On 17 July 1994, Italy lost the World Cup Final in a penalty shootout to Brazil when their top scorer of the tournament, Roberto Baggio, sent his attempt over the bar. Simply making it to the Final was a minor miracle for Italy, who opened their tournament campaign with a first-round loss to Ireland.

Fair warning that this blog post may not be the most coherent I'm on 1 hour of airplane sleep in the past 36 hours and I've just returned from the Women's World Cup semi-final match between Sweden and Japan. But I wanted to pop online and share where I am and what I'm up to.

I'm in Frankfurt for the FIFA Women's Football Symposium.

SINGAPORE, 08 July 2011: Singapore will be taking on Malaysia in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ Qualifying Round Two match that will be played on Saturday 23 July 2011 at the Jalan Besar stadium.

Due to the heavy demand for tickets to this match, fans are advised to purchase their tickets early.

The Women's World Cup got off to an entertaining start today s holders and hosts Germany beat Canada and France beat Nigeria.

Germany, winners of the last two World Cups and strong favourites this time around too, got their campaign off to the perfect start when Kerstin Garefrekes headed home after 10 minutes.

Sixteen teams will compete at the sixth FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany 26 June through to 17 July. Two-time defending world champions Germany are in Pool A with Canada, Nigeria and France. Japan, New Zealand, Mexico and England make up pool B while United States , North Korea, Colombia and Sweden are in pool C.

VIENTIANE (19 Feb 2011) – Laos and Indonesia will each host two tournaments of the AFF this year – following the decisions of the AFF Council this afternoon in Kuala Lumpur.

Laos, who had successfully organised the qualifying round of the AFF Suzuki Cup last year, will host the AFF Under-16 Championship and also the AFF Women's Football Championship.