This is the page where you can find out all the latest World Cup news ahead of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa next summer. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th World Cup and is the pinnacle of a player’s career if his country can make it to the finals. Brazil will be aiming to add to the 5 World Cup trophies they have already won as the most successful World Cup nation. Qualifying for the FIFA World Cup in 2010 started way back in August 2007 and involved 204 nations battling to make it to the finals, which are due to take place between the 11th of June and 11th of July. The 2010 tournament will be the first time that the World Cup has been held in Africa, with South Africa beating fellow African nations Morocco and Egypt in the bidding process.

Most of the major football nations will take their place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in South Africa, and like the rest of the world will be gripped by the month of action. Among the nations who are favourites to lift the trophy are previous winners England, Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Germany, all of which will be hoping to reach the final of the tournament. Out of the African nations, Ivory Coast arguably are the best chance of an African country winning the tournament. England go to the tournament high on confidence and led through an impressive qualifying campaign by manager Fabio Capello. Most of the top players from the Premier League, Serie A and La Liga will feature at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which will be hotly anticipated and watched by millions of TV viewers around the world.

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I know the younger players look up to the senior players but there really isn’t a need for them to replicate their tournament form. The Under 21′s crashed out of the European Championships in Denmark last night after failing to realise a match lasts 90 minutes, hardly promising for the …

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There are many attributes required to perform a captain’s role to an acceptable standard including leadership, calmness, courage, determination and restricted aggression. However, there are some captains who have gone above and beyond their duties, wearing their armband as a badge of glory and propelling their teams to new heights …

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In his role as Head of Elite Development at the FA, Gareth Southgate is set to propose a reform of grassroots football which would delay the age that youngsters play in 11-a-side matches until 13 years-old. Currently, children as young as ten or eleven are thrust in to pressurised competition …

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“The KPL (Kenyan Premier League) is a great success story and other countries in the region have taken note,” enthused Nicholas Musonye, general secretary of the council of East and Central African Football Associations, in regards to the Kenyan Premier League’s recently renewed and improved multi-million dollar television deal with …

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A diving pool with four inches of stagnant water, brand new, purpose-built stadia decommissioned and derelict, an Olympic complex all but neglected, scattered with litter and tarnished by graffiti and bird dropping-stained seats, vacant plazas surrounded by padlocked metal fences and an Olympic village colonized by weeds and dog excrement. …

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In the summer of 2008, the president of football’s international governing body, Sepp Blatter, responded to a question regarding Cristiano Ronaldo’s apparent desire to leave Manchester United and join Real Madrid, the club the Portuguese had regularly described as his childhood treasured, by equating the contractual situation to modern-day slavery. …

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It could be assumed, that the majority of those living outside of central Africa would name Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s heavyweight title fight as the most significant sports news to emanate from Zaire in 1974. The now legendary bout, mostly referred to as the ‘Rumble in the Jungle,’ was …

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Adebayor worked for the BBC at the 2010 World Cup

Brian Barwick, the former head of television sport at the BBC and the man responsible for bringing Alan Hansen to our screens, explained that: “With a pundit you are looking 10 years down the line. There is a honeymoon period …

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Would you rather see England lift the World Cup or your team with the league title? For many of you modern day fans it would be the latter, but I wonder what the likes of Sir Stanley Matthews and Bobby Moore would say in response to this? The younger generation …

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After the World Cup, Fabio Capello was adamant that he would give the younger players a chance to prove themselves in the national squad. However, the squad that beat Denmark 2-1 wasn’t massively different from the one that failed miserably in South Africa.

The likes of Lampard, Terry and Rooney remain …

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