Here we go again. Just when you think you have seen it all in football, the game throws a curveball straight out of left field. Brazilian icon Ronaldi...
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The World Cup has a cruel habit of dishing out harsh realities, and for Vincenzo Montella and Turkey, the mathematics could not be ignored. While thei...
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For decades, the great and the good of international football have debated the finer points of tournament progression. GoalZaza can now confirm a seis...
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The quiet corridors of the Premier League's hierarchy are buzzing with a rather peculiar legal waltz, one that pits the league's financial titans agai...
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For decades, goal difference has been the sacred cow of group stage justice. A thumping 5. 0 win against a minnow could salvage a stuttering campaign....
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For a nation that arrived with such ambition, the quietus was brutal. Turkey's World Cup campaign came to a shuddering halt on Friday as they were gro...
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Football's rulebook is not a suggestion box, as Paraguay's Miguel Almiron learned to his considerable cost on Tuesday evening. In a moment that will b...
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There is a certain romance to a World Cup squad announcement that no algorithm can replicate, and Paraguay have delivered it in spades. Isidro Pitta,...
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There is a certain romance in the story of Isidro Pitta, the ginger bearded striker who had already booked a family holiday to Spain convinced his Wor...
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There is a certain electricity that courses through the Seleção when they decide to stop toying with the opposition and simply put them to the sword...
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There are days when you can feel the tension in the air, when every tackle carries the weight of a nation. Then there are days like this, where one si...
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The 3. 0 scoreline against Haiti will offer the surface level comfort, but for those who watch Brazil with the cold eye of a diagnostician, there is a...
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