England coach Fabio Capello has dismissed the relevance of FIFA’s rankings after seeing his team rise to fourth. England jumped above Uruguay and Brazil over the last month despite winning just five of its nine matches since exiting the 2010 World Cup in the last 16. “I am happy, but the ranking is only one value,” Capello said.

The Canadian men?€™s soccer team has shaken up its roster in advance of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil qualifying matches in Toronto and Bayamon, Puerto Rico, next month.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for the opening match of the 2014 World Cup to be played at Brazil’s most famous football stadium – the Maracana in Rio – and not in Sao Paulo.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) ?€” Three former FIFA executive committee members banned in a World Cup bidding scandal will have their appeals heard no sooner than October, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Monday.

Socceroos striker Scott McDonald has succumbed to a hamstring strain and will miss Australia’s coming World Cup qualifiers.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for the opening match of the 2014 World Cup to be played at Brazil’s most famous football stadium – the Maracana in Rio – and not in Sao Paulo.

Arsenal right-back and French international Bacary Sagna has declared his intention to donate his ?sbquo;?100,000 bonus earned from the 2010 Fifa World Cup to football clubs in France and Senegal ?€“ his ancestral homeland.

World Cup organisers are preparing for the last big push, confident they have enough clever initiatives and momentum to reach their commercial targets.At the last count they had sold about 900,000 of the available 1.45 million…

ABS-CBN’s Balls TV will broadcast live the first leg of the FIFA World Cup qualifier between the Philippine Azkals and Sri Lanka on June 29.

New Zealand have qualified for the under-20 Fifa World Cup this afternoon, with a 3-1 win over the Solomon Islands in the Oceania Championship final.