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Last hurrahs for the golden oldies
Japan and Korea 2002 will see some World Cup greats appear on football's
biggest stage for the final time. Here's saluting the World Cup Legends XI.
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A void in the heart of a champion
A generation spent re-modelling their footballers, and that academy at
Clairefontaine where the alchemists of French football turned the kids of
the inner city into world champions, seems to rest on the condition of one
£45 million footballer's strained thigh muscle. (Requires free registration)
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First past the post
Spain were the first team to reach the last 16. Here's a report on a country
where jailbreaks are thwarted, bars are full and strikes arranged because of
football.
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Beckham: I've never known such pressure
From petulant kick to penalty kick, David Beckham's career development is
charted through epic encounters with Argentina.
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Ireland Snub Keane with McCarthy offer
Mick McCarthy is to be offered a four-year contract after the World Cup
Finals, spelling the end of Roy Keane's international career.
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The global economics of soccer
With its 204 member countries, world soccer's governing body, FIFA, has more
members than the United Nations, which counts just 189 countries among its
members. A factsheet on the economics of sporting business.
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The story so far: The fans' view
Here's what some of SoccerNet's correspondents on the spot have made of the
matches, incidents and stories so far.
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Why the speed-skating South Koreans did the right thing
The World Cup needs to produce an extraordinary and unexpected action to
lift us all. And a bit of politics from South Korean goal celebrations is
just what was required.
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What's Diego Maradona up to in Japan
Striker Gabriel Batistuta has gone on record to insist "his presence will
give us a moral lift". But what exactly will the soccer legend be doing in
Japan.
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Agony and Ecstasy
From Soweto to Kashmir, Calcutta to Buenos Aires: the world watches the Cup
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Pedigree in peril
World's best steel themselves for bout of sudden death as the last set of group matches get underway.
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A stain on the beautiful game
When flair players don't play fair, they should get the boot.
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A sartorial goal
For loyalty and looks, soccer jerseys make a splash -- and a fashion
statement. (Requires free registration)
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