Saturday, June 24th, 2006
Both Tunisia and Ukraine hoped to qualify to the last 16, but Ukraine, on their debut on the World Cup, were the ones that succesfully did it.
Anatoliy TYMOSCHUK (UKR), Budweiser Man of the Match
We were motivated to make it to the Round of 16. It was warm out there, but we kept on running hard […]
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Saturday, June 24th, 2006
After a horrific start, Ukraine recovered and qualified to the last 16 teams of the World Cup. One of the coach is happy, the other one not so happy, especially if you think the penalty shot that Shevchenko scored wasn’t really a penalty.
Oleg BLOKHIN (UKR)
Let me congratulate the team. We wanted to make it to […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Tunisia is preparing for a final group stages clash with Ukraine. Roger Lemerre, Tunisia’s coach, has taken some time off to talk to World Cup official site.
How are your players?
Roger Lemerre: Alaeddine Yahia has a slight knee problem but nothing serious. Santos has seen a few specialists and trained with the others today, but […]
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Friday, June 23rd, 2006
Both Ukraine and Tunisia fight for their place in the final 16. This should be a match to watch.
Colours for the match
Ukraine: yellow shirts, yellow shorts, yellow socks
Tunisia: red shirts, red shorts, red socks
The story so far
Ukraine launched their first ever FIFA World Cup™ bid in the worst possible circumstances, suffering a heavy 4-0 […]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Tunisia almost made a surprise, but surely Spain was better.
Xabi ALONSO (ESP), Budweiser Man of the Match
It is a great World Cup with exciting and interesting matches and we hope we will win a lot more games. It’s important for the future that we were able to come back from being behind tonight. It […]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
Tunisia was close to happines, but players like Torres and Raul should not be given half chances.
Luis ARAGONES (ESP):
This win was very hard to come by. The Tunisians caused us problems with their counter-attacking style. At the start, we played too many long balls, which meant Senna and Xavi were powerless in midfield. I don’t […]
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Torres was brought down in the box: penalty shot. He shots and scores, but the Tunisian keeper almost kept it out. 3-1 Spain and they are qualified to the final 16.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Torres scored and 2-1 for Spain is the result that would see the Spainsh team going through to the last 16 from the first position in the group/
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Raul Gonzales scored for his team and made the score 1-1, after the 7th minut goal scored by Tunisia.
THough I am a Barcelona FC fan, I have high esteem for this player and I have to say I am very happy for his goal.
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Monday, June 19th, 2006
Adel Chedli reflects candidly on Tunisia’s start and promises a very different showing against Spain on Monday.
FIFAworldcup.com: Adel, looking back now, how do you feel about your team’s draw with Saudi Arabia?
Adel Chedli: Given the way the game unfolded, we can say it was a point won, but we have to admit we were […]
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