Star quality shines through – FIFA (Soccer News)

Star quality shines through – FIFA
Goals, and plenty of them, form the basis of FIFA.com’s latest statistical review after a week in which Messrs Drogba, Del Piero, Suarez, Ortigoza and Messi all had cause to celebrate. 444 league appearances was the tally reached by Alessandro Del

Copa Libertadores a springboard to World Cup – CBC News
Juste Fontaine was a little known player who wasn’t even expected to be in the team when France travelled to the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. But then the first choice striker, Rene Bliard, was injured, Fontaine came into the starting line up and the

Hard work pays off for Vera – FIFA
“He plays the same way he lives.” That description perfectly sums up Paraguay’s Enrique Vera, a hard-working midfielder who has quietly become a vital cog in the Albirroja side that clinched a place at the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa