The Homeless World Cup (Belfast Telegraph)
Last month, 500 street-dwellers from 48 countries came to Cape Town to play football: on the field, competition was intense; off it, scallies from Liverpool found common ground with the dispossessed of Zimbabwe. Patrick Neate reports from pitchside at the Homeless World Cup.

U.S. Soccer in contact with Klinsmann (USA Today)
The U.S. Soccer Federation confirmed its interest in Juergen Klinsmann and said it has narrowed its search for a national team coach down to five finalists, although USSF president Sunil Gulati did not identify any of those finalists. Klinsmann coached Germany to the World Cup semifinals this year.