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World Cup 2010 Blog: Ronaldo Given Fish In A Barrel For His Selecao Sendoff

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Ronaldo Given Fish In A Barrel For His Selecao Sendoff Posted: 16 Feb 2011 10:00 AM PST Ask and you shall receive. Well, so long as you’re one of the greatest players to have ever graced a football pitch with your otherworldly abilities. Ronaldo asked the Brazilian federation for a sendoff friendly with the Selecao, and they have obliged with one of the most lopsided games in football history: the 2002 World Cup-winning Brazilian side versus a gaggle of local Chechnyans, including the President. Brazil's 2002 World Cup-winning team will play a friendly next month in the formerly wartorn Russian province of Chechnya, a local official said Wednesday. Chechnya's government website cited sports minister Haidar Alkhanov as saying Kaka, Ronaldinho and the recently retired Ronaldo are likely to feature in the March 10 match. Chechnya president Ramzan Kadyrov will captain a team comprising local players. There was no word of confirmation from Brazilian officials, but if the match goes ahead it will be the third major football coup in a month for Russia's poverty-stricken Caucasus region, which is better known for separatist violence than sport. (It should be noted those ‘local’ players may actually be Russian Premier League side Terek Grozny; not quite as lopsided, but still wouldn’t keep anything on the table.) No word if he’ll be bringing back that fly hair for the occasion, but it should be absolute mandatory. That and an over/under in triple figures.

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World Cup 2010 Blog: Domenech Talks: It’s His Fault That It Was Everyone Else’s Fault

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Domenech Talks: It’s His Fault That It Was Everyone Else’s Fault Posted: 15 Feb 2011 09:55 AM PST The last we saw of Raymond Domenech, he was immersed in a witness protection program masquerading as some sort of poker crash course. Now that the money’s dried up from that little venture, he’s back for more cash with his very first exclusive post-World Cup meltdown interview to be released amidst pomp and several forms of circumstance tomorrow. Excerpts are available, and they’ve hooked the public with juicy nuggets in typical Raymond fashion – mostly name-calling and the pointing of unemployed fingers. Raymond: “Everyone is talking instead of me,” he said in extracts that appeared on the newspaper’s website. “I want to restore the truth. I’m not the moron that people are describing me as. “Let’s be clear: I got it wrong, I mustn’t have chosen the right players nor found the words that were needed. I do not accept the criticism of politicians, nor that of former players who have turned to journalism, but that does not prevent me from drawing my own evaluation.” Describing the day [of the training strike], and his attempts to talk his players around, Domenech said: “It was more than an hour that we had been there. It was really necessary that someone take responsibility and stop that charade. All the cameras were focused on the bus, hundreds of kids were waiting on the sidelines. We were the laughing stock of the world.” Following the tournament, Evra, Franck Ribéry, Jeremy Toulalan and Eric Abidal took the bulk of the blame – and suspensions – for their role in the incident, but Domenech said all the players acted together. “If there were any [leaders], I did not see them. Every time I went up [into the bus], there was no one,” he said. “At this point, I told myself that they went crazy and they don’t realise. Now I know I was wrong: they knew very well what they were doing. They even closed the curtains of the bus to hide themselves from cameras. With hindsight, I see them mainly as a bunch of foolhardy brats. “Above all, I do not want controversy. I have had offers for the theatre, for the cinema … Nothing on TV, no. Honestly, how can we imagine me in a reality television show?” he said. Is he intimating France’s World Cup 2010 show wasn’t reality TV? And calling them ‘foolhardy brats’ shouldn’t create any controversy or vitriolic rebuttals flying through press channels. Not at all.

