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Qatar defeated both Australia and the United States to host the 2022 World Cup, the first for the Middle East. In another first Russia will host 2018. And Brazil, yet...
made popular Dec 13 2010
Fifa executive committee members Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii have been banned from voting in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting ballot.
made popular Nov 18 2010
Iran may not send its girls’ soccer team to the Youth Olympics in Singapore next month because of a dispute over the players’ Islamic attire.
The deputy...
made popular Jul 8 2010
Photograph by: Reinhardt Hartzenberg
The stadiums are filled with tens of thousands of energetic spectators for the South African World Cup. But thousands of unsold...
made popular Jul 8 2010
Two goals in three second-half minutes by Wesley Sneijder and Arjen Robben helped to see off a resolute Uruguay side and put the Netherlands into a World Cup final for...
made popular Jul 7 2010
The soccer team that saved the soccer fans and millions of TV viewing public from the armageddonish sight of Maradona running naked, should be felicitated for their...
made popular Jul 6 2010
Nigeria’s president has suspended his nation’s football team from international competition for two years after a poor showing at the World Cup.
Special...
made popular Jul 1 2010
FIFA said on Wednesday it would release 2,000 tickets for the World Cup quarter-finals which had been reserved by fans who hoped their teams would reach the last eight...
made popular Jun 30 2010
Above is the discounted English goal which may have made all the difference to the Three Lions...but probably not.
British fans are seething after their second goal in...
made popular Jun 30 2010
I recently wrote that one of the reasons the British national football (or soccer) team often under-performs is that they are under too much pressure to succeed.
That...
made popular Jun 29 2010
A willingness to compete and a fighting spirit are the two major factors that have propelled Ghana to the World Cup quarter-finals, says coach Milovan Rajevac, praising...
made popular Jun 28 2010
South Africa rejoiced Sunday as Ghana became only the third African team ever to make the World Cup quarter-finals, as England crashed out of the tournament after a...
made popular Jun 28 2010
The thrilling run of the United States national team at the World Cup has come to end, finished by Asamoah (Baby Jet) Gyan’s goal in the third minute of extra time...
made popular Jun 28 2010
Nigeria coach Lars Lagerback says he should take the blame for the country’s inability to reach the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The Swede cut a...
made popular Jun 25 2010
Over and over, everything seemed to go against them.
A referee took away a win last week, and a linesman disallowed another goal Wednesday.
Now there was just 3 1/2...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Algeria soccer player Rafik Saifi slapped a female journalist across the face as the aftermath of the United States’ dramatic World Cup victory turned ugly at Loftus...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Nigeria became the third African side to drop out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup when they were held to a 2-2 draw by South Korea at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban on...
made popular Jun 23 2010
It has been a busy month for us since the beginning of world cup - busy because some of us have been on our knees praying for the continent either to win and also be...
made popular Jun 23 2010
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The FIFA refereeing committee will review a referee’s controversial call that disallowed a U.S. goal in the match against Slovenia Friday that ended in a...
made popular Jun 21 2010
A FIFA referee who disallowed a winning third goal by the U.S. national football team is under scrutiny.
The United States played an admirable game yesterday against...
made popular Jun 21 2010
At least 86 FIFA World Cup volunteers were treated for food poisoning after eating breakfast at the Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga on Friday, Local...
made popular Jun 19 2010
Hope you\’re enjoying that monster suite in the Michelangelo Hotel, Sepp Blatter, and the luxurious massages and, I assume, the caviar and nightly champagne. Your...
made popular Jun 19 2010
Angry and hoping against hope. That was the mood among World Cup stadium security guards in Durban who on Thursday heard they had been fired.
Regret at...
made popular Jun 17 2010
If there is one thing that is different about the World Cup 2010, it must be the vuvuzela, the plastic horns that are all the rage at the tournament in South...
made popular Jun 17 2010
Cote d’Ivoire put in a thrilling performance but had to settle for a 0-0 draw with Portugal in their 2010 FIFA World Cup Group G clash at the Nelson Mandela Bay...
made popular Jun 16 2010
Granted this is the silly Murdoch tabloid New York Post, but nonetheless the New York Post’s grotesque and extreme Americana nationalism speaks to a trend within...
made popular Jun 16 2010
For the first time since 1966, North Korea has qualified for the World Cup. The national team is ranked last in the world and due to the extreme insular nature of the...
made popular Jun 16 2010
FIFA’s brand police detained more than 30 Dutch women and interrogated them for three hours on accusations for wearing outfits designed by a Dutch beer company on...
made popular Jun 15 2010
The ‘Vuvuzela’, the indigenous South African horn, should be banned from the on-going FIFA World Cup being played in South Africa as it is creating an...
made popular Jun 15 2010
It is because of the constant noise, that the South African authorities are considering banning the Vuvuzelas:
There are reports that World Cup organizers are already...
made popular Jun 14 2010
The first World Cup in Africa has its first African winner.
Ghana stunned Serbia when Asamoah Gyan scored on an 84th-minute penalty kick Sunday for a 1-0 victory in...
made popular Jun 14 2010
Coach Fabio Capello said soon after the game on Saturday night that King would definitely miss Friday’s game with Algeria, but it is feared King could be...
made popular Jun 14 2010
Who was the idiot who decided that it would be a good idea to give tens of thousands of energized soccer fans loud and obnoxious horns? If you’ve been watching...
made popular Jun 14 2010
DETERMINED to be part of the soccer history unfolding before their eyes, Ugandan soccer fans joined their brothers in South Africa to welcome the World Cup, the first...
made popular Jun 14 2010
Rwanda’s army has arrested the president of the national football federation, General Jean Bosco Kazura, for travelling in South Africa without permission, a...
made popular Jun 12 2010
The United States and England face off Saturday in a high-stakes World Cup matchup. The rivalry dates back to the Revolutionary War, and while relations between the two...
made popular Jun 12 2010
Surely South Africa’s flag has never waved more proudly.
The nation delivered on its promise to the sporting world Friday, staging a glorious kickoff to the 2010...
made popular Jun 12 2010
For football fans around the world, today could not arrive quick enough. A month of football games with the eventual winners being crowned world champions.
Whilst we...
made popular Jun 12 2010
With FIFA World Cup Football approaching the television screens across the world, people are busy in scheduling there tasks to be free to enjoy the super entertaining...
made popular Jun 12 2010
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Left to right: Dick Wiles, Co-Chairman of Match Company, Fulvio Danilas, General Coordinator of FIFA 2014 World Cup, Thierry Wei, FIFAs Director of Marketing, and Fabio Simao, president of Brasilia’s Soccer Federation, inspect the Mane Garrincha...
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