2006 FIFA World Cup Soccer News and Blog

The Web: World Cup soccer spam hooligans
PhysOrg - The stars are out on the playing field already — even though the World Cup soccer matches haven’t quite started. These are the midfielders and strikers of e-mail spam — malicious messengers, and hooligan hackers — who are hitting headers aimed at

Dec. 2006
Boston Globe - He was also the lead voice on US coverage of the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament. O Brien is well-known to Sox owner John W. Henry. As Marlins broadcaster from 1993-2001, he was there for part of Henry’s tenure as Marlins owner. From 2003-2005, O

2010 World Cup pirated goods seized in KZN (Independent Online)
The customs branch of the SA Revenue Service says that they have confiscated kit bags, socks, ID card holders and soccer balls worth R2-million that illegally bore the 2010 Fifa World Cup logo.

South Africa: SA is 1st and only choice for 2010 World Cup - Blatter (AllAfrica.com)
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has reiterated the football world governing body’s message that South Africa is the first and only choice to host the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup.

World Cup ‘will boost whole of Africa’ (News Interactive)
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki pledged overnight to ensure the first ever soccer World Cup to be staged on African soil would benefit the whole of the world’s poorest continent.

German Beer Sales Up in 2006, Thanks Partially to World Cup (Beverage World)
BERLIN: German breweries sold 1.4 percent more beer in 2006 than a year earlier, partially due to a hot summer and the soccer World Cup, according to a report Monday from the Federal Statistics Office.

Auf Wiedersehen Germany - Wamkelekele eMzansi Africa
Germany was the perfect host for the 2006 FIFA World Cup , offering a warm, friendly face to the entire world. Now the mantle of hosting world football’s greatest event passes to South Africa…

A Ghana/Nigeria Soccer Game feature (Ghanaweb.com)
The upcoming friendly soccer match between the Black Stars of Ghana and the the Super Eagles of Nigeria, can be compared to the movie industries of the two countries; Ghallywood and Nollywood.The match has been scheduled to take place on Tuesday February 6 at the Brentford Football Club Stadium (Griffin Park, capacity: 19,000) in the London Borough of Hounslow in South West London.

2006 World Cup striker set for Stoke City move? (fansfc.com)
The 26-year-old forward was last on the books of David Beckham’s new club, the Los Angeles Galaxy and has also played for the Metrostars, Columbus Crew and Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer.

German Beer Sales Up in 2006, Thanks Partially to World Cup (Beverage World)
BERLIN: German breweries sold 1.4 percent more beer in 2006 than a year earlier, partially due to a hot summer and the soccer World Cup, according to a report Monday from the Federal Statistics Office.

2010 World Cup pirated goods seized in KZN (Independent Online)
The customs branch of the SA Revenue Service says that they have confiscated kit bags, socks, ID card holders and soccer balls worth R2-million that illegally bore the 2010 Fifa World Cup logo.

South Africa: Fake 2010 World Cup Merchandise Confiscated (AllAfrica.com)
The customs branch of the South African Revenue Services has already confiscated goods worth R2 million that illegally bore the 2010 Fifa World Cup logo.

Chirac Fatigue Has French Counting the Days New Board Game Lampoons
Washington Post - immigrant communities have erupted in car-torching riots; students and labor unions launched the biggest strikes in decades over a government jobs bill; unemployment remained stubbornly high at around 10 percent; and France lost the World Cup Soccer

Bebo, Paris Hilton Top Google Searches
E-Commerce Times - The social networking site Bebo ranked No. 1 on Google’s list of general Web searches in 2006, while Paris Hilton claimed the top spot in the news search category, followed by actor Orlando Bloom. Other hot topics include World Cup soccer, cancer

The Web: World Cup soccer spam hooligans
PhysOrg - The stars are out on the playing field already — even though the World Cup soccer matches haven’t quite started. These are the midfielders and strikers of e-mail spam — malicious messengers, and hooligan hackers — who are hitting headers aimed at

World Cup ‘will boost whole of Africa’ (The Australian)
“We have to make absolute certainty that 2010 will benefit Africa and the African diaspora,” Mr Mbeki said in a speech at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

German Beer Sales Up in 2006, Thanks Partially to World Cup (Beverage World)
BERLIN: German breweries sold 1.4 percent more beer in 2006 than a year earlier, partially due to a hot summer and the soccer World Cup, according to a report Monday from the Federal Statistics Office.

South Africa: SA is 1st and only choice for 2010 World Cup - Blatter (AllAfrica.com)
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has reiterated the football world governing body’s message that South Africa is the first and only choice to host the FIFA 2010 Soccer World Cup.

South Africa: Citizens ‘Expect Too Much’ From 2010 (AllAfrica.com)
MORE black South Africans are pinning their hopes of jobs on the 2010 Soccer World Cup than a year ago, while fewer whites are doing so, according to a survey of attitudes towards the tournament conducted by the state-funded Human Sciences Research Council.

South Africa: Fake 2010 World Cup Merchandise Confiscated (AllAfrica.com)
The customs branch of the South African Revenue Services has already confiscated goods worth R2 million that illegally bore the 2010 Fifa World Cup logo.

World Cup ‘will boost whole of Africa’ (News Interactive)
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki pledged overnight to ensure the first ever soccer World Cup to be staged on African soil would benefit the whole of the world’s poorest continent.

