Tag: FIFA Football World Cup 2014

FRANKFURT— Miroslav Klose, the top scorer in World Cup history, has retired from Germany's national squad a month after the team won the title for...

BERLIN- Commentators chided Germany's football champions Wednesday for mocking Argentina during a giant World Cup title party in Berlin, an event that marked a...

BERLIN- Germany's World Cup-winning team returned home Tuesday to celebrate the country's fourth title with huge crowds of fans.   The team's plane touched down at...

RIO DE JANEIRO- Brazil´s football confederation (CBF) will not renew national coach Luiz Felipe Scolari´s contract, local media reported early Monday, just hours after...

BUENOS AIRES- Argentine riot police fired tear gas and water cannon on Sunday and early Monday to break up dozens of rock-hurling youths in...

RIO DE JANEIRO- Lionel Messi, who lost out on the World Cup title after Argentina´s 1-0 loss to Germany in Sunday´s final, was named...

BERLIN- Germany erupted in ecstasy Sunday, with fans dancing the night away, the World Cup final win against Argentina that handed the country its...

RIO De JANEIRO- Mario Goetze scored a superb extra-time winner as Germany beat Argentina 1-0 to become the first European team to win a...

RIO DE JANEIRO- Argentina's Lionel Messi will never have a better opportunity to prove he is one of the greatest players of all time...

BRASILIA- Neymar has urged his Brazil team-mates to rescue some of their battered pride after their humiliating World Cup semi-final defeat to Germany by...

TERESOPOLIS- Brazil forward Neymar has done the unpredictable once again by revealing he will support Brazil´s biggest rivals Argentina in Sunday´s World Cup final...

SAO PAULO- Having spent most of the last 12 months out of favour at club level, Sergio Romero has emerged from the shadows at the...

KATMANDU- A teenager in eastern Nepal committed suicide after her favorite team Brazil lost badly to Germany in the World Cup semifinals, police said Thursday. Police...

SAO PAULO - Fuelled by decades of hurt, Lionel Messi's Argentina and Arjen Robben's Holland will carry competing motivations into Wednesday's tantalising World Cup...

Germany coach Joachim Loew said he understood the shock and pain that Brazil were feeling on Tuesday after their 7-1 World Cup semi-final defeat...

BELO HORIZONTE- Brazil and Germany collide in a heavyweight clash of continental superpowers here Tuesday as the World Cup semi-finals get under way. The prize for...

RIO DE JANEIRO- FIFA rejected Brazil´s request to allow suspended captain Thiago Silva to face Germany in the World Cup semi-finals on Monday and...