Domenech refuses to shake hands with Parreira

France concluded a disastrous World Cup campaign with one more controversy on Tuesday when coach Raymond Domenech refused to shake hands with his opposite number after South Africa's 2-1 victory.......

Football World Cup: Meet the men at the helm

Though they don't take the field or even kick a ball, the coach is an important part of a football team. Strategies, counter-strategies, team formations, game plans and mostly everything......

Attacking game expected in World Cup opener

South Africa and Mexico are likely to go on the attack in the opening game of the World Cup on Friday, hopefully ending a run of cagey and often dour starts to the finals. Against a backdrop of......

South Africa drop striker McCarthy

South Africa's all-time leading scorer Benni McCarthy was one of five players cut from the World Cup hosts' squad on Tuesday as coach Carlos Alberto Parreira settled on his 23 players for the June......

Ronaldinho tastes life on the bench

Ronaldinho's first encounter with Brazil coach Dunga was when the two were on opposite sides during a derby in Porto Alegre in June 1999. Ronaldinho, playing for Gremio, was a little-known......