Entertainment

• Friday, May 23rd 2014 - 10:11 UTC

  Suarez resting at home expects to begin exercises next week

  

  Uruguay and Liverpool striker Luis Suarez is resting at home following a Thursday early morning arthroscopy, and should be back with recuperation exercises as early as next week, according to the latest sanitary report from the Uruguayan Football Association medical team.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2014 - 07:28 UTC

  Suarez to undergo knee surgery, according to sports news; Uruguay plays England 19 June

  

  Uruguay’s striker Luis Suarez will undergo surgery on Thursday in a knee according to relatives and close friends of the best player of the English Premier league with the Liverpool colors.

• Thursday, May 22nd 2014 - 01:07 UTC

  FIFA demands second test for the recently opened Sao Paulo stadium

  

  FIFA has demanded Brazil’s World Cup organizers stage one final test event at the Sao Paulo stadium staging the June 12 opener. The Brazilian league schedule has been re-jigged to accommodate Corinthians match against Brazilian champions Cruzeiro at the 68,000-seat Itaquerao, which is still unfinished, on June first.

• Tuesday, May 20th 2014 - 08:07 UTC

  Pele admits tourists are cancelling trips to Brazil because of protests and delays

  

  Protests in Brazil and delays in building stadiums are putting the World Cup next month at risk and prompting tourists to stay away, soccer great Pele said on Monday. Brazil's tournament organizers have faced headwinds since the country was tapped to host the World Cup in 2007.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 09:03 UTC

  Brazilian police tells tourists that if attacked “don't fight, scream or argue”

  

  If attacked in Brazil: “Don't fight, scream or argue”. That's the advice being offered to tourists by São Paulo Civil Police ahead of this year's World Cup games which authorities have revealed will be enforced by armored, “RoboCop”-styled riot police.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 06:58 UTC

  Rousseff 'fed up' with Blatter; hopes Brazil win the Cup playing Argentina in the final match

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff confessed on Thursday evening during dinner with journalists that she is fed up with FIFA chief Joseph Blatter and said the last chapter of protests in the Brazilian cities that will host the World Cup next month were a failure.

• Saturday, May 17th 2014 - 06:39 UTC

  Blatter admits that awarding Qatar the 2022 World Cup was a 'mistake'

  

  Awarding the 2022 soccer World Cup to Qatar was a 'mistake' and the tournament will probably have to be held in the winter because of the heat, FIFA president Sepp Blatter has said.“Of course, it was a mistake. You know, one comes across a lot of mistakes in life,” he told Swiss television station RTS in an interview.

• Friday, May 16th 2014 - 06:45 UTC

  Day of marches and protests in Brazil; the Army was sent to impose order in Recife

  

  Road blocks and marches hit Brazilian cities on Thursday as disparate groups criticized spending on the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament and sought to revive a call for better public services that swept the country last June.

• Thursday, May 15th 2014 - 00:22 UTC

  Brazil forecasts 3bn boost to the economy with 3.7 million World Cup visitors

  

  Brazil forecasts that the estimated 3.7 million people expected to visit during the World Cup, including Brazilian and foreign tourists, will boost the country's economy to the tune of 3.03bn. dollars.

• Wednesday, May 14th 2014 - 04:54 UTC

  Rousseff warns about protests during the World Cup: 'they must be peaceful'

  

  President Dilma Rousseff repeated Tuesday that Brazil is “a democratic country” and that its government guarantees the right to “peaceful protest” during the World Cup soccer competition, which begins June 12. However protests must not harm the Cup events in any way.