Vikash Dhorasoo's involvement in France's World Cup challenge is of particular interest in faraway India.
A South Korean civic group has launched a campaign to curb World Cup fever in the Asian country, saying it was diverting attention from more pressing needs and had become too commercial.
Barbed wire and concrete once obscured the Brandenburg Gate, a stark symbol of a world divided when it stood abandoned behind the Berlin Wall.
German police will have the right to strip-search even those World Cup fans heading to stadiums whose behaviour gives them no specific grounds for suspicion, sports news agency SID reported on Tuesday.
Thousands of flag-draped fans, locals and journalists crammed into the cobbled courtyard of the stately Grandhotel Schloss Bensberg to welcome South Korea to Germany amid chaotic scenes on Tuesday.
Football legends Pele and Diego Maradona along with some 170 former World Cup-winning players will show up at the opening ceremony Friday in Munich.
Electronic Arts, using the simulation engine from its 2006 FIFA World Cup video game, has the Czechs defeating Brazil 2-1 in the final.
It's all in the angles. That's the view of one of the world's top 21 referees whose job it is to eliminate cheating at this year's World Cup.
The Ecuadoreans have colds. The Angolans are shivering. Trinidad and Tobago players stuffed their hands deep in their pockets as they took the field for an exhibition game.
The French Football Federation (FFF) has lost 552 tickets for its three group matches in the World Cup.
Croatia are already looking beyond their opener against World Cup holders Brazil and concentrating on their final two group matches -- games they believe they can and must win.
Sepp Blatter has told World Cup referees to protect the players and clamp down hard on elbowing.
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