SÃO PAULO – Jozy Altidore has been ruled out of the U.S. national team's World Cup match against Portugal on Sunday because of a strained left hamstring, a long-anticipated announcement made by the U.S. Soccer Federation on Thursday.
Ólger Ulate Ulate, 55, a Tico who traveled to Brazil to attend the FIFA World Cup, was arrested Wednesday by Brazilian police in the city of Natal for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old transvestite sex worker, several local media reported.
President Luis Guillermo Solís released a decree granting public sector workers permission to do what they almost certainly would have been doing anyway: watching Costa Rica play Italy and England in the World Cup.
Heavyweights England and Uruguay must resurrect their World Cup hopes or face the prospect of an early flight home when they collide in a Group D fixture on Thursday at 1 p.m.
After La Celeste opened their World Cup with a shock 3-1 defeat to Costa Rica, their faltering tournament took another sour turn when it emerged Tuesday that Brazilian health authorities had seized 39 kilos (86 pounds) of dulce de leche from the team.
In 2006, I stood at a fan fest in the middle of Rome and watched as Italy won the World Cup in a penalty shootout against France. The tension in the air and the silence that came over the crowd of Italians and tourist supporters during the shootout was unnerving, and the exhilaration that radiated through the multitude when Fabio Grosso made that final shot was the most epic celebration of which I’ve ever been a part.
After superstar Joel Campbell's goal to tie the score between Costa Rica and Uruguay, Costa Rica's Oscar Duarte pushed the Ticos into the lead with a header into the net. Here is the reaction of La Sele fans at Bar Henry's in the Los Yoses neighborhood in San José.
