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World Cup Day 9: Things We Learned

We finally had the first team eliminated today as Cameroon crashed out of the tournament. The Indomitable Lions fell 2-1 as Denmark came back to defeat them after Samuel Eto’o had opened the scoring. In the other games, Netherlands won

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World Cup Day 9 Preview

Day 9 will feature Groups D and E. Group D is getting especially interesting with Serbia scoring a victory over Germany. Group E features an interesting match-up between Denmark and Cameroon. Here is my preview of the games today.

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World Cup: Day 3 Preview

Tomorrow, we are onto Day 3 of the World Cup. We will get to see the second half of Group C as well as the highly competitive Group D. Here is my preview for tomorrow’s games.

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World Cup Preview: Ghana

The final team in Group D is Ghana. They will be without their star player Michael Essien, but they still feature a strong midfield. They are an organized team that will not be easy to beat, but may struggle to

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World Cup Preview: Top 5 Games Of The Group Stage

There are a lot of good games in the group stage of the World Cup. It is hard to tell which games may have the most drama to them in terms of the results, but here is my list of

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Adopting A Second World Cup Team

As a fan of a team that is not a favorite to win the World Cup, I have to face the reality that my favorite team could be headed for an early exit. Furthermore, in a tournament that comes around

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International Friendlies Galore

With the Champions League officially over, there are a plethora of games in the next two or three weeks leading up to the World Cup. Here is a closer look at the top 5 friendlies (excluding the US games which

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International Friendlies Galore This Week

This is the last international date on the FIFA calendar before the end of the club season. This means this is the final chance for a lot of these fringe players to make their case as to why they should

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Weekly List: World Cup Power Rankings

This is the start of something that I want to do on a weekly basis and generate a list of the week because lists are great at generating discussion. If you have any suggestions, leave me a comment or write

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2010 Africa Cup Of Nations: Best XI and Recap

I enjoyed my first time watching this tournament and with it finally over to take a look back and give some remarks on the tournament as a whole. The obvious sour points to this tournament was the Togo team shooting

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