Showing posts with label 2010 fifa world cup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2010 fifa world cup. Show all posts
Paul Allen Octopus
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
FIFA Octopus /Great German Astrologer Octopus /Final Prediction By Paul Octopus
Paul Allen Octopus
It is Very Shocking News For Fifa World Cup is that World-Cup hot Favorite Germany is out from tournament and Octopus Paul prediction is true again this time, So It Is bad luck for Germany.
Now this Football World Cup, Octopus has came into light, this German octopus is stunning soccer fans around the world with his remarkable ability to his greatest prediction.
Paul makes his choice by picking between two containers of food, each bearing the flag of the two teams playing and he has predicted all of Germany’s World Cup results correctly.
This British Octopus currently resides in Sea Life Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany. Before this FIFA Worldcup is Paul presented with food in two identical containers, one container is marked with flags of Germany and the other is marked with flags of Germany's opponent. In each case, Paul food choices interpreted as his predicted victory.
Shahrukh, Imran going to South Africa
FIFA World Cup in South Africa where he was off stages, Bollywood celebrities are packing their bags for the national office would like the final game July 11.
Shah Rukh Khan in the final match in Johannesburg Speaking about their children. Now, Imran Khan, now it's a good movie after opening a high I hate Luv storys, it is clearly in a mood to celebrate, and what better way for it not the largest party in the world South Africa .
Imran confirmed that he will fly to Johannesburg in the final. He won the German roots. But the last part of Germany before the Spaniards defeated the second semi-final on Wednesday.
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
World Cup 2010 FIFA World Cup 1919 soccer tournament is a leading international. It takes place in South Africa. For the first time the tournament was held African nation would be. Thirty-two teams compete at the event and they are divided into four teams of eight. Only 16 of the 32 original teams to move the group stage. 16 lost in the first round of the tournament after the quarter-finals, semifinals and finals at the following conclusion. Also decides classification match 3-4
Complete Schedule for 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
| Thu, Jul 08 2:00AM | Post Show |
| Thu, Jul 08 9:00AM | Round of 16: Brazil vs. Chile |
| Thu, Jul 08 12:00PM | Quarter Final 1: Netherlands vs.Brazil |
| Thu, Jul 08 2:00PM | Quarter Final 2: Uruguay vs. Ghana |
| Fri, Jul 09 9:00AM | Quarter Final 3: Argentina vs. Germany |
| Fri, Jul 09 12:30PM | Quarter Final 4: Paraguay vs.Spain |
| Fri, Jul 09 3:00PM | Semifinal 1: Uruguay vs. Netherlands |
| Sat, Jul 10 9:00AM | Semifinal 1: Uruguay vs. Netherlands |
| Sat, Jul 10 11:00PM | Pre-Show |
| Sat, Jul 10 11:50PM | 3rd/4th Placing |
| Sun, Jul 11 2:00AM | Post Show |
| Sun, Jul 11 9:00AM | 3rd/4th Placing |
| Sun, Jul 11 11:58AM | Semifinal 1: Uruguay vs. Netherlands |
| Sun, Jul 11 2:00PM | 3rd/4th Placing |
| Sun, Jul 11 6:00PM | 3rd/4th Placing |
| Sun, Jul 11 10:30PM | Pre-Show |
| Sun, Jul 11 11:50PM | Final |
| Mon, Jul 12 2:00AM | Post Show |
| Mon, Jul 12 1:00PM | Final |
| Sat, Jul 17 9:30AM | Semifinal 1: Uruguay vs. Netherlands |
Spain Beat Paraguay,Advance To World Cup Semis
Sunday, July 4, 2010
/EFE) A late goal by star striker David Villa gave Spain a 1-0 victory over Paraguay here and helped it secure a spot in the final four of the World Cup for the first time in 60 years.
Saturday's victory was a special one for La Roja and its die-hard fans, as Paraguay had several opportunities to take the lead before Villa, now the top scorer in South Africa with five goals, found himself in the right place at the right time in the 81st minute.
