When an estimated 400 million people tuned in to the 1966 World Cup final between ... travel across the pitch, not up and down it — but we’ll get to that. The point is, football is always ...

From the time it was formed in 1904, FIFA claimed rights to organising the football World Cup but it took 26 years ... both on and off the pitch. Thousands of Argentinian fans arrived in the ...

The World Cup match between ... on the front. The pitch invader has since been identified as Italian Mario Ferri, who describes himself on his Instagram feed as “football player” and ...

There are few players like that. He had that elegance, you wanted to look like him on the football pitch." But 1974 would be his one and only World Cup. Cruyff helped the Netherlands qualify for ...

FIFA, aiming to create the perfect pitch for every ... year's Copa América, some football stadiums — including some with a roof — will host games at the next World Cup. Sorochan, along ...

When the World Cup begins in less than two years with 48 teams playing 104 matches in the U.S., Mexico and Canada, no one wants the field -- or pitch, as football aficionados call it -- to be a ...