Soccer News
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Indo-Pak football series in India next month: PFF
Football | Jul 16, 2014, 08:43 PM ISTKarachi: 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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Blatter awards Brazil 9.25 mark for special WCup
Football | Jul 14, 2014, 11:05 PM ISTRIO 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
Football | Jul 14, 2014, 10:59 PM ISTBUENOS 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
Football | Jul 14, 2014, 10:53 PM ISTBhubaneswar: 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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FIFA World Cup final: Magical Messi or united Germany?
Football | Jul 11, 2014, 11:17 PM ISTRIO DE JANEIRO: The most entertaining World Cup in a generation comes down to a final match that pits the planet's best player against the tournament's best team. Lionel Messi will lead Argentina out against
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FC Barcelona sign Uruguayan striker Suarez
Football | Jul 11, 2014, 10:42 PM ISTBarcelona: FC Barcelona announced Friday they had reached a deal with England's Liverpool to sign Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez for the next five seasons.The agreement, which is likely to top $95.2 million, is pending on
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FIFA World Cup: Kolkata fans perform yagna, pray for Argentina's victory
Football | Jul 11, 2014, 08:26 PM ISTKolkata: As Argentina gear up to take on Germany in the FIFA World Cup final Sunday, fans of the Latin American nation here Friday performed religious rituals and lit the sacrificial fire (yagna) for the
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FIFA World Cup: Argentina vs Germany “ A royal football rivalry
Football | Jul 12, 2014, 08:57 AM ISTNew Delhi: Brazil-Argentina and Germany-Netherlands may be the fiercest rivalries in international soccer. But Germany and Argentina still have quite the conjoined history, arguably more than either of the other two in the World Cup.
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FIFA World Cup: Germany will play final with big egos says Maradona
Football | Jul 11, 2014, 05:03 PM ISTRio de Janeiro: Argentina football legend Diego Maradona has said Germany will enter the final Sunday with big egos after handing hosts Brazil their worst World Cup defeat ever in the semis.Maradona said Germany's enlarged
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Barcelona: Brazil's Neymar progressing very well
Football | Jul 10, 2014, 11:03 PM ISTBARCELONA, Spain: Neymar is progressing "very well" from the back injury that caused the Brazil striker to exit the World Cup, according to Barcelona. The Spanish league club said on its website that officials visited
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FIFA World Cup: Groin tear likely ends Nigel de Jong's World Cup
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 10:36 PM ISTRIO DE JANEIRO: Netherlands midfielder Nigel de Jong's World Cup appears to be over after tests confirmed he has a tear in his groin muscle and will be sidelined for 2-to-4 weeks. The Dutch football
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FIFA World Cup: Argentina, Switzerland tied 0-0 after 90 minutes
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 11:26 PM ISTSAO PAULO: Argentina and Switzerland are heading to extra time with their second-round World Cup match tied 0-0 after the second half. Goalkeeper Diego Benaglio kept Argentina from taking the lead in the second half
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FIFA World Cup: Costa Rica's Miller misses Netherlands quarterfinal
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 09:41 PM ISTRecife (Brazil): Costa Rica defender Roy Miller will miss the FIFA World Cup quarterfinal against the Netherlands to be held at Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador Saturday due to injury.The Costa Rican football association said
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Messi is the best in the world: di Maria
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 07:43 PM ISTSao Paulo: Argentina winger Angel di Maria said there is no one specific team that is a powerful candidate to win the FIFA World Cup but that teammate Lionel Messi "is the best in the
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Netherlands team offered space trip if they win World Cup
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 07:22 PM ISTTHE HAGUE: In an 'out of the world' incentive, a Dutch aerospace engineering company has offered the entire Netherlands team a flight into space if they win the World Cup.After finishing runners-up on three occasions,
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FIFA World Cup: Toffee insult for South Korea on return
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 05:56 PM ISTSeoul: In a 'bitter-sweet' experience, the South Korean football team that finished last in Group H was pelted with "toffees" on their arrival here at Incheon airport. As unsavoury post-World Cup welcomes go it may
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FIFA World Cup: Five memorable World Cup chants
Football | Jul 10, 2014, 07:44 AM ISTSAO PAULO: With "I believe that we will win!" American soccer fans finally have a World Cup chant that doesn't just involve shouting their country's name. In terms of creativity, though, it's a notch below
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FIFA World Cup: Cameroon investigates World Cup fixing allegations
Football | Jul 01, 2014, 05:29 PM ISTRIO DE JANEIRO: Cameroon's football federation said it will investigate allegations of match-fixing by its team at the World Cup and the possible existence of "seven bad apples" in the squad. Fecafoot said in a
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World Cup football fever grips Meghalaya
Football | Jun 30, 2014, 05:03 PM ISTShillong: From young to old, all in the mountainous state of Meghalaya only talk about the ongoing World Cup football and which team will reign supreme in Brazil.The passion of the once-in-four years FIFA World
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FIFA World Cup: Messi's Argentina look to peak against Swiss
Football | Jun 30, 2014, 12:41 PM ISTSao Paulo: Lionel Messi's goals have fired Argentina into the World Cup last 16 but they will look for a better all-round performance when they meet Switzerland tomorrow. The diminutive four-time player of the year