Landon Donovan and Bill Simmons chop it up on the boston sportsguy’s website. They talk PKs and corners(which I loved because I ask Beans and Dunny these exact same ?s), they cover the lights going out at HDC and what its going to take to get US Soccer to the “Brazil level”. They close it up with talking about the MLS Cup, the World Cup and the soccer movement that is going on in the US. Check it out here

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South Africa. Some would consider that they played well at the Confederations Cup, but failed to qualify for the African Nations Cup.

That was obvious… the other 31 after the jump… (more…)

Real Madrid superstar Kaka, who spent last season as a team-mate of Beckham’s at AC Milan, believes the 34-year-old midfielder still has a lot to offer.

He said: “David Beckham is one of the most intelligent players I have ever played alongside. “I am pleased he is going back to Milan, even though I am no longer there. (more…)

The 16th Beach Soccer World Cup kicks off in Dubai. Football legends such as Pele first honed their skills on Copacabana beach. Now the world’s fastest-growing sport is played in more than 170 countries.

Keep up with it and check out match recaps here

Roman Pavlyuchenko, Vasily Berezutsky, Pavel Pogrebnyak and Sergei Semak, Russian national team soccer players, display the new national team kit during a presentation in Moscow.

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Carlos Tevez has said he is considering retirement after the World Cup if Argentina pick up the trophy, because he is disappointed at losing his first choice place for his country and exhausted by the amount of football he is playing. Tevez is only 25, usually a peak age in a footballer’s career but, ahead of Argentina’s friendly with Spain on Saturday, said retirement had crossed his mind.

“My chance passed. I had my possibility and I couldn’t take advantage of it. When the team needed goals I couldn’t provide them,” Tevez said. “So it’s logical that other lads should be in front of me,” he added of players like Gonzalo Higuain, now coach Diego Maradona’s first choice as central striker. (more…)

Adidas showed off several of their new World Cup kits this morning in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

The qualifiers are concluding, the 2010 tv commercials have begun, and now the new kits are starting to be released.  Slowly you can begin to feel the soccer universe tilt towards South Africa.

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“It’s not unlike when the Olympics goes to a place like China, and you want to fully capture everything that is part and parcel of that culture”.

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