Seeds named for European World Cup playoffs ZURICH ? France, Portugal, Russia and Greece will be seeded in the playoffs to decide the final four European spots at the 2010 World Cup. They were the four highest-ranked of the playoff teams in the FIFA world rankings published Friday, meaning they cannot face each other in the two-legged [...]

U.S. Soccer forward Charlie Davies suffers catastrophic injuries in fatal G.W. car crash. U.S. Soccer team player suffers catastrophic injuries in George Washington Memorial Parkway automobile accident. Washington, D.C.–The U.S. Soccer team’s 2010 World Cup hope was hit with a blow to the chest in the early morning hours of Tuesday, October 13, 2009, when their star forward was traumatically injured in a Virginia car crash. As reported by the Washington Post, American forward Charlie Davies

Now that the U.S.have qualified for South Africa the question arises: should you attend in person? I will not pretty much for the reasons spelled out by excellent Sports Illustrated writer Grant Wahl, who just spent seven months in the country while writing the book "The Beckham Experiment," in this article : crime, bad weather (it's winter down there), a lack of transportation options and expensive, hard to come by accommodation. Even someone who spent years living in South Africa - a c