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Most Brazil airports won`t be ready for Cup: Study

Most Brazilian airports being upgraded for the 2014 soccer World Cup will not be ready on time.

Ex-players back Argentina to win World Cup

Former football internationals S S Narayan, Fortunato Franco and Brahmanand Shankawalkar on Saturday...

South African police pelted with missiles in World Cup drill

A screaming crowd pelted South African police with bottles and cans and threw petrol bombs on Thursd...

Hospitals not ready for World Cup disaster: Doctor

South Africa’s public hospitals are completely unprepared for a disaster like a crowd stampede at th...

France coach sets May 18 World Cup deadline

France players not fit by May 18 will not be involved in the World Cup, coach Raymond Domenech was q...

You`re not one of sport`s greats without World Cup: Messi

Soccer players must win the World Cup before they can be considered one of the sport`s greats, in-fo...

World Cup teams draw mixed fortunes at high altitude

The World Cup draw has handed varied fortunes to the top teams, not only in the strength of their op...

India to make a bid for hosting football World Cup: Kalmadi

Commonwealth Games Organising Committee Chairman Suresh Kalmadi said the fact that the country will ...

Resign? Never, insists out of favour Domenech

France coach Raymond Domenech insisted Tuesday he would never consider quitting his post despite his...

The Big Five: Stadiums could become white elephants

Are the new stadiums built for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a country where football jostles ...

World Cup chaos fears as Egypt, Algeria clash

Threats of violence in Cairo have overshadowed the final round of 2010 World Cup qualifiers in Afric...

Brazil’s Kaka says England are tough opponents

Brazilian midfielder Kaka expects a tough game against England on Saturday and sees manager Fabio Ca...

Morocco name squad for World Cup qualifier

Morocco coach Hassen Moumen has named the following 24-man squad for their World Cup African zone Gr...

German boss wants Loew to stay coach after World Cup

The head of Germany’s football federation would like coach Joachim Loew to stay in charge of the nat...

Capello pleased despite losing perfect record

Fabio Capello claimed not to be too diappointed after losing his first competitive match as England ...

Ronaldo laughs off Rooney’s Portuguese ‘death wish’ comment

Ace striker Cristiano Ronaldo has laughed off Wayne Rooney’s comments that he hopes Portugal do not ...

England players to get 400,000 pounds for World Cup win

The England football team players will get four lakh pounds each as bonus if they win the 2010 World...

Ronaldo and Bosingwa recover for Hungary qualifier

Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Bosingwa have recovered from injuries in time for Portugal’s World Cup qu...

Capello promises Croatia that England will go for a win

Croatia need not worry about England taking it easy against Ukraine on Saturday despite having alrea...

FIFA World Cup trophy set for world tour

The FIFA World Cup trophy is to set off an a tour of the world including all 54 nations in Africa ah...

Argentines invited to help England’s World Cup bid

Argentine 1978 World Cup winners Osvaldo Ardiles and Ricardo Villa have joined the England bid to st...

Germany keeper Enke’s infection still unidentified

Keeper Robert Enke, who pulled out of Germany’s squad before last week’s World Cup qualifier against...

Now, Scot players to test a waterproof football kit

Scotland may be out of the World Cup, but it leads the globe on one footballing frontier - testing o...

Capello reveals how he aims to conquer the world

England football coach Fabio Capello is working on a master plan which he believes will turn England...

Mature’ Rooney hopes for a better World Cup this time

Wayne Rooney is hoping for a better World Cup this time.

Scotland beat Macedonia to cling on to qualification hope

Scotland kept their slim World Cup qualification hopes alive with a 2-0 home win over Macedonia on S...

European countries focusing on World Cup finals

World champions Italy could lead a procession of as many as seven European countries into next year’...

Ibrahimovic to deputise as Sweden captain

Sweden’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic will stand in as captain in place of injured fellow striker Henrik Larss...

World Cup teams could attract terrorists - police

Some nations participating in next year’s soccer World Cup could attract a potential attack even tho...

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