World Cup May Increase Appetite for German Soccer, League Says (Bloomberg.com)
June 30 (Bloomberg) — The World Cup may increase the appetite for watching German soccer, making it easier to sell television rights abroad to matches played by clubs such as Bayern Munich, according to the country’s top league.

England-Portugal: Drama down the decades
When England and Portugal meet in Gelsenkirchen for a place in the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup , it will be hard not to call to mind two titanic struggles between the teams, the semi-final at England 1966 and the quarter-final at UEFA EURO 2004…