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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 6 2007, 05:18 AM (464 Views) | |
| Roosevelt | Feb 6 2007, 05:18 AM Post #1 |
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Having very much enjoyed the link futbol4 provided in the Italy forum http://calcio1.blogspot.com/ (really terrific one, thamks!) I thought it might be nice if folks listed some of the soccer websites they consider essential (or even 'good') reading. You-all tend to be a very well-read group of folks, so my short-list might be ones that everyone is already familiar with, but perhaps a few aren't. They are also all somewhat USA-centric, apologies, but FWIW: Soccer By Ives MLS Underground and du Nord tend to be the three I check fairly regularly. Where do other folks like to go and have a read? |
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| Merengue | Feb 6 2007, 10:46 AM Post #2 |
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Good idea for a thread Roosevelt. I don't read many blogs myself but I have been reading and sometimes posting at the blog futbol4 gave us from Steve Amoia. I also read and sometimes post at the blogs associated with Spanish and Italian soccer at England's Guardian newspaper at: Guardian Sport Blogs In English the only other site I usually check out for soccer news is Yahoo's World Soccer section: Yahoo World Soccer In Spanish I read these news sites: Marca AS El Pais ESPN Deportes ESTO |
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| enganche | Feb 7 2007, 12:49 AM Post #3 |
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Very good idea Roosevelt. In English I usually just read Yahoo World Soccer with it's links to wire service stories. In Spanish I do the same with Yahoo Argentina's Spanish langauge version. I also usually check out La Nacion, a newspaper from Argentina: http://www.lanacion.com.ar and Ole!, a sports daily from there: http://www.ole.com.ar I also sometimes look at ESPN Deportes and Marca which Merengue has linked here. |
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| cafetero | Feb 7 2007, 03:25 PM Post #4 |
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I'll add this site which is good not only for Colombian soccer but has international news as well. It is in Spanish though: http://www.futbolred.com |
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| enganche | Feb 20 2007, 12:15 AM Post #5 |
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I ran across this new blog with Argentina league news in English: Hasta Lo Gol Siempre It is written by an English guy with a great interest in Argentina football. I'll try and see if I can get him to join our message board as well. Although a lot of the news covered on his blog is also discussed by us in the Argentina forum it is still a good read and he also posts links to the goals scored each week in the league on that blog. This same writer also contributes to another general soccer blog where he is their Argentinian football writer. That blog's link is: Voice of Football |
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| Martin | Feb 22 2007, 10:04 AM Post #6 |
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Thanks for the link enganche. While I get my information about Argentina's league in Spanish, that blog and the blog writer's column in the other link you provided are good English language sources for news on Argentina. A new poster in the Mexico forum asked a question for similar sources of English language news on Mexico's league. I could only point him to this blog but that doesn't seem to be kept up to date: http://mexico.theoffside.com/ Anybody else know of any English language sites with news and info on Mexico's league? Again, my main source of info from there is in Spanish. |
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| Martin | Feb 23 2007, 12:48 PM Post #7 |
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Let's also not forget American Soccer News which features columns from this message board's Merrill and Dan Loney: http://www.americansoccernews.net/index.shtml |
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| Sam | Mar 3 2007, 05:49 AM Post #8 |
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Some sites I use... English Soccernet I especially like Phil Ball's column on La Liga. World Soccer Dreadfully run site for a brilliant magazine, but Brian Glanville ocassionally talks some sense in his weekly column on there... FIFA Good for a laugh if you fancy reading the latest propaganda from Sepp - sorry, sorry - JOSEPH S. BLATTER and his cronies. It does have a terrifyingly good statistics section, though, which I can lose myself in for hours... Spanish (mainly Argentine) Vale Chumbar A very good blog for the Argentine league, which in part inspired my own English effort, Hasta Lo Gol Siempre (for 'tis I). El Gráfico OK, it's not much now. But this is Argentina's bi-monthly (or possibly just monthly, no-one ever seems quite sure when the next one's out when I try and find it on sale in BA) football glossy, and the site currently says that if you keep checking back, it'll eventually have a proper website, updated regularly with news and pictures. So keep checking back. Fox Sports Español Can be quite good for videos, sometimes - mainly news stories and match previews rather than actual highlights, though. Clarín Argentina's biggest-selling newspaper, and owners of Olé (linked to by another poster above). Bizarrely, the sidebar on Clarín's site often has links to Olé stories which you can't actually find through Olé's website... Fútbol Argentina History section Lots of lists of goalscorers, league champions etc. down the history of Argentine football. Not a news site, but can be interesting to waste a few minutes on now and then. Sam |
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| Roosevelt | May 4 2007, 11:26 AM Post #9 |
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I just came across http://www.boleiro.net which seems to be a comprehensive site for english-language news about Brazil, including lots about their domestic league. The other one I need to give some love to is http://www.planetworldcup.com It's updated only irregularly, especially this early in the cycle for 2010, but they have some awfully good writers who follow all the confederations very closely, as well a ton of historical WC information, etc, etc. |
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| Sam | Jun 3 2007, 08:30 AM Post #10 |
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I've only just remembered this thread so thought it a good idea to mention that El Gráfico's new website (mentioned by me above) is now live. And I love it. Sam |
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| Martin | Jan 2 2011, 09:29 PM Post #11 |
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The Guardian came out with a list of 100 soccer/football blogs to follow: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/20...-to-follow-2011 And the list includes several by some occasional posters here such as, -heebeejeebees' Just Football -Snap Kaka and Pop's Snap, Kaka & Pop -Sam's Hasta El Gol Siempre |
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| vince stravino | Jan 2 2011, 10:07 PM Post #12 |
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Martin referencing Dan Loney. Great, funny writer! |
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