An overview to soccer's supreme
championship - the FIFA World Cup tournament to be
staged in Germany in 2006.
World Cup
Soccer - Goal Scoring Statistics
Any national soccer coach hoping to lift football's
supreme title should study the goal scoring
statistics of the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in
Korea/Japan.
2006 FIFA
World Cup Overview
Soccer is played on every continent and the FIFA
soccer World Cup is the most viewed sporting event
in the world. In 2002 (staged in Korea/Japan) a
cumulative in-home audience of 28.8 billion viewers
watched the tournament. If you're new to soccer read
World Soccer's overview of the 2006 FIFA World Cup
in Germany - you don't want to miss out.
The
Trouble With France - World Cup Germany 2006
France, the FIFA World Champions in 1998, currently
lying fourth in Group 4 behind the Rep. Ireland,
Switzerland and Israel, go into their World Cup
Germany 2006 qualifying matches against the Faroe
Isles (3 September 2005) and Ireland (7 September
2005) needing to win both games to keep their
qualifying hopes on track. But the trouble with
France is the waning control of national soccer
coach Raymond Domenech over the group. Domenech is
doomed.
FIFA and the
Regional Confederations
FIFA is world soccer's supreme governing body - but
each continent has its own Regional Confederation to
administer regional issues and apply FIFA's edicts.
Links to FIFA and the Regional Confederation's
official sites are grouped on one page for easy
access.
Soccer FIFA
World Player of The Year
The Soccer World Player of the Year Winners List. It
doesn't get much better than being voted the best
player in the world by FIFA - world soccer's
governing body. This winners list contains the names
of all the players who have recieved soccer's
highest individual honor since the inaugural
presentaton in 1991 and lists their nationality and
soccer club .
European
Soccer Player of the Year Winners List - 'le Ballon
d'Or'
The European Soccer Player of the Year - or 'le
Ballon d'Or' as the award is oficially titled was
inaugurated in 1956 and the first winner was the
legendary England internationl football, Sir Stanley
Matthews. This World Soccer page list all the
winners of this prestigious award from 1956 to date.
A perfect refernce list for stat mad soccer fans.
