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Libya is supporting Morocco in its efforts to stage the 2006 World Cup finals, according to reports from a local news agency.

Germany's campaign to host the 2006 Soccer World Cup moved to Central Africa this week when German soccer legend and bid leader Franz Beckenbauer arrived in Cameroon to drum up support.

Chaos has broken out in Brazil after tickets for FIFA?s inaugural World Club Championship final went on sale.

Brazil will mark its soccer centenary in 2002 with a new headquarters and visitor centre in Rio de Janeiro.

The European Tour has announced it is moving beyond its traditional confines with Brazil hosting two events this year for the first time.

Criticisms levelled at South Africa's 2006 World Cup bid by Sir Bobby Charlton have been rebuffed by South African officials.

Former World Cup hero, Sir Bobby Charlton, championing England's campaign to host the 2006 World Cup, has appealed to Africans to support England if two bids from their own continent are unsuccessful.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has repeated that he felt the the World Cup finals in 2006 should go to Africa.

Brazil's low-key bid to stage the 2006 World Cup finals has been dealt a possibly fatal blow when the head of FIFA's inspection team said the country's infrastructure needed improving.

UEFA?s executive committee will stage its first meeting of the new century at UEFA's new headquarters, the House of European Football, in Nyon on February 11.

Formula One needs an African Grand Prix but the calendar must not be enlarged beyond 17 races, team owner Eddie Jordan said.

An IOC report says preliminary results indicate that the XVIII Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, were broadcast in more countries than ever before and that the global cumulative audience is likely to equal Lillehammer's record??.

Telephone systems were, as predicted, hit by near meltdown conditions on Wednesday morning as France put the last the last 110,000 tickets for the World Cup up for sale.

Brazil's megastar soccer striker Ronaldo had a chance to make amends with the agent of the highest authority when he realised his dream of meeting Pope John Paul.

Russian flagship carrier Aeroflot is seeing a passenger boom on flights from Rio de Janeiro to Moscow as Brazilian soccer fans seek a cheap way of travelling to Europe for the World Cup soccer finals.

If the battle between the players is half as aggressive as the battle between the kit makers, then the World Cup should be an action-packed affair.