FIFA U-20 World Cup, is the world championship of football for male players under the age of 20 and is organized by Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The Championship has been awarded every two years since the first tournament in 1977.

Just a week after its painful loss in the Copa America, South American powerhouse, Argentina was able to scrape together some self-respect after winning the under-20 World Cup on Sunday. The collective sigh of a nation could be heard but the Argentinean faithful erupted in wild applause and celebration as their junior team hoisted the trophy in Canada. It was the second straight Junior World Cup victory for Argentina and the terrific display will help ensure that this seemingly endless pipeline of talent will help the senior team remain competitive for a while longer. With the ghosts of players like Messi, Tevez, and Riquelme still lingering in the memory of soccer fans’ hoping for a repeat from four years, the fans got exactly what they wanted as the Argentine team dominated the Czech Republic with a 2-1 victory [...]

In a game where the score, and perhaps the game itself were quite secondary, the visiting Chelsea Blues defeated the LA Galaxy in their own backyard in an exhibition match 0-1. But the score mattered little as 99% of the people attending the game and those watching at home had little actual interest in the game. Instead, they were there to get a glimpse of the world’s most famous athlete in his debut for the MLS squad. And typical of most events in LA, it was over hyped, didn’t live up the billing and was all about making the scene. In the end, David Beckham played only a few minutes and looked awful. He was obviously not 100% and skipped around his injured ankle very gingerly throughout the match and looked as though he might have aggravated the injury on a very rough tackle late in the game [...]

Chelsea FC, the same team that became the 2007 FA Cup champions, and the same team that ruled the English Premiership for two years before Manchester United won this year’s Premiership title, agreed to let David Beckham shine when they face Beckham and his boys in Los Angeles.

Chelsea is one of the most glamorous teams in all of international football. This team is synonymous to Tiger Woods in golf and the Wimbledon championships in tennis [...]

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And Australia – Australia? – are the odds-on favorite to win the Asian Cup.

After years of beating the tar out of the Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea and Tonga, Australia decided it was time to leave the Oceania Football Confederation and take on more formidable foes. Participation in the 2007 Asian [...]

In what was billed as match-up between two continental powerhouses, it was almost as if one of the teams forgot to show up. Or perhaps someone forgot to tell Brazil that they were a severe underdog. The facts were simple: Mexico had beaten Brazil in the group stages and Argentina had just routed Mexico. Argentina was definitely the stronger side and after scoring heaps of goals in its previous matches and averaging over three goals a game many feared the game would be over before it even began. And they were right, only they didn’t anticipate that it would be Brazil doing the finishing, not Argentina [...]

Sixteen teams will contest the final rounds of the AFC Asian Cup 2007, which will, for the first time, be co-hosted by four nations – Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. To determine the 12 countries that will join the four host nations in the finals in July 2007, a qualification competition is to be held in 2006.
Asian Cup 2007 FINAL ROUNDS
Sixteen teams will qualify for the final rounds – the six winners and runners-up of the qualifying round groups, and the host associations Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. The tournament from July 7 to 29, 2007 will be split into two stages with a round-robin group stage and a knockout stage.

Asian Cup GROUP STAGE
The 16 finalists will be seeded and divided into four groups of four teams each during the final round draw. Each team plays each of the other teams in the same group according to a league system (three points for a win, one point for a draw, no points for a defeat). The winners and runners-up in each group will advance to the quarter-finals.

SANTIAGO, Chile: Chile’s soccer federation suspended six players — including captain Jorge Valdivia — from the upcoming World Cup qualifiers for going on a drunken rampage at the Copa America in Venezuela.
In addition to being suspended from the national team for 20 matches, Valdivia, Jorge Vargas, Pablo Contreras, Reinaldo Navia, Rodrigo Tello and Alvaro Ormeno [...]

The 2007 Copa America Last Eight (quarterfinals) is underway, the last teams standing represent this year’s elite crop of soccer football in the American hemisphere;

Mexico
Chile
Brazil
Argentina
Paraguay
Peru
Venezuela
Uruguay

Odds to win 2007 Copa America, the American hemisphere’s top football tournament

Mexico Odds to win 2007 Copa America
Chile Odds to win 2007 Copa America
Brazil Odds to win 2007 Copa America
Argentina Odds [...]

Lots of hoopla in mainstream media and on the web regarding the former Thailand prime minister’s bid to purchase Machester city is the latest in high profile foreign ownership teams in English Premiere League football. The team Manchester City is offered 40p in cash for each Manchester City share, valuing the existing issued share capital [...]