U.S. World Cup bid gets support

The U.S. bid to host the World Cup again in 2018 or 2022 has been endorsed by CONCACAF, soccer's governing body for North and Central America and the Caribbean.

Liga book final place with 7-0 win

Liga Deportiva Universitaria of Ecuador hammered Uruguay's River Plate 7-0 thanks to a hat-trick from Claudio Bieler to reach the final of the Copa Sudamericana.

Football's bizarre injury treatments

Dominic Raynor looks at some of football's most bizarre injury treatments

Riquelme may find the Corinthian spirit

Sam Kelly on Corinthians' hopes of signing Argentine playmaker Juan Román Riquelme.

Evra's greenophobia, female footballers get dirty

Dominic Raynor on a week when France's Patrice Evra got greenophobia ahead of their World Cup play-off with Ireland.

Asian climax approaches

Dileep Premachandran examines the rise of the Asian Champions League ahead of Saturday's final.

Argentina's Estudiantes de la Plata's President Ruben Filipas holds a Copa Libertadores trophy replica during the drawing ceremony of the Copa Libertadores 2010 soccer tournament in Luque, Paraguay...

Argentina's Estudiantes de la Plata's President Ruben Filipas, center, receives a Copa Libertadores trophy replica from South American Soccer Confederation president, Nicolas Leoz, right, as Julio Grondona, left, President...

...Plata's soccer player Juan Sebastian Veron receives from Santander Group President Emilo Botin, unseen, the Copa Libertadores Best Player Trophy, at the Conmebol Museum in Luque, Paraguay, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo...

...s soccer player Juan Sebastian Veron, center, receives from Santander Group President Emilo Botin, left, the Copa Libertadores Best Player Trophy, at the Conmebol Museum in Luque, Paraguay, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. At right...

...s soccer player Juan Sebastian Veron, right, receives from Santander Group President Emilo Botin, left, the Copa Libertadores Best Player Trophy, at the Conmebol Museum in Luque, Paraguay, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo...

South American Soccer Confederation President Nicolas Leoz, delivers a speech during the drawing ceremony of the Copa Libertadores 2010 soccer tournament in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, Nov. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz

...of Argentina's Estidiantes de la Plata for Group 3 during the drawing ceremony of the Copa Libertadores 2010 soccer tournament in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, Nov. 27, 2008. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz

The drawing ceremony continues of the Copa Libertadores 2010 soccer tournament in the South American Soccer Confederation hall in Luque, Paraguay, Friday, Nov. 27...

...Plata's soccer player Juan Sebastian Veron receives from Santander Group President Emilo Botin, unseen, the Copa Libertadores Best Player Trophy, at the Conmebol Museum in Luque, Paraguay, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. (AP Photo...