Diego Maradona says he’s still uncertain about his starting XI less than two weeks before Argentina’s World Cup opener against Nigeria.
The Argentina coach held his first news conference in South Africa on Tuesday and said he would not know his first team until just days before the June 12 opener.

There are two ways of looking at reigning champions Italy at the World Cup in South Africa in June.
The first is that which coach Marcello Lippi will be focussing on, the fact that they are the holders, they have bags of experience from Lippi himself right through the team and they have a history and a culture of winning.

Brazil weathered a Zimbabwe storm before scoring twice late in the opening half to set up a 3-0 victory on Wednesday in a World Cup warm-up game here.
It was easy in the end for the team ranked first in the world against one that does not even feature among the top 100, but the South Americans stamped their authority only after surviving several goalmouth scares.

Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba plans to live up to his reputation as the man for the big occasion by out-gunning his rivals for the World Cup golden boot.
Drogba is already well-established as Chelsea’s talisman on football’s grandest stages after his seventh goal in six cup final appearances clinched a 1-0 victory over Portsmouth in this season’s FA Cup final.

The Oranje of Holland will be bidding to reach their first final in 32 years in South Africa and shake off their image of group-stage giants, knock-out-phase chokers at the World Cup.

In a football-crazy country like Uruguay, four out of five boys want to become professional players in Europe.
Diego Forlan was no exception to the dream, but unlike the huge majority the balanced, tenacious striker made it come true.

A woman suffered critical burns after a man set her alight at an Australian petrol station on Tuesday, in a horrific scene that prompted the police to urge witnesses to seek counselling.

The death toll from a violent weekend storm that lashed Central America neared 150 Tuesday, and more fatalities were feared as rescuers reached villages cut off by floods and mudslides.

Sweden’s Robin Soderling shakes hands with a court official after defeating Switzerland’s Roger Federer at the end of their French Open quarterfinal at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Tuesday.

Jamaican super sprinter Usain Bolt has withdrawn from the June 12 Diamond League meeting in New York City because of an Achilles tendon issue, organisers said here on Monday.