One of the world’s most famous teams, the UK-based Liverpool FC has broken ties with German sportswear manufacturer Adidas, the club confirmed Wednesday. Adidas may have missed the fine print on the aborted contract which implies a very impressive track record. Liverpool FC have claimed 18 league titles, 5 European Cup titles and have an [...]
Police in the Republic of South Africa are investigating the alleged robbery of the world’s most celebrated marathon twins – Russian sisters Olesya and Elena Nurgalieva (see courtesy picture). The team vehicle of the sisiters were reportedly robbed of their possesions (purses, cameras, etc) and running gear at one of the watering points on the [...]
Germany’s F1 racing driver Nick Heidfeld (33) has been called to replace the injured F-1 Renault team Polish driver Robert Kubica (26) at the start of the new season (March 13, 2011 in Bahrein), based on official statment released on Wednesday night (Feb 16, 2011). The announcement was made by the Malaysian-based Lotus sportscar manufacturing [...]
Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB) has reportedly drawn up plans for a successful run in the 2012 London Olympics, members said. At the previous London Summer Olympics in 1908 Hungary achieved 3 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze medals (9 in total) and in the summer Olympics in London in 1948 it achieved 10 gold, 5 [...]
Ethiopian marathon-man Herkolo Ashenafi won the ’25th Spar International Budapest Marathon and Running Festival’ in the men’s category with a time of 2:23:13 on Sept 26, 2010. The reportedly 42.2 kilometre annual marathon this year took place in rainy weather, in Budapest. Ashenafi was flanked by Hungarians Tamas Toth (2:24:36) and Zsolt Zsoder (2:24:55). To [...]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) has announced they have finally paid the full amount to all police officers who worked overtime during the June-July soccer spectacle. Reportedly some 44,000 officers were deployed to work overtime during the tournament, but were not paid by SAPS for these services until just recently. It was not mentioned [...]
Hungary meets England at London’s Wembley football stadium, just as the British Premier League is about to take off. The international friendly on Wednesday (Aug 11, 2010) is always one of the most anticipated matches between the two nations and reportedly will be televised for the broader audience unable to be the event live match. [...]
A mother from Howick, near Maritzburg in South Africa is the oldest participant at the 2010 UCI BMX World Championship hosted in the Rainbow Nation. The sport is officially also registered as an Olympic discipline. McGilvray says she has been riding 15 years since she first took her children to a BMX junior race. McGilvray [...]
Visitors to the Kruger National Park nature reserve in the Republic of South Africa were surprised to see how the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup fever seems to have been adopted by the natural wildlife there. Guests near a rest camp reportedly saw a young male elephant playing soccer with a flattened beer can that [...]
No matter what happens to you, if you’re famous you make the news headlines. Just recently the Brazilian media highlighted the fact that a leg injury had kept national football star Kaka (28) from performing his best in the 2010 South African World Cup (between June 11- July 11, 2010). Spain’s Real Madrid midfielder was [...]
News reports say that the government of communist China is allegedly behind the purchase offer to buy up Britain’s most successful soccer team Liverpool FC. Just recently Chino-American businessman Kenny Huang had reportedly made a handsome bid to buy the debts of the club and in turn become the new owner. But football officials allegedly [...]
The Hungarian Government recently announced that it would like to bid for hosting a FIFA World Cup tournament in the foreseeable future. Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban had made mention of this when he visited South Africa and watched the final match on July 11, 2010. While rban was watching the match live, some 500, [...]
The 2010 South African World Cup’s North Korean national coach Kim Jong-Hun (53) has reportedly been reprimanded, abused and brain-washed by the communist leadership of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong-Il . After having been forced to listen to hours of demoralizing blah-blah speeches of some 400 senior cadres of the dictator, Jong-Hun was sentenced to [...]
The South African Government and sports bodies are reportedly working on new initiatives to prevent the country’s 2010 World Cup state-of-the-arts stadiums from turning into white elephants. The premier league (PSL) has welcomed and strongly supports the initiative of staging soccer matches more for excitement than for profit. In the first step four soccer teams [...]
Although the European Union has 27 member states, the European Swimming Championship will host some 40 nations in Hungary. This year the 12-day tournament is being launched on Wednesday (Aug 4, 2010). The swimming, diving and synchronic water dancing events are being held at Budapest’s Margaret Island and two open water heats are being held [...]
The two finalists in the 2010 South African World Cup have reportedly received a belated penalty from the international football governing body, FIFA. Reports said that FIFA has decided to carry out the penalty and book Holland (actually the Netherlands, as Holland is merely a county in The Netherlands) and Spain for abusing the fair [...]
Are Liverpool FC fans about to consume more Chinese food? Perhaps, after their team is saved by Chinese entrepreneur Kenny Huang, who has been sniffing around for more than two years, sources said. He has allegedly offered Liverpool’s current owners a price he can’t refuse in return for a controlling stake in Britain’s most successful [...]
Australia’s Red Bull pilot Mark Webber won the the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday (Aug 1, 2010) at the Hungaroring race track, 30km north of Budapest. With that he takes the championship lead from England’s Lewis Hamilton, who failed to finish the race. His result also helped place the Red Bull team to [...]