The match at Ellis Park was just a minute old when Paraguayan midfielder Jonathan Santana launched the first shot on goal, a low strike that star keeper Iker Casillas was able to smother.
The South American squad came closer to scoring in the first half than its more highly regarded European opponent, whose most promising chances consisted of solitary forays by Villa and a shot from midfielder Xavi Hernandez that sailed over the crossbar.
Vicente del Bosque's side had a clear advantage in time of possession through the first 40 minutes, but nothing to show for it on the scoreboard.
Then in the span of six minutes at the end of the first half, Paraguay had two excellent chances to take the lead.
The first came in the 40th minute when Nelson Valdez received a long pass and beat Casillas, although Paraguay's elation was quickly replaced by disappointment when forward Oscar Cardozo - who had also moved toward the approaching ball, though without touching it - was ruled offside and the goal was disallowed.
Then just before halftime, Valdez, marked by Carles Puyol, made a charge down the left side and fired a strong shot that sailed over the crossbar.
Although Spain's play improved a bit after the break, that didn't stop Del Bosque from bringing in Cesc Fabregas as a substitute for the struggling Fernando Torres in the 56th minute - a move that preceded the wildest stretch of Saturday night's quarterfinal.
First Spanish defenseman Gerard Pique received a yellow card for taking down Cardozo in the box, setting up a penalty kick - also by Cardozo - that Casillas dove to his left to save.
Then two minutes later, in the 59th minute, Spain's Villa was taken down by defenseman Antolin Alcaraz in the Paraguayan area, setting up a penalty to be taken by Xabi Alonso.
The Spanish midfielder scored but referee Carlos Batres ruled that Spain was encroaching and ordered the kick be retaken.
On the second try, goalie Justo Villar guessed right and blocked Alonso's shot, but the ball remained alive and the Spanish players wanted another penalty on what appeared to be a takedown of Fabregas by the keeper.
But no foul was called and the score remained 0-0 after one of the most nerve-racking stretches of this year's World Cup.
Spain has suffered many World Cup disappointments in the 60 years since finishing fourth at the 1950 World Cup in Brazil, and Saturday's match would have ranked as one of the Iberian nation's most heart-breaking losses if defeat had been in the cards.
Thanks to Villa, it wasn't.
In the 81st minute, Andres Iniesta beat a pair of Paraguayan defenders before passing to Pedro Rodriguez, who had come on as a substitute just minutes earlier.
Rodriguez's shot hit the goalpost but ricocheted back to Villa, who fired a delicate strike that hit the other goalpost and bounced along the goal line before entering the goal on the other side.
Spain seemed to have the match in hand with a 1-0 lead and just nine minutes to go, but more heroics were needed from Casillas, who saved one attempt from Lucas Barrios and then a follow-up shot from Roque Santa Cruz in the 88th minute to keep Paraguay scoreless and send Spain into the semifinals.
Next up for La Roja Wednesday will be Germany, which humiliated Argentina 4-0 in Saturday's other semifinal in Cape Town.
Source:sify.com
Viva Villa — Spain counts on ‘blessed’ striker
David Villa gave Barcelona even more reason to be pleased they bought the striker before the World Cup.
His late winner against Paraguay, which put Spain into the semifinals for the first time was his fifth in five games at the tournament to make him leading scorer at the tournament.
“It speaks volumes for his form. He was right there,” Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque said.
“He is blessed,” said keeper and captain Iker Casillas.
Villa’s scoring form is in marked contrast to partner Fernando Torres, who has so far failed to find the net in South Africa and was replaced by Cesc Fabregas in the 56th minute.
Fortunately, Spain had Villa to maintain his strike rate to eventually break down a stubborn Paraguay side.
The 28-year-old, who also won the Golden Boot at Euro 2008 as Spain cast aside years of underachievement to triumph, has now netted a total of 43 goals in 63 appearances, just one shy of Raul’s record of 44 goals in 102 games.
“Villa is addicted to goals, he only thinks about that. There is no better striker than Villa, this is proved not only by his goals record but also by his general contribution to the play of the team,” Del Bosque wrote in a column ahead of the Paraguay tie.
