VIENNA - Jurulatih Sepanyol, Luis Aragones mendedahkan bahawa persekutuan bola sepak negara itu tidak melakukan usaha yang mencukupi untuk membolehkannya kekal bersama skuad kebangsaan.
Aragones membuat pendedahan itu sehari sebelum pasukannya berdepan Jerman dalam perlawanan akhir Euro 2008, lewat pagi tadi.
Kata jurulatih veteran itu, dia tetap dengan keputusan awal untuk meninggalkan Sepanyol sejurus tamat Kejohanan [...]
DEFENDING Malaysia Cup champions Kedah, who lost 1-0 to Kuala Lumpur at the Darulaman Stadium on Friday, take on Sabah at the Likas Stadium today in a match that will test Kedah’s endurance and mental strength.
Kedah have a hectic schedule having played seven matches in 20 days. Recent FA Cup runners-up Selangor are also [...]
BASEL (Swit): Turkey will always be remembered as the greatest escape artists of the European Championship. The Germans, though, staged the latest escape.
In the most unpredictable of finales marked by three goals in the last 12 minutes, it was Germany who scored last on Wednesday with a sweeping 90th-minute move by Philipp Lahm which [...]
HAFIZ Hashim took a step closer to the end of his career when he was toppled by unheralded Japanese Yuichi Ikeda in the third round of the Thailand Open in Bangkok yesterday.
Ikeda took advantage of fourth seed Hafiz
SYDNEY: Defending champions Argentina, fielding two of world football’s most exciting and in-demand youngsters, loom as the team to beat again at the Beijing Olympics.
Twenty-year-old prodigies, Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero, are expected to spearhead a richly-talented Argentine squad, who are the undisputed favourites to claim consecutive gold medals.
Argentina stormed through the 2004 Athens [...]
NEUSTIFT, Austria - Jurulatih Rusia, Guus Hiddink mahu pasukan muda kendaliannya itu mengelak melakukan kesalahan seperti kanak-kanak sekolah apabila memperoleh peluang kedua menumbangkan pasukan tidak boleh dikalahkan, Sepanyol di peringkat separuh akhir Euro 2008.
Hiddink sebelum ini membidas para pemainnya kerana melepaskan bola dengan mudah ketika tumpas kepada Sepanyol 1-4 dalam perlawanan pembukaan. [...]
TENERO (Swit): Turkey have relied on some very German qualities to get into the semi-finals of the European Championship, and now they will have the chance to test them against the three-time champions when the two teams meet for a spot in the final.
Turkey coach Fatih Terim will need some ingenuity just to put [...]
TENERO, Switzerland - Jurulatih Jerman, Joachim Loew menyedari kesemua tentang semangat pantang menyerah dan keazaman Turki menjelang separuh akhir Kejohanan Bola Sepak Eropah (Euro) sejak berkhidmat melatih Fenerbahce.
Loew, 48, menghabiskan setahun melatih gergasi Turki itu di kawasan Fenerbahce, Istanbul dan berkata, dia menjangkakan kesungguhan 100 peratus daripada lawan yang pincang itu.
Biarpun memiliki sembilan pemain [...]
Sepanyol menyekat kemaraan Itali apabila menang menerusi penentuan sepakan penalti 4-2 di peringkat suku akhir Euro 2008 di Stadium Ernst Happel, Vienna, Austria, kelmarin.
Kejayaan Sepanyol itu sekaligus memusnahkan impian Itali untuk merangkul kejuaraan kedua terbesar mereka dalam tempoh tiga tahun selepas muncul juara Piala Dunia pada 2006.
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia have finally nailed the Indonesian Open men