Sixty years is a long time to wait. Long enough for the children who cheered in 1966 to have grandchildren of their own — children who have grown up hearing the same story without ever living it themselves. England is still waiting. The Summer Everything Changed On July 30, 1966, at Wembley Stadium, England beat […]
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For most of the twentieth century, one thing in football was virtually guaranteed. However the World Cup unfolded, Germany would be there at the end. They did not always win. But they were always present, always competitive, and almost always dangerous when it mattered most. Four World Cup titles. Three European Championships. Decades of tournament […]
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In Lusail, on the night of December 18, 2022, Kylian Mbappé scored three goals in a World Cup final and still went home without the trophy. A hat-trick in a final and it was not enough. That single fact tells you everything about what drives him into this tournament. Not legacy – he has already […]
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Lamine Yamal celebrated his 17th birthday just the day before winning a European Championship, having already scored one of the tournament’s greatest-ever goals to get Spain to the final. Since then, he’s already picked up the Kopa Trophy twice – the only player in history to ever win the world’s best under-21 player award back-to-back. […]
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