France won the 2018 World Cup by regenerating their squad and previous holders Germany must now do the same, the countries’ respective coaches said on Sunday. Didier Deschamps and Joachim Loew were speaking at FIFA’s World Cup conference in London attended by representatives of almost 200 member associations. Deschamps, who in July became one of
The leaders of Mexico and Canada gleefully cheered winning the right to host the 2026 World Cup jointly with the United States on Wednesday, emphasizing unity at a time when US President Donald Trump has frayed relations with the two neighbours during his 18 months in office. Trump, who as part of a tougher US
The phoney war is over and most of the big guns have arrived in Russia ahead of the start of the World Cup on Thursday. We take a look at how the favourites are shaping up. Catch all the action on SuperSport and live streaming through DStvNow. BRAZIL In 2014, Brazil were being widely tipped
World Cup hosts Russia continued their miserable run when they slipped to a 1-0 defeat in Austria on Wednesday and Japan suffered a blow when they lost 2-0 at home Ghana in coach Akira Nishino’s first game in charge. Defeat for the Russians came after a poor seven-month period in which they failed to win
Nearly half of Portugal’s triumphant Euro 2016 squad will miss the World Cup after coach Fernando Santos made what he said were difficult choices in naming his final 23 for Russia on Thursday. Centre forward Eder, who scored the winning goal in the Euro 2016 final against France, was among 10 players from that squad
Alexandre Lacazette and Anthony Martial have been left out of the France squad for the World Cup but Florian Thauvin has been included in a strong group. Both Lacazette and Martial have struggled for consistent form this season, or in the latter’s case playing time, and they are the victims of an extremely strong attacking
Peru striker Paolo Guerrero has received the backing of players’ union FIFPro ahead of a meeting with Fifa’s president to try to overturn a drugs ban that could keep him out of the World Cup. FIFPro said the 14-month ban for taking cocaine was “unfair and disproportionate” and said its representatives wanted to meet Fifa
Nigeria’s sports minister on Monday gave the green light for a World Cup warm-up match against the Democratic Republic of Congo despite a fresh outbreak of Ebola. The Super Eagles are due to play the game in the southern oil city of Port Harcourt next Monday as part of their final preparations for the finals
Mauro Icardi, the joint top goalscorer in Italy’s Serie A this season, was left out of Argentina’s World Cup squad on Monday as coach Jorge Sampaoli named his 23 players for next month’s tournament in Russia. Sampaoli named just four forwards in his squad with Lionel Messi, Paulo Dybala, Sergio Aguero and Gonzalo Higuain all
Radja Nainggolan ended his international career on Monday after Belgium coach Roberto Martinez left the AS Roma midfielder out of his squad for next month’s World Cup in Russia. Despite past clashes over discipline, Martinez insisted he took what he knew was an unpopular decision for the good of the team. “Very reluctantly my international
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