Posts Tagged ‘fifa’
World Cup Finals This Weekend
6:31 am By Maegan La Mala · Sports|Uruguay · 5 Comments
10 Jul 2010As soon as the Latin American and African countries started dropping like flies, I’ll admit, I started to lose interest in The World Cup. The political, activist animal in me can’t help it.
Today, Saturday, the last Latin American team still alive, Uruguay, fights for third place against Germany at 2:30 pm EST. Tomorrow, Sunday, at 2:30 pm EST, the World Cup winner will be decided between Holland and Spain.
To be honest I don’t know who to get behind.
USA’s Futbol Luck Runs Out Against Brazil
8:43 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Brazil|Sports · 2 Comments
29 Jun 2009Did people really think that the USA would repeat what it had done with Spain?
Yesterday the US’s soccer team faced Brazil in the FIFA Confederations Cup Final in Johannesburg, South Africa. The US was ahead, 2-0, after the first half pero, I predicted that Brazil was going to come through in the second half and win.
Yup, I was right. Brazil not only tied the game in the second, pero won 3-2.
FIFA Announces Player of the Year Nominations
11:23 am By Maegan La Mala · Latin America|Spain|Sports · Comments Off
12 Dec 2008
Futbol is the only sport la Mala half ass follows.Today FIFA announced the finalists for the 2008 World Player and FIFA Women’s World Player awards, to be handed out here on January 12, 2009 and some of the top nominees are from Latin America.
The male nominees are Kaka (Brazil), Lionel Messi (Argentina), Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Fernando Torres (Spain), and Xavi (Spain).
Nadine Angerer (Germany), Cristiane (Brazil), Marta (Brazil), Birgit Prinz (Germany) and Kelly Smith (England) will contest the women’s award.
Last year Kaka won the award and yes his name still makes me laugh as if I were a 13 year old.
Via / France 24
“Savage attack” on Chilean futbolistas?
5:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Canada|Chile|Controversia|Sports · 1 Comment
20 Jul 2007
The words “savage attack” seldom come up in the context of a story about arrests made by Canadian police. But those are the words used to describe what happened at the end of the Argentina-Chile match of the World Cup U-20, after two Chilean players were expelled and Argentina went on to win the match 3-0. Spain’s 20 Minutos reports that a Chilean journalist witnessed the arrest and gave this account:
“We don’t know exactly where the police’s attitude came from but from where were, about 50 meters away, we could see how the police savagely attacked the players,”said [a reporter] in a telephone dispatch from Toronto.
According to reports corroborated by more than one journalist, the players were handcuffed and reporters were restricted from filming what was going down.
Apparently things got worse when the arrested team members, who were detained in a paddywagon, attempted to escape from the vehicle through windows when police activated a tear gas bomb inside. Watch a video account from Chilean television after the jump.
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