Archive for January, 2006
Valeron out of Germany 2006
By worldcuppers at 23 January, 2006, 8:09 pm
After Jan Koller, Spain playmaker Juan Carlos Valeron join the list of stars who will miss Germany 2006 when the 30-year-old Deportivo Coruna midfielder tore the cruciate ligament in his left knee in a 2-2 draw against Real Mallorca at the Riazor.
Valeron scored the opening goal and then won the penalty that led to Deportivo’s [...]
Klinsmann names 28, did not rule out others
By worldcuppers at 23 January, 2006, 6:51 am
Germany coach Juergen Klinsmann named 28 players for fitness tests at the end of January in Duesseldorf but did not rule out possibility of new players coming in. With only 23 players allowed to be registered, the chance of other players outside this 28-man squad seems bleak although Klinsmann could change his mind if somebody [...]
Read More >>No hooligan issue in Germany 2006? Think again
By worldcuppers at 21 January, 2006, 4:24 pm
To those people who thinks that the hooligan issues has been resolved once and for all because there had been no significant disorder by England fans during the last World Cup in Japan and South Korea in 2002, or the European Championships in Portugal in 2004, well think again.
Great Britain’s Home Office released a [...]
Evra hopes for World Cup
By worldcuppers at 13 January, 2006, 6:17 am
New Manchester United’s signing Patrice Evra believes his move to “the best League in the world” will enhance his chance in making it to the France’s World Cup squad.
“I was consistent with my form at Monaco and by repeating that consistent form here, and hopefully playing as regularly as possible, and with it obviously being [...]
World Cup tour begins in Ghana
By worldcuppers at 8 January, 2006, 11:53 pm
Football mad Ghanaians queued in blazing sunshine to see the World Cup on Saturday when football’s most coveted trophy began its first world tour.
Fans in this West African country, whose national team will make their first World Cup finals appearance, competed for tickets to see the trophy by taking part in radio and television quiz [...]
No Koller in World Cup
By worldcuppers at 7 January, 2006, 10:05 pm
It seems that we will miss the sight of the big bald Czech Republic striker Jan Koller this summer after team officials say it is too early to know whether will recover from a knee injury in time.
The Dortmund striker who scored a lot of goals by taking advantage of his height (and by scaring [...]
Ticketing issues (again!)
By worldcuppers at 6 January, 2006, 10:07 pm
It happens during every World Cup, and we shouldn’t expect that Germany will be an exemption. Ticketing remains the biggest worry for 2006 organisers as orders running at 100,000 a day and little prospect of returns to ease the shortage.
Organising committee expected that with high ticket prices, some participating country such as Angola will return [...]
World Cup venues not safe
By worldcuppers at 6 January, 2006, 9:44 pm
It looks like that 1.5 billion euros spent by Germany in building and renovating 12 stadiums for the World Cup is not enough as a respected local consumer protection group, Stiftung Warentest declared that some of them have serious deficiencies if crowd panic or fire were to break out.
This claimed further strenghtened by three recent [...]
