Showing posts with label Bulgaria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bulgaria. Show all posts

Thursday, July 1, 2010

What I have been reading lately #47

Cantona: The Rebel Who Would Be King - Philippe Auclair

Cantona after court


Why Cantona had to go to court


Cantona highlights


A specific Cantona highlight


Cantona in Turkey


Cantona throws his jersey


Cantona makes a tackle


Cantona's team prevented from going to the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals


Same video as above--"God is Bulgarian!"

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Great moments in World Cup history #3

1994 Quarterfinal: Bulgaria 2 - Germany 1


Bulgarian superstar Hristo Stoichkov played on the great Barcelona squad of the early 1990s. He is best known, however, for this free kick, which helped knock the defending World Champion Germany out of the 1994 tournament. Bulgaria went on to lose to Italy in the semi-finals.

Note-- I believe that the man you can hear shouting before the kick is taken is Germany goalkeeper Bodo Illgner yelling at teammate Lothar Matthaus to move more to the left.
"Hockey ought to be sternly forbidden, as it is not only annoying but dangerous." Halifax Morning Sun, quoted in Michael McKinley's Hockey - A People's History