Carlos Tevez
An extremely talented striker and a player who has been shrouded in controversy recently due to his ‘ownership’ by MSI. Expect to see a lot more of Tevez on Soccerlens in the future.
Andres Inesta: Cesc Fabregas is staying at Arsenal
Arsenal skipper Cesc Fabregas is set to stay at the Emirates this season according to his Spanish team-mate Andres Iniesta. La Liga champions Barcelona have been linked with the tenacious central midfielder all summer but are now resigned to missing out on their top transfer target and will reignite their interest next year. Barca ace…
World Cup 2010 – The Post Mortem
Mike Martin hands out the gongs as we review the first ever African World Cup.
FIFA Merge Their Two Top Player Awards – Who Will Take This Year’s Crown?
As of next year, the two most prestigious individual accolades in world football will cease to exist as seperate entities, and merge to create a single globe-spanning award. France Football‘s Ballon d’Or (i.e. the European Footballer of the Year award) will now be combined with FIFA’s World Player of the Year award to form a…
Movie star footballers
A life of a footballers is not much inferior than that of a rockstar. From awfully huge wages to their sexual activities getting closer to hypersexuality (a.k.a. nymphomania). And just like rockstars, footballers too have shown the desire to become movie stars. But unfortunately, rockstars usually don’t have problem with fluent speech unless they have…
Transfer Rumors: Man City close on trio, Real land Benfica wiz Di Maria, Henry to leave Barcelona, and more
With the World Cup heading towards the latter stages, we’re already seeing things rapidly heating up in the world of transfers. Up to this point, there’s been mostly speculation and little substance, but that’s about to change in the next several days. Manchester City’s second straight summer super spending spree (that’s a lot of s’s…
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…
Messi: “I thought that they would negate the goal by Tevez because they were looking at the big screen above…”
After the impressive victory by Argentina over Mexico in the round of 16, Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi and Carlos Tevez provided news conference comments that were published by the Buenos Aires news daily, Clarin. Maradona deftly evaded a question about the apparent offside position of Carlos Tevez on the first Argentinean goal. Leo Messi gave…
Maradona: “Nigeria was like colliding against a wall”
Argentina boss, Diego Maradona, discussed starting Maxi Rodriguez and Jonas Gutierrez, his exclusion of Juan Sebastian Veron, the pace of South Korea versus the physical nature of Nigeria, the brilliance of Leo Messi and some friendly advice for opposing defenders ahead of the upcoming match with South Korea in Johannesburg. Maxi Rodriguez to Start “Maxi…
Lionel Messi: “The goalkeeper was phenomenal.”
According to the Milan sports daily, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Argentina had 20 shots on goal, 65 percent of possession, and completed 87% of their 512 passes at Ellis Park against Nigeria. But with goal difference one of the tie-breakers in group round play, the Argentineans may regret their lack of finishing ability despite the…
Maradona: “Watching Tevez play gives me goosebumps”
Argentina boss, Diego Maradona, discussed four of his jewels: Carlos Tevez, Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano and Juan Sebastian Veron from the training ground in Pretoria ahead of their first group round match with Nigeria on Saturday in Johannesburg. Maradona also provided a brief analysis of his Argentine side at the dawn of this competition. On…
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