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World Cup News: Paris Hilton Arrested As The Netherlands March On!

Goedemorgen and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Now forgive me if this sounds a little bit over-dramatic, but I think that yesterday may have been the greatest day’s-worth of football I have ever witnessed. In my life. Ever. Goals, red cards, tense drama, technique, passion, misery, extra-time, penalties, heartache, jubilation, awful…

Netherlands 2-1 Brazil – Video Highlights

Netherlands 2-1 Brazil 2010 FIFA World Cup 2 July 2010 The Dutch would come from behind to advance into the semifinals with a 2-1 win over Brazil. It started out poorly for the Europeans as Brazil looked much better in the first half. They would grab a 1-0 lead in the 10th minute with a…

World Cup News: Holland Vs Brazil Will Be Rubbish, Just Ask Bert!

Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Withdrawal symptoms are well and truly setting in now after two whole days spent stranded in the non-football wilderness, with only the bloody tennis to take it’s place – I tell you, a sport populated by monosyllabic Scotsmen and brawny eastern European women…

Netherlands vs Brazil World Cup Quarter-Final Preview

After respectively seeing off the threats of Slovakia and Chile in the second round, it will be Bert Van Marwijk‘s Netherlands and Dunga‘s Brazil that will contest the first of the World Cup quarter-final ties – and what a tie it promises to be.

2010 FIFA World Cup: South American Trios Lead Their Teams to the Quarter-finals

Kaká, Robinho and Luis Fabiano; Godín, Forlán and Suarez; Messi, Tevez and Higuain. I would walk into a dark room and randomly pick any of these players for my team on any given day. They are arguably the main reasons and hopes for their countries to succeed in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South…

Brazil 3-0 Chile – Video Highlights

Brazil 3-0 Chile 2010 FIFA World Cup 28 June 2010 Brazil would cruise into the quarterfinal round with a 3-0 win over fellow South American side Chile. It started out slowly for the Brazilians but the eventually would find their form and take control of the match. The opening goal was a header from Juan…

World Cup Podcast: A painful England post mortem

Join Adrian Clarke & Iain Spragg on the latest edition of the pint-size Soccerlens World Cup Podcast. The duo do their best to analyse what went wrong for England and what the future holds for Fabio Capello and his boys after their lame exit from the finals at the hands of Germany yesterday. Argentina, Brazil,…

Puma Tekkies World Cup Sneakers

After writing about the Adidas Kick TR shoes, the world-cup themed sneakers from Adidas, I’ve found something even cooler for you sneaker freaks out there! The Puma Tekkies are a series of football themed shoes, which attempt to portray world cup participant countries creatively on something you can take with you every day. They are…

Brazil v Chile Preview

That Brazil have historically dominated encounters against their fellow South Americans will be of little surprise. What’s more interesting is how well Chile have done in this tournament as a strong attacking unit and how frustrated Brazil were against a Portuguese side that played almost exclusively on the counter.

World Cup News: ‘Der Kaiser’ Takes It All Beck(enbauer)!

Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. Today sees the start of the World Cup proper, with the first (and second) of the last 16 ties taking place this afternoon. It’ll be good to see some unrelenting do-or-die hyper-tense knock-out football after having to sit through some shamelessly awful ‘let’s…