofMLaxGoalie11]

I think its interesting how reminiscent soccer's defense is of a slide package.

[Brent Burns]

score of the Germany Poland game? any guesses? i got 3-1 germany

At this time of writing, just got a sneak peek at Yahoo!'s FIFA World Cup live data, Germany and Poland are tied at 0-0 at the 40th minute. Both are even in shots at the goal (4 shots each team).

[sohotrightnow]

Halftime, 0-0. Germany had a great chance in injury time but didn't capitalize

[Brent Burns]

Both are still tied at 0-0 in the 68th minute, and so far in the second half, Germany has possession of the ball for 54% whereas Poland has 46%. The Germans made 3 shots and Poland just one shot. Soon, one of them would start attacking and pushing up the ball harder in hopes to create a goal.