2006 FIFA World Cup Soccer News and Blog

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

WKRN Local News
WKRN - Since the 2006 World Cup, soccer has seen a series of violent episodes, including riots in France, the death of an Italian policeman at a match in February, and an ugly brawl at a European Champions League match between Inter Milan and Valencia in

Expats in Asia
Slate - In 2002, just before Busan hosted a slate of World Cup soccer games, city officials attempted to soften its red-light reputation by renaming it Foreigners’ Shopping Street and installing decorative paving tiles. During the daytime it does indeed

Top Cheap Shots In Sports
KUTV - French captain Zinedine Zidane was ejected from a World Cup soccer game for a vicious butt to the chest of Marco Materazzi. (AP) Britain Calls For Direct Talks With Iran British, Royal Navy, HMS Cornwall, Frigate, ship, Ministry of Defense, British

Centerplate and Tampa Bay Devil Rays Set to Unveil Redesigned
PR Newswire - Centerplate has provided its services to many high profile events including 24 World Series games, 9 U.S. Presidential Inaugural Balls, 10 Super Bowls, 9 NCAA Final Four Men’s Basketball Tournaments and 14 World Cup Soccer games. Visit the company

Fans congratulate Ogilvy
PGA Tour - I am so unhappy that your fantastic gutsy win has come at a time when World Cup soccer has gripped our nation. Most of the east coast was up last night at 2 a.m. watching the Socceroos go down valiantly against Brazil. If only

Matt Grim Named Director of Affiliate Sales & Marketing for Fox Sports
Hola Arkansas - hours of live, exclusive sports programming in Spanish and, with few exceptions, English SAP each year, including InterLiga(TM), the Copa Toyota Libertadores, Copa Nissan Sudamericana, CONCACAF Copa de Campeones, and the FIFA Club World Cup soccer

Linux-based robots patrol Berlin soccer stadium
Network World Fusion - While one group has just completed a World Cup championship in Bremen, Germany, another is diligently patrolling Berlin’s Olympic Stadium, one of 12 venues hosting the World Cup soccer tournament currently under

Chase’s vision mixes wreath, race, diamond
Memphis Commercial Appeal - Or the 1999 U.S. women’s World Cup soccer team. “Sports can be a galvanizing force,” Robertson said. “Like music, we don’t see color as much. We see someone’s abilities, what they can do for our team. And it helps us to be able to talk about race

NHL still isn’t must-see TV for Americans
FOXSports.com - The avid hockey fan might be the most passionate fan in all of sports, right there with World Cup soccer nuts. That hockey fan will remain fiercely loyal and protective of the sport, and will keep buying tickets no matter how often the owners and

Women’s World Cup making it harder to unleash Fury (The Ottawa Sun)
Sun, April 29, 2007 Women’s World Cup making it harder to unleash Fury By ROB BRODIE It’s not the same old Ottawa Fury that will attempt to run with the W-League’s elite one more time this season. But the mindset is as familiar as ever. “We’ve always had the expectation of winning championships,” said four-year veteran midfielder Kelly Parker on Friday, a little more than two weeks before the …

Slain soccer coach’s body returned home (Sports Illustrated)
The remains of slain Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer returned home to South Africa on Sunday, six weeks after he died at the World Cup in the Caribbean.

Cup final fiasco joins list of sporting bungles (Stuff)
The chaotic scene at the end of the cricket World Cup final when umpires mistakenly ordered Australia and Sri Lanka to restart the match in virtual darkness was not the first time when sports officials have made a bungle of things.

SOCCER Pachuca 1st team to win berth at Club World Cup (Japan Today)
TOKYO Mexico’s Pachuca will represent CONCACAF at the Club World Cup after becoming the first team to book their place at the tournament in Japan in December, the Japan Football Association said Thursday.

Soccer World Cup Hardly Touched German Economy (Deutsche Welle)
The patriotism and high spirits unleashed by this past summer’s World Cup were expected to boost the German economy, but experts say the soccer event had virtually no impact on growth and employment.

Africa in the Offside Trap ( )
With the semifinals of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League played this week, the highlight of this year’s soccer season comes closer: the upcoming European Club Final in Athens, scheduled for May 23. In the year between the World Cup 2006 and the Euro 2008, this is the most important event in European soccer.

World Cup Winner Ball Dies Aged 61 (St. Petersburg Times)
Alan Ball, the youngest member of England s 1966 World Cup-winning soccer team, died last night. He was 61. Ball, who was 21 when England claimed the four-yearly world championship for the only time, died “unexpectedly at his home, his former club Everton said on its Web site.

March 2006
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‘Captain America’ gives a lift to MLS (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
When last we left “Captain America,” the soccer superhero was on a stretcher leaving the World Cup field as chaos and despair surrounded the U.S. national team.

