The World Cup's second semifinal was supposed to put the silky skills of Lionel Messi and Arjen Robben in the spotlight. Instead, a goalkeeper and two rock-solid defenses stole the...

It wasn't just a bad dream. Brazilians woke up Wednesday to dreadful headlines describing the shame and humiliation of their soccer team's historic defeat of 7-1 to Germany in the World...

Even for an 84-year-old tournament drenched in history, Germany 7, Brazil 1 — you read that right — will be remembered as one of the craziest World Cup matches ever. Because of the...

Forget Neymar for a second and consider just how badly Brazil missed Thiago Silva in defense.   The host nation's backline was relentlessly picked apart Tuesday in the World Cup...

The World Cup's best dribblers — Lionel Messi and Arjen Robben — face off when Argentina and Netherlands meet in the semifinals.   In Brazil, Robben has been quick, Messi has...

Chance after chance was offered, and the Germany players just kept on taking them with clinical efficiency.   In the end, not even they could scarcely believe the 7-1 World Cup semifinal win...

The tears started flowing before half time, and by the end of a 7-1 shellacking in the World Cup semifinal, millions across Brazil were in dazed, damp-eyed disbelief.   The national team...

Miroslav Klose found perhaps the only way to make matters worse for Brazil.   On a night when Germany routed the host nation 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals, Klose also became the...

It was a humiliating home defeat of record proportions that no Brazilian could have seen coming.   With its defense collapsing early and nobody able to spark the attack, Brazil conceded four...

With Neymar out injured, just about everyone in Brazil knew it would be tough against Germany.   Nobody ever expected this.   The Germans tore apart Brazil's porous defense...