Hungarian captain Zoltan Gera (31) earlier this year resigned from Hungarian national football after he was dropped from various international matches. Gera had been totally ignored by former manager-coach Erwin Koeman (49) for the World Cup qualifier against Denmark in October 2009. While Hungary didn’t even make it to the world cup, Gera and his [...]
Argentina soccer star and coach-manager Diego Maradona has been sacked from his post as manager of the Argentina national squad. The announcement was made shortly after the Argentinian Football Federation (AFA) decided, in a meeting, not to renew the former footballer’s contract due to sloppy performance in the 2010 South African Soccer World Cup. AFA [...]
Finally Hungary has a chance to qualify for a world cup final after so many years of failing to do so. When in South Africa on July 11 to watch the 2010 World Cup final match, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban promised the Hungarian Alliance in Halfway House, South Africa, that he will do everything [...]
The South African Police Service (SAPS) claim that a British journalist Simon Wright (44) was allegedly arrested for being the master-mind behind the recent attempt to portray blemished World Cup stadium security in South Africa after the England-Algeria match at Green Point Stadium in Cape Town, during their group stage match of the 2010 FIFA [...]
The world of professional and international rugby has already embraced television-refereeing as a standard when there is a disputed try. The governing body of the international football federation, FIFA, has announced that it would be “Nonsense not to reopen the file on goal-line technologies” as an increasing number of fans are disgusted by the fact [...]
The Czechs secured victory at the recent European Athletics Team Championships (First League) in Budapest. Participants included Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden and Turkey. The event was the last major competition before the upcoming European Championships in Barcelona.
It’s the end of the Italian dream and the start of a Slovakian fairytale. Slovakia was not even a nation some 20 years ago, and now every country in the world knows their name as they have felled the reigning world cup champions – Italy. Paraguay and New Zealand could not stop Italy, but Slovakia [...]
The national football squad of the tiny Central European nation of Slovenia was able to defy the big bad bear (Russia) to qualify for the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup and became one of the most celebrated participants in the host nation, South Africa. However their goal-less loss against England (which scored the only goal [...]
French President Nicholas Sarkozy (of Hungarian descent) has expressed his fury over the imcompetence of his national team, slagging French squad coach Raymond Domenech for his unorthodox conduct and slacking to be a deserving ambassador to France when he declined to shake hands with South African coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, after the host nation of [...]
Ex-US president Bill Clinton will be among the spectators of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Group C football match between the United States and Algeria on Wednesday (23 June, 2010) at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa. It can not be confirmed yet, but FIFA has also invited Monika Lewinsky alongside the other [...]
Bad sport disgraced France coach Raymond Domenech (58, pictured right) declined to shake hands (it’s tradition) with South Africa’s celebrated coach from Brazil, Carlos Alberto Parreira (67, pictured left) after the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup beat France 2-1 (2-0) in their Group A challenge. But still both national teams said [...]
Two gorgeous Dutch models, accused of ambush marketing at a recent FIFA football event were released on Tuesday (June 22, 2010) after FIFA allegedly received millions of Euros in an out of court settlement, reports suggested. Two blond bombshells arrested for so-called ‘ambush marketing’ during a 2010 FIFA Football World Cup match have now been [...]
The host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup has said an early goodbye after they were unable to gain a 4-goal difference in their group to advance into the next round. Bafana, Bafana as the South African team is commonly known, was unable to take advantage of the one-man advantage after France had [...]
Vegetable shops were closed in Cape Town as local Portuguese shopkeepers were among the 64, 644 spectators watching the match between Portugal and North Korea at Greenpoint Stadium in the mothor city of the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. We can’t wait for the next game against Brazil after the Portugal [...]
Nigerian midfielder Sani Kaita (24), was given the red card in the 33rd minute of match in which Greece defeated Nigeria 2-1 in Group B on Thursday (June 17, 2010). Because of this he has received multiple e-mails with the death threat “This man must die.” The Nigerian Government and football federation have taken the [...]
Chelsea’s French striker Nicholas Anelka (31) has been banished from the French national squad by his coach Raymond Domanech, for foul language and calling his mother a “whore.” Domanech had allegedly heavily criticized Anelka’s competence as a striker in their team’s recently discouraging 2-0 defeat by Mexico. The French Football Federation made the announcement in [...]
It was a freezing cold quiet night in Pretoria, the capital of the host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup as Bafana, Bafana, the national squad of the Republic of South Africa, was white-washed in a 3-0 victory by Uruguay. It was a crying game as hundreds of home fans left the stadium [...]
Millions of football fans worldwide could hear a pin drop as thousands of South African die-hard fans at Pretoria’s Loftus Versveld Stadium on Wednesday (June 16, 2010) failed to blow their noisy plastic instruments known as the vuvuzelas. The so-called 12th man of the South African squad was silenced by the spectacular 15 yard shot [...]
On June 15, 2010 Brazil played perhaps one of its toughest matches as the top ranked against Communist Korea as the lowest ranked (105th position), experts said. During the match Brazil shot 26 tries at goal of which 10 were on target compared to Korea’s 11 shot attempts on goal of which only three were [...]
