Walcott out of the final England squad for 2010 world cup

Wednesday, June 2, 2010


The FIFA world cup to be played this year at South Africa in which England is one of the favourites to win it.
Surprisingly in the final squad of 23 they had left one of their finest mover of the ball Theo Walcott out.
In place of Theo coach Fabio Capello had given chance to Manchester City play maker Gareth Barry and another one surprise is that Chelsea's Joe Cole who had not been in a good form this season is added to the team.

England Final Squad-

Goal Keeper-Joe Hart,Robert Green,David James.
Defenders-Rio Ferdinand,John Terry,Ashley Cole,Glen Johnson,Jamie Carragher,Matthew Upson,Stephen Warnock,Ladley King.
Midfielders-Steven Gerrad,Frank Lampard,Shaun Wright-Phillips,Aaron Lennon,James Milner,Michael Carrick,Joe Cole,Gareth Barry.
Strikers-Wayen Rooney,Peter Crouch,Emile Heskey,Jermain Defoe.

Forming the best soccer World cup team ever


In 2010 world cup the players selected are more than talented only to play the game of foot and ball.If a team will be formed from all the teams the team only can be managed by the two former world cup winning captains Diego Maradona and Dunga.

The top contenders for the keeping the ball out of the net will be Julio Cesar,Iker Casillas and Gianluigi Buffon who are currently on best of the form which they require to acquire the world trophy.

The back four will may contain players like Sergio Ramos,John Terry,Fabio Cannavaro,Maicon,Lahm and Lucio.It will be very difficult to choose any of the players who have the capabilities of creating an impenetrable wall.
The midfield and wing play is the most important for a team which may contain Arjen Robben,Wesly Snijder,Bastian Schweinsteiger,Frank Lampard,Kaka,Ribery,Xavi and Xabi Alonso.

The front two posts will be filled by the players like Didier Drogba,Rooney,Messi,Torres and Higuain.

But the final squad will have a formation of 4-4-2.

Goal Keeper-Julio Cesar.

Defender-Lucio,Maicon,Lahm,John Terry.

Midfield-Arjen Robben,Wesly Snijder,Frank
Lampard,Ribery.

Striker-Messi,Rooney.

Some moments to watch with in for 80 years of world cup history


The world cup's 80th day of born will be celebrated with a moment of glory as South Africa becomes the first country from Africa to be bestowed with honour of hosting arguably the greatest sporting event this year.

Eight years after Asia successfully welcomed the world in Japan and South Korea now it is the time for Bafana Bafana nation where football is on a rising structure and where top African players are now playing their trade in football's elite championships.

In 1930 the tentative start was given by Uruguay who hosted the the biggest gathering of the craziest game and won it for a superb history.

The highest number of the balls were netted in the 1954 and 1974 world cup where it came to a disappointing end for the best sides like Hungary and Holland.

When the chat is about the glory the moment which millions of die hard fans will never forget and English fans will never try to look back is the two goals of the player of the century Diego Maradona in 1986 quarter finals against England known as Hand of God and Goal of the Century.
The match which etched it self into the best of all the 80 years of tournament history the semifinal between the West Germany and Italy in 1970 which ended 3-4.

Ghana will may suffer as star player Michael Essien will miss the world cup

Thursday, May 27, 2010


Michael Essien will not recover fully from his knee injury till the end of the July as a result he will miss the World Cup at home.
Ghana is being placed in a difficult group-D along with Germany,Serbia and Australia may face difficulty to go through group stages as they will be playing with out Essien.
The Chelsea midfielder who was suffering with this injury from a long time was wished to recover quickly and return to Football by The Black Stars.
Michael Essien who had played only 21 games this season and scored 4 goals for Chelsea was about to play his second world cup.

France and Netherlands win their respective games in world cup friendlies



Before world cup in warm up matches France had beaten Costa Rica and Netherlands had beaten Mexico.
In the match between Europeans and Americans Holland secured a 2-1 victory over the Mexico.
The Flying Dutchmen came in to the match with only five if their regular players and rested others.
The inform players like Robben and Snijder were also rested but however with the two goals from
the Arsenal striker Robin van Persie they registered a easy 2-1 victory.
Returning after six months of resting the Gunner man had shown no signs of his injury.He scored his first with a brilliant cross from Rafael van der Vaart.The Oranje dominated the fist half of the game and scored second goal of the match just 3 minutes before the half time.
After the half the Three Colours took the hold of the game as Javier Hernandez scored one but unable to equalize before 90 minutes of the game.
In the game against the Ticos France faught hard four their victory and secured it with a 83 ninute goal.
From the begining of the game the Costa Rica strikers put fantastic pressure on the French defenders and Carlos Hernandez scored the first goal of the match on the 12 minute.
However Frank Ribery was able to put Les Blues in terms as his cross got into the net deflected by Dogulas Sequeira.
Till 83 minute the game was dead lock when the debutant for France Mathieu Valbuena scored his first goal to sill the victory for France.

Anelka made it to the South Africa after 3 world cup misses


One of the world's most known faces in soccer Nicolas Anelka had been selected for the 2010 worl cup to be held at South Africa after missing three consecutive world cups.
In 1998 world cup the Chelsea striker had been dropped due to the age factor as he was only of 18 year old.In that year France had beaten Brazil 3-1 in the final to lift the world cup.
From that time Anelka was supposed to be a consistent player of the French national team and he was also a part of the team in 2000 Euro triumph.
In 2002 world cup things again gone wrong for him as he was unable to find his place in the world class strikers like David Trezeguet,Djibrill Cisse,Thierry Henry.
In 2006 Raymond Domenech was selected as the French coach who selected him in the team as a substitute player.The Les Blues striker was unhappy with his selection as a substitute and refused to play the cup.
After 12 years this time Anelka was selected in the team as a regular player to play at South Africa.
To which the Chelsea striker added that they are capable of repeating the 1998 victory.

Brazil tops the rankings before world cup



Before the world cup FIFA had declared their last rankings of the national teams in which Brazil had topped the list.
So the Samba Kings will go to South Africa as world's best team just ahead of the 2008 Euro winners Spain..
Amongst the football playing nations USA had got the 14 position where as Cameroon and Australia are being placed on the 19 and 20th position respectively

  1. Brazil.
  2. Spain.
  3. Portugal.
  4. Netherlands.
  5. Italy.
  6. Germany.
  7. Argentina.
  8. England.
  9. France.
  10. Croatia.