1623 Results for tournament

Weah hopes 2010 World Cup will open doors

A well-organised World Cup in South Africa would enable other African countries to bid for major sporting events, former world footballer of the year George Weah has insisted.

Story | Conversation | November 26, 2008

Economic downturn to affect World Cup fans?

Reuters

FIFA on Monday expressed concern that the world economic downturn would impact on the number of visitors to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa.

Story | Conversation | November 24, 2008

FIFA happy with South African preparations

Football's world governing body FIFA says the question of South Africa not hosting the 2010 World Cup should by now be forgotten.

Story | Conversation | November 24, 2008

Warner: English clubs do not respect Caribbean

Prominent FIFA member Jack Warner has repeated his attack on English football's negative view about football in the Caribbean.

Story | Conversation | November 19, 2008

When can the back-scratching commence?

Phil Holland

Phil Holland on the race to host the 2018 and 2020 World Cups and European football's cash cow.

Story | Conversation | November 18, 2008

Player exodus makes life hard for Uruguay coach

Reuters

Few national team coaches face such an apparently thankless task as Uruguay's Oscar Washington Tabarez, whose country is the smallest to have won the World Cup.

Story | Conversation | November 18, 2008

Q&A with former England striker Tony Woodock

John Brewin

Former England striker Tony Woodcock tells John Brewin that Germany v England is no friendly.

Story | Conversation | November 18, 2008

Löw ready for new and improved England

Germany coach Joachim Löw feels England are "the strongest they have been for years" as the two countries prepare for their friendly meeting at Berlin's Olympiastadion on Wednesday.

Story | Conversation | November 17, 2008

Maradona not concerned by absences

Diego Maradona believes he has plenty of options to replace the absent Juan Roman Riquelme and Lionel Messi on his debut as Argentina coach against Scotland in Glasgow on Wednesday.

Story | Conversation | November 17, 2008

Archie aiming for Aussie action

Jason Dasey

Jason Dasey catches up with Archie Thompson as he dreams of South Africa 2010.

Story | Conversation | November 16, 2008

Argentina focus on developing youth

Jon Carter

Argentina's focus on youth will stand them in good stead for the future, says Jon Carter.

Story | Conversation | November 12, 2008

Baxter battles against the odds

Egan Richardson

Egan Richardson speaks to Stuart Baxter on the challenge of being to Finnish coach.

Story | Conversation | October 10, 2008

Stars failing to shine in Africa

Jon Carter

Jon Carter on the African qualifying campaign for 2010 that could throw up a few surprises.

Story | Conversation | October 07, 2008

Late Finnish compounds Hyypia's misery

Egan Richardson

Egan Richardson was in Helsinki to attend Germany's 3-3 thriller with Finland.

Story | Conversation | September 11, 2008

Plus ça change

Paul Marshall

Raymond Domenech has made changes, but is it enough to keep him in a job, asks Paul Marshall.

Story | Conversation | September 03, 2008