The German-manufactured Cairos system uses magnetic fields set up around the goals to determine whether or not the ball has crossed the line in situations where it is not clear to the naked eye. ...
07:38 PM, Feb 25, 2013
Buenos Aires: Diego Maradona is on the brink of becoming coach of Iraq and wants to take the country to the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil, Argentine agent Hernan Tofoni told Reuters on Thursday. Maradona, who is acting as a consultant for the UAE club Al Wasl that he used to coach, is awaiting the outcome of a meeting of the Iraqi Football Federation to be held on Friday...
09:41 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Rio de Janeiro: Luiz Felipe Scolari took over as the coach of 2014 World Cup hosts Brazil on Thursday, returning for a second stint to lead his country's bid to win a sixth world title on home soil in little more than 18 months' time. The man known as Felipao (Big Phil), who led Brazil to their fifth and last World Cup win in 2002, was officially presented by the...
07:06 PM, Nov 29, 2012
Santiago: Claudio Borghi, coach of Chilean national football team, was fired after his team lost 1-3 to Serbia in an international friendly played in St Gallen, Switzerland. The bitter loss on Wednesday was just the last straw, as the 48-year-old lost his job mainly because of the team's poor performance in the 2014 World Cup qualifiers, reports Xinhua. "The record isn't good after the last four matches we have played...
01:22 PM, Nov 15, 2012
Landon Donovan - the all-time top goalscorer for the United States - says he is unsure whether he will feature in the 2014 World Cup finals for his country, rating his chances at 50/50. Donovan, 30, has suffered from a number of injuries in the past year and has played in two of the U.S's six World Cup qualifiers so far. He has also been open about struggling for motivation....
10:46 PM, Oct 23, 2012
The chance to feature at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil is an extra motivation for Spain's veteran players, said coach Vicente del Bosque on the eve of their first qualifying match in Georgia. Spain's haul of two European Championship titles and one World Cup trophy in the last four years means they have eclipsed Brazil as the team to beat but the South Americans still hold a special place...
08:04 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Madrid: Spain coach Vicente del Bosque has signed a contract extension after having previously been offered a new two-year deal. The 61-year-old told Onda Cero radio on Tuesday that he had "renewed" his deal with the Spanish federation, and though he did not divulge the length of the new agreement, Del Boque is expected to stay on until after the 2014 World Cup. A two-year contract would enable him to...
06:03 AM, Apr 18, 2012
Zurich: Rio de Janeiro will stage the 2014 World Cup final with Sao Paulo hosting the tournament's opening match featuring Brazil, world soccer's governing body FIFA announced on Thursday. The semi-finals were awarded to Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo, which has only just started work on its stadium and was omitted from the 2013 Confederations Cup warm-up event. The match schedule for the event, which begins on June 12, could...
11:12 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Caracas: Even a draw would have been momentous, but Venezuela went a step further by beating Argentina 1-0 in a World Cup qualifier for their first ever win over the South American heavyweights. Venezuela, no longer the whipping boys of South American soccer, had lost all 18 of their previous matches against Argentina, but Fernando Amorebieta's 61st-minute header turned the tables on Tuesday night against a star-studded team captained by...
06:53 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Buenos Aires: Argentina lifted the gloom from a poor Copa America by routing Chile 4-1 in their opening 2014 World Cup qualifier on Friday, while Uruguay also scored four to get their campaign off to a good start. Gonzalo Higuain scored a hat-trick and Lionel Messi ended a 30-month goal drought for his country in competitive internationals, while Uruguay captain Diego Lugano scored twice in a 4-2 home victory over...
11:11 AM, Oct 08, 2011
Buenos Aires: Lionel Messi is trying to ease the pressure on himself ahead of Argentina's upcoming World Cup qualifiers, saying on Tuesday that he can't win matches all on his own. The Barcelona star made the comments on his arrival in Buenos Aires before Friday's game at home to Chile and next Tuesday's match away to Venezuela. Messi has never played as well for Argentina as he has for Barcelona....
10:25 AM, Oct 05, 2011
Auckland: Australia and Japan left it late on Friday as they began their bid to reach the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with narrow home victories over lowly ranked opposition. After receiving byes in the opening two rounds of Asian qualifying after reaching last year's World Cup finals, both looked rusty in their first competitive matches since contesting the Asian Cup final in January. Japan's defender Maya Yoshida was the...
09:19 AM, Sep 03, 2011
New Delhi: Their new-found confidence having suffered a huge beating after their 0-3 loss in the away match, India face an uphill task to advance to the next stage of the 2014 World Cup football qualifiers as they take on United Arab Emirates here on Thursday. India had beaten Qatar in an international friendly 2-1 in Doha just before the World Cup qualifiers second round, raising hopes of a strong...
06:41 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Brazil last staged the World Cup in 1950 and finished runners-up. ...
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