March madness for World Cup-bound teams

Saturday
North Korea vs. Venezuela in Puerto la Cruz
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Great. In addition to scoring a few goals, Venezuela will also score a few Taepo Dong III ballistic missiles.

GolTV actually has a good friendly scheduled? They usually get matches like Ghana-Bosnia.

Who gets ESPN Deportes? How annoying is that.

US women up 1:0 late

"perfectly weighted through ball from Noguiera put Cheney through"

more Pia ball

Who gets ESPN Deportes? How annoying is that.

Posted by: UnitedDemon | March 1, 2010 11:31 AM
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Not sure if you're joking. I get ESPN Deportes. Verizon FiOs.

cheney scored her second. we're through to the final of the PRESTIGIOUS algarve cup!

man, I wish this week were spring already

Be strong Chile! The world is behind you and ready to help.

Anyone know why Ireland vs. Egypt is being played in England?

That's England v Egypt, KireDCU.

Which local watering holes are likely to have all or most of these games on simultaneously, on screens that are visible from a single seat? On the last such occasion, the afternoon when Ireland-France and all those other matches were played, the Chinatown Fado did a pretty good job.

Good for you, fischy. It's not covered in the basic package, or the FSC-Gol TV package either. That's why I'm annoyed.

Anyone know why USA-Netherlands is being played in Holland?

Goff, I must correct you.... Paraguay do play on 3 March.... against the powerful club Atletco Bilbao.... we only play the best.

Goff, I must correct you.... Paraguay do play on 3 March.... against the powerful club Atletco Bilbao.... we only play the best.

And will anyone there speak Flemish? Does that mean they're from Flemland? Do they speak Flandish? And is NED Flanders just a coincidence? Orange you glad I'm asking? Will we lop off their heads?

Cheney's second on a give-n-go from Lindsey.

Former Freedom player Lori Lindsey. The 90 minute national team midfielder. Arrrgh.

I miss the "Troy Report" from Algarve.

Anyone know why Ireland vs. Egypt is being played in England?

Posted by: KireDCU | March 1, 2010 11:57 AM

$$$$

Plenty of Ireland fans/ex-pats/heritage in London. I went to Ireland-Jamaica at The Valley a few years back.

Seeing more neutral site matches for national teams in Europe these days, easy for the European based players to stay closer to home while in intl duty.

And yeah, Kire probably meant to write "Brazil-Ireland"

I miss the "Troy Report" from Algarve.

Posted by: OWNTF
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not half as much as I do, pal! but many thanks nonetheless. :-)

Top 50 WC 2010 players

@fallschurch1,

Game's in Amsterdam not Holland. Duh.

I miss those days I lived in Holland.

I refer to them as my Hollandaise.

@fallschurch1 & @benonthehill

seriously?
me thinks you both failed 2nd grade geography

Gimme some DCU News and Notes... Isz Danny Szetela back in DC?

@Rand-al-Thor: Get off the sauce.

thanks Reignking. gotta love ESPN deeming Landon the #50th best player at the WC, especially since he has more caps than anyone else on the list, more goals than all but a handful, is a veteran of 2 WCs, and is only 27.

Switzerland vs. Uruguay in St. Gall (5, ESPN Deportes)

I think you meant to type "St. Gallen" there, Steve. The Swiss town is named after QPR legend and appropriately canonized, Kevin Gallen :-)

Anyone know why USA-Netherlands is being played in Holland?

Posted by: fallschurch1 | March 1, 2010 12:12 PM
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It's too easy a set-up so I urge one and all to please refrain from offering the kind of oblique Beasley-drugs references that populate SBI threads.

@dcunited says Castillo is called up ... hooray for pointless friendlies

There's no plates like chrome for the Hollandaise

United Demon - I have what I think of as the FSC/Gol package ("extreme sports HD" or something like that) on Fios and I get ESPN Deportes the last time I checked (somewhere in the 1500's, I think). Maybe there is more than one HD Sports package...

@bonghits4gomez,

I never claim to be particularly funny, but I'll try to make my attempts at humor MORE obvious next time.

Dare I ask what Fox SOCCER Channel is showing at 2:30 on Wednesday? Can't they voice over the world feed of Slovenia-Qatar game or something? Or do they just go to a test pattern for two hours while everyone else watches other games?

Dare I ask what Fox SOCCER Channel is showing at 2:30 on Wednesday?

Posted by: IamAM | March 1, 2010 3:36 PM

They're running a Serie A repeat. Poor form, FSC not making their constituents very happy this week - even as they're doubling their coverage!

Fox Hates Soccer.