Edin Visca scored a hat trick to give Bosnia-Herzegovina a 3-1 win over South Korea on Friday. Visca first scored in the 29th minute, shooting home from the right side of the penalty area. After...

Brazil winger Douglas Costa and midfielder Renato Augusto will miss Sunday's friendly against Croatia in Liverpool because of injury. The Brazilian football confederation says both will sit out...

When Thiago Silva moved to Russia more than a decade ago, tuberculosis nearly derailed his career. This year, the Brazil defender will be back in the country playing at the World Cup. The...

Starting 1st June till the end of the tournament, The Malta Independent will give extensive coverage to the 21st edition of the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in Moscow on 14th June and runs till the...

Morocco could not turn its neat creative play into goals as it was held to a 0-0 draw against Ukraine in a World Cup warm-up friendly on Thursday. Ajax winger Hakim Ziyech was twice denied by...

Switzerland's soccer federation says midfielder Granit Xhaka injured his left knee in a training session and will need an MRI scan. Xhaka's injury scare Thursday comes 18 days before...

Brazil's Renato Augusto has injured his right knee and could miss the team's friendly against Croatia on Sunday in Liverpool. The Brazilian football confederation said on Thursday that the...

After saying last week that he was not 100 percent healthy, Neymar was left out of Brazil's main team Thursday at its World Cup training camp. The Paris Saint-Germain striker is still being...

Peru captain Paolo Guerrero was cleared Thursday to play at the World Cup by a Swiss supreme court judge despite a doping ban. Switzerland's supreme court granted an interim order to freeze Guerrero's 14-month ban for a positive test for cocaine metabolites at a World Cup qualifying game....

Japan coach Akira Nishino is relying heavily on veteran players with previous World Cup experience in his 23-man squad for the tournament. Keisuke Honda, Shinji Kagawa and Shinji Okazaki were...