Football

The build-up to Friday's quarter-final clash between France and Uruguay has been dominated by individuals, but it may be the South Americans' almost unbreachable four-man defence which decides the result.

Teenage star Kylian Mbappe struck twice and earned another goal as France finally found their attacking edge to beat Lionel Messi's Argentina 4-3 and move into the quarter-finals of the World Cup on Saturday.

The European champions found it hard to break down the resistance of the Irani defense and needed to depend on a piece of brilliance from Ricardo Quaresma to get their noses out in front. That though wasn't enough as Iran, quite literally, forced their wa...

Iranian women were allowed to watch their national team playing in their World Cup match against Portugal on a big screen in a Tehran stadium on Monday, Iran's ISNA news agency reported, despite a ban backed by hardliners.

Brazil and Tite were keen to avoid an Argentina like situation with regards to progressing to the next round, and left it till pretty late in the day to get the job done against a resolute and determined Costa Rican side led by Keylor Navas. The Brazilian...

Japan beat 10-man Colombia 2-1 in Group H on Tuesday to become the first Asian side to beat a South American one at the World Cup.

Yussuf Poulsen ruined Peru's first appearance at a World Cup finals for 36 years on Saturday with the winning goal for Denmark to seal a 1-0 victory in Saransk.

Not one FIFA World Cup has gone by without Brazil bringing the Samba flavour to the table, and once again in 2018 in Russia the men in the canary yellow have nothing in mind but to dazzle and enthral.

Spanish legend Andres Iniesta is still unsure about when he will call time on his international career with La Roja, and refuses to rule out the possibility of continuing to play for national team after the 2018 World Cup.

One of the goal nets used in Brazil's humiliating 7-1 defeat in the 2014 World Cup against Germany will be cut up and sold for charity.

In the last 13 years, the one thing that has stayed constant with the Indian football team has been Sunil Chhetri. The forward has been a central figure to not only how the team has been built, but also to some of the happier moments, and some hard times.

Paolo Guerrero scored twice in a 3-0 friendly win over Saudi Arabia to cap an emotional week for the Peru captain who was cleared to play at the World Cup after his long legal battle against a 14-month drugs suspension.

Saudi Arabia is backing a planned new 14-nation football federation in Asia aimed at boosting some of the region's emerging nations in the game.

Deep in Egypt's Nile Delta region, the children of Nagrig village have a clear goal in life: they want to become football stars like Mohamed Salah, England's top scorer and Africa's top player.

Cristiano Ronaldo may have played his last game for Real Madrid after winning a fourth Champions League crown with the Spanish side in a 3-1 victory over Liverpool on Saturday, saying he would soon make an announcement on his future.

"The players will be brought to a doping control room where there will be only FIFA doctors, two FIFA medical people and no entrance for anybody who is not allowed to be there," Belgian Michel D'Hooghe said.