Portugal's prime minister, Jose Socrates, set out to Evora to meet his nation's World Cup squad, telling press that he was certain the national team would win the Cup.
Central defender Roberto Ayala won his 100th cap when Argentina beat Angola 2-0 in a World Cup warm-up in southern Italy on Tuesday.
Crazy as it sounds, not all Brazilians will be rooting for their country in the 2006 World Cup.
Brazil striker Ronaldo says that continued speculation about his weight is created by lack of knowledge and by the media having nothing better to talk about.
Health advocacy groups on Monday urged FIFA to ban smoking at next month's World Cup in Germany after soccer's governing body dropped a smoke-free rule adopted in 2002.
Up to one billion pounds ($1.89 billion) is expected to be placed through British bookmakers on the June 9 to July 9 World Cup in Germany.
Germany striker Miroslav Klose has left his team's training camp in Switzerland to fly home to Bremen for private reasons but will rejoin the team later on Tuesday before their match against Japan.
English hooligans subject to a banning order for World Cup travel has to hand in passport and report to local German police station every time England play. Failure to do so could result in a six month prison sentence and a fine. [Reuters]
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Monday that his country wants to face France in the World Cup final to "get even" for its loss in the 1998 tournament.
North Korea has asked South Korea to relay World Cup TV broadcasts to the North so that its people can watch the soccer tournament, the South's Unification Ministry said Tuesday.
Germany's World Cup organising committee president Franz Beckenbauer now believes the hosts are among the favourites to win the tournament starting next month because of the enthusiastic home crowds.
Diego Della Valle, the shoe industrialist who owns Serie A club Fiorentina, was questioned for about nine hours on Monday by Naples prosecutors investigating match-fixing and manipulation of referee assignments in Italy's top soccer league.
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