Football
South Africa 2010: US names World Cup team
May 27, 2010By Parke Brewer U.S. Soccer team head coach Bob Bradley has named the 23-man roster that will take part in next month's World Cup in South Africa. Three American players will be headed to their third World Cup. They are the team's all-time scoring...
More signs of Karimova's fall from grace? Scolari is leaving Tashkent's Bunyodkor
May 26, 2010By Luke Allnutt Another sign perhaps that Gulnara Karimova's empire is crumbling [Gulnara is a controversial Uzbek businesswoman, an elder daughter of the President of Uzbekistan, Islom Karimov]. The former Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari...
World Cup: US team trains in New Jersey (video)
May 25, 2010The U.S. soccer team's training camp opened on Monday at Princeton University in New Jersey, about a 90-minute drive southwest of New York City. The team is using Roberts Stadium, a $13.4 million soccer facility that opened just two years ago. U.S. team...
April 05, 2010By Golnaz Esfandiari FIFA says no hijab on the soccer field; Iran objects The secretary-general of Iran's National Olympic Committee has called on Muslim countries to protest the world soccer body’s ban on head scarves for women during...
Volunteers prepare for South Africa World Cup visitors
March 27, 2010By Scott Bobb As South Africa prepares to host the football (soccer) World Cup, organizers have recruited thousands of volunteers to help the hundreds of thousands of fans who will be attending. Some 2,000 World Cup volunteers gathered at a convention...
Turkish police arrest dozens in football fixing probe
March 27, 2010By Dorian Jones Turkish police have arrested scores of people in connection with a Europe-wide football match-fixing scandal that began four months ago in Germany. The scandal is dominating the news in Turkey, pushing aside ongoing judicial and political...
BBC: Uruguayan football on the rise
March 23, 2010By Tim Vickery In 'Back Home,' his excellent account of the 1970 World Cup, Jeff Dawson does a disservice to the first kings of the global game - after 90 minutes of their quarter-final with the Soviet Union, he writes "the score is that old Uruguayan...
BBC: Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon, Ronaldo had a night of huge frustration
March 11, 2010By Jamie Lillywhite Wednesday, 10 March 2010 Champions League Real Madrid 1-1 Lyon FT (HT 1-0)(agg 1-2) * Ronaldo 6 * Pjanic 75 European giants Real Madrid crashed out of the Champions League at the first knockout round for the sixth year...
Johannesburg's 90,000-seat Soccer City stadium almost ready to host the World Cup
March 02, 2010By Scott Bobb World Cup organizers inspect South African stadiums World Cup organizers are visiting the 10 South African stadiums that are to host matches later this year. Tuesday marks the 100-day countdown to kick-off for football's biggest event...
South Africa: Preparations for football World Cup move into high gear
February 10, 2010By Scott Bobb It is four months until the kick-off of the first football World Cup in Africa and preparations in South Africa are moving into high gear. Billions of dollars worth of improvements to the country's infrastructure have already been completed...