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Football: Jogo Bonito casts magic spell
It's taken 64 years for the World Cup to return to Brazil but, in just over a week, it feels like football has regained some of its true essence.
It's taken 64 years for the World Cup to return to Brazil but, in just over a week, it feels like football has regained some of its true essence.
Adidas predicts it will sell a third more Germany jerseys this year than when the country hosted the World Cup eight years ago as fans worldwide get behind the team in Brazil.
Mario Balotelli is already an international football star and could become one of Italy's greatest ever strikers.
The Kiwi football referee who received death threats after officiating a World Cup match this week is "frustrated" by the vitriolic backlash but "happy" with his performance.
Michael Burgess looks at the five things learned from today's action in Brazil including the increasing pressure on the hosts.
Thousands of football fans petition to remove a NZ referee from the World Cup after an image appeared of him 'celebrating' with Nigeria goalkeeper.
Steven Gerrard has challenged Harry Redknapp to "name and embarrass" the Tottenham Hotspur players who he claims did not want to represent England.
Ghana was yesterday exposed as agreeing to take part in international football matches organised by match fixers.
Hundreds of English TV viewers are calling for adverts featuring England football players to be pulled after being knocked out at the group stage of the World Cup.
Didier Deschamps claims that Karim Benzema has finally discovered his "joie de vivre" with France.
Is there anything weirder than the miserable story of the English football side? Why is the mother ship so useless at the world's biggest sport?
New Zealand officials did a good job controlling their first football World Cup match, says a friend of the referee.
Amid all the goals, thrills and English inquests, a wider pattern is unfolding in Brazil that might yet develop into the World Cup's most significant narrative.
Even in Brazil where football is a religion, the miraculous sight of wheelchair-bound fans leaping from their seats has prompted calls for a police investigation into claims of ticket fraud.
Four years since their infamous player mutiny at the last World Cup, France look poised to make a more positive impact on this tournament as they swept aside Switzerland 5-2 yesterday.
When Luis Suarez scored the second goal for Uruguay to win 2-1 over England at the Fifa World Cup yesterday, the biggest sigh of relief may have come from a New Zealand punter.
When the team-sheets were delivered, England will have quickly scanned them for the inevitable confirmation: of course Luis Suarez was playing.
A New Zealand high school teacher is set to take to the world sporting stage tomorrow as a referee at the Fifa World Cup.
There is nothing like the sight of a man, mere seconds ago a formidable athlete, now rolling around on the ground in agony because someone touched his shirt to tell you that the football/soccer World Cup is upon us.
The excitement around this year's World Cup in Brazil has been ratcheted up a notch now that we're in the second round of group matches.
Steven Holloway looks at what we have learned after week one of the tournament, from which player is the best to watch to who should win it all.
A Luis Suarez double has put England on the verge of an early World Cup exit, following a 2-1 defeat to Uruguay in Sao Paulo this morning.