Friday, May 05, 2006
Ready for World Cup Soccer
Hello good morning and welcome to Cybersurf – three minutes devoted exclusively and unashamedly to the internet. I am your friendly host Steven Lang.
Just in case you didn’t know, the most exciting sporting event on this planet is little over a month away. The World Cup Soccer tournament in Germany kicks off on June 9 and already I am planning my life around match schedules.
How do you find the schedules – nothing could be easier – I typed “Germany World Cup Soccer” into the Google search field and received more than 21 million hits.
Of course most major news organizations have already set up sub-sites for the tournament – but if you want the official real McCoy - go no further than Yahoo – I think this is the first time that an online company is an official sponsor of the great sporting event. So as an official sponsor Yahoo got to design the official World Cup 2006 site which you can find at http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
As one would expect it has all the information, schedules and team profiles you could ever want. For the hardcore fanatics it even offers a free, downloadable world cup toolbar.
This tool bar has quick links to the World Cup site and you can customize it to track any of the 32 participating teams.
Now that is really hardcore.
You should also look at the fifa site which is at fifa.com because it has a lot of interesting background information such as the latest rankings, rules and regulations. It is hard to fathom the linkage between the official yahoo site and the fifa site – but it is there somewhere.
Another worthwhile site is at http://www.wldcup.com/ - let me spell that - this is primarily a soccer news site and so it has valuable information about the form of key players – important stuff if you’re a betting woman.
Then if you are planning on watching any games at a stadium, you will need tickets and these can be purchased at http://www.euroteam.info/ .This euroteam site offers world cup soccer tickets but it also offers seats to a whole range of other events from horse racing to the Eurovision song contest.
Next we look at the ultimate world cup blog which you can find at http://www.worldcupblog.org/ - the interesting aspect of this blog is that it unifies thirty four other blogs – including one for each of the thirty two participating countries – so you have team information being constantly updated – and I won’t even mention the betting blog because right now I have to sign off.
But before I do so – here is one last blog address – the Cybersurf blog which carries all the addresses of the sites mentioned in today’s Cybersurf.
Here goes – click on Cybersurf.blogspot. com one more time cybersur.blogspot.com
And that’s it for today till next week, remember to keeeeeeep on surfing.
Just in case you didn’t know, the most exciting sporting event on this planet is little over a month away. The World Cup Soccer tournament in Germany kicks off on June 9 and already I am planning my life around match schedules.
How do you find the schedules – nothing could be easier – I typed “Germany World Cup Soccer” into the Google search field and received more than 21 million hits.
Of course most major news organizations have already set up sub-sites for the tournament – but if you want the official real McCoy - go no further than Yahoo – I think this is the first time that an online company is an official sponsor of the great sporting event. So as an official sponsor Yahoo got to design the official World Cup 2006 site which you can find at http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
As one would expect it has all the information, schedules and team profiles you could ever want. For the hardcore fanatics it even offers a free, downloadable world cup toolbar.
This tool bar has quick links to the World Cup site and you can customize it to track any of the 32 participating teams.
Now that is really hardcore.
You should also look at the fifa site which is at fifa.com because it has a lot of interesting background information such as the latest rankings, rules and regulations. It is hard to fathom the linkage between the official yahoo site and the fifa site – but it is there somewhere.
Another worthwhile site is at http://www.wldcup.com/ - let me spell that - this is primarily a soccer news site and so it has valuable information about the form of key players – important stuff if you’re a betting woman.
Then if you are planning on watching any games at a stadium, you will need tickets and these can be purchased at http://www.euroteam.info/ .This euroteam site offers world cup soccer tickets but it also offers seats to a whole range of other events from horse racing to the Eurovision song contest.
Next we look at the ultimate world cup blog which you can find at http://www.worldcupblog.org/ - the interesting aspect of this blog is that it unifies thirty four other blogs – including one for each of the thirty two participating countries – so you have team information being constantly updated – and I won’t even mention the betting blog because right now I have to sign off.
But before I do so – here is one last blog address – the Cybersurf blog which carries all the addresses of the sites mentioned in today’s Cybersurf.
Here goes – click on Cybersurf.blogspot. com one more time cybersur.blogspot.com
And that’s it for today till next week, remember to keeeeeeep on surfing.
