Round of 16 started and a leg is over which means 4 teams got eliminated and 4 waiting for there quarter final matches preparing strategies.The other leg of Round 16 will be finished in 2 days.This world cup turns out to be nightmare for a few big names like, England, France & Italy. One other big name will be eliminated by end of pre- quarters, Spain or Portugal. For Brazil, Portugal and Spain it was almost sure that anyone of them will be eliminated in the round of 16 itself. Brazil became comparatively safe with Chile, but the Spaniards and Portuguese will be fighting for glory.

The Jabulani started rolling and vuvuzela almost deafens the players and the fight is fierce.Major title contenders like Argentina, Germany started with a win. Brazil,Spain and Italy are yet to play their first matches. England fall into a draw which witnessed a goal keeping howler from the English keeper. Last world cup’s best player is not playing this time, but the player who scored most goals last time, scored one goal this time also, seems the German is in good touch. Klose, the 2006 Golden boot winner is near a …

Zakumi the official mascot will dance infront of a huge audiance in a couple of days. Teams are on there way, some of them started warm ups to adjust to the conditions. Adidas Jabulani will roll in South Africa on June 11th officially. 2010 FIFA worldcup is the 19th of its kind. The event started in August 2007 when the qualifiers started, 204 teams participated. And 32 nation qualified, and South Africa became the first African nation to host the event. This is the first world cup which has no …

The January transfer window has opened and it does seems at this early stages that the clubs are playing a waiting game and no one is really rushing into things. One confirmed high profile signing is Patrick Viera from Inter Milan to big spenders Manchester City. The talismanic midfielder, who has found chances hard to come by in Jose Mourinho’s Inter side,makes a return to English football. Viera as you all know was a very important figure in Arsenal’s ‘invincibles’ and we still believe that selling Viera was one of …

The pool of seedings meant that the the draw could have made up some very interesting groups.There were even chances of any of the English clubs being in the same group as Real Madrid who were in the second pot.As such,when the draw was made ,all English clubs will be happy that they have avoided other big guns from across Europe.
Last year’s Champions have been drawn alongside Inter Milan,Dynamo Kiev and Rubin Kazan in Group F.The group means that Barcelona and Inter are favorites to go through to the second …