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Azteca and after: How North America served up slices of history every time it hosted FIFA World Cup
North America has hosted the FIFA World Cup only thrice before, but all of them have served up heavy slices of football ...
As FIFA expands the World Cup to a unprecedented scale, the mega-event loses its magic to year-round European club football ...
If you have a rare talent in your team, you build a team around that player. Zagallo had Pele in 1970, Carlos Bilardo in 1986 ...
Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. A thousand matches. Many of them life-changing, several history-changing. All of them part of the story. After 96 ...
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Ten years ago, death grabbed me by the throat. I was saved by the system – and a stranger
Ten is a foundation of mathematics, a cornerstone of the decimal system. It suggests completion, but also a building block.
The head coach is looking forward to leading Sweden into the World Cup after reflecting on his failures at Chelsea and West Ham ...
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The rise and fall of FIFA’s once-brilliant World Cup documentaries
An integral part of World Cup build-up.
How Graham Potter led Sweden to the World Cup: ‘It was the best night of my career’ - INTERVIEW: Graham Potter spent four ...
Ranking the best footballers of all time is no easy task. The game has evolved so much over its history that comparing a ...
Get free access to the most comprehensive World Cup coverage in The Athletic app. This is a fully updated version of a John Muller piece The Athletic originally published ahead of the 2022 World Cup.
IT was July 9, 1994. Bebeto ran past the goalkeeper and scored into an empty net in the World Cup quarter-final against ...
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