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On a promotional trip to Japan, where he is due to star in an advertisement for a mattress company, Neymar says he is recovering well from his back injury
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The executive’s lawyers and employers are concerned about flaws in the Brazilian police investigation and are adamant that Whelan was acting lawfully
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The Spanish football authorities have approved the use of the World Cup spray for its first and second divisions from next season onwards
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Joachim Löw has confirmed that he will remain as Germany’s coach until the end of his contract in 2016
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Iago Aspas says his former Liverpool team-mate Luis Suárez has been ‘treated like a murderer’ by Fifa after the Uruguayan bit Italy’s Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup
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The chairman of Fifa’s World Cup ticket and hospitality partner says accusations against his company’s chief executive, Ray Whelan, are without foundation
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Featuring a baseball player with eyes on the back of his head, a creative gymnast and a man doing keep-ups up a lamp post
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Featuring photos from Brazil, Robin van Persie showing off, sad footballers, fickle fans and the birth of the home of cricket
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Vicente del Bosque has confirmed he will continue as Spain coach in spite of a disastrous World Cup campaign
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Letters: Congratulations to Dominic Fifield, the only one of your correspondents to predict correctly the two nations that would contest the final
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The Germany midfielder Christoph Kramer was disoriented and confused after taking a heavy blow to the head early in the World Cup final, according to the match referee
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The Bosnia-Herzegovina and Stoke City goalkeeper talks to Barry Glendenning about the World Cup and encountering senseless violence and coming out on top
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Toby Moses: Premier League stars played a combined total of more than 16 days of football during their summer break, covering 2489.9km of Brazilian turf in the search for glory. It’s not much of a holiday
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Germany were victorious, Brazil were humiliated and England were predictably disappointing but were you paying attention?
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The Premier League is considering whether to introduce the disappearing spray used at the World Cup to mark out free-kicks
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Football formations only include 10 players but the game is played with 11. More teams should follow Germany's lead and employ a sweeper-keeper to utilise the whole space on the field
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Letters: England itself continues to be hamstrung by a system which is mired in conflict (unions-industry), class ridden and dominated by short-termism
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In today’s Fiver: we give out our World Cup gongs. Plus Ashley Cole not quite talking Italian, and a man smoking
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Sport knows spectators switched on by events in Brazil must be retained through club game and improved media exposure
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Tens of thousands of football fans in Berlin welcome Germany home after the national side defeated Argentina to win the 2014 World Cup
BBC's Match of the Day marks 50 years as an institution of English football
Football highlights show is now key to BBC1's Saturday-night schedule but barely 20,000 viewers watched its first broadcast