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INGLEWOOD, California, June 14 : New Zealand coach Darren Bazeley brushed aside the political backdrop to his side's World Cup opener against Iran on Monday, saying his players were focused solely on football despite heightened attention surrounding the match.
SEATTLE, June 14 : Belgium will aim to get on the front foot in their World Cup opener against Egypt, coach Rudi Garcia said on Sunday, though he warned his players to be wary of a team he described as one of the best Africa has ever produced.
ATLANTA, June 14 : Cape Verde begin their first-ever World Cup adventure with a Group H clash against European champions Spain, and manager Bubista said he wants his team to not only enjoy the tournament and show their country to the world, but also to compete.
BARCELONA, June 15 : Lewis Hamilton is in the Formula One title reckoning and will be hard to stop now that he is a grand prix winner with Ferrari, according to his former Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff.
SANTA CLARA, California, June 14 : Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman defended his tactics and substitutions after Dutch hopes of victory in their World Cup opener were foiled by a late Japan goal in the 2-2 draw on Sunday. Two well-taken goals by captain Virgil van Dijk and Crysencio Summerville either side of Keito Nakamura's conversion put the Netherlands in the lead twice but a deflected Daichi Kamada strike two minutes from time saw the spoils shared. Six minutes after Summerville's 64th-minute goal, Koeman took off the winger in a triple substitution and later added a third centre back in Nathan Ake. The more defensive setup backfired, though, with Japan seizing the initiative and Ogawa firing a header goalward to set up Kamada's equalising deflection. Koeman, however, said he had no regrets about his tactics and that shoddy defending was to blame. "There was also a problem with pressure on the flanks. So if you look at the game, both goals, well, we didn't defend well," he told reporters. "Football is a funny game because, after Japan scored the second goal, they started defending as well. "So we could have scored a third goal.
June 14 : Norway captain Martin Odegaard says he has no concerns about his fitness ahead of his side's opening World Cup Group I match in Foxborough, Massachusetts on Tuesday, his nation's first game at the finals since 1998.
Brooks Koepka's status for the U.S. Open next week could be in jeopardy after he withdrew from the final round of the RBC Canadian Open on Sunday with a hand injury.
June 14 : Kansas City, England's base for the World Cup, was hit with a tornado warning just hours after the team arrived, as the weather service told residents to take shelter to avoid a severe thunderstorm.