World Cup

World Cup Lacrosse Championship host nation Great Britain kicks Iroquois Nation to the curb

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:00:46 +0000

Photo credit CBC Sports 2006

That the Iroquois Nation could not get a visa to travel to the FIL Lacrosse World Cup in Manchester, England is clearly a great failure of the Great Britian's consulate. And it's too bad the US State Department and Canada could not do more to pave the way: Don't they know sports can be a path to mutual respect and cooperation? Not for nothing but don't they know American Indians invented the frigging game?

What better place to celebrate Spain's victory than in the Christian Science reflecting pool?

adamg — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:31:57 +0000

Some video.

Not everybody upset at yesterday's World Cup results

adamg — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:18:25 +0000

16WadeSt spotted a pair of Ghana supporters in Harvard Square yesterday. Nathanael Hevelone photographed some happy Ghana fans at Lir on Boylston Street after yesterday's USA/Ghana match.

Top photo copyright 16Wade St. Bottom photo posted under this Creative Commons license. Both posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

And the crowd goes wild

adamg — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:52:11 +0000

The reaction at Phoenix Landing when Michael Bradley scored in the match against Slovenia yesterday:

Flight of the Vuvuzelas

adamg — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:39:58 +0000

When the sound went out at Phoenix Landing in Central Square as the US played England, fans recreated the sound of those South African horns.

Via Tim Treacy.

Where real soccer fans watch the World Cup

GarrettQuinn — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 11:44:02 +0000

The World Cup is finally here and now every freakin' bar is World Cup Central, right? Well, no, not quite. As a soccer fanatic it is great to see the World Cup being treated more seriously this time around but it still reeks of opportunism. Most of these bars are posing the same way the smug Eurosnob in your office is a huge Italian fan because he's like "7th generation Italian dood guy" but still cheers for USA hockey in the Olympics. Or maybe they're more like that intern who thinks she's so worldly because she spent a semester at University College Bristol and "fell in love with the Three Lions. Oh that Stevie G! He's the best! Eng-er-land!"

Lame.

Seriously, you're going to go to a restaurant or bar near Fenway for the World Cup when there is a Red Sox game on next door? Um, hello. Those places will be Pink Hat central and surely Adolfo will be out asking them what position Jacoby Ellsbury plays. Don't waste your time.

Boston seeks to carpet, um, Tweet bomb soccer officials over World Cup

adamg — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:08:54 +0000

The Globe reports the city is urging soccer fans to Tweetbomb the hell out of the city's effort to get the World Cup in 2018. Soccer fanatics with Twitter accounts should click this link around 2 p.m. to convince Twitter-mad FIFA officials (because you just know that this guy is twittering away on his BlackBerry right this second).