The World Cups have, especially in the start, been the complete dominance of South America and Europe. Therefore, throughout the 1950's and 1960's, the "rest of the world", that is, Asia, Africa and Australia had to play between them for one meager qualifying spot.For the 1966 World Cup in England, this "rest-of-the-world" spot went to the small and closed Communist dictatorship of North Corea. Click to continue reading...

While you're enjoying your crazy-mild November weekend in KC, take some time to sign the petition to bring the FIFA World Cup to town, and invite all your friends. We're now past the 5400-signature mark, in 9th place among the 27 cities bidding to host World Cup matches. Help us pass Dallas, then move toward Tampa Bay and Cleveland. Click to continue reading...

Netherlands manager Bert van Marwijk has named his 23-man squad friendly international matches against Italy on November 14th and Paraguay on November 18th. Squad: Goalkeepers: Maarten Stekelenburg (Ajax Amsterdam), Michel Vorm (Utrecht), Piet Velthuizen (Vitesse Arnhem) Defenders: John Heitinga (Everton), Joris Mathijsen (Hamburg SV), Edson Braafheid (Bayern Munich), Gregory van der Wiel (Ajax Amsterdam), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (Feyenoord), [. Click to continue reading...

Asociación de Fútbol Argentino (AFA) president, Julio Grondona and veteran midfielder Juan Sebastián Verón have officially presented the Argentina World Cup 2010 home kit to the public. The new Albiceleste first choice strip will make its on the field debut in Madrid on November 14th when Argentina meets Spain in a friendly. Click to continue reading...

Our leak was right! While naming his squad for the France's FIFA World Cup qualifying playoffs with Ireland earlier today, France coach Raymond Domenech unveiled the Les Bleus 2010 adidas home kit. The new France World Cup 2010 adidas home kit is expected to make its debut on November 18th when France host the Republic of [. Click to continue reading...

]Let the FIFA World Cup 2010 madness begin! The Chile national team recently qualified for their first FIFA World Cup since France 1998. As one might expect, the natives are excited and restless and would love to accompany their team to South Africa. However, the cost of the trip from Chile to South Africa with hotel [. Click to continue reading...

French national football team coach Raymond Domenech has named his squad for Les Bleus two-legged with the Republic of Ireland. There are few surprises in the squad apart from the omission of former France captain Patrick Vieira in favour of younger Ligue 1 talent like Loic Remy and Rod Fanni. France and Ireland meet in Dublin on [. Click to continue reading...

First of all, go vote for the AT&T Goal of the Year and Degree Men Save of the Year awards. Both Arnaud and Lopez are up twice for the Goal of the Year honor and Hartman is up three times for the Save of the Year award. You can find links to the highlights of these plays at previous posts below. Click to continue reading...

The Federación Mexicana de Futbol (FMF) has announced that it will officially present the adidas kits that the Mexico national football team will wear during next year's World Cup on Monday, November 9th, 2009. The kit launch will occur at the El Museo de Antropología in Mexico City. Members of El Tri, represenatives from adidas, FMF [. Click to continue reading...

Conrad celebrating after the USA clinched qualification in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Photo courtesy of Andy Mead/Yellow Card Journalism.
Tonight, the final Jimmy Conrad Show of the 2009 season takes place live from Fox and Hound in Overland Park from 8-9 p.m. CT. As an added incentive for fans who come out to the show, Conrad will be raffling off an autographed U. Click to continue reading...

National Soccer Hall of Fame Press Release:
ONEONTA, NY (November 2, 2009) – Two FIFA Women's World Cup champions, two men from the 1990 FIFA World Cup squad, five North American Soccer League alumni, and a 7-time winner of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in the 1920s and 1930s are featured on the Election 2010 Veteran Player Ballot the National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum announced today. Click to continue reading...

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Second series of ‘Coke Zero' Presents: Wayne Rooney's Street Striker sees Manchester United and England star continue hunt for street football stars
This coming Sunday (8th November) sees the return of ‘Coke Zero' Presents: Wayne Rooney's Street Striker – a UK wide competition to find the nation's most skilful street footballers. Click to continue reading...

On Friday night in Asunción, adidas and the Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol officially presented the Paraguay adidas World Cup 2010 home (or first choice) kit to be worn by Roque Santa Cruz and company in South Africa next year. La Albirroja (Red and Whites in English) are World Cup bound once again after finishing one point [. Click to continue reading...

You might notice a new counter on the right-hand side of the page (and just above in this post). We have now embedded the counter for folks who have signed up specifically to support Kansas City's bid to host World Cup matches in 2018 or 2022. As of this posting, 3239 folks support the effort here in KC. Click to continue reading...

When it came close to championship (world cup) there are lat of scammers out there when we are talking about tickets. So, all tickets for the event will be sold by FIFA on their website. We expect further information in 2008 and the registration process to start sometime in 2009. As and when we have further information we will let you know. Click to continue reading...

Following recent leaks of the adidas Germany and Spain World Cup 2010 home jerseys, one of the shirt that France will supposedly wear in 2010 has appeared on the internet. As with all leaks, whether of not this kit is real is debatable. Also, its appearance at the FIFA World Cup in South Africa next year [. Click to continue reading...

All week I've been running a fantastic competition - 3 pairs of Club Level tickets for Arsenal v Sp*rs with thanks to Emirates Airline.

