A 25-year-old Guatemalan soccer star collapsed during training and tragically died shortly after being rushed to hospital. Marcos Menaldo, a defender who played for Deportivo Marquense, reported suffering breathing difficulties during the training session on Monday. “The tragedy occurred at the Marquesa de la Ensenada Stadium where Menaldo received emergency CPR treatment on the pitch in San Marcos... 

Sickening video from a bloody prison battle in Brazil shows twisted gang members playfully kicking the decapitated heads of their rivals on the roof of the jail as 57 people have been killed in the clash. Six or so inmates were seen horsing around on top of the Altamira Regional Recovery Center in Brazil’s northern Pará state. They appeared to be using human heads as balls for a sickening game... 

Scores of football fans are heading to France to watch some football/soccer. But what will they have to endure to even get to the stadiums? RT has summed up the traps and pitfalls that could ruin the game for you, so that when you come, you come prepared. Travel hiccups First and foremost – you might not get to the tournament at all. Air France pilots are planning to go on a massive strike on Saturday,... 

Otavio Jordao da Silva A soccer referee has been beheaded then had his body dismembered by the spectators at a game following a dispute in which he fatally stabbed an amateur player for refusing to leave the field. Brazilian police spokesman Kena Souza said on Saturday that the incident took place on June 30 in the remote northern town of Pio XII. The dispute began when player Josenir dos Santos, 30,... 

The Luzhniki stadium in Moscow FIFA President Sepp Blatter appeared on Russian national television to name the eleven cities where the 2018 World Cup will be played. ­There were 13 venues in the running, which were all visited by the FIFA inspectors during the two years after Russia won the World Cup bid. Russia’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko said earlier that the positions of Moscow, Saint... 

Spain have thrashed Italy 4-0 in the Euro 2012 final in Kiev to retain their title, becoming the first European team in history to win three major international tournaments in a row. It took Vicente del Bosque’s charges just 14 minutes to put their noses in front. David Silva scored with an accurate header, guiding a crisp Cesc Fabregas cross from the byline into the net after Italian goalkeeper... 

Team El-Ahly football players get away from the field during a football match riot at a stadium in Port Said of Egypt on Feb. 1, 2012. The death toll from a football riot in Egypt's Port Said rose to 79, state TV reported on Wednesday night. A riot in the Egyptian city of Port Said has left 79 dead and hundreds wounded after football fans stormed the pitch before engaging in running battles inside... 

Senior heads of national team allegedly approved system to limit black players and those of north African origins. France has been plunged into a fresh race crisis after claims that football officials tried to limit black and Arab players on youth training schemes to make the French team more white. The French football federation has opened an internal investigation after website Mediapart reported... 

Racial conflicts in the French National Soccer team is a luck for Mexico who has humiliated France 2-0, leaving France to be at the bottom of Group A Despite showing to the public an image of racial harmony, nothing seems right anymore in the French national soccer team, due to internal racial conflicts, France is definitively eliminated for the next stage and will be at the bottom of group A, below... 

Obama administration takes unprecedented action to protect an American sports team. The Colombian football team had $2,500 looted from their hotel rooms by hotel staff in South Africa. The same thing happened to the Egyptian team during preliminaries. Now the Obama administration has ordered federal agents to South Africa to protect the American team. A large force will protect American football players... 

Police in South Africa are investigating a vile Facebook campaign designed to incite racial hatred ahead of the World Cup in June. The campaign was allegedly set up by supporters of politician Julius Malema and includes disturbing messages calling for the “rape and slaughter” of whites and the murder of President Jacob Zuma. One contributor threatened violence, stating, “Every trespasser,... 

Following the Algerian defeat in the Algeria-Egypt match (Soccer World Cup), several Arab riots have taken place on the French territory, especially in the invaded city of Marseille. Veuillez installer Flash Player pour lire la vidéo La bêtise des supporters violences à Marseille [news] Tf1 151109 Vidéo fullhdready1 sélectionnée dans Actualité  Read More »

An eastern German town ventured to make a political statement by hosting a soccer match under a slogan of racial tolerance. But when the far-right, neo-Nazi NPD announced it was going to demonstrate, the opposing team, Energie Cottbus, backed out. The eastern German town of Storkow had planned to host a soccer match this Saturday to celebrate tolerance. But then the opposing team cancelled —... 

Does this team really represent France is the question. How many people are really French in this team? Did you know that not even the famous super star Zinedine Zidane is not French? Nobody is saying that the team is inefficient because it is, or at least it was in 1998 when it won the world cup at FIFA 98. The team doesn’t perform as good as it used to but that’s not the point. Even...