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Racist chants halt Milan-Roma game

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 13 (News) - The Serie A match between AC Milan and Roma is halted because of racist chanting inside the San Siro.

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Champions League joy for Barcelona - CNN.com

Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - May. 28 (News) - Barcelona won European football's biggest prize for the fourth time on Saturday, beating Manchester United 3-1 in the final of the UEFA Champions League. The Catalan club came to London's Wembley Stadium having also defeated the English side in the 2009 final, and took the lead through Pedro before Wayne Rooney made it 1-1 at halftime. However, second-half strikes from world player of the year Lionel Messi and David Villa gave Pep Guardiola's team a double this season after also winning the Spanish league crown.

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Haitian amputees find new outlet in soccer

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Associated Press - By By JULIA GALIANO-RIOS - Jan. 11 (News Report) - Amputee soccer gives physical benefits and emotional support for the players. Sorrell said he also hopes to eventually raise enough money for a rehabilitation center that will provide physical therapy and educational training for amputees.

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Pirates Top League With Club America Victory

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

allvoices.com - Nov. 18 (News) - Pirates Top League With Club America Victory "It was hard going, but we squeezed it in the end." The immortal words that Pirate coach Brendan Keyes spoke

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World Cup 2010: The real legacy

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Richard Williams - Jul. 13 (Opinion) - The football disappointed, but the World Cup has left South Africa with new hope On the outward journey, we wondered if South Africa would be worthy of the World Cup. We left for home today with the uneasy feeling that the World Cup had not lived up to the welcome and the facilities provided by its hosts. They gave us their vast and spectacular new stadiums, their best shot at building an integrated transport system from scratch and their kindness and consideration at just about every turn. We gave them a rubbish final from which only the winners could take genuine pleasure. In the tradition of gracious hosts, however, they pretended not to notice. A national hangover was predicted for this morning, but flags were still flying on cars ...

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Ugandan toll in World Cup bombings rises to 74

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Max Delany, Jason Straziuso - Jul. 12 (Breaking News) - An al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group suspected in twin bombings in Uganda's capital that hit crowds watching the World Cup final endorsed the attacks Monday but stopped short of claiming responsibility, while the death toll rose to 74.

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Terrorists Versus Soccer

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Adam Serwer - Jun. 18 (Opinion) - International soccer interferes with the extremist vision of a fundamentalist society free of secular influences in a number of ways -- most notably by cultivating a secular, national identity separate from the religious one. It showcases peaceful interaction not only between rival, even hostile nations, but between Muslims and non-Muslims, undermining the narrative of an inevitable clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. This isn't to say that soccer is necessarily a liberalizing force -- Mussolini's Italy did win the last World Cup before World War II. But the world's love for soccer offers a particularly difficult challenge for the pan-Islamist extremist ideology of groups like al Shabaab and Hizbul Islam.

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South Africa And The World Cup

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Forbes - By Nouriel Roubini, Kavitha Cherian, Rachel Ziemba - Jun. 17 (Special Report) - How the popular soccer tournament will impact the country's economy.

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Young Australians eye future World Cup

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

United Press International - Jun. 17 (Opinion) -

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Favourable wind behind green technologies

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

theengineer.co.uk - By Ellie Zolfagharifard - Jun. 14 (News) - In a first for the World Cup, one of the venues hosting the tournament is being powered by wind energy. Promoting the message of ’green power’, around 25 Vestas-built wind turbines will be offering around 1.8 megawatt (MW) of clean energy each for the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.

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The global political issues playing out at the World Cup.

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Brian Fung - Jun. 11 (News Analysis) - Since attending the World Cup is out of the question for most North Koreans, Pyongyang has solved its on-site fan shortage by recruiting a thousand Chinese citizens to fly the old red, white, and blue on its behalf. Among the members of the

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Football Or Soccer? What’s In A Name?

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

NPR - By Eyder Peralta - Jun. 11 (News Report) - In France, they call it football; in Latin America and Spain they call it fútbol. The Germans use a slight variation: Fußball or fooseball.

