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Free World Cup Seats

19 years ago 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.

Promise to the Prince

19 years ago 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]

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World Cup on BBC Broadband

19 years ago 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.

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England Kicks Brazilians

19 years ago 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.

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Beware World Cup Racists

19 years ago in News & Features

“The regulations will be applied for this World Cup,” revealed Fifa president Sepp Blatter. “At the first sign of racism there will be a deduction of three points, then we are finished with problems of discrimination.”

This may look like a smart move but how stupid it could. It should be easy disguise yourself as routing on the team opposite you preference. Sheesh, what day is today Sepp? Two months to go and here you are implementing something as weird as this.

Fantasy Football

19 years ago in News & Features

Good news to all you football fans out there who wants to kick some ass in Germany!

Yahoo has launched a FIFA World Cup fantasy game.

Seasoned Fantasy players will know that it is always a good idea to do some homework before selecting your team ahead of each match. Find out which players are hitting peak form, who has been underachieving and which players are expected to shine by consulting the Fantasy Game’s strategy pages that will be readily available to all users throughout the tournament.

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How Deep is your Love?

19 years ago in News & Features

Football fans is an exceptionally different breed of people.

I find it quite unique in the way fans love, defend and stand by their teams. The football forums and communities I have joined always had violent people who behaved like barbarians. Their love is unquestionable to the extent that they put their education, integrity, credibility, etc. on the line just to defend their heart’s desire.

I always wanted it addressed differently — with respect and love; but I know deep inside that it just isn’t going to happen for a culture deeply embedded in the core of the sport.

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Sweden Eyes on Opponents

19 years ago in News & Features

Lyth, one of the scouts, told Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet how important it was to see their opponents play live.

England, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago will be followed by Sweden’s three man team — Lyth, Goransson and Lenartsson.

What’s new?

All teams have scouts and that cancels everything else. Well, at least you get to do your homework. Who knows who among the scouts are enjoying their vacation and miss the important aspects of the game played?

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Trinidad & Tobago Captain is Rusty?

19 years ago in News & Features

Dwight Yorke, team captain of Trinidad & Tobago, will have his final game as a Sydney FC player on Sunday against Central Coast Mariners in Australia’s Grand Final.

Yorke said he has two-and-a-half months without a club and without playing competitive football ahead of him.

At 34 years old this year’s event is most likely his first and last World Cup so he cannot afford to keep low in the months ahead and would want his Country to remember their first World Cup appearance.

In lieu of Yorke’s void in competitive games; Alex Ferguson has offered him to train with United. Yorke insists that he need games more than anything else to prepare him as the leader of their country. Besides, the Soca Warriors will be facing England in the second game of the World Cup and Alex’s offer may have an ulterior motive.

I think Alex’s offer is genuine but there is still a conflict of interest and may get back at both Yorke and Alex once Yorke performs well in World Cup games and gets checked against England. Unless the Soca Warriors end up in the cellar, the worst thing that could happen is to be slightly beaten out by England which will surely get their people up and roaring.

The best thing to do is get training and play some games with teams that have the least chance of World Cup encounter. Any takers?

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World Cup: More Time = No Artillery

19 years ago in News & Features

Eriksson argues that FIFA should delay the deadline for the final squad of the World Cup.

Soccernet reports:

‘If the date remains at May 15, we could have a situation where a player is really tired or completely out of form. We would not have the ability to change it.
‘It would be very good if we could pick our squads a week before the World Cup and I don’t see any reason why we cannot do that.

Everyone waits and wants to play for the World Cup so how could anyone be out of shape in less than 2 1/2 weeks? C’mon, just tell the world that your final roster is difficult to complete given the number of players you have that have an impact to your World Cup fate. Most probably he is vying for time and sees how the other teams fare and try to adjust his roster. After all, his lack of pieces to compete strong and finish strong is unlikely to happen unless he strategically chooses a team that could neutralize the possible opponent’s strengths.

Hmm. this is not really bad after all and by no means is it unfair. So I guess what Eriksson is asking is for the benefit of everyone else other than Brazil. Who needs to tailor and change rosters with someone like them?

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