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The World Cup wasn't long into its first game between host Brazil and some other team when one of the players from one of the teams, breathed on by a rival, went down faster than a two-dollar hooker in...

SAO PAULO (AP) — In the perfect picture of contrasting coaches' styles at this World Cup, Alejandro Sabella of Argentina stood near midfield dressed in a suit that looked appropriate for Wall Street, while Bosnia's Safet Susic stood nearby...

FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) — After a troubled start, the smiles are returning to West Africa at the World Cup. Nigeria has earned its first victory after a stalemate with Iran, and Ghana held Germany to a 2-2 draw after losing...

Carlos Vera from Ecuador will be holding the whistle in Greece’s final group stage game against Ivory Coast on Tuesday. Earlier in the tournament, Carlos Vera who is celebrating on Monday his 38th birthday, supervised the match between Iran and Nigeria. It was quoted...

The lives of soccer players and their mates are with no doubt glamorous, exciting and on the media's spotlight. Accomplishing the dream of becoming a famous athlete, doesn't only bring you fame and fortune and the ability to do what you...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Ivory Coast players Yaya and Kolo Toure will stay at the World Cup despite the death of their younger brother. Team spokesman Eric Kakou said they were given the option of leaving the tournament after...

Costa Rica stunned the football world by beating former champions Italy and Uruguay in the World Cup. Here are 5 things you need to know for this surprise World Cup team!

Greece’s national team manager, Fernando Santos, praised his players' efforts in the game against Japan during most of which Greece played with ten men. The Greeks drew 0-0 against Japan on Thursday, even though they lost captain Kostas Katsouranis...

Ibrahim Toure died at the age of 28 in Manchester yesterday, while his brothers, Yaya and Kolo were at the World Cup in Brazil, competing with Ivory Coast's national team against Colombia. There were no further official details on his death,...

Tattoos -- especially those depicting Kanji characters -- have become some of the most talked about body art failures in Asia during the 2014 World Cup. It takes a global event on a World-Cup scale, to realize how foreign cultures really...

Spirited Greece, who was left with ten players from the first half have hold on Japan to a goalless draw at a World Cup Group C match in Natal, Brazil. The “Samurais” weren’t able to take the 3 points against...

We got in touch with a few Greek-Japanese world cup fans to ask them about how they feel for the decisive Greece vs Japan clash tomorrow. The crucial World Cup match that will show which team might advance in the tournament...

A defeat in the upcoming Greece vs. Japan World Cup match will be terminal for either team after Colombia triumphed over the 2004 Euro Champions (3-0) and Ivory Coast outmuscled the Asians (2-1) in Group C's tournament opening in Brazil. After Japan's loss, AC Milan's newly-signed...

El Salvadorian Joel Aguilar will be  the referee for the World Cup 2014 game between Greece and Japan in Natal, Brazil. Aguilar officiated Argentina's victory over Bosnia in their opening fixture where the 1986 World Champions won 2-1. WATCH GREECE VS...

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