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Gold Cup: Aldo de Nigris guides Mexico into the finals

The veteran striker continues to make a killing off the bench after his header in extra time finally breaks the stalemate. A few minutes later from yet another corner his header falls to Chicharito Hernandez and the Man Utd...

The school of Latin America’s dictators | Grace Livingstone

Since so many alumni are notorious human rights abusers, the US military should close its deadly School of AmericasWhen the elected president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, was dragged from his bed and flown out of the country in his pyjamas last year, it...

Andy Najar Gets His First Magazine Cover

The cover of the Honduran magazine above says that "the gringos" are after Andy Najar. I don't think they are talking about Arsenal but you never know. Tell you what though: I'd gladly hand over their hero J Bo for the 17 year-old in an even trade, no ...

World Cup Daily: Stylish Spain but boring, boring Brazil

So, we're more than half way through World Cup 2010, and on your latest edition of World Cup Daily, James Richardson, Barry Glendenning and Paolo Bandini look back on the last of the group games and shed a tear for the likes of Switzerland, Honduras, N...

World Cup 2010: Images of the decisive games in Groups G and H

The best pictures from Friday's games as Brazil and Spain topped their groups

World Cup 2010: Switzerland v Honduras – live! | Barry Glendenning

The Swiss bowed out in underwhelming fashion and few will be sorry to see the back of themGood evening everybody and you're all very welcome to tonight's coverage of what many are describing as Potentially The Most Tedious Football Match In World Cup H...

Switzerland 0-0 Honduras | World Cup 2010 match report

The dream is over for Switzerland after they failed to build on their superb victory against the European champions, Spain, in their opening game. The Swiss coach, Ottmar Hitzfeld, knew if his side achieved a two-goal win in this Group H match, then th...

Match Review & Highlights: Switzerland vs Honduras

After defending heroically to beat Spain 1-0 with a scruffy goal, but failing to score in defeat to Chile, it was pretty clear that Switzerland’s scoring expertise lay very much in the prevention department. But sometimes just doing what you’re best at isn’t enough, and so Switzerland needed to get forward and beat Honduras to...

Group H Liveblog: Spain 2-1 Chile, Switzerland 0-0 Honduras

Welcome to our liveblog for the final round of Group H games. It’s Spain vs Chile (lots of pretty passing) and Switzerland vs Honduras (less pretty passing). All four teams are still in contention for a place in the Round of 16, but Chile just need to avoid defeat to win the group. Trouble is,...

World Cup 2010 team news: Switzerland v Honduras

Venue Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein, Friday 7.30pm Referee H Baldassi (Arg)Odds Switzerland 8-15, Honduras 13-2, Draw 16-5TV ITV4Radio BBC 5 LiveSwitzerlandManager Ottmar HitzfeldFifa ranking 24Doubtful NoneInjured Senderos (ankle)Suspended Behrami ...

Preview: Switzerland vs. Honduras

THE BIG PICTURE Switzerland’s World Cup campaign started with a dramatic win over Spain, but then deflated a little with defeat to Chile. Honduras are yet to score or register any points and so need a victory here to have any chance of qualifying. Switzerland could get away with a draw or even defeat but will...

Round of 16 Qualification Scenarios: Group H

This is the last in our series of posts about what each of the 32 World Cup teams need to make it through to the first knockout round. Last on our list is Group H, a group that most thought would be fairly straightforward, at least at the top. But when Switzerland beat...