Copa América is streamed live on YouTube. Copa América is the oldest international football competition, having been held first in 1916. This is a contest between the 10 South American nations and two invitational teams, this time Costa Rica and Mexico, who both sent young squads (Japan was slated to take part but
withdrew due to the earthquake). The tournament started yesterday with Bolivia unexpectedly managing to
hold Argentina to a draw. Colombia are currently beating a 10-man Costa Rica 1-0. Brazil start their campaign tomorrow, against Venezuela. One of the world's premier football writers, Jonathan Wilson, wrote previews of the three groups,
A,
B and
C. The Independent has more light-hearted
team previews.
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on Jul 2, 2011 -
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The Football Pantheon is a new website by football journalist Miguel Delaney. The aim of the website is to "present objective lists of the greatest clubs, players, countries, managers and so much more." The first entry is a very impressive list of
The 50 Greatest European Club Sides, which breaks down the various legendary teams, from the late 19th Century until today, and ranks them according to their achievements.
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on Jun 13, 2011 -
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The London Review of Books has a World Cup blog. So has
The New Republic and Tony Blair's spinmeister
Alastair Campbell. WFMU tracks World Cup related fatalities on its
World Cup Death Watch while Slate's William Saletan sends us
Dispatches from the World Cup. And then there's the expected gaggle of World Cup blogs from the mainstream media (
NYT,
Sydney Morning Herald,
Der Spiegel [in english],
The Guardian, etc.)
And finally, the mother of all World Cup blogs,
worldcupblog.org, with individual bloggers for each country, a main blog, and, my favorite section,
a referee's blog.
posted by Kattullus
on Jun 19, 2006 -
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