1 – Brazil: They started slowly in qualifying but, since Tite took over, Brazil have impressed. Neymar scored in both Selecao warm-up friendlies and, despite Dani Alves’ absence through injury, they look strong. 2 – Germany: The defending champions are the team to beat; after all, how many sides can afford to leave out a […]
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The favourites in focus WITH Russia 2018 just days away, it is being widely suggested that this could be the most open and unpredictable FIFA World Cup™ in decades. But while there is a lengthy list of potential winners, discussion of pre-tournament favourites has tended to focus on four star-studded sides. With that in mind,
WORLD Cup glory often brings some of the greatest stories ever told in football during the modern era: Brazil winning successive tournaments in 1962 – without the talismanic Pele; England lifting the Jules Rimet trophy on home soil in 1966 at Wembley and Germany’s from-the-roots-up build into World Champions four years ago in Brazil. 2006’s
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EVERY team that win the World Cup need a bit of luck along the way, and England undoubtedly had their fair share in 1966. There’s Geoff Hurst’s second goal in the final for a start; the heart says it was over the line, but the head’s not so sure. Then there was the lenient refereeing
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ENGLAND always have an excuse for not winning the World Cup. Their best players were injured, they didn’t practise penalties enough, and the opposition used their hands instead of their feet, etc, etc, ad nauseam. In 2010, it was the match officials who were to blame. During England’s round-of-16 match with Germany, Frank Lampard chipped
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When God created man, even he wouldn’t have expected one of his creations to possess as much ability with a football as Romario. The boy from Rio de Janeiro took liberties on the field of play, truly making the 1994 World Cup his own, but Brazil’s number 11 very nearly never made it to the
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THROUGHOUT footballing history, Germany have acquired an enviable reputation when it comes to producing world class goalkeepers. With Champions League winners, Manuel Neuer and Marc-Andre ter Stegan set to battle it out to be named as Joachim Low’s shot-stopper in Russia this summer, the pair are merely the latest in a rich production line of talent
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Saudi Arabia impress, South Korea need tougher tests, Japan struggling in defence FOUR of Asia’s five representatives started the final phase of preparations for the 2018 World Cup this week with friendlies against a variety of opponents. Let’s take a look the big lessons that emerged from the respective games. Saudi Arabia may not need
EVERY four years for the last 88 years, the FIFA World Cup has created football legends. Only a tiny minority of footballers in history have ever earned the accolade of World Champions. Yet most of those players are soon forgotten, while the few who are remembered get most of the credit. Some of them did
SOUTH Korea were far from new to the World Cup in 2002 having qualified for the first time in 1954. They had also been part of every instalment since 1986, though in their 14 total games, spanning five separate tournaments and nearly half a century, they had never managed a win. South Korea were to
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