bobblyp3535

Socceroos manager Holger Osieck says ?women should shut up in public? at press conference

Feeling buoyant after Australia's resplendent 4-0 win over Jordan on Tuesday ? which leaves the Socceroos three points away from automatic qualification to next year's World Cup Finals ? manager Holger Osieck decided to treat journalists at a post-match press conference to the words of fourth-century archbishop St Ambrose: "Mulieres taceres in ecclesia."

Apropos of nothing, and with a large grin on his face, he translated the Latin phrase as "women should shut up in public."

The manager, who was Franz Beckenbauer's assistant when Germany won the World Cup in 1990, was still smirking when he claimed the quote would make him "the darling of all Australian wives," but the grin disappeared when he was forced to issue an apology. The Daily Mail reports:

'To everyone who may feel offended by that, I offer a sincere apology,' Osieck said today.

'It was off the record, it was more a funny remark.

'It was nothing against any women or whatever. Definitely just a complete misunderstanding.'

It's not clear why Osieck thought a comment made while taking his seat at a press conference would be "off the record," nor why he thought it was a "funny remark," but it turns out that the 64-year-old should have studied his Latin textbooks a little harder. "Mulieres taceres in ecclesia" actually means "women should stay silent in church," and was a fourth-century reference to the fairer sex singing Psalms with the choir.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/socceroos-manager-holger-osieck-says-women-shut-public-131109143.html

Lucio David Suazo Dimitar Berbatov

Philadelphia Signs Veteran Keeper Oka Nikolov

Posted in MLS Philadelphia Union

The days of Zach MacMath in between the pipes for the Philadelphia Union look to be coming to an end. Wednesday the Union announced the signing of veteran goalkeeper�Oka Nikolov, who most recently played for Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt. The 39-year old Macedonian�has spent the last�20 years with the club and earned 414 total appearances, [...]

The post Philadelphia Signs Veteran Keeper Oka Nikolov appeared first on WVHooligan.com - MLS Blog.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WVHooligan/~3/UVcOZbNaxLM/

Kaká Shunsuke Nakamura Alexandre Pato

Going Gently Into that Good Night, Smiling

I began writing regularly about FC Barcelona in 2007. The 6 years since have been a learning experience that has enriched my life. Besides the daily interactions with ?real life? friends I have met through this blog and its prior incarnation at The Offside, I have been exposed to a wide variety of information, cultural [...]

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BarcelonaFootballBlog/~3/CCzxtye74_A/

Maxi Rodríguez Philipp Lahm Gianluca Zambrotta

Must-Read of the Day: Hacking the NFL

Spencer Hall of SB Nation has decided to reinvent the gridiron game to make it more interesting. Part of the NFL’s wretched conservatism comes from the luxury of having four downs, the first two of which are usually spent throwing short routes or just pounding meaninglessly into the line because “you have to establish the [...]

Source: http://www.davesfootballblog.com/post/2011/02/16/must-read-of-the-day-hacking-the-nfl/

Javier Zanetti Eduardo Da Silva Fabio Quagliarella

Football Is Still What We Make It

The�best thing�about�football is that we can play it any way we want it. This is also the worst thing about football. That’s because fans have this nasty tendency to prattle on about the superiority of their chosen football code like it’s their team. “Our football is the real football!”, they shout as loudly as possible, [...]

Source: http://www.davesfootballblog.com/post/2011/08/09/football-is-still-what-we-make-it/

Andrea Pirlo Didier Drogba Daniel Alves

Eric Abidal is What Makes Football Great

While a player is on the ground after an obvious dive, waving frivolously for the stretcher?we forget about why we watch football. When a football powerhouse steals a young starlet away from his hometown club and ends up ruining his career?we forget about why we watch football. But, as soon Eric Abidal started warming up…

The post Eric Abidal is What Makes Football Great appeared first on SoccerProse.com.

Source: http://soccerprose.com/la-liga/eric-abidal-is-what-makes-football-great/

Fabio Cannavaro Gianluigi Buffon Wayne Rooney

The pain, triumph and more pain of Tahiti?s goalkeeper in losing 10-0 to Spain

No one expected a tournament match between the best team in the world and the 138th best team in the world to be close. Tahiti had no delusions of a biblical upset against Spain in the Confederations Cup or even of a noble and defiant 1-0 defeat. Playing Spain at the legendary Maracana Stadium would be a once in a lifetime memory and the score would be irrelevant. It was always going to be an exercise in complete and total domination for Spain, but there tends to be a big difference between what people feel when they expect something to happen and what they feel when it actually happens.

Spain's 10-0 win ? the biggest win ever in a FIFA senior tournament ? was perhaps most excruciating for Tahiti's 30-year-old goalkeeper, Mickael Roche. The physical education teacher who once played for Monaco's reserve team did not play in Tahiti's first Confederations Cup group-stage match against Nigeria, a 6-1 loss, so this was his first taste of football at a level previously unheard of for a country this small.

Here's how the day went for him...

"I hope the Spanish players like our shell necklace gifts. They took a while to make."

"Ah! It only took Fernando Torres five minutes to score the first goal and then he stepped on my hand. I'm not sure if I'm still having fun..."

"3-0 in the 33rd minute. There's a certain harmony to that, which I think I can appreciate if I pretend competition isn't that important to me..."

"4-0 in the 49th minute. I'm starting to feel nauseous. I think my face is turning purple..."

"Maybe I should have a spa day. Just me, alone, no one scoring goals or stepping on my hands. That would be so amazing..."

"YES! Torres missed his penalty! It's 8-0 and he hit the crossbar like a, well, like a Fernando Torres penalty kick! This is the greatest moment anyone has ever experienced!"

"Really? He couldn't let me enjoy that for like, two minutes? 9-0. Whoever invented this game should be fired."

"It's over. It was 10-0 and I'm pretty sure I swallowed some grass, but it's over. That was...great. I could have done without the accidental hand stomping, but, yeah ? in a few days I'm really going to think this was great."

"David Villa, you're being nice now. I like you so much better when you're not scoring goals on me. Shaking hands is nice. Why isn't shaking hands a bigger part of football?"

"Never let go, Pepe."

"Spain shirt. No shorts. Shinguards. Getting interviewed. This is definitely the best part. This is wonderful. Victory Roche. Victory. Roche."

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/pain-triumph-more-pain-tahiti-goalkeeper-losing-10-231546841.html

Wesley Sneijder Ronaldo David Silva

Sunday, June 23, 2013