Italy defeated France yesterday 5-3 in a penalty kick showdown to win the glorious World Cup. Their victory though will forever have two black clouds hanging over it. The odd thing about it is I’m not sure which one will be the bigger one years down the road.
The first black cloud is the […]

We have reached the final 16 of the glorious World Cup competition so now it’s lose and you are gone.  There were definitely some surprises to make the knockout round with Ghana leading the list of the underrated teams to advance.  Ecuador, Australia and Ukraine were other teams that played excellent soccer and surprisingsly made it […]

In all reality it is no grand surprise Germany the host country for the World Cup won their second game of the greatest show on the pitch. The shock was how well Poland played them today (easy now…no Pollock jokes) in what was the second game for each team. The German soccer team was able […]

This is going to be a very short post or else my venom might spew all over the place.  USA comes into the World Cup ranked #5 in FIFA’s world rankings and lay an egg in our first game.  Yeah yeah, I know the Czech’s are good, but when they score five minutes into the […]

The World Cup is now in full gear and man have the games been good.  The competition has been fierce and it truly appears the teams are more evenly matched than I can ever remember from previous World Cup matches.  I think by far the biggest representation of this came on Saturday when Trinidad and Tobago, a […]