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David Villa scored the only goal as European champions Spain beat Paraguay 1-0 on Saturday to set up a World Cup semi-final against Germany.

The V-League will resume on June 30 after a one-month break for the World Cup.

England and Mexico received a fulsome apology from FIFA President Sepp Blatter over refereeing errors during their World Cup matches.

Saturday's nerve-racking match between the United States and Ghana was the most-watched soccer game in U.S. history, the Nielsen Co. reported.

Asamoah Gyan scored three minutes into extra time to send Ghana into the quarter-finals with a 2-1 victory over the United States.

When The Match That Would Not End finally did, at 70-68 in the fifth set, the customary handshake between opponents simply would not suffice.

On and on and on, and on some more, they played — longer than anyone ever had before. And still there was no winner.

England and the United States qualified for the last 16 of the World Cup, but the US won the group with a last-gasp 1-0 victory over Algeria.

A string of first round failures by African teams on their home turf threatened to muzzle the buzz of the vuvuzela.

Charges were dropped Tuesday against two Dutch women arrested at a World Cup match for wearing short orange dresses.

South Korea progressed to the second round of the World Cup for only the second time in eight attempts after a 2-2 draw with Nigeria.

The AFC ‘C’ Certificate Coaching Course kicked off the 2010 AFC U-13 Girls Festial of Football in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.

Vietnamese chess masters won 112 medals, ranking first at the Southeast Asian chess tournament 2010.

Five-time World Cup winners Brazil opened their South Africa 2010 campaign with a workmanlike 2-1 win over Asian minnows North Korea on Tuesday.

Defending champions Italy made an unconvincing start to the World Cup with a drab 1-1 draw against Paraguay after Holland overcame a resilient Denmark.

The Vietnam Match Cup slated to take place in Nha Trang (21-26 September) has been cancelled – or at best postponed by a year.

The South African national anthem includes verses in five of the country's 11 official languages.

Atletico Madrid will play two friendly matches against the Vietnamese national team and a V-League team during their Asian tour in August.

German Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt defeated Vietnam’s national squad 2-0 in a friendly game at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi.