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Neymar shown before being transported to his home from the Brazil team training centre on Saturday. Ricardo Stuckert / AFP / July 5, 2014

Defiant Neymar urges Brazil on: ‘My dream is not over. It was interrupted’

FootballJuly 06, 2014

Colombia's Juan Zuniga knees Neymar of Brazil in the back on Friday night, fracturing a vertebra in his back and ending his chances of playing again at the 2014 World Cup. Jamie McDonald / Getty Images / July 4, 2014

Fifa exploring Zuniga discipline for Neymar injury

FootballJuly 05, 2014

Elvis Presley originally performed A Little Less Conversation for the 1968 film Live A Little, Love A Little. Courtesy RCA

Top 5 football anthems

July 05, 2014

Joedir Belmont, left, and Fifa's Jerome Valcke trade tickets from the 1950 and 2014 World Cup finals at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 27, 2014. Belmont, 85, had a ticket for the 1950 World Cup final match between Brazil and Uruguay, but he skipped it to tend to his sick mother. He has offered to donate his unused 1950 ticket for display in Fifa's planned museum at its Zurich headquarters. In return, the football governing body has given him two tickets to this year's World Cup final match. Kyodo

World Cup Diary Day 24: Brazil fan’s World Cup final ticket saga

SportJuly 05, 2014

Jorge Luis Pinto conducts a team training session with Costa Rica on Friday ahead of their Saturday match with Netherlands at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. Marcos Brindicci / Reuters / July 4, 2014

Costa Rica coach Pinto on Arjen Robben diving: ‘We’re really worried’

FootballJuly 05, 2014

Left, Hamdan Alali, 11, and Omar Al Ali, also 11, tackle the Million Player football contest at Al Jazeera Sports Club in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. Fans follow their favourites via monitors linked to the video games. Delores Johnson / The National

Video gamers battle it out for Dh1 million in Abu Dhabi

UAEJuly 04, 2014

Frenchman Patrick Battiston, left, is about to be taken out by West Germany goalkeeper Harald Schumacher in the 1982 World Cup semi-final.

Battiston still troubled by Schumacher incident at 1982 World Cup finals

SportJuly 04, 2014

Didier Deschamps is pumped up ahead of the quarter-finals. Charles Platiau / Reuters

Facing Germany ‘a pleasure’ for Didier Deschamps’ France

SportJuly 04, 2014

Nigeria were defeated fy France in the last 16 of the 2014 World Cup finals. EPA

African champions Nigeria risk Fifa ban

FootballJuly 04, 2014

Uruguay's Luis Suarez attends a news conference before a training session at the Dunas Arena in Natal in this June 23, 2014. Carlos Barria / Reuters

Abkhazian club Nart offers Suarez chance to play during Fifa ban

SportJuly 04, 2014

Luis Suarez has been banned for four months. AFP

World Cup round-up: Uruguay to appeal against Suarez ban

SportJuly 04, 2014

From left to right, Lionel Messi, Thomas Muller and James Rodriguez. Clive Rose / Getty Images, Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP, Matt Dunham / AP

Leo and Thomas and James, oh my! - Embarrassment of scoring riches in World Cup quarters

FootballJuly 03, 2014

Thousands of tickets for World Cup 2014 matches in Brazil have been sold illegally at inflated prices, a Brazilian police chief said on July 3, 2014. Yasuyoshi Chiba / AFP

Brazil police suspect Fifa figure in illegal ticket sales

WorldJuly 03, 2014

A man walks past caricatures of Argentina's Lionel Messi and Brazil's Neymar in Porto Seguro on June 30, 2014. Arnd Wiegmann / Reuters

Brazil and Argentina, ‘forever rivals, always pitted against one another’

FootballJuly 03, 2014

France's Karim Benzema attempts to score against Nigeria's goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama during their 2014 World Cup round of 16 match on Monday. David Gray / Reuters / June 30, 2014

Africa showed a bit of the good, bad and ugly at Brazil 2014

FootballJuly 02, 2014

Football fashion: a look at the 2014 strips

Football fashion: a look at the 2014 strips

July 01, 2014

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