World Cup 2010 Blog: A Finger For An Eye

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A Finger For An Eye Posted: 10 Nov 2011 12:41 PM PST Tomorrow’s match between Portugal and Bosnia-Herzegovina is just going to be the best. Anyone care to keep a tally of the amount of distractions and projectiles tossed Cristiano’s way? [Spotted on Dirty Tackle]

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World Cup 2010 Blog: Chile Hosts The Break’s First Bender

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Chile Hosts The Break’s First Bender Posted: 09 Nov 2011 09:56 AM PST There are – or were, in a few cases -certain possibilities when it comes to international and the misbehavior of its participants: Gabriel Tamas might get drunk, Adrian Mutu might hit someone, Zlatan might care, the Czech national team may be found in the general vicinity of ladies of the night and someone somewhere in South America is going to get suspended for a party. Players misbehave. It happens. But I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of someone showing up to training visibly sauced. Welcome to the party, Chile. Players land at training drunk; players land suspensions. Chile kicked five players out of their 2014 World Cup qualifying squad after they returned late and drunk from an evening off, coach Claudio Borghi said on Wednesday. The players had been given time off from midday to 10 p.m. on Tuesday, after morning training, Borghi said. “Five players arrived 45 minutes late and not in a state adequate to a professional player. So I took the decision to withdraw them (from the squad),” the Argentine coach told a news conference. He named the five as midfielders Arturo Vidal of Juventus, Jorge Valdivia of Palmeiras and Carlos Carmona of Atalanta, Birmingham City winger Jean Beausejour and West Bromwich Albion defender Gonzalo Jara who is on loan at Brighton & Hove Albion. Let’s try something here: Gonzalo Jara, until recently, did play for WBA (he’s on loan down the ladder right now), sitting on the same backline as Gabriel Tamas. You’ll know Gabriel Tamas from such things as ‘got kicked off the Romanian national team permanently* for being a bit of a lush’, which also involved one Adrian Mutu. See where this is going? Adrian Mutu is to blame for everything. * – Apparently ‘banned for life’ is Romanian for ‘three games’, because they were back in October.

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World Cup 2010 Blog: FIFA Announces World Cup 2014 Dates, Venues

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FIFA Announces World Cup 2014 Dates, Venues Posted: 20 Oct 2011 10:06 AM PDT In case you were planning on skipping off to the wonderful land of the World Cup in 2014 and were waiting on details to make some travel plans, FIFA’s gone ahead and set in motion a few of the details, if we’re a long, long way from knowing the names of the participants. Unless you’re of the idea that FIFA’s corrupt and someone somewhere knows, in which case…start making phone calls. The opening match is in Sao Paulo, with Brazil one of the teams on show, while the final will be the only place it can – the Maracana. The half schedule is here, in pretty, pretty PDF. Kickoff times, just because. Opening Match: 17.00 Group Stage matches: 13.00, 16.00, 19.00, 22.00 Round of 16/Quarter-finals: 13.00, 17.00 Semi-finals: 17.00 Match for Third Place: 17.00 Final: 16.00 Also, there’s further information about the Confederations Cup here, but…who really cares?

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World Cup 2010 Blog: Where’s The Steroid-Injected Beef?

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Where’s The Steroid-Injected Beef? Posted: 18 Oct 2011 07:37 AM PDT When questions of cheating and the Under 17 World Cup come ’round, usually it’s more “Why does Nigeria’s defensive mid using a cane?” rather than “Where’s the beef…for testing purposes?” Luckily, the tournament was held in Mexico this year, which means questions of tainted food were never going to be too far off. And we weren’t disappointed: Over half of the participants of this year’s u17 World Cup tested positive for steroids due to tainted beef. So basically most of the tournament’s participants were cheater, cheater, ground chuck eaters. "It was an enormous surprise that 109 samples showed traces of clenbuterol, that means 52.4 percent of the players." Mexican authorities have admitted the country has been affected by the practice of injecting cattle with the steroid, which is banned by WADA. The players of the Mexico team that won the tournament tested negative because they had stuck to a diet of fish and vegetables. "It's not a doping problem, it's a public health problem. When, in the first week of the tournament, we detected three cases and then another it was quite a surprise," Dvorak said. Now taking bets on when Mexico will be allowed to host another World Cup-type tournament. (After much deliberation, ‘Whenever Colombia’s financial backing collapses again.’ will be accepted as a valid answer.)

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