What’s in a name? Quite a lot, actually, and especially if you are talking about Brazil.
The four-times World Cup champions are the only major sporting country in which athletes are most commonly known by their first names or nicknames.
For a country obsessed with the way it is perceived overseas, progress into the last eight has proved a godsend. At last, the world is sitting up and taking notice of all things Korean.
Eight years after Fifa’s World Cup was held in the United States, in an attempt to integrate the greatest game and the greatest market, not much has changed.
A rather pompous and arrogant Englishman once expressed the following view of football and females: ”Why do you women even bother, you can never fully appreciate football. You don’t even understand what the offside rule is all about.” But many women appreciate ”poetry in motion”.
Cut the magic, it’s talent that counts.
Senegal intend to let their feet do the talking when they take on Turkey in the quarter-final nobody predicted at the World Cup in Osaka on Saturday.
South Africa’s rand firmed on Thursday, buoyed by further dollar weakness and pockets of offshore demand, but traders said the gains took place in a very thin market .
The SA Law Society has called for the immediate arrest and resignation of all Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei prison warders implicated in the corruption and prostitution of juvenile prisoners shown in this week’s Special Assignment expose on SABC 3.
South African weapons companies are servicing both sides in the India-Pakistan conflict — and it has been roundly condemned by the chair of Parliament’s defence committee.
Although this World Cup has so far been characterised by success for teams rather than individuals, Ronaldo could yet be the man to give the competition its symbolic figure, as he was supposed to do four years ago.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak were due to hold talks on Wednesday in Amman on the Middle East crisis, as Israel reoccupied Palestinian land following a bloody bomb attack.