The World Cup in South Africa has helped FIFA's revenues past the billion dollar mark for the first time, world football's governing body said Friday. "We are very confident, not only confident but very proud, that we can deliver the World Cup to Africa and that Africa can deliver the World Cup to the world," Blatter said after ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Black Eyed Peas, Shakira and Alicia Keys will be among scores of music stars performing at a concert on the eve of the soccer World Cup in South Africa, organizers said Wednesday. The concert in South Africa's biggest black township Soweto will be on June 10, a day before the start of the month-long World Cup ...

David Beckham's ruptured Achilles may mean the 'end of the world' for him but it is by no means the end of England's dreams of World Cup triumph in South Africa later this year. When Beckham was at Manchester United and at the peak of his football powers, Old Trafford great George Best delivered a damning assessment of ...

Unless David Beckham can mend it as well as he can bend it, soccer's now-limping glamour boy will miss this summer's World Cup — a blow to tournament organizers, sponsors, TV viewers and average fans. Beckham underwent surgery Monday for a "totally torn" left Achilles ...