Official world cup soccer guide now on sale

Touchline Media's official glossy, full-colour, 144-page FIFA 2006 World Cup Guide is available from today, Monday, 5 June 2006, from retail outlets for R24.95. "Our goal is to show FIFA that Touchline Media and the Kick Off soccer publishing team can produce world-class media. We have worked very closely with the publishers of the Official Guide in Germany and are convinced that we have produced a guide worthy of everything the FIFA World Cup tournament stands for," says George Dearnaley, associate publisher for the Guide and soccer magazine Kick Off. The 2006 World Cup kicks off in Germany on 9 June.