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Team Focus: Revised Spain Approach Fails to Reap the Rewards

by Ben McAleer at Thursday, Jun 19 2014 17:30
Team Focus: Revised Spain Approach Fails to Reap the Rewards On Wednesday evening, Spain’s bid to retain their World Cup crown came to a premature end, not with a bang, but a whimper. The defending champions crashed out of the tournament following their 2-0 defeat to Chile, this coming off the back of their 5-1 thumping from the Netherlands last we...
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Team Focus: Youthful Belgium Can Use World Cup to Build for Future

by Alistair Tweedale at Tuesday, Jun 17 2014 14:08
Team Focus: Youthful Belgium Can Use World Cup to Build for Future For Belgium, this World Cup has been billed as an opportunity for their young side, brimming with talent, to show onlookers the planet over the extent of their talents. It is no secret just how good the likes of Eden Hazard, Vincent Kompany and Romelu Lukaku are, but do they genuinely, as some have ...
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Team Focus: Japan's 'Magic Square' Can Guide Them to the Knockout Stages

by Ben McAleer at Wednesday, Jun 11 2014 14:30
Team Focus: Japan's 'Magic Square' Can Guide Them to the Knockout Stages On the face of it, Group C may not be deemed the most appealing to the neutrals. There’s no Brazil, Argentina, Spain or Germany to attract supporters, though the group does contain four teams from four different continents. The combination of the conservative Greece, flamboyant Colombia, physi...
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Team Focus: Chile Expected to be the Top Entertainers in Brazil

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Jun 9 2014 18:15
Team Focus: Chile Expected to be the Top Entertainers in Brazil In November last year, Chile repeated their 2-0 win over England at Wembley from 1998. A Marcelo Salas double secured victory for the South American outfit before the turn of the Millennium, but it was Alexis Sánchez who put the England backline to the sword in their most recent clash, scorin...
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Team Focus: Free-Scoring Bosnia Could Become Neutrals' Favourite in Brazil

by Alistair Tweedale at Friday, Jun 6 2014 16:16
Team Focus: Free-Scoring Bosnia Could Become Neutrals' Favourite in Brazil An extraordinary and somewhat surprising qualifying campaign for Bosnia and Herzegovina has seen them qualify for the World Cup for the first time in their short history. That history has been a painful one for many Bosnians and the war, quite apart from the great many atrocities that it caused, als...
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Team Focus: Marquee Signings Set to See New York City FC Take Shape

by Graham Ruthven at Friday, Jun 6 2014 14:15
Team Focus: Marquee Signings Set to See New York City FC Take Shape Their first game might be nine months away, but New York City FC are starting to assemble their squad for the 2015 MLS season; their debut campaign as a franchise.David Villa became the Manchester City and New York Yankees joint-owned club’s first ever player by signing for a team that still d...
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Team Focus: Colombia Still an Attacking Threat Without Falcao

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, Jun 5 2014 12:33
Team Focus: Colombia Still an Attacking Threat Without Falcao With rumours circulating that Franck Ribéry may be set to miss the World Cup with injury, he could be joining a rather vast list of some of the planet's best players who will not be on show in Brazil this summer. Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gareth Bale could not inspire Sweden and Wales to qualifi...
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Team Focus: What's Portugal's Plan B without Cristiano Ronaldo?

by Andy Brassell at Wednesday, Jun 4 2014 11:45
Team Focus: What's Portugal's Plan B without Cristiano Ronaldo? Cristiano Ronaldo's left thigh hasn't quite gained the same repute as David Beckham's fifth metatarsal did all of a decade ago but it's heading in the same direction - at least in Portugal. The country's talismanic captain should be fit for their opening World Cup group match against Germany (to quo...
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Team Focus: Chelsea Progressing Despite Consecutive 3rd Place Finishes

by Ben McAleer at Monday, Jun 2 2014 16:30
Team Focus: Chelsea Progressing Despite Consecutive 3rd Place Finishes Despite eventually finishing 4 points off top, José Mourinho regularly insisted Chelsea were never in the title race last season. “Champions are only one (team) and the champions will be City or Liverpool,” the Portuguese said after their surprising 2-0 win over Liverpool at Anfie...
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Team Focus: Spurs Have Foundations in Place to Play Pochettino's Way

by Alistair Tweedale at Thursday, May 29 2014 15:56
Team Focus: Spurs Have Foundations in Place to Play Pochettino's Way Mauricio Pochettino's appointment at Spurs earlier this week felt, at first at least, rather more inevitable than inspiring. After names like Louis van Gaal and Frank de Boer had been banded about and fans started to dream of a new manager with the status to match that which they feel their club boa...
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