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A Ban Full of Holes Since July 2019 the formally strict “Decreto Dignità” has been in force in Italy: bookmaker emblems are prohibited on shirt fronts, pitch-side boards, LED panels and even in post-match press conferences. The law was intended as a shield against the uncontrolled growth of gamb...
(while your colleague on the night shift stuns Bayern tomorrow) Opening Whistle: A Billion Scattered Across the Continents The Club World Cup, which relocates to Saudi Arabia in 2025, has become a veritable oil gusher: the tournament’s prize pool is valued at $1 billion. The money will be divi...
A New ‘Attack’ on Barça’s Rising Star The buzz from Lamine Yamal’s beach snapshots with Fati Vázquez had barely died down when the 16-year-old forward found himself at the center of another non-football drama. This time former adult actress Claudia Bavel burst into the press box, claiming that the...
Under the guidance of Xabi Alonso, Real Madrid secured a comfortable 3-0 win against Salzburg in the final Group H fixture of the FIFA Club World Cup. The Spanish giants collected three points, finished on seven overall, and topped the section to book a direct ticket to the play-off round. For R...
Kolo Muani's Compliment Came as a Surprise Reporter: Randal Kolo Muani called you a “wizard” in a recent interview. How did that make you feel? Kenan Yildiz: To be honest, at first I thought I’d misheard. Randal is one of those strikers whose highlights I was watching on YouTube just two or th...
Bracket Intrigue: Favourites Alive, but Underdogs Already Making Noise With the Round of 16 behind us, the Club World Cup bracket now looks like a true thriller. Europe’s football giants have kept their places, but there were still surprises: the exits of Manchester City and Inter opened the doo...
Duran Is Already Packing: The Colombian Forward’s Saudi–Turkish Voyage John Duran, the attack’s joker, was the first to react. His winter move from Aston Villa was valued at a solid 77 million euros, yet in Jeddah the 20-year-old Colombian could not escape Cristiano’s gravitational pull. Accordi...
Ibiza Incognito: Party Location Under Lock and Key Spain’s brightest teenage footballer is about to swap a passport stamped “minor” for an adult document. On 13 July, Lamine Yamal will enter his second decade and, according to the programme Tiempo de Juego, will mark the milestone in grand fas...
The Brace That Changed Everything Karshi’s Nasaf once again confirmed its reputation as a giant-killer of the capital’s heavyweights. The clash with arch-rival Tashkent’s Pahtakor ended in a resounding victory for the Dragons, and the evening’s undisputed star was 22-year-old forward Husain Norc...
Spaniards Breach the Turin Fortress Madrid’s Real Madrid booked their ticket to the last eight with a narrow 1–0 victory over Juventus. The goal was a stroke of genius—Vinícius Júnior threaded a piercing pass that sent Jude Bellingham into space, and the Englishman coolly guided the ball into th...
