Message to FIFA: Take three or even four players out of every game and you've got a thriller.
Portugal qualified for the World Cup knockout stage after they beat Iran 2-0 in their second Group D tie here on Saturday.
They lumbered from end to end, desperate to stop the blue surge of Italian players and salvage their World Cup.
Argentina moved straight into cruise control at the World Cup on Friday, pasting Serbia & Montenegro 6-0 with an awesome display of pace and precision passing.
Two-time World Cup winners Argentina and dark horses the Netherlands will be out to book their passage into the next round by winning their respective matches.
British and German police said 26 people were arrested in Nuremberg where England beat Trinidad and Tobago in a crucial World Cup match.
FIFA are not planning to take any action against Ecuadorean striker Ivan Kaviedes for donning a Spider-Man mask to celebrate his goal against Costa Rica in their Group A clash on Thursday.
Australia coach Guus Hiddink took the Socceroos behind closed doors on Friday to start piecing together his master plan to beat world champions Brazil.
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an avid soccer fan, is not expected to attend his country's World Cup match against Portugal in Frankfurt on Saturday.
Three Argentine merchants yesterday retrieved their missing World Cup tickets that one of them left at an airport bank last week.
The U.S. soccer team decided to spend two nights at Ramstein Air Base because of safety concerns with the designated FIFA hotels in the Kaiserslautern area.
If Berlin's Olympic Stadium had a roof, about 50,000 screaming Swedes would have raised it Thursday.
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