Former world champions France made a discouraging start in their World Cup opener at the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium after they had survived several scares to end the match goalless draw with Switzerland. France holds the dubious distinction for the last eight years for not scoring a goal in the finals. The 1998 champions were in [...]
Park Ji-sung scored a goal in the 81st minute to leave former Champions France to remain without a win in the FIFA world cup since 1998. With South Korea holding France 1-1 draw in Group G match, 1998 champions are on their way to play a Do or Die match against Togo. If failed, it [...]
Former world champion France won their first match after a long wait when they eliminated Togo from the FIFA World Cup 2006 at Cologne, Germany. Debutant Togo lost to South Korea and Switzerland in their first two Group G matches. They met a shocking 2-0 defeat against France. After conceding two draws, France required a [...]
Patrick Vieira and Zinedine Zidane scored two goals in the last 10 minutes to end Spain’s World Cup run in the quarterfinals. Now the former champions will set their quarterfinals battle against the defending champions. It is interesting to note the fact that veteran Zinedine Zidane got back his form after the poor performance in [...]
It appears that the defending champions Brazil is under pressure ahead of the quarterfinal encounter against France in Frankfurt with injury list being enlarged. After striker Robinho, two regular starters Emerson and Kaka caused injuries in the middle of the pre-quarterfinal match against Ghana. Robinho suffering from muscle injure did not play the second round [...]
Sharp contrast to the FIFA’s campaigning Say No to Racism the current edition of the FIFA World Cup is experiencing racial discrimination for the first time. It is quite shocking to note that the black players are deliberately insulted both in and out side the grounds. Just the start of the France-Spain face off, such [...]
Riding on the disciplined, well-organized and excellent team performance that ousted England in the quarterfinals, Portugal is now looking forward to maintain the feat at least in the forth-coming matches. Portugal, which has never advanced to the semifinals prior to this World Cup, will take on France in round of last four. Still now, they [...]
It was almost 118 minute spent without a goal. There were full of excitement and thrilling both in and out side the Signal Iduna Park, Dortmund. The game was evenly poised at 0-0 and looming towards penalty shootouts series.The hosts were sure that they would bring cheers for the local crowd in the penalty shootouts [...]
France kicked up for the final battle against Italy in the FIFA World Cup after Zinedine Zidane outclassed Portugal in the semifinals match at Munich. Zidane was a completely different player at Munich. He was not the same Zidane as in the first round. The veteran player brought back the magic of 1998 that once [...]
France captain Zinedine Zidane is one among the nominees for the prestigious FIFA Golden Ball Award. If Zidane wins this award, it would be yet another achievement for the all-time best player who is ready to end his glorious soccer career at Berlin. FIFA’s Technical Study Group has short listed 10 players of 32 teams [...]
