Messi remains Club King / Messi remains Club King
14 July 2014, 15:24 PM
Messi to win against the machine / Messi to win against the machine
13 July 2014, 17:07 PM
Goodbye, Big Phil / Goodbye, Big Phil
13 July 2014, 10:50 AM
Fifa gains in game of losers / Fifa gains in game of losers
11 July 2014, 15:25 PM
Fatigue fails the Dutch penalty plot / Fatigue fails the Dutch penalty plot
10 July 2014, 09:51 AM
Shock bigger than Maracanazo / Shock bigger than Maracanazo
8 July 2014, 18:03 PM
Will Big Phil's Plan B work? / Will Big Phil's Plan B work?
8 July 2014, 09:45 AM
Expect an unspectacular Brazil / Expect an unspectacular Brazil
7 July 2014, 10:24 AM
The Dutch bury penalty ghost / The Dutch bury penalty ghost
6 July 2014, 11:22 AM
Scolari needs Plan B now / Scolari needs Plan B now
5 July 2014, 10:37 AM
Messi to win against the machine
The moment has come. The moment is to decide who will take the World Cup home—Argentina or Germany? Who will have the final smile— team with a superstar or an all star team?
13 July 2014, 17:07 PM
Goodbye, Big Phil
The Orange humiliation could have been harsher even. Thanks to the pulled-hamstring of Sneijder, Brazilians could get some sort of respite. The margin of defeat could have been more humiliating if not the No. 10 Dutch had to sit out the match.
13 July 2014, 10:50 AM
Fifa gains in game of losers
Here comes a game that no one wants to be involved in. What glory two losers can achieve from a third-placing deciding game? For teams, nothing but the Cup matters. It’s just cruel to ask one of the losing semifinalists to lose again.
11 July 2014, 15:25 PM
Shock bigger than Maracanazo
A tragedy, bigger than Maracanazo, has consumed Brazil Wednesday. Brazil were thrown out of the World Cup; a heart-break that the hosts could get over with. But a 7-1 thrashing by the Germans? No way! Brazil would never be able to swallow the insult.
8 July 2014, 18:03 PM
Brazil not going home next!
From 32 countries, the World Cup comes down to eight. It's a D-Day for four teams-- Brazil, Colombia, Germany and France. And two of the four will head home when the daylight breaks in Bangladesh Saturday.
3 July 2014, 09:54 AM
Dying-minute drama bids Mexico adios
It’s incredibly unbelievable the way fortune fluctuated in the last eight minutes of the match between the Netherlands and Mexico. Sure winners turned losers. Happy faces suddenly became horrified with heart-breaks. What a turn of events! The World Cup certainly unfolded one of its best dramas in Brazil.
29 June 2014, 18:03 PM
Messi relaxed, ominous for opponents
Lionel Messi is now relaxed. He is scoring and smiling, just the way he does those for his club Barcelona. This time at the World Cup, Argentina's jersey of white and light blue in vertical stripes agrees well with him. His nightmare with the national team seems to be over.
26 June 2014, 18:00 PM
Will The Cannibal bite or score?
Luis Suarez does not bark; he bites. The Uruguay striker seems to have a clear hunger for goals and opponents. Banned or fined, Suarez keeps biting.
25 June 2014, 18:01 PM
Italy tried not to win
Lots of inquests will follow, for sure, the defeat of the four-time winners. But seeing the match Tuesday, one can come only to one conclusion: Italy lost as they did not try to win.
25 June 2014, 13:03 PM
Better, the best is yet to come
It’s incredibly unbelievable the way fortune fluctuated in the last eight minutes of the match between the Netherlands and Mexico. Sure winners turned losers. Happy faces suddenly became horrified with heart-breaks. What a turn of events! The World Cup certainly unfolded one of its best dramas in Brazil.
24 June 2014, 13:16 PM
An advance goodbye to Ronaldo
Lionel Messi is now relaxed. He is scoring and smiling, just the way he does those for his club Barcelona. This time at the World Cup, Argentina's jersey of white and light blue in vertical stripes agrees well with him. His nightmare with the national team seems to be over.
22 June 2014, 18:00 PM
Big guns, watch out!
Salute to minnows. Rank outsiders Iran and Ghana played like champions to offer football buffs a night to remember. Two nail-biting, grinding matches in which biggies nearly bit the dust! They gave their much vaunted opponents Argentina and Germany a good run for their money.
21 June 2014, 18:00 PM
Costa Rica: Cameroon of 1990?
England tumbled out of the World Cup as Costa Rica turned the Group D upside down, beating four-time world champion Italy 1-0. The result causes double heartbreaks for two football giants.
20 June 2014, 18:00 PM
Beware! Suarez to stay
Luis Suarez was an instant impact. Back from a surgery table four weeks ago and having trained with the team only for a day, Suarez appeared as lethal as before. He sat out the first match that Uruguay played against Costa Rica for not being fully fit.
19 June 2014, 18:02 PM
Spain succumb to success fatigue!
Luis Suarez does not bark; he bites. The Uruguay striker seems to have a clear hunger for goals and opponents. Banned or fined, Suarez keeps biting.
18 June 2014, 18:01 PM
Mexico still Brazil's bogey team
It was because of the outstanding goalkeeping exploit of Guillermo Ochoa the match between the two South American countries ended in a goalless draw. Ochoa could get himself in the right time and at the right position on the goal line to deny Brazil poster-boy Neymar twice and skipper Thiago Silva once.
18 June 2014, 16:58 PM
It was Individual Argentina
It's a huge sigh of global relief. Argentina scarped through in their opening match with a 2-1 win against Bosnia-Herzegovina, a team who were playing for the first time in a World Cup.
16 June 2014, 18:01 PM
Fine hattrick, awful acting
What a brilliant display of marksmanship by German striker Thomas Mueller! His triple strike reflected the typical grit and guile of a German, whose nerve never frays under any situation. He was always cool, composed and almost mechanical.
16 June 2014, 18:00 PM
Can Messi make it his World Cup?
No man on earth will be so closely watched, possibly in many years to come. At least 300 million people will keep their eager eyes on one man. Several hundred high-tech cameras will be out there to capture every move of this short and shy man of 26.
14 June 2014, 18:00 PM
Dutch demolition beyond imagination
The moment has come. The moment is to decide who will take the World Cup home—Argentina or Germany? Who will have the final smile— team with a superstar or an all star team?
13 June 2014, 18:00 PM