The Footie Fool

I’ve started a group in Facebook called Canada and the 2010 World Cup. if you are in Facebook, pop by and take part in the community and discussion.

Earlier today, Sepp Blatter named Canada as one of the countries expressing preliminary interest in hosting the 2018 World Cup.
“We are in 2007 and the 2018 World Cup has already started,” Blatter said. “The United States, Mexico, Canada, Belgium and Holland which are united, Spain — don’t forget them — Russia and, of course, England. [...]

FIFA held the preliminary draw for the 2010 World Cup this past weekend, and Canada’s first CONCACAF hurdle in qualifying for 2010 is now known. Canada (FIFA rank: 54 overall, 4th in CONCACAF) will be facing the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent/Grenadines (FIFA rank: 77 overall, 9th in CONCACAF)) in a 2 leg aggregate [...]

The British anthem singer who sang the Croatian anthem at the England-Croatia Euro 2008 qualifyier yesterday apparently made quite a gaff on the last line of the Croatian anthem.
The line in which Henry slipped up should have been “mila kuda si planina” (You know my dear how we love your mountains).
But what he actually [...]

Oh my goodness, did that suck.
It took me a day to watch it due to a crazy schedule yesterday but after seeing the game I have to think why did I bother? Canada put in a brutal performance and drops a 2-0 Friendly to (as Gerry Dobson continually and painfully kept reminding us of) a [...]

Canada will be playing 2010 World Cup host South Africa in an international Friendly next week (November 20th) in Durban, South Africa. Today Dale Mitchell announced his squad and it looks like he is pulling heavily from Europe and will contain a previously uncapped player.
As expected, DeRo and Pat Onstaad will be sitting this one [...]

This spring I posted about a very ambitious website called MyFootballClub. The hope of the site was to get 50,000 people to pony up a £35 membership fee, giving them £1,375,000 in seed money to buy a team with every one of the 50,000 members as equal partners having a say on player selection, tactics [...]

40,000 people, many kids, got to see a naked idiot run across the field at the Galaxy/Whitecaps game last night. Earlier this year, the same thing happened at a U20 WC game in Victoria.
Why? And why soccer? What is it about the game that seems to bring out the idiot who feels that it [...]