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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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A special team beats brilliant individuals - how silky Spain flattened France

Spain have rather flown under the radar at the 2026 World Cup - but will they go all the way and win it? O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Esportes.

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Mates, mate and freedom - how Argentina got the best out of Messi

Guillem Balague examines how the Argentina squad is built around Lionel Messi as they prepare to play against England in the World Cup semi-finals.

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Even at 39, Lionel Messi can still hurt England with his sprinting ability

The Argentina captain conserves his energy for bursts in key moments and his top speed compares favourably with his contemporariesEngland’s defenders will face an extreme challenge when they come up against Lionel Messi in their World Cup semi-final. It is not just that he is the

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Have the top four teams ever made up the World Cup semi-finalists before? | The Knowledge

Plus: back-to-back heavy wins and defeats, and an unsurprising challenger to a Lionel Messi recordMail us with your all of your questions and answers“The top four teams in the Fifa rankings are also the four semi-finalists at the World Cup,” writes Henry Conroy. “Has this happene

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Keane was Kane's England team-mate - this week they are on different paths

Will Keane and Harry Kane used to be team-mates for England Under-19s - but this week the former strike partners are on very different paths.

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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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Vietnam police rescue hundreds of cats stolen for meat by crime ring

Major operation launched after spate of pet thefts in Ho Chi Minh City, according to local mediaPolice in Vietnam have rescued more than 400 cats in a bust of a cat meat crime ring in Ho Chi Minh City, according to animal welfare groups and local media reports.More than 40 cats w

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Dutch PM apologises for Moluccan soldiers’ mistreatment after Indonesian independence

Rob Jetten acknowledges grief and pain of Moluccan families as crowdfunded monument unveiled in RotterdamThe Dutch prime minister, Rob Jetten, has formally apologised for the “heartless” mistreatment of thousands of Moluccan soldiers who fought for the Dutch colonial army during

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‘Cruel hoax’: Canadian healthcare staff decry employer’s email promising fake day off

Unions condemn ‘insensitive’ internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and LabradorFor years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and underappreciated. Turnover, burnout and thinning resources we

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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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Ransom note claims Nancy Guthrie died after abduction

The note from the possible kidnappers reportedly stated that they did not mean for her to die and included an apology to the family.

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