Ivan Klasnic scored a pair of first half goals to lift Croatia past Austria 4-1 in a friendly played in Vienna. Marko Babic and Bosko Balaban added the other goals as Croatia looked solid in a tune up for the World Cup. The 79th-ranked Austria team was short on experience and mustered a [...]

What a let down. We were all excited when we heard that John Travolta offered to help pilot Australia’s flight to the World Cup, but alas that offer turned out to be little more than a rumor. Travolta, a Qantas airlines ambassador who like many of us fell in love with Australia when [...]

There is a pretty funny MasterCard commercial posted over on our Argentina blog featuring Carlos Tevez who plays for Corinthians in Brazil, at least for now. The punch line being that it is priceless that the guy named the top player in the Brazilian league is an Argentine. I love this kind of [...]

The small Swiss town of Weggis is going out of its way to make Brazil’s national team feel welcome as they prepare for the World Cup. In addition to building a training ground with a pitch built perfectly to World Cup specifications, the town has removed more than 300 pigs to prevent the tournament [...]

We’re not regular Ebay shoppers in these parts, but occasionally the crazy things people put up for auction do catch our eye. Today there is the story of a hotel in Switzerland that is offering you the chance to stay in the same hotel rooms as Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Kaka, Roberto Carlos and Adrinao just [...]

We’ve presented you with our infallible predictions and we’ve showed you how they compare to Google’s selections. Now it is time for you to be the smartypants and to tell us how you think things will play out in each of the groups. Today you get to predict the outcome for Group F. [...]

Everybody is getting into the predictions business. Brazil coach Carlos Alberto Parreira said on Thursday that if it comes down to his team playing Germany again in the World Cup final, he likes his team’s chances. “It would be excellent, really good, if they had the chance of a rematch, but we would [...]

The floodgates are open and instead of trickling in one by one the World Cup announcements are now coming in pairs. Today we learned the names of the fine men who will be representing Croatia and Ghana in the World Cup. From our perch in the sky, the Croatia team looks very solid. [...]

We’ll give credit to Brazil midfielder Ze Roberto for being different. While most players and coaches are shying away from hyping their team’s chances at the World Cup, he has flat out predicted the Brazil will walk away with its sixth championship. “I am convinced that we will achieve it because we will [...]

Bulgaria defeated Japan 2-1 today in a game played in Osaka as part of the Kirin Cup. Hristo Yanev scored a late game winner to give the Lions the victory. A disappointing result for sure, but Japan fans can take solace in knowing that their team bus in Germany will have one of [...]