Fifa World Cup

World Cup teams and supporters face a marathon of travelling after organisers decided countries must play their group games in different venues around Brazil at the 2014 World Cup.

Tamara Jansen intends to turn the traditional Russian New Year party at the Ravensbourne Hall into a celebration party for the 2018 World Cup.

You seriously have to pity those poor people at Electronic Arts.

It has become fashionable in certain quarters to decry major international sporting tournaments and events as needlessly extravagant, prohibitively expensive to host, and bearing an opportunity cost that borders on the criminally negligent.

It did not take much to find football fever in Dunedin yesterday, with Spanish and Dutch fans out in numbers for the World Cup final.

Football fans will have the chance to watch the Fifa World Cup final in Queenstown live on Monday morning, while raising money for two groups.

World Cup organisers promise a high-tech closing ceremony featuring pop star Shakira, compared to the more traditionally African ceremony which opened the tournament.

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English football fanatic and Ministry and Wakatipu Tavern manager Dan Crawford is watching the Fifa World Cup.

English football fanatic and Ministry and Wakatipu Tavern manager Dan Crawford is watching the Fifa World Cup. Here's his take on the action.