Roque Santa Cruz has finally been reunited with his former boss, Mark Hughes at Manchester City. Hughes had made multiple offers for Santa Cruz back in January, but these attempts failed due to the refusal of Blackburn managers. At the time, Roque was considered vital to keep Blackburn in the premiership. Ironically, [...]

This past week, we had two away games before Uruguay and Ecuador.
We only brought back one point, but since no one won all six points that were in play, we are still comfortably leading by four points.
After our defeat in Uruguay and considering how well Ecuador played against Brazil, our prospects of bringing [...]

It was short and awful. I hope to see you guys in the next World Cup and that Paraguay prepares more seriously for the next one.
Cheers,

Although that we need to care only in our next games, this result is very interesting to our chances to pass to the next round. Now if hypotetically Paraguay ties with T&T in the points obtained, we propably will have in the goal difference one goal less.

That is what Coach Ruiz said in his last meeting with the press. He also affirmed that Paraguay had troubles getting into the last game in the first 15 minutes, time when England scored its only goal (it really was a own goal). About that unlucky play he mentioned that this goal really ruined the [...]

Contrary to what he did in the last game, Coach Ruiz had announced the starting line-up of the Paraguayan team for the match against Sweden. Mainly the team is the same that played the first game with the forced substitution of Justo Villar (goalkeeper) and Delio Toledo (defense). Instead of them, Aldo Bobadilla and Jorge [...]

Finally we will see the traditional colors of the Paraguayan team tomorrow when our team faces Sweden in Berlin. We need to remark than in the last match against England, Paraguay used an alternative color.
Let’s hope that this particular situation gives to the players a greater motivation than in the last game. As we all [...]

The FIFA had announced yesterday the referees tha had been nominated to direct the game between Paraguay and Sweden next Thursday in Berlin.
The main referee will be Lubos Michel. and his asisstants Roman Slysko and Martin Balko.
Lets hope that the referee has a good presentation.

After reading Jon’s blog (the Sweden team bloger) concerns about the Swedish chances to advance in this World Cup, two things came to my mind: first, it seems like most people will be pleased with a Swedish victory next Thursday (I don’t blame them, Paraguay played an awful match) and second, very early in this [...]

Knowing that a defeat in the next match against Sweden means the end of the World Cup for the Paraguayan team, Coach Ruiz is training a more offensive team that the one that was presented the last game against England.
Roque Santa Cruz mentioned that now he really feels 100 % recover and yesterday it looked [...]