Oct 14
Source: Kristin Deasy RFE/RL Iranians are obsessed with football. Thousands watched the televised Iran-Brazil friendly on October 7, which took place in the.
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Sep 14
Needing a win against Brazil to secure a place in the knockout round, the Canadians were dealt a 2-0 loss on Monday in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Jul 12
Well, the 2010 World Cup is finally over as we have seen Spain win their first ever World Cup over the Netherlands in extra time at Soccer City. Now, we will have to wait four long years until the 2014 World Cup, but, looking ahead, here are the ten early favorites to win the first World Cup in Brazil since 1950. Begin Slideshow
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Jul 01
Capsules for Friday’s quarterfinals matches at the World Cup (FIFA rankings in parentheses): Brazil (1) vs. Netherlands (4), 10 a.m. Port Elizabeth Brazil easily handled Chile 3-0 in the second round after winning Group G. The Netherlands has won all four of its matches, including 2-1 over Slovakia in the second round.
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Jun 21
I’m starting this blog in the 68th minute of Ivory Coast’s game against Brazil and they are 3-0 down and Sven has just made his second substitute, but.
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Jun 17
Follow the 2010 FIFA World Cup with our group of soccer experts – opinion, analysis and revelry from the opening kickoff on June 11 to the final whistle on July 11. Can Spain continue its international dominance? Will Brazil win its sixth World Cup trophy? Who are the dark horses and players to watch? Does the US have any chance? We answer these questions and plenty more, and you’re invited to …
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Jun 14
Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) has incurred a big financial loss for hosting the international friendly match between Brazil and Taifa Stars early this month in Dar es Salaam, Tanzanian. The federation had projected to rake in $2.4 …
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Jun 09
www.miniclip.totalh.com Football world cup 2002 – top ten super skills made by fifa not by me 10 Larsson – Sweden vs. Senegal 9 Denilson – Brazil vs. Germany 8 Diouf – Sewden vs. Senegal 7 Sas – Brazil vs. Turkey 6 Ronaldinho – Brazil vs. China 5 Gomez – Costa Rica vs. Brazil 4 Blanco – Mexico vs. Italy 3 Figo – Portugal vs. USA 2 Mansiz – Brazil vs. Turkey 1 Svensson – Sweden vs. Senegal
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Oct 03
Tokyo’s hopes of hosting the 2016 Olympics were shattered Friday as the Japanese capital was eliminated in the second round of voting by the International Olympic Committee.
Rio de Janeiro was named the winner of rights to stage the 2016 Games, beating Madrid in the final round of voting to become the first South American Olympic host. Rio had 66 votes to Madrid’s 32.
Chicago was eliminated in the first round of voting before Tokyo’s exit left the race down to the Rio and Madrid. Tokyo had 22 votes in the first round and 20 in the second.
Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama released a statement Saturday congratulating the Brazilian people on Rio de Janeiro’s win in a bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
‘‘I want to offer my heartfelt appreciation for the citizens of Tokyo and athletes,’’ said Tokyo Gov Shintaro Ishihara. ‘‘Let’s use this precious experience, while tackling environmental issues and contribute to the development of world cities. I pray for the success of the Games in Rio de Janeiro.’’
Under host city voting procedures, the city with the fewest number of votes in each successive round of balloting is eliminated until one city has reached a majority of the valid votes cast.
Oct 01
The International Olympic Committee is no stranger to tough decisions. It took the risk of sending the games to Beijing and said “No” to New York in the aftermath of 9/11. Yet, despite all of that accumulated experience, some IOC members are struggling with their latest conundrum: choosing the Olympic host for 2016.
Just two days ahead of the vote, many were undecided.
And that means two things—it’s still too close to call between Rio de Janeiro, Chicago, Tokyo and Madrid and, for the next couple of days, IOC members are going to feel that they are the most popular people on the planet. Everyone in Copenhagen, where they are gathered, seemingly wants to be their new best friend.
Want to meet Michelle Obama? Not a problem if you’re an IOC member who needs a little pointer on which way to vote. The first lady, beating her husband to the Danish capital, has a two-room suite in the IOC hotel, with homely white leather furniture and an interactive table that, at the touch of a hand, gives bird’s eye views of how a Chicago Olympics might look.
Mrs Obama arrived Wednesday, two days ahead of the U.S. leader, and got straight to work on impressing IOC members.
“We’re not taking anything for granted, so I’m going to go talk to some voters,” she said.
IOC members who have been through this selection process repeatedly, previously sending the games to London, Beijing, Athens and Sydney, told The Associated Press that they could not remember a tougher choice. The AP canvassed the opinions of a dozen IOC members. With all four cities seen as amply capable, technically at least, of holding the Olympics, they said much will ride on how well or badly the cities make their case in final 45-minute presentations to the IOC on Friday before the successive rounds of secret balloting.
“I have two favorites,” IOC member Nicole Hoevertsz said. “It’s going to come down to the last, last presentation. It’s going to come down to the last minute.”
As tension mounted, so did tempers. Despite fresh IOC warnings that the cities should avoid criticizing their rivals, the Spanish Olympic Committee’s vice president, Jose Maria Odriozola, told the national Efe news agency that “Rio is the worst bid.”
Rio bid organizers said the criticism was “totally unacceptable” and formally complained to the IOC.
The outcome Friday could hinge on which cities are eliminated first and, if and when their favorites are knocked out, how IOC members subsequently line up behind the other candidates. That makes predicting a winner perilous and means that even members who say they already have made their choice are still worth lobbying.
