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World Soccer XXXI: Golden Generation?

This is the first time the top four teams in the FIFA rankings have all advanced to the semifinals.
Spartanforlife4 said:
If anything it seems like expansion would help this happen. Adds another knockout game for randomness, but group play gets diluted and now including a third place team makes it even more likely the top teams won't get grouped.
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ticapnews said:
This is the first time the top four teams in the FIFA rankings have all advanced to the semifinals.
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I believe that this World Cup is the first time they specifically spaced the top four teams out in the draw to prevent them from meeting before the semifinals.

It also feels like there’s a bit of a gap between the top four and the rest. There were a few close ones but quality seemed to win out in the end.
 
Australia’s A-League on the verge of a players strike.

Relations between the PFA and the APL have been frosty for the best part of a year since APL chair Stephen Conroy signalled his intention to introduce a hard salary cap of $3 million.

The APL has since shifted its position under new chief executive Steve Rosich and offered players a voice at the table to shape the leagues' direction.
But that was not enough to swing players to vote for last week's proposal.

The offer that was rejected by PFA members included a $100,000 increase to the $2.6 million ALM salary cap and the limiting of marquee contracts, the value of which sits outside the cap, to just one per club.

The APL also wanted to raise the $640,000 salary cap to $775,000 for the ALW while boosting the minimum wage of female players by 27 per cent to close to $35,000 per season.
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For all of their success at the World Cup, things are looking pretty bad for domestic club soccer in Australia.
 
CONCACAF referees on both semifinals.

Ivan Barton of El Salvador will referee France v Spain.

Ismail Elfath of the US will referee Argentina v England.
 
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