In a news that came out of the blue, stunning everyone and what could be a game changer for Indian Football, the national team captain Sunil Chhetri has been signed by premier Portuguese club Sporting Clube de Portugal, popularly known ...
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And we have our first finalists! Reigning European and World Champion Spain have reached the final of Euro 2012 to face the winners of the Germany vs Italy second Semi Final. In a stop-and-go game which irritated both players and ...
Read More »Cristiano Ronaldo Beats Czech Republic
It was literally eleven men against one when Czech Republic met Portugal in the first quarterfinal of Euro 2012. And that one man was Cristiano Ronaldo, who towered over anything and everything else in the Portuguese squad. He also scored ...
Read More »Euro 2012 Quarterfinals! Who Will Make It?
The European Championships have now entered their final stages, after a historic group match stage which saw some major upsets, great goals and thrilling moments, with almost all games being major entertainers. This was the first ever time in EURO ...
Read More »Group B – German Juggernaut, Danish Tears, Portuguese Revival, Dead Dutch
Everyone expected massacres in the “Group of Death” B, but it turned out that in the end it was suicide that occurred instead of massacre. The Netherlands self destructed with Portugal packing them 2 – 1 on the earliest available ...
Read More »Euro 2012 Group Standings after Round 2 – Analysis & Predictions
(Note/Update: This post was written on account on traditional footballing rules which take Goal Difference as the first tiebreaker in case of equal points in a group, which is how it is usually done. But today I came to know ...
Read More »The Group of Death sees the Highest Score! (Denmark vs Portugal)
The highest scoring game of the tournament so far was also among the most exciting of the lot so far, with Portugal scraping past Denmark 3 – 2. There could not have been more of a discrepancy between the first ...
Read More »Euro 2012 Standings After Round 1 – Analysis and Chances
The “first round” of the league phase of Euro 2012 to decide the new European Champions is over, with all teams having played one group match each. The results have thrown all predictions off-track, with only one team, Germany, having ...
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