In the suffocating Miami humidity, Cape Verde wrote another audacious chapter in their debut World Cup story. This was not a tale of a plucky minnow c...
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There is a rather delicious irony unfolding in Group G. While the giants of Belgium and Iran slug it out in a clash of reputations, the tournament's l...
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Let's be brutally honest for a moment. When the draw for Group G was made, the smart money had New Zealand as a footnote, a polite guest at the World...
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When New Zealand touched down in the United States for this World Cup, the bookmakers had them written off as little more than a footnote in Group G....
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Let's get one thing straight from the off. The New Zealand side that arrives for this World Cup is not the same band of semi professionals who charmed...
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Just when you thought the script for World Cup 2026 had been written by the usual suspects, along come Cape Verde to rip it up and start again. The Bl...
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There is something about this Cape Verde side that defies logic, that sends the form book out the window and leaves the heavyweights scratching their...
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The World Cup stage can make men into ghosts, or it can turn them into gladiators. In this Group A curtain raiser, Uruguay's Fabián Cano learned whic...
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Welcome to what was supposed to be a straightforward evening for Uruguay, a nation that treats World Cup qualification with the same grim seriousness...
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The weight of a nation sits easily on Kylian Mbappé's shoulders. Stepping into the media glare for the first time at this World Cup, France's captain...
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There was a time, not so long ago, when a clash between Belgium and Iran would have been a foregone conclusion. A stroll in the park for the Red Devil...
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The World Cup roadshow touches down in Miami tonight, where Uruguay and Cape Verde meet in what promises to be a fascinating clash of footballing cult...
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