Latin America

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said the 2006 Word Cup finals should go to Africa if one of the continent's two bidding countries can meet all the conditions required to stage the event.

Two soccer fans were shot and wounded on their way to a soccer game in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday after supporters of an opposing team besieged their bus, a local news service reported.

The campaign team behind South Africa's bid to host the 2006 World Cup will end its global charm offensive in the coming week with visits to Saudi Arabia and Turkey.

Manchester United could be about to hit the big screen after it was revealed movie star Mel Gibson?s film company Icon Productions is to make a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the club.

The head of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) has appealed to world football's governing body to let Africa host the 2006 World Cup.

The International Football Channel (TIFC), the first and only all-soccer programming network which launched its Spanish-language signal to Latin America in March 2000, has produced the first-ever, weekly, one-hour television program dedicated to the African Football Confederation (CAF).

Organisers of the Brazilian Grand Prix risked having the race wiped from the 2001 calendar following the disruption in the qualifying sessions for this year's race, FIA president Max Mosley has said.

The British government has dismissed a report that England might team up with Germany in a bid to host soccer's 2006 World Cup rather than press its own case.

Formula One's ruling body has summoned the organisers of the Brazilian Grand Prix to a meeting next week after advertising hoardings fell on the circuit during qualifying for Sunday's race.

Countries bidding for the 2006 soccer World Cup are beginning the countdown to decision day ? exactly 100 days away.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said it will continue to press the European Union for a special exemption to limit the affects of the Bosman ruling that opened up soccer to free agency.

Germany need to give their all in the closing stages of the race to hold the 2006 soccer World Cup finals, German bid chief Franz Beckenbauer said.

South Africa has invited African soccer greats Abedi Pele of Ghana and Cameroon's Roger Milla to be ambassadors for their 2006 World Cup bid.

Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Inc. is looking to add additional Latin American soccer clubs to its expanding portfolio.

FIFA's technical inspection team has given South Africa's bid to host the 2006 World Cup finals an unequivocal thumbs-up on Tuesday after a five-day tour to check the country's readiness.

South Africa wants the 2006 soccer World Cup, deserves it and is more than ready to make it work, the country's newspapers declared on Thursday as a crucial FIFA inspection got underway in Johannesburg.