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Mbappe has scored eight goals so far in the ongoing edition. | Photo Credit: AFP France has turned consistency in World Cups into an art form, lifting the ultimate prize in 2018, finishing runner-up four years later and securing another semifinal qualification in ongoing tournament. Since conquering the football world eight years ago, Les Bleus have set…
Haaland heads into the encounter on the back of a match-winning brace against Brazil. | Photo Credit: AP For a country that had not seen the World Cup for 28 years, Norway has arrived in the quarterfinals as if it has always belonged here. Brazil was the latest to discover how thin the margin is…
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Amid the disappointment, Ouahbi sees the defeat as part of a longer journey. | Photo Credit: Reuters Morocco coach Mohamed Ouahbi admitted that his side was made to suffer by France’s quality in a 0-2 World Cup quarterfinal defeat on Thursday, saying that the first half in particular exposed how difficult it can be to…
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Spain’s Lamine Yamal during training ahead of the FIFA quarterfinal match against Spain, July 9, 2026. | Photo Credit: Reuters Belgium will meet Spain in the World Cup quarterfinals on Friday (July 10, 2026) with the daunting task of breaching the European champion’s watertight defence for the first time at the tournament. By beating Cristiano…
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Odegaard delivered an assist in each of his first three World Cup matches. | Photo Credit: Getty Images While Erling Haaland has rightfully dominated the headlines with seven goals, the man pulling the strings in Norway’s fairytale World Cup run has operated largely in his teammate’s shadow. Captain Martin Odegaard has been just as instrumental…
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I first set out to eat a lobster roll. I am in chilly Boston, perfect weather for the city’s other favourite food icon: clam chowder. On my obligatory visit to Harvard University, I rub the John Harvard statue boot for good luck and then set out on my mission. I am rewarded almost immediately at…
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Scaloni belts out instructions from the touchline. | Photo Credit: Reuters Lionel Scaloni had barely sat down before he admitted the obvious. Argentina had put its supporters through unnecessary “suffering”. Yet the manager was in no mood to apologise for the chaos. What he had witnessed, he felt, was something larger than a comeback win…
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Lineups are announced and players are warming up. Switzerland: Gregor Kobel; Nico Elvedi, Manuel Akanji, Ricardo Rodriguez; Denis Zakaria, Remo Freuler, Granit Xhaka, Ardon Jashari, Fabian Rieder; Breel Embolo, Dan Ndoye. Colombia: Camilo Vargas; Daniel Munoz, Jhon Lucumi, Gustavo Puerta, Johan Mojica, Davinson Sanchez; James Rodríguez, Jhon Arias, Jefferson Lerma; Luis Diaz, Luis Suarez. Source…
From Kerala to Indonesia, and from Syria to the FIFA World Cup, in this episode, we look at the deadly debris slip in Kerala, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Indonesia, explosions in Syria during French President Emmanuel Macron’s trip, the Gujarat High Court’s ruling on the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts case, and more. Source link
Sarin Kumar with his collection of more than 500 FIFA World Cup stamps documenting some of football’s greatest moment | Photo Credit: Lakshmi Theertha Four years ago, Sarin Kumar, a philatelist from Kozhikode, watched the nail-biting World Cup final between Argentina and France in Qatar, just like any devout Albiceleste fan. While every football buff…