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International Football Tournaments Are To Be Cherished

In eighteen days’ time, Euro 2012 will start. Twenty three days of international tournament football, with matches being played almost every day for the twenty-three day duration. If you didn’t know or understand football supporters you may think that there wouldn’t be much interest. I mean the club season started in July and in late…

Beckham plays musical balls with Samsung Galaxy Note in new Olympics Ad

The Samsung Galaxy Note is a powerful smartphone that doubles as a tablet – and when it comes to the London 2012 Olympics, it even has David Beckham using (and composing music with) the device. The video, which demonstrates the unique features of the Samsung GALAXY Note, showcases Beckham’s incredible soccer skills as he reproduces…

London 2012: Should it be higher on a footballer’s priority list?

With an exciting end to the Premier League campaign, the Champions League last four and the upcoming Euro 2012 championships in Poland and Ukraine this summer, football fans can be forgiven for forgetting about the Olympic Games and football’s involvement at the London event. Attitudes in football to the Olympics are in stark contrast to…

Better candidates than Beckam for Olympic captaincy

Understandably, European nations often decline to participate in Olympic football competition. The alignment of their respective four year rotations means that UEFA’s European Championships coincide with the Olympic Games. In an already crowded summer of football, many Football Associations deem a further tournament undesirable and those who do enter inevitably send weakened teams. Football being…

Olympics v Euros, Club v Country, and Money

On the surface, the argument makes perfect sense – football players, especially young football players – should not be asked to play competitive football 11 months out of 12. By asking UEFA to mandate the national European FAs to only select players for one international tournament per season, the European Club Association (ECA) feels that…

The Best Goals of 2008 – Part 1 (World Football)

Let us then begin with the long view, seeking the perfect goal on the larger world stage… African Cup of Nations This first major tournament of 2008 unfortunately went largely unseen outside the continent where it took place; in Europe and especially England, indeed, it was widely (if quietly) regarded as something of a nuisance,…

July 2008 Review: When Tottenham lost their strikers and Nereida Gallardo became a star

With the Euros behind us, July would start the transfer season and with it all the mindless speculation along with the few sensational transfers here and there.

The 2008 Soccerlens All-Star XI – The Best Footballers of 2008

For those of us who are consumed by football every year brings new thrills and disappointments, a million what ifs and if onlys and ultimately a feeling of elation, satisfaction or despair, depending on where our unfailing loyalties lie. We laugh and cry, argue and debate, get over-emotional and sometimes regret what we say but…

Great Britain FC and London 2012

So it is final – FIFA have announced that a football team from Great Britain will appear in the Olympic games at London 2012. Even if the Welsh FA, the Northern Irish FA, and the Scottish FA don’t want to happen it will; even if it means that only English players, coaches and the like…

Nigeria Can Rule The World, We’re Already On Track – Kanu

The following interview with Nigerian legend and captain of the national team Nwanko Kanu was conducted by African football magazine New African Soccer and reprinted here with their permission. The magazine is free to download. Nigeria went into the Beijing Olympics football tournament confident that they will do well. They were confident that they will…