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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...
The international break brought an unexpected twist for Erling Haaland: instead of a routine warm-up — an urgent visit to the doctors. The Norway and Manchester City striker suffered a facial cut by the team bus in Oslo. The scene looked alarming for a moment — blood, pain, medics rushing — but with...
In the closing days of the transfer window, Manchester City supporters finally received an answer to the key question—would the first Uzbek in Premier League history stay with the club? The board and Pep Guardiola made it crystal clear: the 21 -year-old centre-back Abdukodir Khusanov will remain wit...
Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois continues to amaze not only with his saves but also with the scale of his real-estate projects. Having moved to Spain’s capital five years ago, the Real Madrid shot-stopper invested in substantial suburban property, yet he has now decided to upgrade to an even more...
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 new season of English football opened with a bang: Oliver Glasner’s team twice came from behind against Liverpool, finished the job in the penalty shootout and lifted the FA Community Shield. Regular time ended 2:2, and from the spot the Londoners were the calmer side — 3:2. The drama had it all...
A story where sporting fame intersects with tax law. The mother of PSG and France national team winger Ousmane Dembélé is trying to prove that a €200,000 transfer sent by her son in 2017 for her 40th birthday was a gift rather than income. The French fiscal authorities disagree, and the dispute has...
Historic Debut of the Innovation On the pitch in Jeddah, it was not only the showdown between South Korea’s Ulsan HD and South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns that went into the history books; French referee Clément Turpin did as well. It was in this match that the official first applied the new...
Smoke in the Dressing Room: The Conflict Begins There used to be an air of unity around Milan’s Inter, but this summer the mood in the squad overheated. The spark was a conversation between two leaders—Argentinian captain Lautaro Martínez and Turkish playmaker Hakan Çalhanoğlu. While the former...
When Barcelona’s young prodigy turned eighteen, the club did not hesitate for a second — on the very same day a long-term contract was signed. In doing so, the Catalans cemented their greatest investment in the future: the boy raised in the legendary La Masia officially became the face of the team f...