Noriaki Kasai, at 41 years and seven months, became the oldest ever winner of a World Cup ski jump at Tauplitz in Austria on Saturday. Kasai, fifth in last week’s Four Hills tournament, entered ski jumping’s record books by taking the ski flying leg…
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Arsene Wenger says Theo Walcott’s career has been ‘unbelievable’ after the Arsenal man was ruled out of the World Cup again, this time with a knee injury.
Toby Flood’s 60-cap England career could come to an end on Thursday when Stuart Lancaster names his initial elite player squad ahead of this season’s Six Nations. Flood is set to join French giants Toulouse at the end of the campaign and, with Lancaster…
Chelsea could be set to open talks with AC Milan striker Mario Balotelli this summer, according to the latest reports.…
England manager Roy Hodgson spoke of his disappointment on Tuesday after Arsenal forward Theo Walcott was ruled out of this year’s World Cup with a serious knee injury. Walcott, 24, damaged the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during Arsenal…
Brazilian forward Kaka boosted his World Cup hopes by scoring his 100th and 101st goals for AC Milan in a welcome 3-0 win over Atalanta at the San Siro on Monday. Kaka is one of several Europe-based stars hoping to nail a place in Luiz Felipe Scolari…
American teenager Mikaela Shiffrin handed the US ski team a welcome pre-Olympics boost with an impressive victory in the World Cup women’s slalom in Bormio on Sunday. The 18-year-old reigning world slalom champion clocked a combined time of 2min 00.…
Known as the “Black Panther” or simply “the King”, football legend Eusebio, who has died at the age of 71, reigned over Portuguese football in the 1960s, bringing glory to both his club Benfica and his country. The top scorer in the 1966 World Cup and…
Much-travelled French striker Djibril Cisse is set to return to France after agreeing an 18-month deal with Corsican side Bastia, a source close to the club confirmed on Monday. The 32-year-old international forward has been playing at Kuban Krasnodar…
England boss Roy Hodgson has been so impressed by the form of his young players in World Cup year that he wishes he “could bottle” their talent. Tottenham winger Andros Townsend, West Ham midfielder Ravel Morrison and West Brom striker Saido Berahino…
• Brazil suffers record number of football violence deaths
• Ultras in eastern Europe, Russian and Italy pose huge threat
• Unrest in Africa spontaneous rather than planned
• Owen Gibson: World Cup – and outbreak of supporter violence – link Brazil and Russia
Brazil’s northern Amazonia state ruled Wednesday that work could resume fully at the World Cup stadium in Manaus where a worker fell to his death over the weekend, media reports said. Construction at the site partially resumed on Monday, although not…
Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi wants the African champions to use the United States as their pre-World Cup training base. Football officials had previously floated the idea of training in Argentina, Colombia or the United States. But Keshi said he has…
Bayern Munich’s Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger has said he has no fear of missing the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, despite his on-going ankle problems. “I have not had a moment’s concern about missing the World Cup,” Schweinsteiger told SID, an AFP…
One person was killed Saturday in an accident at the Manaus Arena World Cup stadium in Brazil, falling some 35 meters, officials said. The accident came barely two weeks after two people died at the World Cup stadium in Sao Paulo which is scheduled…
Greg Dyke had an air of defeatism after the World Cup draw but you can only achieve the impossible if you have a go
• Bora Milutinovic, who stunned Scotland in 1990, talks of shock
• ‘England have good players but can they show it on the field?’
Brazil’s organisational reputation, already under fire in the run-up to the World Cup, suffered another blow Sunday when three spectators were seriously hurt in violent clashes at a league match. Police said that fans of Atletico Paranaense and Vasco…
World governing body FIFA on Friday conducted the draw for next year’s World Cup, when 32 national teams will converge on Brazil to compete for the sport’s most important prize. Six months and six days before the tournament opens with a game between…
As the 32 teams qualified for next year’s World Cup prepared to learn their fate in Friday’s draw, FIFA said Thursday the champions of the 2014 tournament will claim $35m. FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke also indicated that the runners-up would…