Tim Howard didn’t deserve to be on the losing side in Salvador on Tuesday. The U.S. national team ‘keeper put in one of the best goalkeeping displays the World Cup has ever seen. He made 16 saves, which is the most in a single WC game since 1966 and since records began. [ RELATED: Player …
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World Cup final sets new usage records on Twitter and Facebook
If it’s any consolation to Argentina, this weekend’s World Cup final was the most talked-about sporting event in social media history. The Twittersphere went wild Sunday during the match that Germany finally secured with a 1-0 victory in extra time. That game set a new global record for tweets per minute: 618,725. That bested the …
North Korea proposes to send athletes, cheerleaders to South Korea’s Asian Games
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday proposed talks on its plans to send athletes and cheerleaders to the Asian Games in South Korea.North Korea has said its participation in the Asian Games scheduled from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4 in the South Korean city of Incheon would promote reconciliation between the rivals.North Korea …
Trolling Hell: Is the Satanic Temple a Prank, the Start of a New Religious Movement — or Both?
The most controversial new work of art in the United States is a sculpture that resides in an undisclosed warehouse location in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Hardly anyone knows where it is, and few have actually seen it. The people who commissioned the piece have warned the artist not to publicly identify himself. They don’t think …
Arab football fans turn to Israel TV for World Cup
BEIRUT — With the World Cup in faraway Brazil coming at a time of unprecedented sectarian violence and soaring tension in the Middle East, some Arab football fans have been reduced to watching matches in secret or even — and this is where it gets complicated — on a TV channel owned by Israel. Since …
3 Lessons On How To Beat Your Competition From Germany’s World-Cup-Winning Coach
advertisement advertisement advertisement Joachim Low was a mediocre professional soccer player. As a coach he had only middling success. advertisement advertisement When he was promoted from assistant to head coach of the German National Team in 2006 he followed in the footsteps of the much-revered coach Jurgen Klinsmann. Low was a tactical mastermind. As Klinsmann’s …
Brazil 1-7 Germany: World Cup 2014 semi-final – as it happened
11.01pm BST Thats it from me. After the biggest humiliation in the history of Brazilian football, it’s difficult to know how many of those players will be able to bounce back from what happened tonight. I’m off to record an episode of our World Cup Daily podcast, in which we will attempt to make sense …
World Cup Soccer Stats Erase The Sport’s Most Dominant Players: Women
There are few sporting events I get as excited about as the World Cup. I played soccer in high school, in the NCAA, and for five years post-college, including two glorious years in the Golden Gate Women’s League, Premier Division. What the U.S. Men’s National Team has accomplished is extraordinary, with a second consecutive appearance …
World Cup 2014: Mario Götze’s stunner wins cup for Germany for fourth time
Germany became the first European side to win the World Cup on South American soil with a dramatic late goal in a 1-0 victory that prevented Argentina claiming victory in the spiritual home of their biggest rivals. A drained looking Angela Merkel leapt to her feet as Germany’s substitutes poured on to the pitch after …
Argentina win penalty prize to push past Holland and into World Cup final
Once again, Holland were reminded why it is only really the English who tend to be more petrified of penalties. It had been a recurring theme until their quarter-final against Costa Rica and this time Louis van Gaal had already used his three substitutes and could not bring on Tim Krul for his regular goalkeeper, …