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Japan and Korea: Right stage for a global game
There is a move afoot to suggest that Asia is a destabilising place to host a World Cup and that the biggest global sporting event should be preserved in the future for its roots in Latin America or Europe. Rob Hughes disagrees vehemently.
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Let's play together next time, Chairman Kim
With South Korea emulating its northern cousin's feat after 40 years, a plea
for a united team in the next World Cup. Also read: The longshot heard around the world.
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Newsweek scores World Cup own goal
Newsweek, one of America's most authoritative and prestigious magazines, has committed what is possibly the biggest gaffe in its history with a cover story declaring the World Cup a disaster.
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Soccer mom tells star fun comes first
Twenty-year-old Landon Donovan is touted as America's first soccer prodigy. But the star's mother, Kenney-Cash, would have preferred he attend college rather than turn pro at 16.
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Oriental soap works up a lather
England has not been gripped by so outlandish a plotline since "Who Shot JR?" in the Eighties. Then, it was the ridiculous soap opera Dallas. Now, it is the ridiculous soap opera the World Cup. Both set, you notice, in high-rise cities full of money with a cast of characters that range from the endearing to the ludicrous. [Requires free registration]
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Heart-stopping stuff, literally
For a country that boasts practically the lowest incidence of heart attacks in Europe, Spain's game against Ireland produced some interesting cases and statistics.
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Bern Schneider: The Man Daum and Vogts forgot
The man who spent warming the bench under Daum and Vogts is providing, more than anyone else, the spark in the German team.
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Voeller: Lubricant in the German soccer machine
Germany almost missed the World Cup bus. Now they are in the quarter finals. And they can thank one man for the turnaround: Rudi Voeller. [Requires free registration]
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Koreans on top of the world, or near enough
For a country obsessed with the way it is perceived overseas, progress into the last eight has proved a godsend. At last, the world is sitting up and taking notice.
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Four years and a turnaround
US playing Germany for a berth in the World Cup semi-finals? Such a scenario would have been unthinkable -- indeed, laughable -- only four years ago. So what has changed? What has turned the Americans from international nobodies to viable players on the world stage? [Requires free registration]
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Brazil V England: Man to Man
A look at the clashes within the big clash.
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Family Outing for the US Team
The US team's surprising run to the quarterfinals has been a family outing, with wives and children and parents and baby-sitters. [Requires free registration]
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Offbeat
50 Reasons why this World Cup is Great
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Korean Air gives Hiddink free tickets
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Punter backs England for World Cup with 30,000 pounds
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