FIFA is keeping a close eye on the situation in France after the national football team was eliminated from the World Cup in the first round amid a storm of controversy. The governing body of soccer warned that it wouldn’t think twice about suspending the 1998 World Cup champions if it finds out the French [...]

FIFA has sheepishly admitted that something may be amiss with the Jabulani soccer ball that’s being used in the World Cup and in typical fashion won’t be doing anything about it until the tournament is over. Many of the players have said the ball is quite unpredictable as it sails far too easily through the [...]

So here we are, the 2010 FIFA World Cup is finally on it’s way. It has been a long wait but now we can all look forward to several weeks of World class football.

If there is one word that binds the World audience together then it is FIFA. The World Cup fever has started once again and this time it is in South Africa. What started as a leisure game for peasants has now become the game for aristocrats as well. Now with the FIFA World Cup 2010 [...]

England’s medical staff will assess the state of Gareth Barry’s ankle injury on Tuesday ahead of Capello making a decision on whether he will be able to be included in the squad for South Africa.

The practice of penalty kick “feinting”, i.e. a penalty taker faking a shot before taking the real kick to confuse their opponents, has been banned by the International Football Association Board in advance of the World Cup 2010 tournament.

The latest World Cup country to put forward its preliminary 30 man squad is Algeria, who join England, the USA and Slovenia in Group C. Algeria are planning to add another five players to the preliminary squad on the 11th May, just ahead of the team starting their World Cup training camp in Switzerland.

32 national teams have qualified for the 2010 World Cup finals, with expectations varying wildly. The odds for the outright winner stretch from around 4-1 for favourites Spain right out to 2000-1 for rank outsiders New Zealand.

The decision to make World Cup 2010 tickets available from 11 sales centres across South Africa over the counter and for cash is certainly having the desired effect of improving on previously disappointing sales figures.

According to a Jihadi website, an Islamic terrorist faction with links to Al-Qua’eda hopes to attack matches during the 2010 World Cup with undetectable bombs.