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Reporter Interviews Brazilian Coach Look-Alike, Thinks It's Real Coach
A Brazilian columnist and TV reporter thought he hit the jackpot: he was seated on a plane next to the coach and star player of the host country's national team in the middle of the World Cup. So, during the flight from Rio to Sao Paolo, Mario Sergio Conti asked a few questions and wrote a column th...
How To Beat Portugal: A Blueprint From 2002
On Sunday, the United States will take the field against Portugal in Manaus, where, despite a dramatic victory over Ghana and Portugal's feeble showing against Germany, the Yanks will find themselves as slight underdogs....
Hope Solo Arrested On Domestic Violence Charges
USWNT and Seattle Reign FC goalkeeper Hope Solo was arrested early Saturday morning following an altercation with her sister and 17-year-old nephew at a family party in the home she shares with husband and serial shithead Jerramy Stevens. She is being held without bail on two counts of domestic viol...
Argentina vs. Iran: Live Online Streaming Links
It's time for Messi Messi Messi. Here's how to watch Argentina vs Iran on your TV or online....
Costa Rica, Ecuador Announcers Issue Open Challenge To Colombia
We noted yesterday how awesome Colombian broadcast goal calls are, but Costa Rica and Ecuador are offering just as stiff a challenge. Here's every goal scored yesterday, as heard back in that country. (Costa Rica is above, from national radio. It includes singing.)...
The World Cup Is Way Better In MS Paint Drawings
Miss a World Cup Match? Totally fine. Some wonderful bastard out there is recapping all the games in MS Paint. ...
Honduras vs. Ecuador: Live Online Streaming Links
Here's how to watch or stream our last game of the day, Honduras vs Ecuador....
France Are Wrecking Switzerland, Might Be The Truth
After just barely qualifiying for the World Cup, it looks like France have finally gotten their shit together, and are currently putting the fear of God into Switzerland. They're up 3-0, thanks in part to two goals scored just one minute apart midway through half....
Was That A Goal? The World Cup Tech That Calls The Close Ones
Last weekend, along with some really obvious, glorious and not so glorious goals, we saw one that was a little trickier. French striker Karim Benzema's shot hit the upright and then bounced off Honduran goalkeeper Noel Valladares toward the goal line. Vallardes thought he had saved it, Benzema thoug...
Costa Rica Beat Italy And Knocked Out England, All With One Goal
In arguments about whether Group D or Group G was the true Group of Death, the answer mostly rested on how you thought about Costa Rica vs. the US. Italy, Uruguay, and England were probably a stronger top three than Germany, Portugal, and Ghana, but the thinking went that the US had a better shot to...
Switzerland vs. France: Live Online Streaming Links
Time for the battle to control CERN. It's Switzerland-France, and here's how to watch or stream it online:...
Qatar Soccer Head Says World Cup Bidding Was Fair
Today's Guardian publishes an op-ed by Hamad Bin Khalifa Bin Ahmed Al-Thani, president of the Qatar Football Association, in which he contends that Qatar deserved to host the 2022 World Cup. It's the sort of thing that begs you to scroll to the comments first, just to see the readers catalogue omis...
What It's Like To Live Inside A Rio De Janeiro Favela
From Dave Zirin's newest book, Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup the Olympics and the Fight for Democracy,available now. We'll be running excerpts throughout the World Cup....
How "Seven Nation Army" Became Soccer's Favorite Chant
Three World Cups later, the riff from the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" remains the soccer world's most prolific chant. It's possible to pinpoint the exact time and place the wordless chant was born: Oct. 22, 2003, in a bar in Milan....
Colombia's Goals Sound Best When Watched On Colombian TV
Here's our daily roundup of every World Cup goal as heard on national broadcasts. Colombia again takes the lead, with both the amazing play-by-play on Caracol TV but also that kick-ass theme song....
FIFA Hired British Sex Comics To Make The Official 1970 World Cup Film
Early on while watching The World at Their Feet, FIFA’s chronicle of the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, I dozed off. In my somnolence, I wondered if a saucy old British sex farce from the early 1970s was playing instead, a film full of fart jokes, sexual innuendo, and nurses frolicking in the nude. (If y...
Italy-Costa Rica: Live Online Streaming Links
Buon giorno! It's time for Italy-Costa Rica. Your links to watch on TV or online are below....
Italy-Costa Rica: England Be Damned, The Ticos Are In Search Of A Draw
Most would agree Brazil 2014 has been as exciting as any World Cup group stage in recent memory. The tournament began with an unbelievable twelve consecutive matches without a draw. Of those first twelve matches, five were come-from-behind victories with two of the five genuine upsets (Netherlands-...
FIFPro Calls For Concussion Probe After Alvaro Pereira Gets Knocked Cold
Uruguay's Alvaro Pereira took a knee to the head in yesterday's England match. He was out on the pitch—completely unconscious. Just minutes later, he overruled the team's medical staff and returned to play. Today, world soccer's players' union called for an investigation using some pretty basic logi...