A historic win for Australia. What do the actors feel like?

Tim CAHILL (AUS), Budweiser Man of the Match
After the two goals, I felt fantastic. It’s an unforgettable experience to come on as a substitute in a World Cup and score two goals. The equaliser was very important and turned the game in our favour. The […]

Australia has shown everyone that their presence here, in Germany, at the World Cup, is not an accident. They have recovered a 0-1 score to win 3-1 in the last 8 minutes of the game (including stoppage time). What do the 2 coaches have to say?

Guus HIDDINK (AUS)
In the end justice was done in this […]

What can you say? Australia won today their first match ever in the World Cup: 3-1 against Japan. More, they scored for the first time ever in World Cup. And they did it in style: 3 goals in 8 minutes.

Substitute Tim Cahill was the hero for Australia as the Socceroos scored three times in eight […]

Japan has made a real appearance in the football World only in the latest decade. But they are coming from the back in full steam ahead.

The highest-ever rating in the history of sports broadcasting on Japanese TV was 66.1% for the match between Japan and Russia at the Korea/Japan 2002. The viewing figures for this […]

No great expectations from this game, Malta not being, in my opinion, even close to the value of the Asian team. Anyway, a victory at a much smaller score then I would have anticipated: 1-0.

Tamada was on target in the second minute, settling a low-key match that saw a reshuffled Japan side start without injured […]

Some bad news for Japanese fans: their top strikers, Naohiro Takahara and Atsushi Yanagisawa, will miss their final warm-up game against Malta because of injuries.

Fortunately, it seems the players will not miss the first match of the World Cup and, more, this would give Zico the chnace to test other strikers.
Takahara, who scored twice in […]

Takahara scored twice for his nationa team, Japan, in their friendly with Germany this week. Will this be the Japanese striker’s World Cup?

Takahara began his professional football career in 1998 at Japanese club Jubilo Iwata and made an immediate impact, coming off the bench to score in the opening match of the J-League season. […]

Croatia’s coach, while praising their Japanese rivals, still feels that they will win against Japan.

He was confident, however, that his side would beat the Asian outfit in the group stage of the tournament proper and progess to the knockout stage alongside Brazil.
“I saw the friendly and I must say we have to be cautious […]

Unfortunately, both for him and his team, Makoto Tanaka will not be fit to play in the World Cup fot his national team, Japan.

Japan have admitted defeat in their bid to include the injured Makoto Tanaka in their FIFA World Cup™ squad and may now look to draft in Teruyuki Moniwa as a replacement.
Tanaka, who […]

Germany find out yesterday that Luxembourg is not the kind of team they will face in the World Cup.

Japan was not the team to be beaten 8-0. On the contrary, they really fought back, almost winning the game, after taking a 2-0 lead.
Germany came from two goals down to snatch a 2-2 draw with fellow […]