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Edin Dzeko's goal against Iran extended the Premier League's lead atop the table of goals by league to 25. That is, until Xherdan Shaqiri took the field for Switzerland. His hat trick against Honduras brought the Bundesliga back into first place with 25 goals.
Lionel Messi scored twice in the early ...
RIO DE JANEIRO -- It was a key moment for German football, but neither party could have known it at the time. Joachim Low first met Jurgen Klinsmann at the German FA coaching course at Sportschule Hennef in 2000, and something that the former VFB Stuttgart manager said struck a chord with the 1990 ...
Posted by Ian Darke
After 9,000 miles covering a wonderful World Cup I find myself writing this in a hotel room overlooking the spectacular shark-infested waters of Recife on Brazil's northeast coast.
No one in our roving ESPN team will be taking a dip.
In any case they are all catching up on sleep after two weeks of 3...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- With just three days separating Portugal's final two group games in the World Cup, you might think there wasn't much time for reflection. You would be wrong. The mood in the camp since the acutely underwhelming performance and result against United States on Sunday has been one o...
RECIFE, Brazil -- Let us begin with one undeniable fact: There is no rational reason for the U.S. and Germany to play to anything other than a scoreless draw here on Thursday.
If intelligence holds, both teams should spend a leisurely afternoon kicking a football in the sun, ensuring that both will ...
Three observations from Bosnia-Herzegovina's 3-1 win over Iran in Group F's final game at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil.
1. First World Cup win feels flat for Bosnia
When the draw was made, Bosnia-Herzegovina had dreams of defeating Iran in the final game to book a place in the second rou...
