You’ve gotta love the beautiful game, diving and all.
The Euro 2008 group matches have now concluded and it’s on the quarterfinals. First up is Germany v. Portugal, which kicks off in six hours or so. Then Croatia take on Turkey tomorrow. On the other side of the bracket, Holland meet Russia and then Spain […]
Oman beat Thailand 1-0 in a World Cup qualifying match here in Bangkok on Wednesday night. Here’s the AFP story I wrote about the game.
What does ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s recent return to Thailand mean for Manchester City, the English Premier League team he purchased during his exile? What does his return mean for football (soccer) in Thailand?
That was the subject of an AFP story that I wrote last week.
You can find it on Yahoo News […]
Springwise.com:
Quick update about MyFootballClub, which we wrote about when they launched in May. The venture, which hopes to harness the wisdom of crowds to manage a professional league soccer team (or football club, if you prefer), has just reached its target of 50,000 members. If all members follow through and pay their GBP 35 […]
Time’s Hannah Beech:
The guy selling spears of chilled guava down the street sports a Chelsea football jersey. Everywhere in soccer-mad Bangkok, in fact, people wear garments proclaiming their affiliation with one or another English Premier League team. But one jersey you’re unlikely to spot? That of Manchester City. It’s not because City has struggled, unsuccessfully, […]
Newley.com readers who are interested in fantasy football (soccer) are invited to participate in my annual Yahoo English Premiership group. Here’s more info on the game. It’s free. And fun. (Though FC Newley — a perennial force in the late 1990’s — has had several down years of late.) Team selections must be made by […]
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged Sports
|
On Wednesday night A and our friends Austin and NG ventured out to Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium to see Thailand host The Netherlands in an international friendly. Holland won 3-1, though the scoreline flattered the Thai team. The Oranje were superior technically and physically and simply outclassed their opponents. Thailand did, however, score a consolation goal […]
Disappointing news for Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia: FIFA says no more international soccer games above 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) in altitude. So much for the legendary home field advantage courtesy of the rarefied Andean air.
BBC News:
Football’s governing body, Fifa, has banned international matches from being played at more than 2,500m (8,200ft) above sea […]
Is Thailand’s ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra aiming to snap up English football club Manchester City?
IHT/AP:
Toppled Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra, who earlier made an unsuccessful bid for Liverpool, is planning to buy another English soccer club, according to a Web site close to Thaksin seen Monday.
The site — http://www.hi-thaksin.net — said that the former prime […]
CNN:
French football legend Zinedine Zidane, whose career ended with an infamous head-butt in last year’s World Cup final, will play a charity match in Thailand this weekend.
Zidane will play alongside top southeast Asian players in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on Saturday, corporate sponsor Adidas Thailand said.
Last Sunday night A and I had the good fortune to attend the final of the biennial ASEAN football championship between Thailand and Singapore here at Bangkok’s Supachalasai Stadium. And our perspective was unique: we were in the media gallery down at pitch level, just behind the goal.
The sound of 40,000 Thai supporters cheering […]
Soccernet:
David Beckham will leave Real Madrid at the end of the season and join side Los Angeles Galaxy on a £128m five-year deal - which works out at a mere half-a-million pounds a week. The former England captain will leave Real in June and begin his new career in MLS in August.
The “mere half-a-million pounds […]
Beautiful photos of the beautiful game. That’s the subject of Hans Van Der Meer’s gorgeous photography. He’s published a book called “European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football.”
(Via.)
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged Photos
|
A brief alert for all newley.com readers who’re into fantasy football (soccer). My kid brother Colin has put together a Yahoo English Premier League group; go here to sign up. It’s free. Email me (newley [at] gmail.com) for the group name and password. Lineups must be submitted by 11:00 a.m. GMT on Saturday, August 19 […]
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged Sports
|
Sportswriter Bill Simmons has a great new column on choosing an English Premier League team to support.
The season starts on August 19; I shall be rooting for Arsenal, as ever. (I had a 24-hour layover in London in January of 2001. First thing I did upon arrival: took the tube to see Highbury, the […]
Filed in Uncategorized
|
Also tagged Sports
|