Just in time for the FIFA World Cup, Google has introduced SMS Search in Germany. A query is 29 eurocents and the number is 31010.

Source in German:
http://www.teltarif.de/arch/2006/kw23/s21939.html

Sure? If you look at http://www.google.de/sms/ they show only the US number...

now they have updated it at www.google.de/sms as well

And you can find it indeed over here too
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/being-good-sport.html

It seems to be available in Japan & Canada too.

As other Soccer related goodies:
- gadgets for homepage & desktop
- firefox extension for Joga.com
- and the usual stuff in soccer context