After its semi-final performance in last year’s World Cup, and the recent finals showdown of the Penarol club in the Copa Libertadores, Uruguay’s national football team is now a challenger to heavyweights Argentina and Brazil in Latin America‘s most important championship. World Cup semi-finalists Uruguay have recalled Porto midfielder Cristian Rodriguez into their Copa America [...]
Russia has been chosen to host the 2018 World Cup and Qatar has been selected to stage the 2022 tournament. The Russian bid was picked ahead of England, Spain-Portugal and Holland-Belgium to host the 2018 event. Russia basked in the glory of being awarded the 2018 World Cup as football fans in sports bars waved [...]
America’s final pitch to host to the 2022 World Cup was left to a former president and an Oscar-winning actor, who talked of diversity and outlined an aggressive economic plan with hopes of sweeping past Australia, Japan, Qatar and South Korea in Thursday’s vote. Bill Clinton and Morgan Freeman were the key speakers in a [...]
