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  Robin Van Persie holidaying in Barbados after World Cup

  July 17, 2014 9:08 IST

  Bridgetown :  Striker Robin Van Persie has flown to Barbados on holiday after helping the Netherlands to third place in the FIFA World Cup, which ended Sunday in Brazil.Van Persie is on a three-week break

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  Joan Capdevila to be NorthEast United's marquee player in ISL

  July 17, 2014 8:48 IST

  Kolkata: World Cup 2010 and European 2008 Championship winner and Spanish defender Joan Capdevila will be the marquee player of the NorthEast United Football Club for the inaugural season of Indian Super League.Capdevila, who marshalled

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  FIFA: Costa Rica revelation of Brazil World Cup

  July 17, 2014 8:33 IST

  San Jose:  Costa Rica's national team was the revelation of the 2014 Brazil World Cup, according to event organiser and world football governing body FIFA, Federation International of Football Association.Costa Rican media outlets Wednesday cited

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  Chelsea signing Filipe Luis from Atletico Madrid

  July 17, 2014 8:09 IST

  LONDON :  Chelsea says a deal has been struck with Atletico Madrid to sign defender Filipe Luis. The Premier League club says the transfer is dependent on the 28-year-old Luis agreeing personal terms.   The Brazilian

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  Suarez's initial absence no tragedy for Barcelona

  July 16, 2014 21:18 IST

  BARCELONA, Spain: Barcelona coach Luis Enrique is not overly concerned about the absence of new signing Luis Suarez for the early part of the upcoming season as the Uruguayan serves his biting ban from the

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  Indo-Pak football series in India next month: PFF

  July 16, 2014 20:43 IST

  Karachi: India and Pakistan will play a bilateral football series in the former's den next month, the PFF said on Wednesday.The bilateral series will be the first between the two countries after a gap of

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  Germany players criticized over 'gaucho' dance

  July 16, 2014 19:37 IST

  BERLIN: The German Football Federation is defending Germany's World Cup-winning players after they performed a routine that poked fun at defeated opponent Argentina.During Tuesday's raucous Berlin victory party, six players bent double and sang "this

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  FIFA World Cup: Parreira against Brazil appointing foreign coach

  July 16, 2014 13:32 IST

  Rio de Janeiro: Brazil's 1994 World Cup-winning coach Carlos Alberto Parreira has urged the country's football confederation (CBF) against appointing a foreign successor to Luiz Felipe Scolari.The CBF Monday announced the resignation of Scolari and

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  Dani Alves discussing Barcelona future with coach

  July 16, 2014 7:24 IST

  BARCELONA:  Brazil back Dani Alves is meeting new Barcelona coach Luis Enrique in hopes of locking down his future at the Spanish league club.   The 31-year-old right back is in the last year of his

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  Striker Diego Costa signs 5-year Chelsea contract

  July 16, 2014 7:13 IST

  LONDON : Spain striker Diego Costa has completed his move to Chelsea from Atletico Madrid. Chelsea announced on Tuesday that Costa signed a five-year contract, two weeks after the London club agreed to meet the

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  Germany World Cup heroes return to huge fan party

  July 15, 2014 15:48 IST

  Berlin: Germany's World Cup-winning team returned home to share the country's fourth title with huge crowds of cheering fans on Tuesday.   The team's plane touched down at Berlin's Tegel Airport midmorning after flying low over

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  FIFA World Cup : Scolari quits as Brazil coach

  July 15, 2014 14:24 IST

  Rio de Janeiro:  Luiz Felipe Scolari has tendered his resignation as coach of Brazil following the team's ignominious FIFA World Cup exit - and it has been accepted.The 65-year-old made the decision following a meeting

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  Meet Ann-Kathrin Brommel, the love of Germany's hero Mario Goetze

  October 23, 2014 11:41 IST

  New Delhi: The latest heart throb and the hero of the Germans Mario Götze got a huge kiss from his supermodel girlfriend Sunday after scoring the World Cup-winning goalMario Gotze at  22, and his  girlfriend

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  FIFA World Cup: United Germany stands at the top of the world

