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June 10, 2006

GOOOOAAAAL!

Is there any sporting event in the world more important than the FIFA World Cup football (that’s “soccer” to Americans) championship tournament?

We think not. Weekends aside, it pains us greatly that the latest tournament – that began yesterday in Germany – will be played during the middle of the work day for those of us in the US. If you can’t get away from work to watch a game at your local sports bar (or office cafeteria, thanks, Yahoo!), you can now get the latest on your team, scores, and schedules just by going to Yahoo! Search and typing a few words. Here are a few examples:

Say you want the latest news on your favorite team, Brazil. Just type:

FIFA Brazil

Maybe you want to see how Brazil’s group (Group A) is shaping up. Just type:

FIFA Group A

Perhaps you want the latest scores. Just type:

FIFA scores

Or you just want to see what happened with the first match of the World Cup (Germany vs Costa Rica). Just type:

FIFA Germany v Costa Rica

And what about the latest match schedule, so you can head out to the bar in time:

FIFA schedule (”World Cup schedule” will work, too.)

But if you had to work, you can still catch the highlights.

FIFA highlights

Enjoy the World Cup!

Qinwei Gong, Weilin Ng, and Chris Tung
Soccer Shortcuts Specialists

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Comments

  1. World Cup is great and I appreciate your spirit – yet I was quite disappointed today when I tried to watch a video on the official German FIFA site.

    A tool called “Yahoo Media Helper” seems to be completely broken. Even worse, the help pages are broken, too, dead links galore.

    I know this is a bit provocative (working in IT quality management, I am used to talk shop), but shouldn’t you guys work out quality problems – instead of watching soccer?

    No offense,
    Mike

    Posted by: Mike | June 10th, 2006 1:20 pm

  2. Suggestion: why don’t you show the time in the user’s time zone if a user is logged in?

    Posted by: Anonymous | June 11th, 2006 4:47 am

  3. Nice post & initiative by Yahoo!. However, Brazil is in group F, not A.

    Also, I’ve never seen a more broken implementation of MT comments on a blog. Seriously. ‘500′ server errors, MT errors. Bad, bad, Yahoo!

    cheers

    mz

    Posted by: mz | June 11th, 2006 10:38 pm

  4. I played the Fantasy World Cup.
    Got dificult times adding players at the beginning. I enjoyed watching the games and celebring my fantasy’s players.
    Good look Costa Rica next time

    Posted by: Sergio Vargas Blog | July 10th, 2006 1:11 pm