Women’s World Cup making it harder to unleash Fury (The Ottawa Sun)
Sun, April 29, 2007 Women’s World Cup making it harder to unleash Fury By ROB BRODIE It’s not the same old Ottawa Fury that will attempt to run with the W-League’s elite one more time this season. But the mindset is as familiar as ever. “We’ve always had the expectation of winning championships,” said four-year veteran midfielder Kelly Parker on Friday, a little more than two weeks before the …

A Divine-Occasion Partners with Ceremony Magazine for The Wedding
PR.com - contracts & coordinates corporate hospitality for SportsMark Management, and helped them welcome America s business leaders to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Park City, 2004 Summer Games in Athens, 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, 2006 World Cup Soccer

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

WKRN Local News
WKRN - Since the 2006 World Cup, soccer has seen a series of violent episodes, including riots in France, the death of an Italian policeman at a match in February, and an ugly brawl at a European Champions League match between Inter Milan and Valencia in

rEvolution Acquires Event Management Solutions; George Pollington to
dBusinessNews.com - selling, buying and planning division, called the rEvolution Sports Network, provides custom-designed, on-air strategies for advertisers interested in reaching national and regional audiences through college football and basketball, World Cup Soccer

So long, Mooch
Greeley Tribune - It’s a sad day in the soccer world. Glenn “Mooch” Myernick, former coach of the Colorado Rapids and recent assistant coach of the U.S. World Cup soccer team, died on Monday. He had been at a Thornton hospital since Thursday, after suffering a heart

Holding Court
Globe and Mail - He’s looking for a second opinion. Scott was a contributor to The Globe’s popular World Cup soccer blog. During the NBA playoffs he will be fielding your questions and discussing your comments think of him as someone to watch the game with as the

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ESPN.com - Odds are if Roger Federer was not the No. 1 seed at this week’s French Open, he would be leading the Swiss World Cup soccer team in Germany in a few weeks. (For the record, the United States Foosball Association was devastated when they learned I was

Vancouver, Seattle mull joint work on tourism
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Maybe the two largest cities in the Pacific Northwest can combine forces to bid on and stage a one-time internationally recognized event such as a world’s fair, a Summer Olympic Games or the World Cup soccer tournament. Or perhaps they can work

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dBusinessNews.com - selling, buying and planning division, called the rEvolution Sports Network, provides custom-designed, on-air strategies for advertisers interested in reaching national and regional audiences through college football and basketball, World Cup Soccer

Did Balfour lie about Mti?
Beeld - He was then appointed as security chief for the local organising committee for the 2010 World Cup soccer tournament. The PSC was investigating a possible conflict of interest and the SIU was looking at the process followed during the allocation of

NHL still isn’t must-see TV for Americans
FOXSports.com - The avid hockey fan might be the most passionate fan in all of sports, right there with World Cup soccer nuts. That hockey fan will remain fiercely loyal and protective of the sport, and will keep buying tickets no matter how often the owners and

Soccer-2010 World Cup teams will not stay in host cities (Cape Business News South Africa Business)
JOHANNESBURG, April 23 (Reuters) - Visiting teams qualifying for the 2010 soccer World Cup in South Africa will not be allowed to set up base camps in Johannesburg, Cape Town or other cities hosting games, a South African official said on Monday.

Africa in the Offside Trap ( )
With the semifinals of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League played this week, the highlight of this year’s soccer season comes closer: the upcoming European Club Final in Athens, scheduled for May 23. In the year between the World Cup 2006 and the Euro 2008, this is the most important event in European soccer.

Soccer: NZ women to face Brazil in world cup (The New Zealand Herald)
Maia Jackman will be back in familiar territory when New Zealand play world No 8 and 2004 Olympic silver medallist Brazil in their opening match at the women’s soccer World Cup in China on September 12.

Soccer: World Cup winner Ball dies (The New Zealand Herald)
LONDON - Alan Ball, one of England’s 1966 soccer World Cup winners, has died of a heart attack at the age of 61, the UK media reported yesterday. The former Everton, Arsenal and Southampton player won 72 caps for his country, scoring eight goals before moving into management.

Hackworth Names U-17 World Cup Qualifying Roster (US National Soccer Players)
CHICAGO (April 24, 2007) USSF — United States Under-17 Men’s National Team head coach John Hackworth has announced the 20-man roster that will represent the U.S. at the CONCACAF Under-17 Final Round Group B Qualifying Tournament from April 28-May 6 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Soccer team won World Cup in ‘66 (Chicago Sun-Times)
LONDON — Alan Ball, the youngest member of the England team that won the 1966 World Cup, died after trying to put out a fire in his garden. He was 61.

WKRN Local News
WKRN - Since the 2006 World Cup, soccer has seen a series of violent episodes, including riots in France, the death of an Italian policeman at a match in February, and an ugly brawl at a European Champions League match between Inter Milan and Valencia in

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