Chile's World Cup Qualifying match against Uruguay did not include Inter forward Alexis Sanchez. The veteran striker has spent the first few months of the season getting back into game shape. The Chilean's return to Inter in Italy was not necessarily marked by a revival of his physical form. This was because, since leaving Marseille, […]

As of Friday, Neymar has scored more goals for the Brazilian national team than the three-time World Cup champion Pele. Prior to Brazil's win over Bolivia, Neymar's previous international encounter was the quarterfinal defeat to Croatia at last year's World Cup. When he left Qatar, he wasn't sure whether he'd be a part of the […]

Argentina kicked off their qualifying campaign for the 2026 World Cup against Ecuador, as they look to defend their championship in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. However, the big question is whether Lionel Messi will play vs Bolivia in Argentina's next game. On Thursday, Lionel Messi scored another amazing goal for his nation only […]

Argentina and Brazil fans, the wait is over. Telemundo Deportes and TelevisaUnivision have both secured media rights deals to broadcast Argentina and Brazil World Cup qualifiers to viewers in the United States. The deals closed late Wednesday after both Argentina and Brazil signed an agreement this week to be represented by Sportfive, a German-based sports […]

Real Madrid star Vinicius got off to a great start of the season but then was dealt an early blow. After leaving last weekend’s 1-0 La Liga victory against Celta Vigo, the club announced in a statement that the Brazilian had injured the biceps femoris in his right leg. Therefore, he would be unable to […]

CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifying is perhaps the most exciting path to get to the World Cup. Argentina and Brazil certainly expect to qualify out of the 10-team round-robin phase. Still, there are no easy games in South America when the World Cup is on the line. The passion, drama and flair in CONMEBOL World Cup […]

This morning, U.S. soccer fans are again wearing their rose-colored glasses and celebrating the home team's necessary 1-0 win over Jamaica last night at Crew Stadium. With the win, the Yanks sit atop Group A and control their destiny in qualifying for the Hexagonal, the next step on the road to Brazil 2014. Unlike Friday's […]

Manager – Ricki Herbert FIFA Ranking – 78 Schedule – Slovakia (6/15), Italy (6/20), Paraguay (6/24) Qualification – First place, Oceania Big name player– Ryan Nelsen (Blackburn Rovers) Last time they qualified for WC – 1982 The colorfully named "All Whites" could conceivably be the worst team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup. Consider the following: Two members of […]

In partnership with Russian Football Now, EPL Talk presents the second episode of RNF's podcast. An active week in papers sees former AS Roma manager Luciano Spalletti take an additional step toward the long-rumored more to Zenit. Meanwhile, Roman Pavlyuchenko gets priced out of his move to St. Petersburg, instead staying in London. While this […]

"Capello was exactly what we needed!" —Frank Lampard "He is one of those managers in that handful around the world who are the best!" —Steven Gerrard "He's given the players confidence and the team a huge amount of respect!" —David Beckham "Who knew?" —Steve McClaren Okay, so I made up that last one. And I […]

Thank you Mr. De Rossi for your two goals against Hector Cuper's Georgia and what goals they were. With a cannon shot in the 16th minute, coming from over 25 yards out, Daniele De Rossi would provide Italy the match winner. No chance for the Georgian keeper as De Rossi's kick from straight out was rising and curved into […]

Despite an early lead off a well struck ball by Di Natale into the bottom left-hand corner of the islander's goal, Cyprus with their attacking play, equalized in the 29th minute off the foot of Aloneftis. Italy have been the victim of poor defending however no blame can be given to Gigi Buffon the Italian keeper, as Cyprus kept pushing and eventually dominated […]

Having suffered the heart break of not reaching Euro 2008 perhaps now, as we gear up for the new season would be an interesting time to look at England’s World Cup qualifying schedule. With just less than seven weeks to go before England start their campaign against Andorra we can begin the build up to […]