World Soccer Talk

The draw is done and dusted and it seems to have done no harm to 2014 World Cup betting odds, at least where the favourites are concerned. Here are the final group stage line-ups for the Brazil 2014 World Cup:

Following the launch of the official World Cup ball for FIFA World Cup 2014, adidas has released a video featuring the brazuca ball. The video includes plenty of stars from Argentina, Brazil, and Germany, backed by the brilliant song by The Kinks entitled All Day And All Of The Night. I particularly love the camera […]

More than 25% through the Premier League season, it's interesting to observe who are the best performing attacking players in the division thus far this season. Not surprisingly, the SAS team (Suarez and Sturridge) are lighting up the charts (as well as hitting the woodwork more often). But the Liverpool strikeforce have plenty of competition […]

An ad campaign by a Swedish soft drink maker backfired yesterday when Cristiano Ronaldo scored a hat trick to knock Sweden out of the World Cup playoffs. The soft drink maker run a campaign that featured images of a Cristiano Ronaldo doll near death. The ads featured Ronaldo as a voodoo doll, strapped to a […]

Iceland footballer Eidur Gudjohnsen broke into tears in a post-match interview after his country lost 2-0 to Croatia and failed to reach the World Cup tonight. In the interview (skip to minute 2:25), Gudjohnsen was asked by the reporter: "You have now played with the national team since 1996 and had made some great memories […]

Nike has released a brand-new video called 'England Matters,' which includes interviews with Wayne Rooney, Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott and Ashley Cole. The four players discuss the role that the senior England footballers give to the younger players, as well as the pressure that's on the shoulders of the players. England's next game is today […]

The Next-Gen version of FIFA 14 features marked improvements to the crowd, camera angles and stadiums that are featured in the game, compared to previous versions. In previous years, there have often been complaints about how fake the crowd looks in the FIFA series. But as you can see from the video below, FIFA 14 […]

West Ham United and England u-21 midfielder Ravel Morrison scored an absolute peach of a goal yesterday in a training session for the England u-21 side ahead of their game versus San Marino. Watch the goal of the weekend here. And afterwards browse through the goals of the weekend from previous weeks.

EA Sports has released a brand-new TV commercial today for its Next-Gen version of FIFA 14, which is now available for PS4 and Xbox One. In the video (see below), it turns the video gamer into a Leo Messi avatar. You can meet Avatar Leo at lifesizemessi.com If you haven't done so already, be sure […]

Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo will not attend the 2013 FIFA Ballon d'Or gala scheduled for January because he believes he has been disrespected by FIFA, according to a report today in the Spanish media. Ronaldo is believed to be upset regarding the treatment he's received from FIFA in recent months. After FIFA President Sepp […]

What club has scored the most number of goals in the Premier League during 2013 thus far? The answer may surprise you. Or, if you're a Tottenham Hotspur supporter, the above graphic may be distressing despite the club's lofty position in the table. Liverpool are on top of the goalscoring charts followed by Arsenal, Manchester […]

The following two graphics show how the money from TV rights deals are distributed to clubs in La Liga compared to the English Premier League (EPL). The first graphic shows the TV money distribution (in millions of euros) for the 2012-13 season in La Liga with Barcelona and Real Madrid taking far more revenue in […]

FIFA's ethics committee has no power to remove World Cup 2022 from Qatar even if bribes took place, according to a report today in The Daily Telegraph newspaper. The newspaper quotes a source who said: "If [FIFA ethics investigator Michael] Garcia finds something which was wrong, the ethics committee has the right to take sanctions. "But does he […]

Last week, British TV network ITV premiered a brand-new documentary about Gareth Bale, entitled "Welsh Galactico." The 45-minute documentary tells the story of how Gareth Bale, a boy from the Cardiff suburbs, became the world's most expensive player. Narrated by Ned Boulting, the documentary features interviews with those that have witnessed and aided Bale’s rise […]

From the studio that brought us the documentary 'Senna,' there's a new documentary coming soon entitled 'Class Of '92,' which covers the six players who came through the Manchester United academy and became superstars. Those six men are David Beckham, Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs, Nicky Butt, Paul Scholes and Phil Neville. David Beckham announced the […]