FIFA president Sepp Blatter has apologised to England and Mexico for the refereeing errors that helped eliminate them from the World Cup and says FIFA will reopen the debate on introducing video technology. Earlier Nicolas Maignot informed the media that the International FA Board, which Fifa is a member of along with the four British […]

We’ve now entered the knock-out stage of the 2010 World Cup. To many, this is now the “business end” of the tournament, where one “off-day” may shatter your dreams and render all your long preparations meaningless. After 48 matches, 16 of the 32 teams have been eliminated. These include the two finalists from 2006, Italy […]

Abhijit Ray shares his experience in the World Cup 2010 Finally the dream day came on 17th June,2010. We started the journey from home – destination was soccer city stadium,Johannesburg.   It’s not very far – we calculated the distance and it was just 35KM from our home.   But who knew that traffic of […]

Abhijit Ray shares his feelings from Jo’burg In our middle-class childhood when we used to collect each single pieces of photographs of football galaxy from the newspaper/magazines,that time in our rarest/wildest of dream also I never even dare to think that I might be so fortunate who can ever be presentin any of the mega […]

The FIFA World Cup begins on 11 June 2010. A preview from Rajat Subhra Banerjee.  The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, the premier international football tournament. It is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. This will be the first time that the […]

Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H  Back to Article   Teams: FRANCE (10), URUGUAY (16), MEXICO (17), SOUTH AFRICA (83)   France are the firm favourites to win this group, with Uruguay and Mexico expected to fight it out for the second pre-quarter finals berth. However, the hosts of any international tournament […]

Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H  Back to Article     Teams: ARGENTINA (7), GREECE (13), NIGERIA (21), SOUTH KOREA (47)   Argentina are expected to win this group without much trouble. Greece and Nigeria are likely to fight for second place. Though South Korea will always try hard, few experts outside […]

Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H  Back to Article   Teams: ENGLAND (8), UNITED STATES (14), SLOVENIA (25), ALGERIA (30)   England are the favourites to win Group C, with United States and Slovenia expected to fight for second place, though only Algeria are also quite capable of troubling all the other […]

Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H    Back to Article   Teams: GERMANY (6), SERBIA (15), AUSTRALIA (20), GHANA (32)   Germany are favourites to win this group, and Serbia are expected to accompany them in the next round. But both Australia and Ghana are strong teams quite capable of upsetting […]

Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D | Group E | Group F | Group G | Group H    Back to Article     Teams: NETHERLANDS (4), CAMEROOM (19), DENMARK (35), JAPAN (45)   The Netherlands are the clear favourites too win Group E. Denmark and Cameroon are expected to fight for second place, while Japan are the potential chopping blocks.   NETHERLANDS (NED): […]