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High-speed train gives South Africa a lift

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Robyn Dixon - Jun. 09 (News Report) - South Africa's fast train was so new when it carried its first passengers Tuesday that it wasn't quite finished. Builders had left string tacked to a wall in the underground station in upscale Sandton, and their notes were still scrawled on walls. There were patches of rough unfinished concrete, paint drips and the earthy cement smell of a building site.

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Beware Wall Street's World Cup Predictions

Mon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Tony Karon - May. 31 (Opinion) - Perhaps it's considered good branding for a top-flight investment bank to issue its predictions for this year's soccer World Cup: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and UBS have all published their own guides to the games. But these banks would do better to heed their own advice to investors: past performance is not indicative of future results.

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Terror threat low, but SAfrica has to be ready

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Donna Bryson - Mar. 30 (News Report) - As if South Africa's own high crime rate and the threat of European football hooligans weren't enough, World Cup planners are also bracing for a possible terror attack.

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Spanish team the only spoiler to stop English domination of Champions League final.

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Mark Starr - Apr. 27 (Opinion) - And so it has come down to this. Barcelona is our last, best hope. If Barcelona cannot best Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final that begins Tuesday, European soccer will have become nothing more than a stomping ground for the English. Last year witnessed the first-ever all-English final — Chelsea vs. Manchester United — in the more than half century of this competition. And this year could be déjà vu all over again, or however they say that in the English pubs.

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Soccer USA vs Mexico final result

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Chasing Google blog - By William Johnson - Feb. 07 (News Report) - The US soccer team was playing against Mexico's national soccer team in Houston, Texas. A lot of info about this game including videos you can find on official National US soccer team site. The final result of this game is USA 2 - Mexico 2.

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Germany's Gay Soccer Players Stuck Firmly in the Closet

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:43:39 -0800

Deutsche Welle - By Sonia Phalnikar - Jan. 17 (News Report) - Politicians, pop stars and artists coming out of the closet hardly raise eyebrows in Germany. But it's an entirely different ballgame on the soccer field, where being openly gay remains strictly taboo. German professional soccer hasn't seen a gay player to date. At least not officially. That isn't because there aren't any, but because they've decided keeping their sexuality hidden is preferable to the career-ending scorn, ridicule and even physical danger they would face if they came out of the closet.

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Germany's Gay Soccer Players Stuck Firmly in the Closet

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:43:39 -0800

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England can wait

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:00:26 -0700

Sports Illustrated - By Grant Wahl - Aug. 18 (News Report) - When the English Premier League season starts on Saturday there will be a record 12 Americans on Premiership rosters, and yet there were nearly two more in U.S. national-teamers Clint Dempsey and DaMarcus Beasley. The New England Revolution's Dempsey is deeply disappointed that MLS turned down a transfer offer from Charlton Athletic, which sources say put forward a formal bid worth $1.5 million for the 23-year-old World Cup goal-scorer. Meanwhile, PSV Eindhoven's Beasley told me that he nearly joined "a big team" in the Premiership on loan in the past two weeks before the deal fell through. (He wouldn't specify the club.)

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2010, Tents and Armed Babes in Uniform

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:06:41 -0700

Matters of the Mind - By AK - Jul. 26 (Opinion) - We, as Africans should not under-estimate the pessimism, especially in Europe, that surrounds 2010 FIFA World Cup scheduled for South Africa. The other day, an acquaintance of mine from Germany asked me what I thought of South Africa. Having lived in South Africa and still do when not in Europe, my first adjectives were; beautiful, breathtaking, spacious. I only paused for a while to find out why he was asking me about South Africa.

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U.S. boss must hire Klinsmann to replace Arena

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:23:34 -0700

Sports Illustrated - By Grant Wahl - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - If U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati is a smart guy -- and who are we to question the brainpower of a Columbia economics professor? -- then he'll do everything within his power to hire Jürgen Klinsmann as the next coach of the U.S. men's national team.

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Fifa investigates Zidane red card

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:53:44 -0700

BBC News - Jul. 11 (News Report) - Fifa is to investigate Zinedine Zidane's dramatic sending-off during Sunday's World Cup final in Berlin. The Frenchman was dismissed in extra-time for a headbutt on Marco Materazzi which happened seconds after the Italian apparently insulted him.

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