The strike acts of thousands of striking exploited security employees have overshadowed South Africa’s 2010 World Cup venues. Security employees of two host city stadiums have been immediately dismissed despite the fact that their claims were valid, experts said. Over the past few days security workers at the Durban and Cape Town football stadiums engaged [...]
World 83rd ranked South Africa, the Host nation of the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, have played a world class match against Mexico (ranked 17 in the world). The Mexicans dominated most of the first half, but were incapable of penetrating the South African defense to take the lead. The second half started with a [...]
Singer-actor john Travolta has reportedly arrived at the Lanseria international airport in the Republic of South Africa on Thursday (June 10, 2010) morning. His arrival was spectacular in the sense that he allegedly captained and flew the Boeing 707 all the way from Australia, sponsored by the Quantas airline company. Travolta’s mission is a marketing [...]
World Cup journalists (from Portugal and Spain) have reportedly been robbed in their hotel room in South Africa. They claim that armed perpetrators had entered their lodge early Wednesday (June 9, 2010). None of the journalists were harmed or injured but the thieves stole some very expensive professional photography gear, cell phones, passports and cash. [...]
It’s a South African invention, the plastic version of the Kudu horn. It has become an indispensable accessory for football fans and is now taking the world by storm. Medical experts in South Africa have warned tourists and fans, coming to support their teams in the world biggest sport spectacular, to take extra special precautions [...]
With virtually only “hours” left before the kick off to the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa, the entire globe is concentrating on football. Soccer fans consider South Africa to be the center of the world for at least one entire month. Japanese marine biologists who didn’t want to be excluded from the games [...]
The money hungry and corrupt international football federation FIFA has permitted North Korea (or the Korean Democratic People’s Republic (KPDR- democratic my foot, totalitarian yes), alias communist Korea) to participate in the 2010 Football World Cup in South Africa despite the fact that they have violated about every human right possible. It was not so [...]
Almost a dozen Argentine soccer hooligans have been expelled from the host nation of the 2010 Football World Cup, according to the South African Police Service (SAPS). Authorities said that the 10 arrested and deported hooligans had allegedly planned violent acts at the soccer spectacular starting on Friday (June 11, 2010), when South Africa plays [...]
Portuguese top football coach Jose Mourinho (47) has become the leading coach of the world’s most famous football team, Spain’s Real Madrid. In his first interview he said that he was determination to do things “my way” and bring major changes to the way Real Madrid operates as a team. His 48-month contract with the [...]
The final 23-member squad to represent the Republic of South Africa has been named Tuesday morning (June 1, 2010). Five of the short-listed initial 28-member ‘Bafana Bafana’ (common name for the host nation’s national squad) team were left out of the final line-up to represent their country in the 2010 South African Football World Cup, [...]
They’ve sunk the Sharks, crucified the Crusaders and are now going to slaughter the Blue Bull’s, according to supporters of this year’s most successful Super 14 rugby team, the Stormers. The Stormers have reached the final where they are to compete with the reigning champions, the Blue Bulls. In their eliminating matches in this year’s [...]
US tennis star Venus Williams is the talk of the town in gay Paris, according to fashion observers. The ebony celebrity was awed as she ran up and down during her celebrated clay-court match against with her bright red thong smiling back at the spectators. Various television and radio stations worldwide – even as far [...]
South Africa and New Zealand’s rugby unions have made a landmark apology to all non-white (earlier also dubbed non-European) players who felt they had been discriminated against by both Government’s during the infamous Apartheid era. South Africa’s rugby Union (SARU) said it now regrets that many players had been excluded from representing their national and [...]
Thanks to Hungarian striker Zoltan Gera (31), the London-based football team Fulham has reached the Europa League final on May 12, 2010. The team beat rivals Hamburg 2-1 and are to play against Spanish team Atletico Madrid in the final. Gera called the winning goal of the match, “the most important goal of my career. [...]
Czech-born tennis star Martini Navratilova (53) has revealed that she has a malicious form of breast cancer. She made the announcement during a television interview in the US, calling it her own ‘9/11’. The lady champ has expressed her will to fight the illness even though she is devastated. She was allegedly diagnosed with malicious [...]
Hungary’s Tamas Pal Kiss (18), was the fastest qualifier for the recent tests of the Atech Grand Prix in Silverstone, UK. His qualification was the fastest aat the second official test ahead of the 2010 Michelin Formula Renault UK Championship. Team Principal David Hayle said, He is very pleased with Kiss’s performance as he now [...]
During the XI. European Chess Championship in Rieka, this week’s second round saw 17 Hungarian participants winning 7 points. Viktor Erdos and Imre Hera attained victory for the second time, followed by the surprise defeat of Csaba Balogh. Two players remain flawless after 53 days at the chess tournament. In the women’s division, Schneider Veronika [...]
Jurgen Zopp defeated Adam Kellner, giving the Estonians a 3 to 1 insurmountable lead over the Hungarians at the first round of the Euro-African Zone’s second division of the Davis Cup in Tallin.
