Pele was football’s ultimate fox in the box, a player who dealt in quantity as much as quality, whose eye-popping career statistics alone marked him out as one of the greats. Footage is scarce of peak Pele, the player who emerged as a teenage sensation in the late 1950s and shone on the world stage […]
Morocco showed they can compete with international football’s elite teams after finishing fourth at the World Cup, according to head coach Walid Regragui. Goals from Josko Gvardiol and Mislav Orsic gave Croatia a 2-1 victory in Saturday’s third-place play-off, as Morocco’s historic World Cup came to a conclusion. They became the first African nation to […]
Olivier Giroud compared France’s tense 2022 World Cup quarter-final win over England to their semi-final victory against Belgium four years ago. France scraped past the Three Lions 2-1 at Al Bayt Stadium on Saturday, with Giroud’s deflected header ultimately the difference. Aurelien Tchouameni had fired the world champions ahead, but England responded strongly and levelled […]
Lionel Messi was motivated to lead Argentina past the Netherlands due to feeling “a little attacked” by Louis van Gaal’s pre-match comments, Lionel Scaloni said. Messi is enjoying an outstanding World Cup and continued in that vein on Friday as he scored one and created another in a 2-2 quarter-final draw with the Netherlands. Argentina […]
Walid Regragui believes the diversity within Morocco’s squad has created the perfect blend after the Atlas Lions made the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time. Morocco beat Spain 3-0 on penalties after a 0-0 draw at Education City Stadium on Tuesday. That sent La Roja out in the last 16 for the second successive […]