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.
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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.
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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.
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Socceroos striker Scott McDonald has succumbed to a hamstring strain and will miss Australia’s coming World Cup qualifiers.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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DOHA: World Cup 2022 and upcoming projects in line with the country’s 2030 Vision have been a major driving force in the dramatic expansion of Project Qatar 2011, organisers said yesterday.
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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.
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BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Liberty Mutual Group, a leading global property and casualty insurer, today announced that Liberty Seguros in Brazil has signed an agreement with FIFA to become a FIFA World Cup National Supporter for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil and the FIFA Confederation Cup 2013. Liberty Seguros?€™ FIFA World Cup involvement makes it the ?€?Official Insurance Provider of the FIFA World …
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