“It is difficult enough to know where the first-round votes are going to go, so trying to imagine where the swinging votes are going to go is impossible,” said Spanish IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, whose father served as IOC president for 21 years.
“Events in the next 48 hours will decide the winner, because they will have a significant influence on the second- and third-round votes,” he said.
Samaranch said he believes nearly all the IOC’s 106 members already have a favorite. But IOC vice president Chiharu Igaya said “many” members are undecided.
Added British IOC member Craig Reedie: “This is really close. The closer it gets the more people will say, let me think about it. We all want to see the presentations. It’s what people see that will count. Decided? No, I haven’t actually. I’m getting close.”
Late, high-powered lobbying can be important—as then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife, Cherie, proved when London campaigned successfully for the 2012 Olympics. Blair traveled to Singapore ahead of the vote and spent two days lobbying members, inviting them to his hotel suite for one-on-one meetings.
Chicago tore a leaf from Blair’s playbook: Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett met with him last week to solicit his advice and get tips on navigating the IOC voting process.
But for the first time, there are no IOC executive board meetings in the days leading up to the vote. That means less opportunity for schmoozing.
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May 25
Defending champion Rafael Nadal sees off Brazil’s Marcos Daniel and Roger Federer beats Spaniard Alberto Martin to reach round two of the French Open.
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Apr 10
Brazil and Inter Milan striker Adriano is to take a break from football and “rethink his career”.
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Dec 23
Japan’s football chief has vowed to bid for the World Cup finals in 2018 or 2022, despite Tokyo’s candidacy to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, press reports said Monday.
“We want to challenge it,” Football Association president Motoaki Inukai was quoted as saying on FIFA’s weekend decision to hold simultaneous bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
Japan co-hosted the 2002 finals with neighbouring South Korea.
FIFA, the world’s football governing body, last year abolished a system under which the host nation of the four-yearly premier football event was rotated among six continents.
Dec 15
The competition pool for a Chicago Olympics would last about as long as a swimming world record does these days.
Chicago 2016 organizers unveiled several venue changes Friday that they say will benefit athletes and the community, and make their bid more attractive in the highly competitive international field. In addition to moving the aquatic center and making the competition pool a temporary facility, the sailing, canoe/kayaking, track cycling and BMX cycling venues all will be moved under Chicago’s retooled bid plan.
“We worked very closely with international sports federations and national governing bodies,” said Doug Arnot, Chicago 2016′s operations chief. “This plan is better for sport, better for the games and, perhaps most importantly, better for Chicago’s youth sports legacy. This plan remains very financially responsible.”
The changes will add about 5% to the budget, which remains at $4.7 billion, Chicago 2016 chairman Patrick Ryan said. That’s a bargain compared with other Summer Games; London estimates its overall costs for the 2012 Olympics will be about $16.5 billion, three times the original estimate.
Nov 02
Lewis Hamilton became Formula One’s youngest ever world champion by finishing fifth in an incredibly dramatic rain-affected Brazilian Grand Prix.
Felipe Massa won the race for Ferrari and looked set to take the title until McLaren driver Hamilton slipped past Timo Glock’s Toyota and into the crucial fifth place at the final corner of the very last lap.
Fernando Alonso (Renault) and Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) completed the podium finishers, ahead of Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel, whose penultimate lap pass on Hamilton had looked set to hand Massa the title, only for Glock’s gamble of staying on dry tyres in a late race shower to fail, causing the Toyota to slip from fourth to sixth within sight of the flag and giving Hamilton the title after all.
Ferrari still clinched the constructors’ title, as the two McLarens only finished fifth and seventh.
The start was delayed by ten minutes after a brief, but heavy, downpour hit Interlagos just before the mechanics were due to clear the grid.
Nov 02
Felipe Massa is in position to win the Formula One championship on home soil.
Massa claimed the pole for Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix with a fast lap of 1 minute, 12.368 seconds at the 2.6-mile Interlagos track.
Trailing series leader Lewis Hamilton by seven points heading into this season finale, Massa has a shot to win his first F1 championship if he finishes among the top two.
The 23-year-old Hamilton, who leads the circuit with 94 points, is guaranteed to become the youngest F1 champion if Massa finishes third or lower.
Hamilton will go out in the fourth spot Sunday, behind Massa, Jarno Trulli and defending champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Massa delighted the partisan crowd during Saturday’s qualifying session, claiming an unprecedented third consecutive pole at the event.
Oct 30
IOC president Jacques Rogge foresees no immediate threat to the Olympics from the global financial crisis and says the fight against doping will be a key priority for a second term in office.
Rogge, a 66-year-old Belgian who has led the International Olympic Committee since 2001, notified members last Friday that he will seek re-election next October for a final four-year term that will take him to 2013.
He spoke in a telephone interview with The Associated Press ahead of a news conference in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday where he publicly announced his candidacy for another term at the helm of the IOC.
No challengers are expected and Rogge’s re-election is considered a formality at the October 2009 assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Oct 29
GE, a worldwide partner of the Olympic Games, is kicking off a number of new marketing and sales efforts in advance of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and London 2012 Olympic Games.
For the London 2012 Olympic Games, GE has launched a ground-breaking moving image campaign on the side of London taxi cabs featuring a technique known as ‘motion lenticular technology’, never before used on the exterior of a taxi cab. The campaign, which runs until February 2009, features 300 London cabs displaying the new Olympic Games designs as side panels. Two creative executions have been developed – one that depicts an Olympic hurdler, the other a cyclist. As a result of the printing technology used, as the cab moves along the streets, the images appear to be animated.
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