Buzzin Football

So the 2010 South Africa World Cup is finally over and Spain is rightfully crowned the best football nation in the world. Considering the on-going pre-tournament concerns as to whether the stadiums would be finished and whether South Africa’s infrastructure could cope, the tournament was a great success.  South Africa delivered though it must be [...]

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According the the Castrol Performance data, Spain should take their chances at goal from distance in the World Cup 2010 final in South Africa, as the stats show that Holland goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg has been guilty of conceding most goals (3) in the finals from shots taken from outside the box.
Stekelenburg has conceded five goals [...]

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The Castrol Performance analysis suggests that we are in for a fantastic World Cup quater final game between Brazil and Holland, with the South Americans posing most threat from their attacking defenders and the Europeans relying on pacey counter attacking football.
So far in the World Cup 2010 finals, Brazil’s defenders have been attacking more than [...]

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Once again attention turns to World Cup 2010 qualification this week, and one of the biggest match-ups comes between Bert van Marwijk’s Holland and George Burley’s Scotland.
Currently Scotland sit 5 points adrift of group leaders Holland. A win for the Dutch would cement them as favourites to progress to the finals at the halfway stage [...]

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Holland brought the UEFA Euro 2008 finals alive tonight with a stunning performance that stunned the World Cup holders, Italy in the first half; and destroyed them with an exciting counter-attacking game plan in the second half.  It wasn’t as if Italy played particularly badly, just that Holland were simply on fire.
Holland 3 Italy 0 [...]

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