A friendly match to look for: Sweden against Ireland, on the 1st of March, in Dublin. Sweden has already scheduled another match on the 25th of January, against Saudi Arabia.
Source: reuters.co.uk

With Australia out of the picture, since they decided to play in the Asian qualifiers for the next World Cup, Oceania Football Federation decided to switch to home and away qualifiers.

The top five nations in the region, Fiji, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tahiti and Vanuatu will be joined by the winner of a preliminary tournament […]

They won the 1998 World Cup and the 2000 Euro Cup. For two years at least, they were the team to beat in the World. Then came the fall: scored none in the 2002 World Cup and have been sent home in the quarter-finals by Greece in 2004 Euro Cup. Will they be able to […]

Tough British hooligans may be prosecuted in Berlin and thus making them think twice before going rampant, it seems Germany has problems with their own hooligans (or “nazi”’s).

A report in Spiegel magazine described how German and Polish hooligans took part in an organised 100-man mass brawl at a forest area in Briesen, an East German […]

Considered to be the spiritual home land of football/soccer, Brazil has given us players like Pele, Garrincha, Romario, Bebeto, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Adriano and many more. From the beaches of Copacabana, the kids of Brazil play football since dawn to midnight.

The federation was founded in 1914 and affiliatted to FIFA in 1923.
Their usual playing kit is:

jersey: […]

English football hooligans caught causing trouble at next year’s World Cup finals in Germany could face prosecution back in Britain.

This is some bad news for the hooligans, but good news for those of us that want to go and have a good time. Being prosecuted in Britain means that they are likely to be sent […]

Football stars Michael Owen, Ronaldinho, Gianluigi Buffon, Xabi Alsonso and Edgar Davids will provide MSN with behind-the-scenes insights into life as a world-class footballer. More big names are to be announced.

They will likely be having some kind of weblog and webcast that will provide us with their feeling on their evolution, their teams, their predicaments […]

About 170,000 hospitality tickets from an original contingent of 346,950 are available, the International Sports and Entertainment AG (iSe) announced on Thursday.

It may seem like a high number of tickets still available, but don’t forget that the final draw is not until the 9th of December. Then, when everybody knows the place their teams will […]

Africa has provided us with some great teams in the latest World Cups. Names like Nigeria, Cameroon were not to be taken lightly in the last years. Senegal provided the biggest surprise ever by taking the world champions France out of the race in 2002.

Well, surprise, surprise, none of these teams will be present […]

This is a question that will not be answered until July 2006. But, which are the teams that might win World Cup 2006?
As we already saw, with the exception of 4 teams, all the top 20 teams of the world will be present in Germany. Which will finally prevail?

First, everybody’s choice, Brazil. It is […]