  July 15, 2014 8:21 IST

  RIO DE JANEIRO: United they stand, right at the top of the football world. And right on South American soil.   Germany won its fourth World Cup title on Sunday, but its first since a country

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  FIFA World Cup: Germany basks in 4th World Cup after 24-year wait

  December 27, 2014 12:19 IST

  BERLIN :  It's been a long wait, and now Germany is basking in its fourth World Cup title. The Die Welt newspaper celebrated Monday with a three-word headline in the national colors of black, red

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  FIFA World Cup: Title ends 10-year project for Germany

  July 15, 2014 7:29 IST

  RIO DE JANEIRO : The World Cup title for Joachim Loew and his "golden generation" crowned a process that was 10 years in the making. With a talented crop of new players coming through, the

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  Manchester United clinches $1.3 billion Adidas kit deal

  July 15, 2014 7:08 IST

  Manchester United secured a record-breaking $1.3 billion sponsorship deal with Adidas on Monday, signaling the club's enduring global appeal despite its worst Premier League campaign and strengthening its financial muscle for player transfers.   The 10-year

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  From Brazil to Russia: A look at 2018 World Cup

  July 15, 2014 6:42 IST

  MOSCOW:  Brazil just barely managed to get everything ready in time for the World Cup. Russia insists it won't have any such problems in 2018, although the country faces other issues ahead of football's next

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  Blatter awards Brazil 9.25 mark for special WCup

  July 14, 2014 23:05 IST

  RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil got 9.25 out of 10 from FIFA President Sepp Blatter for organizing a World Cup that was "very special" because of high quality football.   Giving his tournament report on Monday, Blatter

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  Argentina's gutsy World Cup team is welcomed home

  July 14, 2014 22:59 IST

  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina: Argentina's national team was welcomed home on Monday by thousands of fans celebrating its gutsy performance in the World Cup final.   The team arrived to Buenos Aires in the morning in a

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  Odisha sand artist's sculpture to mark German win

  July 14, 2014 22:53 IST

  Bhubaneswar: Internationally acclaimed sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik Monday created a sand sculpture on the beach of Odisha's Puri town to congratulate the German team on winning the 2014 FIFA World Cup.Patnaik, with the help of

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  Germany triumph fruit of 10-year plan: Loew

  July 14, 2014 16:16 IST

  Rio de Janeiro: German coach Joachim Loew says its 1-0 victory over Argentina in the World Cup final is the fruit of a decade of investment in the country's youth development.At his post-match press conference,

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  Reports: Scolari out as Brazil coach

  July 14, 2014 16:20 IST

  Sao Paulo: Brazilian media say the local football confederation has decided to drop Luiz Felipe Scolari as Brazil head coach.   Globo TV and other news outlets said early Monday that Scolari will not remain as

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  Argentine World Cup celebration marred by violence

  July 14, 2014 12:55 IST

  Buenos Aires, Argentina: Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a group of rock-throwing vandals who disturbed a rally by Argentines celebrating their team's gutsy performance in a 1-0 loss to Germany

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  Germany's World Cup party gets underway at home

  July 14, 2014 12:43 IST

  Berlin: A quarter of a million German football fans reacted with unbridled joy, mixed with shock, on Sunday when Mario Goetze struck late in extra-time for Germany to win the World Cup with a 1-0

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  Stars of politics, sport, music at World Cup final

  July 14, 2014 12:35 IST

  Rio De Janeiro: Vladimir Putin chatted with Angela Merkel, and David Beckham hugged Pele at the World Cup final on Sunday.   Tom Brady looked on from the VIP seats when his wife Gisele Bundchen brought

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  Klose adds World Cup title to scoring record

  July 14, 2014 12:23 IST

  Rio De Janeiro: Miroslav Klose has had a good week.   Tuesday: Become the World Cup's all-time leading scorer.   Sunday: Win the World Cup.   If the 36-year-old Klose does choose to retire now, it'll be with

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  Messi's World Cup ends on a bitter note

  July 14, 2014 12:10 IST

  Rio De Janeiro: Lionel Messi's final act in the 2014 World Cup was lifting a free kick high over the bar, wasting Argentina's last chance to equalize in the final against Germany.   It was far