While the teams in Europe were rubbing suntan lotion on each other during the summer break, the top two teams in South America were working overtime to impress the always hard to figure out FIFA computers. It worked. Fresh off their Copa America championship, Brazil is the new number one team in the [...]

And thus ends the 2007 Copa America, a tournament that featured some scintillating play, some awful routs, and a champion Brazil side that hardly resembled a champion Brazil side. All told, the competition saw 86 goals scored including the ones in the video above. Which one was the best? My vote goes [...]

It is a great pub debate. Close your eyes and try to envision the greatest football team of all time. For those who lived through the era, the 1970 World Cup winning Brazil side is often the team that comes into view first. With Pelé in his last World Cup final, [...]

Somehow all along we all knew that the great 2006 Zidane headbutt controversy would end up in the courtroom. It was only a matter of who would be suing whom. First up in the jurisprudence parade is Marco Materazzi, the victim of the headbutt, if you will.
The Matrix, whose reputation before the World [...]

The group stage of the 2007 Copa America comes to a close tonight with Argentina facing Paraguay and the United States taking on Colombia. Little is at stake in either game with Argentina and Paraguay already assured of spots in the quarterfinals and the United States and Colombia already assured of a quick trip [...]

The fun and games continued this weekend in Venezuela this past weekend with the Copa America proving to be one entertaining football tournament. Mexico is the only team thus far to have secured a spot in the knockout round. They have advanced thanks to a pair of victories over Brazil and Ecuador. [...]

It happened nearly a decade ago but if you are a fan of World Cup football (and by golly I hope you if you are spending your time on a site called World Cup Blog), you will remember the lethargic performance Ronaldo made for Brazil in the 1998 World Cup final against France.
A decade later, [...]

The first day of the South American championships features a pair of games from Group A, unquestionably the weakest of the three groups. Uruguay and Peru will get the party started after Diego Maradona kicks things off. Uruguay have brought a mostly European based team to the competition and are favored to win [...]

Normally when you read about FIFA intervening in club versus country controversies they are defending the various football associations around the world for plucking players from their clubs and forcing them to play in international contests. That is what makes the developments involving Mahamadou Diarra and Fredi Kanoute so interesting.
The Mali internationals had left [...]

Chances are that if you wandered down to your local pub and asked your fellow patrons to name the footballer who scored the most international goals over his career the names Pele and Ferenc Puskas might be uttered. The correct answer, however, is Ali Daei, an Iranian striker who announced his retirement this week.
Daei [...]