Posts Tagged "Football World Cup"

FIFA conceded for the first time Saturday that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar could be moved to winter if medical evidence showed that playing in the intense summer heat would be dangerous.

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FIFA has committed to using goal-line technology at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and could have four systems competing for selection.

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In less than a month’s time, the Socceroos will be back in action with a friendly in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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When I was last coaching the English team, I had just defended winning the European championship. The team had won the World Cup twice, and the European Championship twice, been ranked number one in the world for the last six years and had been undefeated in all competitive games.

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Hungary 1950s. Brazil 1970. Germany 1972-76. Holland 1974. Argentina 1986-90. France 1998-2000. These are the greatest international teams that the world has produced.

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In a massive coup for the Australian football community, SBS has scored the exclusive rights to broadcast the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups.

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In a column earlier this year I asked which World Cup/world championship is the second most important after FIFA’s World Cup. I argued that with multiple and competitive representatives spread over six continents, and a tournament that is considered the ultimate prize within that sport, rugby’s World Cup deserved the silver medal.

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The recent Four Corners show highlighted a number of flaws in FIFA’s bidding process and commented that football relied on government funding.

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We’ll know we’ve made it the day a newspaper superimposes a photo of Holger Osieck’s head onto a turnip and runs it on the back page. In the meantime, Australia’s route to Brazil 2014 received little mainstream media attention as the Socceroos prepare for another magical mystery tour of Asia.

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The Socceroos have been drawn in a group containing Saudi Arabia, Oman and Thailand at the World Cup 2014 qualifying draw in Rio.

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Twitter users fired off a record number of tweets per second at the final whistle of Japan’s thrilling upset win over the United States in the women’s World Cup final.

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The Matildas are adamant they aren’t feeling any extra pressure as they prepare for their must-win Women’s World Cup match against Equatorial Guinea in Germany on Sunday.

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Socceroos captain Lucas Neill has described as “scandalous” claims he led a player revolt against former coach Pim Verbeek during last year’s World Cup in South Africa.

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Where were you when Tim Cahill scored Australia’s first ever goal in the World Cup finals? Cast your mind back, because that was precisely five years and one day ago, and I doubt there’s a football fan in Australia who can’t remember watching Cahill’s historic toe-poke trickle home.

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Socceroo Brett Holman’s gut-running for his country would melt a GPS system. Twelve months after his emergence as a genuine midfield linchpin at the World Cup, Holman again reminded Australian fans of his class with another all-action performance in the 0-0 draw with Serbia at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium.

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Nothing compares with the fun, excitement, tension, relief, despair, heartbreak and pure, pure joy of being a Socceroos supporter.

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Socceroos defender Rhys Williams says he’s still haunted by the injury that crushed his World Cup dream. Williams has returned to the Australian squad after an injury-cursed 11 months.

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Australia’s dashed World Cup hosting ambitions are unlikely to be revived despite scandal-plagued FIFA’s second in command suggesting Qatar had “bought” the 2022 tournament.

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Socceroos star Tim Cahill has emerged as a surprise supporter of rival Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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Football Federation Australia isn’t alone wrestling with the media-rights dilemma – the Football Association is confronting the same devilish call with regard to the British equivalent of our anti-siphoning list.

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