We are only two weeks away from knowing all but 5 teams to join 10 already qualified for 2006 World Cup in Germany. Those final 5 will be decided in November after playing the playoffs.
Starting October 8, there is going to be a hell of a week and some great international soccer action.
England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson believes his squad are still fully behind him despite their World Cup qualifying upset in Northern Ireland.
He also strongly hinted in Wednesday’s London Evening Standard newspaper that he will drop the controversial tactics which led to the 1-0 defeat in Belfast and a scrappy 1-0 win over Wales in another qualifier earlier this month.
After 148 days Chelsea finally have a good chance to take revenge on Liverpool. Liverpool knocked Chelsea out of UEFA Champions league (in the semi finale) last season on its way to winning an unexpected fifth title.
Revenge, pride and two very different managers will take centre stage at Anfield when Liverpool and Chelsea meet in the Champions League today at 20:45 CET.
It’s time for Matchday 2 in UEFA Champions League and for some great soccer action in Europe.
September 27, 2005:
Juventus - Rapid 3:0
Bayern - Club Brugge 1:0
Ajax - Arsenal 1:2
Thun - Sparta 1:0
Panathinaikos - Bremen 1:0
Barcelona - Udinese 4:1
Man. United - Benfica 2:1
Lille - Villarreal 0:0
September 28, 2005:
Fenerbahçe - PSV 3:0
Schalke - Milan 2:2
Real Madrid - Olympiacos 2:1
Rosenborg - Lyon 0:1
Anderlecht - Betis 0:1
Liverpool - Chelsea 0:0
Porto - Artmedia 2:3
Internazionale - Rangers 1:0
If you will be tired of watching World Cup or you won’t have tickets, than you might think to visit a brand new Germany’s largest brothel near the Olympic Stadium.
Organizers of what they claim will be Germany’s largest brothel unveiled the building, which is set to open in time for the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament.
The Artemis brothel near the Olympic Stadium is a four-story building with a pool, sauna and movie theater will accommodate up to 650 men and 100 women at any one time, said Norman Jacob, the lawyer representing its backers.
FIFA has released the kick-off times for the matches that will decide which five African nations qualify for the 2006 World Cup, as well as those who will contest next year’s African Cup of Nations. FIFA has specified that all but two of the 15 games will be played on Saturday 8 October.
This wise decision was taken because in the past weeks there were some rumors about conspiracies and accusations of bribery around all these important matches.
Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed that his dream 2006 FIFA World Cup final would be Brazil versus Portugal.
“We want to go very far. We are going to fight for a spot in the final and then for victory,” he told sports daily A Bola. “We know it is difficult, but I would like to face Brazil in the final.”
Mehmet Scholl announced that there will be no comeback for him in the German national team for the FIFA World Cup 2006.
34 years old Mehmet Scholl was willing to play as a joker for Jurgern Klinsmanns national team. The two of them won the European Championship 1996 with German team.
Croatia coach Zlatko Kranjcar named an unchanged 21-man squad on Wednesday for the World Cup Group Eight qualifiers against Sweden in Zagreb on October 8 and Hungary in Budapest four days later.
The team:
Tomislav Butina (Club Bruges),
Joseph Didulica (Austria Vienna),
Stipe Pletikosa (Hajduk Split);
Viewers of the 2006 soccer championships could see the ball fly out of the screen, in live trials of a new 3D TV system
Viewers of next year’s soccer World Cup in Germany could find themselves watching the ball fly out of the screen, in live trials of a new 3D television system.
The German firm Grundig has developed a system capable of displaying 3D pictures to people sitting in different parts of a room, without the need for special glasses.
“We will have the prototype product by the end of 2006 and 3D TVs and DVD players on the market in 2007,” says Thomas Haida, Grundig’s director of product development.
