Who are the contenders for the Golden Shoe this year? Will it be Klose, Crespo, Ronaldo or another one that no one expects?

Having hit an impressive five goals at his first FIFA World Cup finals back in 2002, Germany striker Miroslav Klose has picked up where he left off in Korea/Japan. The Werder Bremen striker […]

Ayala scored with a header and Argentina now leads 1-0 against the hosts of the World Cup.

He partcipated in the World Cup as a coach with 5 teams. What does Bora Milutinovic think about World Cup 2006?

FIFAworldcup.com: Bora, have you watched all the games played so far?
Bora Milutinovic: This is the World Cup so I follow events at the tournament closely. I didn’t watch every game, but a lot of […]

Remember the second game of the Champions League semifinal between Villareal and Arsenal? If not, there’s no biggie. You have to know that Riquelme missed a penalty shot with Lehmann protecting the English goal. The minute? Almost 90′. Arsenal went to meet Barcelona in the final.

On that momentous 25 April night in Spain, Riquelme’s Villarreal […]

England and Scolari have some history of matches in the last 2 major tournaments they met: World Cup 2002 and EuroCup 2004. Both times, Scolari was the winner. Now, they meet again in England vs. Portugal.

2002 - England can find no answer
In Japan in 2002, belief seemed to drain out of England once Rivaldo had […]

Franz Beckenbauer is a legend himself, but he chose to choose a team of legends of being the best possible team in his opinion.

Right, first of all, my +10 team would be comprised of players who are no longer active. There are so many great players, that’s why it’s rather difficult to put a team […]

Italy and Ukraine shared one common thing: Schevchenko. Will he say farewall to Italy by sending them home?

Colours for the match
Italy: Blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks.
Ukraine: Yellow shirts, yellow shorts and yellow socks.
The story so far
Italy qualified as winners of Group E, one of the most difficult at the tournament, by beating […]

While Michael Ballack, Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski have grabbed all the headlines in the German press, the two central defenders have been the unsung heroes as they strive to give Klinsmann’s side the stability it requires.

Mertesacker has won more than 80 per cent of his one-on-one challenges in the tournament so far, the best […]

He controls the midfield: he sends the passes and organizes the team. Though the players that everybody looked at were Podolski and Klose, what would they do without Torsten Frings?

The chorus of praise for the 29-year-old has become ever louder. Many experts credit the team’s run of 270 FIFA World Cup minutes without conceding a […]

Germany and Argentina have a lot of common history in the World Cup. Remember just the game in 1986 or the game in 1990. both finals.

Colours for the game
Germany: White shirts, black shorts and white socks
Argentina: Blue shirts, black shorts and white socks
The story so far
After a convincing last-16 win over Sweden, there has […]