Ruud Gullit

The Beautiful Game: Ljungberg sports a bit of Beckham

Midfielder sure to make splash with Sounders FC By RAVI UBHA SPECIAL TO THE P-I Editor's note: London-based journalist Ravi Ubha writes about international soccer for the Seattle P-I. Here he profiles Sounders FC player Fredrik...

IOSS: Who Wants Chips?

Up this week: Wayne does Ruud Gullit, dreads and all, and gets a diet change; secret footage of Jose’s secret non-meeting with the sheiks is released; a fire breaks out in Newcastle; Voyeur calls in and gets himself in hot...

The 2008 MLS Season Review

When the Columbus Crew won the 2008 MLS Supporters Shield (the award given to a club with the highest point total in the regular season) and subsequently their coach Sigi Schmid won the MLS Coach of the Year award, it...

Doncaster v Ipswich Betting - That Sinking Feeling?

If your team is doing badly, there are a few approaches you can take. If you're a Dutch football legend - let's say like Ruud Gullit – you can say something along the lines of "I'm great and the players are too stupid to...

With a little help from above, Ryan Babel aspires to central casting at Liverpool

Abiting November's day on Merseyside. A kettle is boiling in the background and the windows are beginning to steam up as Ryan Babel takes his seat and offers a polite handshake. First impressions? That he seems remarkably...

Footballers fall prey to fatal disease

In a case that could have come straight from the pages of a medical thriller, Italy is investigating a mysterious epidemic among former professional footballers, dozens of whom have been killed by a disease that paralyses its...

Mabizela, Zuma out with injuries

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Nov 08 2008 10:10 Mamelodi Sundowns announced on Friday that star players Mbulelo "OJ" Mabizela and Sibusiso Zuma would not play again this year because of injuries. Zuma was operated on for a...

Galaxy: Season Recap

For a third year in a row, Galaxy fans are left to ponder what could have been while they watch other MLS teams fight it out for a ticket to MLS Cup at the Home Depot Center on November 23rd. Looking back on the season, the...

Wenger trapped by own beliefs

For all those who see in Arsene Wenger one of the great lights of football there must be a grave fear this weekend. It is that his Arsenal team will be unable to resist the returning force of Manchester United and that in this...

European Football: a time for expansion?

Strasbourg, 21 May 2008 By Jean-Baptiste Mathieu Translated by Andrew Kimpson Wednesday 21st May at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. The final finds its place in history even before kick-off. On Wednesday 21st May the final of...

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