Soccer’s tale of two Ronaldos (SportingNews.com)
AP Soccer Writer LONDON — They share the same name and are famous for bamboozling defenders and sco…

Auf Wiedersehen Germany - Wamkelekele eMzansi Africa
Germany was the perfect host for the 2006 FIFA World Cup , offering a warm, friendly face to the entire world. Now the mantle of hosting world football’s greatest event passes to South Africa…

Portugal have cause for pride
Portugal returned home as heroes after reaching the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 40 years. FIFAworldcup.com reflects on their campaign in Germany…

Four of the best for Italy
Italy achieved their fourth world crown by going back to basics as a united squad of 23 coped superbly with the loss of key defender Alessandro Nesta to become the second most successful nation in FIFA World Cup history…

ANALYSIS-Somali Islamists weakened but not defeated 
Source: Reuters By Katie Nguyen NAIROBI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - If words are matched by deeds, expect Somalia’s Islamists to rise from the ashes of a defeat by Ethiopian troops who forced them from strongholds into …

England launch 2018 World Cup bid 
MUMBAI, India (Reuters) — England should host the 2018 World Cup soccer finals, British finance minister and prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown said on Friday.

Only Emmitt’s win outdrew Gators’ 
College football’s Bowl Championship Series rolled out big programming changes this year. They included adding a fifth BCS game and putting four BCS games on a network (Fox) that didn’t cover regular-season college football. Also the gap between the first BCS game and the title game was stretched into a full week.

Zimbabwe: New Tourism Marketing Website Launched 
ZIMBABWE’S tourism sector has been urged to adopt on-line marketing strategies for wider reach and reduction of production and postage costs of brochures and other traditional marketing methods.

German economy on a roll as reforms pay off 
Germany, once derided as the “sick man of Europe”, has suddenly bounced back with its economy booming and budget overspending slashed after long and painful economic reforms.

My trump card is Sonia Gandhi: Aiyar 
‘I don’t feel useless,’ says Mani Shankar Aiyar.

Business 
Rate hikes will hamper wage talks, says Satawu Salary dispute in trucking industry an example of the impact of the 2006 rate hikes By THOMAS MCLACHLAN Business Correspondent THE South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) has called on the Reserve Bank to hold off hikin…

German employment total rises 0.7 pct in 2006 
It was the strongest increase in employment since 2000 and brought the German employment total up to a level last seen in 2002, the federal statistics office Destatis said in a statement.

16 months after Katrina, the French Quarter is in a funk 
NEW ORLEANS — The hookers are back on Bourbon Street. So are the drug dealers, the strippers with names like Rose and Desire, the out-of-town businessmen, the college students getting…

Despite Audience Fall Off, ‘Torchwood’ Popular With Viewers 
The “Doctor Who” spinoff series “Torchwood” had trouble holding on to its audience late in its first season run, but it still dominated the top 15 broadcasts of the year for British outlet BBC3 with nine episodes making the network’s top 15, and holding the top five places on the list.

Bryant Gumbel
News Busters - In ending the June edition of his Real Sports news magazine show Tuesday night on HBO by urging Americans to watch and appreciate World Cup soccer, Bryant Gumbel slipped in a personal/political slam: I know that in soccer they score about as often

Quote & Unquote
Arlington Heights Daily Herald - Jim Armstrong, Denver Post writer, after Team USA took only 4 shots in three World Cup soccer games: Four shots? Kobe Bryant takes that many during a timeout. John Breen, former director of player personnel for the Houston Oilers, talking about

Jim Williams
CBS 2 Chicago - government and worked with news organizations from around the world on such significant stories as the 1996 Democratic National Convention, the Mayor s takeover of the Board of Education, his 1995 re-election campaign and the 1994 World Cup soccer

In China, U.S. women seek more strikers
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Nations women’s soccer tournament at Guangdong Olympic Stadium in Guangzhou, China, Friday, Jan. 26, 2007. O’Reilly is a top candidate for the third striker spot alongside stars Kristine Lilly and Abby Wambach, on the US’s women’s World Cup soccer

Can Beckham really bend it here?
Philadelphia Daily News - WHILE MOST Americans only pay attention to soccer during the World Cup, soccer may be starting to show a pulse as a spectator sport here. With the signing of David Beckham, the world’s most recognizable athlete, by the Los Angeles Galaxy for $250

Film Listings
San Francisco Guardian - This is partly due to Rinpoche himself, one in a long line of anachronistic, wise-cracking sages (Patten can’t help but cite the inevitable comparison to Yoda) who seems as interested in World Cup soccer as in Siddhartha’s gifts. Rinpoche is an

Linux-based robots patrol Berlin soccer stadium
Network World Fusion - robot enthusiasts are now shifting their attention to another group of robots busy protecting the historical Berlin stadium, home to the Olympic Games in 1936 and host to a handful of matches for the 2006 World Cup soccer

And the Winner is German Tourism
Deutsche Welle - Gro ansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The 2006 World Cup will give the German tourism sector a boost With a million foreign visitors expected for the 2006 World Cup soccer games, and another 40 million television viewers globally, the

Dec. 2006
Boston Globe - He was also the lead voice on US coverage of the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament. O Brien is well-known to Sox owner John W. Henry. As Marlins broadcaster from 1993-2001, he was there for part of Henry’s tenure as Marlins owner. From 2003-2005, O

And the Winner is German Tourism
Deutsche Welle - Gro ansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The 2006 World Cup will give the German tourism sector a boost With a million foreign visitors expected for the 2006 World Cup soccer games, and another 40 million television viewers globally, the

Linux-based robots patrol Berlin soccer stadium
Network World Fusion - robot enthusiasts are now shifting their attention to another group of robots busy protecting the historical Berlin stadium, home to the Olympic Games in 1936 and host to a handful of matches for the 2006 World Cup soccer

Dec. 2006
Boston Globe - He was also the lead voice on US coverage of the 2006 World Cup soccer tournament. O Brien is well-known to Sox owner John W. Henry. As Marlins broadcaster from 1993-2001, he was there for part of Henry’s tenure as Marlins owner. From 2003-2005, O