England coach Roy Hodgson is hopeful Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain will be fit for the team's second World Cup match against Uruguay.   The Arsenal midfielder injured his right knee during a...

Mario Balotelli is taking care of some personal business before the World Cup starts.   The Italy forward indicated overnight that he proposed to his Belgian girlfriend Fanny...

Brazil enters its final days of preparations for the World Cup paying extra attention to its defence.   Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari spent part of the team's training session on Monday...

Was it a goal, or wasn't it?   The question shouldn't need to be debated in the next five weeks in Brazil, where goal-line technology will be used for the first time in a World...

The World Cup kicks off Thursday and soccer fans from Rio de Janeiro's slums to southern India's playgrounds have been shining with their passion for the sport.      While...

Milan has dismissed manager Clarence Seedorf and replaced him with youth-team coach Filippo Inzaghi.   In a brief statement on Monday, Milan say they have handed former club great Inzaghi a...

Franck Ribery's injury means that Karim Benzema and Olivier Giroud will likely play together at the World Cup, with coach Didier Deschamps finding a way to accommodate them both by shifting...

Ciro Immobile scored a hat trick and also set up two other goals as Italy ended its recent slump by beating Brazilian club Fluminense 5-3 in a World Cup warm-up match Sunday.   The Azzurri...

Cameroon's World Cup team refused to board a plane due to take them to Brazil on Sunday because of a long-running dispute over bonus payments for the tournament.   Cameroon team...

Barcelona has signed Argentina midfielder Javier Mascherano to a contract extension that will keep the player at the club through 2018.   Barcelona says in a statement that its agreement...