Italy should be happy: Totti, on of the best midfielders in the World and a most charismatic player, is starting the game against Switzerland in the first line-up.

Italy coach Marcello Lippi will give Francesco Totti his first start in more than three months against Switzerland in a pre-FIFA World Cup™ friendly.
The Roma striker has played […]

Paraguay has come to Germany to start their World Cup dream.

The Paraguay football team arrived at their training base in southern Germany on Tuesday ahead of the FIFA World Cup™ finals.
The squad arrived by bus from Austria, where they had been based for an eight-day training camp which included warm-up games against Norway (2-2) and […]

England won the last warm-up game yesterday, against Hungary, by 3-1. While the difference is quite convincing, the game wasn’t that convincing, unfortunately.

As we said already, Gerrard played supporting striker, replacing Rooney, while teammate Carragher played midfielder, taking Gerrard’s place.
“The most important thing tonight was that we won and we won convincingly. We took our […]

Though they do not know if Rooney will be fit to play in the WOrld Cup until the scan on 7th of June, Sven-Goran Eriksson will take Rooney with the team in Germany.

He will be back to England after two days to take the scan, but England’s coach wants to analyse Rooney’s fitness and recovery […]

Australian striker Harry Kewell, though injured, has big hopes for his national team.

Little is expected of the Antipodeans who sit in joint-42nd position in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking. Indeed it is only the Socceroos’ second appearance at the world’s showpiece event, with their first
“Everyone was saying when the draw was pulled out ‘You’ve got Brazil’,” […]

Usa is preparing calmly for their matches at the World Cup, but some doubts still rise: will John O’Brien and Claudio Reyna be fit for the games?

The duo is the most important element in the midfield, an important element of the team.
The two outfield players on the squad with the most professional experience in […]

This year has brought a lot to Mexico’s Guillermo Franco: played his first match for his national team, moved to Europe and, with Villareal, his club team, he reached the semifinals of the Champions League.

Unfortunately, the miracles stopped for him at that semifinal: the ball just didn’t want to go in. No matter what they […]

Even if not missing means that he will fight the pain to play, Ljungberg wants to be a part of his national team in the World Cup.

Ljungberg’s performance for Arsenal, along with Henrik Larsson’s for Barcelona, in that UEFA Champions League final would certainly have been greeted by a huge sigh of relief by their […]

Portugal’s young goalkeeper, Bruno Vlae, will not be able to play in his first World Cup because of a foot injury that he sustained in the U-21 European Championship.

Bruno Vale was one of the surprise names in Luiz Felipe Scolari’s final 23, and was the only player given permission to appear at both the U-21 […]

It seems that Brazil is not the only team to be concerned with things going too well. Japan’s Nakata feels they might have the same problem.

Nakata said he was concerned that the atmosphere in the Japan camp was too relaxed with the start of the tournament just days away.
“I think the atmosphere is the main […]