‘Zico’ Archives
World Cup classics: France 1 – 1 Brazil (Mexico 1986)
The most memorable quarter-final match of one of my favourite World Cups saw the clash of the two great teams of the tournament. Thankfully, the FIFA idiots had started considering European viewers by this point of the tournament and had stopped scheduling middle of the night fixtures, hence the 13-year-old me actually getting to watch this one on [...]
New Zealand’s 1982 World Cup run
So now that the mighty All Whites have made it back to the World Cup, it seems like a good opportunity to reflect on the glory of their 1982 campaign. Let's start off with this humorous clip form the 'Unauthorised History of New Zealand.' On to serious business. No World Cup campaign, apart from England 2010 it would appear, is complete [...]
How good was Zico?
Let me tell you one thing about Arthur Antunes Coimbra, or Zico to his mates. He is not a good manager. I know this from being able to regularly watch the dross he served up as coach of Fenerbahçe. Fair enough, he won the league title in 2007 and won Turkish Super Cup in the first year of his job. Also, under his command Fenerbahçe qualified [...]
