The Gods were not smiling on Germany as they prepared for the first Asian football finals.
FIFA World Player of the Year 2002
German giant reaches new heights
The Gods were not smiling on Germany as they prepared for the first Asian football finals.
Rudi Voeller�s side was cruelly stripped of a number of key players just
weeks before the tournament began prompting many so-called experts to 
write off the Mannschaft�s chances. But they had reckoned without their goalkeeping saviour � Oliver Kahn.
FIFA President to receive peace award FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter has been selected by the International Amateur Athletic Association (IAAA) to receive its American-Global Award for Peace at the organisation�s 23rd Annual Awards Dinner. Brazil clinch victory after Ronaldo double
SEOUL, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Two goals from Ronaldo and a late Ronaldinho penalty earned world champions Brazil a 3-2 victory against South Korea on Wednesday. Ronaldinho's 90th-minute spot kick after Ronaldo had been brought down, finally subdued the hosts who had twice taken the lead in front of a crowd of 63,000. FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking And this year�s Best Mover is . . . ?
Club football has been dominating the last four weeks� dates in the football calendar. While national and continental championships were well underway all
over the globe, this month witnessed only 13 international A matches. Eight friendlies and five Gold Cup qualifiers have brought the number of �A� matches over the 600 mark to settle for the moment at 605.
2006 FIFA World Cup Germany�
Official Emblem unveiled at spectacular presentation
The Official Emblem of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany� was unveiled at a spectacular show on Tuesday at the state-of-the-art AufSchalke Arena in Gelsenkirchen. �The Celebrating Faces of Football� depicts three cheerfully smiling faces grouped around the FIFA World Cup trophy.
GOAL Programme
A Garden of Eden deep in the Pacific
Signs, loudspeakers, adverts in the local press, they tried everything. Not even the presence of England football legend Sir Bobby Charlton could keep the thousands from heading towards the newly-laid natural grass pitch at the renovated national stadium in the Solomon Islands. But instead of trampling over the sand-carpeted turf, the fans took off their shoes, knelt down and began caressing the surface with their fingertips.
