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World Cup Recap: A Look At The Statistics

My final recap of the World Cup will take a look at some statistics. FIFA.com has provided some decent statistics so I figured this is a good chance to try to see if there was anything interesting that could come

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World Cup Recap: A Look Ahead To 2014

The World Cup in South Africa may be over, but there are already reasons to look forward to 2014 in Brazil. There are a number of teams that look to have already set the foundations for the future while there

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World Cup 2010: A Look Back At My Predictions

This has been an unpredictable World Cup but I will still take a look back at my predictions. Some of the predictions aren’t that comparable and it is no surprise that many of them are quite off, but I’ll take

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World Cup 2010: ESS World Cup Awards

The World Cup is over and the first set of business is handing out some World Cup awards. FIFA gave out their awards yesterday with Thomas Mueller taking home the Golden Boot and Young Player awards. Diego Forlan was given

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World Cup Day 31: My Thoughts on Netherlands-Spain

Like most of Spain’s games, the final was not a goal fest, but it didn’t mean the game wasn’t entertaining and filled with chances. It was a tense match throughout but both teams had chances to win the game in

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World Cup Day 30: My Thoughts on Germany-Uruguay

The game may not have the importance of the final, but it was certainly an exciting match as Uruguay fell 3-2 for the second straight game as Germany took third place at the World Cup. This is the second straight

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World Cup Day 31: Netherlands-Spain Preview

It is finally here. The World Cup will wrap up today, but not before the biggest game where Netherlands and Spain will look to get their first World Cup titles ever. Both teams have not been super impressive in their

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World Cup Day 30: Uruguay-Germany Preview

The third place game may not have the meaning of other games, but they often are quite entertaining to watch in terms of attacking football. This game should be a nice treat given how entertaining Germany have been and two

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World Cup Day 27: My Thoughts On Spain-Germany

It may not have had lots of goals, but this was an exciting game especially in the second half where the game began to open up as Germany began to get tired. The goal was surprisingly from a set piece

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World Cup Day 26: My Thoughts on Netherlands-Uruguay

Netherlands booked their place in the finals with a 3-2 win over Uruguay. Netherlands got a good start with a goal from Giovanni van Bronckhorst in the 18th minute. The goal forced Uruguay to open up and they eventually equalized

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