This is according to Gael Clichy, a veteran midfielder from France who plays for English Premier League side Manchester City. Clichy says City’s new coach, Pep Guardiola, formerly of Bayern Munich and Barcelona, is barring pizza from the diet of City’s players. And the club can produce as many experts as it likes, but telling […]
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Guardiola Bans Pizza at Manchester City
July 25th, 2016 · No Comments · English Premier League, Football, soccer
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Cristiano Ronaldo Airport?
July 22nd, 2016 · 2 Comments · Football, soccer
This is never a good idea. Want to give the name of a prominent person to a civic facility? Wait until that person is dead. So you don’t look silly if/when that living person does something stupid/immoral/illegal. And when that person is an athlete … be doubly as cautious. The government of Madeira has ignored […]
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Another Misadventure in Sports Tattoos
July 21st, 2016 · 1 Comment · English Premier League, Football, NBA, soccer
The web has scads of pages pertaining to bad sports tattoos. There are so, so many, after all. Just search “bad sports tattoos” and you can spend an afternoon paging through them. It has been suggested that an athlete probably should have a better idea for a tattoo than his own name, which often is […]
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Bad News: Klinsmann Not Getting England Job
July 20th, 2016 · No Comments · English Premier League, Football, soccer, World Cup
It would have been so tidy. Jurgen Klinsmann, the coach who is leading the U.S. national soccer team into irrelevance, was interested in the England job. England was interested in him. At points over the past two weeks, bookies in England (they will bet on anything in Britain; anything) had the German as the favorite […]
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Sunday in the Park? No, Thank Goodness
July 11th, 2016 · No Comments · Football, France, soccer
So, in Paris to catch up with people from home, and I had a bright idea for a social event on Sunday. A picnic at the Champ de Mars, official Parisian viewing site for the 2016 European Championship, which would be played at the Stade de France in the north of the city. A day […]
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‘Nooo!’ Euro Soccer Party Ruined for France
July 10th, 2016 · No Comments · Football, France, Paris, soccer
The guy I made a point of looking for each time I looked out the window at France fans, appeared to be about 25. He was slouched in a “comfy chair” in the living room of an apartment across the street from me, here in Paris. He had a French flag wrapped around his body, […]
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France and Front-Running Football Fans
July 7th, 2016 · No Comments · Football, France, soccer
Years at a time, France seems not to care particularly about its national soccer team. (For that matter, it hardly cares about its national league, either, but I digress.) As of tonight, however, France is one big bandwagon groaning under the strain of 66 million Frenchmen who have climbed aboard, over the past few days. […]
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Waiting for Chance to Play Catch in France
July 5th, 2016 · 1 Comment · Abu Dhabi, Baseball, Football, France, soccer
According to the old story, if you toss a ball at a non-American, he will try to stop it with his feet. If you throw a ball at an American, he likely will catch it in his hands. I have not played catch in a very long time. Certainly, not since before leaving for Abu […]
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How Welsh is the Wales National Team?
July 1st, 2016 · 1 Comment · Arsenal, English Premier League, Fifa, Football, France, soccer
The Wales soccer team is more Welsh than I imagined it would be. I decided to have a look, after watching the rousing 3-1 victory over Belgium tonight that puts Wales in the semifinals of the European Championships being played here in France. Seems like a team good enough to beat Belgium’s all-star side might […]
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Identify the Euro 2016 Hair/Tattoos
June 28th, 2016 · No Comments · Football, France, soccer
Over the past decade, international soccer has had no shortage of weird haircuts and weirder tattoos. It’s all about “look at me”. It’s about branding yourself — sometimes rather literally. I get it, to the extent that someone in the upper rows of a big stadium might have trouble distinguishing between players down on the […]
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