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FIFA's World (Cup) View Is Progressive, Realistic -- and Right
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsIt is easy to understand why so many among us who comprise the United States feel like they have a birthright to at least direct, if not actually control, the rest of the world. As the sun started setting on the British Empire late in the first half of the last century, America assumed that throne through its own version of hook, crook and ingenuity. But America's days as the undisputed worldwide leader have been in a countdown for some time now. To be sure, a group in our nation's capital that is as important as its name suggests -- the National Intelligence Council -- predicted five years ...
American Died Living His Dream in Uganda
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(July 12) -- Nate Henn was realizing a long-held dream of living in Uganda as an aid worker, writing on his Facebook page recently that he was living the best days of his life in the African country, where he helped educate former child soldiers. Henn's work was cut short Sunday, when he was among the scores killed in the Uganda bombings while watching the World Cup final. He was 25. The three-pronged terrorist attack at a rugby club, an Ethiopian restaurant and a bar popular with tourists injured dozens, including six Methodist missionaries from a Pennsylvania church. Henn, a Wilmington, ...
World Cup Winners Get Heroes' Welcome in Spain
By not in system - AOL NewsMADRID (July 12) - Spain's football team returned home to a jubilant nation and a huge fiesta Monday after winning the World Cup, finally giving Spaniards a break from months of economic gloom, political squabbling and nationalist regions fighting to break away from the central government. The celebrations for the team will include a meeting with the king and prime minister and an open-air bus ride through Madrid's historic center. Dani Pozo, AFP / Getty Images Spain's coach Vicente del Bosque, left, and captain Iker Casillas wave to fans as they arrive at Barajas' airport in Madrid on ...
VIP Jets Clog Airport, Stranding World Cup Fans
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsCAPE TOWN, South Africa (July 8) -- With the likes of Paris Hilton, Mick Jagger, Bill Clinton and Britain's princes gracing the stands of World Cup games, South Africa has seen its share of private jets over the past few weeks. So many, it turns out, that some less-famous fans have been reduced to sobbing in frustration. A traffic jam of VIPs' private jets -- some of them parked on Tarmac normally reserved for commercial airliners -- blocked the landing of several passenger planes carrying fans to Wednesday night's semifinal between Germany and Spain in Durban. More than 700 passengers ...
World Cup Action: The Netherlands Beats Uruguay
By not in system - AOL NewsCAPE TOWN, South Africa (July 6) -- T Uruguay made a game of it. They defended well, scored a great goal in the first half and left many in the crowd of more than 62,000 here at Green Point Stadium wondering if the tiny South American' country's impossible World Cup fairy tale, one in which they were the villain for some, would continue. ...
US Tourist's Shooting Revives Crime Fears at World Cup
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsCAPE TOWN, South Africa (July 1) -- An American tourist was trailed by a gang of criminals, then robbed and shot on a Johannesburg street just after dark, reviving fears of South Africa's high crime rate among jittery soccer fans here for the World Cup. David James Bueche, 35, flew from Los Angeles and landed in South Africa on Wednesday evening. He was traveling alone and had planned to backpack around the country, and didn't come specifically for the World Cup, police spokeswoman Sally de Beer told AOL News. But within minutes of getting off a new train from the airport designed specially ...
US Team Is Losing World Cup Name Game
By Ben Muessig - AOL News(June 26) -- The United States men's national team has surprised the world with its clutch World Cup play. But there's one soccer contest the U.S. team has already lost: the name game. While other World Cup clubs are known to fans by beloved nicknames like England's "Three Lions," the Ivory Coast's "Elephants," and South Korea's "Taeguk Warriors," the U.S. national team goes by a handful of unofficial and half-baked monikers, like "The Yanks," "The Nats," "The Amerks" and, worst of all, the United States men's national team abbreviation "USMNT." Hard to chant and harder to cheer for, ...
Iranian Soccer Players Banned For Life
By Joshua Chaney - Politics DailyIran has banned four of its finest soccer players from the national team as punishment for wearing protest wristbands in a World Cup qualifying match in South Korea last week. ...
Iranian Soccer Players Protest In World Cup Match
By Joshua Chaney - Politics DailyProtests of Iran's election results made their way to a soccer stadium Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea, where several members of Iran's national soccer team wore green wristbands to show their support for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Outside the stadium, dozens of Iranians staged protests of the election that gave victory to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just a few hours after polls closed on June 12. Some of the players removed their wrist bands after half time. The Iranians faced South Korea in a match that drew a tie, dashing both teams' hopes for an automatic berth in the 2010 ...
U.S. Rallies for Crucial Point
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsSAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) -- Two goals down and 20 minutesfrom what would have been one of the worst defeats to a regionalrival in years, the United States rallied for a dramatic draw.Jozy Altidore started the comeback in the 77th minute andFrankie Hejduk scored the tying goal in the 88th, giving theAmericans a 2-2 tie at El Salvador in a World Cup qualifier onSaturday night. U.S.Mens National Team Photos A Salvadoran dancer performs during the FIFA World Cup qualifying soccer match between El Salvador and United States at Cuscatlan stadium in San Salvador March 28, 2009. ...
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