Not worth as much as the more iconic Mexico '86 football, the France '98 was called the ... it was the first coloured ball in World Cup history. That meant 'soccer' fever had caught on in the ...

On 10 June, Scotland and Brazil played the opening match of the 1998 World Cup Warning: This article contains strong language that might cause offence. Colin Hendry stood proudly with a ball under ...

At the World Cup in France, Zinedine Zidane was weaving his ... under-reported phenomenon that American kids play a lot of soccer up to the age of 11 or 12,” says Hutson.