Diego Maradona says he’s still uncertain about his starting XI less than two weeks before Argentina’s World Cup opener against Nigeria.
The Argentina coach held his first news conference in South Africa on Tuesday and said he would not know his first team until just days before the June 12 opener.

There are two ways of looking at reigning champions Italy at the World Cup in South Africa in June.
The first is that which coach Marcello Lippi will be focussing on, the fact that they are the holders, they have bags of experience from Lippi himself right through the team and they have a history and a culture of winning.

Brazil weathered a Zimbabwe storm before scoring twice late in the opening half to set up a 3-0 victory on Wednesday in a World Cup warm-up game here.
It was easy in the end for the team ranked first in the world against one that does not even feature among the top 100, but the South Americans stamped their authority only after surviving several goalmouth scares.

Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba plans to live up to his reputation as the man for the big occasion by out-gunning his rivals for the World Cup golden boot.
Drogba is already well-established as Chelsea’s talisman on football’s grandest stages after his seventh goal in six cup final appearances clinched a 1-0 victory over Portsmouth in this season’s FA Cup final.

The death toll from a violent weekend storm that lashed Central America neared 150 Tuesday, and more fatalities were feared as rescuers reached villages cut off by floods and mudslides.

Sweden’s Robin Soderling shakes hands with a court official after defeating Switzerland’s Roger Federer at the end of their French Open quarterfinal at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris on Tuesday.

Jamaican super sprinter Usain Bolt has withdrawn from the June 12 Diamond League meeting in New York City because of an Achilles tendon issue, organisers said here on Monday.

Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde received a two-year ban from world sport’s top court, the CAS, over his implication in the Operation Puerto drugs scandal which erupted in 2006.

Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia won the men’s Bolder Boulder 10-km race on Monday, crossing the finish line hand-in-hand with countrymen Tilahun Regassa and Tadese Tola.

Defending champion and world number one Roger Federer was knocked out of the French Open on Tuesday suffering a staggering 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 quarter-final defeat to Sweden’s Robin Soderling.