SYDNEY - Australian international midfielder Nicky Carle joined A-League champions Sydney FC on a three-year deal for an undisclosed sum on Thursday.
SYDNEY - Australian international midfielder Nicky Carle joined A-League champions Sydney FC on a three-year deal for an undisclosed sum on Thursday.
BERLIN - Bayern Munich defender Philipp Lahm has been named Germany captain for the World Cup to replace injured Chelsea star Michael Ballack, newspapers reported on Thursday.
Two men face each other, knowing that a single kick is about to decide their teams’ fate as more than 700 million viewers watch: it must be a World Cup penalty shootout.
BTEGRINE - The usually sleepy Lebanese mountain village of Bteghrine is bubbling with flag-fluttering football fever ahead of South Africa 2010, a welcome escape from often bitter local politics.
Under the watchful eyes of their Slovenian head coach Srecko Katanec, the UAE football team continued their preparations in their European training camp in Austria.
Zakumi, the official mascot of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, enjoyed an action-packed holiday in Dubai as he counts down the last few days to the kick-off of the biggest event on the world sporting calendar.
Brilliant at club level for Barcelona, Argentina's Lionel Messi is now under pressure to step up to the mark at World Cup level.
ABU DHABI - As football fever soars, Etisalat brings football lovers in the UAE the spectacular chance to subscribe, watch and win with the new 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa package on E-Vision, part of Etisalat and the leading cable TV provider in the region through Al Jazeera Sport Channels.
Former Wolfsburg and Stuttgart coach Armin Veh has promised to turn Hamburg into an attacking force after being named the new manager of the Bundesliga side.
Germany coach Joachim Loew is set to decide whether Stuttgart midfielder Christian Traesch will join fellow ankle injury-victim Michael Ballack in missing next month’s World Cup.