As we already noticed, it seems there are some problems with the tickets selling for the World Cup in Germany 2006. And they seem to be more then annoyances, since EU is going to look into the problem, after complaints have been received.

Lawmakers from the European Parliament have complained to the Commission that FIFA […]

World Champions and everybody’s choice on repeating it, Brazil will camp in Switzerland from 22nd of May until the 4th of June. They will prepare for the World Cup in Germany there.
Until now, no details on whether they will play any friendly matches or not.
Source: Reuters.

With small exceptions (namely Denmark, Uruguay, Greece and Turkey) all first 20 teams in the Fifa/Coca-Cola World Ranking will be in Germany. This is great news to all of us, those that love football but our national teams didn;t qualified. At least, we will enjoy the best teams out there.

Not only have the […]

It seems that not only the real players gather for the championship.

Los Angeles played host to a gripping FIFA Interactive World Cup tournament which saw the winner of the Mexican qualifying tournament storm to victory ahead of his US rivals. Ruben Morales travelled all the way from Mexico City to take on the best […]

Apparently, he saw the Socceroos qualifying to the World Cup last week and he has been so impressed by their play that he offered to fly them to Germany. You have to know (or to remember if you already knew) that John Travolta is a qualified airplane pilot, flying his own Boeing 707. More, he […]

Brondby striker Johan Elmander, one of the candidates for Sweden’s squad at next year’s World Cup in Germany, will be out of action for up three months to recover from surgery on a finger, the Swedish daily Aftonbladet reported on Saturday.

Elmander, 24, hurt his left ring finger during a Royal League match against FC Copenhagen […]

SOCCEROOS coach Guus Hiddink has met soccer bosses to map out Australia’s World Cup preparation for the next six months.

Though the calendar for FIFA friendly matches is quite scarce until the World Cup in Germany, Australia might have a chance because of the 2 qualifying matches for the Asian Cup.
Australia’s schedule for the next six […]

Though a week ago they were almost out of the World Cup and they almost didn’t get there, it seems that Kewell thinks the Australian team might be the team to surprise at World Cup.

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph before heading back to his English Premier League club Liverpool, Kewell said he and his teammates […]

Surprisingly, Puma sponsors more teams than either Nike or Adidas, their rivals in the market of sportswear. This is especially surprising since Adidas are the official sponsors of the World Cup 2006.

One answer may come with the fact that Africa is a strong base for Puma, four teams out of five on this continent (Tunisia, […]

Following the unexpected qualification of their football team to the World Cup, Australian fans have flooded the agencies with request for tickets to Germany in 2006.

“It’s been overwhelming,” [operator The Fanatics]company founder Warren Livingstone told AFP. “In the past 24 hours we’ve had up to 1,200 to 1,300 people who have paid a deposit of […]