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The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.
Read More at Wikipedia ›The Netherlands lost a World Cup final for the third time two years ago in South Africa, leaving its 1988 Euro triumph as the lone major title in its impressive history.
The Netherlands lost to Spain two years ago in the World Cup on a late goal in extra time as it was denied the sport's ultimate prize for the third time. The Dutch also lost in the 1974 and 1978 World Cup finals.This summer in Poland and Ukraine, the Dutch have their sights set firmly on a second major title and have the team to accomplish the task."The changes Bert van Marwijk has made to our style of play since taking over have proven to be quite successful as we reached the final at the World Cup," Dutch star Wesley Sneijder told De Telegraaf."We are now aiming to reach at least the final at Euro 2012. We want to do even better, though, and win the European title."Although the Dutch don't completely resemble the former "Total Football" squad from the 1970s, they still feature a few of the most talented attackers in t...Former U.S. national team goalkeeper Tony Meola, captain Claudio Reyna and defender Desmond Armstrong were inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame on Wed...
Premier Mario Monti suggested Tuesday that Italian soccer be suspended for two to three years after the latest match-fixing scandal rocked the national team and agai...
Discus thrower Jeremy Campbell (Perryton, Texas) tossed a new world record of 62.18 meters en route to his gold-medal finish at the BT Paralympic World Cup in Manche...
Former FIFA official Amos Adamu has lost his appeal against a three-year ban from soccer for seeking bribes during bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.The Court...
Brazil had its way with the U.S. soccer team, with the stars in the famous yellow jerseys dribbling past the Americans and generally pushing them around for the firs...
RUSTENBURG, South Africa (AP) — Africa's still at the World Cup party after Ghana realized the hopes of a continent by reaching the quarterfinals for the first time....
By Gordon BellJOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Fighter jets sped low over Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium briefly drowning out the constant din of tens of thousands of vu...
Qatar's Interior Ministry said 13 children were among 19 people killed in a fire that broke out in one of the country's fanciest shopping malls late Monday morning, ...
President Obama said Thursday the world's soccer association got it wrong in awarding Qatar the 2022 World Cup rather than the United States."I think it was the wron...
Six newcomers including high-scoring Sydney Leroux will join a veteran cast as the United States women's soccer team seeks its third consecutive Olympic gold medal, ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — FIFA and South Africa's World Cup organizers went on the defensive Wednesday about security issues at five World Cup stadiums caused by a steward...
FIFA's World Cup inspectors have had breakfast at the White House , meeting with aides to President Barack Obama .The six-man delegation from soccer's governing body...
Moving to Rio, I had visions of paradise, of a sprawling apartment with panoramic views over a palm-lined beach.Instead, I found myself plunged into the inferno of o...
When the United States plays soccer powers, the Americans have a tendency to look at the opponent with a little awe."Sometimes you see Brazil on the calendar, and yo...
One of the world's largest open-air landfills, a vast, seaside mountain of trash where thousands of people have made a living sorting through the debris by hand, wil...
Even kids in Slovenia dream of scoring the winning Stanley Cup goal and Anze Kopitar lived that unlikely fantasy with a spectacular overtime winner in Game One of th...
The chase to host the 2020 Summer Games was reduced to a three horse race between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo after Doha and the Azerbaijan capital Baku were dropped ...
They floated like butterflies, now they are being stung -- for a second year running.Eleven months after officials in China were ridiculed for some of the worst Phot...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Black Eyed Peas , Shakira and Alicia Keys will be among scores of music stars performing at a concert on the eve of the soccer World Cup...
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