Soccer
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Sports
Keeping the National in National Team Coach
There is nothing in the rules that requires a World Cup team to be managed by someone born, raised or otherwise connected to that country. So should it matter?
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Sports
These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals
Soccer movies are often eclectic and at times unclassifiable, drawing from multiple continents and genres.
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Sports
Soccer Journalist Dies at World Cup After Collapsing at Argentina Game
Grant Wahl, who in his career covered soccer for Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports and CBS, was in Qatar for his eighth World Cup.
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World
In India, Fiercely Loyal Soccer Fans (of Brazil and Argentina)
A soccer-loving stretch of an otherwise cricket-mad country has taken sides and erected huge displays of devotion during the World Cup.
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Sports
The U.S. women’s team has won millions at the men’s World Cup.
The United States women’s soccer team, a four-time World Cup champion, is winning at the men’s World Cup, too. Thanks to new labor agreements reached with U.S. Soccer that guarantee a split of prize money won by the country’s national teams, the ...
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Newyork
The U.S. World Cup Win Offers a New Chapter in a Growing North American Soccer Story
For the first time since 2014, the United States men’s team has advanced to the knockout stage at the World Cup, with a 1-0 victory over Iran. It is part of a special moment for North American soccer, because for the first time in the World Cup’s ...
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Sports
Iran Calls for U.S. to Be Expelled From World Cup
A representative of Iran’s soccer federation on Sunday called for the United States to be expelled from soccer’s World Cup over social media ...
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Sports
‘What’s in the Water in Brampton?’ A Suburb Powers Canada Soccer
BRAMPTON, Canada — When Canada plays its first match in the 2022 World Cup on Wednesday, it will be a crowing achievement for a country that long ...
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Sports
How Europe Decides Who Wins the World Cup
SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Once a week, the boys from the Palmeiras youth academy climb aboard a bus and prepare for their regular visit to the past ...