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This World Cup Stars post features possibly the greatest player of all time, Diego Maradona. To help you understand a little better there is a vocabulary list containing the words in bold at the foot of this post

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Pele may have won more World Cup titles, Ronaldo may have scored more goals, Lothar Matthäus played more games but no one has dominated the World Cup as much as Diego Maradona.

The dust from the World Cup qualifiers has settled, and this week we have Part III in our series on the World Cup greats the Russian, Lev Yashin.

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Goalkeepers can often be overlooked when talking about the best football players, but a great goalkeeper can inspire the rest of the side to play with confidence and help them perform better than they look on paper. this was surely the case with Lev Yashin, quite arguably the best goalkeeper at any World Cup.

Friday's FIFA World Cup draw ... if you can't find television coverage, well, you really aren't trying very hard

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There was a day when soccer fans could legitimately complain about ESPN's treatment of soccer.

This week's main report looks at the newly-crowned Ballon D'or winner, Leo Messi. The transcript can be found below, while vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post.

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Recently I was involved in a discussion with some friends over whether Brazilian star Kaka was a better player than his Real Madrid team mate Ronaldo.

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Well in World Cup qualifiers week it was good for Spain, England, Brazil and Paraguay who all booked their places for the biggest football festival next year in South Africa, the World Cup. Spain and England have 100% records so far. The Spaniards beat Estonia 3-0, while England crushed the team that denied them a place in the Euro 2008 competition, Croatia, 5-1.

After the World Cup qualifiers have finished and the dust has settled, languagecaster.com returns to it's World Cup Stars series. We've already talked about Pele and Maradona, this week it's the turn of a goalkeeper. Come along to the site at languagecaster.com to find out who we feauture and for lots more.

ESPN will have unprecedented coverage of the 2010 World Cup draw which pulls in at least 134.5 million viewers world wide and is shown live in 137 countries. Also, if you'll be at work like me there's good news. ESPN 360 will also have coverage. Here is that schedule (Times are listed as Central Time):

Fri, Dec 4 11:00PM FIFA World Cup Draw
Fri, Dec 4 11:00PM FIFA World Cup Draw World Feed
Fri, Dec 4 1:00PM FIFA ESPNSoccerNet Press Pass: World Cup Draw Special

Here is ESPN's press release with the details of all their coverage:ESPN will provide comprehensive coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup Draw across its U.