Qatar had 12 years planned for the World Cup. Now, with the first games of the tournament 100 days away and a tough fixture schedule announced months in advance, organizers have called for changes that will see the event kick off a day earlier to give the host nation a prominent spot in the opening …
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While Premier League players will continue to kneel in protest against racism this season, they announced on Wednesday that the gesture will no longer be at every game. Players will kneel, for example, at the opening games of the Premier League season this weekend and again on Boxing Day (December 26); Racism awareness fortnight in …
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It would be futile to predict exactly when it will come. It is impossible, from the current perspective, to pinpoint a specific point, or an exact date, or even a broad time frame. All that can be said is that it will come sooner or later. The days of going to football are numbered. After …
LONDON – The exact location of the barrier has always been disputed. At Manchester United, for a while, it was close enough to 30 for it to be a natural watershed. As the players approached their 30s, Alex Ferguson, the club’s manager at the time, gave them a day’s rest after a game in the …
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LONDON – The exact location of the barrier has always been disputed. At Manchester United, for a while, it was close enough to 30 for it to be a natural watershed. As the players approached their 30s, Alex Ferguson, the club’s manager at the time, gave them a day’s rest after a game in the …
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Let’s try something different in this week’s newsletter: a journey through modern football in three (vaguely related) stories. 1. Romance is a one-way street The story, as already told, was the one people wanted to hear, the version they needed to believe. So it was: Cristiano Ronaldo, the most beloved graduate of Manchester United, tried …
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Scott Vermillion’s family members are still struggling to articulate the emotions they experienced last November when they received a phone call from doctors. Vermillion, a former MLS player, died almost a year earlier, on Christmas Day 2020, at the age of 44. The direct cause was severe alcohol and prescription drug poisoning, his family said. …
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Even more interesting is the apparent apathy outside of Italy. Dybala, the player who had previously conquered the fantasy of Manchester United, Tottenham, Barcelona and Real Madrid, received only one serious offer from abroad, from Sevilla, the big collector of Mercury Argentine forwards. The catch is that he has a significant reduction in salary. One …
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June 16, 2022, 4:02 pm ET June 16, 2022, 4:02 pm ET The 2022 World Cup in Qatar will start in just five months, but the tournament organizer will look beyond Thursday – far beyond – when naming the host cities for the 2026 World Cup in North America. The 2026 Championship will be a …
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The intention of Chile to expose the South American, Ecuadorian, from the World Cup fragmented the world, when a disciplinary panel of the football world rector body recaptured an advertisement that Ecuador had allied itself with a southern non-Ecuadorian part. . Byron Castillo turned his back on the lathe, because Chile is not the only …
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