The Netherlands were warned against underestimating Uruguay on Monday, as Argentina and Brazil come to terms with their shock World Cup exits.
Brazil coach Dunga and his entire coaching staff were sacked on Sunday following the team’s World Cup quarterfinals exit.
Brazil are out of the World Cup. The Seleção lost 2-1 to Holland in the first of the tournament’s quarterfinals on Friday in Port Elizabeth.
Wesley Sneijder headed a second-half winner as The Netherlands came from behind to beat ten-man Brazil 2-1 on Friday.
<b>Gavin McOwan</b> joins the revels in Salvador, the country’s – and possibly the world’s – hottest spot to feel the samba rhythm
Both Holland and Brazil will be entering Friday’s World Cup quarterfinals Port Elizabeth like fading beauty queens.
Kaka is one of a cluster of players treading a yellow card tightrope in Friday’s Soccer World Cup quarterfinal between The Netherlands and Brazil.
Diego Maradona calls the first knockout stage of a Soccer World Cup the point "where history really begins."
Brazil swept into a World Cup quarterfinal showdown with The Netherlands after a 3-0 win over Chile at Ellis Park on Monday.
Brazil cruised into the quarterfinals of the World Cup on Monday with a convincing 3-0 victory over Chile at Ellis Park.
Chile will be out to derail Brazil’s drive towards a sixth World Cup title on Monday when the South American teams meet in their Round of 16 showdown.
At Friday’s goalless draw between Portugal and Brazil in Durban, Brazil captain Lucio was masterful in containing Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
New tender must leave space to manoeuvre.
Portugal coach Carlos Queiroz fully expects his team’s final Group G clash against star-studded Brazil on Friday to be a "beautiful game".
Brazil showed their true World Cup colours on Sunday, turning on the turbo to beat Côte d’Ivoire 3-1 in Group G.
The big stars are not shining at the Soccer World Cup and that goes for the Brazilian number 10 Kaka, who seems a shadow of himself.
Maicon produced an astonishing goal out of the blue to set Brazil on their way to a 2-1 win over a stubborn North Korea on Tuesday.
Five-time champions Brazil return to South Africa for their final World Cup preparations on a high on Tuesday.
There was no place for Ronaldinho or Adriano in Brazil coach Dunga’s 23-man squad for the World Cup, which was announced on Tuesday.
<i>Avatar</i>’s stars and director James Cameron are supporting the Xingu people who say a giant hydroelectric project will wreck their way of life.
New policing initiatives have made Rio de Janeiro a safer place, but the ‘pacification’ has been brutal.
Rescuers pulled more bodies from a collapsed hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro on Friday, abandoning hope of finding survivors from a mudslide.
Rescue workers dug for survivors on Thursday after a torrent of mud ravaged a hillside slum near Rio de Janeiro, burying dozens of residents.
Landslides swept away dozens of houses near Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night, worsening a disaster caused by heavy rains around Brazil’s second city.
Flooding and mudslides killed at least 102 people in Brazil, authorities said, as rains paralysed the Rio de Janeiro area.
Landslides and floods set off by the heaviest rains in decades killed at least 95 people in Rio de Janeiro state, making hundreds homeless.
SA preparations for the World Cup suffered a jolt overnight on Sunday when they slid to a 2-1 loss to a team comprising reserve players of Santos.
Bafana Bafana, or to be more precise, Carlos Alberto Parreira, received a resounding welcome in his home country.
Drug mule’s mother reveals how minister’s wife was the brains behind the cocaine-trafficking operation.
Rescue crews on Saturday intensified the search for victims at a plush Brazilian beach resort ravaged by mudslides and flooding.
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/ 19 December 2009
A global warming deal worked out by US President Barack Obama and four other countries, including SA, faces mass opposition at Copenhagen.
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/ 30 November 2009
Honduras’ disputed presidential election is likely to set Washington against emerging Latin American power Brazil.