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Barcelona's Messi named World Player of the Year

Barcelona and Argentina striker Lionel Messi was crowned World Player of the Year by world football's ruling body FIFA on Monday. Messi, whose goals this year helped Barcelona win the Champions League final and World Club Cup final, thus s [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

S.Africa tightens security as World Cup draw looms

South Africa has beefed up security around Cape Town for the World Cup draw to be held on Friday to prevent any incident and reassure fans about visiting one of the world's most crime-plagued nations. With an average of 50 people killed ev [...]

Posted On : Dec, 04 2009 | Comments : 0

United States Moves to Verge of Sixth Straight World Cup Ber...

The United States moved within a win of its sixth straight World Cup appearance, beating Trinidad and Tobago 1-0 Wednesday night on Ricardo Clark's goal in the 62nd minute. The United States failed to win its first three road qualifiers th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 10 2009 | Comments : 0

Rank 'Em - World's Best Soccer Players

Inspired by this summer's World Football Challenge, which featured some of Europe's best soccer teams barnstorming across the United States, we want SportsNation to rank the top soccer players in the world. Is Cristiano Ronaldo the top pla [...]

Posted On : Jul, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

WORLD FOOTBALL CHALLENGE CHELSEA 2, CLUB AMERICA 0

The impact plays for Chelsea didn't come from a starter Sunday night in its World Football Challenge game against Club America at Cowboys Stadium.Instead, the English club relied on Franco Di Santo, a 20-year-old forward, to come in as a su [...]

Posted On : Jul, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Club America wins in World Football Challenge

Daniel Marquez headed in the winning goal to help Club America beat AC Milan 2-1 and take its second straight victory in the World Football Challenge on Wednesday night. Oguchi Onyewu, who earlier this month became the first American-born p [...]

Posted On : Jul, 23 2009 | Comments : 0

Cristiano Ronaldo Will Feed The World With 'Madridismo'

Real Madrid signed Cristiano Ronaldo last month for a world-record fee of €93 million after several months of speculation concerning his future at Old Trafford. Florentino Perez has now compared the signing of the FIFA World Player of [...]