Slovenia
Slovenia national football team played their first international football match in 1992 against Estonia after their split from Yugoslavia in 1991. Their first major tournament came in 2000 when they qualified for the Euros. They drew two out of the three group stage games and ended up at the bottom of their group.
Then in 2002, they made their second major tournament appearance as they were grouped with Spain, Paraguay and South Africa in the World Cup.
Then with an astonishing home record of 13 goals scored to one conceded in six games, Slovenia qualified for the World Cup 2010. Being on top of a group, which had England, USA and Algeria with them, they failed to progress to the Round of 16 after they lost to England and USA beat Algeria.
EURO 2012 Qualifiers: The top three match-ups that you cannot miss in the international break
The qualifiers for the 2012 European Championships resume this weekend, with some crucial clashes for some of the continent’s strongest sides. Whilst England face Wales in a crunch Group G clash, and Denmark look to overcome rivals Norway in order to leapfrog Portugal in Group H, some of the other groups have thrown up a…
Top World Cup Transfer Targets
Now that the World Cup is over and the players are returning home for a couple of weeks of vacation and then joining their respective clubs for training and the pre-season. Managers will looking at the players that out-shone the cream of club football. Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo were nowhere to be seen and…
20 ‘Lesser Lights’ That Have Shone At The 2010 World Cup
With so many of the ‘big guns’ misfiring at this summer’s World Cup, I thought it was high time to take a look at some of the ‘lesser lights’ that have sparkled in South Africa. Below are the 20 players that, although having seen their sides crash (some more spectacularly than others) out of the…
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…
World Cup News: The Secret Behind England’s Revival? A Good Old Fashioned Pint!
A very good day to you all, and welcome to the daily World Cup column here on Soccerlens. It seems England may have a certain brand of beer to thank for the upturn in their World Cup fortunes after all. Apparently coach Fabio Capello decided that the only way to get his team up and…
England 1 Slovenia 0 – Crisis, what crisis?
In a sentence England dominate but have to survive a nervy finale. Unrecognisable Just three changes from the Algeria nightmare, but England were a different side. The confidence was back and with that came quality movement and passing which made goals look inevitable. Players who had previously gone awol looked determined to assert themselves on…
Slovenia 0-1 England – Video Highlights
Slovenia 0-1 England 2010 FIFA World Cup 23 June 2010 It wasn’t a dominating or particularly impressive performance but England did get a 1-0 win over Slovenia to advance out of the group stage. The goal for England would come from Jermain Defoe in the 23rd minute. Defoe replaced Emile Heskey in the starting line-up…
World Cup News: Fabio Capello Isn’t Crazy!
Good morning everybody and welcome once more to the daily World Cup column on Soccerlens. England take on Group C leaders Slovenia (that just doesn’t sound right does it?) later today and need to pull a convincing win out of the bag in order to, at least momentarily, silence their growing phalanx of doubters. Could…
England v Slovenia: road to final starts here
How did it come to this? From a group that was labelled by one national newspaper as ‘easy’, England have contrived to leave their World Cup progress down to the final match – a must-win 90 minutes against opponents who will go through to the last 16 should they pick up a lone point from the game.
The 17 Laws of the Game and the Enforced Silence of Koman Coulibaly
Two years ago, I had the great pleasure to interview Ian Blanchard, Head of National Referee Development at the English FA, for Soccerlens. Mr. Blanchard sets the training standards for all professional English referees and evaluates them after each Premiership match. I would like to provide two excerpts from that interview: In your opinion, what…
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