So Iraq wins the AFC Asian Cup, with a 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia and advances to the Confederations Cup, to be held in June 2009 in South Africa. The US will be there as well, having won the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Want to start a betting pool on the US and Iraq [...]
Entries Tagged ‘iraq’
A Little Perspective
It’s always entertaining to read the reactions across the Soccersphere and the mainstream media when the US national teams play. In a country saturated in sporting events, you have the soccer fanatics in the soccersphere, as passionate as ever, while the majority of the country barely notices. We complain about it, but that’s the way [...]
Little Feet Changes Focus
A year ago we wrote about a foundation called Little Feet, Big Goals that was sending soccer balls to our soldiers to give to the kids in Iraq. Having sent thousands of soccer balls to Iraq, they’ve decided to change their focus and send soccer balls to the kids in Darfur. You simply buy a [...]
Operation Flat Soccer Ball
Only the US Army could manage to take a potentially good operation and turn it into an insulting effort of bureaucratic stupidity, putting our troops at risk for nothing. You may recall a while back we wrote about a neat grassroots effort to send soccer balls to kids in Iraq. Soccer is THE sport in [...]
Little Feet – Helping Kids One Ball At A Time
An effort to send soccer balls to the children of Iraq
The Fatwa Against Soccer In Iraq
An Iraqi cleric has issued a fatwa against soccer as a tool of the West to control or distract Muslims