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World Cup 2010 Blog: Nothing Spices Up International Friendly Week Like Match-Fixing

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Nothing Spices Up International Friendly Week Like Match-Fixing Posted: 11 Feb 2011 07:43 AM PST France v Brazil? Portugal v Argentina? Germany v Italy? Bosh. The big game of the international friendly week was found far off in the corner of Antalya, Turkey, where Bulgaria and Estonia scrapped it out to a 2-2 draw. Not your typical marquee friendly, but this wasn’t your typical game. There were pregame rumblings that the fix was in, and the fact that all four goals came via penalties did nothing to quiet the whispers. Three of the four penalties seemed like perfectly dreadful tackles, with one a foul but starting just outside the box (though we’ve all seen that given as a spot kick many times), but there’s more. The same agency which set up this friendly also set up Latvia v Bolivia. Three goals, three penalties. (Can’t quite find any highlights.) In total: 1 agency, 2 friendlies, 7 goals, 7 penalties. No, not suspicious whatsoever. “The situation becomes even more confusing taking into account the fact that all three goals in the previous match were also scored from penalties.” Latvia beat Bolivia 2-1 in a friendly in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya just before the Bulgaria-Estonia game. Hungarian referee Krisztian Selmeczi was in charge of both matches. “We don’t know this referee and we can’t say he acted intentionally when awarding the penalties,” said BFU vice-president Atanas Furnadzhiev. “We’ll inform UEFA and they will probably investigate the match.” “The friendly was organised by an agency with whom we’ll not work anymore,” Estonia FA spokesman Mihkel Uiboleht told local media. “We received information of a possible manipulation even before the game as the same agency also organised the match between Latvia and Bolivia and there was the same scenario there.” Something smells rotten in Antalya.

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World Cup 2010 Blog: “No One Can Hit The Goal Anymore” plus 1 more

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No One Can Hit The Goal Anymore Posted: 10 Feb 2011 09:10 AM PST Hey, look at that – a horrible sitter miss. Quelle surprise. But doesn’t it appear these have seemed to reach epidemic levels? Someone’s always been banging on about “the worst miss evah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”, yet they’re rarely worthy of such lofty status. Recently, however, I’ve been inclined to agree with a good number – starting with that poor, poor Marlon de Jesus. Yesterday it was Hugo Almeida managing to push the ball closer to the corner flag than the wide open goal mouth; unbelievable realtime, and it’s equally as unbelievable now. Somewhere, Jonathan Wilson is devising a solid theory as to why the rise of the false nine is destroying the art of punching in punch-ins.

A Name to Remember: Edson Montaño Posted: 10 Feb 2011 04:25 AM PST The South American U-20 tournament is almost over, with Uruguay and Brazil fighting it out for the tournament win on the last matchday Saturday. Going into the tournament, it was always going to be the Neymar show, and with his seven goals, it hasn’t disappointed there. But there are always more stars than one in a tournament like this, and one who has gotten some attention is Ecuador’s Edson Montaño. If you're a football fan looking to put more than your opinion on the line on how the Sub-20 will end up, you could do your sports betting at BetUS. Montaño might be smart bet to score on the final day against Chile, who have conceded nine goals in their last four matches. Montaño plays his club football at Belgian club KAA Gent, who spotted him at the 2010 COTIF youth tournament and signed him from his boyhood club El Nacional in Ecuador. He’s still finding his feet in Belgium and has only one appearance so far, but his performance in Peru this month may earn him the faith of his club and give him a chance to shine in Europe. Montaño is tied for second on the tournament high scorer, and has gotten his four goals in clutch moments. To this point, he is Ecuador’s only scorer in the final group stage, and his two goals in the stage have won his country their four points. In the opening match, he blew the tournament wide open and made some friends in Brazil) by scoring the only goal in Ecuador’s 1-0 win over Argentina. And he did it with a header from a corner. Edson Montaño is not a tall man – 5′8″. In his next match, he could be forgiven for a hero hangover. Instead, down 1-0 to Uruguay in the second half, Montaño scored an equalizer that would hold for a 1-1 draw. In Uruguay’s four final stage matches, this is the only one in which they have dropped points. In preliminary group A, Montaño’s goal vs. Paraguay was also a game-winner, giving them the points to even qualify to the final stage. Clutch. – This post was brought to you by BetUS

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