World Cup news

World Cup 2010 in South Africa: Spain is the Champion of the World! The spanish team wins its first title of the history, thanks to the victory in the final against Netherlands for 1-0. Andrés Iniesta scored the goal 4 minutes before the end of the OverTime. Netherlands – Spain In Johannesburg, after the final ceremony of [...]

World Cup 2010: On July 11th, the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg will host the final of the 2010 edition of the World Cup. Two fresh teams reached the final: Spain, the European Champion with an incredible quality in their midfielders, and Netherlands, a concrete team led by 2 great players. After several editions dominated [...]

World Cup: the day has come. In few hours millions of people will watch on tv the first two matches of the World Cup 2010. South Africa, the host country, will play vs. Mexico. Later we will finally see if France vs. Uruguay will tell us if the European Country is a candidate for the [...]

The World Cup is not only sport. We have seen in the past editions how interesting could be the spectators of a World Cup match. In particular, the female supporters of all the nations. In 2006 there was no day where the newspapers showed the beauty of the World Cup girls from all around the [...]

World Cup 2010: we can say that this edition of the World Cup in South Africa is not very lucky from the point of view of injuries. Starting from captain Ballack, several stars injured before the beginning of the Group Stage. In terms of private clubs the one that seems to have a sort of [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa: the most important football event of the world is about to start. The 19th World Cup in South Africa want to be different from the previous editions. For this reason there is a question that could deserve some unexpected result. Who will win the World Cup? 32 teams, some of [...]

World Cup video: the Magnitude of an event like the first World Cup organized in Africa could be understood by the campaigns that the Media are organizing for this event. Among them the commercial of U2 for South Africa called "United". These are the video of the commercials that Bono and U2 made for ESPN. It's [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa: Vicente del Bosque, coach of the spanish national team, officialized the list of the players of will play in the World Cup in South Africa. In the list of the European Champions there are Andres Iniesta and Fernando Torres, both injured. 8 players are from Barcelona, while only 5 from [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa: Carlos Queiroz officialized the list of the players of the Portugal national team for the World Cup in South Africa. We all know that Portugal means Cristiano Ronaldo. However this year the team is stronger than usual, with great players like Nani, Deco, Pepe and Carvalho. Portugal is in the GROUP [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa: Diego Armando Maradona officialized the list of the players of the Argentina national team for the World Cup in South Africa. Maradona, for the first time in a World Cup as a Coach, keeps relying on the group of the qualifying round. Consequently, the two Inter players (that just won [...]

World Cup: US Coach Tim Bradley announced today the list of the 30 players of the provisional roster for the World Cup in South Africa. As expected Landon Donovan is in this list. A strange call is Oguchi Onyewu, player from AC Milan that we have rarely seen playing during this year championship. Charlie Davis [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: Fabio Capello has chosen the 30 players who will join the camp of the England's national team for the World Cup. On June, 1st he will select only 23 of them for the final phase in South Africa plus 4 of them that will substitute some last minute injured player. A [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: Joachim Low has chosen the 30 players who will join the camp of the Germany's national team for the World Cup. As known, only 23 of them will be chosen for the final phase in South Africa. The Captain will be Michael Ballack. A big exclusion is Kuranyi, player of the Shalke. [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: 1 month before the beginning of the World Cup and the TM Dunga has crearly in mind which player will go with him in South africa. The definition of the Team roster for Brazil, as for all the other teams, is divided in two steps. Dunga must give to the FIFA [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: "Wavin' flag" will be the song chosen from FIFA for the next World Cup. A song with an easy lyrics and an african rhythm, with a beautiful message of fraternity, as this competition wants to be. The song has been written by K'Naan, rapper originally from Somalia but that lives [...]

The World Cup’s History: Argentina1978 World Cup’s history 1978: after the second Germany’s victory, the eleventh edition of the football competition was played in Argentina. The Hard Organization Argentina had to host the ’70 edition of the world cup, but finally FIFA decided to entrust the organization to Mexico. In 1978 the decision was sure [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: on June 11, 2010 will start the Football World Cup. 2 months before is already possible to have an idea of the call-up of several national team. We start from the Champion giving our indiscretions waiting for the official call-up of the TM Marcello Lippi. The definition of the Team rosters [...]

The Football world cup’s History, Germany 1974 The Jules Rimet Cup was replaced with the present world cup FIFA, created by Silvio Cazzaniga. The organization and the “Massacre of Munich” Fifa decided to leave the event’s organization to Germany. It was worried of adopting effective security measures, mindful of what had happened only two years [...]

In this article The Organization The Teams The couple Mazzola – Rivera Gigi Riva, the “thunderclap” Italy’s Story The match of the century: Italy vs. Germany The Final Italy vs. Brazil Pictures Video of the final Football World Cup Mexico 1970: after the first and only won of England in 1966, the ninth edition of [...]

The World Cup ‘s history of 1966 in England The choice of the place and the stolen cup England knew the increasing popularity of football, so decided to end its battle against FIFA and proposed its country as a candidate for the next world competition. FIFA ‘s president of those years, Sir Stanley Rous, successor [...]

Football World Cup – Chile 1962: after the first victory of the world title of Brazil, the next event was the 7th edition of the competition in Chile. The organization and the choice of the place: Chile FIFA, after 12 years, decided to commit Chile the organization of the event, and this suggestion caused a [...]

World Cup Champion Sweden 1958: After the crackling final of 1954, ended with the unexpected victory of Germany on the hungarian team, we get to the 6th edition of the football world cup championship of 1958, held in Sweden. The organization and choice of the country During the previous world cup in Berne, FIFA decided [...]

World Cup 2010: the national teams have chosen the friendly matches on the way to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. For England, coach Fabio Capello needs to find the good equilibrium of the team and a new leader. As a matter of fact, even if Chelsea's coach Carlo Ancelotti said that: "John Terry [...]

Switzerland World Cup 1954: after the tragic brazilian world cup of 1950, the 5th edition of the world champion was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July 1954. The organization of the event Switzerland was chosen as hosting country basically for two reasons. FIFA wanted to organize the competition “at home” in order [...]

Football world cup 1950: the fourth edition of the football world league was played from 23 June to 16 July 1950. The post-war period and the competition’s organization The competition was played again after twelve years from the previous edition held in France, given that the 2nd World War had prevented the regular taking place [...]