March 11, 2010

Losers, rich, rich losers

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

Money can’t buy you championships. Just ask Real Madrid how they’re feeling right now and the answer could be something like: “Like losers, but rich, rich losers.”
Lyon came into the game with a 1-0 lead after taking the first leg 1-0 at home. Holding Real to a clean sheet is impressive enough, but walking into [...]

February 3, 2010

Those crazy Scots

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

Not to make light of a crime or something that could have potentially hurt someone, but when the police call someone’s car being light on fire, “willful fireraising,” that gets me to chuckle.
American soccer player DaMarcus Beasley had his BMW set on fire outside of his Glasgow, Scotland, home on Monday. It really goes to [...]

December 5, 2009

Drawing the World’s interest

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited over the drawing of random ping-pong balls as I was yesterday afternoon. With teams being drawn into groups for next summer’s World Cup, how could you not be excited? It really marked the kickoff to the excitement of the biggest tournament in all of sports — a [...]

November 19, 2009

Another reason to hate France

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

Just when some beautiful football was getting started with the Champions League in full swing and the World Cup qualifiers nearly finished, an ugly scene happened during the France-Ireland playoffs; a match so big that the loser would not make the final, losing out on a ton of money and a worldwide audience next summer. [...]

November 12, 2009

A sad, tragic loss

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

I never would have thought that a professional athlete set to lead his country in the biggest tournament on earth could be depressed, but Robert Enke was. The German goalkeeper was clinically depressed according to his wife and psychiatrist and late on Tuesday, drove out to some railroad tracks and waited for a train to [...]

November 4, 2009

Rubin does it again

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

Barcelona didn’t play like champions again against Russian side Rubin Kazan. For the second time in the group stage, the Russians came through and denied the marvelous Barcelona side three points in a key Champions League matchup.
It was the same story as with their first group stage match, a 2-1 Kazan win in Barcelona. The [...]

October 21, 2009

A stunning upset

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

It’s not everyday that you see an upset of this calibre. Hell, many people would probably think that Rubin Kazan is a person — perhaps some eastern european pop-star or Yugoslavian Idol winner. But no, today, they are a feisty soccer team that defeated reigning Champions League winners Barcelona. And they did it in Barcelona’s [...]

October 14, 2009

A sad loss

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

In a crushing blow, no pun intended, to their hopes at next year’s World Cup, the United States will be without rising star forward Charlie Davies. Last night, Davies was involved in a single car wreck that killed another passenger and left him with two broken bones in his leg, among other injuries. After surgery [...]

September 17, 2009

Is the Premiership still premier?

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

After watching as much Champions League football as I could the past two days, it’s been quite easy to see that there may be something up at the top of the football world. Have the teams of the English Premier League fallen off a bit? Glancing at their rosters, they have lost one or two [...]

September 4, 2009

Tough luck, Chelsea

by Dan Bilicki In: Soccer

That’s what you get when you tamper with players and their contracts, Chelsea. The English powerhouse has been banned from adding any new players during the next two transfer periods
Could you imagine a team in any sport other than soccer not being allowed to sign a free agent or make a deal for an entire [...]

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