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Azzurri style belies a frightening reality

Soccer: All Whites face impossible dream

<i>Michael Brown</i>: A bright future is on the horizon

Soccer: French shed no tears for defeat of 'imposteurs'

Rarely can a country have greeted its own national team's humiliation in the World Cup with such grim satisfaction.

<i>Stuart Dye:</i> Battle of the haves and the have nots

The Italy goalkeeper gets paid more in a year than the entire All Whites team - and he won't even play in Monday's game. Stuart Dye examines the gulf between the two teams.

<i>John Roughan:</i> Cup brings world together like no other sport

<i>David Leggat:</i> Maradona most watchable element of contest so far

So a week in, and who has caught the eye at the World Cup? David Leggat believes it may be Argentina's flamboyant manager.

<i>Fred de Jong:</i> Germany set tournament standard

The soccer has not lived up to pre-tournament expectations, writes former All White Fred de Jong.

<i>Stuart Dye:</i> South Africans think NZ women are ugly

It's war. South Africans think New Zealand women are ugly, according to Johannesburg’s biggest daily newspaper, writes Stuart Dye.