At the 1982 World Cup, only one team could beat Brazil—and it wasn’t Italy.
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New Jersey’s soccer-mad governor Phil Murphy opens up about the 2018 World Cup, the future of soccer in the U.S., and how the beautiful game can bridge the broad divides in American politics.
The French star could maraud the pitch like football’s haunted elite, but instead Griezmann plays the game with a delightful brand of footballing innocence. It could cast him as the surprise French star of the World Cup.
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The mystery of why the Soviet Union’s greatest player, Eduard Streltsov, was sent to the gulag instead of to a meeting with Pelé at the 1958 World Cup.
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Manchester United’s David De Gea has become the undisputed no. 1 goalkeeper. Can he help lead Spain to a second world cup victory in eight years?
A conversation with Adam Sobel about his documentary, The Workers Cup, which tells the hidden stories of Qatar’s migrant workers.
When the magical and mononymous men from Brazil appeared from another world in 1958, they played football in a way no one ever knew it could be played.
Men in Blazer’s Roger Bennett previews American Fiasco, a new podcast from WNYC Studios about the United States’ calamitous 1998 World Cup campaign Read More
Bayer Leverkusen’s Jonas Boldt discusses his plans to break into Europe’s elite
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