In men's tennis, Argentina won the World Team Cup for the fourth time by beating the United States 2-1 in Dusseldorf.
"I feel fit and strong enough to play the Masters in Rome and Hamburg and the World Team Cup, " said Hewitt, whose least favourite surface is clay.
Matt Dawson, a members of England's rugby World Cup team, said the conditions were "brutal".
Ironically, two members of the Honduran World Cup team play for the Hangzhou Greentown professional team.
And since this is a dream, after all, why not make that a winning World Cup team?
O'Gara, part of Ireland's struggling World Cup team, also rubbished rumours he has separated from his wife Jess.
"It's setting up really well for the U.S. to win, " said Tony DiCicco, coach of the 1999 World Cup team.
On his journeys abroad, the Chinese Soccer Czar stops in Tokyo and meets several members of the Japanese World Cup team.
There will be 12 grounds used at the 32-team World Cup, which will host 64 matches -- four times that of the eight-nation Confederations Cup.
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Jong could have taken Japanese citizenship (and the Japanese World Cup team could have used a good striker) or tried to link up with the South Korean soccer team.
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He urgently needs a score in the following NatWest Challenge, or there will soon be a justified argument for replacing him in order to get a settled World Cup team in place.
The manager of the World Cup team, a businessman named Tanveer Muzhar Islam, says the reason for the popularity of cricket is that, like the rest of the sub-continent, Bangladesh is no good at football.
It has been a history filled with disappointment, including a last-place finish at the 1998 World Cup, a drubbing made all the more humiliating when the women's team won the World Cup in 1999.
Australia surprisingly lost their first game of the Twenty20 World Cup to Zimbabwe, but unsurprisingly have fought back and look awesome with almost the same team that won the World Cup four or five months ago.
Wembley will host a rugby union game between Guinness Premiership teams Saracens and Harlequins on Saturday and fears have been expressed that the pitch will again be in poor condition for the FA Cup decider on 15 May and the England football team's World Cup warm-up match against Mexico on 24 May.
Meanwhile England's 2006 World Cup bid team have played down the problems, and maintain the issue can be resolved quickly.
His team were a huge disappointment at last year's World Cup but his young team have improved through the current tournament.
Their next challenge is a formidable autumn series at the Millennium Stadium when they face Australia, South Africa, 2007 World Cup bogey team Fiji and New Zealand.
Despite talk of a new era post-World Cup his team to face Bulgaria on Friday is likely to show just three changes from the XI beaten 4-1 by Germany.
Bach scored a 15-point maximum for Denmark when they won the World Under-21 Team Cup in September and emerged as one of the more promising young riders during last season for Newcastle.
In the previous blog post I mentioned how the global media had a series of stories on North Korean World Cup soccer team striker Jong Tae-Se, a North Korean passport-holder born and raised in Nagoya, Japan.
The Brazil World Cup bid team has increased its security budget as the country prepares to host the tournament for the first time since 1950, as well as next year's precursor Confederations Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Since then, he's covered some major sporting events: England winning the Ashes in 2005, the return of the England World Cup Rugby Team in 2003 to their Surrey hotel, the World Matchplay Championship at Wentworth, Show jumping at Hickstead, World Championship Darts at Lakeside, Derby Day at Epsom, Tennis at Eastbourne, Farnborough playing at Highbury in the FA Cup, to name a few.
However, despite a poll showing the majority of Argentina fans thought Maradona was unfit to coach the national team going into the final two World Cup qualifying matches, he guided the team through to South Africa with two dramatic victories.
He was even selected as a scout for Team USA at the 1998 World Cup in France, to give the low down on the Iranian national team before the famous Iran versus USA match, which Iran won, prompting a million people to celebrate on the streets of Tehran.
All the Egyptians want to see their national team in the World Cup finals after a 24-year absence.
Klinsmann featured in the 1990 World Cup-winning team and was then captain for the successful Euro 96 campaign.
The former England centre defended his team's World Cup record of just one try in the past two games.
He wore the 'Footie' costume and waved at fans during the team's World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan on 14 November.
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Eriksson must name his squad by 15 May, while his team's World Cup campaign begins against Paraguay on 10 June.
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