Miami is bracing for a scene that feels more like a heavyweight prizefight than a quarter final. GoalZaza will beat down on the pitch, the stands will...
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The ink was barely dry on the match report and France's passage to the World Cup semi finals was already being overshadowed by a sickening moment of d...
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Before Spain's World Cup quarterfinal with Belgium, the conversation around Luis de la Fuente's side has shifted from cautious optimism to something a...
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There is a peculiar loneliness to being a global phenomenon in a small footballing nation. For decades, Norway watched the World Cup from the outside,...
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Rudi Garcia is a man who knows how to turn chaos into camaraderie. In a week where the footballing world has been fixated on the political interferenc...
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In the grand theatre of World Cup football, the stands are merely the stage. The real drama unfolds in the communities that breathe life into these na...
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There is a particular kind of noise that only a transplanted diaspora can make. It is a sound laced with longing, pride, and the joyful defiance of a...
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There is a chilling precision to this French side that feels almost premeditated. To watch them dismantle Morocco in their latest outing was not to wi...
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Kylian Mbappe is not supposed to miss. He is the golden child of a new era, a player so clinically decisive in transitional play that his mere presenc...
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This summer's World Cup has been a peculiar beast. Not because of the tectonic shifts in the global game or the emergence of some unfancied minnow. No...
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Marc Guehi, the England centre back who has been a mainstay of this tournament, is now a doubt for Saturday's quarter final against Norway. GoalZaza u...
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There was a moment, deep in the first half, when the entire Stade de France held its breath. Kylian Mbappé, the golden boy of French football, had st...
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