Sporati on FIFA World Cup 2006’s video summary and description
A great goal by Lahm for Germany in their 4-2 victory over Costa Rica.
Video information
This FIFA World Cup 2006’s video is titled Lahm Goal Germany v Costa Rica (1st goal of the world cup) and credited to R10Bizarro. Viewing time is 00:00:59, enjoy our fellow FIFA World Cup fans!
Date Played: June 9, 2006 (Group Stage)
Germany: 4 Costa Rica: 2
Man of the Match via Yahoo:
This kid has been phenomenal in the tournament. He will be roaming the streets like a hero for scoring two goals. Good work man. Rest well because Germany will be counting much of you in the succeeding games. This guy is in delirium .
Congratulations Germany .
I am crazy about football since I scored my first goal at the age of 8 in an intramural game. I was like every kid playing soccer who dream that one day they could make it to the big league. For one, I fantasized of playing in the FIFA World Cup Finals which is not likely to happen anymore.
Anyways, my craziness and love for FIFA World Cup is fulfilled through blogging which is the primary motivation for putting this site up.
My blogging goal is a three fold attach for this month of June.
1. Blog here at Sporati – I want to blog and report as many games as possible here in Sporati. I will do my best to cover all 64 games and report what is happening to them.
2. Sporati – the goal of this site is to serve as a portal to all my sports blogs and at the same time to list and blog about gears, gadgets and equipments all related to sports. And since it is the World Cup I am looking to post a lot of great content in it.
3. Soccerati – this is my player development blog via B5Media and I hope to highlight the high and lows of the soccer players during the Finals.
This seems to be an easy goal but given there are 32 countries, 64 games and over 936 players it is harder than you can imagine. Nevertheless, I will be a blog world cup factory for the next 30 days. Nothing Is Impossible!
[tags]FIFA World Cup, World Cup Germany, World Cup, Gadgets, Gears, Soccer Uniform, Soccer[/tags]
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People are praying and wishing Wayne Rooney will make it in time for the FIFA World Cup
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]
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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]
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]
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
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
[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football, England[/tags]
For a morale boosting media speech, Sven-Goran Eriksson
To add to his speech, celebrity player David Beckham
“Players like that excite us in the squad and I’m sure they have given the supporters a lift too,” said Beckham.
“Team morale is vital during a tournament and I have been really happy at how the new lads have fitted in and been made to feel welcome.
“I remember when I won my first England cap, back in 1996 against Moldova, and when I played my first game at a World Cup
“The older, more experienced players went out of their way to help me fit in and I learned a lot just from watching the way they conducted themselves in training, in the dressing room and around the team hotel.
“It’s a big learning curve for the younger players but they have already shown they are more than up to it.”
With Rooney
Anyways, Sven has less than two weeks to prove how good or mediocre he is.
[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, World Cup Germany, Soccer, Football[/tags]
Who is Luckott? It’s a term I coined for Theo Walcott on playing for England and making the history books.
Being chosen by Sven-Goran Eriksson is already a big winner for this kid let alone enter the history books and get past Wayne Rooney’s record of 17 years and 111 days when he appeared against Australia in February of 2003.
Theo Walcott luckily became the youngest player in England’s history on the 65th minute of their friendly against Hungary at Old Trafford to play at 17 years and 75 days.
Rooney’s status was already cemented when he entered the record books by playing in the English Premiership unlike Walcott who have been the invisible man of Arsenal all this time.
What more could Walcott ask?
Luckott is going to get luckier since he might just become the second youngest player in FIFA World Cup Finals behind only to Norman Whiteside of Northern Ireland whose record sits at 17 years and 41 days.
I can’t figure out how luck could bite players in the World Cup Finals. Luck does happen but to the best players on this planet especially at a level like the World Cup Finals. But a young kid who has not proven anything yet?
Luckott he is .
[tags]FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup 2006, Soccer, Football[/tags]
