Could France do it on a hot, humid, waterlogged and lightning threatened night in Pennsylvania The question hung in the air longer than the thunderhea...
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It was not exactly the script penned by the tournament organisers, but then World Cups rarely are. France's Group H opener against Iraq in Philadelphi...
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The World Cup is a theatre of fine margins, and before a ball had even been properly worked into the Senegal box, Norway's dugout was already a hive o...
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The floodlights are on, the pitch is slick, and Norway are already twitching on the touchline before a ball has truly been thumped in anger. GoalZaza'...
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The World Cup has a habit of throwing up the unexpected, and long before a ball was kicked at this stadium in Philadelphia, the atmosphere was already...
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It is a peculiar sight in the foyer of the England team hotel in Kansas City. A record player, spinning black plastic circles that have left some of t...
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Thomas Tuchel is not one for polite fictions. After watching his England side scrape past Croatia in a 4. 2 thriller that was far more nervy than the...
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The World Cup 2026 has already delivered its first curveball, and it has nothing to do with Kylian Mbappé's finishing. At Lincoln Financial Field in...
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There is a weight on the shoulders of Aliou Cissé's Senegal that goes far beyond the standard pressures of a group stage fixture. When they take the...
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Philadelphia is buzzing with a peculiar tension tonight. The stands are packed for what GoalZaza's man on the ground, Paul MacInnes, describes as a hi...
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Ten years. A full decade has passed since Lionel Messi, raw with the pain of a Copa America final defeat, stood in the bowels of the MetLife Stadium a...
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In an age of sterile press releases and carefully managed social media output, the Iranian national team have reminded us of football's raw, unvarnish...
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