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- Fitness fears for Brazil
Brazil coach Dunga is sweating on the fitness of a trio of players ahead of Friday's quarter-final clash with Holland.
Galatasaray midfielder Elano, who missed Monday's 3-0 victory over Chile with an ankle problem, was unable to complete training on Tuesday as the South Americans began their preparations in earnes View more »- Holland Legend Johan Cruyff: I Would Not Pay To See Brazil Play
Ex-Ajax star believes that the South Americans need more intensity
Former Holland striker Johan Cruyff considers Brazil a boring team and insists that he would not pay to see the five-time World Cup winners play.
Brazil manager Dunga has left behind Brazil’s successful history of beautiful attacking football View more »- Kaká: Real Men Wear Their Shirts Backwards
Brazilian football star Kaka has taken on an anti-prostitution campaign with Hollywood homeboy Ashton Kutcher. We thought it was random when they started tweeting each other. Now it all makes sense.
Well, sorta. If this didn't come directly from his twitter a/c, we'd be sure it came from the Photoshop Fail blog.
In View more »- Rajevac taking relaxed approach
Coach Milovan Rajevac is confident Ghana can deal with the pressure of attempting to become the first African side to reach the World Cup semi-finals.
Ghana take on Uruguay in Johannesburg on Saturday after overcoming the United States in their last-16 match.
Rajevac said: "We are not thinking about the pressur View more »- Diego is Unsurpassed
The German defender is full of praise for Argentina's head coach...
Germany lock horns with Argentina in the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup and defender Arne Friedrich is looking forward to the upcoming clash with the South Americans. The Hertha defender was particularly pleased that he will face Argentina coa View more »- Okada takes blame for Japan exit
Japan coach Takeshi Okada assumed responsibility for his side's World Cup exit at the hands of Paraguay in what could have been his final game in charge of the Blue Samurai.
After an uninspiring 120 minutes of action which produced no goals and only a handful of goalmouth incidents, Paraguay claimed their maiden a View more »- Del Bosque praises in-form Villa
Spain coach Vicente Del Bosque hailed the all-round brilliance of match-winner David Villa after the forward's goal secured a 1-0 win over Portugal to reach the World Cup quarter-finals.
Del Bosque's side now move on to face Paraguay in the last eight after an excellent performance in Cape Town which was only rewa View more »- Brazil to treat Holland game 'like a final'
The Brazil coach, Dunga, has described Holland as 'solid' with 'technical ability'.
Brazil know that the World Cup will become more serious against Holland on Friday, after the five-times champions secured their quarter-finals place with yesterday's 3-0 win over Chile.
"We know the Netherlands are a very diffic View more »- Eight still standing but Argentina and Brazil in league of their own
Forward Thinking: Dunga's men are starting to purr while playing almost entirely within themselves. There is something European about them
So now we know the World Cup quarter-final line-up, and two teams have really stood apart for me so far: Argentina and Brazil, in that order.
Coming into the tournament there w View more »- World Cup 2010: Argentina 3-1 Mexico: Carlos Tevez Double Sends Albiceleste Into Quarter-Finals
Argentina will face Germany in the World Cup quarter-finals after the South Americans overcame Mexico 3-1 in Johannesburg tonight.
Carlos Tevez headed home controversially after 26 minutes, appearing to do so from an offside position, before Gonzalo Higuain struck a second. Tevez hit a beautiful third in the second ha View more »
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The Top 3 Teams of Previous Tournaments
| Years | Winners | Runner-up | Third place |
| 2006 | Italy | France | Germany |
| 2002 | Brazil | Germany | Turkey |
| 1998 | France | Brazil | Croatia |
| 1994 | Brazil | Italy | Sweden |
| 1990 | Germany | Argentina | Italy |
| 1986 | Argentina | Germany | France |
| 1982 | Italy | Germany | Poland |
| 1978 | Argentina | Holland | Brazil |
| 1974 | Germany | Holland | Poland |
| 1970 | Brazil | Italy | Germany |
| 1966 | England | Germany | Portugal |
| 1962 | Brazil | Czech | Chile |
| 1958 | Brazil | Sweden | France |
| 1954 | Germany | Hungary | Austria |
| 1950 | Uruguay | Brazil | Sweden |
| 1938 | Italy | Hungary | Brazil |
| 1934 | Italy | Czech | Germany |
| 1930 | Uruguay | Argentina | America |
