Claudia Wong crowns her 11 stars as the second weekend of the World Cup saw stunning goals, vicious fouls, and extreme refereeing decisions. Goalkeeper: Mark paston (Country: New Zealand, Match: New Zealand 1-1 Italy) Hailing from a nation where rugby is more popular than football, Paston stretched, punched, and flew to deny all sorts of shots from the Italia...

There were plenty of newsworthy events in the year 1930, but which do we still talk about today? Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul, the planet Pluto was discovered, and Agatha Christie’s first full-length Miss Marple novel rolled off the presses, for example. Oh yes, and world football as we know it came into being with the inaugural FIFA World Cup™...

Chelsea could break the British transfer record by tabling a £70 million bid for Liverpool's Fernando Torres. According to reports in the Daily Mail, the Blues are preparing to throw their diamond-studded hat in the ring for the much wanted striker. Speculation about Torres' future has intensified after manager Rafael Benitez left Anfield after six years in c...

It is not often that you hear Dunga talking at length about any of his players. After all, the Brazil coach has repeated stressed that 11 men win a football match together; not one individually. Yet, in announcing his 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ at a press conference on 11 May, the former midfield enforcer was unusually effusive in his ...

Fabio Capello has admitted there was an immediate sense of shock when Rio Ferdinand suffered the injury that wrecked his World Cup. The England captain has been ruled out of the tournament with a knee injury after he injured himself in a collision with Emile Heskey. Although it has not been decided precisely when Ferdinand will fly home, Michael Dawson will arri...