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Uruguay missed the clinical finishing of convalescent Luis Suarez when they beat Northern Ireland 1-0 in a World Cup warm-up. Suarez, England's Footballer of the Year after a brilliant season...

New Zealand Football has announced the national women's team will host Brazil for two matches in June. The world number six Brazilians will meet the 20th-ranked Football Ferns in Auckland...

The Spainish football coach Vicente del Bosque is hopeful injured forwards Diego Costa and Jesus Navas will recover in time to feature for the holders at the World Cup finals...

The Socceroos have landed in Brazil, the first foreign team to arrive for next month's Fifa World Cup. The team will head straight to the beachside city of Vitoria,...

Italy's World Cup footballers are unhappy about hearing that food unfit for consumption has been found and confiscated from their hotel in Brazil, but it won't be a problem...

The Uruguay striker Luis Suarez could play at next month's World Cup despite having surgery on an injured knee. The Uruguay Football Association says the Liverpool striker "suffered intense pain"...

The upcoming football World Cup in Brazil has hit another hurdle with FIFA cancelling a test event at the stadium that will host the tournament's opening match, the sport's governing...

The Brazil football legend Pele criticised his country's organisation of the World Cup, saying billions of dollars have been spent unwisely. Pele says he sides with those protesting against the...

At least two of Brazil's 12 football World Cup host stadiums will not be able to provide fans the mobile phone and internet coverage that organisers had promised, telecommunication companies...

The New Zealand women's rugby sevens side has sucessfully defended their World Series title after winning the season-ending tournament in Amsterdam. New Zealand beat Australia 29-12 in the final…

Frank Lampard will be England's vice-captain at next month's football World Cup in Brazil. The 35-year-old Chelsea midfielder, who has played 103 times for his country and skippered the team...

The New Zealand women's sevens team has swept their pool at the season-ending tournament in Amsterdam, and the series leaders will face Russia in the Cup quarter-finals. The New Zealanders...

Missing out on Champions League football over the coming year will cost Manchester United more than $60 million, though the club claims it still has the money to rejuvenate its...

Protesters in Brazil are angered at the Government spending on the World Cup while its social and housing projects are neglected.

A former Green Party MP says the Prime Minister should apologise to the Brazilian President after New Zealand spies were told about intercepted calls, texts and emails between her and her staff.

A little-known 21-year-old English lower league footballer who was recently embroiled in a spot-fixing scandal is a shock selection in Australia's World Cup squad. The Melbourne-born Preston North End…

Portuguese authorities are investigating Brazil's national football coach Luiz Felipe Scolari for tax fraud, less than a month before the start of the World Cup. Scolari has strongly denied any...

Pessimism about England's football World Cup prospects seems to have reached the highest levels after a government document suggested that the national team faced their customary early exit from…

The Manchester United winger Adnan Januzaj will travel with Belgium to the football World Cup after being named as one of two teenage newcomers in the squad. Coach Marc Wilmots...