United States Vs Czech. Rep

United States	0 - 3	Czech Republic
		J. Koller ('5), T. Rosicky ('36, '76)

Japan Vs Australia

Japan Vs Australia final result
1 3
Japan: S. Nakamura ('26}
Australia: T. Cahill ('84, '89)
J. Aloisi ('90)

statistics :
shots on target : 9 - 2
shots off target : 10 - 5
possession : 56 - 44
corner kicks : 5 - 3
offsides : 4 - 3
fouls : 23 - 12
yellow cards : 4 - 3
red cards : 0 - 0

World Cup 2006 Groups

Group A

1.  Germany 2.  Ecuador 3.  Costa Rica 4.  Poland

Group B

1.  England 2.  Sweden 3. Trinidad & T'go 4. Paraguay

Group C

1.  Argentina 2.  Holland 3.  Ivory Coast 4.  Serbia & M'gro

Group D

1.  Mexico 2.  Portugal 3.  Angola 4.  Iran

Group E

1.  Czech Republic 2.  Ghana 3.  Italy 4.  United States

Group F

1.  Australia 2.  Brazil 3.  Croatia 4.  Japan

Group G

1.  France 2.  Korea Republic 3.  Switzerland 4.  Togo

Group H

1.  Saudi Arabia 2.  Spain 3.  Tunisia 4.  Ukraine

Rooney Starting to Training

Striker Wayne Rooney gave England's World Cup hopes a boost on Tuesday when he began a training session with the rest of the squad.

Rooney, who broke his foot on April 29, took part in the first 20 minutes of the session at their training base near Baden Baden, to the delight of coach Sven-Goran Eriksson

The 20-year-old Manchester United forward then did a mixture of running, sprinting and ball work on his own with England fitness coach Ivan Carminati. Rooney will have a scan on his foot in Manchester on Wednesday.

"I think he looks very good," Eriksson told a news conference as his team prepare for Saturday's Group B opener against Paraguay. They also face Trinidad and Tobago and Sweden in the group.

Eriksson, who has until 24 hours before that game to keep Rooney or replace him with standby Jermain Defoe, said he expected the scan result by Thursday morning at the latest.

2006 FIFA World Cup Official Song

Federation Internationale de Football Assn. (FIFA), world soccer's governing body. "Bamboo" has been selected as the official melody for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the biggest soccer festival on Earth, which will kick off June 9 in Germany.

The melody will be sold as a ringtone, used in special FIFA-targeted remixes of hit songs and will feature prominently in advertising from such sponsors as Adidas, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Phillips.

The sheer universality of soccer -- "football" to fans of the sport everywhere outside the United States -- has given it an unrivaled advantage over other spectator sports in luring the global music business to its commercial possibilities. Three million spectators are expected to attend games during the monthlong tournament. FIFA reckons a TV audience of 1 billion will watch the July 9 final in Berlin and expects some 30 billion views of the tournament in total, up from the 28.8 billion from the 2002 event.

The simple chant of the word, composed by the relatively unknown Nadir Khayat and Bilal Hajji, will almost certainly be heard by an accumulated audience of as many as 30 billion TV viewers in the space of about a month. Source