Olympic Soccer – Games to Watch 7/24-8/10
The simultaneous Euros and Copa América are now behind us, but there’s no rest for the football-obsessed. Despite the fact that the opening ceremony is not until next Friday, the […]
Category Archives: Germany
On Tap – Sept International Break
Even though it’s the first international break of the season and we just had a World Cup last December, Euro qualification is firmly underway. There’s also a semifinals and finals […]
Euros 2022 Group Stage Final Round
The final round of the Euros’ group stage kicked off on Friday the 15th with simultaneous Group A games. One was a dead rubber meeting of home nations, group-winners England and eliminated Northern Ireland.
Euros 2022 Group Stage Round 2
Women’s Soccer, July 2022: A SeriesThis is the seventh post in a series devoted to the 117 games of international women’s football played in July 2022, covering the second round […]
Euros 2022 Group Stage Round 1
Women’s Soccer, July 2022: A SeriesThis is the third post in a series devoted to the 117 games of international women’s football played in July 2022, covering the first round […]
Euro Matchday 2
So much football in the past four days (another 24 games, bringing the two week total to 62) that I’ll be focusing just on the second round of group games […]
A Strange Summer
The summer soccer season starts tomorrow, but with the World Cup delayed until the winter, it’s likely to feel a bit different. It breaks fairly evenly into two halves: an […]
Best Games of 2019-20: August to October
With the new season already underway in France, and the Community Shield scheduled for tomorrow, reflections on the season that was 2019-20 need to happen now. So here is the […]
10 Games in September
With the Bundesliga set to kick off this Saturday, now seems as good a time as any to restart my series of posts on the best games of the discontinued […]
Germany 0 – Mexico 1
Mexico upset tournament favorites Germany in a game that was as tactically interesting as it was viscerally exciting. Joachim Löw’s Germany set up in their anticipated 4-2-3-1, though with Marvin […]
Stoopid American 