Morocco will become the first African country to host the FIFA World Club Cup finals in 2013 and 2014 after a successful tournament in Japan this year. The tournament will however remain in Japan in 2012 before moving to the North African nation in 2013.
The world governing football body revealed that Morocco won the rights to host the tournament after the withdrawal of bidders South Africa, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.
Speaking to BBC Sport, Sepp Blatter said that the tournament will be excellent in all aspects in Morocco. Read more... (364 words, 1 image, estimated 1:27 mins reading time)
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The stage is set for what will be an amazing showdown between two of the most talked about players in the game today. In the next couple of hours, Neymar’s Santos and Messi’s Barcelona will fight it out for the honour of being called the best club in the world.
What i am going to say next might be hard to take for a few, however, it is a fact. First, both players and clubs are talented and whoever emerges the winner, will have won by right. Read more... (421 words, 1 image, estimated 1:41 mins reading time)
The world of football is in mourning after the death of Brazilian Legend Socrates. Socrates died on Sunday after suffering septic shock due to intestinal infection. Often refered to as the man with the golden feet, Socrates will be most remembered as a memeber of the great Brazilian side of 1982 that despite their talent failed to win the world cup.
According to Brazilian reports, Socrates was buried on Sunday in his hometown Ribeirao Preto. Although a great player in his hey day, Socrates struggled with an alcohol and cigarettes addiction that saw him hospitalised on a number of occassions. Read more... (354 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
Former Brazilian striker Ronaldo has accepted an offer to lead the Brazilian 2014 world cup organising committee. Ronaldo who holds the record of having scored the most goals in world cup finals history, will be confirmed in his new role today.
Ronaldo who recently retired after admitting that the injuries he had sustained over the course of his career had taken a toll on his fitness is regarded as one of the all time best out and out strikers in the game. Read more... (356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
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by David on October 20, 2011
Sao Paulo will host the opening match of the 2014 World Cup and Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Maracana stadium will stage the final, FIFA announced Thursday.
Hosts Brazil will play the opening match in Sao Paulo and the remaining two group matches in Fortaleza and Brasilia.
In addition, the kick-off times have been set (all Brasilia local time). Brasilia local time is two hours ahead of the U.S. East Coast, so most matches will be late afternoon or close to prime-time. Matches in the UK will be played between 5pm-2am BST: Read more... (228 words, 2 images, estimated 55 secs reading time)
- Opening Match: 17.00
- Group Stage matches: 13.00, 16.00, 19.00, 22.00
After a horrendous Africa Cup qualifying campaign that saw the Super Eagles bundled out of the 2012 footballling showpiece, Nigeria coach Samson Siaisa has pleaded with his country to give him more time to find his winning formula.
Nigeria failed to make it to the biannual tournament for the first time since 1996. The 2 time winners have seen their dominance on the African continent fall to a point that it is no longer considered a football giant. Read more... (408 words, 1 image, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)
Brazil left it late to secure a 2-1 win over Mexico in an international friendly played at the Estadio Corona stadium in Torreón last night. Goals from play maker Ronaldinho and Marcelo were enough to give coach Mano Menezes the much needed win.
The night however, belonged to Flamengo striker Ronaldinho who scored a superb free kick that left Oswaldo Sanchez for dead then setting up team mate Marcelo 4 minutes later to effectively seal the Mexican’s hopes.
If the result is anything to go by, then Brazil could mount up one of the biggest challenges in 2014. What is even more surprising is the fact that Coach Menezes did not feild a full strength squad.W Read more... (403 words, 1 image, estimated 1:37 mins reading time)
As focus shifted to major international matches taking place this weekend, it was a different scenario in South America as the continent began the tedious qualification process for the Brazil 2014 World Cup finals.
Both Argentina and Uruguay won convincingly with La Albiceleste beating Chile 4-1 at home while Uruguay settled for a 4-2 win over Bolivia in Montevideo. On form strikers Luis Suarez and Edison Cavani were once again on score sheet for La Celeste who’s amazing form since last year’s finals have seen them move up the FIFA rankings to 4th place. Read more... (370 words, 1 image, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)
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by David on July 11, 2011
You know something remarkable happened when for the second time in a month, national sports talk radio was talking about soccer for the second time in a month.
The occasion was the Women’s World Cup and the USA‘s remarkable come from behind victory over Brazil on Sunday. Down 2-1, and with almost the last kick of the game, Amy Wamback popped up to score the equalizer for the U.S. and send the game into extra time.
It brought back memories of Landon Donovan’s dramatic goal for the U.S. men at last summer’s World Cup in South Africa. Two, late dramatic goals that captured the imagination of sports fans across the country. Read more... (172 words, estimated 41 secs reading time)
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Huge disappointment for the USA Women at the World Cup today as they lost 2-1 to Sweden and with now play Brazil in the quarter-finals. Today’s defeat was the first time the USA has ever lost in the group stages at the World Cup.
The match started with a high tempo and the standard rarely dropped throughout the 90 minutes.
USA midfielder Carli Lloyd hit a long range dipping effort in the opening minutes which went just wide. From the restart an inadvertent USA flick-on saw Lotta Schelin one-on-one with Hope Solo, but the American goalkeeper made a huge save to keep the game scoreless. Read more... (356 words, 1 image, estimated 1:25 mins reading time)
