Selected Reuters Sports Pictures on March 8, 2005

Updated: 2006-03-08 15:47

Lennart Johansson, chairman of the Organising Committee arrives for a news conference after a team workshop for the upcoming soccer World Cup in Duesseldorf March 7, 2006. Several coaches and federations had urged FIFA at the meeting to extend a deadline for the 32 teams to nominate their 23-man squads from mid-May until the end of May. [Reuters]