The Costa Rica sporting press cheered on Wednesday, after the national soccer team showed a marked improvement, even though the squad lost its third friendly game in a row, by 1-0 to the Czech Republic on Tuesday night.
If the English Premier League, the Italian Serie A and the Spanish league were able to put together their own World Cup teams, no one else would stand a chance of winning the trophy.
Greece, 2004 European champions, are heartbroken not to feature at the World Cup finals, having failed to go through after a lacklustre qualifying campaign.
It is now little more than a week before the 2006 FIFA World Cup? starts and coaches are fielding their first-choice teams in the final warm-up games. Tuesday's seven friendly games featured ten of the teams taking part in the Germany showpiece.
Germany were grateful they had Jens Lehmann after the Arsenal goalkeeper kept out a half dozen chances from Japanese players in Tuesday's World Cup warm-up.
Soccer fans will have access to free video highlights from all World Cup matches on Fifa's website.
The inclement German weather and a chicken-pox scare have conspired to undermine Togo's FIFA World Cup? preparations.
People buying unofficial World Cup merchandise risk possible illness, injury or even death, top customs officials said on Tuesday
China has told its citizens to stay safe and steer clear of football hooligans at the World Cup finals in Germany, a Chinese newspaper said on Wednesday.
Never ones to miss an excuse for a beery booze-up among friends, Germans and their guests will take to the streets during the soccer World Cup to watch matches at thousands of open-air venues.
While the nation is mourning the form of Bafana Bafana, the 2010 World Cup local organising committee (LOC) is gearing up to host the next world soccer showpiece and will send 150 officials to Germany to learn the ropes of organising a World Cup finals.
Sven-Goran Eriksson lived up to the promise that he would lay his FIFA World Cup cards on the table.
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