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World Cup Mystery: Why is China So Horrible at Soccer?
China may be the world’s most populous nation but a men’s soccer giant it is not. Indeed, the nation, ranked 103 in FIFA’s rankings — that’s one below Equatorial Guinea — didn’t even make this year’s World Cup finals. Or the last one. Or the one before that. So how do China’s beleaguered football fans feel? Resigned, mostly. “If China were in the World Cup,” says Chen Xiao, a football journalist from Shijiazhuang, in northeastern China, “it would contradict the laws of football.”
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Are World Cup referees spraying shaving cream on the field?
It looks like a bottle of mace and comes out like shaving cream. What is it and why do refs have it?
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How So Many Football-Loving Brazilians Ended Up Hating the World Cup
Brazilians may love football. But many of them are not welcoming the World Cup, costing their unequal country $11 billion, without a fight.
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What Can Go Wrong at the World Cup? Ask the Insurance Underwriter
Munich Re underwriting manager Andrew Duxbury has modeled earthquakes, floods, crime, terrorism, and other worst-case scenarios for Brazil
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How So Many Football-Loving Brazilians Ended Up Hating the World Cup
Brazilians may love football. But many of them are not welcoming the World Cup, costing their unequal country $11 billion, without a fight.
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Ghana is rationing electricity to make sure people can watch today’s World Cup match against the US
The United States and Ghana are more or less evenly matched on the field. But plans to broadcast today's World Cup match between the two nations show how far apart their economies remain. When the teams kick off at 6pm in New York and 10pm in Accra, the most pressing concern for American soccer fans may be...
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Now thats what I call passion: Hart vs Pirlo
English Goalkeeper Reaction after Pirlo's Free Kick.
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British goalie really wants the ball boy to hurry up
English Goalkeeper Reaction after Pirlo's Free Kick.
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USA Defeats Ghana, 2-1, on John Brooks Goal
An early goal by Clint Dempsey -- the sixth fastest in World Cup history -- gave the United States national team a shocking lead against Ghana in the teams' opening game of Group G. And a late goal by John Brooks, an inexperienced American defender who came on as second-half substitute, earned the Americans a victory.
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Panini’s World Cup sticker factory: – São Paulo’s mecca for collectors
Creating nine million stickers a day, Panini’s South American HQ is capitalising on the collecting craze and debunking the conspiracy theories
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Brazil's evicted 'won't celebrate World Cup'
Every four years, Brazilians decorate their streets in green and yellow, celebrating the arrival of the most anticipated sports tournament in the country. With the kick-off for the FIFA World Cup in Brazil less than one month away, the country's passion for football should be pulsating more than ever. But there are some signs to the contrary. "World Cup for whom?" read the words painted on a wall on a street in Sao Paulo.
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World Cup Produces Arrest of Mexican Drug Lord Going to Game
Brazil arrested a suspected Mexican drug trafficker on his way to watch his national soccer team play in the World Cup. He bought a ticket under his name. Jose Diaz-Barajas, 49, was arrested at Rio de Janeiro’s Tom Jobim airport last night as he boarded a plane to Fortaleza, where Mexico plays Brazil today, Luiz Cravo Dorea, head of international cooperation at the Federal Police, said.
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Cheating the Beautiful Game
Exactly how much cheating goes on in soccer is hard to quantify, but the psychologist Chris Stride has collected some data.
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USA vs. Ghana the most-watched men's soccer game ever on ESPN
ESPN may have lost the broadcast rights to the World Cup, but the network is making the most of its last hurrah with the United States-Ghana match turning in a very solid 7.0 rating. That goes down as the highest-rated men's soccer match ever on the cable channel. The 2011 Women's World Cup Final scored a 7.4 rating.
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Nike’s Data-Driven Design for Team USA’s Ultra-Thin Jerseys
When the US men’s soccer team played Ghana in Natal, Brazil yesterday, the temperature reached the mid-80s and the humidity outlook was, basically: Expect your sweat glands to sprout sweat glands. But the crazy thing about Brazil is that while it might feel like the dead of summer in one city, it could very well feel a crisp spring day in another. This unpredictability is tough enough on athletes, who ideally train in conditions that reflect the climate they’ll be competing in.
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Rio’s Real-Life Slumdog Millionaires
Brazil’s efforts to clean up the favelas for the World Cup have led to a surprising development: Due to property laws, many slum residents now own some of the city’s best real estate.
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Which World Cup team should I root for?
An infographic helping you choose the right team.
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Qatar's World Cup
Shocking Documentary Qatar's World Cup by ESPN E60
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Hooded Brazilians Attack England Soccer Fans With Bombs At World Cup Fan Fest
The world of soccer is showing us once again just how violent it can be to attend a game, or wear your team’s colors on enemy turf. On Thursday, a group of Brazilians wearing hoodies attacked English soccer fans in São Paulo, a few feet away from a bar that was holding an official FIFA Fan Fest event.
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Rio De Janerio at Night
In this night skyscape setting stars trail above the western horizon over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a venue for the 2014 World Cup.
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