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by Mike Woitalla
[GROUP H] Switzerland stifled Spain and beat the European champion and tournament favorite, 1-0. Chile won its first World Cup game in nearly half a century by downing Honduras. Here's what we liked and didn't like about the opening Group H games ...
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by Paul Kennedy
"Platini? I'm not surprised, I've always had a very distant relationship with him, it's always just hello and goodbye, nothing more than that. We all know how the French are, and Platini is French, and he believes he is better than rest."-- Argentina's Diego Maradona on reported negative comments from ...
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by Soccer America
[USA-SLOVENIA] Andrej Komac boasted that Slovenia will beat the USA Friday in Johannesburg, but U.S. goalie Tim Howard, who returned to full training on Wednesday, talk is cheap.
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by SA Editorial
[PREDICTIONS] Argentina players are crediting Coach Diego Maradona with coming up with the play that produced the winning goal against Nigeria. He'll need to come up with a plan to stop South Korea, so impressive in its win over Greece. For a look at Thursday's three games and Soccer America's ...
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by Soccer America
[SCOREBOARD] The 2010 World Cup finished with an average of 2.27 goals a game, the second lowest in history. Spain's eight goals in seven games were the fewest of any team to win the World Cup. For all the World Cup results and leading scorers ...
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by Paul Kennedy
[PORTRAIT] South Korea's 2-0 dismantling of Greece in its opening game was no fluke. It features one of the most exciting young wingers in the tournament in 21-year-old Lee Chung-Yong.
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by Soccer America
[WORLD CUP 2014] How bad are things going in Brazil, host of the 2014 World Cup? Organizers have dropped Sao Paulo's Morumbi Stadium because the city hasn't come up with financial guarantees.
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