There are thousands of American soccer fans who’d like to see the back of national team manager Bob Bradley as soon as possible. The team’s star player Landon Donovan might even be one of them as he refused to back his coach publicly after losing to Mexico 4-2 in the Gold Cup Final after holding [...]

According to many experts, it’s going to be touch and go if Brazil will be ready to host the next World Cup, which is coming up in 2014. You can now add former Brazilian soccer legend Romario to the list of people who are concerned about the country’s preparations for the world’s biggest sporting event. [...]

Everything was going according to plan for Alex Ferguson and Manchester United for the first nine minutes of the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium on May 28th…… and then Barcelona got a hold of the ball. It could be argued that the Spanish champions gave their English counterparts a thorough football lesson for the [...]

The ongoing soap opera at FIFA could a couple of more twists on May 29th when President Sepp Blatter was cleared of any wrong doing… at least for now, while board member Mohamed bin Hammam and Jack Warner, the head of CONCACAF have been suspended from their duties indefinitely. Also, bin Hammam, who was the [...]

Top-ranked Australia will be hoping to go 3-0 at the Cricket World Cup as they take on fourth-ranked Sri Lanka at R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 5th.

With the batsmen being expected to do all the scoring on flatter tracks and shorter grounds, it will be the wicket-taking bowlers, who will look to do most damage.

The British sports minister, Hugh Robertson, told the press recently that soccer is by far worst governed sport in the nation and action is desperately needed to solve the problem. Robertson didn’t name names, but did say the national team is a disgrace and teams are up to their eyeballs in debt. It’s a known [...]

It seems that soccer’s World Cup is popular across the globe, but for countries such as China, which has never made the tournament, it’s for different reasons. Chinese criminals see the world’s most popular sporting event as an ideal opportunity to make some serious money on illegal gambling when betting on World Cup. When last [...]

Argentina’s Lionel Messi was named the first recipient of the FIFA Ballon d’Or trophy on Jan. 10th during a lavish awards ceremony held in Zurich, Switzerland. Messi, who plays with Spanish giants Barcelona in Spain, beat out his club teammates Andres Iniesta and Xavi for the player of the year honours. Iniesta and Xavi were [...]

If you’re wondering what FIFA does with the millions of dollars it rakes in from the World Cup you’re not alone. The world’s governing body of soccer released some figures on Jan 6th that accounts for $40 million of profits from the 2010 World Cup that was held in South Africa. The money was split [...]