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Watch – Michael Owen 98 Wonder Goal!

in 1998 FIFA World Cup France

Sporati on FIFA World Cup 1998’s video summary and description

What it says.

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This FIFA World Cup 1998’s video is titled Michael Owen 98 Wonder Goal! and credited to jaygunapalan. Viewing time is 00:00:10, enjoy our fellow FIFA World Cup fans!

Free World Cup Seats

in News & Features

World Cup Fans You are not one of the lucky ones to have a ticket and see the games in action. You are not fortunate enough to sit beside a fan inside a stadium. Well, don’t worry because we live in a different age. A whole new level of excitement. A whole new way of seeing the games in action. See on the left where I sit during the games.

This is the largest online stadium where you can sign up as a fan and choose your sit. This is free so grab your sit while there are few left.

Also there are sections of the stadium where you can purchase a space for your advertisement. It range between 39 USD to around 500 plus. It says your advertisements will stay there for two years at the minimum and might be extended for free.

[tags]FIFA World Cup, World Cup, Germany, Football[/tags]

Found via BratWurst.

Germany Football Map

in History & Trivia

I found this cool map of Germany over at flickr with the FIFA World Cup logo as the background and all the stadiums marked by a soccer ball.

World Cup

It makes me smile and excited to look at the picture knowing one of those places a legend is going to be born very soon.

[tags]FIFA World Cup, World Cup, Germany, Football[/tags]

Watch – Dennis Bergkamp best goal!

in 1998 FIFA World Cup France

Sporati on FIFA World Cup 1998’s video summary and description

rated the all time no.3 best goal ever .

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This FIFA World Cup 1998’s video is titled Dennis Bergkamp best goal! and credited to Dreamaker. Viewing time is 00:00:23, enjoy our fellow FIFA World Cup fans!

Heal Rooney Campaign

in Group, Team & Standings

People are praying and wishing Wayne Rooney will make it in time for the FIFA World Cup competition especially when they promised Prince Williams the Finals.

I for one would like to see Wayne Rooney because he simply is astounding and a player of his caliber deserve to represent his country in the field and not on casual uniform working as a cheerleader. If Luckott made the history books playing for his country, it is not fair to see Rooney on the bench. Life is not fair and so give us some break and get him there on the field.

Fair enough. His exciting and powerful timely kicks going to the net is needed by a team facing perhaps the strongest Brazil team we have seen in years.

Do you agree? If yes send out your healing message to Wayne Rooney over at Heal Rooney campaign.

C’mon guys, even if you don’t route for England it would be fitting to see your team win or lose against a player like Wayne Rooney. Go and send your healing messages.

More World Cup information (player focused) over at Soccerati.

[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, England World Cup[/tags]

Promise to the Prince

in News & Features

This is ridiculous. England promised Prince Williams they will bring back FIFA World Cup to their country during his visit to the team’s training session on Thursday.

Williams is the president of the Football Association and as such wished the team all the best and has assured the team their country is 150 percent behind them.

He stressed that bringing the World Cup to their country shall bring everyone together. That should be expected since the greatest sporting event is seen like a religion to most of the countries participating and shall bring any country together once the Finals is won.

I doubt if England is anywhere near winning the goal.

A promise is made to be broken after all. They better pray Rooney will play in the competition because they will be needing everything from their Arsenal to get past Brazil.

More World Cup information (player focused) over at Soccerati.

[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, England World Cup[/tags]

World Cup on BBC Broadband

in Games, betting & entertainment/News & Features

People over at UK should be happy since BBC will be showing World Cup games online which is the first time it shall happen.

The downside and argument on this is — shown only over at UK and not the rest of the world.

Fair enough, the question right now focus on Expats. How will they be able to watch these shows while outside of UK after all they are paying their broadband bills?

