An armed gang stole money and a camera from four Chinese journalists in South Africa to cover the World Cup, state media reported .
An armed gang stole money and a camera from four Chinese journalists in South Africa to cover the World Cup, state media reported .
Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger has said “tough cookies” Australia will be giving three-time champions Germany sleepless nights before their World Cup opener, giving them a strong chance of an upset.
Football is slowly taking off in cricket-mad India and the World Cup is set to give the game another lift in the country of a billion-plus people.
South Africa and Mexico are likely to go on the attack in the opening game of the World Cup on Friday, hopefully ending a run of cagey and often dour starts to the finals.
An expectant South Africa began counting down the hours to the culmination of a six-year journey fraught with difficulty as it readied to kick-off an historic World Cup.
Tens of thousands of South Africa fans danced and chanted in the streets of Johannesburg, cheering their team as World Cup excitement reached fever-pitch two days before kick-off.
All eyes will be on the World Cup’s Group B in South Africa thanks to the presence in the Argentina dugout of one Diego Armando Maradona.
Come June 11 and we will be the only region that is paying to watch the World Cup soccer matches.
DUBAI — Stargate, the newly opened indoor family entertainment centre located at Gate 4, Zabeel Park, launches “Football Fiesta”, a month long event that will give young football fans under 20 years and families the opportunity to enjoy all the matches absolutely free on a gigantic cinema sized screen with sound to match, a press release said.
DUBAI — As football fever reaches its peak, Castrol, official sponsor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, has launched its new World Cup Castrol Predictor and Castrol Index. The interactive tools will provide fans with World Cup analysis, updates and predictions as well as insights from world renowned experts such as Arsène Wenger, Alan Shearer and referee legend Pierluigi Collina, a press release said.