World Cup news

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 of Jules Rimet, [...]

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 to entrust [...]

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 will [...]

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 to [...]

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 of [...]

World Cup 2010: adidas and FIFA present in Cape Town the ball adidas “JABULANI”, the Official Match Ball for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. “JABULANI”, whose meaning is “to celebrate” or “to have fun” in isiZulu (one of the eleven official languages of South Africa, an indigenous language), features a South African [...]

1934 World Cup in Italy: on May 27, 1934 starts, in Rome, the second edition of the soccer World Cup. The organization of the second World cup In 1932, in Stockolm, the FIFA chooses Italy as the host country of the popular event, while Sweden and France gave up for the high uncertainty [...]

1930 World Cup in Uruguay: at 2PM of July 13th 1930 started the most popular football competition, the World Cup.
The organization of this big event needed a great expediture, but six nations candidated themselves as host country. The FIFA, whose President was Jules Rimet, choosed the Uruguay for a reason: the national team of Uruguay [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: on 4 December 2009, in Cape Town is going to be carried out the final Draw for the 2010 World Cup, where the 32 teams will be splitted in the 8 groups of the final phase.
Only 2 days ago we knew the complete list of the 32 teams who are [...]

2010 World Cup South Africa: only a draw for Italy and Netherland in the first of the two friendly matches pre-World Cup 2010.
Italy – Netherland: in Pescara, the Coach Lippi line up the “Azzurri” with a 4-2-3-1. Antonio Candreva debùt for the first time in the national team. Together with him the comeback of Raffaele [...]

2010 World Cup: tonight Italy will meet Netherland in Pescara for the first of the two friendly matches that start the official training for the South Africa World Cup. Marcello Lippi, for this match, selected two players that will make their debut in the national team (Biondini and Candreva) and some "old" entries. The TM's [...]

World Cup History: the 1994 USA World Cup has been one of the most suffered edition of the football tournament for Italy and Italians. The team coached by Arrigo Sacchi alternated great victories to bad performances.
Despiting the final result (Italy lost versus Brasil at the penalties in the final) the italians, and not only them, [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Qualifying: In the last match of group qualifiers Italy won 3-2 versus Cyprus thanks to a Gilardino’s hattrick. Argentina won 1-0 in Montevideo and qualifies for the World Cup. The next playoff matches will be played on November, 14th.
Italy is a thrill-seeking team: in the last match of World Cup [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Qualifying: at the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Italy played a dramatic game and reached the final phase of the South Africa World Cup. The team coached by Lippi equalised in the last minutes against Ireland and gains the necessary point for qualification.
Ireland coached by an historical italian Team Manager, [...]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Qualifying: Saturday, October 9 2009, at the Croke Park Stadium in Dublin, Italy will play against Ireland (coached by the Italian Trapattoni) in the penultimate match of Group 8 for the World Cup qualification.
In Dublin Italy needs just a draw to get the point needed for the qualification to the [...]

World Cup: Zakumi is the name of the World Cup mascot. The World Cup 2010 will be the first to run off in Africa.
The nice leopard has courios green hair (like the soccer field). It has been created by Andries Odendaal, from Città del Capo, while its fancy dress has been created by Cora Simpson. [...]