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The 2026 World Cup promises to be bigger than ever. More teams, more matches, more host countries than ever before. What began as a 13-team experiment 96 years ago is now a 48-nation extravaganza, the biggest sporting and cultural event on the...
ArticleWhere it all began
The first World Cup took place in 1930, hosted in Uruguay, and it has since become the world’s greatest sporting event. The trophy would be named after FIFA president Jules Rimet, its most famous founding father, and the need for a true world...
ArticleBrazil spot on, Bulgaria’s moment, ’90s Colombia
Finally, after all the ifs and buts, all the will-he-won’t-he agonising over Diego Maradona, the Joao Havelange FIFA president sideshow, a multi-milliondollar spat among the sponsors, acres of hot air over the controversial host...
ArticleWest Germany stun Magical Magyars’ nearly men
ArticleWhen football came home & Alf Ramsey profile
ArticleCampeons del mundo: Brazil more than a team
NO MEXICAN BLOOD BATH While most critics had predicted a blood bath at the ninth World Cup in the heat and height of Mexico – where inflamed tempers were expected to boil over – the combination of keeping cool, strict refereeing and the...
ArticleBattle of River Plate sees the Dutch lose again
After being beaten 2-1 in 1974 by West Germany, the Dutch era must now surely be at an end after their failure against all the odds in the River Plate Stadium, Buenos Aires, to Argentina, where for the second time Rudi Krol and Co. were denied the...