South Korea must guard against "speedy" attackers from Algeria when the two countries collide at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil, a defender for the Asian side said Thursday. Fullback Park Joo-ho said Algeria may have problems on defense but will be sharper on offense. "Their attackers have speed and great individual skills," Park said at a press conference before South Korea's practice in...

Coming off a spirited 1-1 draw against Russia to open Group H action at the World Cup in Brazil, South Korea will eye its first victory when it takes on Algeria on Sunday. The kickoff between the 57th-ranked South Korea and the 22nd-ranked Algeria will be at 4 p.m. at Estadio Beira-Rio in Porto Alegre, in the southeastern part of Brazil. It's about 600 kilometers east of the South Korean base ca...

Reduced to 10 men after captain Costas Katsouranis was sent off in the 38th minute with his second booking, Greece held on for a 0-0 draw with Japan on Thursday that kept both alive in Group C and sent rival Colombia through to the knockout round of the World Cup. Both teams inserted new strikers in search of goals and a first victory, but ultimately the main objective was survival and both achi...

Colombia maintained South America's strong start to the World Cup on Thursday, downing the Ivory Coast 2-1 to stay on course for a place in the last 16. A day after Chile eliminated defending champions Spain, Colombia produced a fine attacking display to down the powerful Ivorians in Group C. Second-half goals from Monaco starlet James Rodriguez and Juan Quintero fired Colombia into a 2-0 lead ...

Luis Suarez made a sensational return to action by scoring a brace to lift Uruguay past England with a 2-1 victory at the World Cup in Sao Paulo on Thursday. The victory resurrects Uruguay's last 16 hopes following the 3-1 defeat to Costa Rica in their Group D opener. England, for whom Wayne Rooney scored his first World Cup goal, are now on the brink of World Cup elimination with two defeats o...

Striker Mario Mandzukic scored two second-half goals as Croatia knocked 10-man Cameroon out of the World Cup with a 4-0 rout in Manaus on Wednesday. Croatia bounced back from their opening defeat to hosts Brazil to keep alive their hopes of progressing from Group A with an emphatic display. But Cameroon were largely the architects of their own downfall after playing the last 50 minutes with 10 ...

Arjen Robben and Robin van Persie scored as Netherlands came from behind to beat brave Australia 3-2 at the World Cup on Wednesday. A second-half strike from Memphis Depay settled an electrifying Group B encounter at Porto Alegre's Beira-Rio Stadium after a stunning Tim Cahill volley and a Mile Jedinak penalty helped the Socceroos take a 2-1 lead. Netherlands -- who thrashed reigning champions ...

Holders Spain sensationally crashed out of the World Cup on Wednesday with a 2-0 defeat to Chile that condemned them to become the fifth champions to fail to get past the first round. On a day when King Juan Carlos tearfully sealed his abdication after a four-decade reign, Spain's players were booted off their throne in 90 minutes after six years as the dominant force of world football. Chile's...

CUIABA, Brazil ― South Korea’s meticulous World Cup preparations paid off enough to stop its losing streak, as the Taeguk Warriors reached a 1-1 draw with Russia on Tuesday in the final opening group match in Brazil. Korean forward Lee Keun-ho scored the opening goal in the 68th minute, followed by a dramatic equalizer by Russia’s Aleksandr Kerzhakov just six minutes later. The draw stopped Kor...

MANGARATIBA, Brazil (AP) ― Call it tik-Italia. Italy has taken Spain’s famed “tiki-taka” system and revamped it to deal with Brazil’s heat and humidity. The Azzurri mesmerized England by completing an astounding 93.2 percent of their passes during a 2-1 win on Saturday according to data company Opta Sports ― the highest accuracy recorded in a World Cup match since the statistic began to be reco...

Groans and sighs of relief were mixed among South Korean fans on Wednesday as their national team played to a 1-1 draw against Russia in their first World Cup Group H match, a better-than-expected result. Despite the early commute hours, nearly 50,000 South Korean fans gathered in front of giant outdoor TV screens set up in the central Gwanghwamun Square and southern Yeongdong Boulevard areas, t...

Video of a staircase most people use to get to and from Rio’s famed Maracana stadium shows the structure built atop scaffolding wobbling under the weight of fans who attended the World Cup game between Argentina and Bosnia over the weekend. Fans of various nationalities said Tuesday that they were scared it might come crashing down. The footage shot by a Brazilian photographer showed people pac...

After just one match each, Robin van Persie and Lionel Messi have already equaled their goal tallies from their previous two World Cups combined. For Messi, getting his name on the score sheet was an improvement from four years ago, when he left South Africa without a goal. The Argentine wizard’s only previous World Cup goal came in Germany in 2006. If van Persie’s relative failure in his first...