World Cup

Migrant workers from Qatar continue to be exploited, says Amnesty report | World Cup 2022

Migrant workers building infrastructure for a new city in Qatar, which will host the 2022 World Cup matches, continue to…

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Hugo Lloris doesn’t get the credit he deserves for France’s success | France

lindividual cheer for a goalkeeper is rare. No goalkeeper has won the Ballon d’Or since Lev Yashin in 1963 and…

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Has Russia’s $14 billion investment in the World Cup paid off a hundred days later? | Football

Russia is not a football country, former national team coach Leonid Slutsky infamously claimed in 2016. His proof was simple:…

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The day England made its own history in shoot-out against Colombia | World Cup 2018

mateus Uribe just needs to score and they’re almost there. Another kick to put Colombia ahead 4-2, with each penalty…

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Football’s super-rich play the game by their own rules | David Goldblatt

WikiLeaks exposed the duplicity of US foreign policy. The Panama Papers exposed the network of offshore banking, tax havens and…

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Ivan Rakitic: ‘We saw Football’s Coming Home and thought: yes, but you still have to play against us’ | Croatia

lvan Rakitic packed his bag, kissed his family goodbye and said goodbye on the 15th. It was early June and…

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Germany in 2018: from World Cup holder to Nations League relegation | Germany

Tthere was a sense of inevitability when Virgil van Dijk scored the last-minute equalizer on Monday night. The Netherlands, a…

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Former FIFA chief says he was offered large bribe for 2018 World Cup vote | FIFA

A former FIFA executive said he was offered hundreds of thousands of dollars in exchange for his vote for the…

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What happened next? Did the rise of the World Cup gilet – inspired by Gareth Southgate – last beyond the summer? | Menswear

EEngland surprised many with their performances at the World Cup in the summer. But few could have foreseen that the…

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What happened next? David Baddiel on World Cup summer and ‘It’s coming home’ memes: ‘One video made me cry’ | England

l never believed, not really. I never thought England would win the World Cup. In any case, it’s not what…

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