Euro 2008 : Injury-time pain (Spain Vs Sweden)
By Aditya Mhatre at 15 June, 2008, 3:01 am
The last time Spain lost an international game was in October 2006. The opponent was Sweden. Both teams undoubtedly would have had this fact in mind when they walked on to the pitch apart from a desperation to win the game not just to seal a quarter final spot but to seal a quarter final [...]
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Euro 2008: L’Hexagone cornered (Netharlands vs France)
By Aditya Mhatre at 15 June, 2008, 2:57 am
A notable aspect of the Netherlands is the flatness of the country but try finding any symbolic allusion to the topography in the last two games that the football team has played. After overwriting a history episode in the Italian football book, the Dutch juggernaut refused to slow down, giving France it’s worst tournament defeat [...]
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Euro 2008: A tale of three errors (Italy-Romania)
By Aditya Mhatre at 14 June, 2008, 1:32 am
Italian coach Roberto Donadoni expected response from the Azzurri & response in ample amount was what he got from his players facing the defensively strong and attackingly able Romania. Alas, luck was not what he summoned. Three full days after being handed Italy’s worst defeat since 1970 by former AC Milan team-mate Marco van Basten’s [...]
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Euro 2008: Low for Joachim
By Aditya Mhatre at 14 June, 2008, 12:58 am
Croatia-Germany, June 12, Wörthersee, Klagenfurt, Austria
A day after the talk revolving Scolari and his Chelsea move, it was funny again to see centre stage now being taken by a coach who is said to have offered services to the national team till 2010, leaving it to the federation to decide on his remuneration with [...]
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Euro 2008: Portual Czechs into Euro QT
By Aditya Mhatre at 12 June, 2008, 11:30 am
Arguably one of the better fought combats in this competition So far. Mainly thanks to the display of the Czechs, funnily, but not surprisingly, finished with debates surrounding transfers, signings and who-could-have-beens in this commercialised theater of European football. Too bad the match itself attracted lesser discussions.
At the end of the day, it appeared it [...]
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