The substitutes saved the day for Spain, helping it with a 3-1 win over Tunisia and carrying it into the next round of the World Cup.
After a rude awakening in its debut against Spain last week, Ukraine regained a measure of pride Monday by delivering a similar lesson to Saudi Arabia for its first World Cup victory, 4-0.
Togo's Sparrow Hawks fluttered out of World Cup contention Monday after one of the most tempestuous journeys in the tournament's history.
Since FIFA expanded the field to 32 nations before the 1998 World Cup, at least one seeded team has failed to advance to the second round at each tournament.
A member of FIFA's executive committee caught selling World Cup match tickets on the black market has returned home to Botswana, FIFA said on Monday.
The Ghanaian Football Association apologised on Monday after one of its players waved an Israeli flag to celebrate their 2-0 World Cup win against the Czech Republic.
Brazil and France had better learn soon that no one wins World Cups just by showing up, or the trophy will be going somewhere else.
World Cup soccer causes joy and despair and even ends marriages but now doctors are studying whether the thrill of it all can be literally heart stopping.
The Ghanaian Football Association apologised on Monday after one of its players waved an Israeli flag to celebrate their 2-0 World Cup win against the Czech Republic.
The tale of a bungling World Cup ticket thief who got his just desserts turned out on Monday to be an accidental invention of German police.
German soldiers stationed in Afghanistan got a chance to put questions to World Cup coach Juergen Klinsmann on Monday.
Zinedine Zidane's professional career might have finished in a disappointing draw with South Korea.
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