There are only 7 days to go before the World Cup and I would suggest that they act fast and think about their expats by creating a logon screen (Correct me if I am wrong. Does login exists in BBC?) where they can view what is being viewed in UK. Easier said than done. Being an IT Professional, I know how risky this is going to be, next to impossible. I would not roll-out something that has not gone through extensive testing and enough security test attacks. Making a small percentage of expats happy may result in great amounts of damage.

I reckon that these guys should have thought about this way sooner. Come to think of it, expats should not care if they cannot watch the show on internet since they can afford with their large and fat paychecks on pay- per-view schedule from their television. Another angle I see is that internet connection in third world countries, where there are also tons of expats, may have slow internet access and watching on television is better than staring at a slow motion video.

Anyways, in an excerpt of the article:

This means a summer of unprecedented top-quality sport online from the BBC for users in the UK. At Wimbledon there’ll be up to five live interactive video streams of action from around the courts, supplemented by a daily round-up of highlights that’s available for our global audiences too.

From Germany 2006 there’ll be all the BBC games streamed live in video; every single match streamed in audio; and then video highlights on-demand, again for every game.

This reflects us taking seriously what you’ve been saying to us.

You want BBC Sport on the platform and at the time of your choice, and these days a broadcaster can’t rely on simply putting on an event at a fixed time on a conventional tv channel.

Some people will want to watch the afternoon World Cup games on the pc in their office; others will drive home listening to coverage on Five Live or Five Live Sports Extra; and if you’ve been out for the evening you’ll be able to catch up with all the goals at the time you want rather than where we’ve chosen to schedule them.

More World Cup information (player focused) over at Soccerati.

[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, United Kingdom, BBC World Cup[/tags]

Speeding Ronaldo

in Uncategorized

Over at BBC a picture of Ronaldo in FIFA World Cup 2002 was posted showing his lean frame in what seemed to be in a speeding motion.

Photographer Ross Kinnaird has this to say (see picture here):

Football…Brazil…Ronaldo – it doesn’t get any better, especially if you’re a sports photographer covering the World Cup finals. Taking pictures of the best footballers in the world and seeing them in print is a massive buzz. You’re so close to the action you can hear a metatarsal crack. All my mates want to swap places with me! This Ronaldo picture shows power and speed in an arty kind of way. Shooting from the stands allows you to see shapes and patterns set against the green grass. I wanted to capture him running from left to right because it looks better in print. To get the shot spot on, I wanted Ronaldo on his own (he’s always tightly marked and not always in the action) so I needed to concentrate on more than just watching the game. It’s all worth the effort when it comes off though! —- Ross Kinnaird

Ronaldo is not as lean as he was four years ago. How fast can we go today?

More Player Profile over at Soccerati.

[tags] FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, Brazil[/tags]

Brazilian Feast

in Games, betting & entertainment

Is there going to be a repeat of this in a month’s time?

FIFA World Cup Brazil The sight of my favorite team winning is tremendous. Four years ago I was going crazy over Ronaldo’s performance but when Ronaldinho made that free kick I knew four years after he is going to lead Brazil. The kid has grown into a player more than I expected. His wizardry and development is awesome and playing in FC Barcelona gave him a big lift in his skill sets.

It would still be interesting to see how Ronaldo performs in the World Cup Finals.

FIFA World Cup Brazil

Who among them leads Brazil in scoring doesn’t matter. All it matters is to celebrate similar to the picture.

Source: CNNSI and Joga

[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, England[/tags]

England Kicks Brazilians

in News & Features

Who Ate All the Bratwurst has posted about a site dedicated to telling us who are the boys that will beat Brazil. Guess what! It’s the England. Do you agree anyone is going to kick the Brazilians in this tournament? Of all the teams, England?

In an excerpt:

What if the FA tried to secretly clone the heroes of 1966 to save England from football obscurity?

What if the experiment succeeded, and they are somewhere out there, waiting to reclaim a forgotten glory?

Find out in The Boys to Beat Brazil, the explosive new novel that makes The Da Vinci Code feel like being stuck in a lift with David Pleat.

[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, England[/tags]

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