It's a peculiar lark, this football management. Use a system that doesn't suit your best players, and you're considered an inflexible ideologue. Tweak your system to get the best players in the role they're happiest, and you're criticised for having no backbone.
Argentina manager Alejandro Sabella a...
Once again, Uruguay have done it. The team that knows nothing about easy victories added one more to a heroic list. Against the always mighty Italy, La Celeste proved again that victory for their rivals won't come easy.
Before the match, much was said about key aspects such as Luis Suarez's fitness ...
He may have knocked them out of the tournament but England's returning anti-heroes have much to thank Luis Suarez for. Drawing 0-0 with Costa Rica reserves has been been all but relegated from the back pages. The walk of shame on the return home may not need to be so brisk.
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Shinji Okazaki's goal had briefly tied the Bundesliga back up with the Premier League at 22 when the Mainz striker scored just before the halftime whistle to tie the game with Colombia. That was until Swansea City's Wilfreid Bony scored for Ivory Coast in the 74th minute to regain the lead for the P...
No sooner had the final whistle blown than Faryd Mondragon was down on his knees. Even with the world's TV cameras zooming in, the then-27-year-old goalkeeper could hold back no longer. Head in his hands, he started to cry.
Goals from England's Darren Anderton and David Beckham in Colombia's final ...
If Otto Rehhagel forever goes by the moniker of "King Otto" for masterminding Greece's Euro 2004 triumph, then Fernando Santos is surely deserving of the title of "Portuguese Prince."
This was a career-defining victory for the former Benfica boss, as it was for the oft-maligned Georgios Samaras, as ...