Barcelona paid Valencia 40 million euros (49 million dollars) for Villa but earlier this week Joan Laporta, the outgoing president of the Catalan giants, justified the high price tag for the striker.
“If I had waited until the World Cup to sign him then his price would have gone up by 20 million euros. That is why I was so keen to sign him in May, before the World Cup started,” he said.
Villa had earlier been brought down in the box by Antolin Alcarez, but Xabi Alonso failed to convert from the spot in a twice-taken penalty.
His winner came after Andres Iniesta played the ball to substitute Pedro whose shot beat Paraguay goalkeeper Justo Villar, but came back off the post.
Villa was on hand to hit the rebound home with a shot, which went in after coming back from the inside of both posts.
“Villa had that hunger for goal that allowed him to convert,” said Del Bosque.
Source:thehindu.com
Gargan gives FC Toronto draw with Dynamo
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Dan Gargan headed home Fuad Ibrahim's corner kick in the 85th minute to give Toronto FC a 1-1 tie with the Houston Dynamo on Thursday night.
Brian Ching's goal in the 73rd minute, also off a header on a corner kick, gave a Houston (5-7-3) the lead and followed two red cards about 11 minutes earlier that left each side with 10 players.
Each team played a man short after the 62nd minute with red cards handed to Toronto's Julian de Guzman and Houston's Joseph Ngwenya. It came after a skirmish deep in the Toronto end after Ngwenya continued on despite being called for a foul.
Toronto (5-4-4) picked up another red card just before the end of the game when Amadou Sanyang was sent off for his second yellow card of the match.
Source:- http://soccernet.espn.go.com
Drab draw sees Portugal through
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Two nations divided by a common language and a long-gone empire both advanced to the round of 16 on Friday as Portugal and Brazil tested the patience of their referee, Benito Archundia of Mexico, after a thoroughly mean-spirited goalless draw whose few scoring chances went mostly to the European side.
A blizzard of yellow cards before half-time — four to Portugal and three to Brazil — demonstrated that although there might not have been much riding on this match in terms of qualification for the knock-out round since both sides were already as good as through, there was certainly some sort of pride at stake.
But, it was probably not the sort of entertainment anticipated by the 62,712 spectators who had made this the first of the tournament's fixtures, after those involving the host nation, to become a sell-out.
Trips, dives and wild lunges were all swiftly punished. The worst incident occurred when Pepe, the Portugal midfield player, was booked in the 40th minute for a spiteful stamp on the achilles tendon of Felipe Melo, his opposite number.
Three minutes later, Melo took clumsy retaliation and was shown a yellow card of his own.
The referee had barely put his card away before Dunga made the substitution, clearly anxious not to lose a player who, in partnership with Gilberto Silva, provides such an effective shield for his defence.
One player had a special need to stay on the referee's good side. Cristiano Ronaldo versus Brazil was always going to be fun, even if the Portugal captain, after picking up a booking in the opening match against the Ivory Coast, had to watch his step if he wanted to take part in the round of 16. His success in that respect balanced his failure to get any of several long-range free-kicks on target.
Lacking the controversially suspended Kaka and the injured Elano, and having decided to give Robinho an afternoon on the bench, Dunga inserted a new trio of Nilmar, Julio Baptista and Dani Alves in between his striker, Luis Fabiano, and the two holding midfield players. Baptista, like Robinho and Elano, is one of those players considered not good enough for the Premier League but who seem to be adequate for Brazil's needs.
IMMEDIATE CONCERN
The danger was always that Ivory Coast's score against North Korea, coming in from Nelspruit, would be of more immediate concern than the exchanges here, particularly if the total started to mount towards the seven with which Portugal gave themselves an impressive goal difference in their second match.
But, there was never a shortage of incident, and there was even some football, particularly when Ronaldo got into his stride 15 minutes into the second period, outpacing two Brazil defenders on a run from the halfway line. Lucio's desperate interception succeeded only in turning the ball across the face of goal to Pepe, whose stabbed shot, under pressure from Cesar, flew wide of the left-hand post.
As the Brazilian goalkeeper received treatment following the collision, it could be seen that he was wearing a supportive corset.
