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World Cup 2026: France v Spain semi-final buildup; Atlanta police step up security for Eng

⚽️ Latest news before first of the semi-finals in Dallas⚽️ Player guide | Golden Boot | Football Daily | Email usAtlanta police are increasing staffing and resources for Wednesday’s World Cup semi-final between England and Argentina.The department says additional officers will be

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The agony and ecstasy of World Cup penalty shootouts – in pictures

Ever since France midfielder Alain Giresse struck the World Cup’s first shootout penalty in 1982, a total of 342 players have stepped up to face the goalkeeper for the most nerve wracking test in football. We take a look at some of the players who took their shot at glory from th

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Why do Argentina sing about England and the Falklands?

While England see Argentina as football rivals, for Argentina the rivalry is much more than that. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Esportes.

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England’s Pepper eager to silence Pumas as World Cup semi-final raises the volume

Test on Saturday arrives in wake of football showdownFlanker keen to show series win last year was no flukeFor better or worse England have chosen an interesting week to be in Argentina. Before the World Cup semi-final in Atlanta there is widespread optimism that fútbol is coming

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War, antics and vitriol – the England v Argentina rivalry is real but now it is only about

Mexico 1986, France 1998, Japan 2002 … this is a match that transcends, with Argentina’s head coach Lionel Scaloni calling for the focus to be on football, not the FalklandsAfter confirmation that match 102, one of the World Cup semi-finals, would be England v Argentina, the 1982

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Of all England’s great Black footballers, none has been the defining national figure. Unti

Bellingham has transcended the hostility he has faced from press and pundits to become the emotional and symbolic focal point of the teamMonths before the World Cup, the familiar chorus of antipathy that had followed Jude Bellingham almost since his emergence on the international

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France v Spain: World Cup 2026 semi-final – live

⚽ Kick-off time: 2pm local/3pm EST/8pm BST/5am AEST⚽ Player guide | Golden Boot | Football Daily | Mail ScottFrance and Spain have only met once before at the World Cup. That was 20 years ago, back in the day when Les Bleus very much had La Roja’s number (the Euro 84 final, the E

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‘Diego, give us a hand’: Argentina v England revives historic tensions

Decades after the Falklands war and Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal, the fixture is once again being discussed as far more than a gameWhen Argentina’s national football team burst into the dressing room after beating Switzerland 3-1, they celebrated by singing The Fourth Star, the

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Love and hate collide: England v Argentina is not simply a grudge match | Jonathan Liew

Look beyond the flashpoints and flare-ups and perhaps this is the greatest and most romantic of footballing rivalriesIt’s about the ball, right up until the moment it isn’t. On Sunday afternoon Godoy Cruz played Defensores de Belgrano in Nacional B, the second division of Argenti

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‘I root for underdogs’: football fans who don’t support their home country

Not everyone supports the country where they were born or grew up. Sometimes fans are won over by a player, place, population or style of playFootballers need to be born in a country or have a family tie to that place to represent them at the World Cup, but those rules do not app

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We shouldn't confuse politics and football - Scaloni

Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni says he is "not going to mix" football and politics before his side's World Cup semi-final against England.

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‘Institutional threat’: election of far-right leader raises fears for democracy in Colombi

Trump-admiring Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to ‘disembowel’ the left and kill criminals like ‘rats and cockroaches’When more than 20 women accused a Colombian evangelical pastor in 2012 of sexually abusing them, the defendant’s lawyer sought to discredit the allegations by

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