Category Archives: European Championships
100 Percent Soccer Column: MLS back on radar after busy summer of soccer (you haven’t missed much)
Weekend TV Soccer Preview: France plays Portugal in Euro 2016 Final at noon Sunday on ESPN
mark my words the euro finals will be portugal vs france & portugal will win
— andrea (@luhcozade) July 3, 2016
INFOGRAPHIC: Breaking down the #LAGalaxy’s all-time record vs. Cascadian clubs: https://t.co/xlGrhTNsWh pic.twitter.com/oL8ywnpLto
— LA Galaxy (@LAGalaxy) July 8, 2016
100 Percent Soccer Column: Frustrated with the lack of American success on the international level? Get used to it.
Messi miss: Argentine superstar Lionel Messi reacts to his penalty kick miss in the final of the Copa America against Chile (Associated Press).
Failure is far more common than success as even the likes of top-tier soccer nations like Argentina, England and Mexico have discovered — and puts public frustration with the U.S. Men’s National Team into perspective.
100 Percent Soccer Column: The most entertaining team at Euro 2016 is torching opponents like a fire-breathing dragon — and seeing its odds of winning the tournament slashed
Read this week’s 100 Percent Soccer column here.
And for the latest Vegas Euro 2006 round of 16 odds, courtesy of Bovada.lv, see below:
Euro 2016 Winner
France 4/1
Germany 9/2
Spain 11/2
Belgium 6/1
Croatia 9/1
England 9/1
Portugal 10/1
Italy 16/1
Poland 25/1
Wales 25/1
Switzerland 40/1
Hungary 100/1
Republic of Ireland 100/1
Iceland 150/1
Slovakia 150/1
Northern Ireland 250/1
100 Percent Soccer column: Beautiful game should unite, not lead descent into ugly violence
Fight night: Russian and English “fans” battled before, during and after their recent Euro 2016 game in France (AP Photo).
Euro 2016 experienced more trouble from drunk crowds of rowdy mobs, many of them English, media outlets reported today, despite warnings from authorities of further possible action against England and Russia should their fans continue to cause issues.
These idiots are doing themselves, the sport or their nations no favors as authorities struggle to respond appropriately (and that’s putting it mildly).
Soccer has great potential to unite and more events like this laudable LA Galaxy stand are needed if the world is to overcome sad scenes like those we have seen in France in recent months.
For more read this week’s 100 Percent Soccer column (and yes, I’d much rather write about what’s happening on the field than off it).
100 Percent Soccer Column: Euro 2016 joins Copa America on U.S. TV this weekend
FOX Sports Scores U.S. Soccer Icon @landondonovan for #CopaAmerica coveragehttps://t.co/rpr7890spa
— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) June 9, 2016
1⃣DAY TO GO!1⃣
Remember this piece of @Ibra_official magic in 2012?#EURO2016 pic.twitter.com/Mi5WO3R0yA— UEFA EURO 2016 (@UEFAEURO) June 9, 2016
100 Percent Soccer Column ICYMI: The Galaxy are sizzling in MLS, but is a June cool-down coming?
100 Percent Soccer Column: Ready for a packed summer of soccer?
So I suppose it’s tempting fate to write a column about the busy summer of soccer that lies ahead and then elevate the wrong team to the final four of the UEFA CL (not that the two alert Barcelona fans who noticed really minded).