Here are five names to have at your fingertips about the 20th World Cup, hosted by Brazil and won by Germany.
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What They’re Saying: Luis Felipe Scolari
Luis Felipe Scolari on lessons of preparing for a World Cup at home
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The American Soccer Weekend preview
The countdown to the Copa America begins on Saturday when the USA hosts Colombia in a friendly at FedexField, where more than 50,000 tickets have already been sold.
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Friday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Major League Soccer moves closer to San Diego expansion By Mark Zeigler (San Diego Union Tribune)2. As Apple TV deal awaits, MLS is in a race against time to build a broadcast operation By Pablo Maurer, Sam Stejskal and Paul Tenorio (The Athletic)3. Qatar World Cup: FBI probe ex-CIA officer’s spying for host nation (AP)
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How confederations fared: European teams dominate, but not against South America
One of the greatest appeals of World Cup play is so rarely do teams from the same confederation play each other. In the first round that concluded Thursday, 42 of the 48 games matchednations from different confederations, which provides a fairly large data base from which to compile head-to-head records. As one might expect, the […]
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World Cup Today: An instant Iberico classic
Spain and Portugal are two of the great teams of the 21st century. They have won last three European Championships, and Spain captured the 2010 World Cup title. But their meetings haveoften fallen flat. Since 2004, they had met three times in major competitions before Friday night and the games produced a combined two goals. […]
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World Cup Watch: Expectations for Belgium ramped up
The consensus is clear: Belgium is taking the strongest squad in its history to the 2018 World Cup. It is also taking heavy expectations. It is stacked with quality players — EdenHazard, Kevin de Bruyne, Vincent Kompany, Romelu Lukaku, Thibaut Courtois — throughout the roster and is led by Spanish manager Roberto Martinez, hiredtwo years ago […]
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Richard Groff: 'We need to keep doing what we do well'
Longtime soccer executive and administrator Richard Groff, 71, grew up playing soccer in Pennsylvania and first became affiliated with soccer administration as an official with the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association in 1986. He began serving as U.S. Soccer Federation treasurer in 1990 and helped organize the U.S. Cup tournament that served a dry run […]
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Soccer made in Germany and the reality
Could the recent FIFA Confederations Cup championship coupled with UEFAU-21 championship be a coincidence for German MNTs? I personally believe in luck and coincidences in soccer results, but they are usually limited to a game or two. How come the German MNTwon the 2014 World Cup so convincingly and three years later won both the […]
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Ghana coach still doesn't understand how Black Stars lost to the USA
Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah says the Black Stars and USA, who meet in a friendly on Saturday, have developed an intense rivalry, having met in the last three World Cups. But he says he stilldoesn’t understand how Ghana lost to the USA, 2-1, in 2014 after winning in 2006 and 2010. “We dominated possession and […]