I asked you: Who scored Arsenal's winner at White Hart Lane in 1971 to clinch the league title?

Was it: a) Charlie George b) Ray Kennedy c) George Armstrong

The answer was, of course, b) Ray Kennedy.

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Dignified dialogue
8 Actors That Have Narrated Official FIFA World Cup Films
1. Patrick Allen ('The World at Their Feet' 1970)
2. Joss Ackland ('Heading For Glory' 1974)
3. Sean Connery ('G'olé!' 1982)
4. Michael Caine ('Hero' 1986)
5. Edward Woodward ('Soccer Shoot-Out' 1990)
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So it's been a while since an Australian youth girls team has qualified for a FIFA under-17 or under-20 World Cup. The last team was the one that went in 2006 to the under-20 event in Russia. And just to clarify, these events are held every two years, not four like the senior World Cups. The under-19 girls just missed out in controversial circumstances earlier this year for next year's under-20 tournament. Click to continue reading...

Support the USA Bid by visiting www.gousabid.com/kc and signing the petition. Tell all your friends!
The USA Bid Committee today released a report that indicates brining the FIFA World Cup to the USA in 2018 or 2022 could pump $5 billion into the economy. The study indicates that between 5,000-8,000 new jobs would be created in each host city. Click to continue reading...

Brazil coach Dunga has named his squad for the November's friendlies against England and Oman. Of note is that FC Porto striker Hulk , fellow striker Carlos Eduardo of TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Michel Bastos of Olympique Lyon are included in the squad and could possibly make their international debuts. Click to continue reading...

The first North London derby of the season takes place this Saturday and Arsenal fans and players will be desperate to put the agony of last year's 4-4 draw behind them.

Tickets, as you would expect, are like gold dust but Arseblog, in association with Emirates Airline, has not one, not two, but three pairs of Club Level tickets up for grabs exclusively to Arseblog readers.

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The Beauty: You can't deny that Brazilian soccer players have historically been the world's best. Exhibit A: Pele. Exhibit B: Ronaldo. I rest my case. You also can't deny that Brazilian models have historically been the world's hottest. Exhibit A: Gisele.

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Book your trip to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa with our travel agency partners and get a discount! Click here for details.

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As anticipation for FIFA World Cup 2010 grows, official FIFA World Cup ball provider adidas has recreated every official FIFA World Cup ball since 1970 to celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The ball collection has been launched in a special package that contains all 10 of the legendary match balls from the 1970-2006 FIFA World [. Click to continue reading...

The 2010 World Cup in South Africa looms ever closer as teams from around the world compete for a chance to play in the worlds most prestigious sporting event. The FIFA World Cup Games begin on June 1th this summer and will run until July 11th. Only 32 nations will be honored enough to play in the games.

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According to the Safa website: On Monday 19 October 2009 it was unanimously agreed between the Management Committee representing the South African Football Association and the Senior National Coach Mr Joel Natalino Santana, that Mr. Santana would, with immediate effect vacate his current position as Bafana Bafana National Coach.

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Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina got the toughest opponents in today's 2010 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Play-off Draw after being matched up against footballing powers France and Portugal. The draw consisted of the top eight runners-up from the nine UEFA European qualifying groups.  The top four nations in the draw were seeded according to the latest edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola [. Click to continue reading...

The Republic of Ireland will have to beat former World Cup winners France over two legs if they are to make it to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Giovanni Trapattoni's side will contest the tough play-offs ties against the 1998 champions on 14 and 18 November.

Elsewhere, Portugal will play Bosnia-Herzegovina, Greece face Ukraine and Russia meet Slovenia.

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Somehow it feels like that day that FIFA President Sepp Blatter opened the Envelope and said South Africa was just the other day. The image of Madiba holding the solid gold World Cup Trophy above his head was busying into our minds as we realised that the World Cup was truly coming to Africa, to South Africa in 2010.

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The FIFA World Cup finals are the biggest event in the sporting calendar and in the summer of 2010, the world's eyes will descend on South Africa as 32 nations compete for the most prestigious trophy in the world - the World Cup. For the leading sportswear manufacturers Nike, Adidas and ... Click to continue reading...

Ghana defended tenaciously for 120 minutes of open play before beating Brazil in a penalty-kick shootout on Friday to become the first African team to win the Under-20 World Cup. The game finished 0-0 after regulation and extra time as the Black Satellites held off Brazil's repeated attacks on goal. Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu scored the winning penalty kick [. Click to continue reading...

That was Honduran radio as the final seconds ticked off the clock in the USA-Costa Rica game. Had Costa Rica won, Honduras would have played Uruguay in a two-game playoff to reach the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Costa Rica didn't win, as you know, and Honduras qualified to the upcoming "Mundial" automatically. Click to continue reading...

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his Sweden national teammates narrowly failed to qualify for a UEFA World Cup qualifying playoff spot on Wednesday night. The Swedes did what they could by beating Albania 4-1 in Solna. However, their progress in the qualification process was made impossible by Portugal's 4-0 trouncing of minnows Malta. Click to continue reading...

Introducing a new series of features on national teams travelling to the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. We start with Switzerland.
Stealth technologists would do well to examine the characteristics of the Swiss national team. It seems that despite their successful qualification for the World Cup, no-one seems to be paying any attention to them. Click to continue reading...