Paraguay
Paraguay has appeared in the World Cup eight times and their best position being ninth in 1930. They have won the Copa America twice in 1953 and 1979 and they have a silver medal from the 2004 Olympics.
De Rossi Goes Down Hard
I was looking around on the internet for random stuff and ended up on a certain Break.com. Looking around at videos of people getting into stupid accidents and saw an interesting related video’s thumbnail. It had an Italian ‘football player’ going down after a hard tackle from the Paraguayan defense. My first reaction, “Ooh! Football!”…
Samba No More!
One overwhelming question has stuck with me since the completion of the World Cup. Is it possible to do it “samba style” anymore? Not since ’86, when Maradona dazzled the crowd, have we witnessed a team win the World Cup by playing free-flowing, attacking football. Even Brazil, who invented “samba style”, have not been there…
Has European Flair Triumphed Over South American Pragmatism?
Ah! There’s that word again. ‘Pragmatism’. It surely is the most overused term at this summer’s World Cup and probably for a good reason. Whereas as beforehand I’d only ever heard it used in a footballing context by the more ‘scholarly’ amongst the punditry circle, this summer the word has found it’s way into the…
World Cup News: Four-Star Germany Thrash Argentina!
Morning all and welcome, once more, to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. There’s exactly one week left, and two of the biggest fish have now been comprehensively removed from the pond. Who’d have thought that the oft-cited South American dominance, that had been so prevalent in the early stages of the tournament, would…
Paraguay 0-1 Spain – Video Highlights
Paraguay 0-1 Spain 2010 FIFA World Cup 3 July 2010 Spain would control most of the play and would edge Paraguay with a late second half goal to move into the semifinals. It was another match where Spain had a lot of possession but had trouble converting that into goals. Paraguay did do a good…
Paraguay vs Spain World Cup Quarter-Final Preview
There will be a distinctly Latin flavour to the fourth and final of the World Cup quarter-final match-ups, as reigning European champions Spain will battle it out with Paraguay in a clash loaded with some fairly irrelevant historic significance, although now is not the time or place to go into it.
World Cup News: Cristiano Ronaldo Spits His Dummy Out!
Morning all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. There’s a bit of a strange hush falling across the planet today, as we face the first football-less day in nearly three weeks – and I tell ya, it just don’t feel right. However the good news is, although the action itself is…
Paraguay 0-0 (5-3 on penalties) Japan – Video Highlights
Read the Paraguay v Spain preview. Paraguay 0-0 (5-3) Japan 2010 FIFA World Cup 29 June 2010 It would go down to a penalty shoot-out in the penultimate round of 16 match as Paraguay edged Japan. The match didn’t have many chances during the first 90 minutes or extra time as both teams were a…
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…
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