Though he is still unable to take full part in training, it seems that Roque Santa Cruz, the Paraguayan striker is nearing full fitness, thus being able to be a part of his team in the upcoming match against England.

The 24-year-old Bayern Munich player sustained a cruciate ligament injury to the joint in October last […]

The question on everybody’s lips is: will Wayne Rooney play? And, if not, who will be replaced with?

Sven Goran Eriksson seems to know the answer to that naming Liverpool pair Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher in his starting line-up for Tuesday night’s friendly against Hungary.
Eriksson said the XI named against Hungary “would start” England’s FIFA […]

One of the most important players in the Trinidad and Tobago team is, without a doubt, the 32-years-old Marvin Andrews.

Unfortunately, he played for an entire year, against doctor’s reccomendation of not playing with a cruciate ligament injury. This means that it finally is getting to him and Leo Beenhakker expressed concern about this.
“Marvin wants […]

FIFAworldcup.com: So Anthony, what have you been doing since you hung up your boots?
Anthony Baffoe: First of all, I worked as a model, then I did some media work, presenting television programmes in Germany. But at the moment, I’m having a break from both those areas and have been working as the international relations […]

Argentina’s Lionel Messi might not be ready for his team first match in the World Cup against Ivory Coast. He is yet to feel fit to play an entire game, but he might be able to play for 20-30 minutes.

“Lionel was the last player to arrive and he still hasn’t played much football. But […]

After Smicer, that will not be playing at all in the World Cup, another important player gives headaches to Czech’s Republic coach, Karel Brueckner.

Tomas Rosicky will miss the Czech Republic’s FIFA World Cup warm-up against Costa Rica on Tuesday because of a thigh injury.
Rosicky, who last week signed for Arsenal for £8 million ($14.91 million), […]

Seven weeks ago, Tim Cahill injured his right knee. Fortunately, he just finished his first full training session on Monday and he is to bounce back and recover.

The 26-year-old suffered a cruciate ligament injury while playing for Everton in April and his participation in the FIFA World Cup™ was thought to be in doubt. However, […]

Or so thinks Franz Beckenbauer, the FIFA World Cup™ Organising Committee President. He thinks that Germany is one of the favourites to win the World Cup because of the faithful homecrowd.

Beckenbauer, who in recent months had appeared pessimistic about Germany’s chances, wrote in a column for Bild newspaper that Jurgen Klinsmann’s side are, in fact, […]

Everything is great for Brazil: no injuries, no scandals… Heaven.

Still, this might be the biggest threat yet: not having a wake-up call. What if that wake-up call comes when it will be too late? What if everything is good because there is no pressure?
I would love to have a team in the World Cup that […]

1-0 was the score of the match between USA and Latvia. The match was played just before the American team left for Germany, to play in the World Cup.

Just under 25,000 fans were on hand for the Americans’ send-off in which Fulham striker Brian McBride shook off a brief injury scare to head home […]