Substitute Fred planned a special presentation to his father to celebrate his goal in Brazil's 2-0 World Cup win over Australia on Sunday.
Mexico coach Ricardo La Volpe gave his players a day off on Sunday to celebrate Father's Day.
The ex-president of the Botswana Football Association who admitted selling World Cup tickets on the black market is likely to become the first man forced to resign from FIFA's Executive Committee in its 102-year history.
Australia's World Cup clash with Brazil in the early hours of Monday local time is set to hit employers' bottom line in lost productivity, but politicians are urging bosses to go easy on soccer-mad shirkers
A rare planetary alignment between Mars and Saturn could result in World Cup football upsets and trouble for the Indian government, reports quoted astrologers as saying
Hardline Islamic alliance leaders relented and allowed football-starved Mogadishu residents to watch the World Cup, a week after they banned the tournament saying some of its elements were evil
If the climax of the Brazil-Croatia World Cup match in Germany last week was sound—the deafening roar of 72,000 fans cheering the only goal by Brazil's Kaka—the anticlimax was definitely video, and the disappointing user experience of trying to watch a mobile handset in the stadium.
For Dutch football fans it has become the summer's cult outfit. Over the past few months, a quarter of a million Holland supporters have bought themselves a pair of patriotic orange lederhosen - wearing them whenever Holland take to the pitch in the World Cup
Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans partied through the night and greeted Monday with cheers and dancing in the streets after seeing their team grab a last-gasp 1-1 World Cup draw with France.
Australia's players struggled to disguise their frustration at a series of refereeing decisions that went against them in Sunday's World Cup 2-0 Group F loss to Brazil
World Cup fever is priceless, MasterCard Inc says in ads tied to the 2006 tournament
Police said they are investigating whether five officers used excessive force on a man whom they allegedly hit and kicked at the German capital's World Cup fan center
Polar icebreaker Snow Dragon arrives in Antarctic
Xi's vision on shared future for humanity
UN's top environmental honors go to three in China
German trains collide near Duesseldorf, several people injured
China beats Germany 7-4 in men's curling Olympic qualification
Bayern beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-1 in UEFA Champions League
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