Unless, of course, he had given consideration in advance to the probable nature of this encounter, and it was actually body armour.
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa Round of 16: USA vs. Ghana
The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It will take place in South Africa. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation. Thirty two teams are competing in the event and these have been divided into eight groups of four teams.
Of the initial 32 teams only 16 will progress from the group stage.
The tournament will then become knockout with first the round of 16, then the quarter finals, followed by the semi final and the culmination in the final. There will also be a 3rd/4th place decider match.
Read full story at tv.burrp.com
Argentina vs Greece - Argentina Wins 2-0 (2010 World Cup)
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Argentina beat Greece 2-0 in their match today to win their group and advance to the next round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
After a scoreless first half between the two teams, Argentina took control with a late surge led by goals from Martin Demichelis and Martin Palermo. The win gave Argentina a first place win in Group B and they will now face Mexico Sunday in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Read full story at sports.gather.com
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
Saturday, June 19, 2010
The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It will take place in South Africa. This will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by an African nation. Thirty two teams are competing in the event and these have been divided into eight groups of four teams. Of the initial 32 teams only 16 will progress from the group stage. The tournament will then become knockout with first the round of 16, then the quarter finals, followed by the semi final and the culmination in the final. There will also be a 3rd/4th place decider match.
Dreams of unity as plucky N.Korea lose to Brazil
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
North Korea in the first final of the World Cup in 44 years alongside the target five times winner of Brazil has brought joy communalist country and the fans Stoked dreams of reunification with South Korea.
Although their untiring team 2-1, and supporters based in Japan and South Korea had a high yield credit that North Korea back to the concluding for the first time and pave the way for 1966.
Shortly after this match ended in Johannesburg on a cold, official news agency in Pyongyang has congratulated the team for the "hard" fans of the battle of star striker Jong Tae Se - dubbed Asia Wayne Rooney - and commend.
"Although our countrymen have lost the match, the team's goal. I'm proud of them since the brother of blood, "said the man 34-year-old working in the organization of cultural Korean in Japan.
"Hopefully, the two Koreas are united and that we can play on a team together," said a man who only wanted to be found Jon.
Japan engaged the Korean neck of land until the Second World War, which houses nearly one million ethnic Koreans, many of whom are children of former compulsory laborers. Up to 100,000 is considered loyal to Pyongyang.
The group met outer surface a bar in Tokyo to see the battle, which began just before sunrise in Japan.
"We were so keyed up because both players are based," said Paku Sun-RDI, 23, who works in an association of young Koreans in Japan.
Jong, who burst into tears by the national anthem of his team, and midfielder Yong-Hak to play J-League?
Jong is a South Korean citizen like his parents, who are descendants of immigrants from the colonial era in Korea, but he manages to get North Korea to contribute in the passport after school patriotic pro-Pyongyang Japan.
When Brazil went 2-0, Ji Yun-Nam protect burst into the penalty area took the title of Jong and annoying the ball past goalkeeper Julio Cesar is a 89 notes objectives Trost.
"When Tae Jong-Il has been involved in the target, we cried," said Paku. "Although the team lost the match in Brazil, maybe we are a strong will."
Impoverished collective state has drawn the most difficult contest this year, landing the group G in Brazil, Ivory Coast and Portugal.
As usual, the North has been swept World Cup fever, pro-Pyongyang newspaper this week, with people glued to television, despite the dispute over the rights to the TV station in South Korea.
Because Koreans are behind the tournament marked by accusations that North Korea has cast the war in South Korea in March 1946 for the loss of life.
Other than the following divisions have set aside the South Korean fans whose own team had a good start with a 2-0 win in Greece praise racial allies in Internet messages?
"I am now in moan. You fought so well, "one wrote to Yahoo! Korea.
"I am so self-important of you. We are all Korean, "read another placement.
One commentator optional that the third one of the Korean team could easily obtain final half and maybe even win the cup.
"Tae Jong-Il has been so imposing today. He understands football, "the redistribution read.
The next match against North Korea Portugal on Monday.
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