Aleksander Ceferin, the Uefa president, has walked straight into a storm after reportedly branding the expanded 2026 World Cup a repository of 'uninte...
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There is something about a centre half charging into the mixer that gets the blood pumping, and Virgil van Dijk delivered that rush in quintessential...
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The noise around England's opening World Cup fixture has been dominated by the usual blend of injury anxieties and tactical speculation, but a differe...
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There is a cold, clinical efficiency to this German machine that often feels preordained. Yet for a fleeting, nerve wracking spell in Houston, it look...
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When Álvaro Morata ambled down the tunnel in Berlin just after half past one on a July morning, boom box in one hand, Euro 2024 wash bag in the other...
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This afternoon in Curaçao, the beautiful game delivered a moment that transcends the final scoreline. The headline may scream a heavy defeat, a 7. 1...
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There is a peculiar, melancholic air that lingers around Japanese football at World Cups. It is a ghost born not of failure but of proximity; the ghos...
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Here is a statistic that deserves a moment of quiet contemplation. Curaçao, with its 158,000 citizens, is about to send a team onto the pitch against...
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The World Cup 2026 narrative takes a fascinating turn as the Netherlands prepare to lock horns with Japan in what promises to be a clash of contrastin...
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There are moments in football that transcend the final scoreline. When Livano Comenencia collected the ball on that sweltering Houston pitch, a nation...
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In the baking heat of Boston, the dream collided with reality. For seventy minutes, Curaçao were not merely participants in this World Cup; they were...
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There is a certain breed of full back in the modern game who blurs the line between defender and winger. Pedro Porro is precisely that sort of player,...
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