World Cup News

The Italians are known for starting slow in World Cup matches and then building momentum as the tournament progresses. Their warm up games have left much to be desired and they have not looked like World Champions. Paraguay on the other…

Dubbed as the weakest team in decades, the young German squad rose to the occasion and silenced their critics trouncing the Australians 4-0. The Germans outplayed the men from down under in every department of the game and made a clear…

Awesome Germany destroy the Socceroos A young German team were thought to struggle in this tournament, but they handed a footballing lessons to the pluckky Aussies. They were in total control of the game from beginning to end, with four…

South Korea (or the Korea Republic, as it prefers to be called), have become a regular at the World Cup Finals over the last 20 years, and proved yet again their international credentials in this comfortable win against the Greece team that…

Diego Maradona's Argentina team were very unconvincing in the qualifying matches, but with the talent at their disposal, can never be written off at a World Cup Tournament. Nigeria are always considered to be one of the stronger African…

Although this German team has been labeled as the weakest team for decades, you don’t need to go to the experts to see who the clear favourite is in this match. The Germans are expected to win this win even with the absence of Michael…

England came into their first World Cup fixture as hot favourites against USA, and when the new England captain Steven Gerrard put them 1-0 after just four minutes it looked like they were going to cruise into the knockout rounds. But…

Argentina fans were not let down as their team put up a superb performance in their opening game against Nigeria. The score line in the end only read 1-0, but that’s only because Nigeria’s goalkeeper Vincent Enyema had an outstanding match…

This had all the hallmarks of a brilliant opening game for the 2010 World Cup, and south Africa and Mexico didn't disappoint. Bafana Bafana were unbeaten in 12 games before this one, and Mexico had looked exciting in their wam up game,…

France came into this competition in disarray, and with a terrible run of results that ended with a 1-0 defeat by China last week, but they were still hot favourites to win this group. Uruguay only qualified via a play-off against Costa…